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Competition Results for International Opportunities Fund
The results of the inaugural call of the International Opportunities Fund, an 11-country joint research initiative supported by the Belmont Forum and the G8 Research Councils on Multilateral Research Funding, have been released. Canadian scientists will participate in four of the six newly funded research projects, which are focused on accelerating delivery of knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events within the thematic area of Freshwater Security.
This International Opportunities Fund is aimed to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach. Each of the participating countries will fund its own researchers, with a total of €8.9 million issued over three years. NSERC’s funding totals just over $1,900,000 for eight Canadian researchers, supporting research in the natural sciences and engineering.
| Project Title | Lead Principal Investigator | Canadian Principal Investigator and University | Other Principal Investigators and Country | Total Euros € (in thousands) |
NSERC Contribution CAN$ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FuturAgua – Enhancing Adaptation and Resilience to Drought in Dry Tropical Social-Ecological Systems: The Guanacaste, Costa Rica Example | Tim McDaniels, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada | Douw Steyn*, Mark Johnson*, Kai Chan*, UBC, Canada |
F. Vignola, Costa Rica, G. Leclerc, France Mitchell Small, US I. Grossman, US G. Wong-Parodi, US |
1,536 | 581,851 |
| TLSCC – Maintaining Productivity and Incomes in the Tonle Sap Fishery in the Face of Climate Change | Lee Hannah, US | Kevin McCann*, Evan Fraser*, University of Guelph, Rashid Sumalia, UBC, Canada |
S. Lek, France R. Pomeroy, US C. Costello, US L. Kaufman, US K. Winemiller, US S. Nam, Cambodia C. Khunleap, Cambodia |
1,676 | 756,912 |
| JWP – Integrated Analysis of Freshwater Resources Sustainability in Jordan | Steven Gorelick, US | Amaury Tilmant*, Université Laval, Canada | E. Gawel, Germany B. Klauer, Germany J. Harou, UK D. Mustafa, UK A. Salman, Jordan E. Al-Karablieh, Jordan |
1,256 | 187,200 |
| XINGU – Integrated Land Use Planning and Water Governance in Amazonia: Towards Improved Freshwater Security in the Agricultural Frontier of Mato Grosso | Alex Krusche, Brazil | Mark Johnson*, Leila Harris, UBC, Canada | C. Neil, US, M. Coe, US, M. Ballester, Brazil, S. G. Molina, Brazil A.R. Almeida Jr., Brazil, V. Empinotti, Brazil, H. Elsenbeer, Germany, F. Reichardt Brazil, M. Eduardo Garavello, Brazil |
1,949 | 383,375 |
| SAHEWS – Southern Africa’s Hydro-Economy and Water Security | Delcan Conway, UK | T. Osbourn, UK C. Ringler, US W. Landman, South Africa |
833 | ||
| DrIVER– Drought Impacts: Vulnerability Thresholds in Monitoring and Early-Warning Research | Kerstin Stahl, Germany | C. Knutson, US M. Svoboda, US J. Hannaford, UK K. Collins, UK I. Clifford, Australia N.D. Crossman, Australia M.J. Collof, Australia |
1,649 | ||
| Total funding over 3 years | 8,899 | 1,909,338 |