CCMP Proposals & Funding
Welcome to the CCMP Proposals & Funding page. Here, you can find out what's being funded, what's in the works, and where future opportunities can be found. As always, we at CCMP would love to receive input from our audience. If you are aware of any RFPs or other funding opportunities, please contact CCMP and let us know.
RFPs and Funding Opportunities
Uncertainty Analyses of Models in Integrated Environmental Assessments
URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2006/2006_star_uncertainty.html
Open Date: 09/14/2006 - Close Date: 12/13/2006
Summary: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing interdisciplinary research in the formal treatment of uncertainty when models are used to conduct integrated environmental assessments. Integrated assessments use findings, data, and methods across different disciplines to generate information about a particular issue. For example, to assess the impact of mercury on public health and the environment, EPA integrated results from air dispersion models, exposure models, health effects models, and economic models (EPA 2005). To facilitate integrated assessments, models are used either (1) as a single, overarching model that integrates all pertinent information; or, as in EPA's impact assessment for mercury, (2) as a suite of multiple models, with each model focusing on a specific aspect of the integrated assessment. In either case, NCER is interested in research that explores two types of uncertainties: (1) uncertainties within the models themselves, i.e. within their underlying data and hypotheses; and (2) uncertainties that arise during decision-making, as stakeholders discuss the weight of scientific evidence embodied within these models.
Applicable Category(s): Grant/Fellowship Announcements
NSF RFP for Critical Zone Observatories
National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting proposals to develop Critical Zone Observatories that will operate at the watershed scale and that will significantly improve understanding of the integration and coupling of Earth surface processes, as mediated by the presence and flux of fresh water. Successful proposals will be motivated and implemented by both field and theoretical approaches, each providing the impetus for advances in the other, and they will include substantial and novel plans for education, outreach and broader impacts.
Approximately $8.5 million over five years is expected to be available for two awards funded at no more than $500,000 in year one and no more than $750,000 in year two. Funding for years three, four and five will be constant at no more than $1 million per year for each observatory.
Required letters of intent are due Oct. 2, 2006; proposals are due Dec. 15, 2006. More information is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06588
RFP: 2007 Bay Watershed Education & Training Program (B-WET)
The 2007 Bay Watershed Education & Training (B-WET) Program Request for Proposals for the Chesapeake Bay watershed was published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 marking the beginning of the sixth grant cycle for this popular program.
Chesapeake Bay B-WET provides hands-on environmental education to students and teachers to foster stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Projects support the stewardship and meaningful watershed educational experiences goals of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement by:
- providing meaningful bay or stream outdoor experiences to students in the Chesapeake Bay watershed,
- training teachers to provide this experience for their students, or
- exemplary programs combining the two objectives.
Final Proposals must be received by 5pm on Monday, October 23, 2006. For more information and detailed application instructions, please visit the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office Education website.
Fiscal Year 2007 Funding Announcements
Dear Colleague,
Announcements of Opportunity have been issued to submit proposals to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research/Coastal Ocean Program under four different program elements.
Proposals under a COASTAL HYPOXIA RESEARCH PROGRAM (CHRP) closes 3:00p.m. EST September 11, 2006.
Proposals under MONITORING AND EVENT RESPONSE FOR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS (MERHAB) closes 3:00 p.m. EST October 2, 2006.
Proposals under CUMULATIVE IMPACTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS (Multi-Stress) closes 3:00 p.m. EST October 23, 2006.
Proposals under CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES (CRES) closes 3:00 p.m. EST November 13, 2006.
The Federal Register Notice and full Announcement of Federal Funding Opportunity can be accessed through the NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research/Coastal Ocean Program website at: http://www.cop.noaa.gov/opportunities/grants/fundingarchive/fy2007.html
NSF Creating a Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
An informational meeting was held to interact with the computing research community as they develop proposals in response to CISE's call to unite in the establishment of a Computing Community Consortium (CCC). CISE will support the CCC as a community proxy responsible for facilitating the conceptualization and design of promising infrastructure-intensive projects identified by the computing research community to address compelling scientific "grand challenges." One of the first responsibilities of the CCC will be guiding the design of the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI). This demonstrates the strong push from NSF to get the scientists talk to each other and form collaborative research teams.
CCMP Proposals
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO)
A new webpage has been launched for the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO), a CCMP project recently funded by the National Science Foundation. CBEO's primary aim is to "demonstrate the transformative power of cyberinfrastructure." More details about CBEO, including information on those working on the project, can be found on the new CBEO page. This page will be a growing resource for all things CBEO-related, so be sure to check back frequently.
CLEANER for Chesapeake Basin
The NSF national program "Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research", CLEANER, seeks to build a national infrastructure of environmental field facilities to aid engineering activites supporting decision making for large-scale environmental systems. An emphasis is being placed on anthropogenic influences on coastal margins and river and estuary systems. Certainly the Chesapeake Basin is one of the nations largest such systems.
The CCMP and researchers from John Hopkins University, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences and the University of Delaware submitted a proposal to help CLEANER design the concept of the national observatory based on the needs and experiences in the Chesapeake watershed and bay.
- The Chesapeake CLEANER Project Web Page
Basin-Wide Modeling and Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia
Following the Sept 2004 Watershed workshop several CCMP members came together with a similar idea, a framework which joins disparate models into a single whole. Alexey Voinov gave compelling arguments at the workshop for the usefulness, need and practicality of building a software framework which acts as "middleware" between existing watershed, hydrodynamic, sediment transport, ecosystem and biogeochemical models. Since the CCMP membership has at its fingertips working models of all of these processes, all that is necessary is the will, time and money to build the framework.
Visit the Basin-Wide Modeling and Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia to read more about this project.
