Funding Opportunity Available
Arctic and Global Prediction Program
Office of Naval Research
Submission deadline for planning letters: 1 October 2018 (extended from the original due date of 15 September)
For more information, go to:
https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Science-Technology/Departments/Code-32/All-…
For questions, contact:
Scott Harper
Email: scott.l.harper [at] navy.mil
The Arctic and Global Prediction Program at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) invites planning letters for research to be considered for Fiscal Year 19 (FY19) funding. FY19 will begin 1 October 2019.
The purpose of planning letters is to allow prospective investigators to submit a brief description of their scientific ideas so that the committee may evaluate them and offer programmatic and technical feedback before time is invested in writing a full proposal.
The Office of Naval Research Arctic and Global Prediction Program is motivated by the observed changes in the physical Arctic environment, and the desire to better understand and predict this environment at a variety of time and space scales. The ability to provide useful forecasts of the operational environment, such as the location of the sea ice edge, the characteristics and evolution of sea ice, and the wind and wave conditions at the surface will be critical to enable safe and efficient naval operations in the Arctic. To achieve this, Arctic system models that integrate the ocean, waves, ice, and atmosphere must appropriately represent the physical processes, interactions, and feedbacks involved in the seasonal evolution of ice extent, area, thickness, and volume.
The program has three focus areas:
- Improving understanding of the physical environment and key processes in the Arctic Ocean;
- Investigating new technologies (e.g., sensors, platforms, navigation, and communications) that may enable a sustained observational capability in the challenging Arctic environment; and
- Developing integrated ocean-ice-wave-atmosphere models for improved Arctic prediction at a variety of time scales.
For FY19, the program is particularly interested in research that addresses sea ice variability and processes, and atmospheric and oceanic forcing, in the Bering Strait region; landfast ice characteristics and processes in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean; and thermodynamics of the sea ice cover and the water column immediately below the ice.
Submission deadline for planning letters: 1 October 2018 (extended from the original due date of 15 September)
For more information, including program details and the preparation and submission of planning letters, go to:
https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Science-Technology/Departments/Code-32/All-…
For questions, contact:
Scott Harper
Email: scott.l.harper [at] navy.mil