WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it expects to award up to 90 grants or cooperative agreements for climate research. The agency description of the grant/cooperative agreement states: "Climate variability and change present society with significant economic, health, safety, and security challenges. As part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate portfolio within the Office of Ocea  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health has issued a funding opportunity announcement for the identification and characterization of bioactive microbial metabolites for advancing research on microbe-diet-host interactions. The agency description of the funding opportunity announcement states: "The purpose of the Funding Opportunity Announcement is to invite applications to identify and characterize microbial metabolites that will est  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it intends to award a $1 million cooperative agreement to the Texas General Land Office for offshore sediment resources inventory. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "To support and expand BOEM's National Offshore Sand Inventory, these funds will be used to collect geological and geophysical OCS data to assess sand and gravel rsources available for protection of   more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it intends to award a $500,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Southern Mississippi for offshore sediment resources inventory. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "As a component of the National Offshore Sand Inventory, this research will combine new and existing geological and geophysical Outer Continental Shelf data to develop assessments of sand and   more