MSU Center for Water Sciences
CWS Programs
CWS promotes the development of interdisciplinary teams to advance scientific research and knowledge for understanding, protecting, and restoring water resources and their sustainable use by humans and ecosystems around the Great Lakes and the world. To accomplish this mission, the Center will award funds for innovative research programs in water science.
Grant Programs
Venture Grants
The primary purpose of the venture grant program is to fund new investigators and to provide “seed” money for projects that will be used to obtain grants through other mechanisms. The Center will also support the enhancement of analytical facilities that provide services for core research projects. Analytical facilities to conduct high quality assays of environmental samples, remote sensing, spatial analyses, and modeling are important for data processing, analysis, and modeling. Venture grants average $10,000 and RFPs are announced twice each year. Click here for the most recent RFP. Proposals are due December 15 and April 1 each year.
Post-doctoral Fellowships
The purpose of the CWS Post-doctoral Research Associate Funding Program is to provide support to faculty members for a post-doctoral associate in order to stimulate research efforts. Research projects must be relevant to the CWS mission and address one or more priority research areas. We encourage collaborative efforts among CWS faculty; however, each proposal must have one primary investigator (PI) who will serve as the project lead and mentor for the post-doctoral associate.
CWS supports laboratory infrastructure to meet its mission of advancing scientific research and knowledge for understanding, protecting, and restoring water resources and their sustainable use by humans and ecosystems around the Great Lakes and the world. The purpose of the Infrastructure Support program is to build capacity on campus and provide services to the MSU community and the state of Michigan.
Eligibility for all CWS Awards
- One or more of the investigators must be a CWS faculty member
- Project must be relevant to the CWS mission.
- Project must be multi-disciplinary.
Agreement for Funding
Faculty receiving funding will be expected to:
- Submit a one-page summary of progress made 12 months after funding is awarded. Reports should include any/all publications, including abstracts presented at national and local meetings that are derived from the project.
- Acknowledge CWS in all publications that result from work supported or partially supported with CWS resources such as: “This material is based upon work supported in part by the Center for Water Sciences at Michigan State University.”
- Participate in Center activities, such as review committees, seminars, and workgroup meetings.
- Provide a summary of project results to CWS to be posted on the Center web site
- Agree to add data sets or information on new methods or techniques to CWS resource database
Priority Research Areas
Click title above for a description of CWS's priority research areas.
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