Opportunities Below are funding opportunities received from various sources such as the Grants Resource Center. These grants support fellowship programs that encourage outstanding students at colleges and universities which have demonstrable teaching and research competencies in the food and agricultural sciences to pursue and complete their degrees in an area for which there is a national need for the development of scientific and professional expertise. Proposals are limited to one of these areas. Fellowship proposals must be received by July 10, 2001. Supplemental grant proposals are due by October 1, 2001.
Award amounts and deadlines vary based on which priority a proposal addresses.
This program supports projects that are determined by the applicant, but that have proven national significance and that support OERI's priorities. Application deadline is April 3, 2001. Award amounts depend on nature of the proposed projects. It is desirable for the modeling studies to be integrative or designed so that they can be fitted with other models to form an integrative whole. The goal is to build a predictive capability for the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.