*Coastlines and People (CoPe) Scoping Sessions: Apply to attend
workshops Sept. 26-28, 2018 *
You are encouraged to apply to attend scoping sessions to identify
priorities for a research initiative focused on coastal regions.
Applications are due by August 12, 2018 (11:59pm local time) and the
workshops will be held September 26-28, 2018. More information is
available on the CoPe scoping session website
https://coastlinesandpeople.org/.
Coasts are paramount to our nation’s economic prosperity,
sustainability and national security. The National Science Foundation
(NSF) Directorate of Geosciences in collaboration with the Directorates
for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Engineering, Education
and Human Resources, and Biological Sciences are looking to better
understand the research priorities related to advancing understanding of
the impacts of coastal environmental variability and natural hazards on
populated coastal regions. The outcomes from these scoping sessions will
inform future research opportunities from NSF to expand and innovate
coastal research and include state, federal and local stakeholders.
Interdisciplinary research on coastal processes, the built environment,
and the people that inhabit coastal regions, serves as an opportunity to
engage under-represented groups and build on broadening participation
efforts of NSF’s INCLUDES
<https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505289>.
Four, simultaneous, three-day scoping sessions will be hosted by the
University Cooperation for Atmospheric Research(UCAR
<https://www2.ucar.edu/>)and facilitated by KnowInnovation
<http://knowinnovation.com/> on behalf of the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Workshop sites include San Diego, California, Chicago,
Illinois, and Atlanta, Georgia with a fourth ‘virtual’ workshop held on
mountain time.
**Applicants will be notified by late August. Travel support will be
provided for participants invited to attend. More information and
answers to frequently asked questions can be found on the CoPe scoping
workshop website https://coastlinesandpeople.org.