The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes has recently joined other ASU units to launch a five-year collaborative research initiative in partnership with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
This new ASU-STRI effort follows a successful earlier partnership that finished in 2015. The new partnership aims to cultivate a shared research agenda to understand and manage human and ecological systems in the tropics and to train the next generation of tropical scientists. Specific research foci include:
Resilience, adaptive evolution and the effects of changing environments on plant, animal and microbial phenotypes, as well as community and ecosystem functions.
Integrating biological data with socio-economic models to sustain biodiversity during climate change and human development.
To support these programmatic goals and research foci, we are accepting internal proposals for:
Team building visits (up to $3-4K, for travel and lodging expenses)
Workshops (up to $20K, for expenses to convene at ASU or STRI)
Pilot data collection projects (up to 1 year to support grant proposals, budget up to $50K/year)
Applications are due Sunday, July 15, 2018.
For more information and to apply, please click here (PDF) or visit the application website.
The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes has recently joined other ASU units to launch a five-year collaborative research initiative in partnership with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
This new ASU-STRI effort follows a successful earlier partnership that finished in 2015. The new partnership aims to cultivate a shared research agenda to understand and manage human and ecological systems in the tropics and to train the next generation of tropical scientists. Specific research foci include: