Funding Opportunities
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Below is a list of water and climate-related funding opportunities offered through various organizations and agencies compiled by the AU Water Resources Center (WRC).
Updated January 26, 2020
RESTORE Act Funding Calendar
Gulf of Mexico Science and Restoration Program Funding
Title |
Deadline |
Funding Limit (USD) |
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Listed by Date |
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Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program |
26 Jan 2021 |
See record |
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Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant Program |
28 Jan 2021 |
$50,000 |
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FY2021 North America Marine Debris Prevention and Removal |
29 Jan 2021 |
$750,000 |
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ROSES 2020: In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies |
29 Jan 2021 |
See record |
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Water Management For Thermal Power Generation |
29 Jan 2021 |
$1,100,000 |
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Conservation Research Grants Program |
31 Jan 2021 |
$1,000 |
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Ocean Health Grants |
31 Jan 2021 |
$100,000 |
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Mississippi River Grants |
1 Feb 2021 |
Not specified |
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): NIEHS Support for Understanding the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) |
1 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Longleaf Stewardship Fund |
4 Feb 2021 |
$300,000 |
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Secondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grant Program |
4 Feb 2021 |
$300,000 |
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Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program (SPECA) |
4 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Broad Agency Announcement |
5 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) |
8 Feb 2021 |
$700,000 |
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Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact |
9 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET) |
11 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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RESolution of InflammaTion in EnvirOmentally Related disease (RESTORE) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) |
11 Feb 2021 |
$350,000 |
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Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems |
12 Feb 2021 |
$8,500,000 |
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National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program |
12 Feb 2021 |
$1,000,000 |
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Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Water Quality and Enable Small Public Water Systems to Provide Safe Drinking Water |
12 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Award (K01 Clinical Trial Required) |
12 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Climate Program Office (CPO) Extreme Heat Risk Initiative Competition |
15 Feb 2021 |
$150,000 |
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Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional) |
15 Feb 2021 |
$1,750,000 |
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Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants |
16 Feb 2021 |
$3,500 |
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Resilient Communities Program |
18 Feb 2021 |
$500,000 |
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Cumberland Plateau Stewardship Fund |
18 Feb 2021 |
$250,000 |
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National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) |
25 Feb 2021 |
$3,000,000 |
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Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program |
25 Feb 2021 |
$220,000 |
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Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed Project |
26 Feb 2021 |
$900,000 |
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EHR Core Research (ECR): Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) |
26 Feb 2021 |
$1,000,000 |
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Gulf of Mexico Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program |
26 Feb 2021 |
$100,000 |
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North American Wetlands Conservation Act – U.S. Standard Grants |
26 Feb 2021 |
$1,000,000 |
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Fossil Energy Based on Production, Storage, Transport and Utilization of Hydrogen Approaching Net-Zero or Net-Negative Carbon Emissions |
1 Mar 2021 |
$7,000,000 |
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Grants |
1 Mar 2021 |
$6,000 |
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USAID Reducing Pollution |
1 Mar 2021 |
$11,300,000 |
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Research Coordination Networks (RCN) |
3 Mar 2021 |
$500,000 |
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Outreach Assessment |
10 Mar 2021 |
$60,000 |
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Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
15 Mar 2021 |
See record |
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Coral Reef Conservation Fund |
17 Mar 2021 |
$250,000 |
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Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program |
18 Mar 2021 |
See record |
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Dimensions of Biodiversity |
26 Mar 2021 |
See record |
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Roses 2020: Early Career Fellowship Start-Up Program for Named Fellows |
29 Mar 2021 |
See record |
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Roses 2020: Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science |
29 Mar 2021 |
See record |
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Fishing for Energy (FfE) |
31 Mar 2021 |
$300,000 |
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Food Safety Outreach Competitive Grants Program |
1 Apr 2021 |
See record |
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Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program |
8 Apr 2021 |
See record |
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National Coastal Resilience Fund |
8 Apr 2021 |
$125,000 |
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Acres for America |
15 Apr 2021 |
See record |
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MUREP/SMD Research Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OCEAN) |
15 Apr 2021 |
$250,000 |
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Biological Technologies |
22 Apr 2021 |
See record |
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Gulf Research Program |
27 Apr 2021 |
See record |
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): NIEHS Support for Understanding the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) |
3 May 2021 |
See record |
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AGCO National Student Design Competition |
15 May 2021 |
$1,250 |
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Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) |
17 May 2021 |
See record |
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Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Grant Program |
29 May 2021 |
$375,000 |
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Bring Back the Natives |
4 Jun 2021 |
$100,000 |
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Research and Education Grant Call for Proposals |
5 Jun 2021 |
$400,000 |
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Field Research Grants |
7 Jun 2021 |
$80,000 |
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On-the-Ground Programs: Matching Awards Program (MAP) |
9 Jun 2021 |
See record |
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Request for Proposals: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry |
9 Jun 2021 |
$80,000 |
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North America Awards – Government Service |
12 Jun 2021 |
See record |
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Cooperative Research Units Program |
18 Jun 2021 |
$1,000,000 |
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Turfgrass and Environmental Research Call for Proposals |
26 Jun 2021 |
See record |
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National Wildlife Refuge Friends Grant Program |
30 Jun 2021 |
$15,000 |
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Fisheries Innovation Fund – Electronic Monitoring and Reporting Grant Program |
1 Jul 2021 |
$500,000 |
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Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Foundational and Applied Science Program |
20 Jul 2021 |
See record |
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Southeast Aquatics |
23 Jul 2021 |
$350,000 |
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Opportunities for Promoting Understanding Through Synthesis (OPUS) |
2 Aug 2021 |
See record |
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Coastlines and People (CoPe) |
10 Aug 2021 |
$29,500,000 |
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Coral Special Topics Request for Proposals |
1 Sep 2021 |
$300,000 |
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Candidate Species Conservation Fund |
30 Sep 2021 |
$500,000 |
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Coastal Program |
30 Sep 2021 |
$500,000 |
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Endangered Species Recovery Implementation |
30 Sep 2021 |
$2,000,000 |
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National Sea Grant College Program 2020-2021 Special Projects |
30 Sep 2021 |
$4,000,000 |
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Partners for Fish and Wildlife |
30 Sep 2021 |
$750,000 |
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Advancing Digitizing of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) |
8 Oct 2021 |
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Environmental Risks for Psychiatric Disorders: Biological Basis of Pathophysiology (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) |
16 Nov 2021 |
See record |
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Guy Bradley Award |
15 Jan 2022 |
$2,500 |
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Coastal Management Fellowship |
17 Jan 2022 |
$34,000 |
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Environmental Curricula Grants |
25 Jan 2022 |
$1,500 |
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The USAID Global Health Broad Agency Announcement for Research and Development |
30 May 2022 |
See record |
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Cooperative Agriculture |
30 Sep 2023 |
See record |
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FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) |
30 Sep 2023 |
See record |
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Ongoing and Continuous Opportunities Listed by Name |
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Biological Oceanography Program |
Continuous |
See record |
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Catalysis |
Continuous |
See record |
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Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
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Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics |
Ongoing |
See record |
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Community Requests |
Continuous |
See record |
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Critical Aspects of Sustainability |
Continuous |
See record |
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Discretionary Fund, Technical Assistance, and Travel Assistance |
Continuous |
$1,500 |
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Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) |
Continuous |
$100,000,000 |
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Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program |
To be announced |
TBA |
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Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
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Engineering of Biomedical Systems |
Continuous |
See record |
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Environmental Engineering |
Continuous |
See record |
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Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) |
Continuous |
See record |
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Environmental Grants and Supports – World Trout Grants Program |
Continuous |
$20,000 |
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Environmental Sustainability |
Continuous |
See record |
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Fisheries Innovation Fund |
To be announced |
$100,000 |
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Fund for Environmental Journalism Grants |
Continuous |
$5,000 |
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Grants |
Continuous |
See record |
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Grassroots Grants Program |
Continuous |
$10,000 |
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Gulf Coast Conservation Grants Program (GCCGP) |
To be announced |
$250,000 |
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Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment |
Ongoing |
See record |
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Hydrologic Sciences |
Continuous |
$1,000,000 |
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Improvements to Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) |
Continuous |
$4,200,000 |
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Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB) |
Continuous |
$1,200,000 |
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Innovation Corps – National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) |
Continuous |
$12,750,000 |
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Innovation: Research Methods |
Continuous |
See record |
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Julian Simon Fellowships |
Continuous |
See record |
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Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) |
Continuous |
$600,000 |
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National Fish Habitat Action Plan |
Varies |
$900,000 |
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NERC Advanced Training Short Courses and Master’s Courses at the Natural History Museum |
Varies |
See record |
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Open Innovation |
Continuous |
See record |
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Paleoclimate |
Ongoing |
See record |
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Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Grants Program (ROC Small Grants) |
Continuous |
$20,000 |
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Research Coordination Networks (RCN) |
Varies |
$500,000 |
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Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program |
Continuous |
See record |
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Scholarships and Other Student Opportunities |
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Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program |
1 Feb 2021 |
$9,500 |
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EPP/MSI Undergraduate Scholarship Program |
1 Feb 2021 |
$45,000 |
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The Elizabeth Gardner Norweb Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship |
5 Feb 2021 |
$3,000 |
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Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) |
8 Feb 2021 |
See record |
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Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet |
9 Feb 2021 |
$100,000 |
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Science of Science – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SOS DDRIG) |
10 Feb 2021 |
$100,000 |
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The Elizabeth Gardner Norweb Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship |
5 Feb 2021 |
$3,000 |
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Auburn University Graduate Student Grants-In-Aid Program |
17 Feb 2021 |
$5,000 |
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Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program |
1 Mar 2021 |
$25,000 |
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WEF Canham Graduate Studies Scholarship |
1 Mar 2021 |
$25,000 |
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Environmental Quality Research Award |
11 Mar 2021 |
$2,000 |
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NEHA/AAS Scholarship Awards |
31 Mar 2021 |
$2,5000 |
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Graduate Student Grants in Sustainable Agriculture |
1 May 2021 |
$16,500 |
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Internship Opportunities |
18 Aug 2021 |
See record |
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): Sites and Supplements |
25 Aug 2021 |
$600,000 |