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USDA Small Business Innovation Research
Grant Program Website:
http://nifa.usda.gov/program/small-business-innovation-research-program-sbirSupport Agency:
Program Contact:
USDA Small Business Innovation Research Program
USDA NIFA
800 9th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
800 9th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Is this a rolling date? :
NoDates Link:
Deadlines: October and FebruaryPurpose:
To stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting Federal research and development needs, increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from USDA-supported research and development efforts, and foster and encourage participation, by women-owned and socially disadvantaged small business firms in technological innovation.
Support Type:
Funding AssistanceAvailable Funding:
SBIR Phase I grants: up to $100,000; SBIR Phase II grants: up to $600,000Restoration Activity:
The selected areas for research are Forests and Related Resources; Plant Production and Protection-Biology; Animal Production and Protection; Soil and Water Resources; Food Science and Nutrition; Rural and Community Development; Aquaculture; Industrial Applications; Marketing and Trade; Wildlife; Animal Manure Management, Small and Mid-size Farms, Plant Production and Protection-EngineeringEligibility:
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
