FOA-Navigating
the New Arctic (NNA); Deadline March 05,
2021
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
Arctic
temperatures are warming faster than nearly everywhere else on Earth, with some
models projecting that continued warming could produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean
in a few decades. The rapid and wide-scale changes occurring in response to
this warming portend new opportunities and unprecedented risks to natural
environments; social and cultural systems; economic, political and legal
systems; and built environments of the Arctic and across the globe. Gaps in
scientific observations and the prevalence of interdependent social, natural,
and built systems in the Arctic make it challenging to predict the region's
future. Understanding and adapting to a changing Arctic requires creative new
directions for Arctic-related research, education, workforce development, and
leveraging of science, engineering, and technology advances from outside the
Arctic.
Navigating
the New Arctic (NNA) embodies an important forward-looking response by the
Foundation to these profound challenges. NNA seeks innovations in fundamental
convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, computing
and information sciences, and engineering that address the interactions or
connections among natural and built environments and social systems, and how
these connections inform our understanding of Arctic change and its local and
global effects.
This
solicitation requests proposals that fall within one of three tracks: NNA
Planning Grants, dedicated to developing convergence research questions and
teams to tackle projects of larger scope in the future; NNA Research Grants,
aimed to support creative projects on fundamental research that address
convergent scientific and engineering challenges related to the rapidly
changing Arctic; and NNA Collaboratory Grants,
designed to support collaborative teams undertaking research and training
initiatives on critical themes of a broad scope related to the New Arctic. This
solicitation is the third of what is envisioned to be at least a five-year
agency-wide program to support the research and dissemination of new knowledge
needed to inform the economy, security, and resilience of the Nation, the
larger Arctic region, and the globe with respect to Arctic
change.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
21-524
Closing
Date:
March
05, 2021
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21524/nsf21524.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_36&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
NNA
Working Group
(703)
292-8030