Join the Polar Science Early Career Community Office and the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Program (OPP) Officers on July 12 from 3pm to 4.30pm ET for an entry-level conversation about what the OPP and its relevance to you as a polar early career scientist!
The first hour of the call will be share an entry-level overview of the Office of Polar Programs, and information directly relevant to polar early career scientists. Some questions that may be covered on the call include:
- What is a program officer and why it is relevant to know them?
- What sorts of questions might be good to ask a program officer as a polar early career scientist considering on putting in a proposal?
- How should early career scientists best stay updated on solicitations?
- What are some current opportunities that the NSF OPP would like to highlight for early career scientists?
During the last thirty minutes of the call, early career scientists will have an opportunity to ask program officers questions and/or engage in general conversation as a group related to OPP and NSF funding.
Post-event updates:
A recording of the first part of the event is linked on the left.
Links posted in the chat, in the order that they are referenced in the video recording:
- Office of Polar Programs: https://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=OPP
- Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (OPP-PRF) https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/office-polar-programs-postdoctoral-research-fellowships-opp-prf
- Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Data and Sample Reuse in Polar Research https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21041/nsf21041.jsp
- NNA Program Page: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/navigating-new-arctic-nna
- NNA Community Office: https://nna-co.org/
- Merit Review basics https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/merit_review/
- Five tips for your Broader Impacts statement https://beta.nsf.gov/science-matters/nsf-101-five-tips-your-broader-impacts-statement
- For deeper help and resources regarding Broader Impacts: https://www.researchinsociety.org/
- The current PAPPG: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg22_1/
- A little bit more about how to work with a Program Officer: https://beta.nsf.gov/science-matters/nsf-101-5-tips-how-work-nsf-program-officer and https://debblog.nsfbio.com/2022/04/11/contacting-a-program-officer-2/
- How to find funding opportunities: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities
- NSF simple award search: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/
- Sign up for email alerts & newsletter: https://service.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNSF/subscriber/new
- We have an upcoming Virtual Office Hours just on this very topic! August 8, 2022 at 1 pm Eastern : International Collaboration. Register here: https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_xLmrYjP7RRyCkX2yGuzymg
- IARPC has put this list together sharing research vessel operations in the Arctic for summer 2022: https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/research-expeditions.html
- Two programs for at sea experiences: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/all-aboard-changing-minds-and-hearts-sea. https://mlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/stemseas/
- In answer to % of proposals funded, please take a look at a new tool, NSF by the Numbers: https://beta.nsf.gov/about/about-nsf-by-the-numbers. In short - it depends on where you are submitting, but for NSF on the whole, approximately 25% of proposals are funded.
- Here are the proposal preparation instructions from the current PAPPG: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg22_1/pappg_2.jsp
- For those of you at colleges/universities, check out your Research Office - there may be staff who can make that sort of checklist for you (and templates, and do draft reviews, etc.). They’re often called “Research Development” staff. Here’s an example from UMichigan: https://research.umich.edu/research-development/
- There is also a specific track in Convergence Accelerator: https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305024&org=SBE
- Dear Colleague Letter: Persons with Disabilities – STEM Engagement and Access: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21110/nsf21110.jsp
- We are seeking reviewers for GeoPATHS and CTGC and we usually send out emails asking for folks to sign up to review.
- For more information on Local and Indigenous Community Engagement and the Co-Production of Knowledge in NSF-Funded Arctic Science and Research, check out https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/arctic/ace/
- Sign up for email updates here: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNSF/subscriber/new?qsp=USNSF_51
- Council on Undergraduate Research: https://www.cur.org/ and https://www.cur.org/engage/collaborate/community/
- For the question about Data & Sample Reuse - yes, any polar data! So, DSOP/IODP would totally fit! https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21041/nsf21041.jsp