CORNELL CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
(CfE) News and Announcements - May 6, 2008



AIBS Public Policy Report Headlines from April 28, 2008
· AIBS supports amendment to protect federal research budgets
· AIBS testimony supports EPA research funding
· Unemployment rate drops for most scientists, slight increase for
environmental life scientists and social scientists
· Survey of EPA scientists finds political interference
· Soil scientists seek input on research priorities
· New in BioScience - "Political Science"
· From the Federal Register
· Register now for the 2008 AIBS Annual Meeting: "Climate,
Environment, and Infectious Diseases"
Read the full report >>


GRANT AND PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES
New

NATO: Security Through Science Program (Jun 01)
NSF: Biological Physics (BP) (Jul 31)
NSF: Science & Society (S&S) Grants, Conferences, & Scholarship
Support (Aug 01)
ICWA: John Miller Musser Memorial Forest & Society Fellowships (Aug
01)
NIH Manufacturing-related Biomedical Research SBIR/STTR Grants
(Aug 05)

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Trans-NIH Consortium (BECON): Bioengineering Nanotechnology
(STTR) (Aug 05)
Deadlines in May

EPA STAR: Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality (May 08)
Illinois Dept. Natural Resources: Clean Coal Institute (May 10)
NSF: Coupling, Energetics, & Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
(CEDAR) (May 10)
NIH/NIEHS: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (May
10)
Horticulture Research Institute: Research Grants (May 15)
NIH: Pharmacogenetics of Flouride (May 15)
NASA: Atmospheric Composition: Surface, Balloon, and Airborne
Observations (May 16)
DOE NICCR: Inland and Coastal Terrestrial Ecosystems (May 16)
NIH/NIEHS: Community Participation in Research (May 17)
NSF: International Planning Visits & Workshops (May 20)
NIH: Molecular Probes for Microscopy of Cells (May 27)
TREE Fund: Hyland R. Johns Grant Program (May 31)
Deadlines in June

NATO: Science for Peace Programme (Jun 01)
NSF: Hydrologic Sciences (Jun 01)
NSF: Geophysics (Jun 01)
NSF: Petrology and Geochemistry (Jun 01)

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NSF: Techtonics (Jun 01)
USDA: Air Quality NRI (Jun 05)
NIH: Research Project Grants (R01) (Jun 05)
USDA: Agricultural Prosperity for Small & Medium­Sized Farms NRI
(Jun 05)
NIH: Metals in Medicine (Jun 05)
NIH: Microbiology Program (Jun 05)
CRDF: U.S. Central Asia Research Travel Grants (Jun 06)
Lindbergh Foundation: Seed Grants Program (Jun 12)
NIH: Independent Scientist Award (Jun 12)
NASA: Atmospheric Composition Laboratory Research (Jun 16)
NIH: Science & Ecology of Early Development (Jun 16)
NIH: Small Research Grants (Jun 16)
NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Jun 16)
NSF: Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (Jun 25)
Deadlines in July

NSF: Archaeology & Archaeometry (Jul 01)
NSF: Physical Anthropology (Jul 01)
NSF: Ecosystem Science Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster Grants (Jul
09)
NSF: Ecological Biology Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (Jul 09)

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NSF: Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (Jul
09)
NSF: Population & Evolutionary Processes Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (Jul 09)
NSF: Biomolecular Systems Cluster Grants (Jul 12)
NSF: Cellular Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Genes and Genome Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis: Various
Opportunities (Jul 14)
NSF: EarthScope Program Research (Jul 16)
NSF: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry (Jul 16)
NSF: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics (Jul 16)
NSF: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (Jul 16)
NSF: Biological Research Collections (BRC) (Jul 27)
Deadlines in August

National Academies: Research Associateship Program (Aug 01)
American Honda Foundation Grants (Aug 01)


SELECT SEMINARS AND CAMPUS EVENTS

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Applied Economics and Management Seminars: Mondays in 401
Warren Hall, times vary
Schedule at - http://aem.cornell.edu/research/index.htm

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology Seminars: 12:30 PM
Mondays in G-10 Biotechnology Building
Schedule at - http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/cals/hort/news-
events/seminars_series.cfm

Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity Seminars: 4:00
PM Fridays in Morison Room, Corson Hall
Schedule at - http://www.biogeo.cornell.edu/seminars.html

Biological and Environmental Engineering Seminars: 2:30 PM most
Mondays in B15 Riley-Robb Hall
Schedule at - http://www.bee.cornell.edu/cals/bee/upload/Semester-SP-
2008-Colloquia-3.pdf

Biomedical Sciences Seminars: 4:00PM Fridays in Lecture Hall III
VRT (Veterinary Research Tower)
Schedule at - http://www.vet.cornell.edu/biosci/seminars/2k8spring.htm

Biophysics Colloquia: 4:30 PM Wednesdays in 700 Clark Hall
Schedule at - http://www.drbio.cornell.edu/Dissemination/seminars.html

CIIFAD Seminars and Events:

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Schedule at - http://ciifad.cornell.edu/activities/seminars/index.cfm

City and Regional Planning and Development Sociology
Colloquium Series
3 PM Fridays in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Further Information: Renee Hoffman at rmh6@cornell.edu

Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminars: 4:30 PM most
Thursdays, see schedule for location
Schedule at - http://www.cee.cornell.edu/index.php/about/seminars/

Crop and Soil Sciences Seminars: 12:20 PM Thursdays in 135
Emerson Hall
Schedule at - http://www.css.cornell.edu/seminars/seminar.html

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminars: 3:30 PM Wednesdays in
2146 Snee Hall or 1102 Bradfield Hall
Schedule at - http://www.eas.cornell.edu/fbxk/smnrs.cfm

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminars: 12:30 PM Mondays in
A106 Corson Hall, Morison Seminar Room
Schedule at - http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/department/seminars.html

Entomology Seminars: 3:30 PM Mondays in Corson-Mudd Auditorium
Schedule at -
http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/IthacaCampus/Jugatae.html

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Genetics and Development Seminars: 12:20 PM Wednesdays in G-01
Biotechnology Building
Schedule at -
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/about/seminars/wednesday-
seminars.cfm

Global Views on Nitrogen from N2007 Seminars: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Tuesdays in the Cole Room of Corson Hall
Schedule at - http://nitrogen2007.com/plenary_talks.htm

Horticulture Seminars: 11:15 AM Most Mondays in 404 Plant Science
Building
Schedule at - http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/cals/hort/news-
events/seminars_series.cfm

Laboratory of Ornithology Seminars: 7:30 PM Mondays in the Lab of
Ornithology Auditorium
Schedule at -
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/LabPrograms/Education/MNseminars.html

Molecular Biology and Genetics Seminars: 4:00 PM Fridays in G10
Biotechnology Building
Schedule at -
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/about/seminars/index.cfm

Natural Resources Seminars: 3:30 PM Tuesdays in 304 Fernow Hall

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Schedule at - http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/events/seminars/

Plant Biology Seminars: 11:15 AM Fridays in Plant Science 404,
Whetzel Room
Schedule at - http://www.plantbio.cornell.edu/cals/plbio/seminars-
news/index.cfm

Seminars in Toxicology: 12:20 PM Fridays in Riley-Robb Hall
Schedule at -
http://www.toxicology.cornell.edu/cals/foodsci/toxicology/news-
events/seminars.cfm



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