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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.

Image credit: Denise Holland, NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Global Sea Level Change

Researchers find warm ocean water, exacerbated by warmer air, is causing rapid melt of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers

Image credit: SALSA

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

Announcements

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News

Greenland is on track to lose ice faster this century than in any other over the past 12,000 years October 6, 2020
Researchers set to take to the air above the Arctic and New York City September 28, 2020
Fast-warming Arctic transitioning to new climate state September 21, 2020

Funding Opportunities

Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering
(NSF 21-519) Posted October 22, 2020
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC)
(NSF 21-518) Posted October 22, 2020
Mid-Career Advancement
(NSF 21-516) Posted October 19, 2020

Upcoming Due Dates

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): (NSF 20-592) Full Proposal: October 28, 2020
ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (NSF 20-554) Letter of Intent: November 3, 2020
Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program (NSF 20-595) Full Proposal: November 4, 2020, IGE Project Proposals and IGE Innovation Acceleration Hub Proposals

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