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The "New" icons indicate recent new announcements (includes announcements for regular solicitations), and not necessarily new programs.  These are primarily, though not limited to, NSF solicitations.  Not all new announcements are included in the list below.

• Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) 
• Excerpt: The Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) solicitation aims to advance the core scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing, visualizing, and extracting useful information from large, diverse, distributed and heterogeneous data sets. BIGDATA seeks proposals that develop and evaluate core technologies and tools that take advantage of available collections of large data sets to accelerate progress in science, biomedical research, and engineering. Each proposal should include an evaluation plan. This solicitation focuses on common interests in big data research across the NIH and the NSF.
• Critical Dates:   See website.

• Dear Colleague Letter: Unsolicited Proposals at the Interface of the Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering 
• Excerpt: BIO, ENG and MPS recognize that it is vital for biological, mathematical, statistical and physical scientists and engineers to increase their collaborations, both in new research efforts and in ongoing research projects, to advance the frontiers of discovery and innovation. While many strong, vibrant interactions currently exist between the three directorates, this letter is to remind our research communities that BIO, MPS and ENG strongly encourage proposals from interdisciplinary research teams that involve collaborations among investigators from the biological, mathematical, and physical sciences and engineering to support new interactions that span interfaces between BIO, ENG, and MPS. Unsolicited research proposals, depending on their scientific focus, can be submitted to the deadlines of any relevant program in BIO, ENG, or MPS.
• Critical Dates:   See website.

• Dear Colleague Letter - Data Citation 
• Excerpt: Now is the time for geoscientists to begin to meet the challenges of data citation. This may involve working with: (1) collaborators to decide which data sets are appropriate for citation; (2) data centers, libraries, repositories, and publishers to develop appropriate data citation methods and concomitant DOIs; and 3) research institutions to make data citation a common practice and a metric of value in institutional culture and practice. We urge principal investigators to discuss their efforts and suggestions about DOIs with their communities and program officers in order to accelerate progress toward data citation policies and standards. Further we encourage data citation for upcoming publications to provide transparency and opportunity to use and analyze data sets.
• Critical Dates:   -

• Dear Colleague Letter - IGERT-CIF21 Track  
• Excerpt: The National Science Foundation's vision for a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) views an integrated, scalable, and sustainable cyberinfrastructure along with foundational advances in computing and information science and technology as crucial for innovation in science and engineering. NSF will soon institute a new CIF21 track in its Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program as a mechanism to address the training and education needs in CDS&E and cyberinfrastructure research. A funding opportunity containing guidelines and information about specific requirements, deadlines and eligibility will be published shortly.
• Critical Dates:   -

• Dear Colleague Letter -Data-Intensive Education-Related Research Funding Opportunities  
• Excerpt: The purpose of this letter is to inform you of an upcoming solicitation related to data-intensive education research that is expected to occur during FY 2012-2013 and to highlight existing complementary data-intensive education research funding opportunities. Today's technological capabilities to mine large datasets provide new avenues that can be valuable for developing new models of teaching and learning at the K-16 levels and beyond. The increasing availability of large datasets and the capabilities to capture additional datasets have great potential for advancing teaching and learning effectiveness in many areas. To help address this challenge, NSF expects to announce a solicitation that will call for participants for an Ideas Lab on the topic of advancing teaching and learning focused on transforming large datasets into knowledge that leads to actions that can improve learning environments.
• Critical Dates:   See website.

• Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR) 
• Excerpt:  The purpose of this announcement is to encourage submission of proposals for activities that will enable communities to develop visions for next-generation data and specific areas of research these data would enable; to build research and management teams for the integration of research, data, and data infrastructure, including automated and other analysis tools; and to prototype aspects of a proposed next-generation infrastructure. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes--but is not limited to--the SBE or EHR sciences.
• Critical Dates:   May 22, 2012

• Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models (EaSM) 
• Excerpt:  This is the second in a series of EaSM solicitations (see NSF Program Solicitation 10-554 for the first EaSM solicitation). It remains focused on the prediction of future climates and their consequences for human systems on time scales of several decades and shorter and global to regional and finer spatial scales. A time span of several decades is chosen because within this timeframe modeled climate change responses appear to be insensitive to CO2 forcing scenarios. Moreover, adaptation planning and implementation is carried out on roughly these time scales. This solicitation will not consider research involving varying CO2 forcing scenarios beyond the next several decades. The long-term EaSM Program goals (see the Synopsis and Program Description Section) remain essentially the same; however, some of the specific areas of interest related to those goals have changed.
• Critical Dates:   April 20, 2012