Nouragues Travel Grants Program 2015
Nouragues Ecological Research Station
French Guiana
French Guiana is a privileged territory for developing research projects in ecology and
environment. The Nouragues Ecological Research Station was established in an
undisturbed forest of central French Guiana to study the dynamics of plant and animal
populations. The Research Station is a permanent field equipment of the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France). It is accessed by boat or by
helicopter only. Housing, food supply, electricity, laboratory space, and satellite
internet access are available at the Station. For more information, see
http://www.nouragues.cnrs.fr
The present Call for Proposals is aimed at facilitating access to the Nouragues Station
for scientists of all research fields. Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and established scientists may
apply. Submitted proposals will be evaluated by a Science
Advisory Board and selected based on their excellence, the
quality of expected publications, and the feasibility of the
project. The grants will not exceed 9,000€ in total, and will be
for a duration of one year. Reapplications will be evaluated
based on the achievements of the previous years. Grant
recipients will be expected to provide a scientific and financial
report one month after the end of the fieldwork. They will also
be expected to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge
in French Guiana, via participation in outreach programs of
the Nouragues Natural Reserve. In 2015, experimental
projects and projects related to the new COPAS instrument
(Canopy Operational Permanent Access System) will be
especially considered.
Grants will cover travel expenses by the participants, including air flight costs, housing in Cayenne, transportation to
the Nouragues Station, and lodging fees at the Station. Laboratory analyses and equipment costs are not eligible for
funding.
Applicants should follow the submission guidelines attached to this document.
Deadline for application: March 6th, 2015
Results of the selection process: Early April 2015
Applications should be sent as a single PDF file, only by email (amaya.pelozuelo@univ-tlse3.fr).
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Requests for further information should be directed to
jerome.chave@univ-tlse3.fr
Nouragues Travel Grants Program 2015
How to apply?
A. Introduction
The Nouragues Ecological Research Station is located within a Natural Reserve in a pristine lowland tropical moist
forest with no recent history of human disturbance. Since 2007, the Station has been awarding annual travel grants.
Grants are awarded based on the quality of the proposed research and the funds are used solely to facilitate access
to the infrastructure (including travel from the travel place to French Guiana and to the Station, and housing fees at
the Station). In 2015, experimental projects and projects related to the new COPAS instrument (Canopy Operational
Permanent Access System) will be especially considered. For more information on the COPAS instrument, please
follow http://www.nouragues.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article80.
B. Acknowledgements
Publications resulting from this call should acknowledge the funding bodies as follows: ‘The Nouragues Ecological
Research Station is supported by CNRS. This work has benefited from financial support by French Investissement
d’Avenir programs managed by the ANR (AnaEE-France ANR-11-INBS-0001; Labex CEBA ANR-10-LABX-25-01).’
C. Submission guidelines
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Total funding should not exceed 9,000€ per project. Projects are expected to be completed by the end of
2015.
The file should be submitted as a single file in PDF format.
Please name PDF file as: NTG_2015_PROJECT ACRONYM_PI NAME.pdf
Please remove pages 1 and 2 of the present Word document and remove the commentaries (in color and
italics) before transforming it to a PDF file.
The first and foremost criterion is the scientific quality and novelty of the project.
The proposal should make it clear that the funded research will be carried out at the Nouragues Ecological
Research Station.
D. Submission schedule
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Projects must be submitted before March 7th 2014
The decision will be communicated in early April 2014, and the funds will be available soon thereafter. The
funds will be managed by CNRS-Guyane.
A final scientific report should be sent by the end of December 2016. A second year of funding is contingent
on a resubmission and a justification of the achievements in year 1.
To submit your proposal:
 Please send your project as a single attachment in PDF to: amaya.pelozuelo@univ-tlse3.fr
 Deadline: March 6th, 2015 noon Cayenne time
 For questions: please email Jérôme Chave (jerome.chave@univ-tlse3.fr)
Nouragues Travel Grants Program 2015
Response form
1. Administrative details
1.1. Proposal title:
Please use a clear and explicit title. Please do not assume prior knowledge of your research area.
1.2. Acronym:
1.3. Brief CV of the principal investigator:
Name:
Email:
Full professional address:
Education:
Current and previous employments:
Recent research funding:
Significant recent publications (5 max.):
1.4. List of the participating labs/research units:
Here only briefly state the names of the teams involved, if more than one (university/institute, town, country). More
details to be provided in 5.).
1.5. Total support requested:
Report only the total amount here. More details are requested below (section 6). The total amount should not
exceed 9,000 €
1.6. Have you read and do you agree with the contents of section D (Acknowledgements)?
2. Executive summary (max. ½ page)
3. Non-technical summary of the expected results (max. ½ page)
Participants of this program are expected to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in French Guiana, via
participation in outreach programs of the collaborating Nouragues Natural Reserve. This may take the form of a
conference in Cayenne, Kourou, or Régina (Ecomusée municipal d’Approuague-Kaw, EMAK).
In this section, please provide a non-technical summary of the proposed research. A direct translation into French
could be used for dissemination by the Natural Reserve.
4. State of the art (max. 1 page)
Please provide the context and objectives of the proposal in relation to the recent literature, paying particular
attention to why this project is likely to be transformative. Citations and references should follow guidelines for the
journal Science (references should be listed in section 8).
5. Scientific project description (max. 2 pages)
Please provide: objectives, program, expected results and timeline. Citations and references should follow guidelines
for the journal Science (references should be listed in section 8). Please provide: objectives, program, expected
results and timeline. To cite literature, see advice of section 3. above.
6. Consortium description
Personnel involved in the project, including professional address and email.
Qualification and contribution of each partner (one sentence each).
7. Budget
The total amount should be equal to the value reported in 1.5 (max: 9,000€). Only travel and per diem costs are
eligible.
Daily air flights to Cayenne are operating from Paris and from Miami. Please check online or with your travel
agency when preparing this budget.
A one-way trip Cayenne-Nouragues costs ca. 1300€ for 5 people by helicopter and ca. 900€ for 8 people by boat.
CNRS-Guyane will take care of optimizing the helicopter rotations so as to minimize the costs of the funded projects.
Per diem expenses eligible for CNRS missions within French Guiana (excluding the Nouragues station) are 90€/day:
15.75€/meal (lunch and dinner) and 54€/housing. Housing in Cayenne is possible at the CNRS house in Matoury
(same per diem cost as at the Station, see below).
Per diem station fees are as follows: 30€/day for students, 40€/day for researchers affiliated with a CNRS unit, and
50€/day for other researchers.
Ground transportation within French Guiana should be budgeted (Félix Eboué airport is 14km from downtown
Cayenne, and 5 km from the CNRS house in Matoury).
As a very rough indication, a project with 4 permanent researchers travelling from Europe during 14 days in French
Guiana, including 4 air flight tickets at 800€/pers , 2 days in Cayenne (90€/day/pers.), the rental of one car during
2 days (200€), 10 full days at the station (50€/day/pers.), and two round trips by helicopter, will cost 8,720€.
Please feel free to adapt the table below.
Unit cost
Air flight travel
Transport Cayenne-Nouragues
Per diem in Cayenne
Car rental
Per diem at the Nouragues station
Total
8. References
Nb units
Total cost
Annex. Members of the Nouragues scientific board
Laboratory
Last name
First name
ECOFOG
U Wageningen
EDB
ONF
CNRS-Guyane
CNRS-Guyane
U Vienna
CNRS Montpellier
CNRS Paris
ECOFOG
IRD Montpellier
CNRS Grenoble
Baraloto
Bongers
Chave
Delaval
Fouquet
Gaucher
Hödl
Jarne
Le Galliard
Orivel
Sabatier
Taberlet
Christopher
Frans
Jérôme
Marguerite
Antoine
Philippe
Walter
Philippe
Jean-François
Jérôme
Daniel
Pierre