[Pollinator] GBIF Funding Opportunity

[Jennifer Tsang]

Subject: GBIF Seed Money Request for Proposals announced.

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/
<https://webaccess.si.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.gbif.org/
GBIF_org/documents/>

seedrfp

The announcement is available at http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1188570939
<https://webaccess.si.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

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