Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis
This funding opportunity supports experienced researchers in synthesizing extensive datasets from their long-term studies into valuable new insights, tools, and products that advance understanding in the biological sciences.
Synopsis of Program: The OPUS program is targeted to individuals, typically at later-career stages, whohave contributed significant insights to a field or body of research over time. The program provides an opportunity to revisit and synthesize that prior research into a unique, integrated product(s) useful to the scientific community, now and in the future. All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of OPUS proposals.
Award Range
$200,000 - $350,000
Total Program Funding
$3,000,000
Number of Awards
15
Matching Requirement
No
Eligible Applicants
Additional Requirements
Eligible applicants include accredited U.S. higher education institutions (community colleges, universities) and nonprofit, non-academic research-focused organizations such as museums, observatories, and labs.
Geographic Eligibility
All
Application Opens
April 21, 2022
Application Closes
Not specified
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