Funding

Discipline(s): Biological Sciences

The goal of this solicitation is to invite mechanistic studies of organismal response to climate change (ORCC) as a foundation that, when integrated with research at other levels of organization, will lead to a deeper understanding and better predictions of the integrity, the resilience, and the adaptation of biological systems to climate change. Proposals are encouraged to include collaborative teams with an overarching goal of using approaches across biological disciplines to anticipate more accurately adaptive and maladaptive organismal responses to future and novel environmental conditions. All aspects of organismal response associated with global climate change are open for consideration, but proposals should integrate developmental, physiological, neural, behavioral, or genomic mechanisms of organismal response with eco-evolutionary approaches to be generalizable across temporal, geographic, and/or biological scales.

Competitive proposals will describe how the incorporation of mechanistic insights at the organismal level can increase understanding of persistence, dynamics, resilience and/or resistance of organisms to climate change. Research catalyzed by this solicitation should also aim to translate the results in ways that address societal challenges arising from climate change, including but not limited to assisted migration, resource and agricultural systems management, food security, management of disease and pest outbreaks, conservation, and maintenance of ecosystem services.

Proposals can have total budgets of approximately $1 million with a duration of at least one year.

Full proposals are due March 1, 2022.

To read the full funding opportunity, visit https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22513/nsf22513.htm