The National Science Foundation (NSF) offers this grant for innovative research characterizing Earth’s biodiversity. This grant aims to fill significant understanding gaps by requiring simultaneous integration of genetic, taxonomic, and functional dimensions. Successful proposals will explore interactions and feedbacks among these to understand their roles in ecological/evolutionary processes. With much biodiversity unknown and rapidly disappearing, its loss threatens vital ecosystem services and future discoveries. This initiative promotes novel, integrated research to transform our understanding of life’s scope and role on Earth, deepening appreciation for its evolutionary and ecological significance.
Opportunity ID: 52684
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 10-548 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Dimensions of Biodiversity |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 30 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.050 — Geosciences |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 11, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 08, 2010 Letter of Intent Due Date (required): May 07, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline: June 08, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 08, 2010 Letter of Intent Due Date (required): May 07, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline: June 08, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $20,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | The Dimensions of Biodiversity initiative seeks to characterize biodiversity on Earth by using integrative, innovative approaches to fill rapidly the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth. This campaign will take a broad view of biodiversity, and in its initial phase will focus on the integration of genetic, taxonomic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals should integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions and feedbacks among them. While this focus complements several core NSF programs, it differs by requiring that multiple dimensions of biodiversity be addressed simultaneously, in innovative or novel ways, to understand the roles of biodiversity in critical ecological and evolutionary processes.Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet’s biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss of biodiversity across the globe. With this loss, humanity is losing links in the web of life that provide ecosystem services, forfeiting an understanding of the history and future of the living world, and eliminating future beneficial discoveries in the domains of food, fiber, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and bio-inspired innovation. This reality has stimulated a campaign to characterize key but little known dimensions of biodiversity on Earth. By 2020, the Dimensions of Biodiversity??campaign is expected to have transformed how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. The??campaign promotes novel, integrated??approaches to identify and understand the evolutionary and ecological significance of the dimensions, of biodiversity amidst the changing environment of the present day and in the geologic past.Investigators wishing to inquire about the suitablility of potential projects for Dimensions of Biodiversity are encouraged to email a brief summary and contact information to Dimensions@nsf.gov.?? |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 10-548 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | NSF grants.gov support grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.050 | PKG00017527 | Mar 11, 2010 | Jun 08, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
52684 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
52684 PerformanceSite_1_2-1.2.pdf
52684 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-1.2.pdf
52684 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
52684 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
52684 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
52684 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
52684 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
52684 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
52684 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
52684 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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