2024 Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards – Letter of Intent

Environment, Energy and Natural Resources

Oceans, Fisheries and Aquaculture

Deadlines

Academic Unit: inquire with unit

Memorial Deadline: RIS review not required for LOI

External Deadline: Wednesday 1st, November 2023

Description

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards. The deadline for receipt of letters of intent (LOI) is November 1, 2023, 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern Time.

Overview

Microbes inhabit and sustain all habitats on Earth. In both marine and freshwater systems, microbes capture solar energy, catalyze biogeochemical transformations of important elements, produce and consume greenhouse gases, and provide the base of the food web.

The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the fields of microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry and/or microbial evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems, who will advance our understanding through field work, experiments, modeling or theory. Investigators must currently be active in basic research addressing fundamental questions in these fields and must focus a large fraction of their lab’s effort in this area. Applicants whose research focuses on the microbiomes of animals or plants, symbioses of microbes with animals, paleoceanography, geobiology or aquatic pollution will not be considered.

LOI Deadline: November 1, 2023
Application Deadline: February 29, 2024

More information can be found here.