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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

Announcements

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News

Robotic underwater vehicle snaps first images of seafloor beneath Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier February 6, 2020
A relationship between severe winter weather and Arctic warmth? January 22, 2020
Thawing permafrost affects Alaska's land-to-ocean river flows January 8, 2020

Funding Opportunities

Signals in the Soil
(NSF 20-548) Posted February 19, 2020
Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase II
(NSF 20-546) Posted February 13, 2020
Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II
(NSF 20-545) Posted February 13, 2020

Upcoming Due Dates

ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (NSF 19-552) Full Proposal: March 2, 2020, Institutional Transformation proposals - only IHEs invited as a result of an IT-Preliminary proposal may submit a full IT proposal
Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms (NSF 20-513) Full Proposal: March 2, 2020
Long-Term Ecological Research (NSF 19-593) Full Proposal: March 5, 2020

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