Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB)

The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time. Some key points to consider: • Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters: Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science. • DEB encourages interdisciplinary proposals that cross conceptual boundaries and integrate over levels of biological organization or across multiple spatial and temporal scales. • Research addressing ecology and ecosystem science in the marine biome should be directed to the Biological Oceanography Program in the Division of Ocean Sciences. • Proposals from EPSCoR jurisdictions are especially encouraged.