Funding Opportunity
Arctic Ocean Diversity Census of Marine Life
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/research/arcdiv/news/index.html
The Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD) Census of Marine Life project is
soliciting proposals for its mini grant program in the area of arctic
marine biodiversity.
ArcOD is an international collaborative effort to inventory biodiversity
in the arctic sea ice, water column, and sea floor from the shallow
shelves to the deep basins using a three-level approach: compilation of
existing data, taxonomic identification of existing samples, and new
collections focusing on taxonomic and regional gaps. ArcOD is part of
the Census of Marine Life, a growing global network of researchers in
more than 80 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and
explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in
oceans past, present, and future.
The goal of the ArcOD mini grant program is to enhance knowledge of
arctic marine biodiversity, from micro-algae to marine mammals, on a
pan-Arctic scale. Relevant activities should strive for species-level
taxonomic resolution. Proposed activities may include, but are not
limited to:
- compiling available data that currently exist in notebooks, gray
literature, published papers, languages other than English, etc. and
making them available to the ArcOD database in electronic form;
- facilitating or improving taxonomic resolution of historic or recent
samples;
- student travel to receive expert taxonomic training directed toward
problematic groups;
- genetic analysis (e.g., contribute to the Barcode of Life);
- species descriptions; and
- synthesizing arctic biodiversity information (in form of publication,
modeling, web page, etc.).
Funding is open to investigators with faculty or postdoc status
(co-investigators can be students) at universities and other research
institutions. Proposals must be submitted by 15 September 2007, with
funding decisions to be announced by 15 November 2007. The earliest
start date for projects is 1 January 2008. Maximum funding period is one
year. Grants should not exceed $5,000 USD (no overhead allowed) and
funding will not be provided for participation in scientific meetings,
executing field work, stipends for students, tuition, etc. A description
of complete grant requirements is available at:
http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/research/arcdiv/news/index.html
To apply, please submit a completed grant application form (maximum two
pages; forms available at website above) and one-page curriculum vitae
for all investigators to:
Arctic Ocean Diversity
University of Alaska Fairbanks
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
Institute of Marine Science
P.O. Box 757220
Fairbanks, AK
99775-7220, USA
Fax: 907-474-7204
E-mail: ArcOD [at] ims.uaf.edu