Proposals due 2/29/2016.

Optional pre-proposals due 2/7/2016.

Details at http://www.research.olemiss.edu/IG-2015-16. 

NOAA Environmental Literacy for Communities (ELG) Funding Announcement
NOAA-SEC-OED-2016-2004737

Strengthening the Public's and/or K-12 Students' Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Other Environmental Hazards

5,000 of NSF EPSCoR funding is available for one UM or UMMC Summer 2016 outreach project to high school students. UM and UMMC white papers should be submitted on or before 2/1/2016, using the UM InfoReady portal at: https://olemiss.infoready4.com/. New users to this portal will first need Register (top right link on the web page) for an InfoReady account, using their UM or UMMC e-mail address. The competition is listed in the portal as EPSCoR High School Student Outreach Summer 2016.

The full Request for Applications (RFA) is attached. Please download and read the entire RFA.

Program Announcement: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf16519

Key Dates

Exploratory grants that seek to break new ground to address an old or a new problem through innovation on one of two topics:

Graduate Students and Law Students:  Would you like to conserve ocean and coastal resources?  Become a Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and use your natural or social science knowledge to work on environmental issues.  A placement process will match you with  a federal agency or Congressional office in  Washington, D.C., where you will work for one year as a paid fellow.

In one year you will:

http://www.spencer.org/small-research-grants

The Foundation currently accepts proposals for small research grants, with a budget limit of $50,000.  The foundation leaves the duration of the project up to the PI/research team to determine, with the expectationthat it will be appropriate for the work being proposed.  The foundation currently receives over 500 proposals per year, of which they can fund roughly 10%.