Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
DOD-Basic Research Challenges in the Science of Autonomy April 8, 2013
NOAA-Environmental Literacy Grants for Building Capacity of Informal and Formal Educators:
March 12, 2013
Foundations
Templeton Foundation: LOI: April 1, 2013
Resources for the Future: February 22, 2013
UC
IGCC- Faculty Project Development Grants: March 1, 2013
Students
Open Society Foundation: April 1 – May 21, 2013
IGCC- Herbert F York Global Security Dissertation Fellowship Program: March 1, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: DOD
Title: Basic Research Challenges in the Science of Autonomy
Program: The Office of Naval Research (ONR) basic research programs in autonomy address critical multi-disciplinary fundamental challenges that cut across different scientific and engineering disciplines and system domains (air, sea, undersea, and ground systems) with a focus on problems with particular naval relevance. Five new basic research focus areas have been identified and are “Understanding Satisficing in Human, Animal, and Engineered Autonomous Systems for Fast Decision-making with Limited Data,” “Cognitively Compatible Semantic and Visual Representation of Autonomous System Perceptual Data for Effective Human/Machine Collaboration,” “Mental Simulation as a Unifying Framework for Perception, Cognition and Control in Autonomous Systems and Dexterous Robots,” “Structured Machine Learning for Scene Understanding,” and “Integrated Autonomy for Long Duration Operations.” ONR seeks to initiate 6.1 Basic Research efforts in these five thrusts beginning in Government Fiscal Year 2013.
Deadline: April 8, 2013
Link: http://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements.aspx
Funding Source: NOAA
Title: Environmental Literacy Grants for Building Capacity of Informal and Formal Educators
Program: The goal of this NOAA Environmental Literacy Grants (ELG) Federal Funding Opportunity is to build the capacity of informal educators (including interpreters and docents) and/or formal educators (pre- or in-service) to use NOAA data and data access tools to help K-12 students and/or the public understand and respond to global change. Successful projects will enhance educators' ability to use the wealth of scientific data, data visualizations, data access technologies, information products, and other assets available through NOAA (plus additional sources, if desired) to engage K-12 students and/or other members of the public in a minimum of two U.S. states or territories. Partnerships with NOAA entities and/or involvement of NOAA scientists to facilitate the use of such assets by educators are strongly encouraged. As an ultimate outcome, successful projects should aim to increase educators' effectiveness in promoting stewardship and increasing informed decision making by a diverse pool of K-12 students and/or other members of the public. The impact of the proposed project on the target educators must be measurable during the award period. Projects are also encouraged to track outcomes among the public and/or K-12 audiences served by these educators. Project topics must relate to NOAA's mission in the areas of ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, weather, and climate sciences and stewardship and should focus on one or more of the goals of NOAA's Next Generation Strategic Plan (http://www.ppi.noaa.gov/goals/) healthy oceans; weather-ready nation; climate adaptation and mitigation; and resilient coastal communities and economies. Projects must specifically emphasize the theme of global environmental change, including (but not limited to) such topics as drought, severe weather, ocean acidification, sea level rise, and climate change.
Deadline: March 12, 2013
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=217034
Foundations
Funding Source: Templeton Foundation
Title: Core Funding Areas
Program: The Foundation is currently accepting Online Funding Inquiries for its Core Funding Areas. In the charter establishing his Foundation, the late Sir John Templeton set out his philanthropic intentions under several broad headings. These Core Funding Areas continue to guide the Foundation's grantmaking as it works to find world-class researchers and project leaders to share in its pursuit of Sir John's dynamic, contrarian, forward-looking vision.
A number of topics - including creativity, freedom, gratitude, love, and purpose - can be found under more than one Core Funding Area. The Foundation welcomes proposals that bring together these overlapping elements, especially by combining the tools and approaches of different disciplines.
Core Funding Areas:
1. Science & the Big Questions
2. Character Development
3. Freedom & Free Enterprise
4. Exceptional cognitive Talent & Genius
5. Genetics
Deadline: LOI due April 1, 2013
Link: http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/our-grantmaking-process
Funding Source: Resources for the Future
Title: Gilbert F. White Fellowship
Program: Fellowships for postdoctoral scholars to devote 11 months to scholarly work on social science or public policy problems in areas of natural resources, energy, or the environment at Resources for the Future.
Deadline: February 22, 2013
Link: http://www.rff.org/About_RFF/Pages/GilbertFWhitePostdoctoralFellowshipProgram.aspx
UC
Funding Source: Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Title: Faculty Project Development Grants
Program: IGCC seeks to support faculty research and programming on three broad themes closely linked to this new global security dynamic. Applications must have one of these themes as an integral part of their research focus:
*The Changed Institutional Environment
*Nonconventional Threats
*Nuclear Threats and Public Policy
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Link: http://igcc.ucsd.edu/application
Students
Funding Source: Open Society Foundation
Title: Global Supplementary Grants
Program: The Open Society Foundations offers supplementary grants to students from select countries in Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, the Middle East/North Africa, and South Asia. The program enables qualified students to pursue doctoral studies in the humanities and social sciences at accredited universities in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
Deadline: April 1, 2013 for PhD study in Asia, Australia, North America, or the Middle East. May 21, 2013 for PhD study in Europe.
Link: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/global-supplementary-grant
Funding Source: Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Title: Herbert F York Global Security Dissertation Fellowship Program
Program: Global security in the twenty‐first century has been transformed from a stark bipolar confrontation of states and their surrogates, characteristic of the Cold War, to complex interactions among a wide variety of actors and institutions. U.S. national security today depends on more than the country’s military capabilities; it also depends on its ability to understand and act upon a broad set of potential threats ranging from cyber and biological attacks to terrorist groups and climate change and energy shortages. To examine the complex range of issues in this fast‐evolving security environment, IGCC seeks to support Ph.D. dissertations around research foci that closely track the global security priorities and the technical work of the national laboratories. The proposed dissertation research must have one of the following themes as an integral part of the project.
1. Nontraditional, Emerging, and Human Security
2. Terrorism
3. Biosecurity
4. Cyber‐security
5. Regional and Major Power Relations
6. Energy and Environmental Security
7. Homeland Security
8. Defense
9. Nuclear Nonproliferation
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Link http://igcc.ucsd.edu/assets/001/504255.pdf
