ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT 2012 DLIA GRANTS!

Discover Life in America will not offer grants in 2012, but instead, on behalf of the Park, seeks short proposals (200 words or less) that target the following Smokies’ ATBI priority groups. Also click here for more info.

HIGH – Introductory

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Diptera (not including crane flies, mosquitoes, tephritids, tabanids and other groups that have already received work)

Parasitic wasps (ichneumonids, braconids, etc.)

Terrestrial Hemiptera, especially aphids, fulgoroids, etc.

Crustaceans, especially ostracods, fairy shrimp, etc.

Mites – free living and parasitic

Nematodes

Fungi, especially aquatics and ascomycetes

Protozoa

Microbes: archaea, bacteria, microsporidia, viruses

HIGH – Finish up group of any size.

Chilopods (centipedes)

Earthworms

Mecoptera (scorpionflies)

Ticks

Bryozoans/hydras/sponges

Aquatic snails

Odonates (dragon & damselflies)

Platyhelminthes

HIGH – At Risk Communities

Fraser fir remnant areas, hemlock stands, xeric cliffs/new lands on TN side of Rt. 129 corridor, globally imperiled wetlands/other communities.