U.S. NSF program for Networks of Researchers

[Rodman, James E.]

U.S. NSF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:
RESEARCH COORDINATION NETWORKS (RCN) in BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
NSF 05-569 [ <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05569/nsf05569.htm> ]

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) - Directorate for Biological
Sciences inaugurated a special program titled "Research Coordination
Networks in Biological Sciences" to promote cooperative networking
activities that will advance a scientific field. This announcement renews
the activity for another five years, with this year's deadline of June 27,
2005, and annually thereafter on the last Monday in June through 2009.
Taxonomists, systematists, and phylogeneticists have fared well in this
competition, all things considered; the most recent RCN awards include
Networks for researchers on beetles and on fishes.
There are plenty of "deep branches" yet to attract a dedicated band of
cooperative researchers, and surely lots of other topics that should
nucleate groups of systematists and their colleagues (electronic
monography?; morphobanks?; cyberinfrastructure for the museum / herbarium
community?). The RCN mechanism supports groups of U.S. researchers and their
colleagues who seek together to advance a field of science; take advantage.

Sincerely,
James E. Rodman, Ph.D.
Program Director, Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster
Division of Environmental Biology, room 635
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22230
703-292-7184 (tel); 703-292-9064 (fax)
jrodman at nsf.gov

for biennial PEET competition:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04606/nsf04606.htm
for REVSYS, Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04616/nsf04616.htm
for AToL, Assembling the Tree of Life:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05523/nsf05523.htm
for NSF Supplements to promote cooperation with CETAF:
http://www.cetaf.org