National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh today outlined efforts to build on NSF's legacy in supporting the fundamental science and underlying infrastructure enabling the big data revolution. At an event led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C., Suresh joined other federal science agency leaders to discuss cross-agency big data plans and announce new areas of research funding across disciplines in this field. Details are in an NSF Press Release. The press relrease includes a video of Mr. Alan Blatecky, Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure discussing Big Data in context of the larger Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century Science Engineering (CIF21) portfolio.

NSF announced new funding opportunities under CIF21. Specific announcements relevant to the OCI community include:

SOLICITATION: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, or IGERT, CIF21 Track

Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering, or Big Data, Solicitation   (An informational Webinar will be held on May 8, 2012)

Data-Intensive Education-Related Research Funding Opportunities Dear Colleague Letter

NSF seeks transformative concepts and approaches to create integrated data management infrastructures across the Geosciences. In a new partnership, the Geosciences Directorate (GEO) and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) recognize the multifaceted challenges of modern, data-intensive science and education and envision an environment where low adoption thresholds and new capabilities act together to greatly increase the productivity and capability of researchers and educators working at the frontiers of Earth system science.

For more information on Earth Cube, please visit: http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/index.jsp

Dear Colleague Letter: Computational and Data Intensive Science and Engineering in the Mathematiatical and Physical Sciences - NSF 12-018

Data Infrastructure Building Blocks
(NSF  12-557) Posted April 27, 2012

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track
(NSF  12-555) Posted April 20, 2012

International Research Experiences for Students
(NSF  12-551) Posted April 5, 2012

Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) in Engineering
(NSF  12-549) Posted April 4, 2012

Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering
(NSF  12-499) Posted March 29, 2012

Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program
(NSF  12-541) Full Proposal: May 30, 2012

Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(NSF  09-598) Full Proposal: June 1, 2012, Deadline for REU Site proposals requiring access to Antarctica. All other REU Site proposals must be submitted to the August REU deadline.

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track
(NSF  12-555) Letter of Intent: June 4, 2012, IGERT-CIF21 Letter of Intent

Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering
(NSF  12-499) Full Proposal: June 13, 2012, Mid-Scale Projects

Innovation Corps Program
(NSF  11-560) Full Proposal: June 15, 2012

March 19, 2012
Landscapes and Beyond: From Physics and Protein Folding to Modeling Active Biological Matter
Lecture

April 16, 2012
Demographics of Exoplanets
Lecture

May 29, 2012
FICR Meeting 2012
Partnership Meeting

June 5, 2012
Science: Becoming the Messenger
Workshop

June 5, 2012
Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure
Advisory Committee Meeting