NSF Funding Opportunities for the Week of 23 September 2013 Management and Operation of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Letter of Intent Deadline Date: October 18, 2013 Program Guidelines: NSF 13-582 Proposals are solicited to manage and operate the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). NOAO is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by a managing organization under cooperative agreement with NSF. NOAO is a national center for research in ground- based, nighttime, optical and infrared (O/IR) astronomy for the U.S. astronomical community. NOAO's core mission is to facilitate access for all... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504938&wt.mc_id=usnsf_ 39 Dear Colleague Letter: Toward a Research Coordination Network (RCN) Addressing Experimental and Evaluation Methods and Techniques for Cybersecurity Available Formats: HTML:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs//2013/nsf13131/nsf13131.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF _25 Document Number: nsf13131 This is an NSF Program Announcements and Information item. Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 16, 2013 Program Guidelines: NSF 12-496 The purpose of the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) is to support future leaders in mathematics and statistics by facilitating their participation in postdoctoral research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development. There are two options for awardees: Research Fellowship and Research Instructorship. Awards will support research in areas of mathematics and statistics, including applications to other disciplines. More at: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5301&wt.mc_id=usnsf_39
Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 18, 2013 Third Friday in October Program Guidelines: NSF 13-569 This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic, paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology,... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503559&wt.mc_id=usnsf_ 39 Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 17, 2013 Program Guidelines: NSF 11-692 With an emphasis on two- year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high- technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5464&wt.mc_id=usnsf_39 Support for Construction of Direct Detection Dark Matter Experiments in Particle Astrophysics Letter of Intent Deadline Date: October 16, 2013 Program Guidelines: NSF 13-597
This solicitation invites proposals for support of R&D and construction of future generation experiments that conduct direct- detection searches for dark matter particles. Proposals are not limited to searches for WIMPs or axions; any viable dark matter species may be the object of an investigation. More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504939&wt.mc_id=usnsf_ 39 SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE DDRIG) Full Proposal Target Date: October 15, 2013 Sociology Program Guidelines: NSF 11-547 The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&wt.mc_id=usnsf_3 9 Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 15, 2013 Program Guidelines: NSF 13-576 The goal of research funded under the interdisciplinary P2C2 solicitation is to utilize key geological, chemical, atmospheric (gas in ice cores), and biological records of climate system variability to provide insights into the mechanisms and rate of change that characterized Earth's past climate variability, the sensitivity of Earth's climate system to changes in forcing, and the response of key components of the Earth system to these changes. Important scientific objectives of... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5750&wt.mc_id=usnsf_39
Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 15, 2013 Program Guidelines: NSF 10-510 GEM is a broad- based, community- initiated research program on the physics of the Earth's magnetosphere and the coupling of the magnetosphere to the atmosphere and to the solar wind. The purpose of the GEM program is to support basic research into the dynamical and structural properties of geospace, leading to the construction of a global Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM) with predictive capability. The exact structure of a GGCM may be modular or may consist of a... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5506&wt.mc_id=usnsf_39 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Full Proposal Window: October 15, 2013 MEDIUM Projects Program Guidelines: NSF 13-578 Cyberspace has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. The rush to adopt cyberspace, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities: corporations, agencies, national infrastructure and individuals have been victims of cyber- attacks. In December 2011, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) with the cooperation of NSF issued a broad, coordinated... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504709&wt.mc_id=usnsf_ 39 Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs Full Proposal Window: October 15, 2013 MEDIUM Projects Program Guidelines: NSF 13-580 CISE s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs: The Cyber- Human Systems (CHS) program; The Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and The Robust Intelligence (RI) program.
IIS is also responsible for managing the review process for proposals in Computer Graphics and Visualization; these proposals may be submitted to... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13707&wt.mc_id=usnsf_3 9 Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs Full Proposal Window: October 15, 2013 MEDIUM Projects Program Guidelines: NSF 13-581 CISE s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program. Proposers are invited to submit proposals in three project classes, which are defined as follows: Small Projects - up to $500,000 total budget with durations up to three years; Medium Projects -... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12765&wt.mc_id=us NSF_39 Sociology Full Proposal Target Date: October 15, 2013 Dissertation Research Program Guidelines: PD 98-1331 The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization - - societies, institutions, groups and demography - - and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation,... More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&wt.mc_id=usnsf_39
EAR to the Ground Newsletter - Fall 2013 Available Formats: PDF:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13124/nsf13124.pdf?WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 0 Document Number: nsf13124 This is an NSF Newsletters/Journals item.