(FOA)-Opportunities
for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS); August 28, 2019
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
OPUS program seeks to provide opportunities for mid- to later-career
investigators to develop new understanding of science in the fields supported
by the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) through two tracks of synthesis
activities.
OPUS:
Mid-Career Synthesis. This track aims
to provide a mid-career researcher, defined as a candidate at the associate
professor rank (or equivalent), with new capabilities to enhance their
productivity, improve their retention as a scientist, and ensure a diverse
scientific workforce that remains engaged in active research (including more
women and minorities at high academic ranks). This track provides an opportunity
for the mid-career scientist to enable a new synthesis of their ongoing
research. Synthesis is achieved by developing new research capabilities through
collaboration with a mentor to enable new understanding of the research system
and questions of interest.
OPUS:
Core Research Synthesis. This track
provides an opportunity for an individual or a group of investigators to revisit
and synthesize a significant body of their prior research in a way that will
enable new understanding of their research system and questions of interest.
This track would also be appropriate early enough in a career to produce unique,
integrated insight useful both to the scientific community and to the
development of the investigator's future career.
All
four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science,
Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and
Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of these proposals enabling
researchers to expand understanding and develop new insights in their
research.
Announcement
Number
NSF
19-584
Closing
Date
August
28, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19584/nsf19584.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
George
W. Gilchrist
(703)
292-7138