Additional Funding Opportunities
Discover Life in America (DLIA)
| The primary support provided by Discover Life in America for All Taxa Biodiversity
Inventory researchers is the Grant Program.
Other opportunities may be available as internships and special projects. In addition, the DLIA Development and Marketing Committee and the Education Committee seek out funding from foundations, corporations, and individuals. |
Fall color from Mt. Cammerer. |
- Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Associations Fellowships programs for 2006; downloand
announcement, 6.0 MB pdf file. Below is a list of all the projects supported by the GSMCA since 2002.
- GSMCA Carlos Campbell Fellowship
Project Titles:
- 2002: Multi-parameter water quality monitor for monitoring park-wide water quality within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Datalogger for Noland Divide watershed for monitoring watershed dynamics within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Natural history and control of Chinese yam, Dioscorea batatas.
- 2003: Weed control in native warm season grasses. The Carolina northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus in the southern Appalachians: genetic structure, habitat isolation, and implications for conservation management. Reproduction of dogwood (Cornus florida L.) in burned areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- 2004: Spatial patterns of eastern hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis (L.) Carr.) regeneration in southern Appalachian upland forests. Effects of site factors and mycorrhizal associations on reforestation of Fraser firs following balsam woolly adelgid infestations at select locations in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- 2005: Population status of eastern hellbenders in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Preparing for the onset of hemlock mortality in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: an assessment of the relationship between riparian hemlock forest and adjacent stream chemistry. Effects of ectomycorrhizae and select site factors on regeneration of Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. GSMCA
- James Tanner Fellowship Project Titles:
- 2003: Assessing the relationship between acid precipitation, calcium depletion, and avian productivity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- GSMCA Carlos Campbell Fellowship
Project Titles:
- The National Park Service, National Park Foundation, and Ecological Society of America are pleased to announce the 2005 National
Parks Ecological Research Fellowship Program.
- The program encourages and supports outstanding post-doctoral research in ecological sciences related to the flora of U.S. National Parks. The program will award up to three fellowships each year to researchers who have recently completed their Ph.D. Awards are made for up to two years, with the possibility for renewal for a third year determined at the end of the first year.
- Awards support research in any area of ecology related to the flora of the National Parks. Research topics can address any level of ecological organization, ranging from populations, species interactions, and community patterns, to landscape and ecosystem level processes associated with plants.
- Research should focus on questions that advance the science of ecology independent of immediate Park needs. Plants, fungi, mosses, algae, cryptogamic crusts, lichens, or other flora must be the main focus of the research. Research that takes advantage of the range of environments, conditions, and scales available in National Parks is of particular interest.
- Additional information and application materials are available at The National Park Ecological Research Fellowship Program.
