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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


Latest editions:


Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics – NSF 09-525

Due Date for Applications: Apr 02, 2009 Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 02, 2009 January 20, 2010 Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter

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:

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 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