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Registration open for BudBurst Academy
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Project BudBurst is offering a new online course for educators: PBB 501 - Project BudBurst: Introduction to Plant Phenology and Climate Change. This inaugural course is being offered at no charge to K-12 educators and is suited for both formal and informal educational settings. This online course provides all needed information to implement Project BudBurst in the classroom and engage your students in a national program by learning more about plants and climate change at a local level.
Act now and be part of the first online course from The BudBurst Academy that begins on February 15 and take advantage of the waiver of registration fees.
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| Scientists in Washington, DC for Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill 2012 |
Four individual from our member institutions received travel awards for Climate Science Day (CSD) on Capitol Hill 2012. The purpose of these visits is to provide Members of Congress the best possible access to scientific information on climate science when making policy decisions. The award recipients are Jasmine Crumsey (University of Michigan), Christopher Gambino (Washington State University), Zhao Ma (Utah State University), and Samantha Wisely (University of Florida). Rachel Gallery (University of Arizona) who participated in CSD 2011 will join Hongyan Luo (NEON, Inc.) and Jeffrey Taylor (NEON, Inc.) in this year's event.
In addition to the 1.5 day event, NEON sponsored participants are also given the option of attending: (1) a meeting at the US Global Change Research Program discussing ways to engage the community on the National Climate Assessment, (2) a meeting with NEON Chief Science Officer David Schimel, and (3) observing 'live' the proceedings of the National Academies' Board on Research Data and Information meeting. An account of how the events unfolded will be provided in next month's update. |
Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications at NIMBioS
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The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), located at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is currently accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarship at the interface between mathematics and biology. NIMBioS is particularly interested in requests to support research that integrates diverse fields, requires synthesis at multiple scales, and/or makes use of or requires development of new mathematical/computational approaches.
Support includes an annual stipend of $51000, full University of Tennessee employee fringe benefits, and an annual travel allowance of $2,000. Applications are due March 1, 2012. See the website for more details.
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| National Strategy Proposed to Respond to Climate Change's Impacts on Fish, Wildlife, Plants |
In partnership with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the Obama Administration today released the first draft national strategy to help decision makers and resource managers prepare for and help reduce the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them. The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, available for public review and comment through March 5, 2012, can be found at http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov.
The strategy represents a draft framework for unified action to safeguard fish, wildlife and plants, as well as the important benefits and services the natural world provides the nation every day, including jobs, food, clean water, clean air, building materials, storm protection, and recreation. It will also guide the nation's efforts during the next five years to respond to current and future climate change impacts such as changing species distributions and migration patterns, the spread of wildlife diseases and invasive species, the inundation of coastal habitats with rising sea levels, and changes in freshwater availability with shifting precipitation and habitat types. |
Solicitations of Potential Interest to the NEON Community
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Please click the respective links to check the original source of information. The abbreviated text below may not reflect amendments to the original announcements, and may not reflect the original intent of the solicitation. The "New" icons indicate recent new announcements (includes announcements for regular solicitations), and not necessarily new programs. These are primarily, though not limited to, NSF solicitations. Not all new announcements are included in the list below.  MacroSystems Biology: Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales - Excerpt: The National Science Foundation invites proposals from interdisciplinary teams of scientists to conduct innovative, integrated, systems-oriented macroscale biology ("MacroSystems Biology") research to detect, understand, and forecast the consequences of climate and land use change and invasive species on the biosphere at regional to continental scales. Proposals may leverage existing research networks (i.e., The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network), research sites (i.e., Critical Zone Observatories - CZO), field stations, synthesis centers, ongoing and proposed academic and federal programs, and research observatories such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI). However the proposals must clearly demonstrate how the research will develop fundamentally new knowledge and enhance theory.
- Critical Dates: April 18, 2012
- Department of Energy FY2012 Atmospheric System Research Funding Opportunity
- Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) grants for under-represented research within the program. Priority will be given to applications that use or extend the new capabilities of the Recovery Act Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility instrumentation, address topics within the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions area, or propose program relevant studies involving a number of recent/ongoing campaigns detailed on the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) website.
- Critical Dates: Preproposals due February 24, 2012
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2012
- Excerpt: The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. Investigators are encouraged to propose projects that are free from the constraints imposed by traditional boundaries among areas of biodiversity research. In its initial phase, the program will focus on genetic, taxonomic/phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals should address and integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions and feedbacks among them.
- Critical Dates: April 10, 2012
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Excerpt: This solicitation formalizes the basic requirements and expectations of all Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) proposals. At the current time, the LTER program is accepting only renewal proposals from existing projects. Should funds become available to support new sites, a Dear Colleague Letter or a revised solicitation will be released specifying the criteria for an open competition.
- Critical Dates: March 21, 2012
- Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models (EaSM)
- Excerpt: This is the second in a series of EaSM solicitations (see NSF Program Solicitation 10-554 for the first EaSM solicitation). It remains focused on the prediction of future climates and their consequences for human systems on time scales of several decades and shorter and global to regional and finer spatial scales. A time span of several decades is chosen because within this timeframe modeled climate change responses appear to be insensitive to CO2 forcing scenarios. Moreover, adaptation planning and implementation is carried out on roughly these time scales. This solicitation will not consider research involving varying CO2 forcing scenarios beyond the next several decades. The long-term EaSM Program goals (see the Synopsis and Program Description Section) remain essentially the same; however, some of the specific areas of interest related to those goals have changed.
- Critical Dates: April 20, 2012
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Key Dates in 2012
| 1/31 - 2/1: Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill (Washington, DC)
2/9 - 2/10: Board Meeting (Boulder, CO)
5/10 - 5/11: Board Meeting (Boulder, CO)
8/5- 8/10: ESA Annual Meeting (Portland, OR)
12/6 - 12/10: AGU Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA) |
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