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FAPESP will fund collaborative research in GOAmazon campaign science

The São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP announces a call for proposals of collaborative research in support of GOAmazon Campaign Science. The call is being issued in coordination with the U.S. Department of Energy - DoE and the Amazonas Research Foundation - FAPEAM.

Applications must be in collaborations either between researchers from DOE and the State of São Paulo, Brazil, or from DOE, the State of São Paulo, Brazil and the State of Amazonas, Brazil . The aim is to promote and strengthen collaborations in the field of Amazonian Tropical Ecosystems between researchers from the State of São Paulo, from the U.S., and from the State of Amazonas.

Research projects should be inserted into one of the following thematic areas: Atmospheric System Research (ASR), Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences (TES) and Regional and Global Climate Modeling (RGCM).

The goal of the ASR theme is to improve the treatment of clouds, aerosols, and radiative transfer processes in atmospheric models, that in turn are combined with ocean, terrestrial, and ice sheet models to make projections of climate change.

In the TES theme the objective is to improve the representation of terrestrial ecosystem processes in Earth system models thereby improving the quality of climate model projections and providing the scientific foundation needed to inform decision maker on energy matters.

The goal of the RGCM theme is to advance the predictive understanding of Earth’s climate, its variability, and change by focusing on analysis of regions critical to climate; evaluating robust methods to obtain higher spatial resolution; and diagnosing and analyzing state-of-the-science for coupled climate and Earth system models to understand climate variability and change, at regional and global scales.

The applicants shall apply for funding to their respective funding agencies (with the agencies’ own forms). Researchers from USA must follow the DoE’s guidelines and researchers from the State of São Paulo, the eligibility criteria of FAPESP for the Regular Research Award. In the case a proposal includes the three agencies (FAPESP, FAPEAM and DoE), researchers from the State of Amazonas should follow FAPEAM’s guidelines.

FAPESP is prepared to fund the total amount of up to R$ 6.000.000,00 to the selected proposals from the State of Sao Paulo, DoE is prepared to fund equivalent of up to R$ 12.000.000,00 to the selected proposals from USA and if, applicable, FAPEAM is prepared to fund the total amount of up to R$ 6.000.000,00, to the selected proposals from Amazon, respectively.

Approximately 6 to 8 awards are expected. The exact number of awards will depend on the number of meritorious applications and the availability of appropriated funds, consequently, the funding to each selected proposals could range between R$ 750.000,00 a R$ 1.500.000,00

The last day of proposal submission is July 1st, 2013. The funding period starts at 1 January 2014.

The call for proposals is available at: www.fapesp.br/chamadas/goamazon.