C-DEBI Newsletter – January 2, 2020

Meetings & Activities

Data Labs: Using Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) Data to Engage Students in Oceanography @ AGU Ocean Sciences 2020
We will accept online submissions until January 15, 2020 or capacity is reached, whichever is sooner.

EGU General Assembly 2020: Submit your abstracts to session on scientific drilling
The deadline for abstract submission is January 15, 2020.

Goldschmidt: Hawai'i 2020, June 21-26
Abstract submission deadline: February 14, 2020.

AGU: Nominate Your Peers for 2020 Honors
Nominations are now open for 2020 AGU honors, including the Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize. Deadline: March 15, 2020.

USC: 17th Annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium – NEW!
The University of Southern California (USC) is excited to host the 17th annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium. The symposium will be held on April 4, 2020. Information about registration/abstract submissions, program details, and specific location will be available in January 2020. The SoCal Geobiology Symposium is an annual student-organized symposium for scientists interested in astrobiology, climate science, ecology, geochemistry, geology, microbiology, oceanography, and paleobiology. We welcome scientists from all levels of academia and both those living in Southern California and from around the world. Undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs are encouraged to submit abstracts for posters or talks to share their research.

GRC: Exploring Fluxes, Forms and Origins of Deep Carbon in Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets, June 28-July 3, 2020, Lewiston, ME, USA
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 31, 2020.

Serpentine Days: 5th Workshop, September 21-24, Sestri Levante (Genova, Italy)
Registration will close June 30, 2020.

Ongoing Activities:

Education & Outreach

Hot2ColdVents: East Pacific Rise Expedition Blog – NEW!
Join deep biosphere researcher Jason Sylvan and crew on their expedition to the East Pacific Rise, ending January 7, 2020. Hot2ColdVents is a research project about understanding the organisms that live in hydrothermal vent ecosystems and the surrounding seafloor terrain. The researchers are using two underwater vehicles to explore the deep ocean: Alvin, a three-person submersible that can travel to 4,500 meters, and Sentry, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can go to 6,000 meters deep.

DOE: Scholars Program
Application deadline: January 3, 2020.

MARUM: ECORD Training Course, April 20-24, 2020, Bremen, Germany
The application deadline is January, 17 2020.

USC Wrigley Institute: Summer REU: Coastal Ocean Processes
Applications are due by February 14, 2020.

RPI: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences: Graduate School Applications – NEW!
The Earth and Environmental Sciences department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is seeking graduate student applications. We have a rich geology, environmental science, and astrobiology program, as well as data science/ geoinformatics. Applications are welcome at any time.

Proposal Calls

NSF: Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms (URoL:MTM)
Letter of Intent due date: January 17, 2020.

NSF: Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) – NEW!
The goal of the RCN program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research, training, and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic, and international boundaries. The RCN-UBE program originated as a unique RCN track to “catalyze positive changes in biology undergraduate education” (NSF 08-035) and is now supported by the collaborative efforts of the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). It has been responsive to the national movement to revolutionize undergraduate learning and teaching in the biological sciences as described in the “Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education” report. The RCN-UBE program seeks to improve undergraduate biology in different areas by leveraging the power of a collaborative network. The theme or focus of an RCN-UBE proposal can be on any topic likely to advance the goal of enhancing undergraduate biology education. Collectively, the program has contributed to developing and disseminating educational research resources and modules, to forging of new collaborations, and to sharing of best practices and ideas for scalability and sustainability of activities. These efforts have involved a large cadre of faculty, students, and other stakeholders. Proposed networking activities directed to the RCN-UBE program should focus on a theme to give coherence to the collaboration. Full proposal deadline: January 21, 2020.

NSF: Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES)
Full proposal deadline: February 5, 2020.

NSF: EarthCube
Full proposal deadline: March 12, 2020.

NSF: Dimensions of Biodiversity
The 2020 program is restricted to projects supported by international partnerships with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) of Brazil, and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. Full Proposal Deadline: March 27, 2020.

NSF: Facilitator of Marine Seismic Capabilities for the U. S. Research Community – NEW!
NSF is seeking proposals for a Facilitator of Marine Seismic Capabilities. The Facilitator (either individual or group) will support the needs of the marine seismic research community for access to acquisition of long-offset and deep-imaging 3D seismic data using a large tuned source. The Facilitator will work with researchers in identifying suitable vessels (commercial, foreign academic, or other) to support NSF-funded seismic research projects. The Facilitator will also be responsible for arranging and negotiating competitive lease agreements for marine seismic research activities that have been determined by NSF to be high priority projects following the merit review process. The proposal submission deadline is April 10, 2020.

NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Full proposal deadline: July 27, 2020.

NSF: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (IUSE:GEOPAths)
Letter of Intent Due Date: November 17, 2020.

NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) – NEW!
The Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) program supports genomic research that addresses the mechanistic basis of complex traits in diverse organisms within the context (environmental, developmental, social, and/or genomic) in which they function. The EDGE program also continues to support the development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification of the causal mechanisms connecting genes and phenotypes. EDGE is designed to provide support for (1) the development of tools, approaches, and infrastructure aimed at testing cause and effect hypotheses between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable, and (2) hypothesis-driven research that tests cause and effect relations between genotype(s) and phenotypes in non-model plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi. Proposals accepted anytime.

Rolling Calls:

Employment

WHOI: Tenure Track Scientist – Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

U of Georgia: Assistant or Associate Professor – Biological Oceanography

U Akron: Post-Doctoral Position in Geochemistry/Astrobiology

WWU: Assistant Professor in Marine Molecular Biology

MBL: Computational Postdoctoral Scientist

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Best,

Matt

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Matthew Janicak

Data Manager

Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI)

University of Southern California
janicak@usc.edu

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