Replaces Doc(s):
NSF 22-513
Nationwide Science Basis
Directorate for Organic Sciences
Division of Integrative Organismal Techniques
Division of Environmental Biology
Directorate for Geosciences
Division of Ocean Sciences
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):
December 13, 2023
November 19, 2024
Third Tuesday in November, Yearly Thereafter
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES
This solicitation continues to just accept full proposals that suggest mechanistic research of organismal response to local weather change (ORCC) as a basis that, when built-in with analysis at different ranges of group, will result in a deeper understanding and higher predictions of the integrity, the resilience, and the variation of organic techniques to local weather change.
REVISION NOTES
The Directorates for Organic Sciences and Geological Sciences require that proposers who embody off-campus or off-site analysis as a part of their mission submit, as supplementary documentation, a Plan for Protected and Inclusive Working Environments. For this solicitation, this doc replaces the required plan related to the certification in Chapter II.E.9 of the Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). Directions for inclusion of the Plan for Protected and Inclusive Working Environments will be discovered within the further proposal preparation directions on this solicitation.
This revision additionally contains data on necessities for Knowledge Administration Plans and organic specimen assortment.
The Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) within the Directorate for Geosciences was added to the solicitation as a taking part program.
Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation needs to be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) that’s in impact for the related due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is usually revised and it’s the accountability of the proposer to make sure that the proposal meets the necessities specified on this solicitation and the relevant model of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal previous to a specified deadline doesn’t negate this requirement.
SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Basic Data
Program Title:
Organismal Response to Local weather Change (ORCC)
Increasing Understanding and Bettering Predictions of Life on a Warming Planet
Synopsis of Program:
The world is presently present process unprecedented modifications in world climates throughout all biomes, with results on practically each life-form. How organisms reply to those quickly altering circumstances may have giant penalties for the expansion, replica and health of particular person organisms, the distribution of species over house and time, the integrity and the composition of pure communities, the yield of domesticated crops and animals, and the incidence and severity of pathogen outbreaks. Penalties resembling these are already having main impacts on the US bioeconomy, the world’s meals safety, and the ecosystem companies offered by dwelling techniques to people. Growing a complete understanding of the mechanistic underpinnings of organismal response to local weather change will enhance our means to grasp adaptive and plastic capability of species and to foretell and to mitigate maladaptive organic responses to quickly altering environments, thus facilitating the upkeep of species on a altering planet.
Most local weather change research so far have lacked integration between investigations of organismal mechanisms of response and eco-evolutionary approaches. This solicitation requires proposals that combine the research of organismal mechanisms of response to local weather change (ORCC) with eco-evolutionary approaches to raised predict and mitigate the results of a quickly altering local weather on earth’s dwelling techniques. Particular areas of emphasis embody however are usually not restricted to integrating physiology and genomics into the subsequent technology of species distribution fashions; understanding the mechanistic bases of plastic responses to local weather change; practical genomics of organismal response to local weather change; how organic interactions are affected by local weather change; how organic interactions in flip have an effect on organismal responses to local weather change; and bettering our means to foretell the boundaries of organic and world resilience as organisms face altering and novel local weather circumstances.
Proposals to the ORCC Solicitation are inspired that construct on NSF’s funding in rising convergence analysis by growing integrative, cross-disciplinary approaches that look at the organismal mechanisms that underlie adaptive and maladaptive responses to environmental elements related to local weather change, how these responses have an effect on health in altering and/or novel climates and the genetic and evolutionary processes (eco-evolutionary) via which these traits originate, persist, and are transmitted throughout generations. Additional, this solicitation encourages inventive approaches to make use of the outcomes of those foundational analysis investigations to develop use-inspired methods to deal with societal challenges in anticipating and managing results of local weather change on organisms throughout spatial and temporal scales and organic hierarchies.
Proposals that don’t bridge disciplinary parts, that lack a selected deal with mechanisms of organismal response to local weather change, that don’t combine organismal mechanistic insights with eco-evolutionary penalties above the extent of the person, or that don’t describe a plan for use-inspired purposes of foundational analysis, needs to be submitted to the “core” or particular packages in IOS, OCE, or DEB are usually not acceptable for submission to this solicitation. Please contact a cognizant program officer when you’ve got questions on the place your deliberate proposal matches.
Cognizant Program Officer(s):
Please be aware that the next data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Courtney E. Jahn,
phone:
(703) 292-7746,
e-mail: [email protected]
Christopher Balakrishnan,
phone:
(703) 292-2331,
e-mail: [email protected]
Irwin Forseth,
phone:
(703) 292-7862,
e-mail: [email protected]
Jayne Gardiner,
phone:
(703) 292-4828,
e-mail: [email protected]
Theodore J. Morgan,
phone:
(703) 292-7868,
e-mail: [email protected]
Mamta Rawat,
phone:
(703) 292-7265,
e-mail: [email protected]
Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):
47.050
— Geosciences
47.074
— Organic Sciences
Award Data
Anticipated Kind of Award:
Customary Grant or Persevering with Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards:
10
to 14
Pending availability of funds, 10 to 14 awards are anticipated.
Anticipated Funding Quantity:
$10,000,000
Pending availability of funds, a minimal of $10,000,000 is anticipated to be out there for awards in FY2024.
Eligibility Data
Who Could Submit Proposals:
Proposals could solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Greater Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group faculties) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, performing
on behalf of their school members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be offered to an
worldwide department campus of a US establishment of upper training (together with via use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify
the profit(s) to the mission of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the mission actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Impartial museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and related organizations situated within the U.S. which can be immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.
Tribal Governments: The governing physique of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe below the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Listing Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a, et seq.)
Who Could Function PI:
There are not any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:
There are not any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI:
There are not any restrictions or limits.
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
A. Proposal Preparation Directions
Letters of Intent: Not required
Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
B. Budgetary Data
C. Due Dates
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):
December 13, 2023
November 19, 2024
Third Tuesday in November, Yearly Thereafter
Proposal Evaluation Data Standards
Advantage Evaluation Standards:
Nationwide Science Board accredited standards. Extra benefit evaluate standards apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.
Award Administration Data
Award Situations:
Customary NSF award circumstances apply.
Reporting Necessities:
Customary NSF reporting necessities apply.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract of Program Necessities
Introduction
Program Description
Award Data
Eligibility Data
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
Proposal Preparation Directions
Budgetary Data
Due Dates
Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities
NSF Proposal Processing and Evaluation Procedures
Advantage Evaluation Ideas and Standards
Evaluation and Choice Course of
Award Administration Data
Notification of the Award
Award Situations
Reporting Necessities
Company Contacts
Different Data
I. INTRODUCTION
Almost each life-form throughout earth’s terrestrial, aquatic, and marine biomes is experiencing speedy and dramatic modifications of their biotic and abiotic environments. These dynamic circumstances have resulted in lots of organisms experiencing circumstances exterior of their climatic tolerances, with results on their progress, replica, survival, and species distribution. Research during the last a number of many years have documented modifications within the distribution, phenology, abundance, and charges of extinction of pure populations and species in response to altering local weather, in addition to modifications in agricultural yields and ecosystem companies provided to human populations. Different research have recognized physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying organismal response to environmental stressors, however not at all times within the context of local weather change. The objective of this solicitation is to combine organismal mechanisms with eco-evolutionary approaches and fashions to enhance our means to foretell organismal responses to altering climates. Initiatives that innovatively apply approaches that mix experimentation, computation, and modeling, that result in new conceptual and theoretical insights and testable predictions about built-in organismal responses to local weather change are inspired. Analysis that integrates knowledge throughout spatial/temporal/organic scales, results in transformative strategies, instruments, and assets, and/or seeks breakthroughs within the understanding of complicated traits and emergent properties of organisms (e.g., robustness, resilience) can also be emphasised. This solicitation additionally seeks to help initiatives that use the foundational analysis outcomes generated for use-inspired, translational outcomes that tackle societal challenges on account of present and/or future local weather modifications.
Broader Impacts: This solicitation requires a plan or a predictive framework for the way the foundational analysis outcomes present use-inspired insights that tackle societal challenges brought on by local weather change. See solicitation particular criterion 3 on this solicitation. As well as, this solicitation helps initiatives that present distinctive instructional and coaching alternatives for the subsequent technology of researchers, scientific educators and scientifically literate residents. To deal with the Broader Impacts evaluate criterion, proposals can comprise the event of progressive instructional, broadening participation, and outreach actions or substantive participation in present institutional infrastructure for training, coaching and outreach with further price range requested to help these actions. Profitable proposals usually reveal shut integration of the scientific and academic targets.
NSF, BIO-IOS, BIO-DEB, and GEO-OCE are dedicated to the inclusion of all folks and establishments within the analysis enterprise as a result of all are very important to the nation’s well being, safety, and world management in STEM. The nation’s altering demographics make this dedication all of the timelier. Subsequently, to be aggressive, proposers have to be intentional concerning broadening participation of their initiatives via efforts to advertise range, fairness, and inclusion of people and establishments historically underrepresented in STEM. NSF can also be keen on making certain the inclusion of all people, to incorporate these from numerous social classes and/or identities together with however not restricted to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic standing, incapacity standing, veteran standing, or geography—recognizing that underrepresentation can fluctuate by profession stage and self-discipline and that there are further issues of intersectionality. This higher postures NSF to leverage the total spectrum of numerous expertise that society has to supply. Proposals submitted to this solicitation are strongly inspired to contain PIs, co-PIs, postdoctoral fellows, college students, and different personnel who’re members of those teams. NSF additionally acknowledges that STEM analysis and training happens at a variety of establishments, together with Minority-serving Establishments (MSIs), Primarily Undergraduate Establishments (PUIs), and two-year faculties, in addition to main analysis establishments. NSF welcomes single establishment and multi-institutional collaborative proposals from all varieties of establishments and encourages genuine and substantive collaborations and partnerships throughout numerous geographies and varieties of establishments. Proposals from EPSCoR jurisdictions are particularly inspired.
Finances and Scope: This solicitation encourages submission of initiatives throughout the total vary of conceptual scales, and length (1-5 years) with related price range requests commensurate with the scope, scale, and length of the work. There are not any price range minimums, and help will proceed for each small-scale initiatives and bigger requests as acceptable for the work proposed.
Proposals are inspired that leverage NSF-supported scientific infrastructure, together with however not restricted to cyberinfrastructure (e.g., Cyverse, Environmental Knowledge Initiative), and infrastructure for monitoring the pure atmosphere (e.g., the Lengthy-term Ecological Analysis Community, the Nationwide Ecological Observatory Community (NEON), Ocean Observing Initiative, and Vital Zone Observatories).
II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The objective of this solicitation is to ask mechanistic research of organismal response to local weather change (ORCC) as a basis that, when built-in with analysis at different ranges of group, will result in a deeper understanding and higher predictions of the integrity, the resilience, and the variation of organismal techniques to local weather change. Proposals are inspired to incorporate collaborative groups with an overarching objective of utilizing convergence approaches throughout organic subdisciplines to enhance our means to anticipate adaptive and maladaptive organismal responses to future and novel environmental circumstances introduced upon by local weather change. All points of organismal response related to world local weather change are open for consideration, however proposals ought to combine organismal mechanisms with eco-evolutionary approaches to be generalizable throughout temporal, geographic, and/or organic scales. Aggressive proposals will describe how the incorporation of mechanistic insights on the organismal stage can improve understanding of persistence, dynamics, resilience and/or resistance of organisms to local weather change. Proposals submitted to this solicitation should translate the foundational analysis leads to use-inspired outcomes that tackle societal challenges arising from local weather change, together with however not restricted to assisted migration, useful resource and agricultural techniques administration, meals safety, administration of illness and pest outbreaks, conservation, and upkeep of ecosystem companies and world resiliency. Proposals that lack a selected deal with mechanistic responses to local weather change, don’t bridge disciplinary parts, and will usually be submitted to the “core” or particular packages of IOS, OCE, or DEB are usually not acceptable for submission to this solicitation. Please contact a cognizant program officer when you’ve got questions on the place your deliberate proposal matches. Aggressive initiatives are anticipated to develop causal frameworks and to make use of experimental, theoretical, and/or computational approaches to extend understanding of organismal responses to local weather change. Aggressive proposals are anticipated to have sturdy plans for assessing success and impression of proposed actions. Moreover, aggressive proposals ought to result in generalizable ideas that may be utilized to techniques past the organism(s) below research.
Sorts of Proposals Accepted by this Solicitation
Analysis proposals targeted on incorporating mechanistic insights on the organismal stage to extend understanding and the flexibility to precisely predict persistence, dynamics, resilience, and resistance of organisms to local weather change. Aggressive proposals ought to embody explanations for the way the findings obtained with any research system are generalizable to different techniques and related to societal considerations generated by local weather change, resembling conservation, biodiversity, useful resource administration, meals safety, illness and pest outbreaks, upkeep of ecosystem companies, or planetary resilience. Leveraging publicly out there knowledge generated by continental-scale environmental monitoring platforms resembling, however not restricted to, the Nationwide Ecological Observatory Community (NEON) and the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is inspired.
Analysis Coordination Community (RCN) proposals to construct collaborative networks of scientists in numerous disciplines to coordinate, develop, and synthesize analysis on the causal bases of genetic, developmental, neural, physiological, behavioral, or ecological responses to local weather change. Highest precedence can be given to RCNs that carry collectively researchers bridging experimental, ecological, oceanographic, computational, and/or ‘-omic’ experience from numerous experimental techniques. Aggressive proposals would come with specialists in utilized fields, resembling agriculture, forestry, fisheries, conservation, and pure useful resource administration. Please be aware that RCN proposals have to be submitted by the deadline specified on this solicitation. Proposers ought to contact a program officer previous to submission to debate their concepts. For basic steerage about making ready RCN proposals, please seek the advice of the RCN program web page.
Workshop and Convention proposals that carry collectively groups of scientists bridging experimental, ecological, oceanographic, computational, and/or ‘-omic’ experience to deal with analysis bottlenecks in local weather change research. For instance, convention subjects may embody: What varieties of assets, together with computational experience and cyber- infrastructure, will the analysis group must greatest incorporate organismal mechanisms into predictive fashions of the response of dwelling techniques to local weather change? What metrics needs to be used to find out probably the most vital species/habitats/ecosystems for analysis? How will future analysis efforts on this space make sure that all people and teams, to incorporate those that are under-represented within the organic sciences are included? In what methods will recruitment, coaching, and mentoring of early-career people help within the improvement of integrative approaches to local weather change analysis sooner or later? Convention actions and any ensuing outcomes stories needs to be designed to advance integrative, artificial analysis that comes with mechanistic research of organismal response to local weather change and goals to enhance the flexibility to foresee and put together for adaptive and maladaptive responses of organic techniques to local weather change. Please be aware that convention proposals could also be submitted anytime in the course of the 12 months and reviewed accordingly. Proposers ought to contact a program officer previous to submission to debate their concepts. For basic steerage about conferences, observe the present PAPPG steerage for making ready Convention Proposals.
III. AWARD INFORMATION
Anticipated Kind of Award: Persevering with Grant or Customary Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 10 to 14
Pending availability of funds, 10 to 14 awards are anticipated.
Anticipated Funding Quantity: $10,000,000
Pending availability of funds, a minimal of $10,000,000 is anticipated to be out there for awards in FY2024.
Estimated program price range, variety of awards, and common award measurement/length are topic to the provision of funds.
IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION
Who Could Submit Proposals:
Proposals could solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Greater Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group faculties) accredited in, and having a campus situated within the US, performing
on behalf of their school members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be offered to an
worldwide department campus of a US establishment of upper training (together with via use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify
the profit(s) to the mission of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the mission actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.
Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Impartial museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and related organizations situated within the U.S. which can be immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.
Tribal Governments: The governing physique of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe below the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Listing Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a, et seq.)
Who Could Function PI:
There are not any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:
There are not any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI:
There are not any restrictions or limits.
V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
A. Proposal Preparation Directions
Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers could choose to submit proposals in response to this Program Solicitation through Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.
Full Proposals submitted through Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the final pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The whole textual content of the PAPPG is offered electronically on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Paper copies of the PAPPG could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected]. The Put together New Proposal setup will immediate you for this system solicitation quantity.
Full proposals submitted through Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation through Grants.gov needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Functions through Grants.gov. The whole textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information is offered on the Grants.gov web site and on the NSF web site at: (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide). To acquire copies of the Utility Information and Utility Types Bundle, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov website, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Utility Bundle and Utility Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Bundle button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Utility Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].
In figuring out which methodology to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please be aware the next:
Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations have to be submitted through Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 supplies further data on collaborative proposals.
See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steerage on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please be aware that the proposal preparation directions offered on this program solicitation could deviate from the PAPPG directions.
Extra Proposal Preparation Directions:
Preparation of proposals ought to observe the steerage within the PAPPG. Beneath we offer further data and assets to assist preparation:
Proposal titles needs to be prefaced by “ORCC:” for ease of identification. Proposals for RCNs needs to be ready and submitted in keeping with the rules within the RCN solicitation, with the proposal title prefaced with “RCN: ORCC:”.
Knowledge Administration Plan. Along with the steerage within the PAPPG, the Directorate for Organic Sciences supplies further context and steerage to PIs on the preparation of Knowledge Administration Plans. All initiatives should make sure that knowledge and organic supplies are collected, archived, digitized, and made out there utilizing strategies that permit present and future investigators to deal with new questions as they come up. Funded initiatives should disseminate mission knowledge broadly, utilizing extensively accepted digital knowledge requirements. Investigators are strongly inspired to utilize acceptable group infrastructure for knowledge administration. For proposals that contain accumulating or producing specimens (e.g., organisms, components of organisms, fossils – together with hint fossils, microbial isolates, and so forth), the Knowledge Administration Plan should embody an outline of how the specimens and related knowledge can be accessioned into and maintained in a longtime organic assortment.
Initiatives targeted on marine organisms: Knowledge Administration Plans have to be compliant with pointers specified within the Division of Ocean Sciences Knowledge and Pattern Coverage described in NSF 17-037.
For deliberate Analysis Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Analysis Alternative Awards (ROA), Analysis Expertise for Put up-Baccalaureate College students (REPS), Analysis Experiences for Lecturers (RET) or Analysis Assistantships for Excessive College College students (RAHSS) actions, a Supplementary Doc (as described within the REU solicitation) needs to be included that describes these actions. Funds for these proposed actions needs to be included within the price range. Extra steerage for REU actions will be discovered on the REU program web page. Extra steerage for ROA, RET or RAHSS actions will be discovered within the Facilitating Analysis at Primarily Undergraduate Establishments: Analysis in Undergraduate Establishments (RUI) and Analysis Alternative Awards (ROA) solicitation and the RAHSS DCL.
Protected and Inclusive Work Environments Plan:
All proposals submitted to this solicitation that embody analysis that can be performed off-campus or off-site should submit a plan for protected and inclusive fieldwork as a supplemental doc that can be thought-about below the broader impacts evaluate criterion. This supplemental doc is in lieu of the required plan related to the certification known as for in Chapter II.E.9 of the PAPPG. Extra data concerning evaluate of the plan is offered below Solicitation Particular Evaluation Standards.
It’s NSF coverage to foster protected and harassment-free environments wherever science is performed. Work performed off-campus or off-site needs to be an enriching expertise for everybody and assist draw researchers to organic and geological sciences analysis. By requiring superior planning and a spotlight to sustaining an inclusive atmosphere, NSF is working to make sure that off-campus or off-site analysis is protected and inclusive for all contributors.
Off-campus or off-site analysis is outlined as knowledge/data/samples being collected off-campus or off-site, resembling fieldwork and analysis actions on vessels and plane. The plan have to be not more than two pages and embody:
a quick description of the sector setting and distinctive challenges for the group;
the steps the proposing group will take to nurture an inclusive off-campus or off-site working atmosphere, together with processes to ascertain shared group definitions of roles, duties, and tradition, e.g., codes of conduct, trainings, mentor/mentee mechanisms and area help that may embody common check-ins, and/or developmental occasions;
communication processes inside the off-site group and to the group(s) that reduce singular factors inside the communication pathway (e.g., there shouldn’t be a single individual overseeing entry to a single satellite tv for pc telephone); and
the organizational mechanisms that can be used for reporting, responding to, and resolving problems with harassment in the event that they come up.
Polar and/or Marine Fieldwork Logistics, Assignable Belongings.
Initiatives together with amenities, logistics, or assignable asset prices (e.g., NEON, Arctic Analysis Help and Logistics, Ship-time and Marine Gear [SME] to be used of Educational Analysis Fleet) should present proof displaying that requests have been submitted for acceptable help and use.
Proposals centered on Polar habitats must be mentioned previous to submission with a Cognizant ORCC program officer for extra steerage and logistics necessities. Polar initiatives ought to discover logistics out there for Arctic
(https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/arctic/res_log_sup.jsp) and Antarctic (https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/ail/) fieldwork. Proposals requesting help for polar fieldwork ought to count on to go to the sector no ahead of 12 months after proposal submission to permit time to plan, price range, and full environmental compliance documentation.
Proposals centered on Marine and Nice Lakes habitats must be mentioned previous to submission with a Cognizant ORCC program officer for extra steerage and logistics necessities. Requests for ship time on a vessel within the U.S. Educational Analysis Fleet (ARF;
https://www.unols.org/) have to be submitted through the UNOLS Marine Facility Planning (MFP) web site at:
https://mfp.us/ with a SME type included within the proposal as a supplementary doc. Proposals requesting ship time ought to count on to go to the sector no ahead of 12 months (Intermediate, Regional, and Native-class vessels) or 18 months (International or Ocean class vessels) after proposal submission (https://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/pubs/Steering-for-Proposals-with-shiptime-Jan2022.pdf) to permit time to plan, price range, and full environmental compliance documentation
(https://www.unols.org/marine-facilities-planning-help-principle-investigators). PIs are liable for submitting the suitable requests for main analysis platforms; a replica of the request have to be submitted as a Supplementary Doc. Any science help offered by third-party organizations have to be described in a 1–2-page Supplementary Doc that outlines the scope of help and a price estimate. Please permit service suppliers 4-6 weeks to arrange Supplementary Paperwork to incorporate in proposals and provoke the request far prematurely of proposal submission. For any instrument or infrastructure deployed to the sector, investigators ought to embody the scope and price for the demobilization or different disposal of the property.
Per the NSF PAPPG, recipients are liable for buying and complying with all permits mandatory for his or her work and are liable for all actions performed below the award. NSF isn’t liable for prices related to medical evacuations or different interruptions to scheduled fieldwork and reserves the suitable to hunt reimbursement for prices incurred for search, rescue, or medical evacuation. Proposers ought to guarantee all members of the sector group are lined by institutional medical evacuation insurance coverage or request funds to buy medical evacuation insurance coverage, which is an allowable grant value. AllF investigators ought to have a threat administration plan for his or her fieldwork together with a plan for emergencies.
Worldwide Collaboration:
The Organismal Responses to Local weather Change Program broadly welcomes, however doesn’t require, that initiatives embody worldwide collaborators. PIs contemplating ORCC analysis in non-U.S. areas must be sure you associate with native scientists as full collaborators within the design and conduct of the analysis mission and the character of this collaborative partnership needs to be absolutely described within the mission proposal. All worldwide collaborators are anticipated to hunt help from their respective funding organizations.
B. Budgetary Data
Price Sharing:
Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.
C. Due Dates
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):
December 13, 2023
November 19, 2024
Third Tuesday in November, Yearly Thereafter
D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities
For Proposals Submitted By way of Analysis.gov:
To arrange and submit a proposal through Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions out there at: https://www.analysis.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Service/Desktop/ProposalPreparationandSubmission.html. For Analysis.gov person help, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions basic technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.
For Proposals Submitted By way of Grants.gov:
Earlier than utilizing Grants.gov for the primary time, every group should register to create an institutional profile. As soon as registered, the applicant’s group can then apply for any federal grant on the Grants.gov web site. Complete details about utilizing Grants.gov is offered on the Grants.gov Applicant Assets webpage: https://www.grants.gov/net/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) supplies directions concerning the technical preparation of proposals through Grants.gov. For Grants.gov person help, contact the Grants.gov Contact Heart at 1-800-518-4726 or by e-mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Heart solutions basic technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.
Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Approved Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the appliance to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the appliance is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the appliance to Grants.gov. The finished software can be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.
The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page supplies submission steerage to candidates and hyperlinks to useful assets together with the NSF Grants.gov Utility Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Ceaselessly Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should cross all NSF pre-check and post-check validations in an effort to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.
When submitting through Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission not less than 5 enterprise days prematurely of a deadline to permit enough time to deal with NSF compliance errors and resubmissions by 5:00 p.m. submitting group’s native time on the deadline. Please be aware that some errors can’t be corrected in Grants.gov. As soon as a proposal passes pre-checks however fails any post-check, an applicant can solely appropriate and submit the in-progress proposal in Analysis.gov.
Proposers that submitted through Analysis.gov could use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted through Grants.gov, till an software has been acquired and validated by NSF, the Approved Organizational Consultant could verify the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov needs to be used to verify the standing of an software.
VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW PROCEDURES
Proposals acquired by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for evaluate. All proposals are fastidiously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and normally by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re specialists within the explicit fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the evaluate course of. Proposers are invited to recommend names of individuals they consider are particularly effectively certified to evaluate the proposal and/or individuals they would like not evaluate the proposal. These strategies could function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nevertheless, is non-compulsory. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers haven’t any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers could acquire feedback from website visits earlier than recommending closing motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional evaluate suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts the whole NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.
A complete description of the Basis’s benefit evaluate course of is offered on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.
Proposers also needs to pay attention to core methods which can be important to the achievement of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Growth and the Supply of Advantages from Analysis – NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 – 2026. These methods are built-in in this system planning and implementation course of, of which proposal evaluate is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented via the mixing of analysis and training and broadening participation in NSF packages, initiatives, and actions.
One of many strategic targets in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and training via the packages, initiatives, and actions it helps at educational and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, practice, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based economic system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis below the steerage of the Nation’s most inventive scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps improvement of a powerful science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM educating and studying.
NSF’s mission requires the broadening of alternatives and increasing participation of teams, establishments, and geographic areas which can be underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is important to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of range and deems it central to the packages, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.
A. Advantage Evaluation Ideas and Standards
The Nationwide Science Basis strives to put money into a strong and numerous portfolio of initiatives that creates new data and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and training. To determine which initiatives to help, NSF depends on a benefit evaluate course of that comes with consideration of each the technical points of a proposed mission and its potential to contribute extra broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to advertise the progress of science; to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare; to safe the nationwide protection; and for different functions.” NSF makes each effort to conduct a good, aggressive, clear benefit evaluate course of for the number of initiatives.
1. Advantage Evaluation Ideas
These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when making ready proposals and managing initiatives, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program employees when figuring out whether or not or to not suggest proposals for funding and whereas overseeing awards. Provided that NSF is the first federal company charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in fundamental analysis and training, the next three ideas apply:
All NSF initiatives needs to be of the best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not rework, the frontiers of data.
NSF initiatives, within the mixture, ought to contribute extra broadly to reaching societal targets. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved via the analysis itself, via actions which can be immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or via actions which can be supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. The mission actions could also be primarily based on beforehand established and/or progressive strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives needs to be primarily based on acceptable metrics, preserving in thoughts the possible correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the assets offered to implement initiatives. If the scale of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation isn’t prone to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions could greatest be achieved at a better, extra aggregated, stage than the person mission.
With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for explicit initiatives is completed at an aggregated stage, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded mission. Thus, particular person initiatives ought to embody clearly acknowledged targets, particular descriptions of the actions that the PI intends to do, and a plan in place to doc the outputs of these actions.
These three benefit evaluate ideas present the premise for the benefit evaluate standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the factors can higher perceive their intent.
2. Advantage Evaluation Standards
All NSF proposals are evaluated via use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accredited benefit evaluate standards. In some situations, nevertheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to spotlight the precise targets of sure packages and actions.
The 2 benefit evaluate standards are listed under. Each standards are to be given full consideration in the course of the evaluate and decision-making processes; every criterion is critical however neither, by itself, is ample. Subsequently, proposers should absolutely tackle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). incorporates further data to be used by proposers in improvement of the Mission Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to evaluate the factors, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the evaluate of a proposal.
When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers can be requested to contemplate what the proposers need to do, why they need to do it, how they plan to do it, how they are going to know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages may accrue if the mission is profitable. These points apply each to the technical points of the proposal and the best way wherein the mission could make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers can be requested to judge all proposals in opposition to two standards:
Mental Advantage: The Mental Advantage criterion encompasses the potential to advance data; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to profit society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.
The next parts needs to be thought-about within the evaluate for each standards:
What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance data and understanding inside its personal area or throughout totally different fields (Mental Advantage); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?
To what extent do the proposed actions recommend and discover inventive, unique, or probably transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and primarily based on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How effectively certified is the person, group, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there enough assets out there to the PI (both on the house group or via collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?
Broader impacts could also be achieved via the analysis itself, via the actions which can be immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or via actions which can be supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embody, however are usually not restricted to: full participation of ladies, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM training and educator improvement at any stage; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and know-how; improved well-being of people in society; improvement of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, business, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of america; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and training.
Proposers are reminded that reviewers may even be requested to evaluate the Knowledge Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as acceptable.
Extra Solicitation Particular Evaluation Standards
Along with the 2 NSB-approved benefit evaluate standards, reviewers can be requested to judge the next solicitation-specific standards:
Does the proposal describe an overarching query that’s addressed via hypothesis-driven analysis aimed toward increasing data and understanding of the mechanisms of response of organisms to local weather change?
Does the proposal combine mechanistic insights on the organismal stage with eco-evolutionary approaches to supply synergistic analysis outcomes that will result in novel, surprising, or main advances in understanding and/or prediction of organic responses to local weather change?
Do the broader impacts describe a plan or a predictive framework for the way the foundational analysis can be utilized for use-inspired insights that tackle societal challenges brought on by local weather change?
Reviewers can be instructed to additionally consider the Plan for Protected and Inclusive Work Environments inside the Broader Impacts evaluate criterion, particularly:
Is there a compelling plan (together with the procedures, trainings, and communication processes) to ascertain, nurture, and keep inclusive off-campus or off-site working atmosphere(s)?
Does the proposed plan determine and adequately tackle the distinctive challenges for the group and the precise off-campus or off-site setting(s)?
Are the organizational mechanisms for use for reporting, responding to, and resolving problems with harassment, ought to they happen, clearly outlined?
B. Evaluation and Choice Course of
Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation can be reviewed by
Advert hoc Evaluation and/or Panel Evaluation.
Reviewers can be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accredited benefit evaluate standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract score and accompanying narrative will usually be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s evaluate will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a advice.
After scientific, technical and programmatic evaluate and consideration of acceptable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal needs to be declined or advisable for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform proposers whether or not their proposals have been declined or advisable for funding inside six months. Massive or significantly complicated proposals or proposals from new recipients could require further evaluate and processing time. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer’s advice.
After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals advisable for funding can be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for evaluate of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative evaluate has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers carry out the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer could make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF needs to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own threat.
As soon as an award or declination choice has been made, Principal Investigators are offered suggestions about their proposals. In all instances, evaluations are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of evaluations, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying data, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Mission Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain an evidence of the choice to award or decline funding.
VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION
A. Notification of the Award
Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer. Organizations whose proposals are declined can be suggested as promptly as potential by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of evaluations, not together with the id of the reviewer, can be offered routinely to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for extra data on the evaluate course of.)
B. Award Situations
An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the price range, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has primarily based its help (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award circumstances, resembling Grant Basic Situations (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Situations* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance which may be included by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Situations (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Situations. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group through e-mail.
*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].
Extra complete data on NSF Award Situations and different necessary data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, out there electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
Administrative and Nationwide Coverage Necessities
Construct America, Purchase America
As expressed in Government Order 14005, Making certain the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Employees (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the chief department to make use of phrases and circumstances of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, in keeping with regulation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and companies supplied in, america.
In keeping with the necessities of the Construct America, Purchase America Act (Pub. L. 117-58, Division G, Title IX, Subtitle A, November 15, 2021), no funding made out there via this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award until all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the mission are produced in america. For added data, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.
C. Reporting Necessities
For all multi-year grants (together with each customary and persevering with grants), the Principal Investigator should submit an annual mission report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the top of the present price range interval. (Some packages or awards require submission of extra frequent mission stories). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a closing mission report, and a mission outcomes report for most of the people.
Failure to offer the required annual or closing mission stories, or the mission outcomes report, will delay NSF evaluate and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to look at the codecs of the required stories prematurely to guarantee availability of required knowledge.
PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, out there via Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and closing mission stories. Such stories present data on accomplishments, mission contributors (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the mission. Submission of the report through Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The mission outcomes report additionally have to be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a quick abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the mission. This report can be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.
Extra complete data on NSF Reporting Necessities and different necessary data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, out there electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS
Please be aware that this system contact data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Basic inquiries concerning this program needs to be made to:
For questions associated to using NSF techniques contact:
NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532
For questions referring to Grants.gov contact:
Grants.gov Contact Heart: If the Approved Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not acquired a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of software, please contact through phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].
IX. OTHER INFORMATION
The NSF web site supplies probably the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact data), packages and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of latest NSF funding alternatives and publications, necessary modifications in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable via e-mail or the person’s Net browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is offered on NSF’s web site.
Grants.gov supplies an extra digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed through this mechanism. Additional data on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an impartial Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and training in all fields of science and engineering.”
NSF funds analysis and training in most fields of science and engineering. It does this via grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 faculties, universities, Okay-12 faculty techniques, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal help to educational establishments for fundamental analysis.
NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, training and coaching initiatives, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand purposes for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does help Nationwide Analysis Facilities, person amenities, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and business, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each educational stage.
Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) present funding for particular help or tools to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions concerning preparation of some of these proposals.
The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Machine for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Data Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF packages, employment or basic data. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.
The Nationwide Science Basis Data Heart could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.
The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in america by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and training within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.
To get the most recent details about program deadlines, to obtain copies of NSF publications, and to entry abstracts of awards, go to the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov
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PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS
The data requested on proposal kinds and mission stories is solicited below the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal kinds can be utilized in reference to the number of certified proposals; and mission stories submitted by proposers can be used for program analysis and reporting inside the Government Department and to Congress. The data requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and employees assistants as a part of the proposal evaluate course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or acquire knowledge concerning the proposal evaluate course of, award choices, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, specialists, volunteers and researchers and educators as mandatory to finish assigned work; to different authorities businesses or different entities needing data concerning proposers or nominees as a part of a joint software evaluate course of, or in an effort to coordinate packages or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or celebration in a court docket or Federal administrative continuing if the federal government is a celebration. Details about Principal Investigators could also be added to the Reviewer file and used to pick out potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of File Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Information,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Information.” Submission of the knowledge is voluntary. Failure to offer full and full data, nevertheless, could cut back the opportunity of receiving an award.
An company could not conduct or sponsor, and an individual isn’t required to reply to, an data assortment until it shows a sound Workplace of Administration and Finances (OMB) management quantity. The OMB management quantity for this assortment is 3145-0058. Public reporting burden for this assortment of data is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback concerning the burden estimate and some other facet of this assortment of data, together with strategies for decreasing this burden, to:
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