Funding Opportunities
Faculty Exploratory Research Grants
The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) offers a program to "seed" ISPE-relevant projects. As part of the ISPE Faculty Exploratory Research Grants Program, three annual grants of up to $10,000 are awarded, on a competitive basis, for projects involving interdisciplinary global change research or another ISPE-related research activity. The program is also designed to help foster the development of one or more major interdisciplinary proposal for submission to extramural funding agencies or private contributors.
Qualifications
The program is only open to ISPE faculty members.
Proposals will be evaluated by a peer-review committee composed of a subset of ISPE faculty. Reviewers' recommendations will be forwarded to the ISPE director for the final selection of awardees.
The program does not fund graduate assistantships, publication costs, travel (unless documented fully as being an integral part of the project objectives), general-purpose equipment, or summer salary. Costs such as short-term student wages, field research, general operations, supplies, and specialized research equipment pertaining to the project will be considered.
Application Procedures
To apply, interested ISPE faculty members must submit a proposal outlining their research plans. An investigator may submit only one proposal during any review period and is eligible to receive only one award within a five-year period. The proposal deadline for the 2008—2009 fiscal year is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14, 2008.
Your application packet must include the following:
- Cover page
- Budget page with justification
- List of all current research support
- Project description and objectives (maximum two pages)
- Description and justification of travel expenses, if included
- Curriculum vitae (maximum two pages)
Awards will be announced no later than May 1, 2008 for the 2008-2009 competition. Project funding will begin July 1, 2008, and end June 30, 2009. Final reports are required and are due by August 15, 2009.
Submit application packets to:
The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
715 N Park, 2nd floor
PO Box 210156
For more information, contact Teresa Carochi at 622-9062 or email teresac@email.arizona.edu.
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Congratulations!
ISPE would like to congratulate the following recipients of the 2007—2008 Faculty Exploratory Research Grants:
Paul Blowers, Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, for the research project Global Warming Potentials for Degradation Byproducts in the Atmosphere
Ed de Steiguer, Professor, School of Natural Resources, for the research project Development of a Database and Website for State-Level Global Change Policy
2006—2007 Faculty Exploratory Research Grants
Craig Rasmussen, Assistant Professor, Soil, Water and Environmental Science, for the research project Impact of Climate Variability on Soil Biogeochemistry Across a Semiarid Environmental Gradient in Saguaro National Park
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Research Associate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, for the research project Developing an Urban Ecosystem Research Program in Tucson, AZ: Monitoring N-deposition and Ecosystem Health
Thomas Swetnam, Director, Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, for the research project Effects of Climate Variability on Fire Regimes in Mountains of the Great Basin, AD 1700 to Present
Deadlines
The proposal deadline for academic year 2008—2009 has already passed.