NSF 09-054
Dear Colleague Letter: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Realignment

June 2009

Division of Environmental Biology
Directorate for Biological Sciences

Dear Colleague:

The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences at NSF recently realigned the grouping of some of the science it supports and renamed some clusters and programs, to more clearly communicate the scope of its activities and to reflect natural affinities between areas. The former Ecological Biology Cluster is now the Population and Community Ecology Cluster and has one program, the Population and Community Ecology Program.  The former Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster is now the Evolutionary Processes Cluster and has two programs, Evolutionary Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics.

Descriptions of all DEB Clusters and Programs can be found at www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?org=DEB.  Beginning immediately (including the upcoming July 9, 2009 target date), PIs who conduct research in the areas of Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genetics, or Population and Community Ecology should direct their proposals to one of these three programs.

Yours sincerely,