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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.

Image credit: Denise Holland, NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Global Sea Level Change

Researchers find warm ocean water, exacerbated by warmer air, is causing rapid melt of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers

Image credit: SALSA

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

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News

Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement September 17, 2019
Vintage film shows that Thwaites Glacier ice shelf has melted faster than previously observed September 4, 2019
More than 100 years of Arctic sea ice volume reconstructed from ships' logbooks August 12, 2019

Funding Opportunities

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
(NSF 20-516) Posted November 12, 2019
Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research
(NSF 20-515) Posted November 12, 2019
Navigating the New Arctic
(NSF 20-514) Posted November 5, 2019

Upcoming Due Dates

WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (PD 18-5115) Full Proposal: November 18, 2019, Plasma Physics
WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (PD 18-5115) Full Proposal: November 27, 2019, Gravitational Physics - Theory; LIGO Research Support
Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) (NSF 19-600) Full Proposal: December 3, 2019

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