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Newsletter for May 09, 2006
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Announcements
Repeat Announcement - Cornell Invasive Species Forum
Thursday, May 18th, 2006 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Whetzel Seminar Room, 404 Plant Science Building
Advance Registration Requested
Invasive species represent one of the greatest environmental challenges for the 21 century,
causing tremendous losses in agriculture and wild lands. The control and mitigation of effects of
invasive species requires not only an understanding of their basic biology, but also of the
environmental complexity of the habitats and interactions in invaded areas. The focus of this
forum will be on research at Cornell University, structured to inform and build collaborations at
Cornell, inform community members of our efforts, and begin to help develop a strategic vision
for the future. This campus event is being led by Anurag Agrawal of the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology and sponsored by the Center for the Environment. Those interested in
attending the forum are asked to please register by emailing MichÃ¨ï¿½le van de Walle at
mjv28@cornell.edu.
For more information, please review the Invasive Species Forum website >>
Repeat Announcement - Memorandum of Understanding
With the ï¿½Ãcole Normale SupÃ©ï¿½rieure in Paris
To facilitate international academic exchange, to develop academic and scientific relationships,
and in support of collaborative research activities, Ãï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½Ã©rieure, Paris,
France, and Cornell University'ï¿½s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as a framework for cooperative programs. This MOU
supports the intentions of Cornell University and ENS to form a strategic partner relationship
between Cornell University Center for the Environment (CfE) and ENS Centre
d'ï¿½Enseignement et de Recherches sur l'ï¿½Environnement et la Societï¿½ (CERES), that will
strengthen teaching and research in the environmental field and will broaden the international
experiences of the faculty and students of both institutions. For more information please contact
MichÃ¨ï¿½le van de Walle at mjv28@cornell.edu.
In Recent Science News. . .
Cornell Researchers Report on Economic Value of Insect Services In the April 2006 edition of
BioScience, researchers John E. Losey (Cornell Department of Entomology) and Mace Vaughn (Cornell
M.S. '99 and current conservation director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland,
Oregon) report on 'The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects'. The study found that
native insects are food for wildlife that supports a $50 billion recreation industry, provide more than $4.5
billion in pest control, pollinate $3 billion in crops and clean up grazing lands, which saves ranchers some
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$380 million a year. Losey and Vaughan's study focused on the economic value of four particular services
- wildlife nutrition, pest control, pollination and dung burial - selected because robust data were available
for an analysis. Losey and Vaughan compared the values of each service at current levels of function to
theoretical levels if these services were absent.
AIBS Public Policy Report for May 08, 2006
Members of Congress among those expressing concern with Smithsonian Showtime
Networks partnership
EPA library network poised for cut
AIBS and Ecological Society of America send letter to appropriators in support of NSF
Two new members assigned to House Science Committee
President Bush announces his intent to name new USGS director
USGS report assesses national stream and ground water quality
New in BioScience: ï¿½Are there signs of life in the innovation budget?ï¿½
From the Federal Register
Read the full report >>
New Grant and Project Opportunities
Browse Complete RFP Listings >>
New
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Short-Term Fellowships (May 15)
Lindbergh Seed Grants Program (Jun 8)
USDA/NRI: Animal Genomics (Jun 15)
NIH/NIEHS: Independent Scientist Award (Jul 1)
NSF: Archaeology & Archaeometry (Jul 1)
NSF: Physical Anthropology (Jul 1)
NSF: Living Stock Collections (LSC) (Jul 5)
NSF: Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (REVSYS) (Jul 9)
NSF: Biological Databases and Informatics (BD&I) (Jul 10)
NSF: Coupling, Energetics, & Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) (Jul 10)
NSF: Behavioral Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Cellular Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Developmental Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: The Environmental & Structural Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Functional & Regulatory Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Genes and Genome Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Grants To Broaden Participation in Bio Research (Jul 12)
NSF: Biomolecular Systems Cluster Grants (Jul 12)
NSF: EarthScope Program Research (Jul 16)
NSF: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry (Jul 16)
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Visiting Researchers (Jul 28)
NSF: Biological Research Collections (BRC) (Jul 28)
NSF: Biological Physics (BP) (Jul 31)
NSF: Earth MARGINS Program (Aug 1)
Deadlines in May
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Active Living Research (May 10)
USDA Forest Service: PA & CT Highlands Regional Study Updates (May 12)
Ame.Nursery & Landscape Assoc. Horticultural Research Institute Research Grants (May
15)
EPA: Pollution Prevention Grants (May 15)
MacArthur Foundation: Conservation & Sustainable Development (May 15)
NASA: Tropical Composition, Cloud & Climate Coupling Experiment (May 15)
Nat'l Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF): Regional Wildlife Conservation (May 15)
EPA STAR: Advances in Benefit Transfer Methods (May 16)
EPA STAR: Collaborative Sci & Tech for Sustainability (May 17)
NIH/NIEHS: Community Participation in Research (May 17)
NIH: Collaborations with Nat'l Ctrs of Biomedical Computing (May 17)
USDA/NRI: Animal Growth and Nutrient Utilization (May 17)
NASA: Cosmochemistry (May 19)
EPA/Health Effects Institute (HEI): Health Effects of Air Pollution (May 23)
NIH: Molecular Probes for Microscopy of Cells (May 25)
USDA/Northeast SARE: Prof. Develoment, Research & Educ. Grant Programs (May 31)
Deadlines in June
Dep't of Health & Human Services: Science & Ecology of Early Development (Jun 1)
NASA: Physical Oceanography (Jun 1)
NIH/NIEHS: Metals in Medicine (Jun 1)
NIH/NIEHS: Small Research Grants (Jun 1)
NSF: Earth Sciences Research (EAR) (Jun 1, Jul 16)
NSF: Geophysics (Jun 1)
NSF: Hydrologic Sciences (Jun 1)
NSF: Petrology and Geochemistry (Jun 1)
NSF: Techtonics (Jun 1)
HUD: Healthy Homes & Lead Technical Studies (Jun 6, Jun 7)
NSF: Antarctic Research (Jun 7)
NSF: Supplemental International Travel & Research (IREE) (Jun 8)
NASA: Advancing Collab. Connections for Earth Science (ACCESS) (Jun 14)
NASA: Research and Modeling of Atmospheric Composition (Jun 15)
USDA/CSREES: National Research Initiative - Air Quality (NRICGP) (Jun 15)
USDA/NRI: Plant Biosecurity (Jun 15)
NSF: Plant Genome Comparative Sequencing Program (PGCSP) (Jun 16)
EPA/NCER: Consequences of Global Change for Air Quality (Jun 20)
NIH/NIOSH/CDC: Int'l Training & Research in Envir. & Occupational Health (ITREOH)
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(Jun 22)
NSF: Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN) (Jun 26)
Northern Nut Growers Association (NNGA): Research Grants (Jun 30)
Deadlines in July
NATO Security Through Science Program (Jul 1)
NIOSH Special Emphasis Research Career Award Program (Jul 1)
NSF: Population & Evolutionary Processes Cluster Grants (Jul 9)
NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) (Jul 9)
NSF: Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) (Jul 9)
NSF: Quantitative Environmental and Integrative Biology (QEIB) (Jul 12)
EPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): Conference Funds (Jul 17)
NSF: Faculty Early Career Development - Environmental Sciences (Jul 18)
NSF: Faculty Early Career Development - Ocean Sciences (Jul 20)
Deadlines in August
Fulbright: U.S.-Canada Student Scholars (Aug 1)
Fulbright: U.S.-Canada Visiting Research Chairs Program (Aug 1)
National Academies: Research Associateship Programs (RAP) (Aug 1)
NSF Science & Society (S&S): Grants, Conferences, & Scholarship Support (Aug 1)
Trans-NIH Consortium (BECON): Bioengineering Nanotechnology (STTR) (Aug 1)
Select Seminars and Campus Events
Special Seminar
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
"Seismotectonics at Peking University: Tomographic Structure of East Asia"
Professor Y. John Chen, Peking University
2146 Snee Hall, Thursday, May 11 at 3:00 PM
For Further Information: Jacob Moore
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology Seminars:
12:20 PM Mondays in G-O1 Biotechnology Building
Schedule at - http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/BMCB_Monday_Seminars.cfm
Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity Seminars:
4:00 PM Fridays in Morison Room, Corson Hall
Schedule at - http://www.biogeo.cornell.edu/seminars.html
Biophysics Seminars:
4:30 PM Wednesdays in 700 Clark Hall
Schedule at - http://www.drbio.cornell.edu/Dissemination/seminars.html
Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminars:
Variable dates, times and locations
Schedule at -http://www.cee.cornell.edu/fbxk/seminars.cfm
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 Seminar Series:
Variable dates,times and locations
Schedule at - http://www.eas.cornell.edu/fbxk/smnrs.cfm
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminars:
12:30 PM Mondays in A106 Corson Hall
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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/Jugatae/default.htm
Genetics and Development:
12:20 PM Wednesdays in GO1 Biotechnology Building
Schedule at - http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/GD_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/2005springseminar.pdf
Laboratory of Ornithology Seminar Series:
7:30 PM Mondays in the auditorium of the Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity
Schedule at - http://www.birds.cornell.edu/LabPrograms/Education/MNSFallod.html
Molecular Biology and Genetics Seminars:
4:00 PM Fridays in G10 Biotechnology Building
Schedule at - http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/MBG_Seminars.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 404 Plant Science, Whetzel Room
Schedule at - http://www.plantbio.cornell.edu/seminars.php
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