2008 Environmental Sustainability Multidisciplinary Team Award RFP

ANN ARBOR, Mich., November 15, 2007--

The 2008 RFP will focus on two of the six GESI key focal areas and feature a new online submission process.

Research proposals should focus on either water or health and/or their intersection as outlined below:

Freshwater and Marine System Sustainability
Freshwater and marine systems research includes the protection, remediation, and management of watersheds, lakes, aquifers, bays, estuaries, and fisheries. Linkages between aquatic systems, impacts of invasive species and contaminants, and treatment and remediation are studied.

Human Health and the Linkage to a Changing Environment
Research into human health and the environment includes the understanding, measurement and prediction of environmental factors on human health, as well as the impacts of potential technologies, processes and policies to reduce or remediate contaminated environments. Environmental contamination, nutritional change, communicable diseases, cultural effect, and by-products of industrial processes are studied.

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