Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)

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Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF): The Instrumentation and Facilities Program in the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR/IF) supports meritorious requests within and across Earth science disciplines. EAR/IF will consider proposals for:1) Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment that will advance laboratory and field investigations, and student training opportunities in the Earth sciences;2) Development of New Instrumentation, Analytical Techniques, Software or Cyberinfrastructure that will extend current research and research training capabilities in the Earth sciences;3) Support of National or Regional Multi-User Facilities that will make complex and expensive instruments or systems of instruments broadly available to the Earth sciences research and student communities;4) Support of Research Technicians who will provide for optimal and efficient operation of advanced instrumentation, analytical protocol development, and user training for Earth science research instrumentation;Planned research uses of requested instruments must include basic research on solid-Earth and surface-Earth processes.Support is available through grants or cooperative agreements awarded in response to investigator-initiated proposals. Human resource development and education are expected to be an integral part of all proposals submitted to EAR/IF. Proposals requesting equipment, infrastructure or personnel that will serve disciplines outside the Earth sciences may be jointly reviewed with other programs within the Foundation. EAR/IF will consider co-funding of projects with other NSF programs.

Federal Grant Title:	Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)
Federal Agency Name:	National Science Foundation
Grant Categories:	Science and Technology
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	06-576
Type of Funding:	Grant Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers:	47.050
CFDA Descriptions:	Geosciences
Current Application Deadline:	No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline:	September 14, 2006; Second Thursday in September a
Posted Date:	Jun 13, 2006
Creation Date:	Oct 11, 2006
Archive Date:	No date given
Total Program Funding:	$7,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:
Minimum Federal Grant Award:
Expected Number of Awards:	45
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
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