Division of Antarctic Sciences
Antarctic Research
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CONTACTS
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PROGRAM GUIDELINES
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Solicitation
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SYNOPSIS
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Scientific research and operational support of that research are the principal activities supported by the United States Government in Antarctica. The goals are to expand fundamental knowledge of the region, to foster research on global and regional problems of current scientific importance, and to use Antarctica as a platform from which to support research. For projects involving fieldwork, the U.S. Antarctic Program supports only research that can be done exclusively in Antarctica or that is best done from Antarctica. The program also supports antarctic-related analytical research performed at home organizations.
NSF is the designated lead agency for the International Polar Year, 2007-2009, for the United States and has made a number of awards in response to IPY solicitations (see list of awards at http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/ipy/ipy_awards_list.jsp). These awards will result in new data sets that could be used in follow-on research such as modeling and synthesis work. Proposals that make use of IPY datasets or that otherwise build on IPY investments are welcome in the regular programs.
For information concerning other Federal agencies and their IPY programs, please go to the U.S. government interagency IPY site at http://www.us-ipy.gov/.
FUNDED AS PART OF THIS ACTIVITY
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Antarctic Aeronomy and Astrophysics Program
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Antarctic Earth Sciences Program
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Antarctic Glaciology Program
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Antarctic Integrated System Science
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Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems
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RELATED URLS
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Polar Ice
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U.S. Antarctic Program portal
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U.S. Antarctic Program Participant Guide, 2006-2008
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Grantee Deployment Packets and Information
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OPP Guidelines and Award Conititions for Scientific Data
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U.S. Interagency IPY web site
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U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center
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Report from the Oden Southern Ocean Workshop, February 10-13, 2008
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Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program
News
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