paleonet Math/Geoscience Initiative

["Lane, Harold" <hlane@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleague:

I would like to let you know about a new NSF competition entitled
"Opportunities for Research Collaborations between the Mathematical Sciences
and the Geosciences (CMG)."

The purposes of the CMG activity are: (A) to enable small groups of
researchers work in areas of research at the intersection of mathematical
sciences and geosciences, and (B) to encourage cross-disciplinary education
through summer graduate training activities. Research topics under (A)
should fall within a broad theme dealing with multi-scale phenomena.
Research groups should include at least one mathematical scientist and at
least one geoscientist. Research projects supported under this activity
should be collaborative in nature and depend for their advancement on the
interaction of the researchers in the group. Projects should be
scientifically focused, well-delineated, timely, and limited in duration to
up to three years. It is not the intent of this activity to provide general
support for infrastructure. Proposals for summer graduate training
activities are not restricted to the topic of multi-scale phenomena.

Further details can be found at   www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02022 .  The
deadline for proposals is February 25th, 2002.

Please share this message with any colleagues you think may be interested.


H. Richard Lane
Program Director, Geology and Paleontology
National Science Foundation
Ph. 703-292-4730
FAX: 703-292-9025
hlane@nsf.gov