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NSF Perspectives

Presentation at the US THORPEX-Legacy Planning Meeting June 5-6 2014

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Key points

• US science community needs to organize. What are your priorities? What are your best science plans?

• Hazards SEES and PREEVENTS are possible “homes” for your proposals

• We support the goals of NOAA’s WRN• Support community models and data assimilation • Opportunity within AGS: VSO• Exploring concept of and requirements for a university-

based, real-time ensemble forecast system• AGS Goals and Objectives

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PREEVENTS (Prediction and Resilience against Extreme EVENTS)

• In many respects, extreme events is at the heart of what GEO supports (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, floods, abrupt climate change, permafrost thawing, drought, land slides, tsunami, etc.).

• Possible partners – other agencies, and other NSF Directorates

• Currently supporting SEES Hazard. PREEVENTS will be the follow on program

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Opportunities within AGS and NSF

• AGS Dear Colleague Letter– NSF/NCEP Visiting Scientist DCL is published:• http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13117/nsf13117.jsp

• NSF solicitations– Solicitation due dates:• http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?

org=NSF&ord=date

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Visiting Scientist Opportunity

• PI reviews NOAA spreadsheet for focus areas relevant to their grant

• Contacts their cognizant program director to discuss intent

• If agreed, PI makes contact with the NCEP POC

• NSF program director makes recommendation to support or decline request

• If approved, notification sent to NCEP by cognizant NSF program director.

• NCEP POC and PI discuss compatibility and logistics.

• If agreed, PI writes draft supplemental request to submit to NCEP.

• NCEP POC gets Center Director approval and provides letter of intent to collaborate

• If approved by Center Director, PI submits supplemental request and NCEP POC letter of intent to collaborate to NSF

VSO Begins!!

NCEPNSF

Link to DCL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13117/nsf13117.jsp?org=AGSLink to NCEP's areas of interest/focus page: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/vsp/

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AGS Goals and Objectives• Goal 1: OBSERVE, UNDERSTAND, AND MODEL EXTREME EVENTS AND NATURAL

HAZARDS

• Goal 2: ADVANCE THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF EARTH’S CLIMATE

• Goal 3: EXPAND KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH’S ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND

BEHAVIOR

• Goal 4: UNDERSTAND THE SUN and GEOSPACE ENVIRONMENT AS A COUPLED SYSTEM

• Goal 5: PROVIDE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE TO ADVANCE THE AGS COMMUNITY

• Goal 6: BUILD A DIVERSE SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE

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Thank you