The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) is seeking
proposals for research related to improving the health of honey bees.
Summaries of previously funded projects can be found at
<http://www.pollinator.org/honeybee_health.htm>http://www.pollinator.org/honeybee_health.htm.
Review and selection of proposals will be conducted by members of the
Honey Bee Health Improvement Task Force.
We anticipate supporting proposals of up to $3,500. Funds must be
used within a one-year period. Focused, targeted projects with a high
likelihood of providing tangible results that can be applied to
improving honey bee health are preferred. Proposals providing
valuable extensions of previously funded projects will be considered.
The HBH Task Force has identified six priority areas for funding,
though other areas will be considered as well. Proposals that address
multiple priority areas or have implications for the health of other
managed or native bee species are encouraged:
1. Effects of nutrition on honey bee behavior, physiology and/or colony health
2. Effects of pesticides on honey bee behavior, physiology and/or colony health
3. Effects of pathogens and pests on honey bee behavior, physiology
and/or colony health; including the development of novel methods to
mitigate these effects, such as RNAi technology
4. Development of methods to improve genetic stocks of managed honey
bee populations
5. Effects of climate or environmental variables on: a) plants,
especially nectar and pollen quantity and quality; and/or b) honey
bee physiology and/or colony health
6. The development of diagnostics or indicators for the presence of
stressors that effect honey bee health, particularly those that can
be used by beekeepers
The proposals should include:
1) 3 page-project description (references are not included in this
page limit) with sufficient background and description of methods to
ascertain the importance and feasibility of the studies.
2) Detailed budget that includes funds for the principal investigator
to attend the 3-dau annual NAPPC International Conference in
Washington, DC this October 2012 to present the results of the
research. As a nonprofit organization, NAPPC does not pay overhead on
funded research grants.
3) 2-page CV of the principal investigator(s).
4) If the proposal is under consideration by other funding
organizations, please include this information as well.
Please send your proposal packets as a single PDF file by electronic
mail to Jennifer Tsang (<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected])
by Thursday, March 1st, 2012. Contact Christina Grozinger
([email protected]) with questions. The proposals will be evaluated
by members of the HBHI Task Force, and funding decisions will be made
by Tuesday, March 13th, 2012.
