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We're going to discuss the recently published your colleague letter titled planning proposals to catalyze innovative and inclusive wildland fire science through diverse collaborations that's a mouthful
This is an interesting letter in that it is developed by the Wildland Fire Initiative working group, which includes representatives from every directorate at the National Science Foundation Signaling.
It's importance to nsf and to our society as a whole.
So we're gonna start here this morning by introducing some of the members of the working group.
I'll start with myself. my name is regina Siebert and I'm.
A program officer with the Education and Human Resource Directorate.
I work primarily with the tribal colleges and Universities program and the centers for research, excellence in science and technology.
Tom. Good morning, or good afternoon, depending on what time zone You're in.
I'm program director in the director for social behavioral and economic sciences.
Youulia. good morning, my name is julie. Gill and I'm programme officer in a traditional pharmaceutical sciences, particularly in statistics.
And we address all types of aspects related to modern welfare behavior and just analytics.
Thank you. You Hello, everyone. My name is Yugu.
I am a program director in the Physical and dynamic meteorology program of the division of space sciences within the Directory for Geosensus.
Thank you, thank you i'm collect hi welcome my name is Colette St.
Mary and I'm, one of the members of the working group from the the the director for biological sciences, and in particular, I have my home in the division of integrative and organismal systems.
But, all of the biode director recognizes there are important biological questions associated with wild empire.
Thank you, and You'll see at the bottom of the slide additional members of the working group, and as I mentioned, this is this goes all the way across Nsf.
All of the directors turn ball. so a large range of programs will be willing to enter planning proposals. alright.
So you you would have to have your head in the sand to not know how important wild landfire has become, both to people in the United States, and globally right.
So you can see here a couple of recent news items for fires.
Indicating in this case the top 2, the threats they pose to property and humans, but also in the case of the lower article, their usefulness as a tool in managing wildland fire.
So Nsf realizes the imperative to address this very pressing issue that affects so many people and so much of the globe along with other agencies.
However, in our case. Oh, so I'm. sorry in our case we have a nimbleness at Nsf that we recognize we have a unique role.
We believe in wildlife fire research to not only fund fundamental science questions, but also to encourage convergent research.
So across disciplines coming together to develop solutions, develop technologies, etc.
We also encourage innovative ways of bringing together diverse stakeholders and rights holders.
We have a large number of programs, as I mentioned, who are interested in entertaining proposals in a broader array of topics. and then we also have mechanisms for broadening participation.
So, for example, developing to create programs outreach research programs.
So we consider ourselves uniquely position because of our willingness to fund innovation and discovery
So to that end we developed this dear colleague letter.
Now you may have read in the letter that it came out of in part work at a meeting sponsored by Nsf. in May, the twentieth 21, in which a large group came together and discussed what are the
priorities in wildlife, fire research, and 5 major themes came out of that, one of which was the inclusion of diverse perspectives and indigenous knowledge systems, and that led to the birth of this letter.
So the keywords here to think about if you're thinking you might have an idea that's responsive to this letter, our diverse stakeholders, diverse perspectives, diverse collaborations, innovation inclusion and
indigenous communities all of these things and you'll note here on the right, all of the directorates that have signed on to this letter.
So again this signals the broad range of topics that are planning completely.
Now my colleague Tom, is going to talk more about planning proposals here in a second. but i'm just gonna briefly say a planning proposal is, as you may guess, a smaller pre proposal So
you're going to work together as a team to make a plan ideally to develop a proposal larger proposal that you would submit to Nsf later doesn't always happen.
But that is one of the outcomes of a planning proposal.
In, and again I'll just emphasize what proposal responsive to this Dcl.
Would include. Oh, goodness, sorry! I have a banner across the slide, and I keep trying to get rid of it.
They should focus on advancing wildland fire, obviously with diverse knowledge systems.
So collaborations that involve a lot of different people.
Perhaps researchers, engineers, educators, practitioners, Bible colleges, other colleges and universities, industry, nonprofits, government, cultural knowledge holders.
So these are some of the things that set this Dcl.
Apart that you have these diverse collaborations, and include diverse perspectives.
And then notice the third bullet, that there should be resources dedicated to incentivizing the engagement of these diverse stakeholders.
Alright. So some example, activities and outcomes are those listed here below.
These are rather humble awards right up $200,000 up to 2 inches.
So a 100,000 a year up to 2 years the they can redo, and moving your plans forward.
So you might go the 2 more traditional route of workshops and conferences, you know, compiling baseline data.
But you might also think outside the box and meet with cultural knowledge holders. For example, in my case, when I work with the tribes where I live, I go to the elders, and I meet with them at their longhouse rather than asking them to come
to me, so you might develop some innovations in who you engage, and how you engage.
All right, and some possible outcomes would be building a plan for institutional capacity.
So developing a degree program or developing a research program.
As I mentioned previously, thinking about ways to transfer foundational knowledge into solutions for wildlife and fire management.
Identifying your high priority research areas and who should be in your collaborative who has the knowledge that they can bring to make that an effective partnership.
And then i'd like to particularly emphasize the last bullet, because sometimes we don't think this way.
But at Nsf we we do encourage this convergent type of research actually study wildly and fires as social, cultural, ecological, and technological systems because they are complex.
They do have this huge interaction of effects. alright. so I'm gonna ask Tom to take over thanks, Gina.
Let's Just wait until this slide so as Gina mentioned
Obviously, this is a program that is, or Dcl is focused on planning proposals.
There is a Link and Content in what's called the Nsf proposal, and award policies and procedures Guide what we call the Path G and the patches specific guidance on what a Planning
proposal is, and if you just do a Google search on Nsf.
Apache. you can find that document. But basically the idea here is that the planning proposal would set you up for a larger proposal.
That might be to a single program. it might be to a cross directorate program, or it could be a proposal that you're planning to submit.
That might be supported by multiple programs. So the idea here is that these planning proposals are giving you the resources to build new collaborations.
It's not just simply to provide resources to existing teams.
The idea is that you're broadening your network and broadening your the teams in order for you to have the so human capital to be able to do something new and innovative within the Wildland fire science Arena next slide
please. So the process that we have here is a multi-step.
And this is to kind of help you get guidance along the way.
The first step is that we'd like you to send an email to a dedicated email address.
While name fire, and then Sf. go with a two-page prospectus.
And in this prospectus it's doing 2 things number one is, it's helping us ensure that you're idea and concept is a good fit for the Dcl and that's specifically is meaning that
there's a attention to inclusivity. and building diverse networks and stakeholder groups.
But we also use that 2 page prospectus to help you identify which program and an Sf.
Might be the best fit for the research topic. that you're planning to pursue So we'll send or apply to you in re after we get that email with next steps.
Probably it would be a series of links to programs that you might consider as the targets for your planning proposal.
These are proposals except at any time. May the 31, 2023 is the target date. but
That target date is different than a deadline specifically. the proposals are evaluated internally.
So these aren't going to panel they aren't going through the external ad hoc process in most cases, and we anticipate awards that we'd be made in a fiscal year 2,020
3, next slide.
So what should be in this? 2 pager perspectives?
Of course, a title of your idea. We would want to see a list of people and their affiliations that are involved.
A picture, and citations are optional but most importantly when I see some, too text that describes your idea, and we're specifically looking for 3 things.
Number one is a fit for innovative wildlife fire.
Science. Number 2 is the attention to collaboration among diverse stakeholder and rights groups.
This is a necessary component. of this dcl there if it's doing basic science research, but it's not responsive to building divers networks.
Then it's not responsive to this Dco and Then the third is a plan for activities and and fitting a planning proposal and understand that this is necessarily a step in the direction towards a larger scale proposal submission that
you do in the future? next slide
So now we invite you to do one of 2 things.
You can either raise your hand and we'll be happy to answer questions that you have, or you can type questions into the Q.
And a feature. Hopefully, you can also see that visible on your side.
We have chat disabled. So Q. A. is the mechanism to enter.
Specific questions will answer some things with links in Q. A.