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Office of Polar Programs (OPP)

OPP supports world-class arctic and antarctic science through grants to researchers across the U.S. and by providing polar facilities and operational support.

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An unprecedented window opens into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

Image credit: Douglas Levere

Study sheds light on why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic

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News

Modernization of NSF’s logistics hub in Antarctica ready to move forward February 26, 2019
Antarctic research vessel to deliver ailing individual to British research station February 15, 2019
Study shows that Vikings enjoyed a warmer Greenland February 6, 2019

Funding Opportunities

Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
(NSF 19-567) Posted March 14, 2019
Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes
(NSF 19-559) Posted February 15, 2019
Signals in the Soil
(NSF 19-556) Posted February 12, 2019

Upcoming Due Dates

Long Term Ecological Research (NSF 19-544) Full Proposal: March 19, 2019
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science Phase I (NSF 19-550) Letter of Intent: March 25, 2019
Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (NSF 19-559) Letter of Intent: April 1, 2019, Letters of Intent for Conceptualization Grant proposals.

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