Announcement of Opportunity: Understanding the Impacts of the Current El Nino Event
Jan 20, 2016
NERC and the Department for International Development (DFID) will shortly be inviting proposals for a new £4m collaborative research programme on 'Understanding the Impacts of the Current El Niño Event'.
Closing date: 16:00 on 18 February 2016
Applications are invited for small projects of up to £300k (100% FEC) to study the impacts of the current El Niño event. Projects will be funded for a maximum duration of 18 months and must commence in April 2016. All projects are required to have a principal investigators based in a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding. Co-investigators and researchers based in other organisations, including in low- and middle-income countries, are welcome but will receive funding through the lead research organisation.
The focus of the call will be limited to cases where there is an urgency to collect novel data relating to the local and regional impacts of the current El Niño in a low- or middle-income country (or countries).
The post can be found on the NERC website here.
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