Sources of Funding

CALFED

Ecosystem restoration program
The CALFED Bay-Delta Program agencies through the California Bay-Delta Authority, the California Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service is seeking applications for projects that assist farmers in integrating agricultural activities with ecosystem restoration. The geographic area of interest is California's Sacramento River and San Joaquin River watersheds and the San Francisco Estuary. Applications will be accepted through 5 p.m. Dec. 15, 2005. Proposal solicitation package is available at: http://calwater.ca.gov/solicitation/erp_solicitation.shtml

Proposition 50 funds
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will be managing the next round of grants offered by the CALFED Watershed Program for funds available from Proposition 50. DWR anticipates release of the Proposal Solicitation Package in the middle of November 2005. More information is available at http://www.watershedrestoration.water.ca.gov/watersheds/grant.cfm

Western IPM

The Western Intergrated Pest Management (IPM) Center has released a 2006 Request for Applications (RFA) for the Regional Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants program. The program supports projects that develop individual pest control tactics, integrate individual tactics into an IPM system, and develop and implement extension education programs. The program is administered by the (North Central, Southern, Northeastern, Western) in partnership with CSREES. Because the specific needs of each of the land-grant university system's four regions vary, specific program priorities vary among the regions. More information on the RFA is available at www.wripmc.org or contact Frank Zalom, Western IPM Regional Grants panel manager at (530) 752-3687 or fgzalom@ucdavis.edu. Applications are due Dec. 15, 2005.

The Western IPM Center is one of four centers established to strengthen USDA's connection with production agriculture, research and extension programs, and agricultural stakeholders throughout the U.S. It is housed in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at the University of California, Davis. It has an updated list of federal calls for proposals at www.wripmc.org/Research/index.html.

International funding database

Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities is a comprehensive international database of published grants, scholarships, fellowships and awards with more than 23,000 entries that have been reviewed, compiled, and formatted in a searchable database. Other services available are COS Expertise, a worldwide database of profiles of researchers, scholars and other experts, and COS Abstract Management System, a comprehensive Web-based system for managing the submission, review and approval of abstracts. For more information see www.cos.com.