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Get your proposal funded

Get your proposal funded. Tom Wagner Program Director Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program. Improving your proposal—Part I (and biasing your Program Officer in your favor). Do mail reviews Volunteer to be on a panel Suggest reviewers for your proposal

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Get your proposal funded

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  1. Get your proposal funded Tom Wagner Program Director Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program

  2. Improving your proposal—Part I (and biasing your Program Officer in your favor) • Do mail reviews • Volunteer to be on a panel • Suggest reviewers for your proposal • Do mail reviews (yes, we said this twice)

  3. Improving your proposal—Part II • Plan your logistics carefully • Initial request will guide final plan • Submit an Operational Requirements Worksheet (ORW) with proposal • Be fully aware of available resources • Ask! They are extensive…

  4. Facilities

  5. USARC: United States Antarctic Resource Center Geospatial data Air photos, geologic & topo maps, related data Served digitally & hard copy Established: Decades… Constructed: USGS Operating award: $500K/Year Staff: ~Two full-time

  6. Antarctic Multibeam Synthesis Data Portal Contents Bathymetric data from most Gould and Palmer cruises Established at LDEO in 2002 Construction: NSF-OPP Operating award: $150K/Year Staff: Various

  7. Common pitfalls • Does not respond to reviewer criticisms • Unaware of difference between intellectual merit and broader impact • Not gauging proposal to requirements of work • One field season or two? • Two years of funding or three? • Failure to cite relevant literature • Some is tough to find…

  8. Resources NSF Awards Database:nsf.gov/awardsearch/ Antarctic Master Directory:gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd/ Byrd Polar Research Center:www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu Antarctic Research Series:Volumes from AGU United States Antarctic Resources Center:usarc.usgs.gov National Snow and Ice Data Center:nsidc.org International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences:Proceedings Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research:scar.org

  9. Resources II Journals:Terra Antarctica Books:Antarctic Marine Geology by John Anderson (Cambridge, 1999) Antarctic Multibeam Synthesis:www.marine-geo.org Antarctic Sediment Core Repository:www.arf.fsu.edu Antarctic Rock Repository:bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/rr/samples/ WAIS:igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov/wais/ ANDRILL:www.andrill.org SHALDRIL:shaldril.rice.edu

  10. Improving your proposal—Part V Do you know our average mail review score?

  11. 4.0/5.0—Very Good

  12. What are the ultimate implications of your work? • Would it get the cover of Nature? • Is it framed to answer a globally relevant question, not just Antarctic? • Bounce ideas off us. We breath, drink, eat, and sleep proposals and reviews.

  13. Other Opportunities • Crosscutting and NSF-wide programs • CAREER • REU • RUI • Other Programs at NSF • Biology • Geosciences

  14. International Collaboration • Diverse array of opportunities in Antarctica • Many countries have research programs that encourage partnerships • Required for IPY

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