Paleonet: 2007 Solicitation for Assembling the Tree of Life, US NSF

Fri Jan 12 16:13:21 UTC 2007

Below is the new solicitation for Assembling the Tree of Life
competition.  Paleontology has been awarded a number of these grants
and, if you are eligible, I encourage you to consider submitting one.
You can find recent awards in AToL at
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=
2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=&BooleanElement=
false&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=false&ProgProgram=ASSEMBLING+THE+TREE+OF+L
IFE&ProgFoaCode=&RestrictActive=on&Search=Search#results
Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5129&org=BIO&from=home
CONTACTS
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Name	Dir/Div	Name	Dir/Div	
AToL Working Group <mailto:BIO-atol at nsf.gov> 				
PROGRAM GUIDELINES
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07-535 </publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07535>  Solicitation
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07535/nsf07535.pdf
DUE DATES
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 16, 2007

SYNOPSIS
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A flood of new information, from whole-genome sequences to detailed
structural information to inventories of earth's biota, is transforming
21st century biology. Along with comparative data on morphology,
fossils, development, behavior, and interactions of all forms of life on
earth, these new data streams make even more critical the need for an
organizing framework for information retrieval, analysis, and
prediction. Phylogeny, the genealogical map for all lineages of life on
earth, provides an overall framework to facilitate information retrieval
and biological prediction. Currently, single investigators or small
teams of researchers are studying the evolutionary pathways of heredity
usually concentrating on phylogenetic groups of modest size. Assembly of
a framework phylogeny, or Tree of Life, for all 1.7 million described
species requires a greatly magnified effort by large teams working
across institutions and disciplines. This is the overall goal of the
Assembling the Tree of Life activity. The National Science Foundation
announces its intention to continue support of multidisciplinary teams
to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve
phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of
Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data
acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in
computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics. 
RELATED PROGRAMS
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Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories
</funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12825&org=BIO> 
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REVISIONS AND UPDATES
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In furtherance of the President's Management Agenda, NSF has identified
programs that will offer proposers the option to utilize Grants.gov to
prepare and submit proposals, or will require that proposers utilize
Grants.gov to prepare and submit proposals. Grants.gov provides a single
Government-wide portal for finding and applying for Federal grants
online.
In response to this program solicitation, proposers may opt to submit
proposals via Grants.gov <http://www.grants.gov>  or via the NSF
FastLane <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov>  system. In determining which
method to utilize in the electronic preparation and submission of the
proposal, please note the following:
Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as
separate submissions from multiple organizations must be submitted via
the NSF FastLane <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov>  system. Chapter II,
Section D.3 of the Grant Proposal Guide provides additional information
on collaborative proposals.

H. Richard (Rich) Lane
Program Manager, Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program
Surface Earth Processes Section, EAR
National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 789,
Arlington, Virginia 22203 USA
Ph: 703-292-4730; Fax: 703-292-9025, hlane at nsf.gov 

Please read: The Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program encourages
all PIs, in their final report to NSF, to account for the long term
preservation and public availability of samples and data that were
crucial to their NSF funded research project.

Submitting a proposal?
Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program deadline is January 16 and
July 16 of each year. 
Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) deadline - (05-523 solicitation at
<http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5129&org=EF> )
The recently revised NSF Grant Proposal Guide (NSF 04-23 is available at
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm>? )
The new EAR program announcement - NSF 04-613 - is available at
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04613>

IMPORTANT: Proposals that do not comply with the GPG guidelines will be
returned without review.

Publishing a major paper or book based on results from your NSF grant?
Send a copy of the accepted manuscript to GEO's press officer at
cdybas at nsf.gov <mailto:cdybas at nsf.gov>. 

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