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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

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News

Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement September 17, 2019
Vintage film shows that Thwaites Glacier ice shelf has melted faster than previously observed September 4, 2019
More than 100 years of Arctic sea ice volume reconstructed from ships' logbooks August 12, 2019

Funding Opportunities

National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
(NSF 20-503) Posted October 7, 2019
Linguistics: Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
(NSF 19-607) Posted September 20, 2019
Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)
(NSF 19-600) Posted September 4, 2019

Upcoming Due Dates

WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (PD 18-5115) Full Proposal: October 15, 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (PD 18-5115) Full Proposal: October 18, 2019, Plasma Physics
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF 19-590) Full Proposal: October 21, 2019, Life Sciences, Geosciences

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