NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) 15-503
Sponsor: NSFInternal Deadline: 12/12/2014Sponsor Deadline: 01/23/2015Program Website
NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) 15-503The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Research areas include, but are not limited to, the effects of natural selection or other evolutionary processes on populations, communities, or ecosystems; the effects of interspecific interactions that vary over time and space; population or community dynamics for organisms that have extended life spans and long turnover times; feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes; pools of materials such as nutrients in soils that turn over at intermediate to longer time scales; and external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long return intervals.
The Program intends to support decadal projects. Funding for an initial, 5-year period requires submission of a preliminary proposal and, if invited, submission of a full proposal that includes a 15-page project description. Proposals for the second five years of support (renewal proposals) are limited to an eight-page project description and do not require a preliminary proposal.
USC may only submit one application in response to this program announcement. Your application submission MUST be coordinated with the Office of the Vice President for Research. Please send a two page abstract via email to Richard White (whitejrw@mailbox.sc.edu) by December 12, 2014. In addition to the 2-page abstract, you should also submit a biosketch for the PI.
NSF indicates that a prelimenary proposal is due on January 23, 2015 and a full proposal is due by August 3, 2015. For more information: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13544