Please check the calendar for specific upcoming funding targets and deadlines. Below is a continually updated list of OCB-relevant federal agency funding opportunities.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
Division of Ocean Sciences
- Chemical Oceanography
- Biological Oceanography
- Physical Oceanography
- Marine Geology and Geophysics
- Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2)
- Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
- Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (OCE-PRF)
- November 2016 Dear Colleague Letter regarding NASA EXPORTS
Office of Polar Programs
- Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems
- Antarctic Integrated System Science
- Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
- Arctic Research Opportunities
Interdisciplinary and Cross-Directorate Opportunities
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES)
- Arctic SEES (ArcSEES)
- Coastal SEES
- Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems
- Research Coordination Networks (RCN)
- SEES fellowship program
DARPA RFI to request ideas for living sensors
Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
- A.8 Sustaining Living Systems in a Time of Climate Variability and Change – NOIs due 3.28.18 (encouraged but not required) and proposals due 5.26.18.
- A.37 EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND RESPONSE – NOIs due 4.17.18 (encouraged but not required) and proposals due 6.14.18.
- A.9 Physical Oceanography
- A.27 EARTH SCIENCE U.S. PARTICIPATING INVESTIGATOR – if you wish to use non-NASA assets in your NASA research
- A.30 CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete – for anyone interested in using CloudSat or CALIPSO data in their research
- A.22 NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study
- ROSES-18 Amendment 10: A.4 Terrestrial Ecology Final text (May 4, 2018): Solicitation for Phase 2 of the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Notices of Intent are requested by June 18, 2018 and the due date for proposals is September 7, 2018.
NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA)
Potential Private Funding Sources
- Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
- Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- Schmidt Ocean Institute
- Marine Science and Technology Foundation
- Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPrize
- Simons Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation
- North Pacific Research Board
- Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
- Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- Belmont Forum’s Science Drive E-Infrastructures Innovation: Call for proposals “Enhancement of Transnational, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Data Use in Environmental Change Research.” 4 year projects starting between January 2019 – March 2019. Due July 16, 2018. Additional criteria
