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Novel Approaches to Critical Minerals Research in the Geosciences (GEO-CM)

Invites proposals on fundamental research to facilitate discovery, characterization, extraction and separation of critical minerals such as essential metals and rare earth elements required to achieve a clean-energy future.

Posted February 22, 2023
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Opportunities for Research and Education in the Critical-Zone (ORE-CZ)

Invites proposals that expand the breadth of researchers investigating the dynamics and processes within Earth’s critical zone — the region that ranges from the weathered bedrock beneath the soil to the top of the vegetation canopy.

Posted December 7, 2021
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Repurposing the Alaska Transportable Array to Support Observations of Arctic Environmental Change

Invites proposals to repurpose a subset of stations in the Alaska Transportable Array to support observations of long-term environmental change of the Arctic.

Posted March 7, 2019
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Geoscience Research Experiences for Post-Baccalaureate Students (GEO-REPS) Supplemental Funding Opportunity

Invites supplemental funding requests from active awardees of the Directorate for Geosciences to support research training for post-baccalaureate students who did not have access to these opportunities as undergraduates due to pandemic-related interruptions.

Posted April 20, 2022
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Extreme, Compound, and Cascading Hazards (EC2H)

Invites fundamental research into adaptive and/or resilient responses to natural disasters, extreme events, and other natural hazards.

Posted June 29, 2023
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Tectonics

Supports integrative field, laboratory, computational and theoretical research to understand the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere.

Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
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Hydrologic Sciences

Supports research on water beneath and on the Earth’s surface and relationships of water with material and living components of the environment, with a focus on hydrologic processes and fluxes of water.

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Petrology and Geochemistry (CH)

Supports research on the formation of planet Earth, including its accretion, early differentiation, and its petrologic and geochemical modification via igneous and metamorphic processes.

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Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP)

Supports research on surface Earth processes and environmental and evolutionary change. Focus areas include using the geologic record to study life; modern sedimentary processes and deep-time records; and dating and measuring geologic events and processes.

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Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)

Supports infrastructure proposals for the following: acquisition or upgrade of research equipment; development of new instrumentation, techniques or software; and community facility support to make complex and expensive instruments.

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Geophysics (PH)

Supports laboratory, field, theoretical and computational research on the physics of solid earth, from the surface to the interior of the Earth, exploring composition, structure and processes.

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Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry

Supports research on geochemical processes in Earth’s surface environmental systems on land, as well as the terrestrial interaction of geochemical and biological processes at all temporal and spatial scales.

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Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics

Supports research on the processes that shape and modify Earth's landscapes over a variety of temporal and spatial scales, with a focus on the Holocene.

Full Proposal Accepted Anytime