Natural Science Collections Alliance
Our members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities.
On May 18, 2009, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released its long-anticipated fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget request. In total, NSF’s FY 2010 request is for $7.045 billion, an increase of $555 million (8.5 percent) above the FY 2009 request (Note: The FY 2009 and 2010 budget numbers do not include the one-time appropriation of […]
The National Science Foundation is accepting proposals through July 9, 2009 for research projects that address evolutionary processes or population and community ecology. The Evolutionary Processes Cluster will fund proposals that investigate the genetic bases of micro- and macroevolutionary processes and their effects on the evolution of genotypes and phenotypes, as well as proposals that […]
On 11 May 2009, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two new grant opportunities for research infrastructure and instrumentation. $400 million will be available through the grant solicitations, which are funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Academic Research Infrastructure Program will provide $200 million to update existing research facilities at […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 included $10.4 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Several funding opportunities from NIH from the economic stimulus are now posted on www.grants.gov. Funding is available for current NIH grant holders to expand the scope of their research proposal. Programs such as the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups […]
A volunteer at the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge University in Great Britain has rediscovered an egg collected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle. It is the only egg known to be collected by Darwin during that voyage. The mocha colored egg has Darwin’s name written on it. The museum’s collection […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released the results of a survey of the status of 611 scientific collections. The study was based on 147 institutions that have received funding from NSF since 1985. The survey, which was conducted in conjunction with the efforts of the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections, highlights the challenges […]
On 27 March, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new grant opportunity for institutions that maintain biological collections. The Improvements to Biological Research Collections Program provides funds for improvements to network, secure, and organize established natural history collections in order to improve accessibility of the collection to the biological research community. Applicants are encouraged […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced two grants opportunities for research on biological natural collections. The Biological Research Collections Program has $6 million available to fund 25 grants to support biological collection enhancement, computerization of specimen-related data, research to develop better methods for specimen curation and collection management, and activities such as symposia and […]
Federal agencies have begun announcing funding opportunities arising from the $787.2 billion economic stimulus that was signed into law on 17 February. Several of these grants programs may be of interest to public institutions. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will award $50 million in grants to fund projects that focus on the preservation […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) released a statement for the scientific community on 18 March regarding their plan to spend the $3 billion directed to the agency in the economic stimulus. NSF will spend most of the $2 billion they received for research on grant proposals that the agency has already received. These proposals will […]