The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) is accepting proposals for 2016 SCOR Working Groups from now until 17 April 2016. SCOR will approve new working groups at its annual meeting, this year held in Sopot, Poland on 5-7 September 2016.
Attached please find the 
The guidelines, a template, and word limits, are available at:
http://www.scor-int.org/WG_Proposal_Instructions.docx
The number of proposals funded each year depends on both the results of the proposal review process and the availability of funding. In recent years, 1-3 proposals have been funded in any given year. SCOR is an organization that promotes science that comes from the “bottom up” from the ocean science community and working groups are an important vehicle to bring attention to the important ocean science issues identified by the global community of ocean scientists.