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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

Warming at the poles will have global consequences December 9, 2019
Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins December 4, 2019
Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction November 18, 2019

Funding Opportunities

NSF Innovation Corps Hubs Program
(NSF 20-529) Posted December 19, 2019
Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I
(NSF 20-528) Posted December 17, 2019
Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I
(NSF 20-527) Posted December 17, 2019

Upcoming Due Dates

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) (NSF 20-504) Full Proposal: January 24, 2020
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships (NSF 19-567) Full Proposal: January 27, 2020
National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes (NSF 20-503) Full Proposal: January 28, 2020, for Institute proposals in one of the six specified themes

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