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Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP)

Supports partnerships that conduct research on organismal biology, ecology and evolution to develop and implement action plans and technologies that advance biodiversity conservation.

View guidelines NSF 24-531
Posted January 24, 2024
Full Proposal Deadline:
April 24, 2024
  • Additional upcoming deadlines
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ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED)

Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.

View guidelines NSF 24-541
Posted February 13, 2024
Full Proposal Deadline:
May 13, 2024
  • Additional upcoming deadlines
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Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities)

Supports research into synthetic microbial communities, including how they form and evolve, how to use them to address biological questions, and/or how to build them for biotechnology or bioengineering applications.

View guidelines NSF 22-607
Posted June 23, 2022
Full Proposal Deadline:
August 1, 2024
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Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP)

Supports design and implementation projects studying functional biodiversity in the context of unprecedented environmental change. Projects must integrate cellular, organismal, ecological, evolutionary, geological or paleontological approaches.

View guidelines NSF 23-542
Posted January 28, 2005
Full Proposal Deadline:
September 5, 2024
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Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC)

Supports research, research coordination networks and conferences that integrate ecological and evolutionary approaches with genomic, physiological, structural, developmental, neural or behavioral understanding of organismal responses to climate change.

View guidelines NSF 23-622
Posted September 15, 2023
Full Proposal Deadline:
November 19, 2024
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Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)

Supports interdisciplinary collaborations integrating research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The goal of this program is to minimize unintended outcomes of public health interventions in response to pandemics.

View guidelines NSF 24-507
Posted November 7, 2023
Full Proposal Window
February 14, 2025
Proposal window February 1, 2025 - February 14, 2025
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Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Supports opportunities for scientists and engineers at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic partnerships.

View guidelines NSF 22-603
Posted January 28, 2005
Full Proposal Window
March 3, 2025
Proposal window February 1, 2025 - March 3, 2025
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Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)

Supports renewal awards for active Long-term Ecological Research sites.

View guidelines NSF 24-520
Posted January 28, 2005
Full Proposal Deadline:
March 6, 2025
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Dear Colleague Letter

Conference Proposals on Clean Energy Topics

Invites conference proposals to initiate new collaborations that will advance clean energy technologies and increase their use to benefit the economy, to ensure social justice and to serve the public good.

NSF 23-108
Posted May 16, 2023
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Dear Colleague Letter

Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under National Science Foundation (NSF) and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities

Dear Colleagues: SCOPE The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and Israeli research...
NSF 20-094
Posted June 9, 2020
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Dear Colleague Letter

Conferences for Building Computational Literacy in Biological Sciences

Dear Colleagues: The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) seeks to highlight the importance of computational thinking in biology and STEM education. This activity is a part of NSF's contribution to the Office of Science and Technology...
NSF 20-074
Posted April 24, 2020
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Dear Colleague Letter

Developing New Research Collaborations Between Evolutionary Biologists and LTER Scientists

Invites proposals to support new collaborations between evolutionary biologists and NSF Long-Term-Ecological Research sites, with a goal of expanding the community of researchers and breadth of research at LTER sites.

NSF 20-038
Posted January 24, 2020
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NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research

Introduction The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shared interests in a variety of basic and applied scientific and engineering fields. This program is designed to facilitate collaborative research and educational activities among...
Posted April 21, 2014
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Dear Colleague Letter

Emerging Mathematical Tools applied to Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease

Encourages proposals that enhance our knowledge of pathogen transmission dynamics through novel technologies, such as remote sensing, precision treatment and mathematical or computational models, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.

NSF 24-067
Posted March 15, 2024
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Innovative Use of Scientific Collections (IUSC)

Encourages proposals that foster innovative and diverse uses of collections and/or associated digital data for novel research, education and training applications within and across STEM.

NSF 24-069
Posted March 18, 2024
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Dear Colleague Letter

Poorly Sampled and Unknown Taxa (PurSUiT)

Encourages proposals to fill significant gaps in biodiversity knowledge and integrate taxon information within an evolutionary or taxonomic framework in poorly known, or dark areas, of the tree of life.

NSF 20-059
Posted March 20, 2020
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Dear Colleague Letter

Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics (ARTS)

Encourages proposals to conduct taxonomic and monographic research and training that result in up-to-date and complete classifications of organisms spanning the tree of life.

NSF 17-139
Posted September 19, 2017
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Ecosystem Science Cluster

Supports research on ecosystem structure and function across a diversity of spatial and temporal scales and across ecosystems experiencing the full spectrum of human impacts.

View guidelines NSF 24-543
Posted February 14, 2024
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Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster (SBS)

Supports research and methods development that advances understanding of the diversity, systematics, distribution and evolutionary history of extant and extinct organisms.

View guidelines NSF 24-543
Posted February 14, 2024
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Dear Colleague Letter

Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current NSF awardees for projects that foster interest in the biological sciences and broaden participation of high school students.

NSF 23-145
Posted August 29, 2023
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Dear Colleague Letter

Nordic-U.S. Research Collaboration on Sustainable Development of the Arctic

Encourages interdisciplinary research proposals in collaboration with Nordic and Canadian research communities to engage Indigenous perspectives and address security, natural resources and societal changes for the sustainable development of the Arctic.

NSF 24-070
Posted March 19, 2024
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Supplemental Funding
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Dear Colleague Letter

Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current NSF awardees for projects that foster interest in the biological sciences and broaden participation of underrepresented high school students.

NSF 18-088
Posted July 11, 2018
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Ideas Lab: Engineering Technologies to Advance Underwater Sciences (ETAUS)

An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem. The aim of this Ideas Lab is to bring together experts from diverse scientific and...
View guidelines NSF 22-617
Posted January 28, 2005
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Dear Colleague Letter

Clean Energy Technology RAISE or EAGER Proposals

Invites Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to all NSF Directorates in the area of clean energy technologies.

NSF 23-109
Posted May 17, 2023
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Dear Colleague Letter

Planning for Midscale Infrastructure for the Biological Sciences

Invites workshop and planning proposals that address national research infrastructure gaps relevant to the biological sciences community.

NSF 20-116
Posted August 17, 2020
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