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
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) Program
Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Request for Synthesis Proposals (deadline: October 23, 2019)
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
- PACE Science and Applications Team
- ROSES-19 Amendment 35: A.33 Research from Geostationary Satellites - Notices of intent to propose are requested by October 25, 2019, and the due date for proposals is January 10, 2020
- A.34 Studies with ICESat-2 will solicit proposals to pursue any research topic using ICESat-2 observations and advancing the Earth Science goals articulated in the NASA 2018 Strategic Plan and 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan.
NASA EPSCoR R3 solicitation see Appendix C: SMD Earth Sciences Division (This falls under the EPSCoR jurisdiction, so please make sure you read the ‘eligibility’ section before doing anything; proposals will only be accepted from the resident institution of the NASA EPSCoR Director in each of the 28 eligible jurisdictions (see page 10 of the RFP)
NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA)
NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
- NOAA/OAR's Climate Program Office FY20 Notice of Funding Opportunity
Potentially relevant competition themes include:
- (COM program) Developing terrestrial-, marine-, and ice-atmosphere boundary layer data sets through collaborations between observations and modeling communities
- (MAPP program) Modeling Climate Impacts on the Predictability of Fisheries and Other Living Marine Resources
- (CVP program) Climate and Changing Ocean Conditions - Process Research and Modeling to Support the Needs of NOAA Fisheries
Full Applications Deadline: October 28, 2019
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (NOPP)
NOPP Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) - FY19 BAA
PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND 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
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- Belmont Forum
- Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
- Moore–Simons Project on the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative and the Simons Foundation Life Sciences Division are jointly soliciting proposals for research on the origin of the eukaryotic cell. The application portal opened July 9, 2019 at 10:00 PDT. The deadline for submitting a proposal is September 30, 2019 at 23:59 PDT. In addition to seeking researchers who currently work in these areas, we hope to identify scientists and engineers who have not previously worked on these topics and who would bring novel perspectives, methods and technologies to these important areas of science. Learn more about this funding opportunity, including FAQs and eligibility requirements: https://symbiosis.smapply.io.
