[APWG] FUNDING: Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/InvasiveSpecies/preism.htm

Under the Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species 
Management (PREISM), ERS conducts intramural research and funds extramural 
research to support the economic basis of decisionmaking concerning 
invasive species issues, policies, and programs. PREISM focuses on 
economic issues related to invasive species of agricultural significance 
or other pests that fall under USDA programs. These include exotic pests 
of crop, forest, and range land (such as insects, weeds, and 
disease-causing pathogens), and foreign livestock, poultry, and zoonotic 
diseases (transmittable between animals and humans), but also exotic pests 
and foreign diseases affecting public lands, ecosystems, and urban 
systems. USDA programs that address invasive species relate to exclusion, 
detection, monitoring, eradication, control, and restoration, and their 
domestic and international components.

Funding for competitive awards in fiscal 2008 is approximately $750,000. 
The deadline for submitting proposals is April 25, 2008.

See the link above for information on the priority research areas and 
application requirements for 2008.