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Title: Dear Colleague Letter: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
        Realignment
Date: 06/22/09





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,

Robert W. Sterner, Director, Division of Environmental Biology