Colleagues,

We hope you are well.  Included in this email are several relevant announcements and funding opportunities.  We strongly encourage our community to pay attention to the solicitations that are coming out of our new Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate.  This is going to be a center of attention and activity as we move forward.

Funding Opportunities

• The new Convergence Accelerator solicitation has been released.  Track K:  Equitable Water Solutions and Track L:  Real-World Chemical Sensing Applications may have relevance to our community. 
• A new DCL has been released which invites Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) proposals for Modeling of Catastrophic Impacts and Risk Assessment Due to Climate Change.  
• NSF is inviting Conference Proposals on Clean Energy Topics.  Please see the DCL here. 

 Announcements

 The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) has set up a new SurveyMonkey link to allow individuals to identify themselves as a potential reviewer or panelist.  Please see additional information here.

• The next GEO-Empowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (GEO-EMBRACE) drop-in Virtual Office Hour (VOH) is Thursday, May 18^that 1pm eastern.  Information and registration can be found here.   

 AGS Staffing Updates

•  Dr. Shikha Raizada has joined AGS as Aeronomy Program Director.  Dr. Raizada is a rotator from the University of Central Florida and spent much of her career at the Arecibo Observatory where she has been utilizing simultaneous incoherent scatter radar and lidar observations to study ionosphere-atmosphere interactions.
• Dr. Soumaya Belmecheri has returned to the University of Arizona after serving at NSF as a rotator in the Paleoclimate Program and as the Acting Section Head for the Atmosphere Section.  We thank Soumaya for her service.
• Dr. Yu Gu has been appointed the Acting Section Head role for the Atmosphere Section effective immediately.
• Dr. Sarah Ruth has been appointed the Acting Section Head for Antarctic Sciences in the Office of Polar Programs effective June 1, 2023.  
• Mr. Bernard Grant has been appointed the Acting Section Head for the NCAR and Facilities Section in AGS effective June 1, 2023.

Thank you and as always, please feel free to share widely.

Best regards,

Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)

National Science Foundation (NSF)