Climate change projects

The National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR) is soliciting proposals for research projects to begin during calendar 2006. Pre-proposals are required, and are due January 18, 2006 . Full proposals, which will be accepted only from applicants submitting successful preproposals, are due March 14, 2006 .

Research topics will include:

• Effects of warming, changes in precipitation, increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and/or increases in tropospheric ozone concentration on the structure and functioning of important terrestrial ecosystems in the United States.
• Effects of potential climatic changes on the geographic boundaries of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems (or biomes), and the populations of their dominant organisms (plants, animals, and/or microorganisms).
• Use of measurements of contemporary exchanges of mass and energy between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems to reduce scientific uncertainty about effects of an altered terrestrial carbon cycle and/or surface energy exchange on global and/or regional climate.
• Synthesis activities related to effects of climatic variability and change on U.S. terrestrial ecosystems, principally with a regional focus.