Eligible: Education, Nonprofits
$0 - $14,000,000
The LET program supports projects that address research questions by integrating geobiology, geochemistry, paleobiology, paleoecology, sedimentology, and sedimentary geology archives, proxies, techniques, and concepts. LET welcomes projects that challenge the conceptual bases, have broad implications, and inform future research directions on these disciplines.
Grant
Life and Environments Through Time (LET)
Other
Federal
$14,000,000
50
$0 - $14,000,000
No
Active
Education, Nonprofits
Climate
• Institutions of Higher Education with US campus
• Non-profit, non-academic organizations in the US directly associated with educational or research activities
Examples of topics within the broad scope of LET include but are not limited to:
• Patterns and processes related to the origin, ecology, and evolution of life on Earth.
• Biological, geochemical, mineralogical, sedimentological, and geological processes responsible for forming and shaping the Earth’s sedimentary lithosphere and its materials.
• Paleoclimate, climate proxy, and model-based studies advancing knowledge of the drivers, mechanisms, and feedback systems of Earth’s climate.
• Development of geochemical and geobiological proxies, tools, methods, and models that will advance the understanding of life and environments through time.
• Biological, geochemical, and physical processes through which critical minerals and materials are mobilized, concentrated, and separated.
• Research that aims to better understand geohealth and the effects of environmental pollution, geochemical exposures, and climate change on human health and well-being.
• Research on bioeconomy to address regional or global societal challenges such as climate change, carbon sequestration, bioremediation, and environmental sustainability.
• Studies on conservation paleobiology to advance knowledge on environmental and human drivers of ecological change.
• Studies of geological hydrogen that advance knowledge on geochemical and microbial processes that stimulate or enhance hydrogen production from geological materials.
Proposals for community workshops that can guide the community on new research topics and grand challenge questions are encouraged, and those that have plans to broadly disseminate the discussions and outcomes will be prioritized.
National
No
Proposals that have been declined are not eligible for resubmission for one year from the original date of submission and must be substantially revised to be considered.
Unspecified
| Name | Phone | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Margaret Fraiser
|
mfraiser@nsf.gov | (703) 292-4660 | |
|
Jonathan G. Wynn
|
jwynn@nsf.gov | (703) 292-4725 | |
|
Yurena Yanes
|
yyanes@nsf.gov | (703) 292-8551 |
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