From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:53:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.193.181.76] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.17]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 37527194 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:30:49 -0500 X-Original-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:30:49 -0500 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20210114223049338086.7cd44f4a@cni.org> Subject: NSF Solicitation for Open Environmental Data Center MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.3 The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has just issued a call for proposals for a $20 million center for open environmental data and science which I thought our community would find interesting. See https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21549/nsf21549.htm?fbclid=IwAR2RHCftDpbq6aEpWOTni-OvEDtylYfnGC50fsKlVf6vCy86i8GvGE1ye0I The "synopsis of program" session early on in the document is particularly worth reading, positioning this solicitation in the context of a series of major NSF investments in data management and data intensive scientific projects on a large scale over the past decade and more. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI