NSF Grants: Tree of Life

[Ken Kinman]

     As I said yesterday, it's a good mix and the coverage is broad, EXCEPT
for molluscs.  It just struck me as odd that archosaurs (and their
early-bird descendants) got two separate categories of programs, while
molluscs got nothing at all.
    Given my intense interest in archosaur and bird phylogeny, it may seem
strange that I would point this out, but I still feel the lack of
malacological coverage is something that should be addressed in future
funding.
          ----- Sincerely,
                    Ken Kinman
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>From: "Rodman, James E." <jrodman at NSF.GOV>
>Reply-To: "Rodman, James E." <jrodman at NSF.GOV>
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: Re: NSF Grants: Tree of Life
>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:37:43 -0500
>
>A year before the U.S. NSF Assembling the Tree of Life competition, under
>the Biocomplexity in the Environment competition, four awards were made for
>large-scale Tree of Life studies, including DEB 0120635 (to Cunningham,
>Martin, Regier, Thorne, and Shultz) for "Deep Arthropod Phylogeny from 100
>Targeted Nuclear-Coding Sequences" and including crustaceans in the taxon
>sampling. The three other Tree of Life awards made through that 2001
>competition are: DEB 0120709 (plants), EAR 0120646 (annelids), and DEB
>0120718 (hexapods). Award abstracts are posted on the NSF website
>(www.nsf.gov).
>         Sincerely,
>         James Rodman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Kinman [mailto:kinman at HOTMAIL.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:14 AM
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: NSF Grants: Tree of Life
>
>
>Dear All,
>      I was just looking at NSF's 2002 Grant Awards for ATOL (Assembling
>the
>Tree Of Life).   It looks like a very good mix and broad coverage of
>various
>parts of the Tree of Life.
>      However, for some reason there is nothing for molluscs.  Hopefully
>they
>can cover the malacological gap by an award in 2003.  And a project on
>crustacean phylogeny would also be useful.  Anyway, a link to the 2002
>Grant
>Awards is given below.
>            ---- Cheers,
>                    Ken Kinman
>   http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/awards/atol_02.htm
>
>


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