Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-12

Department of Energy to Provide $84 Million for New Research involving Urban Integrated Field Laboratories

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $84 million for new observational, modeling, and simulation studies to improve the accuracy of community-scale climate research and inform equitable climate solutions to minimize adverse impacts caused by climate change. Research will focus on three tightly related scientific topics—atmospheric and environmental observations; modeling of climate change and impacts across urban regions; and simulating the climate benefits of deploying climate solutions and technologies in historically underserved communities across the U.S.

Supported research will improve scientific understanding of how climate change affects microclimates and micro-environments across all types of urban communities; how biogeochemical cycling and atmospheric composition vary across urban regions; and how equitable solutions may be identified as a means to minimize impacts, especially on the most disadvantaged urban communities. Teams of scientists will combine experimental, observational, modeling, and simulation research to unravel complex process interactions and improve scientists’ ability to understand urban climate change. 

            Urban IFLs will require multi-disciplinary teams that bring together the skills and talents of investigators from multiple research institutions. Academic and nonprofit research institutions, national laboratories, other federal agencies, and the private sector are all eligible to apply as Urban IFL team members. The lead organization of each proposed Urban IFL team must be an academic institution or a national laboratory. Locally-based team members and minority serving institutions (MSI) are expected to have significant roles in each Urban IFL.

Funding is to be awarded competitively, on the basis of peer review, and is expected to be in the form of five-year awards. The Department anticipates that $17 million will be available for this program in Fiscal Year 2022, pending availability of funds.  The DOE Funding Opportunity Announcement, issued by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the Department’s Office of Science, can be found here. 

An informational webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 12:00 PM EDT. Click here to register!

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NSF establishes new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships

https://beta.nsf.gov/tip/latest

TIP is a crosscutting platform that works collaboratively with all of NSF’s directorates — and with partners in government, industry, philanthropy, civil society, communities of practice. This crosscutting focus will help leverage expertise and resources. It will energize use-inspired research and innovation. TIP will create new possibilities for growing the U.S. economy in critical technologies and industries, revitalize communities and support a diverse STEM workforce with high wage, quality jobs. That's how the U.S. can expand the geography of innovation and help deliver on NSF’s Missing Millions goals.

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• Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems

NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US); Design for Sustainability in Computing; Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE); Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF); Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM); Inviting Proposals Related to Information Integrity to the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (PEOSE)

NIH: Technology Development Research for Establishing Feasibility and Proof of Concept (R21); Understanding and Addressing Misinformation among Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01); BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01); Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21); NEI Research Grant for Vision-Related Secondary Data Analysis (R21); Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01); BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - eTeamBCP (U01)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: DoD Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award; Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Office-wide; DOD Epilepsy, Idea Development Award; Air Force Young Investigator Program (YIP); ERDC Broad Agency Announcement; Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI); Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide; Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology

Department of Transportation: Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) and MEGA Grants

Department of Agriculture: Conservation Innovation Grants New Jersey State Program; Announcement for Program Funding for NRCS’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)

Department of Labor: Growth Opportunities

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM; Pollution Prevention Grant Program Funded By The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Department of Energy: FY2022 Artificial Intelligence Research for High Energy Physics); Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP); Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean Energy Technologies and Low-Carbon Manufacturing

NASA: ROSES 2022: Applications-Oriented Augmentation for Research and Analysis; ROSES 2022: Heliophysics Tools and Methods; ROSES 2022: Solar System Observations; ROSES 2022: Heliophysics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Ready Data; ROSES 2022: Heliophysics Innovation in Technology and Science

National Endowment of Humanities: Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants; Research and Development; Humanities Initiatives

Private Foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grant Challenges Partnership Network

New Data-Sharing Requirements from the National Institutes of Health are a Big Step Toward More Open Science – and Potentially Higher-Quality Research: Starting on Jan. 25, 2023, many of the 2,500 institutions and 300,000 researchers that the U.S. National Institutes of Health supports will need to provide a formal, detailed plan for publicly sharing the data generated by their research. For many in the scientific community, this new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy sounds like a no-brainer.

The incredibly quick development of rapid tests and vaccines for COVID-19 demonstrate the success that can follow the open sharing of data within the research community. The importance and impact of that data even drove a White House Executive Order mandating that “the heads of all executive departments and agencies” share “COVID-19-related data” publicly last year. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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The IC's 4-year Emerging Tech Investment Plan: The intelligence community wants to invest heavily in emerging technologies to solve problems like being able to identify improvised explosive devices and their respective networks. But to better ensure its needs are met, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence mapped out a four-year investment strategy to make it easier for companies to connect with program managers. The ODNI's Science and Technology Investment Landscape document for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 marks a shift in how the intelligence community looks to track technologies research by making them more traceable not only to missions but to who on the government side owns the challenge and whether or not they will have to work with other program managers within the IC or across government. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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White House Initiatives For Energy Independence, Climate Health With Nuclear Fusion Technology: The Biden-Harris White House announced a new commitment in commercial fusion as a means to a cleaner energy economy with a historic summit, featuring the private and public sectors’ commitment to furthering the U.S. fusion energy industry.  Fusion energy is produced with the combination of atoms to create larger, heavier atoms that act as a means to generate electric power. Current nuclear power plants operate through fission, or splitting atoms, which has the drawback of creating unstable waste material. Fusion doesn’t have this problem.

Launching the summit on Thursday was Alondra Nelson, the deputy director for Science and Society in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She described the administration’s new initiatives to further solar and wind power cultivation to provide electricity for American consumers. 

“We believe that when it comes to fusion, the time is now,” Nelson said. “And the time is now because we have in President Biden a leader who's been clear that we will decarbonize our economy by 2050. This is why fusion is one of a much larger suite of clean energy game changers that will help America reach that goal commensurate with the scale of the climate change that climate change requires.” More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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