<div dir="ltr">The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Lab is happy to announce the release of its Fall 2018 Request for Proposals. ESIP will provide up to $10K of seed funding for incubator-style projects that run six months and lie in the realm of good ideas ready to be tried out.<br><br>We have identified the following as areas of need in the Earth science community, and for this RFP, project proposals that address these areas will be given priority:<br><ul><li>Proof-of-concept for emerging technologies slated for operational use.<br></li><li>Modernization of Earth science workflows using open source software, machine learning, and cloud computing.<br></li><li>Extension of open source software critical to collecting, distributing, or analyzing Earth observations.</li></ul>The full RFP can be found here: <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/esip-lab/funding-opportunities/f2018rfp">https://www.esipfed.org/esip-lab/funding-opportunities/f2018rfp</a><div><br></div><div>See a list of previously funded proposals here: <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/esip-lab/funding-opportunities">https://www.esipfed.org/esip-lab/funding-opportunities</a></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(136,136,136);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Annie Burgess, PhD</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lab Director | Earth Science Information Partners (</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ESIP</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://esipfed.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(111,168,220);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://esipfed.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">phone</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 585.738.7549</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#444444"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ESIP is sponsored by NASA, NOAA, and USGS.</span></font></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>