Funding Opportunities

Faculty Exploratory Research Grants

The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) offers a program to "seed" ISPE-relevant projects. As part of the ISPE Faculty Exploratory Research Grants Program, three annual grants of up to $10,000 are awarded, on a competitive basis, for projects involving interdisciplinary global change research or another ISPE-related research activity. The program is also designed to help foster the development of one or more major interdisciplinary proposal for submission to extramural funding agencies or private contributors.

Qualifications

The program is only open to ISPE faculty members.

Proposals will be evaluated by a peer-review committee composed of a subset of ISPE faculty. Reviewers' recommendations will be forwarded to the ISPE director for the final selection of awardees.

The program does not fund graduate assistantships, publication costs, travel (unless documented fully as being an integral part of the project objectives), general-purpose equipment, or summer salary. Costs such as short-term student wages, field research, general operations, supplies, and specialized research equipment pertaining to the project will be considered.

Application Procedures

To apply, interested ISPE faculty members must submit a proposal outlining their research plans. An investigator may submit only one proposal during any review period and is eligible to receive only one award within a five-year period. The proposal deadline for the 2009—2010 fiscal year is 5:00 PM on Friday, March 13, 2009.

Your application packet must include the following:

Awards will be announced no later than May 1, 2009 for the 2009—2010 competition. Project funding will begin July 1, 2009, and end June 30, 2010. Final reports are required and are due by August 14, 2010.

Submit application packets to:

The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
715 N Park, 2nd floor
PO Box 210156

For more information, contact M. Lou Regalado at (520) 792-8712 or email regalado@email.arizona.edu.

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Congratulations!

ISPE would like to congratulate the following recipients of the 2008—2009 Faculty Exploratory Research Grants:

Lisa Graumlich, Professor and Director, School of Natural Resources, for the research project Climate Change, Wildlife Corridors and Connectivity in the Western U.S.: Developing UA's Capacity for Assessment and Adaptation at Regional Scales

Julia Cole, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, for the research project Spatial Patterns of Sedimentation on East African Reefs

Kathleen Lohse, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources, for the research project Influence of Climate and Increased Variability of Precipitation on Coupled Water, Nutrient and Carbon Dynamics and Losses

Deadline

The proposal deadline for academic year 2009—2010 is March 13, 2009.

2007—2008 Faculty Exploratory Research Grants

Paul Blowers, Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, for the research project Global Warming Potentials for Degradation Byproducts in the Atmosphere

Ed de Steiguer, Professor, School of Natural Resources, for the research project Development of a Database and Website for State-Level Global Change Policy