Supports long-term research projects in environmental biology focusing on evolutionary processes, ecological dynamics, and ecosystem science. Funding covers initial 5-year projects with detailed decadal plans and core data descriptions, with potential renewals for a second 5-year period and beyond through new proposals. Marine ecological research is excluded, but evolutionary studies of marine populations are accepted. Proposals must align with specific research clusters and meet solicitation criteria.
Eligibility is open to others as specified in the solicitation's additional information. Researchers uncertain about suitability are encouraged to contact program officers for clarification.
