[Pollinator] Honey Bee Health Request for Proposals

[Jennifer Tsang]

Please distribute the below and attached Request for Proposals for NAPPC
Honey Bee Health grants widely.  Please note the Thursday, December 20th,
2007 deadline.  People from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico are welcome to
apply.

 



North American Pollinator Protection Campaign

Call for Research Proposals Related to Honey Bee Health

 

The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign is seeking proposals for
research related to improving honey bee health.  Funding for these grants
has been generously provided by Burt's Bees
(http://www.pollinator.org/Honeybee_Health.htm).  Selection of proposals
will be conducted by members of the Honey Bee Health Improvement Task Force.


 

In total, $32,000 will be available, and will support 2-4 research
proposals.  Funds must be used within a one year period.  Focused, targeted
projects with a high likelihood of providing tangible results that can be
applied to improving honey bee health are preferred.  The HBHI Task Force
has identified four priority areas for funding:

 

1.         Effects of climate or environmental variables on: a) plants,
especially nectar and pollen quantity and quality; and/or b) honey bee
physiology and/or colony health

2.         Effects of nutrition on honey bee physiology and/or colony health

3.         Effects of sublethal doses of pesticides (including miticides) on
honey bee physiology and/or colony health

4.         Genetic stock improvement: Identification of traits that can be
targeted for selection to improve honey bee health, especially tolerance or
resistance of pathogens or pests; development of rapid screening and assay
methods for these genetic traits 

 




Proposals should be 2-3 pages in length, with sufficient background and
methodology to ascertain the importance and feasibility of the studies.  A
detailed budget should be included; this budget should include funds for the
principal investigator to attend the annual NAPPC International Summit in
Washington, DC to present the results of the research.  As a nonprofit
organization, NAPPC does not pay overhead on funded research grants.  

 

Please send your proposal by electronic mail to Jennifer Tsang
(jt at coevolution.org) by December 20, 2007.  Contact Barry Thompson
(BHT1113 at aol.com) with questions.  The proposals will be evaluated by
members of the HBHI Task Force, and funding decisions will be made by
February 1, 2008.  

 

Honey Bee Health NAPPC Task Force 


May Berenbaum 

University of Illinois 


Nicholas Calderone 

Cornell University 


Dewey Caron 

University of Delaware 


Christine Elsik 

Georgetown University 


Wayne Esaias 

Oceanographer 


Diana Cox Foster 

Pennsylvania State University 


Christina Grozinger* 

North Carolina State University 


G.W. (Jerry) Hayes 

Apiary Inspectors of America 


Douglas Holy 

USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service 


Eric Mussen 

University of California, Davis 


Jeff Pettis 

Research Leader, USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab 


Gene Robinson 

University of Illinois 


Colin Stewart 

USDA APHIS PPQ 


Barry H. Thompson* 

Thompson Apiaries, LLC 


Daniel Weaver* 

Bee Weaver Apiaries, Inc. 


Wayne Wehling 

USDA APHIS PPQ 


Laurie Adams 

Coevolution Institute/NAPPC 

*Co-Chairs

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