Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in Booth #805. See below for more opportunities to interact with NSF program staff and learn about all things NSF.

TH23F: NSF Geosciences Town Hall
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 12:30 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis – Independence D
Join NSF Directorate for Geosciences leadership at NSF’s town hall for updates on NSF’s Ten Big Ideas for Future Investment, including Navigating the New Arctic; Growing Convergent Research; & Harnessing the Data Revolution, and on a new NSF program on Coasts & People (CoPe).

Navigating the NSF System co-sponsored by the Earth Science Women’s Network and AGU Education
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis - Georgetown University
Get answers to your questions, critique sample text from past NSF proposals and meet in small groups with program directors to get to know what they are looking for. This workshop is open to all AGU Fall Meeting attendees and will be particularly helpful to early-career to midcareer participants.

TH33D: EarthScope and Beyond: Current and Future Facility Support for Geodesy, Seismology, and Geophysics Research and Education in the Geosciences
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis - Independence D

TH43A: Critical Zone Observatories: Platforms for Collaborative Science
Thursday, Dec. 13, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis - Marquis A-C. Light refreshments will be served.

This is the first year that Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events (PREEVENTS) research will be at AGU, with 2 sessions:
NH31C: Predicting Extreme Events to Build Resilience to Natural Hazards Posters (poster)
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 8 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. in the Convention Center Poster Hall

NH53A: Predicting Extreme Events to Build Resilience to Natural Hazards (oral)
Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, 1:40 - 3:40 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis - Archives

Curious about the effects of removing proposal deadlines on the Division of Earth Sciences’ (EAR’s) core programs? On Wednesday, Dec. 12, stop by “PA33G-1209: Evaluating the Effects of Removing Proposal Submission Deadlines in NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences” in the Convention Center Poster Hall. To speak with EAR Science Assistants’ about your questions, come by between 4 - 6 p.m.

Apply now to manage the Hydrologic Sciences program in NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences located in Alexandria, VA. Program director applications will be accepted until Jan. 2, 2019. To apply for permanent appointment, see Job Announcement EAR-2019-0001. To apply for IPA, VSEE or Federal-Temporary Appointment, see Job Announcement EAR-2019-0002.

The new Frontier Research in the Earth Sciences (FRES) program will support research in Earth systems from its core through the critical zone. Projects focus on all or part of the surface, continental lithospheric and deeper Earth systems over the entire range of temporal and spatial scales. FRES supersedes the Integrated Earth Systems (IES) program and will support any combination of field, laboratory and computational studies with observational, theoretical or experimental approaches. The target date for submission of proposals is Feb. 20, 2019.
A webinar will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m., with a brief overview of the program and the opportunity to ask questions. Please email Dennis Geist by 5 p.m. on Dec. 3 to enroll in the webinar.

What do and don't we know about megathrust earthquakes? William D. Barnhart, assistant professor at the University of Iowa, answers the question on this edition of NSF’s "Ask a Scientist."
Do you have EAR-funded research we should be bragging about? Send your videos, abstracts, publications, pictures, social media posts, etc., to the EAR Communications team.

Dazzle us with your STEM spark! What piqued your interest in science, technology, engineering or math? A teacher? Science project? Field trip? Museum? Movie? Parents? Or, were you the one that took apart the family toaster to see how it worked? Share your STEM spark on Twitter or Instagram with #mySTEMspark or send a short statement or video to tellus@nsf.org for posting on the main NSF feed. Let’s trend @NSF_GEO research at #mySTEMspark between Nov. 26 and Dec. 7!

Striking visuals and clear, compelling messages combine for the Popular Science and NSF 2018 Vizzies Challenge winners. Geoscience research is celebrated among the Experts’ Choice winners, including “In Search of Earth’s Secrets,” featuring scientific ocean drilling and an infographic-style animation with data highlighting environmental changes, “Earth Day 1970-2018: Sea Changes.”

A new supplemental funding opportunity, Non-academic Research Internships for Graduate Students, called INTERN, is available through Sept. 2020! This non-academic research internship allows graduate students currently funded by an NSF award to pursue exciting professional development experiences at government agencies, national laboratories, non-governmental organizations, industry, think tanks, etc. INTERN is open to NSF principal investigators who are supporting graduate students through active NSF awards (exceptions apply for CISE, MPS and OIA). Questions? Contact Dr. M. Brandon Jones at mbjones@nsf.gov.

New Solicitations:
NSF 19-528- CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2)
NSF 19-531- Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES)
NSF 19-537- Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
Approaching Proposal Deadlines:
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)
1/22: 18-513- Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
Click here for a full list of upcoming NSF proposal due dates