Call for Working Group Proposals

Call for Synthesis Science Working Group Proposals


As part of a joint call from a consortium of international synthesis centers around the theme of biodiversity and climate change, the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB) in partnership with the center for Just Transitions for a Sustainable Future (JTSF) at Notre Dame University, will soon release a new call for proposals to form Synthesis Working Groups.
 

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Proposal instructions and submission deadline: to be confirmed, we anticipate these will be live by December 6, 2024.

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Driven by the recognition that scientific syntheses and subsequent actions are necessary to solve complex problems, we invite U-M researchers, Notre Dame researchers, and their external colleagues to submit proposals for interdisciplinary
Synthesis Working Groups.  IGCB and the JTS Initiative will support two types of Synthesis Working Groups, 1) joint IGCB- JTS Initiative Working groups and 2) Joint Cross-Institute Working Groups with other synthesis centers.


1) IGCB- JTS Initiative Working groups
Co-sponsor WGs that focus on the nexus of ecological and social sciences around the theme of this broad international joint call. One or more WGs may be sponsored by one or both centers/Initiatives if the focus falls heavily towards either ecological or social science-driven solutions. The intent is to highlight how the findings of the WG will address central challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. Teams must include U of Michigan and Notre Dame faculty members. Travel, food, lodging and incidentals for participants covered for two to three meetings over a two-year period.
 

2) Joint Cross-Institute Working Groups with other synthesis centers.
IGCB and JTS Initiative will each fund a two-year postdoc to support the activities of Synthesis Working Groups funded by the other Synthesis Centers (see Table in LINK). Funded WGs will submit proposals to IGCB for postdoc support. The postdoc will be on-site at UM and University of Notre Dame and be co-mentored by a faculty member (who will be a participant in the WG).

 

Questions? Contact Sarah Raubenheimer ([email protected]) or Peter Reich ( [email protected])

Funded IGCB Working Groups:

Characterizing the magnitude, time course, and risk factors of pollen-associated health effects in the industrial Midwest in a changing climate (C Gronlund, A Steiner, A Baptist and others)

Predicting the limits to adaptive shifts in range and phenology in migratory birds (B Weeks, B Winger, and others)

Synthesizing the effects of human-mediated habitat loss on functional diversity (N Sanders, J Chase, T Gonçalves-Souza and others; IGCB-iDiv partnership)

Disentangling complex effects of climate change on forests (N. Umaña, I Ibáñez, V. Ivanov, P. Reich)

Forecasting climate-driven changes in human–wildlife interactions (N Carter, J Allgeier, B Weeks and others)

Climate-forest-fire feedbacks (G Keppel-Aleks, P Fischer, S Cousins, P Reich and others, WFFI-IGCB partnership)

Deep Soil 2100 - Soil carbon under climate warming (P Reich, M Torn and others; IGCB- Berkeley National Lab partnership)

LASER (Life-cycle Assessment Synthesized with Ecosystems and Risk) (Benjamin Goldstein, Kai Zhu, Thiago Goncalves-Souza, Dimitris Gounaridis, Geoffrey Lewis, and others)