Program guidelines:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04509

Letter of Intent Due to NSF Date (required): January 26,2004; Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): March 08, 2004

No institution or organization may submit more than one proposal to this competition. For consortium proposals, a single investigator must be designated as the project director and a single institution or organization must submit the proposal (with subawards as appropriate) and accept overall management responsibility.

PI Eligibility Limit: An investigator may participate in one EMSI proposal as a funded senior investigator (PI, co-PI, or equivalent).

Costsharing is not required by NSF

The goals of the EMSI program are to:
The Environmental Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI) Program supports cohesive, interdisciplinary group efforts in environmental molecular science by US academic institutions and non-profit non-academic organizations. Many EMSIs include partnerships with industry, international institutions and/or national laboratories. This program will increase our fundamental, molecular-level understanding of natural and anthropogenic processes in the environment. Basic research in these areas underpins our understanding of molecular-scale phenomena in chemistry and geochemistry and informs efforts to prevent and ameliorate environmental problems caused by societal activities. Projects are expected to advance the disciplines of chemistry and the geosciences. They should also focus on increasing our understanding of environmental systems, serve as models for excellence in collaborative interdisciplinary research, and contribute ultimately to the development of beneficial technologies and processes. An EMSI typically supports a group of six or more investigators with complementary research interests. EMSIs require an effective management structure and include a variety of educational and outreach activities. In particular, EMSIs are expected to create broad interdisciplinary educational opportunities. The use of cyberinfrastructure to facilitate and enable collaboration and sharing of data is encouraged. The National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy are partnering in the EMSI Program to ensure that the strongest possible programs are supported with the limited funds available and to concentrate resources to realize measurable progress in focused research areas.

UM INTERNAL ABSTRACT DEADLINE: DECEMBER 8th, 2003 (Monday, 5 P.M).
If you are interested in claiming the one UM proposal slot for the NSF Environmental Molecular Science Institutes Program, we would like to receive the following project information as part of your overall project summary:

a) Project Title and Estimated Total Project Budget
b) Names of collaborators
c) 2 page CVs for collaborators
d) Up to 3 page summary of proposed Institute
e) List of current related funding for each investigators
f) List of all joint publications by the investigators
g) List of all jointly-supervised Ph.D. candidates to be used.

We will need to receive your three to four page summary for this Solicitation by close of business on Monday, December 8th, 2003.( 5:00 P.M.)

The summary should be submitted to Marvin G. Parnes via e-mail: mgparnes@umich.edu with a copy to Dave Plawchan at: davedrda@umich.edu

We request that a copy of the summary submitted for review be given to the appropriate Research Dean by the Project Director/ Principal Investigator.

Dr. Fawwaz Ulaby, Vice President for Research, in consultation with others, will decide which proposal should be developed. The finalist for this competition will be notified no later than Tuesday, December 23, 2003.

If you have any questions about project eligibility, or requests to receive a hard copy of the NSF Program Announcement NSF 04-509, please direct them to Dave Plawchan [fastlane-admin@umich.edu] in DRDA. You can also retrieve an electronic version directly from NSF by following the directions on the NSF website:http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04509