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Supports efforts to integrate ocean research and education via two main program areas — Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites or Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.

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.

Supports research that uses existing data and samples and other research not requiring a presence in Antarctica to investigate the interactions between the Antarctic region and global systems or investigate Antarctic systems, biota and processes.

The Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) and Research Opportunity Awards (ROA) funding opportunities support research by faculty members at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs). RUI proposals support PUI faculty in research that engages them in their professional field(s), builds capacity for...

Supports networks that foster communication and new collaborations among scientists, engineers and educators who share a common interest in a new or developing area of science or engineering.

Supports research on the physical, chemical and biological processes that influence the Earth’s climate over the long term and enables understanding of present climate variability and future trends.

Supports postdoctoral researchers in performing work that will broaden their perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions, and help establish them in leadership positions within the atmospheric and geospace sciences communities.

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

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.

Supports research experiences for undergraduates (REU) and postdoctoral fellowships that integrate atmospheric and geospace research and education.

Supports planning proposals and major improvements to biological field stations or laboratories in any terrestrial, marine, estuarine or freshwater environment for research and education.

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.

Supports research on the processes by which energy in diverse forms is generated by the sun, transported to the Earth, and ultimately deposited in the terrestrial environment.

Supports research, education and outreach projects that use instrumentation and facilities sponsored by NSF's Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education Program.

Supports research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine and coastal systems to the deep sea and the Great Lakes.

Supports research on the magnetized plasma envelope of the outer atmosphere.

Supports research on atmospheric physics and dynamics at sub-synoptic scales, including processes relevant to and impacted by climate change.

Supports the NSF Ocean Drilling Program.

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.

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.

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.

To facilitate fundamental research in the atmospheric sciences, the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) supports state-of-the-art instruments and facilities through the Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE) Program. The FARE Program includes the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities...