Navigating the New Arctic (NSF)

• Published date: 03 December 2020
• Date: 03 December 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31424

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ December 3, 2020 Page 3

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Grants alert (cont.)

Deadline: Feb. 16, 2021.

Funds: $2 million total for awards of up to $100,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities.

Areas: NSF said applicants may use the funding to

organize catalytic activities that can help crystallize

the engineering research theme and strengthen the

following four areas: societal impact, high-risk/high-

payoff convergence research, stakeholder community

engagement and/or team formation, including effective

leadership/management.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-529

Campus Cyberinfrastructure (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Campus Cyberinfrastructure

announcement to invest in coordinated campus-level

networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements,

innovation, integration and engineering for science

applications and distributed research projects.

Deadline: March 1, 2021.

Funds: $15 million total for up to 46 awards of up to $1

million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said learning and workforce development

in cyberinfrastructure is explicitly addressed in the

program, and science-driven requirements are the

primary motivation for any proposed activity.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-528

Navigating the New Arctic (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)

announcement for innovations in fundamental

convergence research across the social, natural,

environmental, computing and information sciences and

engineering that address the interactions or connections

among natural and built environments and social systems,

and how these connections inform our understanding of

Arctic change and its local and global effects.

Deadline: March 5, 2021.

Funds: $30 million total for awards ranging from

$100,000 to $10 million.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said proposals should fall within one

of three tracks: NNA Planning Grants, dedicated to

developing convergence research questions and teams

to tackle projects of larger scope in the future; NNA

Research Grants, aimed to support creative projects

on fundamental research that address convergent

scientic and engineering challenges related to the

rapidly changing Arctic; and NNA Collaboratory Grants,

designed to support collaborative teams undertaking

research and training initiatives on critical themes of a

broad scope related to the New Arctic.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-524

Bioimaging Research to Develop Imaging

Instrumentation and Approaches (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s Office of Science

seeks applications for the Bioimaging Research to

Develop Imaging Instrumentation and Approaches

announcement to support fundamental research toward

enabling new bioimaging instrumentation capabilities

for the study of plant and microbial systems that may be

used in bioenergy research or other disciplines supported

by Biological and Environmental Research (BER).

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Jan. 7, 2021; proposals,

March 25, 2021.

Funds: $15 million total for up to eight awards ranging

from $1.5 million to $2.25 million.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOE said applicants should address: (1)prototype

instrument development and (2)performance testing

of the new instrument for intended biological systems’

imaging use and applications: development of new

innovative and/or signicantly improved instrumentation

and imaging approaches, and a proof-of-concept study

of a new instrument device developed and tested

against at least one of the listed biological imaging

targets of relevance to BER-supported research in

bioenergy and environmental research.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DE-FOA-0002392

Battleeld Preservation Planning Grants (DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s National Park Service

seeks applications for the Battleeld Preservation

Planning Grants announcement to support the

identication, research, evaluation, interpretation and

protection of historic battleelds and associated sites on

a national, state and local level.

Deadline: Feb. 12, 2021.

Funds: Awards of up to $150,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; and independent school

districts; among others.

Areas: DOI said projects must relate to planning,

interpreting and protecting sites where historic battles

were fought on American soil during the armed conicts

that shaped the growth and development of the United

States, in order that present and future generations

may learn and gain inspiration from the ground where

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