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FY 2009 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN)

Grant number: NNG09Z13001

Due Date for Applications: Sep 25, 2009

Expected Total Number of Awards: 12

Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown Award Ceiling: $1,500,000 Award Floor: $750,000 URL:

Overview: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Education is accepting proposals in response to the NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN): K-12 Competitive Agreement Notice". The K-12 CAN is an opportunity for U.S. public secondary schools, school districts, state-level educational leadership, and educational not-for profit organizations to leverage NASA’s content with their expertise in providing or enabling secondary education instruction. The priority for NASA Education under this CAN is to target secondary education with a particular emphasis on the high school level. Each funded proposal is expected to take advantage of NASA’S unique science and exploration missions and contributions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas. The K12(CAN) activity may make awards in the following categories: • Experiences and activities that support high school level instruction/learning in STEM; • Experiences and activities that support middle school or undergraduate level instruction/learning if linked to high school programming; • e-Education, education technology, or electronic dissemination of content; and, • Professional development for in-service related to NASA content and targeting secondary education. Develop and implement programs introducing high school students to careers in engineering related to NASA Human Space Flight. Background Information The desired outcomes and implementation objectives of the NASA K-12(CAN) activity are driven by the NASA’s Education Framework, which governs all Agency education programs (http://education.nasa.gov/about/strategy/index.html). This framework describes a progression of educational experiences from informal through elementary and secondary education, to undergraduate, graduate, and even post-graduate education. Additional information about the NASA Education Framework can be found in Appendix D. Notices of Intent are required and due by August 24, 2009. Full proposals are due September 25, 2009. Interested parties may also connect to a pre-proposal teleconference on September 10, 2009 from 1:00 pm EDT to 3:00 pm EDT, for further information. To dial into the teleconference, call .1-800-369-1141. The participant passcode is 28061. (See the full CAN, Appendix E.3, for further details.) For more information regarding this opportunity, please visit the page on the NSPIRES website. Go to http://www.nspires.nasaprs.com and click on Solicitations and then on Open Solicitations. If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact the NSPIRES Help Desk, at nspires-help@nasaprs.com or call 202-479-9376 between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time

Contacts:

Dr. Antoinette C. Wells National Project Manager NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mail Code 130.3 Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

Discovery Research K-12

Grant number: 09-602

Due Date for Applications: Jan 07, 2010 Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (optional): October 05, 2009 (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time) Full Proposal Deadline(s): January 07, 2010

Expected Total Number of Awards: 70

Estimated Total Program Funding: $55,000,000 Award Ceiling: unknown Award Floor: unknown URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09602

Overview: The Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program seeks to enable significant advances in preK-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through development, study, and implementation of resources, models, and technologies for use by students, teachers, and policymakers. Projects funded under this solicitation begin with a research question or a hypothesis about how to improve preK-12 STEM learning and teaching. Projects create or adapt and study innovative resources, models, or technologies and determine how and why implementation affects STEM learning.DR K-12 invites proposals that meet a variety of educational needs, from those that address immediate and pressing challenges facing preK-12 STEM education to those that anticipate opportunities for the future. DR K-12 especially encourages proposals that challenge existing assumptions about learning and teaching within or across STEM fields, envision needs of learners in 10-15 years, and consider new and innovative ways to educate students and teachers. Project goals, designs, and working strategies should be informed by prior research and practical experience drawn from all relevant disciplines, while focusing on concepts and skills that are central to STEM education. The DR K-12 program is primarily concerned with improving education of students and teachers in formal settings. As appropriate, the program encourages projects also to draw from knowledge and practice of learning in informal settings. While many projects supported under this solicitation will focus on exploratory development and testing of innovative ideas for some specific facet of STEM education, all proposals must explain how the work can lead ultimately to successful adoption of findings or products in the K-12 enterprise on a national scale.The DR K-12 program accepts proposals for exploratory projects, full research and development projects, and synthesis projects, as well as for conferences and workshops related to the mission of the program. Contacts: Inquiries can be made to either, telephone: (703)292-8620, email:

    DRLDRK12@nsf.gov

FY 2010 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program

Grant number: EPA-OEI-10-01

Due Date for Applications: Nov 20, 2009 Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates

Expected Total Number of Awards: 50

Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000 Award Ceiling: $200,000 Award Floor: URL: http://epa.gov/exchangenetwork/grants/FY%202010%20SolicitationNotice%20-%20FINAL%2007282009.pdf

Overview: Some awards may involve or relate to geospatial information. EPA, states, territories, and tribes are working together to develop the National Environmental Information Exchange Network, a secure, Internet- and standards-based way to support electronic data reporting, sharing, and integration of both regulatory and non-regulatory environmental data. States, tribes and territories exchanging data with each other or with EPA, should make the Exchange Network and the Agency's connection to it, the Central Data Exchange (CDX), the standard way they exchange data and should phase out any legacy methods they have been using. More information on the Exchange Network is available at www.exchangenetwork.net.

Contacts: Edward Mixon, (202) 566-2142. Edward Mixon

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-In order to keep the ESIP membership up to date on grant solicitations of interest, I will be posting new opportunities that appear.  If any new opportunities arise which I may have missed, please feel free to forward them to me at brian.rogan@earth science foundation.org
+===FY 2009 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN)===
+Grant number: NNG09Z13001
-Latest additions:
+Due Date for Applications: Sep 25, 2009
+Expected Total Number of Awards:  12
-===Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics – NSF 09-525===
+Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
+Award Ceiling:  $1,500,000
+Award Floor:  $750,000
+URL:
-Due Date for Applications: Apr 02, 2009    Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 02, 2009 January 20, 2010 Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter
+Overview:
+The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Education is accepting proposals in response to the NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN): K-12 Competitive Agreement Notice". The K-12 CAN is an opportunity for U.S. public secondary schools, school districts, state-level educational leadership, and educational not-for profit organizations to leverage NASA’s content with their expertise in providing or enabling secondary education instruction. The priority for NASA Education under this CAN is to target secondary education with a particular emphasis on the high school level. Each funded proposal is expected to take advantage of NASA’S unique science and exploration missions and contributions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas. The K12(CAN) activity may make awards in the following categories: • Experiences and activities that support high school level instruction/learning in STEM; • Experiences and activities that support middle school or undergraduate level instruction/learning if linked to high school programming; • e-Education, education technology, or electronic dissemination of content; and, • Professional development for in-service related to NASA content and targeting secondary education. Develop and implement programs introducing high school students to careers in engineering related to NASA Human Space Flight. Background Information The desired outcomes and implementation objectives of the NASA K-12(CAN) activity are driven by the NASA’s Education Framework, which governs all Agency education programs (http://education.nasa.gov/about/strategy/index.html). This framework describes a progression of educational experiences from informal through elementary and secondary education, to undergraduate, graduate, and even post-graduate education. Additional information about the NASA Education Framework can be found in Appendix D. Notices of Intent are required and due by August 24, 2009. Full proposals are due September 25, 2009. Interested parties may also connect to a pre-proposal teleconference on September 10, 2009 from 1:00 pm EDT to 3:00 pm EDT, for further information. To dial into the teleconference, call .1-800-369-1141. The participant passcode is 28061. (See the full CAN, Appendix E.3, for further details.) For more information regarding this opportunity, please visit the page on the NSPIRES website. Go to http://www.nspires.nasaprs.com and click on Solicitations and then on Open Solicitations. If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact the NSPIRES Help Desk, at nspires-help@nasaprs.com or call 202-479-9376 between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time
-Expected Total Number of Awards:  5
+Contacts:
+Dr. Antoinette C. Wells National Project Manager
+NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
+Mail Code 130.3
+Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
-Estimated Total Program Funding: 	 $1,725,000
-Award Ceiling:  $500,000
-Award Floor:  $300,000
-URL:http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09525
-Overview: Individuals working in areas as diverse as science, engineering, finance, medicine, and national security all face the challenge of synthesizing information and deriving insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous and possibly conflicting digital data. The goal of collecting and examining these data sets is not to merely acquire information, but to derive increased understanding from them and to facilitate effective decision-making. To capitalize on the opportunities provided by these data sets, research in Data and Visual Analytics seeks to facilitate analytical reasoning through the use of interactive visual interfaces. To be successful, this research must extend beyond traditional scientific and information visualization to include statistics, mathematics, knowledge representation, management and discovery technologies, cognitive and perceptual sciences, decision sciences, and more.With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) invite research proposals whose outcomes will enable data stakeholders to detect the expected and discover the unexpected in massive data sets. Research outcomes will be applicable across broad application areas, establishing a solid scientific foundation for visual analytics systems of the future.Proposals should focus on creating fundamental research advances that will be widely applicable across scientific, engineering, commercial, and governmental domains that utilize visualization and analytics to gain insight and derive knowledge from massive, often streaming, dynamic, ambiguous and possibly conflicting, data sets. Research activities proposed should emphasize novel data transformations, while also demonstrating research relevance to visual analytics systems by including a research component in areas such as, but not limited to, visualization, human-computer interaction, and cognitive psychology.
+===Discovery Research K-12===
-Contacts:
+Grant number: 09-602
-Lawrence Rosenblum (CS Contact), Program Director, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, CCF Division, 1115 N,  telephone: (703) 292-8910, email: lrosenbl@nsf.gov
-Tie Luo (Math Contact), Program Director, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, DMS Division, 1025 N, telephone: (703)292-8448, email: tluo@nsf.gov
+Due Date for Applications: Jan 07, 2010    Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (optional): October 05, 2009 (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time) Full Proposal Deadline(s): January 07, 2010
-Sankar Basu, Program Director, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, CCF Division, 1115N, telephone: (703) 292-7843, email: sabasu@nsf.gov
+Expected Total Number of Awards: 70
-Ephraim Glinert, Program Director, Directorate for Computer &
+Estimated Total Program Funding: $55,000,000
-Information Science & Engineering, IIS Division, 1125 N, telephone:
+Award Ceiling:  unknown
-(703) 292-8930, email: eglinert@nsf.gov
+Award Floor:  unknown
+URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09602
-Leland Jameson, Program Director, Directorate for Mathematical and
-Physical Sciences, DMS Division, 1025N, telephone: (703) 292-4883, email: ljameson@nsf.gov
-Maria Zemankova, Program Director, Directorate for Computer &
+Overview:
-Information Science & Engineering, IIS Division, 1125 N, telephone:
+The Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program seeks to enable significant advances in preK-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through development, study, and implementation of resources, models, and technologies for use by students, teachers, and policymakers. Projects funded under this solicitation begin with a research question or a hypothesis about how to improve preK-12 STEM learning and teaching. Projects create or adapt and study innovative resources, models, or technologies and determine how and why implementation affects STEM learning.DR K-12 invites proposals that meet a variety of educational needs, from those that address immediate and pressing challenges facing preK-12 STEM education to those that anticipate opportunities for the future. DR K-12 especially encourages proposals that challenge existing assumptions about learning and teaching within or across STEM fields, envision needs of learners in 10-15 years, and consider new and innovative ways to educate students and teachers. Project goals, designs, and working strategies should be informed by prior research and practical experience drawn from all relevant disciplines, while focusing on concepts and skills that are central to STEM education. The DR K-12 program is primarily concerned with improving education of students and teachers in formal settings. As appropriate, the program encourages projects also to draw from knowledge and practice of learning in informal settings. While many projects supported under this solicitation will focus on exploratory development and testing of innovative ideas for some specific facet of STEM education, all proposals must explain how the work can lead ultimately to successful adoption of findings or products in the K-12 enterprise on a national scale.The DR K-12 program accepts proposals for exploratory projects, full research and development projects, and synthesis projects, as well as for conferences and workshops related to the mission of the program.
-(703) 292-8930, email: mzemanko@nsf.gov
+Contacts:
+Inquiries can   be made to either, telephone: (703)292-8620, email:
+     DRLDRK12@nsf.gov
-===RIDGE 2000 – NSF  09-527 UPDATED===
-Due Date for Applications:  Apr 07, 2009    Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 07, 2009 April 7, Annually Thereafter active from 2009 to 2012
-Expected Total Number of Awards:  20
-Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,300,000
-Award Ceiling: 	 $1,000,000
-Award Floor:  $100,000
-URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09527
-Overview: Ridge 2000 is a science initiative focused on integrated geological, biological, and geochemical studies of the Earth-encircling mid-ocean ridge system. Central to the Ridge 2000 program is the recognition that the origin and evolution of life in deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems are inextricably linked to, and perhaps an inevitable consequence of, the flow of energy and material from Earth's deep mantle to the seafloor and ocean via magmatic and hydrothermal systems. To sharpen our knowledge of mid-ocean ridge systems, the first phase of the Ridge 2000 program involved integrated field, laboratory, and modeling studies of three representative, but geographically limited study sites. Research activities spanned a broad range of disciplines: from geophysics to geochemistry and from geology to biology to hydrothermal vent fluid dynamics.With this solicitation, Ridge 2000 moves into its integration and synthesis phase where results from previous and on-going interdisciplinary field expeditions and laboratory studies are to be brought to bear on advancing our conceptual and quantitative understanding of mid-ocean ridge systems and the processes that link geological, geophysical, geochemical, hydrothermal, and biological processes. As such, the program now shifts its focus from field data acquisition to integration and synthesis to help the program achieve its science goals.
-Contacts:
-David Garrison, telephone: (703) 292-7588, email: dgarrison@nsf.gov
-Richard Carlson, telephone: (703) 292-7978, email: rcarlson@nsf.gov
-Barbara Ransom, telephone: (703) 292-7792, email: bransom@nsf.gov
+===FY 2010 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program===
-ROSES 2009 is now out, the complete opportunity will be available on Feb. 13, 2009. The URL is [http://nspires.nasaprs.com/]  Description follows:
+Grant number: EPA-OEI-10-01
-RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES (ROSES) 2009
+Due Date for Applications: Nov 20, 2009    Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates
-NNH09ZDA001N, entitled "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth
+Expected Total Number of Awards:  50
-Sciences - 2009 (ROSES-2009)," will be available on or about February
-, 2009, by opening the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at
-http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and then linking through the menu
-listings "Solicitations" to "Open Solicitations." This NASA Research
-Announcement (NRA) solicits proposals for supporting basic and
-applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and
-space science program elements relevant to one or more of the
-following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics,
-Planetary Science, and Astrophysics.
-This ROSES NRA covers all aspects of basic and applied supporting
+Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000
-research and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but
+Award Ceiling:  $200,000
-not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data;
+Award Floor:
-aircraft, stratospheric balloon, and suborbital rocket
+URL: http://epa.gov/exchangenetwork/grants/FY%202010%20SolicitationNotice%20-%20FINAL%2007282009.pdf
-investigations; development of experiment techniques suitable for
-future SMD space missions; development of concepts for future SMD
-space missions; development of advanced technologies relevant to SMD
-missions; development of techniques for and the laboratory analysis
-of both extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, as well as
-terrestrial samples that support or otherwise help verify
-observations from SMD Earth system science missions; determination of
-atomic and composition parameters needed to analyze space data, as
-well as returned samples from the Earth or space; Earth surface
-observations and field campaigns that support SMD science missions;
-development of integrated Earth system models; development of systems
-for applying Earth science research data to societal needs; and
-development of applied information systems applicable to SMD
-objectives and data.
-Awards range from under $100K per year for focused, limited efforts
-(e.g., data analysis) to more than $1M per year for extensive
-activities (e.g., development of science experiment hardware). The
-funds available for awards in each program element offered in this
-NRA range from less than one to several million dollars, which allow
-selection from a few to as many as several dozen proposals depending
-on the program objectives and the submission of proposals of merit.
-Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and
-inter- or intra-agency transfers depending on the nature of the
-proposing organization and/or program requirements. The typical
-period of performance for an award is four years, although a few
-programs may specify shorter or longer (maximum of five years)
-periods. Organizations of every type, domestic and foreign,
-Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, may submit
-proposals without restriction on number or teaming arrangements. Note
-that it is NASA policy that all investigations involving non-U.S.
-organizations will be conducted on the basis of no exchange of funds.
-Proposal due dates are scheduled starting on May 1, 2009, and
+Overview:
-continue through April 30, 2010. Electronically submitted Notices of
+Some awards may involve or relate to geospatial information. EPA, states, territories, and tribes are working together to develop the National Environmental Information Exchange Network, a secure, Internet- and standards-based way to support electronic data reporting, sharing, and integration of both regulatory and non-regulatory environmental data. States, tribes and territories exchanging data with each other or with EPA, should make the Exchange Network and the Agency's connection to it, the Central Data Exchange (CDX), the standard way they exchange data and should phase out any legacy methods they have been using. More information on the Exchange Network is available at www.exchangenetwork.net.
-Intent to propose are requested for most program elements, with the
-first such due date being March 13, 2009. Electronic submission of
-proposals is required by the respective due dates for each program
-element and must be submitted by an authorized official of the
-proposing organization. Electronic proposals may be submitted via the
-NASA proposal data system NSPIRES or via Grants.gov. Every
-organization that intends to submit a proposal in response to this
-NRA must be registered with NSPIRES; organizations that intend to
-submit proposals via Grants.gov must be registered with Grants.gov in
-addition to being registered with NSPIRES. Such registration must
-identify the authorized organizational representative(s) who will
-submit the electronic proposal. All principal investigators and other
-participants (e.g. co-investigators) must be registered in NSPIRES
-regardless of submission system. Potential proposers and proposing
-organizations are urged to access the system(s) well in advance of
-the proposal due date(s) of interest to familiarize themselves with
-its structure and enter the requested information.
-Further information about specific program elements may be obtained
+Contacts:
-from the individual Program Officers listed in the Summary of Key
+Edward Mixon, (202) 566-2142. Edward Mixon
-Information for each program element in this NRA, while questions
-concerning general NRA policies and procedures may be directed to Dr.
-Max Bernstein, Lead for Research, Science Mission Directorate, NASA
-Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546-0001; E-mail: sara@nasa.gov;
-Telephone: 202-358-0879.