[TABD] Feliz and Happy 2012

Tue Jan 3 12:08:50 GMT 2012

Amigos de la red TABDP, 

Un saludo muy especial para todos deseandoles todo lo mejor en el 2012
para ustedes y sus seres queridos. Esperamos nuestra red continue siendo
de interes, por favor no olviden enviar sus contribuciones. Que el 2012
traiga muchas mas oportunidades para todos, exitos, salud, prosperidad y
mariposas!. Abajo encontraran una oportunidad de becas, por favor NO
contactarme a mi para aplicaciones o mas informacion.

Greetings to all our TABDP network members, wishing you and your
families a great 2012. We hope the TABPD network would be useful and
interest for all in 2012, so please also send your contributions. I wish
you a new year full of opportunities, success, prosperity and
butterflies! See a grant opportunity below. Please contact them
directly, not to me for applications and information. 

Un abrazo, 

Blanca

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JRS Biodiversity Foundation Grants 2012

> Dear Prospective Grant Applicant: 

> This notice is to inform you that the JRS Biodiversity Foundation is
now issuing a new Request for Pre-Proposals. The Foundation is
specifically seeking 1, 2, or 3 year projects to advance the field of
biodiversity with a particular interest in those endeavors that
systematically gather and make widely available information that is
required to realize conservation outcomes. The Foundation seeks
applications proposing projects to establish a clear connection and
identifiable potential link to conservation outcomes, and an explanation
of the tangible uses of the data that may yielded via the grant. No
minimum or maximum funding limit has been established for individual
grants but JRS is allocating an amount of $1 million US dollars to fund
this new call for each of the next 3 years. More costly projects will
have a higher review threshold. 

> All pre-proposals will be evaluated on their own merits and only those
posted on the Foundation website (www.jrsbdf.org
<outbind://25/www.jrsbdf.org> ) will be considered. In order to apply,
please visit this link and follow the instructions. You will need to
comply with the word limit for your responses to each of the questions
on the pre-proposal template. No exceptions will be allowed. You may
begin the application process immediately. No pre-proposals will be
accepted after 15 February 2012.

> 

> Responses to this new invitation must further the general interests of
the Foundation.

> Mission: To enhance knowledge and promote the understanding of
biological diversity for the benefit and sustainability of life on
earth.

> There is a particular interest in focusing on interdisciplinary
activities primarily carried out via collaborations in developing
countries and economies in transition with a special interest in Africa
but will consider exceptional projects outside of Africa on a limited
basis.

> Within those bounds a strategic interest has been chosen to:advance
projects, or parts of biodiversity informatics projects that focus on:
(1) collecting data, (2) aggregating, synthesizing, publishing data, and
making it more widely available to potential end users, and (3)
interpreting and gaining insights from data to inform policy and
management of biodiversity.

> When the Foundation refers to biodiversity it does so within the
context of the meaning set by The Convention on Biological Diversity
where at the Rio de Janeiro Conference in June 1992 it defined
biological diversity as "the variability among living organisms from all
sources including, among other things, terrestrial, marine, and other
aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part:
this includes diversity within species, between species and of
ecosystems."

> When the Foundation refers to biodiversity informatics it does so
based on a definition taken in essence from Dr. Walter Berendsohn...

> Biodiversity informatics is the application of information technology
(IT) tools and approaches to biodiversity information, principally at
the organismic level. It thus deals with information capture, storage
provision, retrieval, and analysis, focused on individual organisms,
populations, and species, and their interactions. It covers information
generated by the fields of systematics, evolutionary biology, population
biology, and ecology, as well as more applied fields such as
conservation biology and ecological management.

> With this call, JRS places particular weight on supporting efforts
that are practical and likely to yield a tangible result that can be
broadly shared to achieve specific conservation outcomes. Additional
Foundation interests include: (1) fostering the use of existing
biodiversity information technologies; (2) assuring that knowledge may
be maintained and broadly spread to enhance biodiversity and
sustainability; (3) fostering the training of the next generation of
scientists; and (4) educating decision-makers. The Foundation interest
in promoting human capacity through its grants encourages in proposals,
the inclusion of staff development, involvement of mentors, travel for
short courses for junior and senior staff, and similar activities that
will build biodiversity competence in developing nations.

> Timetable

> January 1, 2012: JRS Web site enabled to accept pre-proposals 

> February 15, 2012: Deadline for completion of pre-proposals March 15, 

> 2012: Invitation to pre-proposal finalists to submit final proposals 

> April 15, 2012: Deadline for submission of final proposals May 30, 

> 2012: Final funding decision announcement by Foundation June 30, 

> 2012: Distribution of first payment to approved grantees Remember, 

> the Foundation will only accept pre-proposals for this call via its
website. If you have a problem entering your information please contact
the Foundation IT support at: support at sitetechs.com.

> Thank you in advance for your interest. 

> Harry E. Cerino

> JRS Biodiversity Foundation

> forward to a friend

> Copyright (c) 2011 JRS Biodiversity Foundation, All rights reserved.

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Blanca Huertas FLS DIC MSc 

Curator (Lepidoptera)

Entomology Department

The Natural History Museum

Cromwell Road

SW7 5BD London, UK.

Tel.  +44 (0) 20 7942 6215

Museum Website www.nhm.ac.uk <http://www.nhm.ac.uk/>  

CV online
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/staff-directory/entomology/b-huer
tas/index.html

Other projects

TABDProject www.andeanbutterflies.org
<http://www.andeanbutterflies.org/> 

Electronic archive of Neotropical Butterflies Types
http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Neotropical.htm
<http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Neotropical.htm> 

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