Grants & Funding

Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education

Published Date: August 05, 2005

Program Information

Program Name:

Global Change Education Program

Program URL:

http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/

Type of Scientists Funded:

Master's Student, Early Doctoral Student, PhD Dissertation Student

Program Description:

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) has established the Global Change Education Program (GCEP) to promote undergraduate and graduate training in support of the Department's global change research activities.

Global change research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes. Global change research is supported by BER through the Atmospheric Science Program (ASP), the Environmental Meteorology Program (EMP), the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, the Terrestrial Carbon Processes (TCP) effort, the Program for Ecosystem Research (PER), and studies carried out under the direction of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC). Other studies address integrated assessments, predictions, and policy, as well as paleoclimatology and earth system processes.

The two components of GCEP are the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) and the Graduate Research Environmental Fellowships (GREF). A major goal of GCEP is to involve undergraduate students at the end of their sophomore or junior year in BER-supported global change research, then continue this experience during subsequent undergraduate summers. SURE is designed to support individual undergraduate students during multiple years. To further improve the quality of emerging scientists in disciplines related to global change research, SURE students will be encouraged to apply for GREF graduate fellowships and postdoctoral study programs.

Public Contact Information

Program Award Term and Application Process

• Award Term Fixed or Variable?    Fixed
• If fixed, enter total term?    1  Year
• Award Renewable?    Yes
• Renewable term fixed or variable?    Fixed
• If fixed, enter total term?    1  Year
• Does an individual or institution apply to the program?    Individual
• Is there an application deadline?    Yes
• Application deadline(s):
  02/06/2006
• Deadline Comments   
  Please refer to the website for more information http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/DOE/gi-gugGCEP.htm or http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/

Program FUNDS

• Stipend Information:
  
  
• Annual stipend type:    Fixed
• What is the annual or representative stipend amount?    $ 18,000
• Stipend Details:   
  Please refer to the website for more information http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/DOE/gi-gugGCEP.htm or http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/
• 
  Research Allowance Information:
  
  
• Annual research allowance type:    Fixed
• What is the annual or representative research allowance?    $ 1,200
• 
  Indirect Costs (Institutional Funds) Information:
  
  
• Indirect costs type:    Not Applicable
• Indirect Costs (Institutional Funds) Details:    Program pays the fellow's tuition and fees.
• 
  Other Costs Information:
  
  
• Other Costs type:    Not Applicable
• Other Costs Details:    Please refer to the website for more information http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/DOE/gi-gugGCEP.htm or http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/

Program Eligibility Requirements

Research Areas:

Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Earth Systems, Epidemiology, Evolutionary Biology, Geology, Instrumentation, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Physics, Science Education, Zoology, Other (specify): Climatology, Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology

Application by invitation or nomination only?

No

Are awards limited to specific groups?

None provided

Must applicants be U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents?

Yes

Details:

Please refer to the website for more information http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/DOE/gi-gugGCEP.htm or http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/

U.S. geographic limits?

No

International geographic limits?

Institutional limits?

Yes

Details

U.S. Department of Energy facilities (undergraduates); U.S. Department of Energy facilities and universities (graduates).

Please refer to the website for more information http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/DOE/gi-gugGCEP.htm

Non-research activity allowed for postdoctoral and junior faculty awards?

Not Applicable

If yes, specify at least one of the following: percentage time and activities allowed

• Other eligibility requirements:   
  College juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

  Please refer to the website for more information http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/DOE/gi-gugGCEP.htm or http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/

Program competition information

• Number of Applicants in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Number of Awards in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Institutional Award Rates   

  Category	# Applicants	# Awards
  Institutional Awards

• Awardee's subsequent careers/accomplishments tracked after end of term?    No
  
• Total dollars awarded in the most recent competition year