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Organization of Projects on Environmental Research in the Arctic (OPERA)

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Synopsis

This solicitation seeks proposals for activities to foster and sustain collaboration among projects funded by NSF that contribute to the US arctic environmental change research effort. Many of these projects began during the International Polar Year (IPY) and are currently affiliated with the US Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) and the Arctic Observation Network. Others are supported outside of the auspices of SEARCH and IPY.  The project or projects supported through this solicitation will provide resources to the scientific leadership that are needed to implement SEARCH's broad science agenda.  The scope covers SEARCH generally and its component parts, observing, understanding and responding. One key additional effort, which has gained prominence during the IPY, is needed to tie all these together: a robust and modern approach to managing and enabling discovery of Arctic scientific data.

Program contacts

Name Email Phone
Overall Lead-Neil R. Swanberg
 nswanber@nsf.gov (703) 292-8029
Lead for observing-Martin O. Jeffries
 mjeffrie@nsf.gov (703) 292-7442
Anna M. Kerttula de Echave
 akerttul@nsf.gov (703) 292-7432
Erica Key
 ekey@nsf.gov (703) 292-8029
William J. Wiseman
 wwiseman@nsf.gov (703) 292-4750

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