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  Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities are programs that are supported by the National Science Foundation and are available to support research efforts. They can be viewed by Program Area or Alphabetically.

  Proposal Information

Proposals may be submitted at any time during the year for all programs except those involving the allocation of observational and computing facilities which has established target dates. For science projects that plan to use lower atmospheric observing facilities and/or large amounts of computing resources (100 General Accounting Units or greater), a facilities request is also required. Proposals should be submitted to the appropriate NSF program and should follow the guidelines printed in the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG), and facility requests should be sent to the manager of the facility or facilities. Procedures for requesting a facility are established by the providing institution.

Facility Support – It is important for institutions submitting a request for facility support to seek advice from the Lower Atmospheric Facilities manager (jhuning@nsf.gov) at NSF. Contact the Division Director for the Scientific Computing Division at NCAR for questions on computing proposals.

  Target Dates and Deadlines

Science proposals related to facilities and/or computer use must be received no later than December 15 and June 15. For other deadline dates, please see the specific program.

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