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Posted 8 January 2008. Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems. The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for research on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH). This program supports basic research and related activities that enhance fundamental understanding of the complex interactions within and among natural and human systems.  CNH focuses on the complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. CNH seeks to advance basic knowledge about the system dynamics – the processes through which systems function and interact with other systems. CNH-supported projects must examine relevant natural and human systems. Proposals cannot focus solely or largely on either human systems or on natural systems. Projects also must examine the full range of coupled interactions and feedbacks among relevant systems. Proposals are due 8 January 2008.

Posted 8 January 2008. Geography and Regional Science. The National Science Foundation’s Geography and Regional Science Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged into the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Proposals are due by 15 Jan 2008 and 15 August 2008.

Posted 8 January 2008. Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invites applications from qualified institutions for support of Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Core Centers. These Centers are designed to establish innovative programs of excellence in the field of environmental health sciences by providing scientific and programmatic support for promising investigators and areas of research. This support is intended to enhance the ability of scientists working the field of environmental health sciences to identify and capitalize on current and emerging opportunities that will lead to outstanding research advances to improve our understanding of the relationship between environmental exposures and both human biology and human disease. Letters of intent are due 21 January 2008 and applications are due 21 February 2008.

Posted 8 January 2008. Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Implementation Awards. The U.S. Department of Energy's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DOE EPSCoR) is interested in receiving grant applications for its Implementation Awards program from states and territories eligible for the program. The program is a federal-state partnership program supporting basic and applied research and development across a wide range of interdisciplinary Department Program Offices (including Biological and Environmental Research, which has climate change research as a subcategory). Applications are sought for improvement of the state's academic research infrastructure in key science and technology energy-related areas identified by the state's EPSCoR governing committee. Awards under this program are meant to support a group of scientists and researchers working on a common scientific theme across the state, and are not appropriate mechanisms to provide support for individual faculty science and technology research projects. Eligible states include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wyoming, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. Applications are due by 25 January 2008.

Posted 8 January 2008. Infrastructure Management and Hazard Response (IMHR). The National Science Foundation’s IMHR program focuses upon multidisciplinary issues concerning the impact of natural, technological, and human-generated hazards upon critical infrastructure systems and society. The program seeks to integrate research from engineering, social, behavioral, political and economic approaches. Research related to preparedness for, response to, recovery from, and mitigation of disasters resulting from natural, technological and human-generated hazards is supported. The goal of the program is to undertake basic research into the wide variety of factors related to the level of risk and vulnerability faced by the nation in order that risks may be reduced and costs of hazardous events maybe lessened. These factors include the interdependence of engineered infrastructure, and the relationships between disasters, the performance of the built environment, and human institutions and behaviors. Proposals are due 15 February 2008 and 1 October 2008.

Posted 8 January 2008. Office of Science Financial Assistance Program. The Office of Science of the Department of Energy (DOE) has a continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work program areas including Biological and Environmental Research, which has climate change research as a subcategory. The original solicitation was published by DOE on 3 September 1992 in the Federal Register (10 CFR Part 605, Final Rule). The climate change research program’s emphasis is on: (1) understanding and simulating the radiation balance from the surface of the Earth to the top of the atmosphere (including the effect of clouds, water vapor, trace gases, and aerosols); (2) enhancing and evaluating the quantitative models necessary to predict natural climatic variability and possible human-caused climate change at global and regional scales; (3) understanding and simulating both the net exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere, terrestrial systems, and the effects of climate change on the global carbon cycle; (4) understanding ecological effects of climate change; (5) improving approaches to integrated assessments of effects of, and options to mitigate, climatic change; and (6) basic research directed at understanding options for sequestering excess atmospheric carbon dioxide in terrestrial ecosystems and the ocean, including potential environmental implications of such sequestration. Applications for the current funding round are due by 30 September 2008.

Posted 8 January 2008. Small Research Project Grants. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Investigator-Initiated Small Grant funding opportunity supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. Investigator-initiated research, also known as unsolicited research, is research funded as a result of an investigator submitting a research grant application to NIH in an investigator’s area of interest and competency. The grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Multiple application dates; program expires 8 May 2009.

Posted 8 January 2008. Exploratory/Developmental Research Grants. The Exploratory/Developmental Grant mechanism of the National Institutes of Health is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research. Multiple application dates; program expires 8 May 2009.

Posted 8 January 2008. Educational Programs for Population Research. The National Institutes of Health are soliciting grant applications for educational activities related to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) mission to support research on the processes that determine population size, growth, composition and distribution, and on the determinants and consequences of population processes. It encourages activities designed to address three key objectives: enhancing the development of interdisciplinary scientists and facilitating interdisciplinary studies; improving the dissemination and use of existing data sets in population research; and advancing the adoption of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBSB) is one of three branches in the Center for Population Research of the NICHD, and supports research on the demographic processes of fertility, mortality, and migration and the interrelationships among demographic, social, economic, and cultural processes. Areas of supported research include mortality and health, population movement, population and environment, and population composition and change. Multiple application dates; program expires 7 September 2009.

Posted 8 January 2008. Research Project Grants. The National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), award Research Project Grants to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in areas representing the specific interests and competencies of the investigator(s). The research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the stated program interests of one or more of the NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on descriptions of their programs. Multiple application dates; program expires 8 January 2010.

Posted 8 January 2008. Short Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is funding short term career development awards to allow established, well funded clinician investigators to expand research programs to answer questions relevant to the environmental health sciences, and to provide established environmental health sciences research investigators the tools to expand their efforts to translational research. Multiple application dates, program expires 13 July 2010.

Posted 8 January 2008. Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems. The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for research on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH). This program supports basic research and related activities that enhance fundamental understanding of the complex interactions within and among natural and human systems.  CNH focuses on the complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. CNH seeks to advance basic knowledge about the system dynamics – the processes through which systems function and interact with other systems. CNH-supported projects must examine relevant natural and human systems. Proposals cannot focus solely or largely on either human systems or on natural systems. Projects also must examine the full range of coupled interactions and feedbacks among relevant systems. Proposals are due 8 January 2008.

Posted 22 April 2005.  Funding Opportunity Announcement: NOAA Climate and Global Change Program for FY 2006.  Announcement published in the Federal Register on 22 April 2005 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  Letter of Intent Due Date: May 20, 2005.

Posted 16 January 2005.  The Impact of Climate Change & Variability on Human Health.  Initial announcement of funding opportunity from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, EPA seeks applications proposing to conduct assessments of the Impact of Climate Change & Variability on Human Health. Solicitation Opening Date: December 23, 2004.  Solicitation Closing Date: March 24, 2005.

Posted 16 January 2005.  Decision Support Systems Involving Climate Change and Public Health.   Initial announcement of funding opportunity from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).   As part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, EPA is seeking applications proposing to research decision support systems involving climate change and public health. Solicitation Opening Date: December 23, 2004.  Solicitation Closing Date: March 29, 2005. 

Posted 8 October 2004.   Earth Science Outreach Investigator Awards.  "This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits proposals to support innovative and effective outreach strategies, products or services to assist the NASA Earth Science Enterprise to engage the public in shaping and sharing the experience of exploration and discovery." Issued 14 July 2004. NOI due date is 16 August 2004. Proposal due date is 14 October 2004. 

Posted 8 October 2004.   Decision Support through Earth Science Results.  "NASA (with partnering federal agencies) is soliciting proposals for projects to begin in FY05 to support the goal "to extend the societal and economic benefits of NASA research in Earth science, information, and technology." NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice NNH04ZYO010C. Issued: September 17, 2004. Step 1 (Pre-Proposals) are due 22 October 2004.  Step 2 (Final) proposals are due 17 December 2004. 

Posted 12 January 2004.   Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID).  Call for proposals from the National Science Foundation.  Full Proposal Deadline: 13 February 2004. 

Posted 12 January 2004.  NASA Graduate Student Fellowships In Earth System Science.  Call for proposals issued January 2004 by NASA.  New proposals due 16 March 2004.  Renewal proposals due 31 May 2004. 

Posted 4 November 2003.  "Regional Development, Population Trend, and Technology Change Impacts on Future Air Pollution Emissions." Request for Applications (RFA) issued (21 Oct 2003) by the STAR Grants Program within Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development on behalf of the EPA Global Change Research Program. Closing Date: February 5, 2004.

Posted 5 July 2003.  Research Announcement: New Investigator Program in Earth Science. Solicitation released by NASA on 27 May 2003. Proposals Due Date: August 15, 2003. "The New Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Science was established in Fiscal Year 1996 to encourage the integration of Earth system science research and education by scientists and engineers at the early stage of their professional careers."

Posted 5 May 2003. FY 2004 Program Announcement. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate and Global Change Program, Program Announcement for Federal Agencies and Federal Joint Institutes. Due Dates: Letters of Intent are due May 16, 2003. Proposals are due July 11, 2003. See also Federal Register (5 May 2003) announcement.

Posted 15 April 2003.  Interdisciplinary Science in the NASA Earth Science Enterprise. NASA Research Announcement NRA-03-OES-03. "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces the solicitation of proposals for researchers to participate in NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) Earth Observing System (EOS) interdisciplinary research and analysis activities. Proposals should contain cross-cutting, interdisciplinary research spanning and integrating across discipline areas addressed by the Enterprise." Among the questions the ESE Research Strategy seeks answers to: "How well can cycling of carbon through the Earth system be modeled, and how reliable are predictions of future atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane by these models?" Proposals due 1 May 2003.

Posted 28 August 2002.  Call for Proposals for the "New Opportunities Programme on the Environment and Human Behaviour." From the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK. Applications should be received by 5.00 pm on 13 September 2002. As illustrative examples of research priorities, the agency mentions "Rapid Climate Change - Vulnerability, Adaptation, Mitigation" and "Global Environmental Change and Food Systems."

Posted 25 May 2002.  Assessing the Consequences of Global Change for Air Quality: Sensitivity of U.S. air quality to climate change and future global impacts. Request for proposals from US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research. Opening Date 6 May 2002. Closing Date: 10 September 2002.

Posted 20 April 2002. Program Announcement for Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Published in the Federal Register on 8 April 2002 (Vol 67, Number 67).  Letters of Intent are due May 8, 2002.  Proposals are due July 8, 2002. 

Posted 20 March 2001. Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Research.  Notice from the US Department of Energy inviting grant applications.  "The deadline for receipt of formal applications is 4:30 p.m., E.D.T., May 14, 2002, to be accepted for merit review and to permit timely consideration for award in Fiscal Year 2002 and early Fiscal Year 2003."

Posted 18 December 2001. 2002 NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change.  Announcement (undated, circa Dec 2001) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Application deadline is 15 January 2002.

Posted 16 May 2001. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, Program Announcement (also available as PDF file). Request for research proposals, published in the Federal Register,  Volume 66, Number 95, Pages 27070-27075, 16 May 16, 2001, by the Office of Global Programs, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce. "This Program Announcement is for projects to be conducted by investigators both inside and outside of NOAA, primarily over a one, two or three year period. The NOAA Climate and Global Change Program has been approved for multi-year funding up to a three year duration. The funding instrument for extramural awards will be a grant unless it is anticipated that NOAA will be substantially involved in the implementation of the project, in which case the funding instrument should be a cooperative agreement."  Letters of intent must be received at the Office of Global Programs (OGP) no later than July 2, 2001.  "We anticipate that review of full proposals will occur during October and November 2001, and funding should begin during spring of 2002 for most approved projects."  For further information contact: Irma duPree, Office of Global Programs; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1210, Silver Spring, MD 20910- 5603.  Tel: +1 301 427 2089 ext. 107.  Fax: +1 301 427 2222.  Email: irma.duPree@noaa.gov.

Link posted 23 Feb 2001.  Request for Grant Applications: Assessing the Consequences of Global Change for Aquatic Ecosystems: Climate, Land Use, and UV Radiation. (announced 22 Feb 2001)  This RFA was developed through a partnership between the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Global Change Research Program and the "Science to Achieve Results" (STAR) grants program. This RFA focuses on human dimensions research and solicits applications for research that will support assessments of the consequences of global change for aquatic ecosystems and water quality. It seeks proposals that address integrative effects on aquatic ecosystems and water quality, thereby bringing together both human dimensions models and natural sciences models.

Link posted 7 February 2001: Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change Research LAB 01-22 --Posted February 7, 2001.  Preproposals are encouraged. There is no deadline, but early submission is strongly encouraged to allow time for meaningful dialogue.  Formal proposals must be received no later than April 3, 2001

Link posted 8 January 2001: Climate Variability and Human Health Program Announcement 2001.  "With the intent of stimulating integrated multidisciplinary studies and enhancing institutional collaboration, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), announce our interest in receiving research proposals to improve our understanding of the human health consequences related to climate variability and enhance the integration of useful climate information into public health policy and decision-making." Pre-proposals must be received by NOAA's Office of Global Programs (OGP) no later than January 31, 2001, and full proposals must be received no later than April 6, 2001.