Plate I
Ecology & Field Biology
Living systems of Texas
Grassland restoration, freshwater and coastal ecosystems, pollinators, and long-term biodiversity surveys across the state's ecoregions.
Texas Science Foundation is a proposed independent funder of research, science education, and public science, rooted in the ecoregions and observatories of Texas. We back the questions that are hard to fund elsewhere and put real instruments in more hands.
Specimen plates from the areas the foundation intends to support. Each is a program in design, not a settled portfolio.
Grassland restoration, freshwater and coastal ecosystems, pollinators, and long-term biodiversity surveys across the state's ecoregions.
Optical and radio observation, planetary science, and the preservation of dark skies as a shared scientific and cultural resource.
Energy materials, semiconductors, and characterization techniques — the physics and chemistry behind the next generation of devices.
Classroom grants, teacher fellowships, and museum and community programs that put real instruments and real questions in more hands.
How the foundation intends to move money and equipment toward the work. Amounts and open calls are still being drafted.
Seed & exploratory
Early, flexible funding for exploratory projects and pilot studies that are difficult to fund through conventional channels — enough to gather the first data that makes a larger proposal possible.
People, over time
Multi-year support for early-career researchers and for classroom teachers, protecting time and attention rather than only covering costs.
Shared & durable
Sensors, optics, and field gear held in common — instruments a single school or lab could not justify alone, lent out where they will see the most use.
Science in the open
Star parties, bioblitzes, and community observation projects that invite non-specialists to collect real data alongside researchers.
Nothing here is live yet. Tell us who you are and what you'd study, and you'll be among the first contacted when calls open.
We're designing an open call for seed grants and fellowships. Describe what you'd investigate and where in Texas the work would sit.
Classroom grants, equipment loans, and teacher fellowships are in development. Register interest so we can shape them around real needs.
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