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