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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
 
  
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===FY 2009 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN)===
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Grant number: NNG09Z13001
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==New Opportunities==
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Due Date for Applications: Sep 25, 2009
  
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Expected Total Number of Awards:  12
  
===Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics – NSF 09-525===
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Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
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Award Ceiling:  $1,500,000
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Award Floor:  $750,000
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URL:
  
Due Date for Applications: Apr 02, 2009    Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 02, 2009 January 20, 2010 Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter
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Overview:  
 
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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
 
 
 
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.
 
  
 
Contacts:  
 
Contacts:  
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
 
 
Sankar Basu, Program Director, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, CCF Division, 1115N, telephone: (703) 292-7843, email: sabasu@nsf.gov
 
 
Ephraim Glinert, Program Director, Directorate for Computer &
 
Information Science & Engineering, IIS Division, 1125 N, telephone:
 
(703) 292-8930, email: eglinert@nsf.gov
 
 
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 &
 
Information Science & Engineering, IIS Division, 1125 N, telephone:
 
(703) 292-8930, email: mzemanko@nsf.gov
 
 
 
 
===Biological Oceanography  NSF PD-98-1650===
 
 
Due Date for Applications: Feb 15, 2009      Full Proposal Target Date : February 15, 2009 February 15, Annually Thereafter Full Proposal Target Date : August 15, 2009 August 15, Annually Thereafter
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: unknown
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
 
Award Ceiling: unknown
 
Award Floor: unknown 
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11696
 
 
Overview: The Biological Oceanography Program supports research in marine ecology broadly defined: relationships among aquatic organisms and their interactions with the environments of the oceans or Great Lakes. Projects submitted to the program for consideration are often interdisciplinary efforts that may include participation by other OCE Programs.
 
  
Contacts: David  L. Garrison  dgarriso@nsf.gov  (703) 292-8582 
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Dr. Antoinette C. Wells National Project Manager
Cynthia  Suchman csuchman@nsf.gov (703) 292-8143 
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Ajit  Subramaniam asubrama@nsf.gov (703) 292-7592 
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Mail Code 130.3
Gayle  Pugh gpugh@nsf.gov (703) 292-8582 
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Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
Pamela  Shaw pshaw@nsf.gov (703) 292-7598 
 
  
  
===Marine Geology and Geophysics NSF PD-98-1620===
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===Discovery Research K-12===
 
 
Due Date for Applications: feb 15, 2009      Full Proposal Target Date : February 15, 2009 February 15, Annually Thereafter Full Proposal Target Date : August 15, 2009 August 15, Annually Thereafter
 
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: unknown
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
 
Award Ceiling: unknown
 
Award Floor:unknown
 
 
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11726
 
 
 
 
 
Overview: The Marine Geology and Geophysics program supports research on all aspects of geology and geophysics of the ocean basins and margins, as well as the Great Lakes.The Program includes: * Structure, tectonic evolution and volcanic activity of the ocean basins, the continental margins, the mid-ocean ridges, and island arc systems * Processes controlling exchange of heat and chemical species between seawater and ocean rocks * Genesis, chemistry, and mineralogic evolution of marine sediments * Processes controlling deposition, erosion and transport of marine sediments * Past ocean circulation patterns and climates and * Interactions of continental and marine geologic processes
 
 
 
Contacts: Bilal  U. Haq  bhaq@nsf.gov  (703) 292-8581 
 
Barbara  Ransom bransom@nsf.gov (703) 292-8581
 
Richard  Carlson rcarlson@nsf.gov (703) 292-8581 
 
Candace  O. Major cmajor@nsf.gov (703) 292-8580 
 
Michael  Welin mwelin@nsf.gov (703) 292-8296 
 
  
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Grant number: 09-602
 
 
  
===Ocean Drilling Progam NSF PD-05-5720===
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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
 
 
Due Date for Applications: Feb 15, 2009     Target dates: August 15 and February 15, annually
 
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: unknown
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
 
Award Ceiling: unknown
 
Award Floor: unknown
 
  
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13524
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Expected Total Number of Awards: 70
  
 
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Estimated Total Program Funding: $55,000,000  
Overview: United States Science SupportSupport for participation and drilling-related research performed by United States scientists is provided by NSF. This support focuses on the following: * Investigations of potential drilling regions, especially by means of regional geological and geophysical field studies. * The feasibility and initial development of downhole instruments and techniques. * Downhole geophysical and geochemical experiments. * Support for research proposals to meet the scientific objectives of specific drilling expeditions. Grants resulting from these Expedition Objective Research (EOR) proposals will be for significant support to address the research objectives of the drilling expedition and are intended to begin in the period between the co-chief approval of the expedition sampling plan and the end of the sample moratorium period. NSF ODP encourages potential submitters to submit EOR proposals in time for the existing OCE target dates of February 15 and August 15. For questions and/or additional information, please contact either Carolyn Ruppel or Rodey Batiza - 703-292-8581. In addition, NSF will consider proposals for studies leading to long-range definition of future drilling objectives.To be considered for support, proposed projects should be clearly relevant to the drilling plans of the international drilling community and focus on predrilling or drilling concurrent activities. Post-cruise studies should generally be submitted through other appropriate NSF programs such as Marine Geology and Geophysics, Earth Sciences, Polar Programs, etc.Additional support for United States scientists may be obtained via the JOI U.S. Science Support Program. This NSF-sponsored program consists of the following elements: * Planning activities, such as workshops, to define concepts and develop problem-related drilling programs, including United States participation in IODP Scientific Advisory Structure * Support for United States scientists participating on drilling expeditions and for necessary follow-up studies needed by all or most other participating scientists * Site surveys and data syntheses to develop the context for drilling * Educational programs * Development of instrumentation for downhole experimentation * Dissemination of ODP results * Support for a U.S. Science Advisory Committee (USSAC) to interact with the the U.S. scientific community and the NSF
 
 
 
Contacts: Deborah  Smith  dksmith@nsf.gov  (703) 292-7478 
 
James  F. Allan  jallan@nsf.gov (703) 292-8581 
 
John  F. Walter jwalter@nsf.gov (703) 292-8584 
 
Kevin  Mandernack kmandern@nsf.gov (703) 292-7575 
 
Michelle  Arsenault aarsenau@nsf.gov (703) 292-8581
 
 
 
 
 
===Physical Oceanography NSF PD-98-1610===
 
 
 
Due Date for Applications: Feb 15, 2009    Target dates: August 15 and February 15, annually
 
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: unknown
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
 
Award Ceiling: unknown
 
Award Floor: unknown
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12729
 
 
 
 
 
Overview: The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth and ice that surround it.
 
 
 
Contacts: Eric  C. Itsweire  eitsweir@nsf.gov  (703) 292-8582   
 
Quanan  Zheng qzheng@nsf.gov (703) 292-7583 
 
Baris  M. Uz bmuz@nsf.gov (703) 292-4557 
 
Cheryl  Fossani cfossani@nsf.gov (703) 292-8811
 
 
 
 
 
===Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination NSF PD-98-1680===
 
 
 
Due Date for Applications: Feb 15, 2009    Target dates: August 15 and February 15, annually
 
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: unknown
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
 
Award Ceiling: unknown
 
Award Floor: unknown
 
 
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12724
 
 
 
 
 
Overview: The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community. Specific announcements for funding opportunities are made for additional projects involving Coastal Ocean Processes, FSML: Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories and the National Ocean Partnership Program.
 
 
 
Contacts: Kandace  S. Binkley  kbinkley@nsf.gov  (703) 292-7577
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program (STCI) NSF PD-06-7231===
 
 
 
Due Date for Applications: Feb 12, 2009      Full Proposal Target Date: February 12, 2009 Full Proposal Target Date: August 13, 2009
 
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: unknown
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: unknown
 
Award Ceiling: unknown
 
Award Floor: unknown
 
 
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500066
 
 
 
 
 
Overview: The primary purpose of the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program (STCI) is to support work leading to the development and/or demonstration of innovative cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research and education that fill gaps left by more targeted funding opportunities. In addition, it will consider highly innovative cyberinfrastructure education, outreach and training proposals that lie outside the scope of targeted solicitations.The National Science Foundation provides a number of targeted funding opportunities for the development of cyberinfrastructure, for the provision of cyberinfrastructure services, and for related education, outreach and training. However, cyberinfrastructure technology and training are broad continua. It is anticipated that, at any given time, there will be ideas that do not map neatly onto the extant portfolio of cyberinfrastructure solicitations yet have a high potential impact on research and education. Accordingly, the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure program will accept proposals for cyberinfrastructure development, demonstration, education, outreach and training activities that are not aligned with the specific goals of other existing cyberinfrastructure funding opportunities and which have the potential to transform multiple areas of research or education.Projects appropriate for this program should: * Be activities that include a demonstration of the potential impact on science or engineering research or education; * Generate outcomes not currently under development elsewhere; * Meet a clearly described cyberinfrastructure need not met elsewhere; * Generate outcomes that will be of interest to a range of science and engineering communities.Investigators interested in submitting proposals with large budgets (roughly $500,000 per year or larger) are encouraged to develop strong support from within the science and engineering community prior to submitting a proposal and to document this support within the proposal; for example, in the form of references to workshop reports, reports from the National Academies of Science or Engineering, or other reports based on broad community input, on the topic proposed.Proposals should include a clear and compelling description of why the proposed work has the potential to significantly advance research or education capabilities in multiple areas of science and engineering. Proposals should also provide a convincing explanation of why the project is not suitable for other NSF programs or solicitations.Before developing a proposal intended for this Program, investigators are encouraged to discuss their ideas with program officers associated with the Program to check that there is no targeted solicitation in development for which the project would be a better fit.Proposals for workshops, symposia and Small Grants for Exploratory Research clearly related to the scope of the Program described above, may be submitted. For general information about how to submit such proposals, please see the Grant Proposal Guide.
 
 
 
Contacts:
 
Abani  Patra  apatra@nsf.gov  (703) 292-8970 
 
Lucy  Nowell lnowell@nsf.gov (703) 292-8970 
 
Jennifer  Schopf jschopf@nsf.gov (703) 292-4770 
 
Steve  Meacham smeacham@nsf.gov (703) 292-8970
 
 
 
===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
 
 
 
 
 
ROSES 2009 is now out, the complete opportunity will be available on Feb. 13, 2009. The URL is [http://nspires.nasaprs.com/] Description follows:
 
 
 
===RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES (ROSES) 2009===
 
 
 
NNH09ZDA001N, entitled "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth
 
Sciences - 2009 (ROSES-2009)," will be available on or about February
 
13, 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
 
research and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but
 
not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data;
 
aircraft, stratospheric balloon, and suborbital rocket
 
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
 
continue through April 30, 2010. Electronically submitted Notices of
 
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
 
from the individual Program Officers listed in the Summary of Key
 
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.
 
 
 
===Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG)===
 
NSF- 08-605
 
 
 
Due Date for Applications:  May 01, 2009    Letter of Intent (required) November 11, 2008 OEDG Track 1 and Track 2 Proposals Full Proposals: December 11, 2008 OEDG Track 1 and Track 2 Proposals May 01, 2009 OEDG Planning Grant Proposals Only November 03, 2009 OEDG Planning Grant Proposals Only
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: 42
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: $9,200,000
 
 
Award Ceiling:  unknown
 
Award Ceiling:  unknown
 
Award Floor:  unknown
 
Award Floor:  unknown
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08605
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URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09602
  
Overview: The Directorate for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation supports research and education in the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences. The Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) Program is designed to address the fact that certain groups are underrepresented in the geosciences relative to the proportions of those groups in the general population. The primary goal of the OEDG Program is to increase participation in the geosciences by African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans (American Indians and Alaskan Natives), Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesians or Micronesians), and persons with disabilities. A secondary goal of the program is to increase the perceived relevance of the geosciences among broad and diverse segments of the population. The OEDG Program supports activities that will increase the number of members of underrepresented groups who: Are involved in formal pre-college geoscience education programs; Pursue bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees in the geosciences; Enter geoscience careers; and Participate in informal geoscience education programs.The OEDG Program offers three funding Tracks: OEDG Planning Grants; Track 1: Proof-of-Concept Projects; and Track 2: Full-Scale Projects.OEDG Planning Grants - This new Track supports planning workshops, conferences, symposia and related short-term activities that facilitate either: 1) development of new strategic plans to implement systemic, community-wide programs to broaden participation in the geosciences; or, 2) development of new partnerships or collaborations between multiple institutions seeking to establish sustainable projects that address the goals of the OEDG program.Track 1: Proof-of-Concept Projects - This Track supports short-term activities. Track 1 projects include activities that will occur only one time, as well as those that are intended as the testing phase of an anticipated long-term Full-Scale Project.Track 2: Full-Scale Projects - This Track supports longer-term activities that will identify and promote pathways to geoscience careers among members of underrepresented groups. It is expected that Track 2 proposals will establish programs that are sustainable without additional OEDG funding. Prior Track 1 OEDG funding is not a pre-requisite for submitting a Track 2 proposal.
 
  
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Overview:
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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:  
 
Contacts:  
* Jill L. Karsten, Program Director for Education and Diversity, 705 N,(703) 292-7718 , fax: (703) 292-9042, email: jkarsten@nsf.gov
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Inquiries can  be made to either, telephone: (703)292-8620, email:
* Nicole D. LaDue,  (703) 292-5314 , email: nladue@nsf.gov
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===TeraGrid Phase III: eXtreme Digital Resources for Science and Engineering===
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===FY 2010 National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program===
NSF- 08-571
 
  
Due Date for Applications: Jun 15, 2009    Preliminary Proposals (req) November 04, 2008: Integrating Services Full Proposals November 04, 2008: High-Performance Remote Visualization and Data Analysis Services June 15, 2009: Integrating Services
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Grant number: EPA-OEI-10-01
Expected Total Number of Awards: 6
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Estimated Total Program Funding: $32,000,000
 
Award Ceiling:  $12,000,000
 
Award Floor:  $2,000,000
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08571
 
 
 
Overview: In many areas of research, a key to making advances is the ability of scientists and engineers to manipulate extremely large quantities of information. Examples include: numerical simulation and modeling; the analysis of very large datasets, whether generated by new generations of scientific instrumentation or by numerical models; and the mining of a wide range of collections of digital artifacts. At the largest scales, the resources needed to work with huge volumes of digital information are expensive and scarce. In recent years, the research community, with support from NSF, has developed the TeraGrid as a way of providing wide access to these scarce, expensive resources. The need for such widely shared, national resources continues to grow and as the currently funded phase of TeraGrid operations approaches its close, NSF is inviting innovative proposals for a new infrastructure to deliver the next generation of high-end digital services, as national resources, that will provide researchers and educators with the capability to work with extremely large amounts of digitally represented information.
 
 
 
Contacts: 
 
Stephen Meacham      (703) 292-8970 , email: smeacham@nsf.gov
 
Abani Patra    (703) 292-8970 , email: apatra@nsf.gov
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===Petascale Computing Resource Allocations===
 
NSF - 08-529
 
  
Due Date for Applications: Mar 17, 2009    Full Proposal Deadline(s): March 31, 2008 March 17, 2009 March 17, Annually Thereafter
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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: 12
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
 
Award Ceiling:  unknown
 
Award Floor:  $40,000
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08529
 
  
Overview: In 2011, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, will go online at the University of Illinois. The goal of this facility is to open up new possibilities in science and engineering by providing computational capability that makes it possible for investigators to tackle much larger and more complex research challenges across a wide spectrum of domains. The purpose of this solicitation is to invite research groups that have a compelling science or engineering challenge that will require petascale computing resources to submit requests for allocations of resources on the Blue Waters system. Proposers must be prepared to demonstrate that they have a science or engineering research problem that requires and can effectively exploit the petascale computing capabilities offered by Blue Waters. Proposals from or including junior researchers are encouraged as one of the goals of this solicitation is to build a community capable of using petascale computing.
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Expected Total Number of Awards: 50
  
Contacts:  
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Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000 
Stephen Meacham, (703) 292-8970 , email: smeacham@nsf.gov
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Award Ceiling: $200,000
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Award Floor: 
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URL: http://epa.gov/exchangenetwork/grants/FY%202010%20SolicitationNotice%20-%20FINAL%2007282009.pdf
  
 
===Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners===
 
NSF 07-601
 
 
 
Due Date for Applications: May 15, 2009    NOTE: Deadline dates for preliminary and full proposals have been changed to: Preliminary Proposals due November 13, 2008 and Full Proposals due May 15, 2009. The page limit for the project description has been increased to 20 pages
 
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: 5
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: $100,000,000
 
Award Ceiling:  unknown
 
Award Floor:  $20,000,000
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07601
 
 
Overview: Science and engineering research and education are increasingly digital and increasingly data-intensive. Digital data are not only the output of research but provide input to new hypotheses, enabling new scientific insights and driving innovation. Therein lies one of the major challenges of this scientific generation: how to develop the new methods, management structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future data sets and data streams. This solicitation addresses that challenge by creating a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique opportunities to communities of researchers to advance science and/or engineering research and learning. The new types of organizations envisioned in this solicitation will integrate library and archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer and information sciences, and domain science expertise to: provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science and/or engineering data over a decades-long timeline; continuously anticipate and adapt to changes in technologies and in user needs and expectations; engage at the frontiers of computer and information science and cyberinfrastructure with research and development to drive the leading edge forward; and serve as component elements of an interoperable data preservation and access network.By demonstrating feasibility, identifying best practices, establishing viable models for long term technical and economic sustainability, and incorporating frontier research, these exemplar organizations can serve as the basis for rational investment in digital preservation and access by diverse sectors of society at the local, regional, national, and international levels, paving the way for a robust and resilient national and global digital data framework.These organizations will provide: a vision and rationale that meet critical data needs, create important new opportunities and capabilities for discovery, innovation, and learning, improve the way science and engineering research and education are conducted, and guide the organization in achieving long-term sustainability; an organizational structure that provides for a comprehensive range of expertise and cyberinfrastructure capabilities, ensures active participation and effective use by a wide diversity of individuals, organizations, and sectors, serves as a capable partner in an interoperable network of digital preservation and access organizations, and ensures effective management and leadership; and activities to provide for the full data management life cycle, facilitate research as resource and object, engage in computer science and information science research critical to DataNet functions, develop new tools and capabilities for learning that integrate research and education at all levels, provide for active community input and participation in all phases and all aspects of Partner activities, and include a vigorous and comprehensive assessment and evaluation program. Potential applicants should note that this program is not intended to support narrowly-defined, discipline-specific repositories.
 
 
Contacts:
 
Lucy Nowell,  (703) 292-8970 , email: lnowell@nsf.gov
 
Sylvia Spengler,    (703) 292-8930 , email: sspengle@nsf.gov
 
 
 
===MARGINS Program NSF - 07546===
 
 
Due Date for Applications: Jul 01, 2009    Full Proposal Deadline(s): July 01, 2007 July 1, Annually Thereafter
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: 10
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000
 
Award Ceiling:  unknown
 
Award Floor:  $500,000
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07546
 
 
Overview: The MARGINS program was initiated by the scientific community and the National Science Foundation and has been designed to elevate our present largely descriptive and qualitative knowledge of continental margins to a level where theory, modeling and simulation, together with field observation and experiment, can yield a clearer understanding of the processes that control margin genesis and evolution. Although continental margins have been traditionally assigned to three distinct tectonic settings, i.e., convergent, divergent and translational, the approach used by the MARGINS program recognizes that a range of fundamental physical and chemical processes that form and deform the surface of the Earth operate at all margins. Tectonic setting may govern the specific expression of a particular process that may vary in different environments. However, a relatively small number of processes, i.e., lithospheric deformation, magmatism, other mass/energy fluxes, sedimentation, and fluid flow, are fundamental to the evolution of the margins. Study of these basic processes, wherever they are best expressed, provides a more logical line of inquiry for understanding the complex nature of continental margins.This process-oriented approach to understanding the entire system of margin evolution requires broadly based interdisciplinary studies and a new class of major experiments. The MARGINS science plan, developed from a series of well attended workshops over the past decade, advocates concentration on several study areas (focus sites) targeted for intensive, multidisciplinary programs of research in which interaction between field experimentalists, numerical modelers and laboratory analysts would occur. MARGINS fosters the involvement of a broad cross-section of investigators in focused, multidisciplinary experiments at these focus sites, to achieve the objectives that could not be accomplished otherwise. Thus the MARGINS Program concentrates on four scientific initiatives at these focus sites - this list will be periodically reviewed and modified.Rupturing Continental Lithosphere Experiment (RCL) ?? Gulf of California and Red Sea focus sitesSubduction Factory Experiment (SubFac) ?? Izu-Bonin-Marianas and Nicaragua-Costa Rica focus sitesSeismogenic Zone Experiment (SEIZE) ?? Nankai and Nicaragua-Costa Rica focus sitesSource-to-Sink Experiment (S2S) ?? Fly River/Gulf of Papua New Guinea and Waipaoa River New Zealand focus sitesInformation and a science plan for the program detailing each initiative can be found on the MARGINS website at http://www.margins.wustl.edu/Home.html. The expected level of funding will be approximately $6.0 million per year for the foreseeable future.
 
 
Contacts:
 
Brian Midson, Assistant Program Director, 725 N, telephone:            (703) 292-8580 , fax: (703) 292-9085, email: bmidson@nsf.gov
 
Rodey Batiza, Program Director, Ocean Drilling, 725 N, (703) 292-8581 , fax: (703) 292-9085, email: rbatiza@nsf.gov
 
William Leeman, Program Director, Tectonics, 785 S,  (703) 292-7411 , fax: (703) 292-9025, email: wleeman@nsf.gov
 
 
 
===Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR)===
 
NSF - 06-561
 
 
Due Date for Applications: May 10, 2009    Subsequent Due Dates: May 10, 2007 and May 10, annually thereafter
 
Expected Total Number of Awards: 10
 
Estimated Total Program Funding: : $1,000,000
 
Award Ceiling:  $150,000
 
Award Floor:  unknown
 
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06561
 
  
 
Overview:  
 
Overview:  
CEDAR is a broad-based, community-initiated, upper atmospheric research program. The goal is to understand the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. These processes are related to the sources of perturbations that propagate upward from the lower atmosphere as well as to solar radiation and particle inputs from above. The activities within this program combine observations, theory and modeling.
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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:  
 
Contacts:  
Robert Kerr, Program Director, Directorate for Geosciences, fax: (703)
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Edward Mixon, (202) 566-2142. Edward Mixon
292-9023, email: rkerr@nsf.gov
 
 
 
Robert M. Robinson, Program Manager, Directorate for Geosciences,
 
775 S, fax: (703) 292-9022, email: rmrobins@nsf.gov
 
 
 
Shaun Young, Program Assistant, Directorate for Geosciences, Division
 
of Atmospheric Sciences, 775 S, (703) 292-8521 , fax: (703)292-9022, email: slyoung@nsf.gov
 

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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