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Opportunity for Oil Spill Response

Please be advised that the NSF Office of Integrative Activities has posted a Dear Colleague Letter that announces an opportunity to apply for MRI RAPID grants this month in response to the Deep Water Horizon oil spill.  Those submitted will compete for a $5M set aside from the FY 2010 MRI allocation of $90M. Please visit http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10064/nsf10064.jsp for details.

In light of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has highlighted the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) mechanism (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10060/nsf10060.jsp) as a means for NSF to receive and review proposals having severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to, data, facilities or specialized equipment, as well as quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. RAPID is a special grant mechanism developed specifically to respond to unusual circumstances where a timely response is essential to achieving research results.
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