NSF Program Solicitation
Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change
Full Proposal Deadlines:
4 February 2008
15 October 2008
19 October 2009
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08505
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces Program Solicitation
08-505: "Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2)."
Synopsis of Program:
The goal of research funded under the interdisciplinary P2C2
solicitation is to utilize key geological, chemical, and biological
records of climate system variability to provide insights into the
mechanisms and rate of change that characterized Earth's past climate
variability, the sensitivity of Earth's climate system to changes in
forcing, and the response of key components of the Earth system to these
changes. Important scientific objectives of P2C2 are to: 1) provide
comprehensive paleoclimate data sets that can serve as model test data
sets analogous to instrumental observations and 2) enable transformative
syntheses of paleoclimate data and modeling outcomes to understand the
response of the longer-term and higher magnitude variability of the
climate system that is observed in the geological record.
Cognizant Program Officers:
David J. Verardo
Program Director, Division of Atmospheric Sciences
Phone: 703-292-8527
E-mail: dverardo [at] nsf.gov
Howard J. Spero
Program Director, Division of Ocean Sciences
Phone: 703-292-8581
E-mail: hspero [at] nsf.gov
Paul E. Filmer
Program Director, Division of Earth Sciences
Phone: 703-292-7858
E-mail: pfilmer [at] nsf.gov
Thomas P. Wagner
Program Director, Office of Polar Programs
Phone: 703-292-4746
E-mail: twagner [at] nsf.gov
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08505