Antarctic Research

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  09-536

Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I: Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of this new requirement).

SYNOPSIS

Scientific research and operational support of that research are the principal activities supported by the United States Government in Antarctica. The goals are to expand fundamental knowledge of the region, to foster research on global and regional problems of current scientific importance, and to use Antarctica as a platform from which to support research.  The U.S. Antarctic Program provides support for field work only when a compelling justification exists for doing the work in Antarctica (i.e., the work can only be done, or is best done, in Antarctica).  The program also supports antarctic-related analytical research performed at home organizations.

NSF is the designated lead agency for the International Polar Year, 2007-2009, for the United States and has made a number of awards in response to IPY solicitations (see list of awards at http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/ipy/ipy_awards_list.jsp). Proposals that make use of IPY datasets or that otherwise build on IPY investments are welcome in the regular programs. 

For information concerning other Federal agencies and their IPY programs, please go to the U.S. government interagency IPY site at http://www.us-ipy.gov/.

FUNDED AS PART OF THIS ACTIVITY

Antarctic Aeronomy and Astrophysics Program

Antarctic Earth Sciences Program

Antarctic Glaciology Program

Antarctic Integrated System Science

Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems

RELATED URLS

Polar Ice

U.S. Antarctic Program portal

U.S. Antarctic Program Participant Guide, 2006-2008

Grantee Deployment Packets and Information

OPP Guidelines and Award Conititions for Scientific Data

U.S. Interagency IPY web site

U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center

Report from the Oden Southern Ocean Workshop, February 10-13, 2008

Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program

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