Below are links to funding opportunities that may be of interest to the water and watersheds community. To add information to this list, please email iww@oregonstate.edu. Below are links to related programs, arranged by deadline, and to comprehensive funding lists and search tools.
| Program Name | Description | Deadline |
| NSF: Communicating Research to Public Audiences | Communicating Research to Public Audiences is a component of the Informal Science Education program (ISE) in the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education. ISE projects provide rich and stimulating contexts and experiences for individuals of all ages, interests, and backgrounds to increase their appreciation for, and understanding of, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in out-of-school settings. Requests for up to $75,000 will be considered to support projects that communicate to public audiences the process and results of current research that is being supported by any NSF directorate through informal science education activities, such as media presentations, exhibits, or youth-based activities. The purpose of these efforts is to disseminate research results, research in progress, or research methods. | No fixed deadline; 6 months prior to funding start date. |
| NSF Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) | This program aims to synergize university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. This solicitation targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental topics, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. GOALI seeks to fund research that lies beyond that which industry would normally fund by themselves. Faculty-in-Industry awards will typically range from $30,000 to $75,000 for up to one year and may include a portion of the faculty salary and fringe benefits during the industrial residency period. Up to 20 percent of the total requested amount may be used for travel and research expenses for the faculty and his/her students, including materials but excluding equipment. | No fixed deadline. |
| US DOT Federal Highway Administration - Transportation Environmental Research Program | The FHWA welcomes submissions on many enviromental topic areas including: Environmental Laws, Environmental Planning and Management, Global Climate Change, Hazardous Materials, Public Involvement, Stormwater Constituents, Water Quality, and Wetlands. For a complete description of the research topic areas, see the Program Information (Section 3 or the Appendix). TERP grants awards of approximately $20,000 to $50,000 and requires a 20% match. Project duration is from 6 months to 2 years. | No fixed deadline. |
| DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), Core Solicitation, Focus Area on Environmental Restoration | Topics identified in the FY2008 Statement of Need include: Reduced Uncertainty and Costs for Managing Large, Dilute Contaminant Groundwater Plumes; Improved Understanding of the Vapor Intrusion Pathway from Chlorinated Solvent-Contaminated Groundwater Plumes; Improved Understanding of the Impact of Environmental Parameters and Sampling Methods on Measured Groundwater Contaminant Concentrations. View the details on topics in the Statement of Need Documents. | Preproposals due: January 8, 2008 |
| NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) | This competition promotes quantitative, interdisciplinary analyses of relevant human and natural system processes and complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales. Projects usually have three components: an integrated, quantitative systems-level method of inquiry, an education component, and a global perspective. Grants are for up to $1.5M. | January 8, 2007 |
| NSF Biological Sciences - Ecosystem Science Cluster - Ecosystem Studies Program | Supports investigations of whole-system ecological processes and relationships in ecosystems across a diversity of spatial and temporal (including paleo) scales. Proposals may focus on areas such as: biogeochemistry; decomposition of organic matter; belowground nutrient cycling and energy flow; primary productivity; radiatively active gas flux; element budgets on watershed, regional, continental, or global scales; relationships between diversity and ecosystem function; ecosystem services; and landscape dynamics. Inter- and multi-disciplinary proposals that fall across traditional programmatic boundaries are welcomed and encouraged. | January 9, 2008 |
| NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) | This program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. The program supports efforts to create new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. The program supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects. | January 10, 2008 |
| NSF Planetary Biodiversity Inventories | To accelerate the discovery and study of the world’s biodiversity, proposals are invited from teams of investigators to conduct a worldwide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms. Each project should conduct fieldwork necessary to fill gaps in existing collections, produce descriptions, taxonomic revisions, web-searchable databases, and interactive keys (or other automated identification tools) for all new and known species in the targeted group, analyze their phylogenetic relationships, and establish predictive classifications for the group. Proposals may target any particular group of organisms, from terrestrial, fresh-water, or marine habitats, at any feasible level in the taxonomic hierarchy, but must be global in scope. | January 12, 2008 |
| NSF Division of Earth Sciences - Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program | This program encourages studies of 1) the interactions between biological and geological systems at all scales of space and time; 2) geomicrobiology and biomineralization processes; 3) the role of life in the evolution of the Earth’s system; 4) inorganic and organic geochemical processes occurring at or near the earth’s surface now and in the past, and at the broad spectrum of interfaces ranging in scale from planetary and regional to mineral-surface and supramolecular; 5) mineralogy and chemistry of soils and sediments; 6) surficial chemical and biogeochemical systems and cycles and their modification through natural and anthropogenic change; and 7) development of tools, methods, and models for low-temperature geochemistry and geobiological research. GG facilitates cross-disciplinary efforts to harness new bioanalytical tools – such as those emerging from molecular biology – in the study of the terrestrial environment. | January 16, 2008 |
| USDA, Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service (CSREES), National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Pgm (NRICGP), 26.0 Water and Watersheds | FY 2008 Priorities for Research Projects: 1.) Understand the sources, fate, and transport of pathogens, such as bacteria, protozoa, and viruses in soil, surface and ground water, and irrigation systems of agricultural and rural watersheds to reduce zoonotic pathogens in the environment. Special emphasis is considered for Escherichia coli, Cryptosporidium, and enteric viruses. 2.) Identify, evaluate, and understand producer management behaviors that improve agricultural water conservation in crop, livestock, and poultry production, with an emphasis on a) projects that integrate hydrologic, economic, and policy components; b) social determinants of water use; and c) documented water savings, especially at spatial scales greater than a single field. |
January 17, 2008 |
| NOAA Hydrologic Research | The overall objective of this program is to improve the general understanding of the science of river and flash flood forecasting, and how probabilistic information can be successfully transmitted and understood by emergency managers, water resource managers, and the public. This objective includes efforts to improve the overall forecast and warning capabilities of the NWS river and flash flood forecast mission by addressing the following national science priorities through collaborative efforts between NOAA/NWS and academic/other institutions: derivation of observed and forecast values of all model forcings including precipitation, temperature, and evaporation; Quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) and forecasting (QPF), including precipitation type and probabilistic QPF; Flash flood and river prediction (deterministic and probabilistic); Prediction of seasonal-to-inter-annual and decadal climate variability, and the impacts of that variability on extreme weather events. The priority for this announcement is Probabilistic River Regulation Modeling.. | January 28, 2008 |
| NSF Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF) | Supports meritorious requests within and across Earth science disciplines. EAR/IF will consider proposals for: 1) Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment; 2) Development of New Instrumentation, Analytical Techniques or Software ; 3) Support of National or Regional Multi-User Facilities; 4) Support of Research Technicians; (5) Development of Cyberinfrastructure for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics). Planned research uses of requested instruments must include basic research on solid-Earth and surface-Earth processes. | February 13, 2008; July 9, 2008 |
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (SBRP), Multiproject Program Grants (P42) |
SBRP grants support coordinated, multi-project, multi- and interdisciplinary research programs that have both a biomedical and non-biomedical (engineering, geochemical and ecological sciences) components. Projects need a unifying conceptual theme. Example topics include: using environmental genetics and genomics to discern the contributions of environmental and genetic factors in relation to disease susceptibility in vulnerable populations or in relation to the impact on microbial communities involved in biodegradation; developing novel computational, statistical, and/or mathematical tools to create risk assessment models that incorporate the complex biological data being generated through high-data content approaches; or employing fate and transport modeling of contaminants in environmental medias as it relates to the development of effective remediation strategies or for predicting exposure risk in humans or ecosystems. The NIEHS intends to commit approximately $8.0 million dollars in FY 2009 to fund three to four new and/or renewal SBRP multi-project grants in response to this FOA. A new applicant may request a budget for direct costs of up to $2.1 million dollars for the first year and a project period of up to 5 years. | Letters of intent due: February 15, 2008 Full applications due: April 15, 2008 |
| USGS/NIWR Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program | The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources requests proposals for matching grants to support research on the topics of water supply and water availability, which are issues of importance nationwide. Proposals are sought in not only the physical dimensions of supply and demand, but also quality trends in raw water supplies, the role of economics and institutions in water supply and demand, institutional arrangements for tracking and reporting water supply and availability, and institutional arrangements for coping with extreme hydrologic conditions. Proposals involving substantial collaboration between the USGS and university scientists are encouraged. Proposals may be for projects of 1 to 3 years in duration and may request up to $250,000 in federal funds. | February 16, 2008 |
| National Research Initiative: Microbial Genome Sequencing Program FY 2008 | This call invites research proposals (i) to support high-throughput sequencing of the genomes of microorganisms (including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, oomycetes, protists and agriculturally important nematodes) and (ii) to develop and implement strategies, tools and technologies to make currently available genome sequences more valuable to the user community. Example topics: novel aspects of microbial biochemistry, physiology, metabolism, development and cellular biology; the diversity and the roles microorganisms play in complex ecosystems and in global geochemical cycles; the impact that microorganisms have on the productivity and sustainability of agriculture and natural resources (e.g., forestry, soil and water), and on the safety and quality of the nation's food supply; and the organization and evolution of microbial genomes, and the mechanisms of transmission, exchange and reshuffling of genetic information. | February 19, 2008 |
| NOAA Environmental Literacy Grants for K-12 Education | Funded projects will be between 1 and 5 years in duration and will promote changes in K-12 education to expand the amount of Earth System Science taught in the classroom and improve student learning and application of that subject. Projects are encouraged to incorporate NOAA data, data visualizations, and resources and to further the use of Earth System Science concepts related to NOAA's mission goals. Projects are also encouraged to collaborate with NOAA entities as partners and/or connect to projects previously funded by NOAA's Environmental Literacy Grants. | Pre-proposals due February 20, 2008. Full proposals due June 25, 2008. |
| Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Oregon 150 Grants | In preparation for Oregon's 150th birthday celebration in 2009, OWEB and ODFW are seeking proposals to conserve Oregon's symbolic fish and wildlife species—the western meadowlark, chinook salmon, Oregon swallowtail butterfly and American beaver—and the habitats on which they depend. OWEB has dedicated $1 million in Oregon Lottery funds for on-the-ground projects to aid in their conservation. The money will be made available through a conservation grant process. A 25% match is required. |
February 25, 2008 |
| National
Water Research Institute Research Projects |
NWRI Research Areas: water quality assessment, treatment and monitoring, knowledge management, exploratory research. The average NWRI-supported research project has had an annual budget of approximately $100K and a 1:1 match is required. | March 1, 2008; September 1, 2008 |
| NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) - Environmental Sustainability | This program supports engineering research that seeks to balance society’s need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. Research is encouraged to advance the next generation of water and wastewater treatment that will decrease material and energy use, consider new paradigms for delivery of services, and promote longer life for engineered systems. Other activities of interest include:
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March 1, 2008 |
| NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) - Environmental Engineering | The Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster supports engineering research with the goal of reducing adverse effects of solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, fresh and ocean waters, and air that result from human activity and impair the value of those resources in the context of ecological tenets. This cluster focuses on research on innovative biological, chemical, and physical processes used alone or as components of engineered systems to restore the usefulness of polluted land, water, and air resources. Major areas of interest and activity in the program include: developing innovative biological, chemical, and physical treatment processes to remove and degrade pollutants from water and air; measuring, modeling and predicting the movement and fate of pollutants in the environment; and developing and evaluating techniques to clean up polluted sites, such as landfills and contaminated aquifers, restore the quality of polluted water, air, and land resources and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems. | March 1, 2008 |
| Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) - Fluid Dynamics | This program supports fundamental research and education on mechanisms and phenomena that govern fluid flow. Topics include: hydrodynamic stability; transitional flows and turbulence; Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; sediment transport, waves and coastal engineering; multi-scale, multi-phenomena models and computations; bio-fluid mechanics, micro and nanoscale flow phenomena, and microfluidics. Proposed research should contribute to the basic understanding of fluid dynamics, thus enabling the better design, predictability, efficiency and control of systems that involve fluids. Proposals addressing innovative uses of fluids in materials development, manufacturing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, clinical diagnostics and drug delivery, sensors development and integration, energy and the environment, are encouraged. | March 1, 2008 |
| Oregon Bioeconomy and Sustainable Technologies Research Center | BEST was established by the 2007 Oregon Legislature following the recommendations of the Oregon Innovation Council (OrInC) to promote the commercialization of technologies that support sustainable development in Oregon. The primary objective of BEST is to expand research within the OUS institutions in the areas of clean energy, bio-based products, and green development including buildings and infrastructure. Funding for a one-year, individual project will be limited to $50,000 including indirect costs. | March 3, 2008 |
| DOE Basic Research and Modeling to Support Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations | Past work of the IARP has emphasized understanding and predicting anthropogenic drivers of climate change. Future work seeks to improve our scientific understanding of the impacts to human and natural systems from climate change and the potential capacity to adapt to such change. Applications are requested that advance the fundamental methodologies for analysis of climate change impacts and adaptations, including innovative models and approaches. Grant applications that approach these elements in the context of a critically important area for DOE - potential climate change impacts on energy systems and their capacity to adapt - are especially encouraged. | Preapplications due: March 10, 2008; full applications due: April 14, 2008. |
| Water Reuse in 2030 (WRF-06-017) | The overarching goals of the project are to anticipate and forecast the global challenges which will confront water reuse over the next two decades and, by doing so, facilitate long-range planning and the conduct of appropriate research. The project will be organized to address the future challenges of water reuse both at a more global level and at the more specific U.S. level. The maximum amount of funding available is $110,000 and requires a 25% match which may consist of an in-kind contribution. |
March 17, 2008 |
| National Ground Water Association - Ground Water Research Fund | NGWREF seeks to fund leading-edge programming that stimulates new knowledge, information, programs, and products to advance ground water science and technology. It particularly encourages and values those proposals that bridge the gap between research and practical applications of the research findings. In 2008 it will prioritize funding for projects that contribute to achieving the Foundation's mission related to sustainability and pubilc concerns about ground water quality. Research grants are usually in the $3,000 - $8,000 range. | April 15, 2008 |
| Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Grants for Restoration/Acquisition; Technical Assistance; Watershed Assessment |
OWEB encourages projects that foster interagency cooperation, include other sources of funding, provide for local stakeholder involvement, include youth and volunteers and promote learning about watershed concepts. The three types of proposals accepted at this deadline are: on-the-ground watershed management (restoration and acquisition); assessment and/or monitoring of natural resource conditions; technical assistance to develop restoration projects. | April 21, 2008 |
| USDA Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program – National Integrated Water Quality Program - Watershed Scale Projects, Program Area Code 110.C | Projects must be conducted at a watershed or equally-appropriate geographic scale. Three project types are allowed in Program Area 110.C: Education projects (up to $60,000 per year), extension projects (up to $80,000 per year); or integrated research, education, and extension projects (up to $220,000 per year). Focus areas: (1) Projects that demonstrate conservation of water resources at the watershed (or other appropriate) scale to meet the potential diminished supply due to drought, climate change, salinity, and competing demands for water resources. (2) projects that improve the effectiveness of conservation practices and programs by targeting critical areas (physical, social, or economic) and protecting or improving these areas to achieve water resource goals. | April 29, 2008 |
| US Bureau of Reclamation Water 2025 Challenge Grant Implementation Program | The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite irrigation and water districts, United States Territories,States in the West, and other local entities with water delivery authority to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on projects that create water markets and make more efficient use of existing water supplies. | April 28, 2008 |
| EPA NCER Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality | The goal of this solicitation is to assemble modeling systems capable of capturing important linkages between regional climate drivers and terrestrial hydrologic systems and to apply these modeling systems to improve the overall understanding of the sensitivity of key water quality or aquatic ecosystem management targets to the types of climate changes anticipated over the next several decades. About five regular awards (up to $800k) and two early career awards (up to $250k) will be made. |
May 08, 2008 |
| NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Graduate Research Supplements (GRS) | Funding requests can be made by the PI of an existing ENG award. Funding is for twelve months, renewable annually, for the duration of the research grant for a maximum period of three years for an individual student. The supplements are nontransferable and may include graduate student stipend and tuition support. | May 12, 2008 |
| DOE National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR) | Proposed research is requested that would improve understanding of potential effects of contemporary climatic change on the structure and functioning of important terrestrial ecosystems (including wetland and freshwater ecosystems, but not marine or estuarine ecosystems) within the United States, as well as possible feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to climate and atmospheric composition. | preproposals: May 16, 2008; Full proposals: August 15, 2008 |
| Oregon State University College of Engineering, Seeding Collaborative Research, FMI: Chris.A.Bell@oregonstate.edu | Faculty are invited to submit proposals for up to $20,000 to seed collaborative research. Proposals should be from faculty in at least 2 departments/schools – departments from other colleges are encouraged, but the lead must be from Engineering. Funding is to be used for proposal development for major research initiatives. Decisions made by June 15th for funds to be expended in Summer & Fall. Subject to satisfactory progress, phase 2 funding will be available for a further 6-months and $20,000 funding. | May 16, 2008 |
| NSF Hydrologic Science | Hydrologic Sciences focuses on the flow of water and transport processes within streams, soils, and aquifers. Particular attention is given to spatial and temporal heterogeneity of fluxes and storages of water and chemicals over a wide range of scales, to geolimnology and to interfaces with the landscape, microbial communities, and coastal areas. Studies may also deal with processes in aqueous geochemistry and with the physical, chemical, and biological processes within water bodies. Study of these processes requires expertise from many basic sciences and mathematics, and proposals often require joint review with related programs. | June 1, 2008 |
| NSF/NOAA Communicating Hurricane Information (CHI) | Call for proposals focusing on advancing fundamental understanding of the communication of hurricane outlooks, forecasts, watches, and warnings both to decision makers (i.e., emergency managers, elected officials) and to the general public. Proposals must be submitted by an interdisciplinary group with both physical and social science expertise. Strong proposals may use any of the variety of methods found in social, behavioral, and economic research. The role of the physical scientist or engineer on each project is to provide expertise about the state of hurricane forecast technologies and what is likely to be available in the near future. The physical scientist or engineer might also inform the social scientist about possible consequences (e.g., likely damage to built infrastructure, natural environment, loss of life) of forecasted level of hurricane. | June 3, 2008 |
| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings | Grants for the planning, arranging, administering and/or conducting of conferences, workshops, and/or meetings that focus on research to protect human health and safeguard the environment. Specifically, EPA is interested in supporting scientific and technical research conferences that address the following research program areas: (1) human health; (2) ecosystems; water and security; (3) economics and sustainability; (4) air and global climate change; and (5) technology. This BAA is open from December 10, 2007 through December 9, 2008. EPA will not consider applications for less than $15,000 or more than $75,000. | June 5, 2008 and December 9, 2008 |
| NASA ROSES Decision Support through Earth Science Research Results | This program develops and demonstrates practical applications of NASA Earth science observations and research through demonstration projects carried out in partnership with end user organizations. Some of the priority topics are: improving agricultural forecasts through the use of observations in conjunction with regional climate models and/or downscaled global climate model outputs, water for agriculture, impacts of biofuel development on carbon management and agricultural conservation practices, remote sensing-based forecasts of changes in biodiversity, tools for a global biodiversity observation network, improving water quality assessment capability, the use of NASA research results to improve the basis for water resource management and public policy decisions that address water issues and concerns, approaches to adapting to climate variability and change impacts on water resources. Awards range from under $230K - $310K per year. | Notices of Intent due June 17, 2008; Proposals due August 13, 2008. |
| NASA ROSES Earth Science Applications Feasibility Studies | This program emphasizes the research areas listed above (see NASA decision support) but is designed to test the initial feasibility of a concept for potential application of specific NASA Earth science research results to a decision-making activity. Awards range from $60K - $110K. | Notices of Intent due June 18, 2008; Proposals due August 27, 2008. |
| NASA ROSES Energy and Water Cycle Study - Water Quality (.PDF) | NASA’s Water and Energy Cycle program focuses on achieving the grand challenge of “documenting and enabling improved, observationally based, predictions of water and energy cycle consequences of Earth system variability and change.” To improve remote sensing capability of water quality, NASA solicits projects that have either of the two following objectives: algorithms to remotely sense inland and coastal water quality or providing the scientific basis for next generation water quality remote sensing. | Notice of intent due June 19, 2008; full proposals due August 19, 2008 |
| NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences - Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN) | The goal of this program is to encourage and foster interactions among scientists to create new research directions or advance a field. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographical boundaries. The proposed networking activities should have a theme as a focus of its collaboration. The focus could be on a broad research question, a specific group of organisms, or particular technologies or approaches. | June 30, 2008 |
| NSF Ecosystem Science | The Ecosystem Science Cluster supports research that advances our understanding of: 1) material and energy transformations within and among ecosystems, 2) the composition and structure of ecological systems, 3) ecosystem dynamics and trajectories of ecosystem development through time, and 4) linkages among ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales. The Ecosystem Studies Program supports investigations of whole-system ecological processes and relationships in ecosystems across a diversity of spatial and temporal (including paleo) scales. Proposals may focus on areas such as: biogeochemistry; nutrient cycling; energy flow; primary productivity; stoichiometric relationships; climate-ecosystem feedbacks; radiatively active gas flux; element budgets on watershed, regional, continental, or global scales; relationships between diversity and ecosystem function; ecosystem services; and landscape dynamics. | July 9, 2008; January 9, 2009. |
| BLM Oregon Challenge Cost Share (CCS) Program | In 2008, the Oregon program will be managed to implement a variety of important projects that include resource inventory, monitoring and research, conservation planning and implementation, environmental education, habitat and plant community restoration, cultural site protection, recreation and OHV management. In recent years Oregon BLM has received $1,300,000 annually to fund 75-85 projects. Partnership contributions are required with a 1:1 overall cost share with non-federal dollars. Oregon BLM cost share will not exceed $100,000 per project annually. | August 31, 2008 |
| NSF Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) | The goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing graduate studies in all areas of biological research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Support will be provided to academic institutions to establish innovative programs to engage undergraduates in a year-round research and mentoring activity. Particular emphasis will be placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering: African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities. | preliminary proposals: September 16, 2008 |
| Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Grants for Restoration/Acquisition; Technical Assistance; Watershed Assessment |
OWEB encourages projects that foster interagency cooperation, include other sources of funding, provide for local stakeholder involvement, include youth and volunteers and promote learning about watershed concepts. | October 20, 2008 |
| NSF Hydrologic Science | Hydrologic Sciences focuses on the flow of water and transport processes within streams, soils, and aquifers. Particular attention is given to spatial and temporal heterogeneity of fluxes and storages of water and chemicals over a wide range of scales, to geolimnology and to interfaces with the landscape, microbial communities, and coastal areas. Studies may also deal with processes in aqueous geochemistry and with the physical, chemical, and biological processes within water bodies. Study of these processes requires expertise from many basic sciences and mathematics, and proposals often require joint review with related programs. | December 1, 2008 |
| Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Grants for Restoration/Acquisition; Technical Assistance; Watershed Assessment |
OWEB encourages projects that foster interagency cooperation, include other sources of funding, provide for local stakeholder involvement, include youth and volunteers and promote learning about watershed concepts. | April 20, 2009 |
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| USDA Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Research | The Pacific Southwest Research Station is announcing a Request for Proposals (RFP) to pursue new research in the Lake Tahoe Basin through support from the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act. Water quality is among the six science theme areas solicited included sub-theme topics of: Sub-theme A. Gain a more detailed understanding of the specific sources, transport, and treatability and/or management of fine sediments from watershed sources. Sub-theme B. Improve our understanding of stream channel erosion dynamics and historical changes in stream channel morphology; customize stream channel models for use by resource managers with the aim of developing restoration approaches that achieve sediment loading reduction, in concert with habitat preservation. Sub-theme C. Nearshore water quality - The goal for research under this sub-theme is to increase our understanding of the factors and processes adversely affecting nearshore water quality and habitat quality. | January 26th, 2007 |
| NSF Critical Zone Observatories | This solicitation calls for proposals to develop Critical Zone Observatories that will operate at the watershed scale and that will significantly advance our understanding of the integration and coupling of Earth surface processes as mediated by the presence and flux of fresh water. Successful proposals will be motivated and implemented by both field and theoretical approaches, each providing the impetus for advances in the other, and they will include substantial and novel plans for education, outreach and broader impacts. | February 2, 2007 |
| OSU General Research Fund (GRF) | The intent of the GRF is to enable OSU faculty to carry out scholarly, creative work that should lead to the pursuit of other funding sources, or promote the development of scholarly activities. Projects funded through the GRF could include: pilot research, emergency funding, emerging research opportunities, new research field or new research field for investigator, developing research laboratories, or centrally-shared research resources. Maximum award is $10,000. | February 5, 2007 |
| NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences - Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) | The Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) Program supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. FIBR encourages investigators to identify major under-studied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines including biology, math and the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences and the information sciences. Proposers are encouraged to focus on the biological significance of the question, to describe the integrative approaches, and to develop a research plan that is not limited by conceptual, disciplinary, or organizational boundaries. Particularly encouraged are the inclusion of young scientists trained in an interdisciplinary environment or in non-biological disciplines, and partnerships with underrepresented minority serving and primarily undergraduate institutions and community colleges. | February 16, 2007 |
| The Water Reuse Foundation, 2007 Unsolicited Research Program | This program promotes applied research through projects proposed by researchers. Projects selected for funding typically address emerging issues and involve original concepts, novel techniques, and other scientific research needs related to water reuse and desalination. The Foundation anticipates funding between two and four projects with a maximum funding level for any single project of $175,000. The researcher must obtain or contribute in-kind services, cash, or a combination of the two amounting to at least 25% of the total cost of the proposed project. | Preproposals due February 20, 2007. |
| NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) - 2007 Carbon Cycle Science | In this solicitation, NASA requests proposals to use satellite observations effectively in studies to address 1) How large and variable are the dynamic reservoirs and fluxes of carbon within the Earth system and how might carbon cycling change and be managed in future years, decades, and centuries? 2) What are our options for managing carbon sources and sinks to achieve an appropriate balance of risk, cost, and benefit to society?. Proposals within four research themes are of interest to NASA: 1. Global carbon cycle modeling and analysis; 2. Regional studies that provide critical understanding of and offer to reduce major uncertainties about the global carbon cycle; 3. Studies of the carbon cycle implications of ocean acidification; and 4. Decision-support systems for carbon management. The USDA-CSREES requests proposals to conduct regional carbon studies in North America under research themes two and four. |
Notice of Intent due April 6, 2007; Full proposal due June 6, 2007 |
| NASA ROSES Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) | The long-term challenge of this program is documenting and enabling improved, observationally based, predictions of water and energy cycle consequences of Earth system variability and change. This challenge requires documenting and predicting trends in the rate of the Earth's water and energy cycling that corresponds to climate change and changes in the frequency and intensity of naturally occurring related meteorological and hydrologic events, which may vary as climate may vary in the future. | notice of intent due April 18, 2007; full proposal due: June 18, 2007 |
| WateReuse Foundation’s Solicited Research Program | The objective of this program is to sponsor research projects that address current and emerging priority issues for Foundation Subscribers and the water reuse and desalination community. Current topics include: Low cost treatment technologies for small-scale water reclamation plants; Predictive models to aid in design of membrane systems for organic micropollutants removal; Guidance on links between water reclamation and reuse and regional growth. Projects must include a 25% match of direct or in-kind contributions. | May 2, 2007 |
| NSF Graduate Research Supplements (GRS) to Current Engineering Awards | GRS provides funding to support a Ph.D. student to work on a funded NSF engineering project. The application is made by the Principal Investigator of an existing ENG award. GRS candidates must be United States citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States. The graduate students must be newly enrolled for the Ph.D. degree in engineering disciplines. Renewal for a second or third year supplement requires a report on the progress of the student toward the Ph.D. degree. The long-term goal of GRS is to increase the number of persons from underrepresented groups in advanced academic and professional careers. | May 15, 2007 |
| WateReuse Foundation’s Solicited Research Program | The objective of this program is to sponsor research projects that address current and emerging priority issues for Foundation Subscribers and the water reuse and desalination community. The topic of this RFP is: Investigation of Membrane Bioreactor Effluent Water Quality and Technology. Projects must include a 25% match of direct or in-kind contributions. | May 17, 2007 |
| NSF International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) | This program was initiated by NSF in 2006 to enable early-career researchers - defined as students, post-docs, and assistant & associate professors - to travel to foreign institutions to engage in collaborative research for periods of 3-6 months. All proposals must be submitted as supplement requests to current awards in the Directorate for Engineering at NSF. Faculty advisors, irrespective of rank, are eligible for short visits for program coordination and supervision. Current awardees with expiration dates falling before October 31, 2008 must contact the cognizant program officers at NSF to request a no-cost extension, before submitting the proposals. | May 29, 2007 |
| NSF Engineering Virtual Organization Grants |
The primary purpose of this solicitation is to promote the development of Virtual Organizations (VO's) for the engineering community (EVOs). A VO is created by a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed globally, yet who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure (CI). This program solicitation requests proposals for two-year seed awards to establish EVOs. Proposals must address the EVO organizing principle, structure, shared community resources, and research and learning goals; a vision for organizing the community, including international partners; a vision for preparing the CI components needed to enable those goals; a plan to obtain and document user requirements formally; and a project management plan for developing both a prototype implementation and a conceptual design of a full implementation. | Letter of Intent: May 31, 2007; Full Proposals: July 3, 2007 |
| Surface Water Quality Bureau of the New Mexico Environment Department | The New Mexico Environment Department is soliciting proposals from qualified entities for projects that will restore in-stream ecosystem function and watershed health to major NM river basins, with emphasis on physical projects. Examples of activities that may be funded through this Request for Proposals include: physical habitat restoration within a stream; enhancement of environmental flow; improvement of riparian vegetative cover for the purpose of river restoration; reduction of pollutants to rivers; promoting the hydrologic interaction between the river channel and floodplain including bank lowering; and restoring dynamic channel processes such as accretion on new banks, bar building, channel widening, and channel sinuosity. Funding of projects on federal and private land will be considered if there is a measurable benefit to the state. $2,350,000 is available and the program expects to fund up to 5 projects. Non-NM organizations may apply. | June 27, 2007 |
| EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) and USDA National Research Initiative Program - Ecological Impacts from the Interactions of Climate Change, Land Use Change and Invasive Species | The purpose of this joint solicitation is to quantitatively investigate how climate change, climate variability, and land use change: (1) influence the establishment, abundance and distribution of invasive species; (2) interact with invasive species to create feedbacks that increase their success; (3) interact with invasive species to cause threshold responses in natural and managed systems; or (4) affect the chemical, biological and mechanical management of invasive species. The EPA is interested in proposals addressing aquatic ecosystems and the USDA in proposals addressing managed terrestrial systems. This program will be offered only once with this particular emphasis. | June 26, 2007 |
| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Pathogens in Drinking Water | EPA is seeking applications proposing development and evaluation of innovative approaches to quantitatively detect pathogens or toxigenic cyanobacteria or the identified high priority cyanotoxins: microcystins, anatoxin-a, and cylindrospermopsins, in drinking water. The purpose of this request for applications is to improve the suite of available detection methods for known and emerging microbial drinking water contaminants including freshwater algae or its toxins. Any proposed method should be applicable to source water, treated water, and/or water in the distribution system. | July 10, 2007 |
| WateReuse Foundation’s Solicited Research Program | The objective of this program is to sponsor research projects that address current and emerging priority issues for Foundation Subscribers and the water reuse and desalination community. Current topics include: Guidelines for Implementation of Seawater and Brackish Water Desalination Facilities. Projects must include a 25% match of direct or in-kind contributions. | July 13 , 2007 |
| NSF Geoscience - Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics | Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics supports innovative research into processes that shape and modify natural landscapes over a variety of length and time scales. The program encourages research that investigates the coupling and feedback between such processes and their relative roles, especially in the contexts of variation in climate and and changes in human impact. Investigations are encouraged that quantitatively tackle issues of rates of change, that use complementary methodologies, innovative data and techniques, and that efficiently combine expertise from related fields. | July 16, 2007 |
| NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. PECASE: Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious new CAREER awardees. | July 2007 |
| NASA ROSES Terrestrial Hydrology Program | The THP uses NASA’s unique view from space to study hydrologic processes associated with runoff production, hydrologic fluxes at the land-air interface, and terrestrial water stores. THP fosters the development of hydrologic remote sensing theory, new hydrologic satellite missions, hydrologic remote sensing field experiments, and the interface of hydrology with other disciplines, such as ecology. Particular emphasis is placed on the application of satellite-based remotely sensed data for characterizing, understanding, and predicting the terrestrially linked components of the hydrologic cycle and the dynamics of large-scale river basins. |
notice of intent due August 1, 2007; full proposals due October 1, 2007. |
| USAID Afghanistan Water, Agriculture and Technology Transfer Program | It will provide technical assistance to increase accessibility and adoption of new and improved technology in agriculture production and post harvest activities in Afghanistan. The program will also address issues on land security and efficiency in water management. The program areas and activities to be covered by the program include integrated water management, technology tTransfer, and policy. $2 Million is available to Land Grant Universities and partners in Afghanistan through this program. | This is an advanced notice. Close date to be provided when RFA is published. |
| NSF Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program | EAR/IF will consider proposals for: acquisition or upgrade of research equipment, development of new instrumentation, support of national or regional multi-user facilities, and support of research technicians. | September 13, 2007 |
| NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) - Environmental Engineering | The Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster supports engineering research with the goal of reducing adverse effects of solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, fresh and ocean waters, and air that result from human activity and impair the value of those resources in the context of ecological tenets. This cluster focuses on research on innovative biological, chemical, and physical processes used alone or as components of engineered systems to restore the usefulness of polluted land, water, and air resources. Major areas of interest and activity in the program include: developing innovative biological, chemical, and physical treatment processes to remove and degrade pollutants from water and air; measuring, modeling and predicting the movement and fate of pollutants in the environment; and developing and evaluating techniques to clean up polluted sites, such as landfills and contaminated aquifers, restore the quality of polluted water, air, and land resources and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems. | September 15, 2007 |
| NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) - Environmental Sustainability | This program supports engineering research that seeks to balance society’s need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. Research is encouraged to advance the next generation of water and wastewater treatment that will decrease material and energy use, consider new paradigms for delivery of services, and promote longer life for engineered systems. Other activities of interest include:
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September 15, 2007 |
| Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) - Fluid Dynamics | This program supports fundamental research and education on mechanisms and phenomena that govern fluid flow. Topics include: hydrodynamic stability; transitional flows and turbulence; Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; sediment transport, waves and coastal engineering; multi-scale, multi-phenomena models and computations; bio-fluid mechanics, micro and nanoscale flow phenomena, and microfluidics. Proposed research should contribute to the basic understanding of fluid dynamics, thus enabling the better design, predictability, efficiency and control of systems that involve fluids. Proposals addressing innovative uses of fluids in materials development, manufacturing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, clinical diagnostics and drug delivery, sensors development and integration, energy and the environment, are encouraged. | September 15, 2007 |
| NSF Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) | The goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing graduate studies in all areas of biological research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Support will be provided to academic institutions to establish innovative programs to engage undergraduates in a year-round research and mentoring activity. Particular emphasis will be placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering. | Preliminary Proposals Due: September 18, 2007; Full Proposals Due: March 4, 2008 |
| NOAA’s Broad Area Announcement (BAA) | NOAA is seeking innovative projects, and sponsorships (e.g., conferences, newsletters etc.) that address one or more of the following five mission goal descriptions contained in the NOAA Strategic Plan: 1. Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources Through an Ecosystem Approach to Management; 2. Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond; 3. Serve Society’s Needs for Weather and Water Information; 4. Support the Nation’s Commerce with Information for Safe, Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation; and 5. Provide Critical Support for NOAA’s Mission. This BAA is a mechanism to encourage research, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not normally funded through our competitive discretionary programs. | anytime up to September 28, 2007 |
| Oregon Governor’s Fund for the Environment | Funded by a court settlement, this fund provide monies for projects in the Willamette River Basin that: (a) develop and implement strategies to eliminate and/or reduce pollution and otherwise restore the quality of Oregon rivers, streams and coastal areas; restore and conserve fish, wildlife, and plant resources critical to Oregon rivers, streams and coastal areas; (c) identify continuing sources of pollution of Oregon rivers, streams and coastal areas; and (d) improve state and local criminal enforcement of environmental and wildlife protection laws intended to protect Oregon rivers, streams and coastal areas. The people living in or near such habitats are intended to be the beneficiaries of the Fund, on behalf of such species and habitats.We are inviting pre-proposals requesting funds from $5,000 to $50,000 and priority will be given to projects that improve conservation on private lands through incentive programs for private landowners. | Preproposals due: October 5, 2007; Full proposals due December 2007. |
| OSU General Research Fund (GRF) | The intent of the GRF is to enable OSU faculty to carry out scholarly, creative work that should lead to the pursuit of other funding sources, or promote the development of scholarly activities. Projects funded through the GRF could include: pilot research, emergency funding, emerging research opportunities, new research field or new research field for investigator, developing research laboratories, or centrally-shared research resources. Maximum award is $10,000. | October 8, 2007 |
| Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Grants for Restoration/Acquisition Technical Assistance 1,2,3 Outreach/Education Monitoring |
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board focuses on projects that approach natural resources management from a whole-watershed perspective. OWEB encourages projects that foster interagency cooperation, include other sources of funding, provide for local stakeholder involvement, include youth and volunteers and promote learning about watershed concepts. There are four general categories of projects eligible for OWEB funding: 1. On-the-ground watershed management (restoration and acquisition). 2. Assessment and/or monitoring of natural resource conditions. 3. Opportunities for learning about watershed concepts (education/outreach). 4. Watershed council support. | October 22, 2007 |
| Challenge Call For Innovative Technologies In The Domain Of Seawater Desalination | The Environment and Water Industry Development Council (EWI), under the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR), Singapore, was set up to spearhead the growth of the environmental and water industry in Singapore. With the support of agencies like the Economic Development Board (EDB) and the PUB, EWI is committed to invest in research & development in the areas of environment and water.EWI is now calling for PRELIMINARY research proposals with breakthrough / disruptive technologies to meet the following challenges: Production of drinking water that meets World Health Organisation (WHO) Drinking Water Guidelines, Total energy consumption of 1.5 kWh/cu.m or less. |
Preliminary proposals due: November 2, 2007 |
| NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program | This program has the scientific objective “to use remote sensing to develop a predictive understanding of the role of water in land-atmosphere interactions and to further the scientific basis of water resources management.” Research foci are: 1) Further exploit current satellite instruments, such as AMSR-E, MODIS, TMI, and GRACE; and 2) Plan and prepare for hydrologically-oriented missions recommended by the Earth Science Decadal Survey, such as the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP), Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT), and Snow and Cold Land Processes (SCLP) missions. To address these foci, NASA solicits multi-scale investigations that combine different forms of measurement to develop techniques to interpret and compare between different methods of hydrological environment observation. By teaming together these investigations and the scientists involved, NASA hopes to foster scientists familiar with multiple hydrologic cycle variables, the interplay between these quantities and how the collective hydrological environment is captured by remote sensing. | Letters of intent due: November 14, 2007; full proposals due: January 15, 2008 |
| NSF Geosciences Education | The GeoEd Program includes a Pilot Projects track where projects should integrate research and education. Proposals for projects that will make use of current geoscience research results and/or methods are sought, as are proposals that will promote the geosciences and geoscience careers as highly relevant to modern society. Projects that are informed by the results of current education-related research or will conduct new educational research within a geoscience education venue will be considered under this solicitation. Awards are intended to provide start-up or proof-of-concept funding to enable projects to reach a level of maturity that will allow them to compete for longer-term funding from other sources or become self-sustaining. All proposed projects should have strong evaluation and dissemination plans. | November 15, 2007 |
| NSF Hydrologic Science | Hydrologic Sciences focuses on the flow of water and transport processes within streams, soils, and aquifers. Particular attention is given to spatial and temporal heterogeneity of fluxes and storages of water and chemicals over a wide range of scales, to geolimnology and to interfaces with the landscape, microbial communities, and coastal areas. Studies may also deal with processes in aqueous geochemistry and with the physical, chemical, and biological processes within water bodies. Study of these processes requires expertise from many basic sciences and mathematics, and proposals often require joint review with related programs. | December 1, 2007 |
| Oregon Department of Transportation Annual Research Problem Solicitation | Funds and other resources are available for research (study of a transportation problem), development (design and/or testing of a new transportation tool or procedure), and technology transfer (demonstration of or education about new transportation technology) activities. The first step to apply is to submit a research problem statement. Among the ten research priorities identified by the Geotechnical, Hydraulics, and Environmental section are cost effective management and monitoring of storm water and bank protection and scour. | Problem statements due December 14, 2007 |
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| Northwest
Power Planning Council |
The Council and Bonneville are now soliciting proposals for projects to implement the Council’s Fish and Wildlife Program and address Bonneville’s fish and wildlife related responsibilities. The proposals selected for funding will be for Fiscal Years 2007 through 2009. Proposals for all areas (geographic and category) of the Program are requested in this solicitation. Emphasis on "on the ground work" some funding available for research and monitoring. | January 10, 2006 |
| Institute for Public Health and Water Research (IPWR) | The IPWR is issuing its first research grant program
announcement. For FY 2006, the IPWR is soliciting pilot research grants
in the general area of: "Health benefits and outcomes of drinking water".
The key areas of interest in this competition are: the benefits and risks
of drinking water consumption, and the water and health relationship. This
may include improving general health/decreasing risks, maturational changes,
obesity, diabetes, waterborne disease, cognitive performance, etc. Where
appropriate and possible, studies should include partnerships with municipal
water utilities and identify and test strategies for collaboration with
municipalities in promoting the value of drinking water. Studies must consider
both information dissemination and behavior change. The above questions/issues
are provided as examples only. Investigators should not be constrained by
the preceding examples. Grants up to $100K for two years. |
Letter of intent January 20, 2006; Full applications February 28, 2006 |
| NSF: Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototype Systems to Address Cross-Cutting Needs (CEO:P) Crosscutting Programs | Spatially extensive observing systems for environmental research, together with the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research on the dynamics of complex environmental systems, create the need for a sophisticated information infrastructure to support these observing systems and to facilitate the integrated use of data from them. There are a number of questions about how to best construct such a cyberinfrastructure. To help answer these questions and to promote planning for Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories (CEO), this solicitation requests proposals for the development of practical environmental cyberinfrastructure prototypes along with a demonstration of their capability to answer significant environmental research questions. | January 25, 2006 |
| Department of Defense 2006 Pathogen And Toxin Concentration Systems For Water Monitoring | The Department of Defense is requesting proposals for pathogen/toxin concentration systems. Pathogen/toxin concentration systems technologies that can meet the full specifications will be evaluated. The system must capture, concentrate and recover trace quantities of pathogens (bacteria, bacterial spores, viruses, and parasites) and toxins (of biological origin) from complex water supplies. Water supplies include source and product waters. Source waters include environmental waters such as surface (lake, river, brackish, marine), ground (aquifer, springs) and reservoir. Product waters include municipal tap water, well water, and military field water. Military field water is represented by reverse osmosis water that contains two to five parts-per-million residual chlorine. Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,000,000.00 Award Ceiling: none Award Floor: none CFDA Number: 12.630; no match or cost sharing required. | Feb 15, 2006 |
| The Ann Campana Judge Foundation | $5000 grants for individuals or organizations
based in the USA or Canada. Project goals should promote, undertake, support
and fund philanthropic projects in and relating to developing countries,
especially those projects focused on water, health and sanitation. Philanthropic
projects of the following types will be supported by the Foundation:
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February 25, 2006 |
| USDA
Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative |
The CCPI offers two components in fiscal year 2006: The Conservation Priorities component offers a mechanism to foster partnerships that focus technical and financial resources on conservation priorities in watersheds (8-digit HUC or smaller) or airsheds of special significance. The Rapid Watershed Assessment component provides funding for locally-led resource assessment and planning on an 8-digit HUC watershed basis. Awards of between $50,000 and $200,000 with a total of $2 Million available for each component. 1:1 match of non-NRCS funding required; in-kind contributions for match okay. | March 7, 2006 |
| NSF Directorate for Geosciences - Carbon and Water in the Earth System | This solicitation is aimed at advancing our understanding of interdisciplinary aspects of either the carbon or the water cycles as they pertain to life, the global environment, and climate change. Specifically, proposals should address interdisciplinary gaps in our understanding of these cycles across the interfaces of atmosphere, land, and oceans and which could not be addressed by current core disciplinary programs within NSF. In particular, we are requesting proposals for multidisciplinary studies that cross traditional NSF disciplinary boundaries and those that cannot be supported by core programs because of their scope and cost. Proposals addressing critical feedbacks, couplings, and interactions of the carbon and water cycles are particularly encouraged. Likewise, proposals to study processes in poorly understood yet globally important and challenging environmental systems, such as the oceanic mesopelagic layer, continental margins, and wetlands are also encouraged, as are those addressing poorly understood interactions. This solicitation continues some activities of the Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE) initiative, and in particular aspects of the programs Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles, Integrated Carbon Cycle Research, Biogeosciences, and Water Cycle Research. | March 15, 2006 |
| WateReuse Foundation Unsolicited Research Program | The WateReuse Foundation is seeking preproposals for funding consideration under its 2006 Unsolicited Research Program. The Foundation anticipates funding between three and six projects with a maximum funding level for any single project of $175,000. The program mission is to promote applied research through projects proposed by researchers. Projects typically address emerging issues and involve original concepts, novel techniques, and other scientific research needs. | March 17, 2006 |
| OSU Extension 2006-07 Innovative Grants Program | This program was established to encourage and support: (1) innovative Extension projects that address critical needs of Oregonians through the application of new research knowledge and program delivery methodologies; (2) the development of strategies that have the potential to shape new directions for OSU Extension programs; and (3) project partnerships within and outside of OSU Extension. Maximum project award: $20,000. | March 31, 2006 |
| USDA - Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program - National Integrated Water Quality Program | The goal of the National Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP) is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of our Nation's surface water and groundwater resources through research, education, and extension activities. Funded projects should lead to science-based decision making and management practices that improve the quality of the Nation's surface water and groundwater resources in agricultural and rural watersheds. NIWQP applications are being solicited in the following program areas: National Facilitation Projects; Extension/Education Projects; and Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Projects. Projects MUST address water quality issues in agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds. Funding for annual project budgets up to $220K for 1-4 years, depending on project type. | April 11, 2006 |
| National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation | Research proposals on the following topics are being invited by the Board NGWREF: sustainability of ground water resources, ground water rights, drinking water infrastructure alternatives, water testing technology applicable at individual household levels, relationships between ground water industry-related regulations and public benefits. Total dollars to be awarded: $20,000. NGWREF particularly encourages and values those proposals that bridge the gap between research and practical applications of the research findings. | April 15, 2006 |
| OSU Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center Pilot Projects | The Center is seeking innovative basic research proposals using aquatic models to investigate problems in environmental sciences related to human health. The aim of the projects is to provide funding for proof-of-concept studies that will potentially lead to successful research grant applications. One-year awards are given in amounts of up to $20,000. Collaborative research projects involving two or more principal investigators may be considered for funding of up to $40,000. Info: David.Williams@oregonstate.edu or 737-3277. | April 21, 2006 |
| EPA Cooperative Agreement for Integrating Clean Water, Drinking Water and Land Use Planning Efforts | This funding opportunity seeks to demonstrate methods
of integrating drinking water protection into land stewardship/conservation
and water programs at the local level. In the first 18 months of the project,
the successful applicant will work with four to five demonstration states
to foster integration of water quality management, drinking water protection
and land use planning efforts at the state level that will enable source
water protection at the local level. It is expected in the outyears of the
project that the successful applicant will identify three to four additional
demonstration states, address lessons learned in the demonstration states,
and focus on transferring results to other states, communities and/or watersheds. |
July 24, 2006 |
| Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board | OWEB wishes to support research that addresses objectives relevant to the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds (www.oregon.gov/OPSW), particularly those concerning watershed function and process issues that are relevant to local protection and restoration interests. Research proposals should demonstrate an understanding of community concern about the elements of watershed function. Full proposals may demonstrate this in the form of support letter(s) from watershed council(s) or other local community organization(s). Typical awards are expected to be in the range of $250,000 to $750,000. | Pre-proposals due September 22, 2006; Full proposals due December 1, 2006. |
| OSU General Research Fund (GRF) | The intent of the GRF is to enable OSU faculty to carry out scholarly, creative work that should lead to the pursuit of other funding sources, or promote the development of scholarly activities. Projects funded through the GRF could include: pilot research, emergency funding, emerging research opportunities, new research field or new research field for investigator, developing research laboratories, or centrally-shared research resources. Maximum award is $10,000. | October 9, 2006 |
| NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) | This program seeks to catalyze a cultural change in U.S. institutions by establishing innovative models for international collaborative research and education. The program will enable U.S. institutions to establish collaborative relationships with international groups or institutions in order to engender new knowledge and discoveries at the frontier and to promote the development of a globally-engaged, U.S. scientific and engineering workforce. | Preprosals due: October 30, 2006; Full proposals due: February 28, 2007 |
| WateReuse Foundation Solicited Research Program | RFP for the following projects: * Exploring the Value of Reliability Benefits for Water Reuse and Desalination Projects (WRF-06-002) * The Occurrence of Infectious Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Raw, Treated, and Disinfected Wastewater (WRF-06-003) * Identifying Health Effects Concerns of the Water Reuse Industry and Prioritizing Research Needs for Nomination of Chemicals for Research to Appropriate National and International Agencies (WRF-06-004) * Leaching of Metals from Aquifer Soils During Infiltration of Reclaimed Water of Low Ionic Strength: Determination of Kinetics and Potential Mitigation Strategies (WRF-06-005) * Comparisons of Chemical Composition of Reclaimed and Conventional Waters (WRF-06-006) |
November 14, 2006 |
| EPA Uncertainty Analyses of Models in Integrated Environmental Assessments |
This program is seeking applications proposing interdisciplinary research in the formal treatment of uncertainty when models are used to conduct integrated environmental assessments. Integrated assessments use findings, data, and methods across different disciplines to generate information about a particular issue. For example, to assess the impact of mercury on public health and the environment, EPA integrated results from air dispersion models, exposure models, health effects models, and economic models (EPA 2005). To facilitate integrated assessments, models are used either (1) as a single, overarching model that integrates all pertinent information; or, as in EPA's impact assessment for mercury, (2) as a suite of multiple models, with each model focusing on a specific aspect of the integrated assessment. In either case, NCER is interested in research that explores two types of uncertainties: (1) uncertainties within the models themselves, i.e. within their underlying data and hypotheses; and (2) uncertainties that arise during decision-making, as stakeholders discuss the weight of scientific evidence embodied within these models. | December 13, 2006 |
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