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Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology

CONTACTS

Name Email Phone Room
Harold  R. Lane hlane@nsf.gov (703) 292-4730  675 S  
Lisa  Park Boush lboush@nsf.gov (703) 292-4724  675 S  

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PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  12-608

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  January 17, 2013

Spring Deadline (Track 1). In 2015 and 2017, deadline for Track 2 as well.

Third Thursday in January, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  February 22, 2013

2013 Track 2 Proposal Deadline

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  July 18, 2013

Fall Deadline (Track 1 only)

Third Thursday in July, Annually Thereafter

SYNOPSIS

The Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program (SGP) supports research in a wide variety of areas in sedimentary geology and paleobiology in order to comprehend the full range of physical, biological, and chemical processes of Earth's dynamic system.  The program supports the study of deep-time records of these processes archived in the Earth's sedimentary carapace (crust) at all spatial and temporal scales. These records are fingerprints of the processes that produced them and continue to shape the Earth.

For the years 2013-2017, the Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program will be sponsoring a two track opportunity that will consist of the normal SGP competition (Track 1) and bi-annually, a new track termed Earth-Life Transitions (ELT) (Track 2).

Track 1: General Program: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology supports general studies of: (1) the changing aspects of life, ecology, environments, and biogeography in past geologic time based on fossil plants, animals, and microbes; (2) all aspects of the Earth's sedimentary carapace - insights into geological processes recorded in its  records and rich organic and inorganic resources locked in rock sequences; (3) the science of dating and measuring the sequence of events and rates of geological processes as manifested in Earth's past sedimentary and biological (fossil) record; (4) the geologic record of the production, transportation, and deposition of physical and chemical sediments; and (5) understanding Earth's deep-time (pre-Holocene) climate systems.

Track 2: Earth-Life Transitions: In fiscal years 2013-2017, the Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program is sponsoring a bi-annual second track opportunity termed Earth-Life Transitions (ELT) within the normal programmatic spring competition.  The goals of the ELT track are: 1) to address critical questions about Earth-Life interactions in deep-time through the synergistic activities of multi-disciplinary science and 2) to enable team-based interdisciplinary projects involving stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, proxy development, calibration and application studies, geochronology, and climate modeling at appropriately resolved scales of time and space, to understand major linked events of environmental, climate and biotic change at a mechanistic level.

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Surface Earth Processes Section


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