Funding for Scientists and Partners
Deadline: January 8, 2008
The U.S. Forest Service has joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a co-sponsor of the annual NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program (CNH) funding competition. The CNH grant program supports research and related activities that enhance our fundamental understanding of complex interactions within and among natural and human systems.
As part of the CNH competition, the U.S. Forest Service encourages proposals focused on forest or grassland ecosystems at multiple spatial scales and across a continuum of human systems and densities ranging from urban to rural. Of particular interest are studies at the landscape to regional scale, where changes in both natural and human systems are occurring actively and interactively. Proposals should focus on the dynamics of coupled human-forest/grassland systems and on multiple, interacting perturbations and stressors (local to global in scale) that are central to ecological and human sustainability challenges.
CNH will make awards from roughly $500,000 to $1,500,000. It is expected that approximately a dozen awards could be funded during the 2008 competition. Forest Service scientists and their partners have the opportunity to either compete for an award or to participate on the review panel. Forest Service scientists must apply collaboratively with a non-federal partner, and receive funding through the partner.
For more information, visit the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program or contact Ed Dickerhoof or Anne Hoover.
