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Weekly Newsletter |
October 26, 2020
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Dear colleagues-
This week we congratulate several affiliates for their research funding achievements, including Sa Liu (HSCI) and Jennifer Lee Johnson (ANTH) for public health work in Martinsville IN; Venkatesh Merwade (CIVL), David Yu (Poli Sci & CIVL) and Ayman Habib (CIVL) for their team’s contributions to an NSF-Accelerator project and Bryan Pijanowski (FNR) and Laura Zanotti (ANTH) for their NSF CNH project.
This month is also a good time to catch up with all the COVID-19 related research and advocacy work many of our affiliates have been in involved in. If you have updates to your work you’d like to share, or work we haven’t been aware of, please e-mail us.
A few upcoming events in the EJ world are also highlighted below, including our first in a year-long series of four EJ Films, Hija de la Laguna on 10/28, and our 3rd Lunch and Learn with Laura Zanotti on 11/11. Registration for both is open now.
Last week we sent out our congratulations to affiliate Linda Prokopy for her new role as head of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Agriculture. Learn more about Linda and her career path from a great piece published by agcom.
Also in recent news, learn more about how we can determine levels of sub-surface soil moisture…from space! Affiliate and lead of the environmental sensing research cluster Jim Garrison recently had a blog post published about his “Signals of Opportunity” work with NASA.
By the way, if you missed the research expo, you can still check out the posters and videos here.
October 1st marked the beginning of the 2021 Water New Year. Remember to keep an eye on our 2021 Water Year webpage all month long for podcasts, posts, videos and more from affiliated faculty and researchers.
And as always, we encourage you to read and share our second issue of Earth Today with your undergraduates this week. This month's focus is on Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
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| Upcoming Events |
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Environmental Justice Film Series
Wednesday, October 28 | 6:00 PM Eastern
All are welcome to join the first event of the 2020-2021 Environmental Justice Film Series, featuring the film Hija de la Laguna (Daughter of the Lake). There will be a post-screening discussion with the film's director, Ernesto (Tito) Cabellos.
The Series is Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Environment, Native American Educational and Cultural Center, The Department of Spanish and Portuguese/School of Languages and Cultures, Department of Anthropology, The Arequipa Nexus Institute JEDI Postdoctoral Working Group, & The Division of Student Life.
Register for the screening here. |
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| Building on the Center for the Environment’s year-long program of conversations about intersections between environmental and social justice, Dr. Laura Zanotti, Center Associate Director and Professor in Anthropology, will highlight frameworks of environmental justice and ways they have been mobilized at both sites of global environmental governance and in national contexts to support Indigenous Peoples' rights. Reflecting on collaborative partnerships with Mebêngôkre-Kayapó Peoples, she will detail current threats facing Indigenous Peoples rights in Brazil and pursuits for justice. All are welcome to attend. Register here. |
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Virtual Workshop - Resilience of Cities to External Shocks
October 27 and 28 | Zoom
BSC Affiliate Satish Ukkusuri is co-hosting a Virtual Workshop on Resilience of Cities to External Shocks this Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 27-28. The virtual event also includes presentations by Suresh Rao, David Yu, Seungyoon Lee and David Johnson. Topics to be discussed include: a case study of Hurricane Maria, use of sparse modeling for identifying vulnerability, policy dilemmas, and post-disaster approaches. To find out more and register, click here. |
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| Newly Awarded Affiliated Grants |
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Several faculty have recently succeeded in receiving funding for Center-affiliated projects. When faculty affiliate their projects, we are better able to promote and support them. Learn more about how and why to affiliate your project here. |
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| 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Grant |
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Sa Liu, Asst. Professor HSCI, corresponding PI, and her co-project directors Dr. Jennifer Lee Johnson (Anthropology), and community partner Ms. Deborah Corcoran, Community Outreach Coordinator in Martinsville IN, have received a 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their project “Groundwater Contamination and Health Equity in a Deindustrialized Midwestern Community.” The 3 year project’s goal is to improve how information on exposure risk is produced and consumed to motivate meaningful improvements in health outcomes and health equity in real world communities.
Read more about the project here. |
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Purdue Team to Contribute to NSF-Accelerator Project
Center affiliates Venkatesh Merwade (Professor, Civil Engineering), Ayman Habib (Professor, Civil Engineering) and David Yu (Assistant Professor, Poli Sci, Civil Engineering) recently received funding on the $5 million, University of Cincinnati-led, NSF project, “The Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network (UF-OKN): Delivering Flood Information to Any one, Any time, Any where.” The team is one of nine selected by NSF to be part of the NSF Convergence Accelerator initiative as part of their 2019 Cohort. Continue reading. |
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Center Affiliates receive NSF-CNH2 Grant
Professors Bryan Pijanowski (FNR), convener of the C4E Biodiversity research area and lead of the Global Soundscapes project, and Laura Zanotti (ANTH), Associate Director in C4E, recently received an NSF award in their Coupled Natural and Human Systems program entitled “CNH2-L: Using Sound to Advance Conceptual Frameworks of Resilience of Integrated Grassland-Pastoralist Systems.”
Read more about the project here. |
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Funding Opportunities & Workshops
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities – This list is
updated frequently.
Limited Submission: USDA-NIFA Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program (RHSE) ($350K over 2 years)
The RHSE program proposals are expected to be community-based outreach education programs, such as those conducted through Human Science extension outreach that provide individuals and families with: information as to the value of good health at any age; information to increase individual or family’s motivation to take more responsibility for their own health; information regarding rural environmental health issues that directly impact human health; information about and access to health promotion and educational activities; and others. Only one application is allowed per institution. Internal deadline: Preproposal due in InfoReady by December 7 (template); Sponsor deadline: April 29
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Smart Farming Innovations Small-Scale Producers ($250K-$1.5M over 1-2 years)
This RFP seeks Smart Farming solutions that leverage digital technology innovations that have the potential to drive positive impact for small-scale producer (SSP) entrepreneurs delivered through bundled farmer services and enabled by scalable digital and data platforms. Some of the fundamental challenges to address include:
- low productivity driven by lack of access to information and services; climate change, weather variability and pest and disease outbreaks;
- lack of access to tailored financial and insurance products, and
- lack of access to and choice of market and offtake options
Deadline: Feb 25, 2021
USAID Sustainable Landscapes Broad Agency Announcement
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, and scaling of innovative interventions for reducing land-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing long-term carbon sequestration at scale. Cross-sectoral and integrated approaches to addressing other development challenges together with reducing GHG emissions are also welcome, as they are often critical to scaling up climate mitigation outcomes.
Through this BAA, USAID is announcing the Agency’s intent to seek opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate but USAID is not soliciting expressions of interest with this announcement. These will be solicited through a subsequent addendum or addenda to this BAA.
USDA-FS 2021 Wood Innovations Grant Program ($250K for 2-3 years)
The U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) requests proposals for projects that will substantially expand and accelerate wood products and wood energy markets throughout the United States to support forest management needs on National Forest System and other forest lands. This Request for Proposals focuses on the Wood Innovations program goals:
- Reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health on National Forest System and other forest lands;
- Reduce the costs of forest management on all land types;
- Promote economic and environmental health of communities.
Applicants must contribute matching funds equal to at least 100% of the Forest Service requested funds. Deadline: January 20
USDA-FS 2021 Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program ($1.5M)
The U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) requests proposals for projects to install a thermally led community wood energy system or build an innovative wood product facility. The Forest Service solicits proposals for projects that will achieve the following:
- Expand thermally led community wood energy or innovative wood product opportunities;
- Improve forest health;
- Stimulate local economies
Matching funds are not required; however, leveraging is required. Deadline: February 3
NSF EarthCube
EarthCube is a community-driven activity sponsored through a partnership between the NSF Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) within the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) to transform research in the academic geosciences community. EarthCube aims to create a well-connected and facile environment to share data and knowledge in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner, thus accelerating our ability to understand and predict the Earth system. Deadline: March 2
NIH New Cohorts for Environmental Exposures and Cancer Risk (UG3/UH3) and Coordinating Center (U24)
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invite applications to support innovative scientific research in new prospective cohorts that address knowledge gaps in cancer etiology and carcinogenesis processes with a focus on environmental exposures. The cohorts should include racial/ethnic minorities and understudied populations to address the unequal burden of cancer that currently exists in those populations. Deadline: January 29
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