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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

Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction November 18, 2019
Drizzle at sub-zero temps recorded in Antarctica November 13, 2019
Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level November 5, 2019

Funding Opportunities

Faculty Early Career Development Program
(NSF 20-525) Posted December 5, 2019
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
(NSF 20-516) Posted November 12, 2019
Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research
(NSF 20-515) Posted November 12, 2019

Upcoming Due Dates

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) (NSF 20-504) Letter of Intent: December 20, 2019
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (NSF 20-516) Letter of Intent: December 20, 2019
Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics (NSF 20-512) Letter of Intent: December 20, 2019

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