From B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk Tue Jan 3 12:08:50 2012 From: B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk (Blanca Huertas ) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:08:50 -0000 Subject: [TABD] Feliz and Happy 2012 Message-ID: <9DD76E9E44DAF941829720CFBF9D8E80C620D9@HOMER.nhm.ac.uk> 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ) 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. ----------------------------- 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 CV online http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/staff-directory/entomology/b-huer tas/index.html Other projects TABDProject www.andeanbutterflies.org Electronic archive of Neotropical Butterflies Types http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Neotropical.htm Join our network for updates and opportunities on research in butterflies http://www.mailinglists.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/tabd P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk Wed Jan 4 13:57:47 2012 From: B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk (Blanca Huertas ) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:57:47 -0000 Subject: [TABD] Grants at CEE Message-ID: <9DD76E9E44DAF941829720CFBF9D8E80C62138@HOMER.nhm.ac.uk> For all CEE, GEE and LERN members Dear Colleagues The CEE Committee is delighted to announce another funding round. The grant round, however, will be the last to be financed through as award from the University of London Vice Chancellors' Development fund made to the CEE in 2007. The aim of the grant scheme is to foster collaborative research across the CEE's participating institutions. In today's world, the importance of understanding ecology and evolution goes far beyond academic curiosity. With its breadth of membership, the CEE is in a unique position to provide the cross-disciplinary research necessary to make genuine progress in the field. The small grant scheme will contribute to realising potential cross-institutional synergies. Our aim is to assign several small grants to groups of researchers that span two or more member institutions. Funding can be sought for a variety of activities, including small research projects, workshops, meetings between scientists in view of writing a review, setting up an international collaboration or preparing a grant application. Grants are assessed following the criteria listed at the end of this document. Applications will be assessed by the CEE Committee, whose membership covers the diverse areas of the CEE's interests and the different member institutions. For further details and application forms visit the CEE's grants and funding page here , for direct queries e-mail cee at ucl.ac.uk . PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and academic or research staff are all eligible to apply. PhD students should submit their application through their supervisor, and it is important that the application shows how the funding will add value to the PhD project. Applicants should clearly state the ecological/evolutionary question the study will address and should indicate how they intend to follow up the research with an application for larger-scale funding. Successful applicants will be expected to report progress to the CEE Steering Committee by an annual report and a short, post-project seminar to the CEE community. The deadline for this round is Friday 3 February 2012, 5pm. Awards will be announced in late February. Assessment criteria The members of the CEE Steering Committee will assess grant proposals according to the following criteria: - Quality of science - Output (clearly defined, time-limited, achievable) - Collaborative aspect (novel collaboration or new direction in existing collaboration) - Fit to scheme (CEE remit, lack of alternative funding sources) - Costs acceptable and reasonable We look forward to hearing from you. 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