 A
Advanced Technological Education Program (ATE)
The ATE program promotes improvement in technological education at the undergraduate and secondary school levels by supporting curriculum development; the preparation and professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; internships and field experiences for faculty, teachers, and students; and
other activities.
CONTACTS:
Dr. Elizabeth J. Teles
Gerhard Salinger
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Aeronomy
The Aeronomy Program supports research on upper and middle atmosphere phenomena of ionization, recombination, chemical reaction, photoemission, and transport; the transport of energy, momentum, and mass in the mesosphere/thermosphere/ ionosphere system, including the processes involved and the coupling of this global system to the stratosphere below and magnetosphere above; and the plasma physics of phenomena manifested in the coupled ionosphere/magnetosphere system, including the effects of high-power radio wave modification.
CONTACTS:
Paul Bellaire
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Africa, Near East, and South Asia (ANESA)
The Africa, Near East, and South Asia (ANESA) Program supports research and education collaborations with scientists and engineers in all of Africa, the Near Eastern countries including Turkey, and the countries of South Asia, primarily India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
CONTACTS:
ANESA Program
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 1 and September 1, annually
Additional Information
Americas Program
The Americas Program provides competitive funding to U.S. researchers for scientific, engineering and educational cooperation with institutions and researchers in Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America. Besides cooperative research, the Program supports workshops, short-term planning visits, dissertation enhancement research and supplements that add an international component to an existing grant.
CONTACTS:
Americas Program
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Analytical and Surface Chemistry
This program supports fundamental chemical research directed toward the characterization and analysis of all forms of matter. Studies of elemental and molecular composition and of the microstructure of both bulk and surface domains are included. The program supports projects that develop the fundamentals of measurement science, new sensors and new instruments, and innovative approaches to data processing and interpretation.
CONTACTS:
Janice Hicks
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
2nd Monday in July to the 2nd Friday in January.
Additional Information
Antarctic Biology and Medicine
The Biology and Medicine Program supports research leading to an improved understanding of physiology, behavior, adaptations, and processes related to life forms and ecosystems in Antarctica.
CONTACTS:
Polly A. Penhale
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Antarctic Glaciology
The Glaciology Program supports studies of the world's largest ice sheet. Objectives are to study the history and dynamics of all naturally occurring forms of snow and ice, including floating ice shelves, glaciers, and continental and marine ice sheets.
CONTACTS:
Julie M. Palais
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Antarctic Ocean and Climate Systems
The Ocean and Climate Systems Program sponsors research intended to improve understanding of the oceanic environment at high latitudes, including global exchange of heat, salt, water, and trace elements, sea-ice dynamics, and tropospheric chemistry and dynamics.
CONTACTS:
Berhard Lettau
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Arctic Social Sciences Program
The Arctic Social Sciences Program (ASSP) encourages projects that include indigenous peoples; are circumpolar or comparative; integrate social and natural sciences; involve collaborations between researchers and those living in the Arctic; include traditional knowledge; or form connections among disciplines, regions, researchers, communities, and students, including those in grades K-12 and undergraduate and graduate programs.
CONTACTS:
Anna M. Kerttula
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
TARGET DEADLINE:
August 30 and February 15 of each year.
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Arctic System Science
The ARCSS Program is an interdisciplinary program. The goal is to (1) understand the physical, geological, chemical, biological and sociocultural processes of the arctic system that interact with the total Earth system and thus contribute to or are influenced by global change, in order to (2) advance the scientific basis for predicting environmental change on a seasonal-to-centuries time scale, and for formulating policy options in response to the anticipated impacts of global change on humans and societal support systems.
CONTACTS:
Neil Swanberg
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Assessment of Student Achievement
This program supports the development and dissemination of assessment practices, materials (tools), and measures to guide efforts that improve the effectiveness of courses, curricula, programs of study, and academic institutions in promoting student learning in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology.
CONTACTS:
Calvin L. Williams
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
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Biological Oceanography
The Biological Oceanography Program supports research in marine ecology - relationships among marine organisms and their interactions with the geochemical and physical environment.
CONTACTS:
Phillip R. Taylor
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 15 and August 15, annually
Additional Information
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Catalysis and Biocatalysis
This program supports fundamental and applied research on: (1) rates and mechanisms of important classes of catalyzed and uncatalyzed chemical reactions as they relate to the design, production, and application of catalysts, chemical processes, and specialized materials; (2) chemical phenomena occurring at or near solid surfaces and interfaces; (3) electrochemical and photochemical processes of engineering significance or with commercial potential; (4) design and optimization of complex chemical processes; (5) dynamic modeling and control of process systems and individual process units; (6) reactive processing of polymers, ceramics, and thin films; and (7) interactions between chemical reactions and transport processes in reactive systems, and the use of this information in the design of complex chemical reactors.
CONTACTS:
Glenn L. Schrader
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Center for Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry (CEBIC) at Princeton University
Cebic's research program addresses many interrelated, molecular-level questions regarding the fate and function of trace metals in aquatic systems, particularly marine systems.
CONTACTS:
Katharine Covert
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)
The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) Program makes substantial resources available to upgrade the capabilities of the most research-productive minority-serving institutions. It develops outstanding research centers through the integration of education and research.
CONTACTS:
Victor Santiago
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Central and Eastern Europe
The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Program supports balanced and mutually beneficial cooperative activities with the region in all fields normally supported by NSF.
CONTACTS:
Central and Eastern Europe Program
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Chemical Oceanography
The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within the ocean and at its interfaces with the solid earth and the atmosphere.
CONTACTS:
Donald L. Rice
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 1 and September 1
Additional Information
Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF)
The Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF) Program provides funds to research institutions and consortia thereof for the purchase of multi-user instruments,
for major instrumentation development and construction, and for the establishment and support of multi-user research facilities in the chemical sciences.
CONTACTS:
Joan M. Frye
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Chemistry Special Projects Office
Office of Special Projects supports or coordinates the support for most of the infrastructure programs and activities with which the Division of Chemistry is involved. Priority is given to projects that broaden participation of under- represented groups and effectively integrate research and education.
CONTACTS:
Robert L. Kuczkowski
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Climate Dynamics
The Climate Dynamics Program supports research on processes that govern climate and the causes of climate variability and change; methods to predict climate variations and assess their impact on human activities; assembly and analysis of both paleoclimate and modern climate data; development and use of climate models to diagnose and simulate climate and its variations.
CONTACTS:
Jay S. Fein
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Climate Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction
Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (CMAP) supports research in climate-system model development, simulation and prediction, validation, error estimation, and assessment of predictability.
CONTACTS:
Jay S. Fein
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals may be submitted anytime.
Additional Information
Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)
The Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Program supports research efforts that focuses on the variability and predictabil-ity of the slowly varying components of the climate system. The Divisions of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences support research that addresses short and longer-term climate variability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system.
CONTACTS:
Jay S. Fein
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Coastal Long-Term Ecological Research (cLTER/LMER)
Coastal areas are sites of intense human activity and rapid population growth. The general mission of the cLTER Network is to understand ecological phenomena which occur over long temporal and broad spatial scales and provide information necessary for the identification and solution of environmental problems.
CONTACTS:
Phillip R. Taylor
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Combustion and Plasma Systems
The Combustion and Plasma Systems Program supports research aimed at gaining a basic understanding at the microscopic and macroscopic levels of thermal phenomena underlying the production of energy, the synthesis and processing of materials, cooling and heating of equipment, and biological systems and the interaction of industrial processes with the environment.
CONTACTS:
Thomas Chapman
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Control, Networks, & Computational Intelligence (CNCI)
The Control, Networks & Computational Intelligence (CNCI) Program supports creative research underlying the analysis and design of intelligent engineering systems for control, communications, and computation.
CONTACTS:
Kishan Baheti
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Cultural Anthropology
The Cultural Anthropology Program promotes basic scientific research on the causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation. The Program solicits research proposals of theoretical importance in all substantive and theoretical subfields within the discipline of Cultural Anthropology.
CONTACTS:
Stuart Plattner
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 1 and August 1, annually.
Additional Information
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Decision, Risk, and Management Science (DRMS)
The Decision, Risk, and Management Science (DRMS) Program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society.
CONTACTS:
Robert O'Connor
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 15 and August 15, annually.
Additional Information
Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS)
Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS) recognizes and rewards individuals with distinguished records of educating undergraduates while also contributing significantly to the scholarship of a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
CONTACTS:
Herbert H. Levitan
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
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Earth Sciences Education and Human Resources
The Education and Human Resources Program coordinates
the Division of Earth
Sciences' efforts to improve earth science education for U.S. citizens and provides
a liaison between the earth sciences research community
and NSF's Directorate for Education and Human Resources.
CONTACTS:
Michael A. Mayhew
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Earth System History
The ESH program supports coordinated projects that focus on the past behavior of the coupled Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere-Biosphere system which are conducted to provide insight into the factors that govern environmental variability, rates of climate change, and large-scale responses to climate forcing.
CONTACTS:
David Verardo
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
East Asia and Pacific
The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Program provides proposal-based, competitive grant funding to U.S. researchers for scientific, engineering and educational cooperation with institutions and researchers in the region.
CONTACTS:
East Asia and Pacific Program
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology
Supports research that addresses ecological or evolutionary questions in the areas of morphology, comparative physiology, physiological ecology and biomechanics of plants, animals, protists, fungi and bacteria. The emphasis is study of whole organisms which may be living or extinct. These studies focus largely on how physiological or morphological mechanisms have evolved, and how they may influence evolutionary pathways or interactions between organisms and their biotic or physiochemical environment.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 12 and July 12, annually.
Additional Information
Ecological Biology
Supports research on natural and managed ecological systems, primarily in terrestrial, wetland, and freshwater habitats. Research areas include experimental, observational, theoretical, and modeling studies on the structure and function of complex associations that focus on biotic components, and the coupling of small-scale systems to each other and to large-scale systems. Projects are encouraged that develop conceptual and synthetic linkages among theoretical, modeling, and empirical approaches; that are conducted at one or more scales of ecological or geographic organization; and that synthesize empirical and theoretical findings into new paradigms.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 9 and July 9, annually
Additional Information
Ecological Rates of Change
The purpose of EROC is to support research on how human-induced global change affects ecological rates of change. Specifically, the EROC activity seeks proposals for ecological research designed to separate the effects of natural versus anthropogenic changes on plant and animal physiological ecology, behavior, plant-animal interactions, plant or animal communities, and ecosystem processes and dynamics in terrestrial and freshwater aquatic systems.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 9 and July 9, annually
Additional Information
Ecology of Infectious Diseases
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (hereafter "the Government" or "the Participating Agencies") invite applications for the establishment of research programs to elucidate the underlying mechanisms that govern the relationships between anthropogenic environmental changes and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.
CONTACTS:
Donald L. Rice
Rachael G. Craig
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Second Friday in February, annually.
Additional Information
Economics Program
The Economics Program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. The Program also funds conferences and inter-disciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics.
CONTACTS:
Daniel H. Newlon
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 15 and August 15, annually.
Additional Information
Ecosystem Science
Supports research on natural, managed, and disturbed ecosystems, including those in terrestrial, freshwater, and wetland (including salt marsh) environments. Descriptive and manipulative approaches in field, mesocosm, and laboratory settings are supported, with the expectation that the bulk of the research is question- or hypothesis-driven. Proposals are encouraged, but not necessarily required to incorporate new or existing quantitative or conceptual models for the purpose of integration or synthesis.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 9 and July 9, annually
Additional Information
Electronic Materials
The Electronic Materials (EM) Program supports research that investigates the fundamental phenomena associated with the synthesis and processing of electronic and photonic materials. The objective is to increase fundamental understanding and develop predictive capabilities for relating synthesis, processing, and microstructure of these materials to their properties and performance in various applications and environments.
CONTACTS:
LaVerne D. Hess
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
November 1, annually.
Additional Information
Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies (EPDT)
The program invites proposals for research that can lead to high performance of micro- and nanoscale devices, components, and materials, advanced methods of design, modeling, and simulation of devices and components, and improved techniques for processing, fabrication, and manufacturing, including plasma-based processing techniques.
CONTACTS:
Rajinder Khosla
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Engineering Education
The goal of the Engineering Education Programs
of the Division of Engineering Education and
Centers is to increase the quantity and quality
of U.S. citizens who earn BS degrees in
engineering.
CONTACTS:
Sue Kemnitzer
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 9 and July 9, annually
Additional Information
Engineering Research Centers (ERCs)
The Engineering Research Centers (ERCs)
Program provides an integrated environment for
academe and industry to focus on next-
generation advances in complex engineered
systems, with synergy among engineering,
science, and industrial practice. ERCs integrate
research with education at both the graduate
and undergraduate levels.
CONTACTS:
Tapan Mukherjee
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Environmental Engineering and Technology
This program supports engineering research with the goal of reducing adverse effects of solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, fresh and ocean waters, and air that result from human activity and impair the value of those resources in the context of ecological tenets.
CONTACTS:
Nicholas Clesceri
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Environmental Molecular Science Institute at Columbia University
The Columbia Radiation Laboratory presently supports multi-disciplinary research in the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering. The laboratory's staff support principal investigators in all adminstrative aspects of grant management.
CONTACTS:
Katharine Covert
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Environmental Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI)
Environmental Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI) Program is aimed at increasing fundamental understanding of natural processes and processes resulting from human activities in the environment at the molecular level. This program will support
cohesive, interdisciplinary group efforts by universities, including partnerships with industry and/or other governmental agencies.
CONTACTS:
Janice Hicks
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Environmental Technologies Systems Program
NSF and EPA are offering funds for fundamental and applied research in the physical and biological sciences and engineering that will lead to environmentally-benign methods for industrial processing / manufacturing; sustainable construction processes; and new science and technologies for pollution sensing and remediation. The competition addresses technological environmental issues of synthesis, processing, design, treatment, and energy conversion; environmentally conscious construction and disaster management; and the production, use, detection, and ultimate disposition of products in continuous and discrete manufacturing industries as well as in construction industries and in the environment.
CONTACTS:
Robert Wellek
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
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Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics
The Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics Program supports fundamental and applied research on mechanisms and phenomena governing single and multiphase fluid flow, particle formation and transport, various multiphase processes, nanostructures, and fluid-solid system interaction.
CONTACTS:
Michael Plesniak
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research
The Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) Program supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. FIBR encourages investigators to identify major under-studied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines including biology, math and the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences and the information sciences. Proposers are encouraged to focus on the biological significance of the question, to describe the integrative approaches, and to develop a research plan that is not limited by conceptual, disciplinary, or organizational boundaries. Particularly encouraged are the inclusion of young scientists trained in an interdisciplinary environment or in non-biological disciplines, and partnerships with underrepresented minority serving and primarily undergraduate institutions and community colleges.
CONTACTS:
Christopher Greer
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
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Genes and Genome Systems
Supports studies on genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus. Proposals on the structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated are appropriate. Areas of interest include genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information. Of equal interest are the processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation. The use of innovative in vivo and/or in vitro approaches, including biochemical, physiological, genetic, genomic, and/or computational methods, is encouraged, as is research at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and engineering.
CONTACTS:
Patrick Dennis
Robert Coyne
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
GEODATA
Geosystems Databases is intended to provide scientists with the necessary resources to assemble and use global climate change data and information efficiently and effectively for research and education. It is a program, in cooperation with other science agencies, to collect, organize, process, and assimilate with state-of-the-art models the long-term global synoptic data required to understand how the climate system functions.
CONTACTS:
Jay S. Fein
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Geography and Regional Science (GRS)
The Geography and Regional Science (GRS) Program supports basic research on a variety of problems associated with human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they are argued to contribute to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, and their applica-tion to societal problems and concerns.
CONTACTS:
Gregory Chu
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 15 and August 15, annually.
Additional Information
Geology and Paleontology
The Geology and Paleontology (GP) supports studies directed toward a better understanding of physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes at or near the Earth's surface and the landforms, sediments, fossils, low-temperature fluids, and sedimentary rocks that they produce.
CONTACTS:
H. Richard Lane
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 16 and July 16, annually.
Additional Information
Geoscience Education (GeoEd)
The Geoscience Education (GeoEd) Program considered proposals that integrated geoscience research and education. This competition included proposals that supported comprehensive undergraduate faculty
professional development and faculty enhancement in the geosciences.
CONTACTS:
Jacqueline Huntoon
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Geotechnical and GeoHazards Systems
The Geotechnical and GeoHazards Systems (GHS) program seeks to advance the fundamental engineering and related knowledge for geostructures (foundations, slopes, excavations, soil and rock improvement technologies, and reinforcement systems); geohazards mitigation; constitutive modeling and verification; remediation and containment of geoenvironmental contamination; transferability of laboratory results to field scale; and non-destructive and in situ evaluation. GHS support is given for research that will increase geotechnical and geohazards knowledge necessary to mitigate the impacts of natural and technological hazards on both the constructed and the natural environment. A broad spectrum of research is supported, including the use of data from laboratory and field experiments to verify design procedures and methodologies, simulation of phenomena, collection of data from catastrophic events, including rapid-response reconnaissance inspections.
CONTACTS:
Juan Pestana
Richard Fragaszy
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Global Learning to Benefit the Environment
The Global Learning to Benefit the Environment
(GLOBE) Program is an international program
designed to develop links between scientists
and schoolchildren through a global information
network. The National Science Foundation
participates in GLOBE by providing on-going
support for research, curriculum development
and workshops. Funding support is provided
through the Directorate for Education and
Human Resources and the Directorate for
Geosciences.
CONTACTS:
Paul Filmer
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Global Oceans Ecosystems Dynamics
The U.S. GLOBEC research initiative has been called for by the oceanographic, marine ecology and fisheries communities to address the question: what will be the impact of changes in our global environment on populations and communities of marine animals comprising marine ecosystems? The U.S. GLOBEC approach is to develop basic information about the mechanisms that determine the variability of marine animal populations.
CONTACTS:
Phillip R. Taylor
Polly Penhale
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Global Tropospheric Chemistry
The Global Tropospheric Chemistry Program (GTCP) is a focused program designed to provide a fundamental understanding of emissions, atmospheric transformations, and depositional processes of key atmospheric chemicals and their relationship to climate forcing and response. GTCP's goal is to detect and predict changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere on global and regional scales, with emphasis on those processes affecting the oxidizing capacity and radiative properties of the atmosphere.
CONTACTS:
Christopher Cantrell
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals may be submitted anytime.
Additional Information
Graduate Research Fellowships
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to
ensure the vitality of the human resource base
of science, mathematics, and engineering in the
United States and to reinforce its diversity. A
competition is conducted for Graduate Research
Fellowships, with additional awards offered for
women in engineering and computer and
information science.
CONTACTS:
NSF Program Officer
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Greenhouse Gas Dynamics
Greenhouse Gas Dynamics (GGD) includes research on the complex chemical processes, both natural and industrial, which lead to GHG production and release, and on the interactions of greenhouse gases with light, other atmospheric gases, surfaces, and other relevant substances.
CONTACTS:
Alfons Weber
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
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Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC)
The Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Program research focuses on the interactions between human and natural systems, with an emphasis on the social and behavioral processes that shape and influence those interactions. Proposals for research on regional or local phenomena are welcome provided the implications for global effects are clearly specified in the proposal. They should be well grounded in relevant social science theory.
CONTACTS:
Thomas J. Baerwald
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Hydrologic Sciences
The Hydrologic Sciences supports basic research dealing with the Earth's hydrologic cycle and the role of water on and near the continental surfaces of the Earth. The program encourages integrated studies of water balance and fluxes among the various reservoirs.
CONTACTS:
L. Douglas James
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
June 1 and December 1, annually.
Additional Information
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Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment for Research at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML)
Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) are off-campus facilities for research and education conducted in the natural habitats of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
First Friday in March, annually
Additional Information
Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs)
The Industry/University Cooperative Research
Centers (I/UCRCs) Program develops long-term
partnerships among industry, academe, and
government. An I/UCRC contributes to the
Nation's research infrastructure base and
enhances the intellectual capacity of the
engineering and science workforce through the
integration of research and education.
CONTACTS:
Alexander Schwarzkopf
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Informal Science Education (ISE)
The Informal Science Education (ISE) Program
supports projects designed to increase public
understanding of science, mathematics, and
technology. All ISE projects have as their
primary audience the informal learner.
CONTACTS:
Barry Van Deman
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Information Technology and Infrastructure (ITIS)
The objective of the Information and Technology for Infrastructure Systems (ITIS) program is to nurture the development of a new science base that will promote broad application of advanced information systems and technologies that have significant potential to impact infrastructure system design, construction, maintenance, operation and control.
CONTACTS:
Dennis Wenger
Jesus de la Garza
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Information Technology Research
The Information Technology Research (ITR) Program wishes to fund innovative, high payoff research, which explores new scientific, engineering, and educational areas in IT.
CONTACTS:
Stephen Meacham
Suzi Iacono
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
Directorate for Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Infrastructure Management and Hazard Response (IMHR)
The Infrastructure Management and Hazard Response (IMHR) program supports fundamental research that will support development of a new knowledge base on modeling and analysis of infrastructure system operation, performance, safety, and productivity.
CONTACTS:
Dennis Wenger
Jesus de la Garza
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Infrastructure Materials and Structural Mechanics
The Infrastructure Materials Applications and Structural Mechanics (IMSM) program supports research to advance the knowledge base on: application of advanced structural materials; repair, retrofit, and rehabilitation of structural components; and durability of structural materials and components, including effects derived from interaction with the natural and constructed environment.
CONTACTS:
Perumalsamy N. Balaguru
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC_
The Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) Program seeks to improve the performance of industrial, educational, service, health care, governmental and other organizations and institu-tions through the support of research on theories, concepts, and methodologies of innovation and organizational change. Proposers should work with partner organizations in industry, education, health care, government, or service.
CONTACTS:
John L. Naman
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 1, annually.
Additional Information
Instructional Materials Development (IMD)
Instructional Materials Development (IMD) Program
develops high-quality, research-based
instructional and assessment materials for
students that enhance knowledge, thinking
skills, and problem-solving abilities of all
students, as well as incorporate recent advances
in disciplinary content, research on teaching and learning, and instructional technologies. IMD materials are intended to be implemented nationwide and address learning in diverse
settings.
CONTACTS:
John Bradley
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Instrumentation and Facilities (IF)
The Instrumentation and Facilities (IF) supports
the acquisition or upgrade
of equipment required for research, the development
of new instrumentation and techniques that extend current research capabilities in the earth sciences, the operation of multiuser regional or national facilities that provide access to complex
and expensive instrument or database systems for a significant segment of the earth sciences research community, and the funding
of research technicians.
CONTACTS:
David D. Lambert
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Full Proposals: July 16 & January 16, annually.
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Integrated Carbon Cycle Research
Studies of the chemical, biological, ecological, and physical processes driving carbon distribution, transformation and transport within and between terrestrial, atmospheric, and oceanic environments are appropriate for this competition.
CONTACTS:
Rachael Craig
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
The Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) activities are an international exploration of Earth's crust beneath the ocean revealing the composition, structure, and history of the submerged portion of Earth's surface. Ocean drilling involves logging and collecting geologic samples from the floor of the deep ocean basins through rotary coring and hydraulic piston coring. The logs and samples of the cores are made available to qualified scientists throughout the world for research projects.
CONTACTS:
Bruce Malfait
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 15 and August 15, annually
Additional Information
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
The program is intended to catalyze a cultural
change in graduate education, for students,
faculty, and universities, by establishing new,
innovative models for graduate education in a
fertile environment for collaborative research
that transcends traditional disciplinary
boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate
greater diversity in student participation and
preparation and to contribute to the
development of a diverse, globally-aware,
science and engineering workforce.
CONTACTS:
Bruce Hamilton
Joan Frye
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
Directorate for Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Program Announcement
Additional Information
Integrative Systems (IS)
The Integrative Systems (IS) Program stimulates innovative research in areas which integrate device concepts and systems principles to develop new technologies and new research directions.
CONTACTS:
Rajinder Khosla
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
International Activities in the Geosciences
Since the nature of geosciences research is global, the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) also supports international collaborations and partnerships. In addition to the research programs supported through GEO's three Divisions � Atmospheric, Earth and Ocean Sciences � the Directorate also supports several international, multi-disciplinary activities. This support is "in kind" as well as financial, and ranges from small planning grants to admin- istrative support to full research projects.
CONTACTS:
Louis B. Brown
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
The International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP). How humans interact with the environment, how individuals and societies can mitigate or adapt to environmental change, and how policy responses to such changes influence economic and social conditions are at the center of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change within the IHDP. A key IHDP program is the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP)
The objective of the International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) is to introduce scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers to opportunities abroad, thereby furthering NSF's goal of establishing productive,
mutually-beneficial relationships between U.S. and foreign science and engineering communities. Awards are available for research in any field of science and engineering research or education
supported by NSF.
CONTACTS:
Susan L. Parris
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Second Tuesday in October
Program Announcement
Additional Information
J
K
L
Large Scale Dynamic Meteorology
The Large-Scale Dynamic Meteorology Program supports basic research to improve the understanding and prediction of atmospheric motion on synoptic to planetary scales.
CONTACTS:
Lydia Dumenil-Gates
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Law and Social Science Program
The Law and Social Science Program supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process.
CONTACTS:
Christopher Zorn
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 15 and August 15, annually.
Additional Information
Long-Term Ecological Research
Supports investigations of whole ecosystems and their component organisms and processes at sites that represent major biomes. Projects are multidisciplinary and actively encourage collaborative research with nonecological investigators.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology
Supports smaller studies that focus on evolutionary or ecological phenomena and that require long-term investigation.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities
The Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities (LAOF) Program consists of planning, budgeting, coordination, and oversight of multi-user national facilities that are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the geosciences research
community.
CONTACTS:
James R. Huning
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
M
Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME)
The Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) Program advances the fundamental knowledge base that is needed for building the next-generation machines and equipment and utilization of them for materials processing, parts manufacture, assembly, inspection and other operations.
CONTACTS:
George Hazelrigg
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Marine Geology and Geophysics
The Marine Geology and Geophysics (MG&G;) Program supports research on all aspects of geology and geophysics of the ocean basins and margins, as well as the Great Lakes.
CONTACTS:
Bil Haq
David Epp
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 15 and August 15, annually
Additional Information
Materials Processing and Manufacturing
The Materials Processing and Manufacturing (MPM) Program advances the fundamental knowledge base that is needed for the realization of desired product attributes through the application of the systematic integration of processing - material- performance relationships. It supports analytical and experimental research that leads to the generation of such fundamental knowledge.
CONTACTS:
Jian Chao
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) Program supports interdisciplinary, university-based group research and education in the area of materials science and engineering, condensed matter physics, solid state and materials chemistry, and related areas of science and engineering.
CONTACTS:
Dr. Ulrich Strom
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology
The Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology Program supports research on all aspects of mesoscale meteorological phenomena, including studies of the morphological, thermodynamic, and kinematic structure of mesoscale systems; the development of mesoscale systems and precipitation processes; and the energy transfer between scales.
CONTACTS:
Stephan O. Nelson
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Metals
The Metals (MET) Program supports research to increase understanding and predictive capabilities for relating synthesis, processing, alloy chemistry, and microstructure of metals to their physical and structural properties and performance in various applications and environ- ments.
CONTACTS:
Joseph Akkara
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
November 1, annually.
Additional Information
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES). MMS interacts with the other programs in the division, as well as other programs in the Foundation. MMS seeks proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature, methodologically innovative, and grounded in theory.
CONTACTS:
Cheryl Eavey
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 16 and August 16, annually.
Additional Information
Microbial Genome Sequencing Project
The purpose of this interagency program announcement is to solicit applications to conduct high-throughput sequencing of genomes of microbes that are of fundamental biological interest, as well as those that are important to the productivity and sustainability of agriculture and forestry, and to the safety and quality of the nation's food supply.
CONTACTS:
Patrick P. Dennis
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
N
National Biological Information Infrastructure
NBII is a clearinghouse of biological information on the web.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
National Center for Atmospheric Research
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Program is a focal point for research in the field of atmospheric sciences. Facilities at NCAR
serve the entire atmospheric sciences research community and part of the ocean sciences community.
CONTACTS:
Clifford A. Jacobs
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
National Facilities (NAF)
The National Facilities (NAF) Program supports operation of National User Facilities, which are research facilities with specialized instrumen-tation available to the
scientific research community in general and the materials research community in particular. These facilities provide unique research capabilities that can be located at only a few highly specialized aboratories in the Nation.
CONTACTS:
Hugh M. Van Horn
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)is equipped with radio, optical, infrared, and special telescopes that are made available to the
scientific community on a competitive basis. Funding is provided through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements, awarded in response to unsolicited, investigator-initiated proposals.
CONTACTS:
Craig B. Foltz
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
National STEM Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program
Building on work supported under the
multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative,
this program aims to establish a national
digital library that will constitute an online
network of learning environments and
resources for science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels.
CONTACTS:
Lee L. Zia
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation (NEES) will provide a
national resource that will shift the emphasis of
earthquake engineering research from current
reliance on physical testing to integrated
experimentation, computation, theory, data-
bases, and model-based simulation.
CONTACTS:
Joy M. Pauschke
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)
This program supports fellowships and associated training that will enable graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the
sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology to
serve as resources in K-12
schools.
CONTACTS:
Carolyn Piper
Terry Woodin
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
NSF STC: Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes
The Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Carbon Dioxide Processes, directed by Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina, and Ruben G. Carbonell, North Carolina State University, supports a multidisciplinary research program to establish the fundamental understanding necessary to enable liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) to replace aqueous and organic solvents in a large number of key manufacturing and service processes.
CONTACTS:
Donald Burland
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
NSF STC: Center for Integrated Space Weather Modelling
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Boston University to lead the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM), a new $20 million, multi-institutional NSF Science and Technology Center. The center will create computer models able to provide advance warning of potentially harmful space weather events that could put astronauts at risk, disable satellites, disrupt communications, or cause costly damage on earth. In addition to BU, the center consists of research groups at seven other universities and several government and non-profit research organizations and commercial firms.
CONTACTS:
Richard Behnke
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
NSF STC: Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas
Based at the University of Arizona under the direction of Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian, SAHRA's mission is to promote sustainable management of water resources in semi-arid regions, through stakeholder-driven interdisciplinary research, aggressive public outreach and strong education initiatives, leading to rapid dissemination and application of cutting-edge scientific knowledge.
CONTACTS:
L. Douglas James
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
O
Ocean Observation, Data Assimilation, and Modeling
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program is a cooperative effort between 14 federal agencies, academia and private industry to coordinate national oceanographic research and education programs. Since it was established in 1997, the consortium has awarded nearly $80 million to more than 50 research and educational projects in ocean science.
CONTACTS:
H. Lawrence Clark
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Oceanographic Instrumentation Program
The Oceanographic Instrumentation Program provides support to enhance the scientific capabilities and productivity of seagoing research projects that use major facilities, primarily research vessels. Proposals for shared-use instrumentation may include items for the collection, processing and analysis of oceanograpic data.
CONTACTS:
Alexander (Sandy) Shor
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
September 15 annually
Additional Information
Oceanographic Technology & Inter�disciplinary Coordination (OTIC)
The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC)Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. The OTIC Program accepts proposals for developing new instrumenta�tion that has broad applicability to ocean science research. The project should enhance the observational,experimental, and/or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community.
CONTACTS:
Alexandra Isern
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 15 and August 15, annually
Additional Information
Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences
Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) Program's goal is to increase participation in geoscience careers by members of groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in geoscience disciplines. The program is designed to expand opportunities for students from underrepresented groups to participate in geoscience research and education activities.
CONTACTS:
Jacqueline Huntoon
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
P
Paleoclimate
The Paleoclimate Programs supports research on the natural evolution of Earth's climate with the goal of providing a baseline for present variability and future trends through improved understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence climate over the long-term.
CONTACTS:
David Verardo
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Perception, Action, and Cognition Program
Supports research on cognition, perception and action, including the development of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control, and developmental issues in all topic areas. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. Research involving acquired or developmental deficits is appropriate if the results speak to basic issues of cognition, perception or action.
CONTACTS:
Guy Van Orden
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 15 and August 15, annually.
Additional Information
Physical Anthropology Program
The Physical Anthropology Program supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation.
CONTACTS:
Mark Weiss
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Physical Meteorology
The Physical Meteorology Program supports basic research on the physics of the atmosphere with emphasis on cloud and precipitation physics, the transfer of solar and terrestrial radiation, atmospheric measurements including active and passive remote sensing, and atmospheric electricity and acoustics.
CONTACTS:
William "Al" Cooper
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Physical Oceanography
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 Itsweire
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 15 and August 15, annually
Additional Information
Polar Ozone Depletion/UV Radiation Effects
Polar Ozone Depletion
The National Science Foundation supports research on the causes and nature of stratospheric ozone production and destruction.
Ultraviolet Radiation Effects
The Polar Biology and Medicine Program of the Office of Polar Programs invites scientists from U.S. institutions to submit proposals for research on biological consequences of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, photobiology, UV optics and physics in Antarctica.
CONTACTS:
Polly A. Penhale
Vladimir Papitashvili
Directorate for Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Polymers
The Polymers (POL) Program supports basic research and education on the materials aspects of polymeric science that is largely experimental and multidisciplinary, with strong components of chemistry, physics, and materials science.
CONTACTS:
Andrew J. Lovinger
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
November 1, annually.
Additional Information
Population and Evolutionary Processes
Focuses on population properties that lead to variation within and among populations. Approaches include empirical and theoretical studies of microevolution, organismal adaptation, geographical differentiation, natural hybridization and speciation, as well as processes that lead to macroevolutionary patterns of trait evolution.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 9 and July 9, annually
Additional Information
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R
Regional Institutes for Global Change Research
The three regional institutes for global change research � Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, European Network for Research on Global Change and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research � were created to facilitate the integration of global change research programs on a regional basis.
CONTACTS:
Paul Filmer
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiments (RIDGE)
The RIDGE 2000 Integrated Studies Program addresses the complex, inter-linked array of processes that supports life at and beneath the
seafloor as a consequence of heat and material transfer
from the Earth's deep mantle, to the crust and overlying ocean. Relative to global change, the primary objective of RIDGE is to understand
the geological, chemical, biological, and physical
oceanographic interactions between the oceans and
hydrothermal circulation of seawater through the ocean crust.
CONTACTS:
David Epp
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
S
Science and Technology Centers (STCs): Integrative Partnerships
The Science and Technology Centers (STC)
Program funds research and education activities
and encourages technology transfer and
innovative approaches to interdisciplinary
activities. The STCs explore new areas and
build bridges among disciplines, institutions,
and other sectors. Center support enables
academic research teams to: exploit
opportunities in science and engineering;
involve students, research scientists, and
engineers from academic, industry, non-profit
organizations, and federal laboratories in
partnerships; receive long-term, stable funding
at a level that encourages risk-taking and
ensures a solid foundation for attracting quality
students (with special emphasis on women and
minorities) into science and technology careers;
facilitate the transfer of knowledge among
academia, industry, and national laboratories.
CONTACTS:
Nathaniel G. Pitts
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
The Science and Technology Studies (STS) Program supports research and related activities that contribute to systematic understanding of the character and development of science and technology, including their cultural, intellectual, material and social dimensions. The Program supports research on the nature and development of science and technology, both in the past and present, and on differences in the nature of theory and evidence in various fields of science and engineering.
CONTACTS:
John Perhonis
Keith Benson
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 1 and August 1, annually.
Additional Information
Sensor Technologies for Civil and Mechanical Systems (STCMS)
The Sensor Technologies for Civil and Mechanical Systems (STCMS) program supports research on acquiring and using information about civil and mechanical systems to improve their safety, reliability, cost, and performance.
CONTACTS:
Shih Chi Liu
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Separation and Purification Processes
The Separation and Purification Processes Program encourages proposals that address emerging research areas and technologies, have a high degree of interdisciplinary thought and knowledge creation, and integrate education and research.
CONTACTS:
Geoffrey Prentice
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology (SDEST)
The Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology (SDEST) Program contains two components: Ethics and Values Studies (EVS), and Research on Science and Technology.
CONTACTS:
John Perhonis
Sheila Slaughter
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
February 1 and August 1, annually.
Additional Information
Sociology Program
The Sociology Program supports research on problems of human social organization, demography, and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes.
CONTACTS:
Joane Nagel
Patricia E. White
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Regular Proposals: January 15 & August 15; Dissertation Proposals: February 15 & October 15
Additional Information
Solar Influences
The Solar Influences Program at NSF is the aggregate of three related but distinct activities:
* Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR)
* Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM)
* Radiative Inputs of the Sun to Earth (SunRISE)
The Solar Influences program supports research on those elements of Earth's space environment that are most important to Global Change.
CONTACTS:
Richard Behnke
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Solar-Terrestrial REsearch
The Solar-Terrestrial Research Program supports research on the processes by which energy in diverse forms is generated by the Sun, transported to the Earth, and ultimately deposited in the terrestrial environment.
CONTACTS:
Paul Bellaire
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Proposals are accepted at any time.
Additional Information
Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering
The Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering (SMME) program links the expertise of analytical, computational and experimental solid mechanics and biomechanics with materials and surface engineering to understand, characterize, analyze, design and control the mechanical properties and performance of materials and devices. The program supports research into deformation, fracture, fatigue, friction, wear and corrosion of all types of materials, including composites, nano-structured materials, coatings and surface modification for service under extreme conditions. The program also supports experimental and analytical investigations and simulation modeling of material microstructures and their connections to nano-, meso- and macro-scale structural behavior.
CONTACTS:
Ken Chong
Yip-Wah Chung
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Solid-State Chemistry (SSC)
The Solid-State Chemistry (SSC) Program supports basic research that includes understanding the atomic and molecular basis for synthesis, structure-composition-property relationships, and the processing of materials. Special attention is given to the creation of new classes of materials exhibiting new phenomena, and discovering specific materials with superior properties.
CONTACTS:
David L. Nelson
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
TARGET DEADLINE:
November 1, annually.
Additional Information
Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories
Supports the general science of systematics, whose three main missions are: to discover, describe, and inventory global species diversity; to analyze and synthesize the information derived from this global discovery effort into predictive classification systems that reflect the history of life; and to organize the information derived from this global program in efficiently retrievable forms that best meet the needs of science and society.
CONTACTS:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
January 9 and July 9, annually
Additional Information
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Teacher Professional Continuum (TPC)
The Teacher Professional Continuum (TPC) program is the National Science Foundation's major programming effort supporting the full continuum of professional development from recruitment, preparation, and induction, through the life-long development and retention of K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers. A major focus of TPC is the synthesis and further advancement of a compelling body of research that will both inform and strengthen STEM teacher effectiveness and classroom instruction.
CONTACTS:
Wayne Sukow
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Technology for a Sustainable Environment
It is well recognized that industrial pollution often has complex negative effects on biological systems in the environment. The various policies and regulations set in place to help protect the environment have stimulated researchers to search for effective, economical ways to minimize pollution. This competition is designed to address pollution avoidance / prevention processes and methodologies, and to support scientific and technological research with long-term impact on industrial and societal applications. Research proposals are invited that advance the discovery, development, and use of innovative technologies and approaches to avoid or minimize the generation of pollutants at the source.
CONTACTS:
Robert Wellek
Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
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Upper Atmospheric Facilities
The Upper Atmospheric Facilities (UAF) Program's goal is to promote basic research on the structure and
dynamics of the Earth's upper atmosphere. Research efforts utilizing these facilities have strong links to the Aeronomy Program and the Magnetospheric Physics Program.
CONTACTS:
Robert M. Robinson
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
No deadlines or target dates for proposals.
Additional Information
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Water and Energy: Atmospheric, Vegetative, & Earth Interactions
The Water and Energy: Atmospheric, Vegetative, and Earth Interactions (WEAVE) Initiative coordinates complementary research in the Geosciences Directorate. The WEAVE program seeks to improve understanding of the Earth's hydrologic and energy cycles to support better assessments of the potential impact of human activities on those cycles and on the climate system, in general.
CONTACTS:
L. Douglas James
Lydia Dumenil-Gates
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
Western Europe
The Western Europe (WE) Program provides proposal-based, competitive grant funding to U.S. researchers for scientific, engineering and educational cooperation with institutions and researchers in the region.
CONTACTS:
Western Europe Program
Directorate for Office of International Science & Engineering
TARGET DEADLINE:
Additional Information
World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Program's principal goal is to support proposals aimed at understanding the ocean circulation and its relations to climate. It is also expected that the understanding obtained
from the WOCE field program will be used to identify key ocean measurements that will be needed as indices of global
change, and to design long-term observing systems to monitor, understand, and predict those changes.
CONTACTS:
Eric Itsweire
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
TARGET DEADLINE:
August 15 and February 15, annually
Additional Information
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