Posted 26 October 2007

Pre-proposals are welcome for conducting field campaigns and scientific research using the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility sites/facilities at the Southern Great Plains, North Slope of Alaska, Tropical Western Pacific, ARM Mobile Facility (AMF), and/or Aerial Vehicles Program (AVP) from all members of the scientific community. The due date for pre-proposals is 1 February 2008.

Preproposals should be submitted online through the field campaign form at http://www.arm.gov/acrf. Requests for use of the AMF should include a deployment time of 6 to 10 months. Preference will be given to AMF deployments in which the AMF is embedded in a larger field campaign. It is recommended that proposals for short-term ARM AVP campaigns (6 weeks or less) make use of the ARM fixed sites or the AMF. Flights over ground remote sensing facilities (but not necessarily ARM’s) are also desirable. A select number of full proposals will be invited, which will be due on May 15, 2008.

Posted:  4 October 2007

National Science Foundation:  Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC)The NSF Geosciences Directorate (GEO) is substantially augmenting past funding sources to explicitly support emerging areas of interdisciplinary research. NSF is seeking to foster transformational advances in the quantitative or mechanistic understanding of biogeochemical cycles that integrate physical-chemical-biological processes over the range of temporal and/or spatial scales in Earth’s environments. Submission of proposals are encouraged  that address emerging topics in biogeochemical cycles, the water cycle or their coupling, across the interfaces of atmosphere, land, and oceans. Proposals must cross the disciplinary boundaries of two or more divisions in Geosciences (e.g. ATM, EAR, OCE) or of at least one division in Geosciences and a division in another NSF directorate. For more information: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07049/nsf07049.jsp.