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Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis  (OPUS)

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Saran  Twombly stwombly@nsf.gov (703) 292-8133  635N  
Bette  Loiselle bloisell@nsf.gov (703) 292-7207  635N  

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  08-559

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Target Date :   July 9, 2009
  July 9, Annually Thereafter
Participating Clusters expect to make 3-4 awards per target date or funding cycle, or 6-8 awards annually.

SYNOPSIS

Three clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (the Ecological Biology, Ecosystem Science, and the Population and Evolutionary Processes clusters) encourage the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by a single individual or group of investigators over an extended period. OPUS proposals will often be appropriately submitted in mid-to-late career, but will also be appropriate early enough in a career to produce unique, integrated insight useful both to the scientific community and to the development of the investigator's future work. In cases where multiple scientists have worked collaboratively, an OPUS award will provide support for collaboration on a synthesis. OPUS awards will facilitate critical synthesis, and do so in a way that will acknowledge the prestige of this important component of scientific scholarship.

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Last Updated: October 21, 2008