 Welcome, West Virginia University!
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We are pleased to welcome West Virginia University as a new institutional member starting April 2010. WVU's member representative is Dr. Richard Thomas (Professor and Chair of Biology).
West Virginia University, established in 1867, is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia. WVU is designated as a Research University (High Research Activity) by
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university is affiliated with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences
Institute, dedicated to the study of Alzheimer's and other diseases that
affect the brain. WVU is also a leader in biometric technology research and recently
became the Federal Bureau of Investigation's lead academic partner in
biometrics research (modified from WVU's Wikipedia page).
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Webcast Q&A for NSF-DOE-USDA Interagency Solicitation for Earth Systems Models **WEEK OF MAY 3***
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NSF will be
hosting a webcast Q&A session explaining the solicitation "Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models (EaSM)" (see section on "Solicitations" below) on 5/3/10 (Monday) and 5/6/10 (Thursday).
A letter from NSF reads as follows: "This
solicitation was released jointly by NSF, DOE and USDA on March 25th and seeks to involve scientific
communities that may not be accustomed to climate modeling efforts in
addition to climate modelers. We encourage any PIs who may have
questions about this effort to join us live online, where they will have
the opportunity to ask questions of program officers familiar with the
solicitation. The first event will be on Monday, May 3rd at 1pm ET, and the second event will
be on Thursday, May 6th at 1pm ET. You can register for the events from the
solicitation website here:
http://www.nsf.gov/geo/sees/easm/index.jsp"
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NEON on the Hill
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NEON participated in the annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) exhibition on Capitol Hill on April 14, 2010. NEON, Inc. is a member of CNSF, which is an alliance of over 125 organizations united by a concern for
the future vitality of the national science, mathematics, and engineering
enterprise. The
CNSF Exhibition included more than 30 displays featuring posters, computer
demonstrations, videos, and educational materials about NSF-supported research
and education projects. The NEON
exhibit described how NEON's integrated observation strategy
will enable better understanding of the effects of complex, large-scale
environmental stressors on the nation's natural resources. NEON, Inc. and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) shared a booth at the exhibition.
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 Cyberobservatories Workshop at NCAR
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The number of NSF-supported environmental observing projects has grown
steadily over the last few years. The NCAR-hosted Cyberobservatories project has been examining technical and organizational issues within and across observing projects for the last 4 years. A forum to be held 17 - 19 May will build on the existing work and continue the ongoing discussion among observatories and CI practitioners. The forum will produce a short series of specific, community-based findings and conclusions for NSF to consider as it continues to define and manage its CI and observing system portfolios.
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Solicitations
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(Please click the respective links to check the original source of information. The abbreviated text below may not reflect amendments to the original announcements, and may not reflect the original intent of the solicitation.)
- NSF / Dimensions of Biodiversity
- Excerpt: The
Dimensions of Biodiversity initiative seeks to characterize biodiversity
on
Earth by using integrative, innovative approaches to fill rapidly the
most
substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth.
This
campaign will take a broad view of biodiversity, and in its initial
phase will
focus on the integration of genetic, taxonomic, and functional
dimensions of
biodiversity.
- Critical dates: Letter of intent due May 7, 2010. Full proposal due June 8, 2010.
- NSF / Climate Change Education (CCE): Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase I (CCEP-I)
- Excerpt: The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to
establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or
thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of
effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to
the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to
be of a large enough scale that they will have catalytic or
transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF
program awards.
- Critical dates: Full proposal due May 24, 2010.
- Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models (EaSM)
- Excerpt: This activity calls for the development of
next-generation Earth System Models that include coupled and interactive
representations of ecosystems, agricultural working lands and forests,
urban environments, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, ocean and
atmospheric currents, the water cycle, land ice, and human activities. Competitive projects should address key problems critical
to linking relevant Earth system processes over a variety of spatial and
temporal scales and to advancing the theoretical foundations for the
modeling and simulation of existing data and data collected by the new
and envisioned NSF environmental observatories. Proposals are encouraged
that have the potential to dramatically improve our predictive
capabilities as well as our understanding of how small and large scale
processes lead to non-linearities and activation thresholds.
- Critical dates: Letter of intent due May 24, 2010. Full proposal due June 25, 2010.
- Macrosystems Biology
- Excerpt: NSF invites proposals from interdisciplinary
teams of scientists to conduct innovative, integrated, systems-oriented
"macrosystems biology" research to detect, understand and forecast the
consequences of climate and land use change and invasive species on the
biosphere at regional to continental scales. Proposals should address
the scales where the ecological research challenges are the greatest and
where research has the greatest potential to transform the field of
ecology by addressing scaling issues that have long hindered development
of large-scale ecology. Projects should strive to provide a mechanistic understanding of how
multiple scale dynamics contribute to the structure, functioning, and
change of the biosphere, and lead to the development of a more
predictive understanding of ecological change. Proposals should be well
grounded in theory, include novel approaches that will result in a
theoretical framework for a predictive understanding of macroscale
biology, and shows great promise for enhancing basic theoretical
understandings.
- Critical dates: Full proposal due September 16, 2010.
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Key Dates in 2010
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05/20: Board of Directors Meeting (Boulder, CO)
08/01-06: ESA Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA)
09/22: NEON, Inc. Annual Member's Meeting (Reston, VA)
09/23-24: NEON, Inc. Board of Directors Meeting (Reston, VA)
09/22-26: OBFS Annual Meeting (U. Mich. Biological Station)
10/14-15: AERC Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)
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