Briefing Book Materials, November 8 - 9, 2007
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1. INTRODUCTION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES

• List of Office Advisory Committee members
• OPP staff directory
  • Office of Polar Programs front office
  • Division of Antarctic Sciences
  • Division of Arctic Sciences
  • Office Polar Environment, Health and Safety
  • Division of Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics
• Agenda, November 8-9, 2007
• Minutes, May 17, 2007 (teleconference)

2. OPP DIRECTOR'S REPORT

• OPP Director's presentation (PDF format, 130 Kb; PowerPoint, 425 Kb)
• Budget overview
  • OPP FY 2008 budget
• U.S.-Sweden Polar Agreement (Oden)
• MRI Program Changes & the America Competes Act
  • Major Research Instrumentation, FY 2008
  • MRI Cost-Sharing Notice
  • Proposal and award information
• HR 2272, The America COMPETES Act (PDF format, 693 Kb)
• Cyber-enabled Discovery & Innovation (CDI) Initiative
• NSF's Merit Review Web site
• Personnel Changes
  • OPP organization chart (PDF format, 15 Kb)

3. INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (IPY) UPDATES

• FY 2007 activities
  • NSF IPY awards lists
    • IPY awards made during 2007
    • IPY awards made during 2006 and early 2007
  • NSF IPY contacts page
  • Update on FY 2007 NSF IPY Competition: Presentation by Scott Borg, OPP/ANT, and Simon Stephenson, OPP/ARC (PDF format, 531 Kb; PowerPoint, 27,541 Kb)
  • NSF’s Investment in Education during International Polar Year: Presentation by Renee Crain, OPP/ARC and Valentine Kass, EHR (PDF format, 434 Kb; PowerPoint, 6,564 Kb)

4. ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC COMMITTEE OF VISITORS (COV) REPORT

• Antarctic Sciences COV
  • FY 2007 Antarctic COV Report (This document is password protected.)
  • Antarctic Sciences Division draft response to COV recommendations — revised October 2007 (This document is password protected.)
  • Funding rates for antarctic and arctic research by institution type (PDF format, 24 Kb)
• Arctic Science COV
• FY 2007 Arctic COV Report (This document is password protected.)
• Arctic Sciences Division draft response to COV recommendations (This document is password protected.)
• Success rates for the Arctic Research Program by program (PDF format, 16 Kb)
  
  
• NSF Strategic Plans
  • National Science Foundation Investing in America’s Future: Strategic Plan FY 2006-2011
  • National Science Foundation Strategic Plan FY 2003 – 2008
  • NSF GPRA Strategic Plan FY 2001 - 2006

5. NSF AND TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH

• Enhancing Support of Transformative Research at NSF. A. Bement presentation, August 2007 (PDF format, 341 Kb)
• Enhancing Support of Transformative Research at NSF: An Update to the National Science Board. A. Bement presentation, October 2007 (PDF format, 76 Kb; PowerPoint, 459 Kb)
• Enhancing Support of Transformative Research at the National Science Foundation, National Science Board (PDF format, 4,428 Kb)
• Important Notice No. 130: Transformative Research; September 24, 2007, Office of the Director, National Science Foundation

6. ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

• Directions and Future Challenges
  • Setting a Course for Antarctic Integrated System Science — A workshop and report
  • Antarctic Integrated System Science — The Inaugural Workshop and The IPY Launch: Presentation by Kelly Falkner, OPP/ANT (PDF format, 334 Kb; PowerPoint, 4,892 Kb)
  • LARA - Scientific Opportunities for a Long-Range Aircraft for Research in Antarctica —A workshop and report

7. BROADENING PARTICIPATION

• Development of an NSF Plan to Broaden Participation (PDF format, 82 Kb; PowerPoint, 632 Kb)

8. MREFC PROJECT STATUS

• South Pole Station Modernization
  • South Pole Station Modernization (SPSM) MREFC Project Status: Presentation by Erick Chiang, OPP/AIL (PDF format, 274 Kb; PowerPoint, 1,039 Kb)
• IceCube
  • IceCube MREFC Project Status Report (PDF format, 337 Kb; PowerPoint, 6,413 Kb)

9. U.S. ANTARCTIC PROGRAM INFRASTRUCTURE

• Directions and Future Challenges
  • Optimization of South Pole Operations (PDF format, 3,828 Kb)
  • LC-130 Deep Field Workshop Report (Word document, 1,350 Kb; This is a read-only file.)
  • Division of Antarctic Infrastructure and LogisticsFuture Directions and Challenges: Presentation by Erick Chiang, OPP/AIL (PDF format, 562 Kb; PowerPoint, 13,669 Kb)

10. PLANNING FOR ANTARCTIC INFRASTRUCTURE/LOGISTICS COMMITTEE OF VISITORS

• Committee of Visitors Reports, Fiscal Year 2004 — Polar Research Support
  • Committee of Visitors Report on the Polar Research Support Section (Review period 2001, 2002, and 2003) (PDF format, 149 Kb)
  • OPP Response to the Committee of Visitors Report

11. NSF STUDY OF PROPOSAL SUCCESS RATES AND RELATED ISSUES

• Impact of Proposal and Award Management Mechanisms Report (PDF format, 244 Kb; PowerPoint, 396 Kb) (Jacqueline Meszaros, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences)

Last updated: 19 November 2007

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