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Office of Polar Programs (OPP)

OPP supports world-class arctic and antarctic science through grants to researchers across the U.S. and by providing polar facilities and operational support.

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An unprecedented window opens into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

Image credit: Douglas Levere

Study sheds light on why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic

Announcements

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News

Two contract employees die in Antarctica December 12, 2018
Greenland ice sheet melt 'off the charts' compared with past four centuries December 5, 2018
Earth's polar regions communicate via oceanic 'postcards,' atmospheric 'text messages' November 28, 2018

Funding Opportunities

Long Term Ecological Research
(NSF 19-544) Posted December 19, 2018
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs
(NSF 19-543) Posted December 12, 2018
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2
(NSF 19-542) Posted December 11, 2018

Upcoming Due Dates

Major Research Instrumentation Program: (NSF 18-513) Full Proposal: January 22, 2019
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) (NSF 18-589) Full Proposal: January 25, 2019
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs (NSF 19-543) Preliminary Proposal: January 28, 2019

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