This grant, offered jointly by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), addresses the profound consequences of climate variability and change. Its primary purpose is to develop and apply next-generation Earth System Models, incorporating interactive representations of various components like ocean and atmospheric currents, agriculture, and biogeochemistry. The initiative fosters interagency cooperation, enabling researchers from geosciences, agricultural sciences, mathematics, and statistics to collaborate on high-impact projects. The long-term goals include improving global and regional decadal climate predictions through advanced understanding of coupled processes and translating these predictions into actionable insights for policy and management. Specific focus areas include enhancing predictive capabilities, conducting prediction and attribution studies, and developing evaluation tools for climate forecasts and their impacts.
Opportunity ID: 243513
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 13-607 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 10.310 — Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Sep 23, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Dec 23, 2013 Full Proposal Deadline(s): December 23, 2013 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Dec 23, 2013 Full Proposal Deadline(s): December 23, 2013 |
| Archive Date: | Jan 07, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $18,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $3,000,000 |
| Award Floor: | $2,000,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | *PI Limit: PIs from NSF-funded FFRDCs (Federally Funded Research and Development Center) may submit proposals to this competition. Projects involving USDA FFRDCs will only be considered for co-funding by NSF if they are collaborative effortsthat includenon-federally funded institutions. To facilitate possible interagency funding of such collaboratives, an institution other than the USDA FFRDC mustserve as the lead institution. This is necessitated solely by NSF rules for funding collaborative grants and should not be construed as a comment on capability or leadership. USDA research laboratories submitting proposals as the lead institution will only be considered for funding by USDA-NIFA. Proposals from FFRDCs must obey NSF budget guidelines and may not include costs already covered by federal funds. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | The consequences of climate variability and change are becoming more immediate and profound than previously anticipated. Over recent decades, the world has witnessed the onset of prolonged droughts on several continents, increased frequency of floods, loss of agricultural and forest productivity, degraded ocean and permafrost ecosystems, global sea level rise and the rapid retreat of ice sheets and glaciers, loss of arctic sea ice, and changes in ocean currents. These important impacts highlight that climate variability and change can have significant effects on decadal and shorter time scales, with significant consequences for plant, animal, human, and physical systems. The EaSM funding opportunity enables interagency cooperation on one of the most pressing problems of the millennium: climate change and??how it is likely to affect our world. It allows the partner agencies — National Science Foundation (NSF) and??U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) — to combine resources to identify and fund the most meritorious and highest-impact projects that support their respective missions, while??avoiding duplication of effort and fostering collaboration between agencies and the investigators they support.This interdisciplinary scientific challenge calls for the development and application of next-generation Earth System Models that include coupled and interactive representations of such??components as ocean and atmospheric currents, agricultural working lands and forests,?? biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry,?? the water cycle and land ice.?? This solicitation seeks to attract scientists from the disciplines of geosciences, agricultural sciences, mathematics and statistics. Successful proposals will develop intellectual excitement in the participating disciplinary communities and engage diverse interdisciplinary teams with sufficient breadth to achieve the scientific objectives. We encourage proposals that have strong broader impacts, including public access to data and other research products of general interest, as well as educational, diversity, or societal impacts.The long-term goals of this solicitation are to improve on and extend current Earth System modeling capabilities to: Achieve comprehensive, reliable global and regional predictions of decadal climate variability and change through advanced understanding of the coupled interactive physical, chemical, biological, and human processes that drive the climate system, including??as they pertain to agriculture , forestry or land cover/use.Quantify the impacts of climate variability and change on natural and human systems, and identify and quantify feedback loops.Maximize the utility of available observational and model data for impact, vulnerability/resilience, and risk assessments through up/downscaling activities and uncertainty characterization.Effectively translate climate predictions and associated uncertainties into the scientific basis for policy and management decisions related to human interventions and adaptation to the projected impacts of climate change. The EaSM-3 solicitation focuses primarily??on Goal 1 (above) with the??following specific areas of interest related to decadal scales: (i) Research that has the potential to dramatically improve predictive capabilities; (ii) Prediction and attribution studies; (iii) Development and applications of metrics, methods, and tools for testing and evaluating climate and climate impact predictions and characterizing their uncertainty.?? These subareas of particular interest are described in greater detail below under Program Description:?? Areas of interest.???? |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 13-607 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | NSF grants.gov support grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.310 | PKG00186431 | Sep 23, 2013 | Dec 23, 2013 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
243513 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
243513 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
243513 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_3-1.3.pdf
243513 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
243513 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
243513 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
243513 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
243513 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
243513 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
243513 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
243513 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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