[Pollinator] Funding Opportunity for Pollinators

Wed Sep 5 09:23:04 PDT 2007

Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to make you aware of this recently posted funding opportunity for
developing pollinator content data.  Please excuse cross-posting.

-Mike Ruggiero

Senior Science Advisor

Integrated Taxonomic

   Information System (ITIS)

Smithsonian Institution

P.O. Box 37012

NMNH, Room CE-120, MRC - 0180

Washington, DC  20013-7012

phone: 202-633-2148

fax: 202-786-2934

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The Global Biodiversity Information Facility has released a Request for
Proposals (RFP) for 2007-8 seed money. The deadline for submission of
proposals is 1 November 2007.

The call is for GBIF data content development in response to data needs
associated with clearly identified global biodiversity issues, such as (but
not limited to) global climate change, invasive alien species, the Global
Strategy for Plant Conservation, 2010 indicators or pollinators.

Projects may be to provide dataset(s) of occurrence data, taxon names data,
or both.

The RFP text is available at:
http://www.gbif.org/GBIF_org/documents/seedrfp

The announcement is available at http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1188570939

We kindly request your assistance in distributing this RFP to potential
candidates.  If there are questions after reading the RFP, contact ECAT
Programme Officer David Remsen for clarification.

Kindest regards,

David Remsen

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Senior Programme Officer

Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat

Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Tel: +45-35321472   Fax: +45-35321480

Skype: dremsen

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