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In Recent Science News . . .Wetland Sedimentation from
Hurricanes
A team of scientists from Louisiana State University estimated the amount of inorganic
sediments deposited on wetlands of the microtidal Louisiana coast during Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita. The team showed that the dominant pathway of inorganic sediments into the microtidal
LA coastal wetlands is from offshore to inshore during hurricanes, and not from overbank
flooding along the main channel of the Mississippi River, from smaller storm events, or from
tidal inundations. The annualized combined amount of inorganic sediments per hurricane equals
(i) 12% of the Mississippi River's suspended load, (ii) 5.5 times the inorganic load delivered by
overbank flooding before flood protection levees were constructed, and (iii) 227 times the
amount introduced by a river diversion built for wetland restoration. The team concluded that
changes in the in situ accumulation of organics, rather than the reduction of inorganic sediments
arriving via overbank flooding, are implicated as a! causal agent of wetland losses on this coast.
This study should help to understand how inorganic sediments contribute to wetland stability and
to spend wetland restoration funds effectively. [Science 20 October 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5798,
pp. 449 - 452] Read the full article (requires CU connection) >>
AIBS Public Policy Report Headlines for October 23, 2006
AIBS comments on NSTC ocean research plan
NPS gets new director
House Democrats investigate EPA library plan
Border fence could be barrier to wildlife
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NOAA: Community-based Marine Debris Prevention & Removal (Oct 30)
Army Research Laboratory: Broad Agency Announcement (Oct 31)
Canadian Embassy: Faculty Enrichment & Graduate Fellowships (Oct 31)
NY State: Funding to Improve Environmental Performance for Power Generation (Nov 14)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Short-Term Fellowships (Nov 15)
Ford Foundation: Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships (Nov 16)
EPA STAR: Sources, Composition, and Health Effects of Course Particulate Matter (Nov
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Ford Foundation: Dissertation Diversity Fellowships (Nov 30)
Ford Foundation: Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships (Nov 30)
NSF: Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative (PSCIC) (Nov 30)
USDA: National Estuarine Research Reserve Land Acquisition and Construction Program
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EPA: Activities that Advance Methane Recovery and Use as a Clean Energy Source (Dec
04)
USDA: Agricultural Prosperity for Small & Medium-Sized Farms NRI (Dec 08)
USDA: Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations NRI (Dec 14)
Canadian Studies Grant Program: International Research Linkages Grant (Dec 31)
NSF Ecology Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories (Jan 09)
NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) (Jan 09)
NIH National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences: Interdisciplinary Partnerships
(Jan 11)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Young Scientists Summer Program
(Jan 15)
USDA: Arthropod & Nematode Biology & Management NRI (Jan 17)
USDA: Water and Watersheds Research Grants NRI (Jan 17)
NSF: Economics Program Grants (Jan 18)
North American Native Fishes Association: Research Grant Program (Jan 20)
Oak Ridge Institute: Various Programs (Jan 20)
NIH: Bioengineering Research Partnerships (Jan 22)
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Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants (Oct 30)
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NOAA: General Coral Reef Conservation Program (Nov 10)
NSF: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in Biological Sciences (Nov 01)
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Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund: John Z. Duling Grant Program (Nov 01)
USDA: Animal Reproduction NRI (Nov 02)
NSF: Materials Research Unsolicited Proposals (Nov 03)
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USDA: Biobased Products & Bioenergy Production Research NRI (Nov 08)
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National Fish & Wildlife Foundation: Great Lakes Watershed Restoration Program (Nov
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NIH/NIEHS: Disease Investigation through Specialized Clinically-Oriented Ventures in
Environmental Research (Nov 17)
NSF: Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering (Nov 17)
EPA: Graduate Environmental STAR Fellowships (Nov 28)
Office of Naval Research: National Oceanographic Partnership Program (Nov 30)
Deadlines in December
Fish & Wildlife Service: North American Wetlands Small Grants (Dec 01)
NOAA: Ballast Water Technology Facility (Dec 01)
NSF Earth Sciences (EAR): Geobio, Geomorph, Instrumentation, Paleobio, & Sediment
Geology (Dec 01)
NSF: Earth Sciences Research (EAR) (Dec 01)
NSF: Geophysics (Dec 01)
NSF: Hydrologic Sciences (Dec 01)
NSF: Petrology and Geochemistry (Dec 01)
NSF: Techtonics (Dec 01)
USDA: Epidemiological Approaches for Food Safety NRI (Dec 01)
NSF: Physical Anthropology (Dec 03)
Great Lakes Commission: Great Lakes Air Deposition Program (Dec 04)
DOE/National Institute for Climate Change Research: Various Grants (Dec 05)
Health Effects Institute: Diesel Exhaust Exposure & Chronic Inhalation Bioassay (Dec 05)
USDA: Biology of Weedy & Invasive Species in Agroecosystems NRI (Dec 06)
USDA: Plant Biology, Grown & Development NRI (Dec 06)
USDA: Soil Processes NRI (Dec 06)
NSF: Artic Research Opportunities (Dec 08)
Joyce Foundation: Environment Grants (Dec 11)
National Sea Grant: Aquatic Research Programs (Dec 19)
Institute of Health: Collaborations with Nat'l Ctrs of Biomedical Computing (Dec 20)
EPA: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability (P3) (Dec 21)
NIH: Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (Dec 21)
Deadlines in January
NIH: Division of Comparative Medicine Research Grants (Jan 02)
NSF: Ecological Biology Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Ecosystem Science Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) (Jan 09)
NSF: Population & Evolutionary Processes Cluster Grants (Jan 09)
NSF: Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (REVSYS) (Jan 09)
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NSF: Behavioral Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NSF: Developmental Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NSF: Functional & Regulatory Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NSF: Genes and Genome Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NSF: Grants To Broaden Participation in Bio Research (Jan 12)
NSF: The Environmental & Structural Systems Cluster (Jan 12)
NIH: Manufactured Nanomaterials, Physico-chemical Principles of Biocompatibility and
Toxicity (Jan 13)
Earthwatch Institute: Field-based Research Grants (Jan 15)
NIH: Pharmacogenetics of Flouride (Jan 15)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Tupper Fellowship (Jan 15)
NSF: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry (Jan 16)
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