<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;font-size:small">The Earth Science Information Partners (<a href="http://esipfed.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ESIP</a>) Lab is happy to announce our spring 2018 request for Incubator-project proposals.<span> </span><br><br>For this round of funding, we have identified the following topics as emergent areas of need in the Earth science community, and for this RFP, project proposals that address these areas will be given priority. </font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;font-size:small"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Proof-of-concept for emerging technologies slated for operational use. <br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Modernization of Earth science workflows using open source, machine learning and/or<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span>cloud computing. </span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Data provenance to advance data-driven decision making. </li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;font-size:small"><font color="#000000">Projects have a 6-8-month duration. A typical budget for Lab projects is $7,000, however, larger budgets will be considered with the firm limit that costs may not exceed $10,000. Deadline for submission is May 30, 2018.<br><br>You can read the full solicitation </font>here: <a href="http://www.esipfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/May-2018-Request-for-Proposals.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.<wbr>esipfed.org/wp-content/<wbr>uploads/2018/04/May-2018-<wbr>Request-for-Proposals.pdf</a><div><br></div><div>Questions? Contact<span> </span><a href="mailto:lab@esipfed.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">lab@esipfed.org</a>.</div></div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><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">ESIP 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;verti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