EPA: Valuation for Environmental Policy
Solicits proposals in three focus areas:

1. Research on ecosystems valuation, including methodological improvements as well as ways to incorporate non-monetizable or non-quantifiable ecological information into environmental policy decisions;
2. Research linking individual environmental values with group or community valuation of environmental amenities; and
3. Research on community environmental decision-making in general
   DEADLINE: 05/13/2003
   PHONE: 800-564-4422
   es.epa.gov/ncerqa/rfa/
   

DOE: Programs of the Office of Science
Supports research in seven areas including biological and environmental research, which includes Life Sciences. The objectives in the area of life sciences are:

1. To develop the experimental and, together with the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, the computational resources, tools, and technologies needed to understand and predict the complex behavior of complete biological systems, principally microbes and microbial communities;
2. To take advantage of the remarkable high throughput and cost-effective DNA sequencing capacity at the Joint Genome Institute to meet the DNA sequencing needs of the scientific community through competitive, peer-reviewed nominations for DNA sequencing;
3. To develop and support DOE national user facilities for use in fundamental structural biology at synchrotron and neutron sources;
4. To use model organisms to understand human genome organization, human gene function and control, and the functional relationships between human genes and proteins at a genomic scale;
5. To understand and characterize the risks to human health from exposures to low levels of radiation; and
6. To anticipate and address ethical, legal, and social implications arising from genome research.
   PHONE: (301) 903-5468
   www.science.doe.gov/production/grants/progdesc.html

Gloeckner (Fred G.) Foundation
Supports research and education efforts in ornamental horticulture and allied fields, including agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, entomology, plant breeding, plant pathology, and plant physiology
DEADLINE: 04/01/2003
PHONE: 914-698-2300
www.gloecknerfoundation.org