Deadline: 10 April 2019

National Geographic Society is currently inviting applicants for its “Conservation Technologies” in order to create novel tools and technologies to monitor ecosystem health.

In the same way that human health is monitored in real time (e.g., thermometer, MRI, blood pressure), environmental diagnostic monitoring techniques are needed to provide practical measurements correlated with ecosystem health. Because of the complexity and interconnectedness of global environmental systems, scalability is crucial for global monitoring. Examples of the types of tools that could be employed are new processing techniques for satellite data, advanced wildlife camera traps, or globally networked chemical and physical sensors.

National Geographic supports the development of cutting-edge technologies that open their eyes to different viewpoints, help us see the world in a new light and explore it in new ways, and transform the fields of exploration, science, and conservation. The planet’s ecological systems are in peril due to climate change and other anthropogenic effects. Their ability to understand how these systems respond to these disturbances is limited by the ability to observe these systems.

Priorities

Priority will be given to projects that use technology to do one or more of the following:

• Develop tools or capabilities needed to generate data and insights on ecosystem health, biodiversity distribution, patterns, and trends
• Create or reimagine sensing modalities that can be applied to determine ecological health
• Implement new processing techniques that can apply breakthroughs in data mining and machine learning to glean new ecosystem health insights from existing data streams
• Develop low-cost, scalable, long-term, robust in-situ or remote sensing modalities

Funding Information

Typical proposal requests should be less than $50,000; however, applicants may request up to $150,000.

How to Apply

Applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit https://www.nationalgeographic.org/grants/grant-opportunities/conservation-technologies/