NSF invites collaborative proposals addressing networks associated with living systems at all scales.
February 8, 2021
NSF has issued a solicitation that provides an exciting opportunity for researchers in the Geosciences to partner with colleagues in the biological, social, behavioral and economic sciences, engineering and other disciplines to conduct crosscutting, convergent research addressing significant scientific questions. Understanding the Rules of Life: Emergent Networks is a collaborative initiative involving all NSF research directorates and offices. NSF will support research to develop a predictive understanding of how key properties of living systems emerge from the interactions of genomes, phenotypes and the environment, and how emerging networks of natural, social and human-engineered systems in turn influence their environment. The geosciences can make key contributions to advancing Understanding Rules of Life research, by bringing Earth Systems approaches/perspectives to improve understanding of the complex interactions of life across scales of time and space.
Proposals should be submitted by May 10, 2021. For full details and guidance on award types, amounts and other questions, see Understanding the Rules of Life: Emergent Networks (URoL:EN).
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