Colleagues,

Welcome to federal Fiscal Year 2024.  We have a few announcements and have included a selection of active solicitations and DCLs below. 

Employment Opportunity

AGS is seeking a permanent Program Director for the Climate and Large-scale Dynamics program.  Please see the official announcement here and if you have questions about the position please contact Eric DeWeaver at edeweave@nsf.gov.

Outreach

On October 11th at 11 AM EST, AGS Program Director Dr. Lisa Winter will participate in a X (Twitter) Takeover of the official NSF X account. She will raise public awareness of the upcoming eclipses and associated NSF events as well as educate the public on solar eclipses and corona research. Be sure to follow @NSF or follow the hashtag #takeoverNSF to learn more.

NSF has secured funding to provide a number of solar viewing glasses to institutions in the path of the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse. If interested, please provide the following information to Astronomy Program Director (and AGS alum) Carrie Black cblack@nsf.gov:  1) The number of glasses needed and 2) An address for shipping.  Additionally, if you have information on the events you are planning, please let us know.  We would love to hear your stories.

Active Funding Opportunities

You can always find active funding opportunities on the NSF website under the “Find Funding & Apply” link, and here is the direct link to Geoscience-listed opportunities.  Of particular interest to our community are the following:

• Solicitation:  Paleo Perspectives on Present and Projected Climate (P4CLIMATE) – October 20^th, 2023 deadline.
• Standing Program:  Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD-EN) – October 27^th, 2023 target date.
• Solicitation:  EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (EMBRACE) – November 20^th, 2023 target date.
• DCL:  CO2 Removal and Solar Radiation Modification Strategies: Science, Governance and Consequences – no deadline.
• DCL:  Extreme, Compound, and Cascading Hazards (EC2H) – no deadline.
• DCL:  Critical Research on GreenHouse Gas Transport and Fate in the Planetary Boundary Layer and Above (GHG-PBLA) – no deadline.
• DCL:  Innovations in Open Science (IOS) Planning Workshops – no deadline.
• DCL:  Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) Opportunity for Graduate Students Supplemental Funding to Link Geosciences and Human Health (GeoHealth INTERN) – no deadline.

We also encourage participation in NSF-wide opportunities (not an exhaustive list):

 Solicitations

• Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) – Proposals due December 1^st, 2023.
• Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) – Proposal window February 1, 2024 to March 1, 2024.
• Major Research Instrumentation – Proposal window October 16, 2023 to November 15, 2023.
• Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – January 25, 2024 target date.
• Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) – Proposals due December 11, 2023.

 Dear Colleague Letters

• STEM Access for Persons with Disabilities (STEM-APWD) – December 7, 2023 target date.
• Veterans Research Supplement (VRS) – no deadline.

Thank you and best regards.

Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
National Science Foundation (NSF)

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