[Pollinator] Honey Bee Health Request for Proposals
Jennifer Tsang
jt at coevolution.org
Mon Nov 26 10:35:26 PST 2007
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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