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• NASA ROSES - A36 - Earth Science Applications: Ecological Forecasting Applications Feasibility Projects. 
• Excerpt: This solicitation seeks feasibility proposals for Ecological Forecasting projects that improve conservation and/or natural resource management in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Proposals should propose concepts that will enhance the performance of existing decision-making activities through the use and integration of products from Earth observations, biological observations, and ecological models. Proposals should also address the development of new capabilities for decision-making applications through the use and integration of Earth observations, biological observations, and ecological models.
• Critical Dates:   Notice-of-intent 2013-02-14; Proposal due date 2013-04-18

• Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE)  
• Excerpt: The INSPIRE awards program is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process. The program seeks to recognize and encourage innovative interdisciplinary research by unusually creative individual investigators, especially at early- to mid-career stages. The program is open to all NSF-supported areas of science, engineering, and education research.
• Critical Dates:   See NSF website

• Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE & SSI (SI2 - SSE&SSI) 
• Excerpt:  Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) is a bold and long-term investment focused on realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) vision and catalyzing new thinking, paradigms and practices in science and engineering. Biological Sciences (BIO) is primarily interested in Scientific Software Integration (SSI) proposals. SSI awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common software infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems.
• Critical Dates:   2013-03-19

• Dear Colleague Letter - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW)  
• Excerpt:  The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter is to announce the GRFP's Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW). Through GROW, NSF Graduate Fellows are provided an international travel allowance to engage in research collaborations with investigators in partner countries located outside the United States. With GROW, NSF Graduate Fellows can benefit from partnerships developed by NSF with funding organizations in other countries to develop international research collaborations. For the last four years, GRFP has offered a pilot international research opportunity in cooperation with counterpart funding organizations in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, known as the Nordic Research Opportunity.
• Critical Dates:   See NSF website

• Research Coordination Networks (RCN) 
• Excerpt:  The National Science Foundation announces plans to continue its support of research coordination networks designed to foster communication and promote new collaboration among scientists, engineers and educators with diverse expertise and who share a common interest in a new or developing area of science or engineering. By encouraging the formation of new groups and networks, the RCN program will advance fields and create novel directions and opportunities for research and science education.
• Critical Dates:   See NSF website

• Frequently Asked Questions for Solicitation NSF 13-508 - Division of Environmental Biology (Core Programs) 
• Excerpt:  FAQs for Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core Program proposals.
• Critical Dates:   -

• Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) 
• Excerpt:  The INSPIRE awards program was established to address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines. It is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process; it is not intended for proposals that are more appropriate for existing award mechanisms. INSPIRE is open to interdisciplinary proposals on any NSF-supported topic, submitted by invitation only after a preliminary inquiry process initiated by submission of a required Letter of Intent.
• Critical Dates:   See NSF website

• Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) Instrument Acquisition or Development 
• Excerpt:  The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, and not-for-profit museums, science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations. To accomplish the program's goals, the MRI program assists with the acquisition or development of a shared research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. The instrument is expected to be operational for regular research use by the end of the award period.
• Critical Dates:   See NSF website

• EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 (RII Track-2) 
• Excerpt:  Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 (RII Track-2) awards provide funds in the range of $1.5 to 2.0 million per year for up to 3 years to consortia of EPSCoR jurisdictions. Examples of RII Track-2 activities that are consistent with NSF EPSCoR program objectives include developing multi-jurisdictional, interdisciplinary teams to address "national challenge" questions in science and engineering fields and providing solutions of benefit to society; Creating, supporting, and maintaining regional shared instrumentation or cyberinfrastructure and facilities to support users from diverse institutions, organizations, and sectors.
• Critical Dates:   2013-01-30

• Critical Zone Observatories 
• Excerpt:  NSF seeks proposals to establish a networked set of Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) that will address pressing interdisciplinary scientific questions concerning geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and their couplings that govern critical zone system dynamics. An overarching goal of the critical zone observatory network, which will be comprised of US-based sites (50 states plus territories), is to offer scalable and transferable information that could enhance the scale and scope of the knowledge building and societal benefits that will accrue beyond where the specific CZOs are located.
• Critical Dates:   2013-02-05