Join Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) and other NSF staff at Booth #709 at GSA 2018, featuring new themed pop up talks followed by one-on-one conversations with NSF program staff. Come learn about working at NSF, interdisciplinary research, getting started on your proposal, or BYO questions. On Tues., Nov. 6, at 1:00 pm in Rooms 130-131 of the Indiana Convention Center, learn about NSF opportunities at our new interactive Navigating NSF workshop, with break-out groups tailored to career levels: students, early career researchers, faculty.

Community input resulting from Coastlines and People (CoPe) scoping workshops is helping NSF identify priorities for research initiatives focused on coastal regions. The Earth Sciences community and division staff were engaged in four scoping sessions hosted by the Univ. Cooperation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and facilitated by Know Innovation on behalf of NSF. NSF is now synthesizing white papers and other outputs to help frame a potential CoPe activity.

Broaden Participation or bust! NSF Earth Sciences staff showcased NSF-funded research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 48th Annual Legislative Conference. The national forum centered on building research capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through partnerships in STEM. NSF Earth Sciences staff also exhibited and spoke at the 2018 SACNAS and NABG meetings in Texas.

“Call your program officer early, and often!” was a key message reiterated during new EAR-supported campus visits. Division staff traveled to the Univ. of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State Univ. and Georgia State Univ. to interact more directly with the community and demystify the NSF proposal process. During the visits, EAR hosted plenary sessions, breakout working groups, and one-on-one meetings with current and potential researchers. Visits will continue in 2019 in response to a recommendation in EAR’s newest Committee of Visitor’s report.

Did you miss the “Earth Science Week” edition of NSF’s Four Awesome Discoveries video series? They only take a minute to watch! Please help spread the word via your favorite flavor of social media: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube.
Do you have EAR-funded research we should be bragging about? Send your publications, abstracts, videos, pictures, social media posts, etc., to the EAR Communications team.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) appointed a provisional committee for the “Catalyzing Opportunities for Research in the Earth Sciences (CORES): a Decadal Survey for NSF's Division of Earth Sciences,” or CORES study. The committee will provide NSF with input to help set priorities and strategies for Earth Science research investments over the coming decade. Provide feedback on the committee until Thurs., Nov. 1, 2018.
Save the Date: First public CORES meeting on Mon., Nov. 19, 2018.

Awards have been made following the recompetition of the Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope (GAGE) and Seismological Facilities for the Advancement of Geosciences and EarthScope (SAGE) facilities.
UNAVCO will continue to support the GAGE facility activities through the following awards: 1724794, 1851159, 1851163 and 1851169. Check out UNAVCO's press release.
IRIS will continue to support SAGE facility activities though the following awards: 1724509, 1851037 and 1851048. Check out IRIS's press release.

NSF’s Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program continues to push the frontier of interdisciplinary research—exploring systems where human and natural environments meet. NSF recently made $15 million in new awards to better understand how people can better interact with the environment. Explore the new projects.

The division welcomes three new program directors: Philip Bennett joined the Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry program from Univ. of Texas at Austin. Aisha Morris joined the Education and Human Resources program from UNAVCO. Paul Raterron joined the Geophysics program from SUNY Stony Brook Univ. and Brown Univ. Meet them here!

Did you know? NSF podcasts relay information about timely discoveries. For example, the “mud-icinal” properties of Oregon blue clay fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It’s true. Hear it for yourself on “The Discovery Files.”

New Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs):
NSF 18-097- Planning for New Signals in the Soils (SitS)-Themed NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRCs)
NSF 18-102- Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity
Approaching Proposal Deadlines:
9/15-11/15: PD 12-8084- Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
11/2: 17-579- Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
11/5: 18-578- Enabling Quantum Leap: Convergent Accelerated Discovery Foundries for Quantum Materials Science, Engineering and Information (Q-AMASE-i)
11/19: 18-583- Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS)
11/26: 18-589- Letter of Intent- EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC)
12/4: 18-593- Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I (SBIR)
12/6: 18-507- National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
12/7: 18-509- Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (HBCU-RISE)
12/18: 18-598- Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs)
12/28: 18-599- Preliminary Proposal- Understanding the Rules of Life: Building a Synthetic Cell
1/4: 16-562- Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events (PREEVENTS)
Click here for a full list of upcoming NSF proposal due dates

RSVP now for the NASEM Board on Earth Sciences and Resources’ fall meeting: Minerals, Water and Energy: The science that drives their interdependencies, feedbacks and tradeoffs! The Oct. 31, 2018, meeting is free and open to the public at the National Academies in Washington, D.C. Remote participation available. Registration required.

Calling all GeoPRISMS (Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and Subducting Margins) researchers and educators for a photo contest! We want to see your GeoPRISMS research at work! Submit your field or lab photo by Nov. 1, 2018. Winners will be announced at the 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.

Apply before Nov. 12, 2018, to attend the 2019 GeoPRISMS Theoretical and Experimental Institute. Next year’s meeting, “Synthesis & Integration,” will be held from Feb. 27 to March 1 in San Antonio, Texas! The meeting will be preceded by an Early-Career Investigator symposium on Tues., Feb. 26.

Jealous of the GeoPRISMS photo contest? The American Geosciences Institute's (AGI's) "Life as a Geoscientist" photo contest accepts all geoscience images featuring internships, research or geoscience work. Send materials to GeoLifePhotoContest@americangeosciences.org by Nov. 16, 2018. Credit NSF-funding, where applicable!

Mark your calendars! AGU’s Fall Meeting is coming to Washington, DC on Dec. 10-14, 2018. Don’t miss the Dec. 12 “Navigating NSF Workshop,” sponsored by the Earth Science Women’s Network and brought to you by NSF program staff. Visit NSF staff at booth #805.