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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2019/index.jsp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">NSF’s FY19 budget request</a><span> </span>was recently released and one of the highlights was a firm funding request for NSF’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/index.jsp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">10 Big Ideas</a>.  To kick start the investment into the Big Ideas, NSF has been releasing information related to organizing and applying for funding.  In AGS, we see a role for our community in a number of the Big Ideas:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.25pt"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18058/nsf18058.jsp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Growing Convergence Research</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.25pt"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18048/nsf18048.jsp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Stimulating Research Related to Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.25pt"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=244678&org=CI" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Harnessing the Data Revolution</a><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.25pt"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505289&org=EHR&from=home" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science)</a><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">There is also an obvious connection to<span> </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/infrastructure.jsp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Mid-scale Research Infrastructure</a>, and NSF is still working through the results of the<span> </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18013/nsf18013.jsp" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">survey</a><span> </span>that was released last Fall in preparation for a competition.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The 10 Big Ideas are likely to be a priority for NSF for a number of years, so we encourage the community to become familiar with the programs and consider whether your research could be extended/enhanced through participation.  We will keep you updated as opportunities evolve.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">As always, please feel free to widely disseminate this information.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Thank you.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">National Science Foundation</p>

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