[Pollinator] Request for Proposal

[Jennifer Tsang]

Please distribute the below and attached Request for Proposals for NAPPC
Honey Bee Health grants widely.  More information about the NAPPC Honey Bee
Health Grant is available at http://www.pollinator.org/honeybee_health.htm.

 

The deadline is December 17, 2010.  People from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico
are welcome to apply. Thank you!

 



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 the health of honey bees.  Funding for these
grants has been generously provided by Burt's Bees and the Swanson
Foundation; summaries of previously funded projects can be found at
www.pollinator.org/Honeybee_Health.htm.   Review and selection of proposals
will be conducted by members of the Honey Bee Health Improvement Task Force.


 

In total, $30,000 will be available, and we anticipate supporting 3-5
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.  Proposals providing
valuable extensions of previously funded projects will be considered. The
HBH Task Force has identified six priority areas for funding, though other
areas will be considered as well.  Proposals that address multiple priority
areas or have implications for the health of other managed or native bee
species are encouraged:

 

1.         Effects of nutrition on honey bee behavior, physiology and/or
colony health

2.         Effects of pesticides on honey bee behavior, physiology and/or
colony health

3.         Effects of pathogens and pests on honey bee behavior, physiology
and/or colony health; including the development of novel methods to mitigate
these effects, such as RNAi technology

4.         Development of methods to improve genetic stocks of managed honey
bee populations 

5.         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 

6.         The development of diagnostics or indicators for the presence of
stressors that effect honey bee health, particularly those that can be used
by beekeepers  

 

The proposals should include 

1)     3 page-project description (references are not included in this page
limit) with sufficient background and description of methods to ascertain
the importance and feasibility of the studies.  

2)     Detailed budget that includes 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.  

3)     2-page CV of the principal investigator(s).  

4)     If the proposal is under consideration by other funding
organizations, please include this information as well.  

 

Please send your proposal packets as a single pdf file by electronic mail to
Jennifer Tsang (jt at pollinator.org) by December 17, 2010.  Contact Christina
Grozinger (cmgrozinger at psu.edu) or Danny Weaver (dbeeweaver at gmail.com) with
questions.  The proposals will be evaluated by members of the HBHI Task
Force, and funding decisions will be made by February 15, 2011.  

 




Honey Bee Health NAPPC Task Force


FIRST

LAST

ORGANIZATION


Laurie Davies

Adams

Pollinator Partnership


Mark

Carroll

USDA-ARS CHBRC


Keith

Delaplane

University of Georgia, Athens


Daren

Eiri

UCSD


Christina*

Grozinger

Penn State


David

Mendes

American Beekeeping Federation


James

Nieh

UCSD


Harland

Patch

Penn State


Jeff

Pettis

USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab


Kaitlin

Rienzo-Stack

EPA Office of Pesticide Programs


John

Skinner

Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville


Alison

Van Alten

Tuckamore Bee Co.


Jose

Villa

USDA,  ARS


Daniel*

Weaver

Bee Weaver Apiaries, Inc.

 

*Co-Chairs

 

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