Resources, Grants and Tools for Partners
Posted May 5th, 2010
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Announcements
Learn how to enter projects in the Conservation Registry PCJV Portal—free webinar May 10
Grants and funding
The Nature Conservancy-NOAA Community-based Habitat Restoration Grants
Deadline: May 21, 2010
Projects in all USA states and territories are eligible to compete for these grants to restore or enhance estuarine, marine, and anadromous species and their habitats. Preference will be given to projects at priority sites identified through Marine Ecoregional Assessments and other TNC priority setting approaches.
NRCS Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program (WREP) Funds Available
Deadline: May 24, 2010
WREP provides assistance to landowners to protect, restore and enhance high priority wetlands and improve wildlife habitat. State and local governments, Indian tribes and NGOs are eligible to submit proposals and enter into agreements with NRCS. Landowners may apply for WREP through their local NRCS offices once a WREP project has been approved.
NRCS Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI)
Deadline: May 27, 2010
CCPI will be funded through three existing NRCS programs this fiscal year—the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP).
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 2010 Native Plant Conservation Initiative grants
Deadline for pre-proposals: July 1, 2010
Funds multi-stakeholder projects that focus on the conservation of native plants and pollinators. Projects should focus on the effects of climate change as it pertains to the conservation, education, restoration, research, sustainability, and creating data linkages that facilitate North American native plant conservation.
Waterbird Society Research Grants
Deadline: July 15, 2010
Kushlan Research Award: wading birds (i.e. herons, storks, ibises, and their taxonomic allies) Nisbet Research Award: gulls and terns
Nisbet Research Award: gulls and terns
Macrosystems Biology: Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales
Deadline: September 16, 2010
NSF 10-555
The National Science Foundation invites proposals to conduct innovative, integrated, systems-oriented "macrosystems biology" research to detect, understand and forecast the consequences of climate and land use change and invasive species on the biosphere at regional to continental scales.
Fiscal Year 2010 Endangered Species Candidate Conservation Action Funds
Funding opportunity # FWS-ES-BCC-10
Deadline: Sep 29, 2010
Program funds conservation tasks for high priority, USFWS-managed, candidate and at-risk species in the United States. Limited to projects carrying out actions in a species’ annual Candidate Species Assessments or in a spotlight species action plan, or projects documenting species’ response to climate change.
Birds and biodiversity
Birding for Banded Shorebirds: The Basics
This article provided by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network tells birders and photographers what to look for or whom to tell when you see a banded bird.
Wildlife Conservation in the Willamette Valley's Remnant Prairies and Oak Habitats: A Research Synthesis
David G. Vesely and Daniel K. Rosenberg, Oregon Wildlife Institute, 2010
As a first step towards understanding how wildlife responds to large- and small-scale oak and prairie habitat restoration efforts, the Oregon Wildlife Institute synthesized information on wildlife associations in these habitat types in the Willamette Valley.
USA National Phenology Network launches new web site and tools
Using the new interface, Nature's Notebook, observers can collect data on animals and plants. Other news includes tools for sharing existing data sets, rescuing historical data sets and identifying partnership opportunities.
Results from 2010 Great Backyard Bird Count
Data tools
USFWS Critical Habitat for Threatened & Endangered Species—online map tool
National Marine Protected Areas Center Launches Interactive Mapping Tool and New Website
This interactive, online application was designed to help users visualize MPA boundaries and provide access to the MPA Inventory data in an interactive web-based mapping environment. The mapping tool serves data on over 1,600 MPAs nationwide, offering easy access to spatial boundaries, conservation based classification data, and site management information.
Calls for conference papers, posters and symposia
Natural Areas Conference 2010
Call for papers and posters: abstracts due May 14, 2010
Conference: October 25-29, 2010, Lake of the Ozarks Missouri
35th Annual Meeting of Western Field Ornithologists
Call for papers: deadline July 1, 2010
Meeting: October 13–17 2010, Palm Desert CA
34th Annual Meeting of the Waterbird Society
Call for symposia, special paper sessions and workshops.
Deadline: July 15, 2010
Meeting: Grand Island, Nebraska, March 13-16, 2011
12th North American Arctic Goose Conference
Call for abstracts.
Deadline: September 15, 2010
Conference: January 11-15, 2011 Portland, Oregon
Conferences
Ecological Society of America 95th Annual Meeting
August 1-6, 2010
Pittsburgh PA
17th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species
August 29 - September 2, 2010 (early registration ends June 25)
San Diego CA
1st World Seabird Conference
September 7-11, 2010 (early registration ends May 31)
Victoria BC
12th North American Arctic Goose Conference
Conference: January 11-15, 2011 Portland, Oregon
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