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 March 1, 2020
RESTORE Act Funding Calendar
Gulf of Mexico Science and Restoration Program Funding
| Title | Deadline | Funding Limit (USD) |
| Listed by Date | ||
| Grants Rumphius Foundation |
1 Mar 2021 Proposals Confirmed |
$6,000 |
| USAID Reducing Pollution United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
1 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$11,300,000 |
| New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) |
3 Mar 2021 Nomination Confirmed |
$450,000 |
| Research Coordination Networks (RCN) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
3 Mar 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
$500,000 |
| Outreach Assessment U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
10 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$60,000 |
| Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
15 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| National Awards Society of American Foresters (SAF) |
15 Mar 2021 Nomination Confirmed |
$1,500 |
| Coral Reef Conservation Fund National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
17 Mar 2021 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
$250,000 |
| Dimensions of Biodiversity Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
26 Mar 2021 Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Impact Grants Woodard & Curran Foundation |
26 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$100,000 |
| Innovative water Infrastructure Workforce Development Grant Program Office of Wastewater Management Office of Water (OW) United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
26 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$500,000 |
| Roses 2020: Early Career Fellowship Start-Up Program for Named Fellows Science Mission Directorate (SMD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
29 Mar 2021 Proposals Confirmed |
See record |
| Roses 2020: Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science Science Mission Directorate (SMD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
29 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Fishing for Energy (FfE) National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
31 Mar 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
$300,000 |
| Watershed Assessments for the National Water Quality Initiative (NQWI) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
31 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$75,000 |
| Education Awards – WEF Public Communication and Outreach Program Water Environment Federation (WEF) |
1 Apr 2021 Nomination Confirmed |
See record |
| Food Safety Outreach Competitive Grants Program National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
1 Apr 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
8 Apr 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| National Coastal Resilience Fund National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
8 Apr 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
$125,000 |
| Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management National Operations Center Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Bureau of Land Management (BLM) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
13 Apr 2021 Application Confirmed |
$950,000 |
| Acres for America National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
15 Apr 2021 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
See record |
| MUREP/SMD Research Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OCEAN) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
15 Apr 2021 Proposals Confirmed |
$250,000 |
| Biological Technologies Biological Technologies Offices (BTO) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) United States Department of Defense (DOD) |
22 Apr 2021 Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Gulf Research Program National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) |
27 Apr 2021 Letter of Intent Anticipated |
See record |
| Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): NIEHS Support for Understanding the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |
3 May 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Grant Program Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission |
29 May 2021 Submission/ Entry Anticipated |
$375,000 |
| Bring Back the Natives National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
4 Jun 2021 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
$100,000 |
| Research and Education Grant Call for Proposals United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Southern Region SARE (S-SARE) |
5 Jun 2021 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
$400,000 |
| Field Research Grants Earthwatch Institute |
7 Jun 2021 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
$80,000 |
| On-the-Ground Programs: Matching Awards Program (MAP) National Forest Foundation (NFF) |
9 Jun 2021 Application Anticipated |
See record |
| Request for Proposals: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Earthwatch Institute |
9 Jun 2021 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
$80,000 |
| North America Awards – Government Service Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) |
12 Jun 2021 Self-Nomination and Nomination Anticipated |
See record |
| Cooperative Research Units Program U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
18 Jun 2021 Full Proposal Confirmed |
$1,000,000 |
| Turfgrass and Environmental Research Call for Proposals United States Golf Association (USGA) |
26 Jun 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
See record |
| National Wildlife Refuge Friends Grant Program National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
30 Jun 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
$15,000 |
| Fisheries Innovation Fund – Electronic Monitoring and Reporting Grant Program National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
1 Jul 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
$500,000 |
| Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Foundational and Applied Science Program National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
20 Jul 2021 Application Anticipated |
See record |
| Southeast Aquatics National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
23 Jul 2021 Full Proposal Anticipated |
$350,000 |
| Opportunities for Promoting Understanding Through Synthesis (OPUS) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
2 Aug 2021 Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| National Estuary Program (NEP) Coastal Watersheds Grant Program Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) |
7 Aug 2021 Letter of Intent Anticipated |
$250,000 |
| Coastlines and People (CoPe) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
10 Aug 2021 Letter of Intent Confirmed |
$29,500,000 |
| ROSES 2021: Remote Sensing of Water Quality National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
13 Aug 2021 Notice of Intent Confirmed |
$1,000,000 |
| NALMS Achievement Awards North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) |
15 Aug 2021 Nomination Anticipated |
See record |
| Coral Special Topics Request for Proposals National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
1 Sep 2021 Application Anticipated |
$300,000 |
| Candidate Species Conservation Fund U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
30 Sep 2021 Application Confirmed |
$500,000 |
| Coastal Program U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
30 Sep 2021 Application Confirmed |
$500,000 |
| Endangered Species Recovery Implementation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
30 Sep 2021 Application Confirmed |
$2,000,000 |
| Innovation Grant Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Microsoft |
30 Sep 2021 Application Anticipated |
$100,000 |
| National Sea Grant College Program 2020-2021 Special Projects Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) United States Department of Commerce (DOC) |
30 Sep 2021 Application Confirmed |
$4,000,000 |
| Partners for Fish and Wildlife U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
30 Sep 2021 Application Confirmed |
$750,000 |
| WateReuse Awards for Excellence WateReuse Association (WateReuse) |
30 Sept 2021 Self-Nomination and Nomination Anticipated |
See record |
| Clarke Prize National Water Research Institute (NWRI) |
1 Oct 2021 Nomination Anticipated |
$50,000 |
| Advancing Digitizing of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
8 Oct 2021 Full Proposal Confirmed |
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| Faculty Grants VentureWell (formerly National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)) Lemelson Foundation |
4 Nov 2021 Application Anticipated |
$30,000 |
| Environmental Risks for Psychiatric Disorders: Biological Basis of Pathophysiology (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |
16 Nov 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Guy Bradley Award National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
15 Jan 2022 Nomination Anticipated |
$2,500 |
| Coastal Management Fellowship Office for Coastal Management National Ocean Service (NOS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) United States Department of Commerce (DOC) |
17 Jan 2022 Application Anticipated |
$34,000 |
| Environmental Curricula Grants Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation (MGAEF) |
25 Jan 2022 Preliminary Proposal Anticipated |
$1,500 |
| The USAID Global Health Broad Agency Announcement for Research and Development United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
30 May 2022 Expression of interest Confirmed |
See record |
| Cooperative Agriculture U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) United States Department of the Interior (DOI) |
30 Sep 2023 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) United States Department of Commerce (DOC) |
30 Sep 2023 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Ongoing and Continuous Opportunities Listed by Name | ||
| AI for Earth Grant Microsoft |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
$15,000 |
| Biological Oceanography Program Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Catalysis Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed | See record |
| Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Ongoing | See record |
| Community Requests The Coca-Cola Company |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Critical Aspects of Sustainability National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Discretionary Fund, Technical Assistance, and Travel Assistance Southern Partners Fund |
Continuous Application Confirmed Limited submission |
$1,500 |
| Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
$100,000,000 |
| Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed | See record |
| Engineering of Biomedical Systems Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Environmental Engineering Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Environmental Grants and Supports – World Trout Grants Program Patagonia, Inc. |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
$20,000 |
| Environmental Sustainability Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Fisheries Innovation Fund National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
To be announced Full Proposal Anticipated |
$100,000 |
| Fund for Environmental Journalism Grants Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
$5,000 |
| Grants Sea Pact |
Continuous Letter of Inquiry Confirmed |
See record |
| Grassroots Grants Program BoatU.S. – Boat Owners Association of the United States |
Continuous Letter of Intent Confirmed |
$10,000 |
| Gulf Coast Conservation Grants Program (GCCGP) National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) |
To be announced Full Proposal Anticipated |
$250,000 |
| Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Ongoing | See record |
| Hydrologic Sciences National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
$1,000,000 |
| Improvements to Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
$4,200,000 |
| Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
$1,200,000 |
| Innovation Corps – National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
$12,750,000 |
| Innovation: Research Methods National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
See record |
| Julian Simon Fellowships Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) |
Continuous Full Proposal Confirmed |
$600,000 |
| National Fish Habitat Action Plan United States Department of the Interior (DOI) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) |
Varies Application Confirmed |
$900,000 |
| Open Innovation Unilever |
Continuous Submission/Entry Confirmed |
See record |
| Paleoclimate National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Ongoing | See record |
| Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Grants Program (ROC Small Grants) Waitt Foundation |
Continuous Proposals Confirmed |
$20,000 |
| Research Coordination Networks (RCN) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) |
Varies Full Proposal Confirmed |
$500,000 |
| Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Parks Service (NPS) |
Continuous Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Scholarships and Other Student Opportunities Listed by Date |
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| Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) |
To be announced Application Anticipated |
TBA |
| NERC Advanced Training Short Courses and Master’s Courses at the Natural History Museum Natural History Museum |
Varies Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) |
1 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$25,000 |
| WEF Canham Graduate Studies Scholarship Water Environment Federation (WEF) |
1 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
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| Environmental Quality Research Award American Society of Agronomy (ASA) |
1 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$25,000 |
| Ronald B. Linsky Fellowship for Outstanding Water Research National Water Research Institute (NWRI) |
11 Mar 2021 Self-Nomination and Nomination Confirmed |
$2,000 |
| Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program National Institute of Food Agriculture (NIFA) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
18 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Horton Research Grant American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
3 Apr 2021 Application Anticipated |
$10,000 |
| Fellowship Program National Water Research Institute (NWRI) |
15 Apr 2021 Application Confirmed |
$11,000 |
| NEHA/AAS Scholarship Awards National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) |
30 Apr 2021 Application Confirmed |
$10,000 |
| Graduate Student Grants in Sustainable Agriculture United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Southern Region SARE (S-SARE) |
31 Mar 2021 Application Confirmed |
$2,5000 |
| Internship Opportunities United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
1 May 2021 Proposals Anticipated |
$16,500 |
| AGCO National Student Design Competition American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) |
15 May 2021 Application Anticipated |
$1,250 |
| Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
17 May 2021 Application Confirmed |
See record |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): Sites and Supplements National Science Foundation (NSF) |
18 Aug 2021 Application Anticipated |
See record |
| Stockholm Junior Water Prize Stockholm Water Foundation Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) |
25 Aug 2021 Full Proposal Confirmed |
$600,000 |
| Academic Achievement Awards American Water Works Association (AWWA) |
29 Aug 2021 Other Anticipated |
$15,000 |