CORNELL CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
(CfE) News and Announcements - December 11,
2007
AIBS Public Policy Report Headlines from December 10, 2007
· Appropriations update: Omnibus on the way
· Members of Congress on the move
· Climate talks get underway in Bali
· New Green Schools Caucus in Congress
· Climate legislation proceeds in Senate
· Graduate student policy training opportunity: AIBS Emerging Public
Policy Leader Award
· From the Federal Register
· New in BioScience: "Feds Seek to Ignite Bioenergy Research"
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GRANT AND PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES
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New
North American Native Fishes Association: Research Grant Program (Jan
18)
American Ornithologists Union: Research Awards (Feb 04)
USDA: Air Quality NRI (Mar 05)
Deadlines in December
NSF: Ecology of Infectious Diseases (Dec 12)
USDA: Animal Biosecurity Coordinated Agricultural Projects NRI (Dec
19)
EPA: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability (P3) (Dec
20)
Canadian Studies Grant Program: International Research Linkages Grant
(Dec 31)
Colorado-Boulder Coop Institute for Environ Sci: Visiting Fellow (Dec
31)
US Fish and Wildlife Service (Dec 31)
Deadlines in January
EPA STAR Program: Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal
Blooms (Jan 01)
NSF: Dynamics of Couple Natural and Human Systems (Jan 08)
AERA: Research and Dissertation Grants Program (Jan 08)
NSF: U.S. GLOBEC - Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (Jan 08)
NSF: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
(Jan 08)
NSF: Ecosystem Science Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster Grants (Jan
09)
NSF: Ecological Biology Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (Jan 09)
NSF: Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (Jan
09)
NSF: Population & Evolutionary Processes Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (Jan 09)
NIH: Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences (Jan
11)
US Navy: Research Young Investigator Program (Jan 11)
NSF: Planetary Biodiversity Surveys & Inventories Biennial (Jan 12)
NSF: Biomolecular Systems Cluster Grants (Jan 12)
NSF: Cellular Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NSF: Genes and Genome Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NSF: Grants To Broaden Participation in Bio Research (Jan 14)
Bermuda Biological Station: Grants-in-Aid (Jan 15)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Tupper Fellowships (Jan 15)
American Water Works Association: Abel Wolman Doctoral Fellowship
(Jan 15)
American Water Works Association: Thomas R. Camp Scholarship for
Graduate Students (Jan 15)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Young Scientists
Summer Program (Jan 15)
NIH: Pharmacogenetics of Flouride (Jan 15)
Smithsonian Institution: Graduate Student Programs (Jan 15)
NSF Geosciences: Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments Program
(Jan 15)
Cooper Ornithological Society: Mewaldt-King Student Research Award
(Jan 15)
Chemical Heritage Foundation: John C. Haas Fellowship (Jan 15)
EPA STAR: Health Effects of Near-Roadway Exposures to Air Pollution
(Jan 15)
NSF: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry (Jan 16)
NSF: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics (Jan 16)
NSF: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (Jan 16)
USDA: Water and Watersheds NRI (Jan 17)
USDA: Nanoscale Science & Engr for Ag & Food Systems NRI (Jan 17)
NIH: Collaborations with Nat'l Ctrs of Biomedical Computing (Jan 17)
Sea Grant: Fellowships in Population Dynamics & Marine Resource
Economics (Jan 25)
Deadlines in February
US Community Forestry Research: Fellowships (Feb 01)
NSF: Science & Society (S&S) Grants, Conferences, & Scholarship
Support (Feb 01)
Harvard Forest: Mid-Career Bullard Fellowships in Forest Research (Feb
01)
Rocky Mountain Nature Association: Research Fellowship (Feb 01)
American Honda Foundation Grants (Feb 01)
ICWA: John Miller Musser Memorial Forest & Society Fellowships (Feb
01)
Huyck Preserve Biological Research Station: Graduate and Postgraduate
Research Grants (Feb 02)
NSF: Science of Learning Centers (Feb 04)
NIH: Research Project Grants (R01) (Feb 05)
NIH: Metals in Medicine (Feb 05)
Pymatuning Laboratory: Darbaker & McKinley Prizes in Botany &
Ecology (Feb 07)
Social Science Research Council: Dissertation Proposal Development
Fellowship (Feb 08)
NIH: Independent Scientist Award (Feb 12)
NSF: Biological Oceanography (Feb 15)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Short-Term Fellowships (Feb 15)
American Museum of Natural History: Grad & Post-Doc Grants (Feb 15)
American Philosophical Society: Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration
and Field Research (Feb 15)
NSF: Developing Global Scientists & Engineers (Feb 15)
NSF: Chemical Oceanography (Feb 15)
Purple Martin Conservation Association: Research and Conservation
Grants (Feb 15)
Raptor Research Foundation: Fellowships and Grants (Feb 15)
NIH: Small Research Grants (Feb 16)
NSF / CSREES: Microbial Genome Sequencing Grants (Feb 19)
NSF: International Planning Visits & Workshops (Feb 20)
Udall Foundation: Dissertation Fellowships in Environmental Policy (Feb
21)
NSF: Advancing Theory in Biology (Feb 25)
Biosphere Atmosphere Research & Training (Feb 29)
Resources for the Future: John V. Krutella Research Stipend (Feb 29)
Organization for Tropical Studies: Research Fellowships Program (Feb 29)
Resources for the Future: Gilbert F. White Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program (Feb 29)
N. G. Kaul Memorial Scholarship (Feb 29)
Deadlines in March
Fulbright (New Zealand): Axford Fellowships in Public Policy (Mar 01)
Tinker Foundation Institutional Grants (Mar 01)
NSF: Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Cluster (Mar 01)
NSF: Transport and Thermal Fluids Phenomena Cluster (Mar 01)
Marine Biological Laboratory: NASA Planetary Biology Internship (Mar
03)
NSF: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (Mar 03)
SELECT SEMINARS AND CAMPUS EVENTS
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology Seminars: 12:30 PM
Mondays in G-10 Biotechnology Building
Schedule at -
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/about/seminars/upload/BioBM-833-
Schedule-07-08-v5.htm
Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity Seminars: 4:00
PM Fridays in Morison Room, Corson Hall
Schedule at - http://www.biogeo.cornell.edu/seminars.html
Biomedical Sciences Seminars: 4:00 PM Tuesdays in Lecture Hall III,
Veterinary Research Tower
Schedule at - http://www.vet.cornell.edu/biosci/seminars/2k7fall.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:
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
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
Environmental Sciences Colloquium, Fall 2007 Climate Change -
Mitigation and Adaptation
12:20 PM Fridays in 135 Emerson Hall
Schedule at - http://snes.eas.cornell.edu/colloquium2007.html
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
Horticulture Seminars: 11:15 AM Mondays in Whetzel Room, Plant
Science 404
Schedule at -
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/news_events/2007_fall_seminar.pdf
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
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
Center for the Environment http://environment.cornell.edu 200
Rice Hall 607-255-7535