Funding for Earth, Environmental, and Ecological Sciences

Earth, Environmental, and Ecological Sciences Funding

Updated 18 July 2008

These listings are a compilation of annual funding opportunities in the earth, environmental, and ecological sciences sciences identified  and distributed monthly by OPD as Current Funding Opportunities & Potential Project Listings at Texas A&M University. 

The below URLs were all active at the time this version (above date) was prepared.  Program dates, when given, are for the most current past funding cycle, and therefore may change slightly for upcoming opportunities.  URLs can change.  If a URL link is not active copy and paste the program title into Google or Yahoo to search for a more current URL.

Please direct comments and feedback to mikecronan@tamu.edu, or suggest potential listings for updated versions.

NASA

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• Watch For: Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity (SALMON) (Final Announcement to be released by August 2008)
• 3 NEW EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS:
  
• NEW: Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums (Notice of Intent, 18 August 2008; Proposal, 17 October 2008)
• NEW: Global Climate Change Education (Notice of Intent 29 August 2008; Proposal, 24 October 2008)
• NEW: K-12 Competitive Grants Opportunity (Notice of Intent and Preliminary Proposals 22 August 2008)
• NEW: Terrestrial Ecology (Notice of Intent, 13 August 2008; Proposal, 2 October 2008)
• NEW: Earth Science for Decision Making - Gulf of Mexico Region (Notice of Intent not required; Proposal, 30 September 2008)
• 2008 Land Cover/Land Use Change (Notice of Intent, 1 May 2008; Proposal, 1 October 2008)

NOAA

• NEW: NOAA National Coastal and Estuarine Research and Technology Program (Proposals Due 9 September 2008)

• NEW: NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Proposals Due 1 November 2008)
  
• FY 2008 Broad Agency Announcement for Special Projects and Programs (Open through 30 September 2009)

EPA

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• NEW: Climate Change and Allergic Airway Disease (1 October 2008)
• Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings (5 June 2008, 9 December 2008)

• Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (with NIEHS) (Not Yet Open)
  
• Exposure Assessment: Research for Understanding and Assessing Human Exposure in Longitudinal Studies (Not Yet Open)
  

• Adapting to Global Change – Air Quality (Not Yet Open)
• Enhancing Ecosystem Services from Agricultural Lands: Developing Tools for Quantification and Decision Support (Not Yet Open)
• Research for Outcomes and Accountability: Development of Novel Environmental Health Outcome Indicators (Not Yet Open)
  
• Approaches to Identify and/or Evaluate Potential Environmental Impacts from the Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide (Not Yet Open)
  

• Dynamic Air Quality Management (Not Yet Open)

• Community-based Cumulative Risk Assessment Research (Not Yet Open)
• Nanotechnology Research Grants: Investigating Environmental Effects of Manufactured Nanomaterials - a Joint Research Solicitation (EPA, NSF & DOE) (Not Yet Open)
  

EPA Environmental Research Fellowships

• Fall 2009 Science to Achieve Results Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study (OPENS July 2008)
  
• Fall 2009 Greater Research Opportunities Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study (OPENS August 2008)
  
• Fall 2009 Greater Research Opportunities Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study (OPENS August 2008)

USDA

• National Research Initiative – Entire 2008 Solicitation 
  

DOE

• Fossil Energy Research and Development (8 October 2008)