This program aims to investigate geodynamics, earth surface processes, and climate interactions shaping continental margins. With a focus on Subduction Cycles and Deformation and Rift Initiation and Evolution, the initiative explores themes like continental crust evolution, fluids-magmas interactions, and plate boundary deformation. Primary sites and thematic studies are identified for in-depth research. The annual funding for the program is around $5 million. For further information and the science plan, visit the GeoPRISMS website. An opportunity to contribute to transformative advances in understanding our planet’s dynamics and geological hazards.
Opportunity ID: 145313
General Information
| Document Type:: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number:: | 12-537 |
| Funding Opportunity Title:: | GeoPRISMS Program |
| Opportunity Category:: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation:: | |
| Funding Instrument Type:: | |
| Category of Funding Activity:: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation:: | |
| Expected Number of Awards:: | 10 |
| Assistance Listings Number(s):: | 47.050 — Geosciences |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: | No |
| Version:: | Synopsis 3 |
| Posted Date:: | Feb 21, 2012 |
| Last Updated Date:: | Apr 15, 2014 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications:: | Jul 02, 2012 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications:: | |
| Archive Date:: | Apr 15, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding:: | $ 5,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling:: | $ |
| Award Floor:: | $500,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants:: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility:: | *Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: – Proposals for postdoctoral fellowships must be submitted by a US academic institution. For all other proposals, the categories of proposers identified in the Grant Proposal Guideare eligible to submit proposals under this program solicitation. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name:: | National Science Foundation |
| Description:: | GeoPRISMS (Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and Subducting Margins) is the successor to the MARGINS Program. GeoPRISMS will investigate the coupled geodynamics, earth surface processes, and climate interactions that build and modify continental margins over a wide range of timescales. These interactions cross the shoreline and have applications to margin evolution and dynamics, construction of stratigraphic architecture, accumulation of economic resources, and associated geologic hazards and environmental management. The GeoPRISMS Program includes two broadly integrated science initiatives (Subduction Cycles and Deformation and Rift Initiation and Evolution), linked by five overarching scientific topics and themes, where transformative advances are likely to occur in the next decade, and where a focused scientific program could be most effective. These overarching science topics include 1) Origin and evolution of continental crust; 2) Fluids, magmas and their interactions; 3) Climate-surface-tectonics feedbacks; 3) Geochemical cycles; and 5) Plate boundary deformation and geodynamics. Each of the initiatives has identified primary sites for focused investigations, as well as thematic studies that will complement primary site studiesFurther information and a science plan for the program detailing each initiative and the associated thematic studies, as well as the overarching themes, can be found on the GeoPRISMS website at http://www.geoprisms.org/. The expected level of funding will be approximately $5 million per year for the foreseeable future. |
| Link to Additional Information:: | |
| Grantor Contact Information:: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| Synopsis 3 | Archived. Replaced by NSF 14-556. | Apr 15, 2014 |
| Synopsis 2 | Updatetd the Close Date and Archive Date | |
| Synopsis 1 |
Package Status
Package No: 1