Earlier this week the School of Oceanography hosted Julie Morris, the Division Director for Ocean Sciences at NSF.
Julie had the opportunity to talk with many faculty, staff and students, both in small groups and at a school-wide "Town Hall" held Tuesday afternoon.
At the town hall Julie shared information about activities in OCE, highlighting that OCE is the largest division at NSF with a $310M budget. She noted that climate has garnered the attention of politicians and the public. NSF is developing a climate program spanning environment, energy and economics...the OCE contributions will include the role of the ocean in determining climate, ocean acidification and ecosystems, and ocean responses to an ice-free Arctic. Other special opportunities in OCE include work in the thematic areas of emerging topics in biogeochemical cycles and in paleo perspectives on climate change.
One thing Julie told me she was sorry she had forgotten to say was that OCE feels that they are receiving too few proposals requesting ship time.
