Sentences with phrase «nsf division»
The committee recommends that the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences implement a plan for ground - based astronomy that reflects an integrated view of independent and national observatories and the funding available from government and private sources.
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The NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) provides the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), National Radio
The NSF Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems announced this week that grants of between $ 10,000 and $ 30,000 will be immediately available «to support reconnaissance teams to enter the Gulf Coast disaster area to capture data from Hurricane Katrina.»
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The NRC decadal survey presumed a doubling of the NSF astronomy budget over the course of the decade, James Ulvestad, NSF division director for astronomical sciences, explained in a May 24 talk.
From now on such requests will be considered by the discipline - specific NSF divisions; small grants covering only the incremental cost of doing science abroad may not fare well in the new system.
The NSF AST should initiate new projects with other NSF divisions that emphasize cross-disciplinary activities deriving from new technologies or new scientific themes developed in this report.
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NSF International's Global Food Safety and Quality Division provides a broad range of services to the food supply chain including agriculture, fresh produce, livestock, poultry, processed foods, seafood, dairy, organic foods, packaging and distribution, restaurants, retail and foodservice equipment in more than 120 countries.
Elizabeth is currently in her first year as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at National Science Foundation (NSF).
Grace Wang has been the division director of the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF) since Februadivision director of the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF) since FebruaDivision at the National Science Foundation (NSF) since February 2012.
«We hope that one outcome of the workshop will be the forging of ongoing partnerships to help develop a roadmap to establishing a common language and framework for continued dialogue to move this effort of promoting multi-sensory data science forward,» says Rickman, who is Principal Investigator on an National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, awarded by the Division of the Materials Research in support of the workshop.
«Out of the blue, Dr. Alan Leshner, who was then the deputy division director for Behavior and Neural Science at the National Science Foundation (NSF), called me,» Olsen remembers.
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Bolstered by a recent spate of competitions, incubators, and accelerator programs, «we are now finding that more and more [senior] faculty members are taking risks» with their business endeavors, says Rathindra DasGupta, a program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships.
«Different schools classify [employee postdocs] in different ways,» and NSF has only «rough estimates» of their numbers, says Lynda Carlson, director of the NSF's Division of Science Resources Statistics.
Andrews is now a «rotator» at the National Science Foundation (NSF), serving as the director of the Division of Computer and Network Systems.
Malcolm said during Clark's tenure at NSF, the biological sciences division Clark ran included the social, behavioral and economic sciences.
It also fences off the entire astronomy division — which sits within NSF's math and physical sciences directorate — from any reductions.
«We're hoping to fund ones that are going to make a big impact,» says Susan Hixson, program director of the Division of Undergraduate Education at NSF.
«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.
In an effort to keep things going, Keeling says that he went back to the NSF and was assured that he would get about $ 350,000 from the Division of Polar Programs this autumn.
The Lehigh research group is also investigating, through the NSF's EFRI division, the expansion of this work to include a wide range of other functional materials.
«In studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.
Although he later toned down his language, his committee drafted a bill last month that would effectively eliminate the division of the NSF which spends about $ 84 million on behavioural research a year.
«We're delighted that there are signatures on paper,» says Richard Green, director of NSF's astronomical sciences division.
Not only did that language disappear this year for the NSF, but none appeared in NASA's Earth science division, Shultz says.
«These results reveal, for the first time, how energetic charged particles in the near - Earth space environment are created,» said Irfan Azeem, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which supported the research.
More than 1,000 people from 240 colleges and universities attended the three - day annual conference, which was hosted by AAAS and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources.
«This research shows that modern tools can be applied to longstanding scientific questions,» says Nick Anderson, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the study.
Some NSF programs, such as those in the atmospheric and geospace sciences division, have always done without deadlines.
«This total solar eclipse across the United States is a unique opportunity in modern times, enabling the entire country to be engaged through modern technology and social media,» said Carrie Black, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.
NSF's Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate, Division of Materials Research, funds a wide range of materials research and training opportunities.
Many of the students attending ERN are drawn from programs funded by NSF's Division of Human Resources Development, which provides several opportunities for underrepresented minorities, women, and people with disabilities to pursue research and education in STEM fields.
• When Justin Esarey, an assistant professor of political science at Rice University in Houston, Texas, applied for an NSF grant, he was careful to follow a directive from Congress «that any awards made by NSF's division of political science must foster national security or economic development,» wrote Mervis on ScienceInsider.
«These results help resolve a divergence in climate trends of the past 2,000 years recorded in marine sediments of the North Atlantic Ocean, compared with those recorded in fossil pollen from the continents of North America and Europe,» says Jonathan Wynn, program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, which co-funded a portion of the research with NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.
Adds Peter Milne, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, «We can easily measure the greenhouse gas budget from a single smokestack, but somewhat less well for a stand of trees.
«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competition.
«Knowing the diversity of plants in Cretaceous environments provides a better understanding of potential food sources for animals such as plant - eating dinosaurs,» says Judy Skog, program director for paleontology in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.
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«Ginkgo biloba, primarily known today as a dietary supplement to enhance memory, also plays an important role in the understanding of seed plant evolution,» says Simon Malcomber, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.
«IceCube is a wonderful and unique astrophysical telescope — it is deployed deep in the Antarctic ice but looks over the entire Universe, detecting neutrinos coming through the Earth from the northern skies, as well as from around the southern skies,» said Vladimir Papitashvili of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs.
The NSF's Division of Polar Programs and Physics Division continue to support the project with a Maintenance and Operations grant, along with international support from participating institutes and their funding agencies.
Another concern is that the division of labor between NSF and NASA has created some gaps.
But James Ulvestad, head of the astronomy division at NSF, says the agency simply doesn't have the money to actually commit to a GSMT project.
James Ulvestad, director of the NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences, disputes Kerr's characterization of the situation.
«These discoveries are made possible by close cooperation between NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences and Office of Polar Programs, both supporting the ALMA and SPT facilities; such cooperation will be essential to achieving the goals of Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-messenger Astrophysics, one of the «10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments,» said Vladimir Papitashvili, NSF program director for Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences.
As Vernon Ross, chief of the Budget Operations and Systems branch of NSF's budget division, put it in an e-mail, «The bottom line is that proposal pressure has outstripped NSF's funding.»
That tendency to safeguard funds is alive and well at NSF, says Richard Behnke, section head and acting division director for NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sdivision director for NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace SDivision of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.
Before going to NSF — a move that brought her back to the Washington, D.C. area — Kearney headed up the Field Museum's Division of Amphibians and Reptiles in its Zoology Department.
«Axial volcano has had at least three eruptions, that we know of, over the past 20 years,» said Rick Murray, director of the NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which also funded the research.