 WRRI EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
 Annual Stream
Restoration Symposium, 5-7 February 2008,
River Restoration Northwest, Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA. See: rrnw.org
NEW! NIWR
2008 Conference: February 25 - 27, 2008, Washington, DC
2008 Ground Water
Summit (#5095) Memphis, Tennessee • March 30-April
3, 2008 - Now in its fourth year, the Ground Water Summit is an
annual conference that engages local, national, and international science
partners in a setting that facilitates the exchange and dissemination
of technical information and new science developments, allows a means
for discussion of policy and regulatory issues pertaining to ground water,
and promotes goodwill between scientists and engineers worldwide. Summit
sessions cover a wide range of topics so recent issues and advances in
ground water science, technology, and policy can come to the forefront.
Call for abstracts - Read
details of proposed sessions; submit an abstract.
Abstracts must be submitted online and are due November
1, 2007. Conference information is current
as of 8-23-2007. Additional details will be posted as they become available.
For further help, e-mail customerservice@ngwa.org or
call 800 551.7379 (614 898.7791).
NEW! UCOWR/NIWR
2008 Conference: July 22 - 24, 2008, Durham, NC
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UCOWR/NIWR
2007 Conference: July 24 - 26, 2007, Boise, ID
NIWR 2007 Conference:
February 11 - 14, 2007, Washington, DC
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2007 USGS National Competitive Grants Program
Abstract Guidelines [156
KB PDF]
RFP [748 KB PDF]
National
Institutes Institutes for Water Resources 2007 Annual Conference July
24-26, 2007 Call For Papers Deadline December
4, 2006. Hazards in Water Resources. Boise, Idaho. Download the
announcement [PDF].
American Water
Resources Association Annual Conference, 12-15 November,
2007 Albuquerque, NM, Embassy Suites Hotel. There will be 81 concurrent
sessions/panels, 300 oral and 100 poster presentations. Over 420 abstracts
were received, an all-time record. I am serving as conference chair, and
Rep. Jackie Dingfelder will be the luncheon keynoter. Visit: www.awra.org/meetings/New_Mexico2007/index.html.
External Funding Opportunities
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 lwrri@lwrri.lsu.edu. Below
are links to related programs, arranged by deadline, and to comprehensive
funding lists.
Water-Related Programs, Listed by Deadline
| Program
Name |
Description |
Deadline |
| USA
ID
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 transfer, 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:
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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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:
- Advancing engineering methods to promote smart growth strategies,
- Integrating economic development and protection of natural
resources,
- Regenerating ecological functions of degraded environments,
- Understanding how large complex environmental systems behave,
and
- Developing effective principles for adaptive management of such
systems.
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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 |
| 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 |
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Links to Comprehensive Funding Lists
and
Search Tools
| Grants.gov
- Search for Federal government-wide grant opportunities and register
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as they are posted to the site. |
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