C-DEBI Newsletter – July 1, 2020

C-DEBI Newsletter – July 1, 2020
This newsletter is also accessible via our website (https://www.darkenergybiosphere.org) .

Message from the Associate Director:

I recently read an article in the The New Yorker about deep-sea exploration that made my blood boil and my heart sink. In response, I wrote a letter to the editor, copied below and posted to Twitter (https://twitter.com/JulesDeep/status/1277974214213988358?s=20) . We can do better.

Julie Huber
C-DEBI Associate Director

20 May 2020

Dear Editor,

As I was reading Ben Taub’s piece about a millionaire’s deep-sea journey, I felt a familiar swell of rage building as paragraph-after-paragraph, another man’s backstory was told, shrouded in white privilege and machismo (A Reporter At Large, May 18th). By the end, I realized that I felt as I sometimes do as the only female scientist in the room: left out and turned off.

Ocean science and engineering, like most STEM fields, suffers from a lack of diversity, and many of us are working hard to bring underrepresented voices to our labs, research cruises, and outreach efforts. This story sets us back. While some of the accomplishments of the Five Deeps team are certainly worth highlighting, we must find ways to tell such stories without celebrating the millionaire maverick explorer of European descent striving for records with little technical expertise and a general disregard for safety.

Many barriers exist to creating a culture of inclusion and equity in oceanography, but the portrayal of deep-sea exploration in this story reflect the fields’ origins, and it is no longer the reality of modern oceanographic research nor the future we strive for. Given the state of our world and the importance of science and engineering to our society, we must recruit, retain and mentor a diverse and talented community of future STEM participants that can work in our highly collaborative and team-oriented field. The ocean (our planet, our society) deserve better.

Julie Huber, PhD
Falmouth, MA

Meetings & Activities
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-UNOLS: Science of the Abyss Virtual Workshops (https://ndsf.whoi.edu/alvin/workshop-alvin-in-the-abyss/) –
Please register for the final workshop in the series, held July 7, 2020, at the time that is best for you (10am EDT (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvde-hrzgvG93Yh42ElkiNH_XzxUDMPssp__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4f2El5P8zp38HBdYfL3_GfL8jOMAFoY6yW3nEm42wQdTllbNn4xhmshBG7Po92M$) or 2pm PDT (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcOusqjMsHta21CQLoD5Ze1vV5sBHlMKx__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4f2El5P8zp38HBdYfL3_GfL8jOMAFoY6yW3nEm42wQdTllbNn4xhmshBEbKuO88$) ) on Abyssal Technology & Societal Relevance; Speakers: Pete Girguis (Harvard), Beth Orcutt (Bigelow Marine Lab), Bruce Strickrott (WHOI) and Diva Amon (London NHM).

IODP-USSSP: Volunteer for a Board, Committee or Panel (https://usoceandiscovery.org/committees/) – UPDATED!
The application deadline has been extended to July 10, 2020.

IODP-USSSP: Ocean Discovery Lecture Series – Nominate a Lecturer (https://usoceandiscovery.org/lecture-series/) – —- NEW!
For over 20 years, the Ocean Discovery Lecture Series (formerly the Distinguished Lecturer Series) has brought the remarkable scientific results and discoveries of the International Ocean Discovery Program and its predecessor programs to academic research institutions, museums, and aquaria. Since 1991, over 1,000 presentations to diverse audiences have been made through the Lecture Series. Participation of researchers in the USSSP Ocean Discovery Lecture Series is essential to the program’s goal of bringing scientific results and discoveries to the geoscience community. The nomination period for the 2021-2022 Ocean Discovery Lecturers is now open. Please submit nominations by the deadline of July 22, 2020.

AGU: 2020 Fall Meeting Call for Abstracts (https://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/meetings-and-activities/2020-fall-meeting-call-for-abstracts/) – —- NEW!
Attending (virtually or in person) the AGU Fall Meeting, December 7-11, 2020? Consider submitting your abstracts (https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/2020/Present/Abstracts) (due July 29, 2020) to these deep biosphere-related Session Proposals:
* B003: Advances in representing microbial functions in ecosystem and Earth system models (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105016)
Conveners: Yang Song, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, and Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

* B018: Chemolithotrophs as extreme ecosystem engineers; how microbial communities and environments influence each other under non-standard conditions (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/101817)
Conveners: Rose Jones, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and Tomasa Sbaffi, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

* B021: Coupled Elemental Cycles in Microbial Metabolism (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/104131)
Conveners: William C Nelson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Jianqiu Zheng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Michael J Wilkins, Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences

* B028: Evaluating the role of the deep biosphere in the global carbon cycle: novel methodologies and tools from field sampling to lab scale investigations (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/104445)
Conveners: Anais Cario, CNRS, ICMCB, Bordeaux, France, and Samuel Marre, CNRS, Paris, France

* B034: Geovirology: Viruses in Earth’s Biomes and Their Impacts on Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/103979)
Conveners: Joanne B Emerson, University of California Davis, Ella Sieradzki, University of California, Berkeley, Simon Roux, Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics, and Gareth George Trubl, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

* B039: Integrating molecular insights to advance predictive biogeochemistry: theories, observations and modeling (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102729)
Conveners: Jianqiu Zheng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Debjani Sihi, University of Florida, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, and Timothy D Scheibe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

* ED033: Undergraduate Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean, and Space Science Research and Outreach (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102444)
Conveners: Andria P Ellis, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Education and Community Engagement, Kadidia V. Thiero, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, Pranoti M. Asher, American Geophysical Union, and Virginia L Peterson, Grand Valley State University

* ED035: Virtual and In-Person Educator and Student Research Programs Promoting Authentic Scientific Experience (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105282)
Conveners: Edgar A Bering III, University of Houston, Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, and Constance E Walker, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States

* P002: Aquaplanetology: Aqueous environments and habitability in the Solar System (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102100)
Conveners: Yasuhito Sekine, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Gabriel Tobie, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes, France, Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, and Morgan L Cable, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

* P010: Detecting life through space and time: from geochemistry to biology (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105278)
Conveners: Luoth Chou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Natalie Grefenstette, Santa Fe Institute, Heather Graham, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, and Sarah Johnson, Georgetown University

* P017: Getting the Most out of Data in Astrobiology: Overcoming the Too Little, Too Rare, and Too Different (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105276)
Conveners: Diana Gentry, NASA Ames Research Center, Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, and Amanda M. Stockton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

* P018: Ice and Ocean Worlds: Geology, oceanography, chemistry, habitability (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/101069)
Conveners: Catherine C Walker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alyssa Mills, University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, and Mallory J Kinczyk, North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

* P042: The New Mars Underground (and Beyond) 3.0 (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102528)
Conveners: Rachel Lee Harris, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Jesse Dylan Tarnas, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Ana-Catalina Plesa, German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany

* OS023: Seafloor Cold Seeps Dynamics: Local to Global Impacts of Methane Emission and Gas Hydrates on the Marine Environment (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/101584)
Conveners: Davide Oppo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Adam D Skarke, Mississippi State University, Miriam Römer, MARUM – University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, and Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences

* OS025: The Science Behind the Framework for Scientific Ocean Drilling through 2050 (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102799)
Conveners: Clive Robert Neal, University of Notre Dame, Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben, Alfred Wegener Inst Polar, Bremerhaven, Germany, Nobukazu Seama, Kobe University, Japan, and Dick Kroon, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Missing a session of interest? Let us know (mailto:janicak@usc.edu) !

-ISSM 2020: Meeting postponed to November 1-6, call for poster abstracts extended (https://www.issm2020.com/) –
Submitting poster abstracts (oral presentation abstract submissions are now closed) has an extended deadline of July 30, 2020.

Ongoing Activities:
* C-DEBI: Rolling call for Community Workshop support (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/research-activities/research-support/workshops/)
* C-DEBI: Protocols.io Group Page (https://www.protocols.io/groups/center-for-dark-energy-biosphere-investigations)
* C-DEBI: Subseafloor Cultures Database (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/outputs-resources/subseafloor-cultures-database/)
* C-DEBI: Join us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/c-debi-center-for-dark-energy-biosphere-investigations/)

Proposal Calls
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NOAA: Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2021 Funding Opportunity (https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/about/funding-opps/welcome.html) – UPDATED!
The pre-proposal submission deadline extended to July 8, 2020.

-UNOLS: 2020 Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Cruise Opportunities (https://www.unols.org/unols-cruise-opportunity-program) –
The application deadline for the Fall 2020 Deployment Operations cruises is is August 3, 2020.

NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20525/nsf20525.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) – UPDATED!
Full proposal deadline extended to August 11, 2020.

-NSF: Biological Oceanography (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11696&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal target dates: August 17, 2020 and February 15, 2021.

-NSF: Chemical Oceanography (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11698&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal target date: August 17, 2020 and February 15, 2021.

-NSF: Physical Oceanography (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12729&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal target date: August 17, 2020 and February 15, 2021.

-NSF: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (IUSE:GEOPAths) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20516/nsf20516.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Letter of Intent Due Date: November 17, 2020.

-NSF: Research Traineeship (NRT) Program (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505015&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 6, 2021.

-NSF: COVID-19 Impacts (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/coronavirus/) –
Links: NSF Coronavirus webpage (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/coronavirus/) , NSF Implementation of OMB Memorandum M-20-17 (https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/covid19/covid19_nsfombimplementation.pdf) , COVID-19 Information for the Geosciences Research Community (https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300299&org=GEO) .

-NSF OCE: Upcoming proposals to OCE, shiptime and data proposals (https://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/proposal-call/upcoming-proposals-to-oce-shiptime-and-data-proposals/) –

Rolling Calls:
* C-DEBI: Rolling call for Research Exchange proposals (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/research-activities/research-support/exchange/)
* IODP-USSSP: Proposals for Pre-Drilling Activities (http://usoceandiscovery.org/pre-drilling-activities/)
* NSF: Antarctic Research Program Solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20568/nsf20568.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Arctic Sciences Program Solicitation (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16595/nsf16595.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: DCL: Collaborative Proposals under NSF and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20094/nsf20094.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Dear Colleague Letter: Poorly Sampled and Unknown Taxa (PurSUiT) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20059/nsf20059.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20502/nsf20502.htm)
* NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20532/nsf20532.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (IIBR) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18595/nsf18595.htm)
* NSF: Instrument Capacity for Biological Research (ICBR) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505542&WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18102/nsf18102.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_179)
* NSF: Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18088/nsf18088.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Funding Opportunity in the Biological Sciences (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18089/nsf18089.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5483&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click)
* Queen Mary U of London: PhD Project: Microbial survival in the energy-limited deep biosphere (https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/microbial-survival-in-the-energy-limited-deep-biosphere/?p111036)
* Queen Mary U of London: PhD Project: Microbial life and activity on glaciers and in Arctic soils (https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/microbial-life-and-activity-on-glaciers-and-in-arctic-soils/?p111037)
* UNOLS: Cruise Opportunity Program (https://www.unols.org/unols-cruise-opportunity-program)

Employment
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NC State U: Assistant Professor – Chemical Oceanography (https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/133726) – —- NEW!
The Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at North Carolina State University (NC State) intends to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of chemical oceanography. Desirable expertise includes research via experimental and/or field studies in the areas of nutrients, trace elements, reactive oxygen species, carbonates, gases, or radioisotopes. We encourage applicants to apply who work on global problems in the pelagic ocean as well as benthic-water column interactions. The successful candidate should complement existing strengths in marine biogeochemistry, biological and physical oceanography, and marine geology. The anticipated start date is August 16, 2021. The successful candidate must demonstrate strong potential for outstanding accomplishments in research, research supervision, and teaching. Specific course offerings may include undergraduate and graduate chemical oceanography, marine chemistry, and/or other classes
commensurate with the candidate’s interest and expertise. An interest in participating in the Department’s capstone undergraduate field investigation of coastal processes course is also desirable. Review of applications will begin on October 12, 2020 and the position will remain open until filled.

-MSU: Postdoctoral Researcher position on Asgard archaea ecophysiology (http://nebula.wsimg.com/cd7d3e4d7def0eed4144485bcaf634ff?AccessKeyId=48B9AC89493A56C67DF6&disposition=0&alloworigin=1) –

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