The research network will focus on the etiology, contributing factors, natural history, complications. The volunteers, who are recruited and screened to meet scientists needs, are highly educated citizens dedicated to improving environmental understanding. The center encourages proposals that are interdisciplinary or transnational. Field-based projects that address a broad range of questions and issues in marine biology, marine ecology, and ichthyology are encouraged. NOAA envisions working jointly on such partnerships, through its Community Based Restoration Program, to select, competitively fund, and administer projects with substantial community involvement that restore NOAA trust resource habitat.
Cost sharing is required.
Applications are due October 10, 2001. The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation invites all qualified scientists to submit applications for research grants directed at the prevention of birth defects. Research subjects appropriate for support include basic biological processes governing development, genetics, clinical studies, and studies of reproductive health. Also appropriate are social and behavioral studies and environmental toxicology. For social and behavioral studies, the foundation is especially interested in applications in behavioral sciences that relate to their mission.