Colleagues,

We hope you are well.  Please see the below updates on upcoming outreach events and international collaborations.

Outreach

• A reminder of today’s (Monday, July 24^th) GEO-EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (GEO-EMBRACE) drop-in Virtual Office Hour (VOH) between 4-5 PM Eastern Time.  We invite faculty members at emerging (non-R1) academic institutions (e.g., Community Colleges, Tribal Colleges and Universities, MSIs, HBCUs, Undergraduate, Masters, and R2 Institutions) to engage with GEO Program Directors to address concerns and ask questions about opportunities found in the GEO-EMBRACE web portal. To attend the VOH, please register using this link (https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItfuigqD0uErASZOC8b6daqsz0-kOXCv8).
• AGS will be holding a Zoom webinar on the updated Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) solicitation on Thursday, July 27^th at 2:30pm eastern.  Please register for the event here:  https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_isltVeMwQRC5cG-VvJCJUQ.

Funding Opportunities

The Directorate for Geosciences has created a webpage for the various Lead Agency Agreements that NSF has with international partners.  From the PI standpoint, a Lead Agency Agreement means that collaborators in two countries can send in a common proposal to one of the funding agencies and it will only be reviewed once.  Please see the current opportunities at this webpage.  Some agreements are more narrowly tailored to certain scientific topics, so please read the DCLs.  

Additionally on the international side, please be aware of the upcoming deadline for the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet).  Also, while the Global Centers program deadline has passed, it may be worth brainstorming ideas for any future iterations of that program.

Request for Nominations

NSF has released a request for nominations for the Alan T. Waterman Award.   The Alan T. Waterman is the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Highest Honor. The award recognizes an outstanding early career researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the NSF. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 to use over a five-year period for scientific research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient's choice.  Additional information can be found here.

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

Best regards,

Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
Directorate for Geosciences
National Science Foundation