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

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

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News

Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed deep beneath the Greenland ice November 17, 2020
Autonomous multi-drone aerial surveys of Antarctic penguin colonies November 9, 2020
Coastal permafrost more susceptible to climate change than previously thought October 28, 2020

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Funding Opportunities

Arctic Research Opportunities
(NSF 21-526) Posted November 12, 2020
Navigating the New Arctic
(NSF 21-524) Posted November 10, 2020
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Data Science Corps
(NSF 21-523) Posted November 9, 2020

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Upcoming Due Dates

WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (PD 18-5115) Full Proposal: November 25, 2020, Gravitational Physics - Theory; LIGO Research Support
WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (PD 18-5115) Full Proposal: December 1, 2020, Nuclear Physics - Theory and Experiment; Particle Astrophysics - Experiment
Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I (NSF 20-527) Full Proposal: December 3, 2020, Small businesses can submit a Project Pitch at any time. Small businesses that have been invited to submit a full proposal can submit a proposal based on that Project Pitch at any time during one of the submission windows listed above.

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

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

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News

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