USFWS issues $2 million RFP for WNS Research

Reposted from MAR listserv 

Fri May 7, 2010 4:33 pm (PDT) 

The US Fish and Wildlife Service just announced that it will award up 

to $2 million in grants for high-priority research projects on WNS. 

The intent is to fund research within three broad topics: timing and 

dynamics of the fungus associated with WNS; persistence of the fungus 

on bats or in the environment; and susceptibility of bat species, 

including migrating and European bats, to the fungus.

Requests for proposals will be accepted until June 4 with grants 

awarded in the autumn.

Funding requests must be between $50,000 and $750,000, and projects 

must be completed by Sept. 30, 2012.

$1 million of the available funding comes from a special 

congressional appropriation for WNS work. Up to $1 million more comes 

from a Service fund called Preventing Extinction.

For further information see http://www.grants.gov, "Find Grant 

Opportunities" and search by Keyword: white-nose or FON: 

FWS-R5-ES-10-049 or CFDA: 15.657.