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Environmental Biology (DEB)

DEB Special Announcements

If you're a new visitor to the Directorate for Biological Sciences website or just want a quick visual and textual summary of our areas of support, please visit the "About BIO" web page where we have added a new interactive organization chart.

DEB has implemented a single annual cycle of preliminary and full proposals for regular research submissions to the core programs.  August 2, 2012 is the next deadline for full proposals, by invitation only.  Proposals must respond to the new solicitation NSF 11-573 Please read the solicitation, Dear Colleague Letter NSF 11-078, and Frequently Asked Questions NSF 11-079 for further information. Questions may be directed to DEB Program Officers or the DEB Questions Alias.

See "Additional BIO Resources" for other items of interest including BIO's Guidance on Data Management Plans and BIO Dear Colleague Letters.

BIO Program Director and Reviewer Opportunities

Please note that the DEADLINE for REU, ROA, RET, and RAHSS supplement requests is December 1 (or next business day if that is a weekend or holiday) for most DEB programs. PIs should contact a Program Officer before submitting a proposal for an ROA, RET, or RAHSS supplement.

Programs and Funding Opportunities

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Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB)
DEB Cluster Descriptions
bullet Ecosystem Science Cluster
bullet Evolutionary Processes Cluster
bullet Population and Community Ecology Cluster
bullet Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster  (SBS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
bullet Advances in Biological Informatics  (ABI)
bullet Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections  (ADBC)
bullet Assembling the Tree of Life  (ATOL)
bullet Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2012
bullet Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences  (DDIG)
bullet Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems  (CNH) Crosscutting
bullet Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases  (EEID)
bullet Innovation Corps Program  (I-Corps) Crosscutting
bullet Long Term Research in Environmental Biology  (LTREB)
bullet Long-Term Ecological Research  (LTER) Crosscutting
bullet MacroSystems Biology:
bullet Ocean Acidification Crosscutting
bullet Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis  (OPUS)
bullet Plant Genome Research Program  (PGRP)
bullet Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
bullet Research Assistantships for High School Students  (RAHSS)
bullet Research Coordination Networks NSF Wide Flag
bullet Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity  (RET)
bullet Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability NSF-Wide Investment  (SEES) NSF Wide Flag Crosscutting
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - DEB
bullet Assembling, Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life  (AVAToL)
bullet Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization  (IBIV)
bullet Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy  (PEET)
bullet Planetary Biodiversity Inventories  (PBI)

Featured NSF-wide Programs

International Research Fellowship Program NSF Wide Flag

Partnerships for International Research and Education NSF Wide Flag

Research in Undergraduate Institutions NSF Wide Flag

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program NSF Wide Flag

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program NSF Wide Flag

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Upcoming Due Dates See All

Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(NSF  09-598) Full Proposal: June 1, 2012, Deadline for REU Site proposals requiring access to Antarctica. All other REU Site proposals must be submitted to the August REU deadline.

Research Coordination Networks
(NSF  11-531) Full Proposal: June 15, 2012, RCN UBE and UBE Incubator Track

Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program
(NSF  12-516) Letter of Intent: June 29, 2012

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program
(NSF  11-533) Full Proposal: July 2, 2012

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
(NSF  11-690) Full Proposal: July 23, 2012, BIO, CISE, EHR, OCI


News See All

Photo showing plants in the South African fynbos. Dead Ahead: Less Rainfall for Drought-Sensitive Southern Hemisphere Regions?
Released May 18, 2012
Press Release
Photo of a loggerhead hatchling. Questions About Incredible Sea Turtle Migration Answered by Scientists
Released May 14, 2012
Press Release
Photo of prairies and forests in the NSF Cedar Creek LTER site. Plant Diversity Is Key to Maintaining Productive Vegetation
Released May 3, 2012
Press Release

Discoveries See All

Image of a Queen of Spades card. Queen of Spades Key to New Evolutionary Hypothesis
Microscopic ocean plankton mimic card also known as the Black Queen
Released  May 10, 2012

Photo of vessels and platforms responding to the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Develop New Model for Deep-water Oil Spills
Call for a "whole new type" of marine ecology
Released  April 20, 2012

Photo of fog over the cloud forest in Ecuador's Oyacachi watershed. Earth Week: A Stream Is a Stream Is a Stream: Or Is It?
Scientists ford high-mountain waterways in North, South America to find out
Released  April 16, 2012


Events Calendar See All

May 21, 2012
Creating Economic Value From University Science: What is the Role of Faculty?
Lecture

May 29, 2012
FICR Meeting 2012
Partnership Meeting

June 5, 2012
Science: Becoming the Messenger
Workshop

June 5, 2012
Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure
Advisory Committee Meeting

June 25, 2012
Bringing Chemistry to Life: Bioorthogonal Chemistries for Glycoprofiling and Beyond
Lecture




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