Invitation to Town Hall with Bill Easterling, Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation

Please join us for a Town Hall on Thursday, November 1 from 10:00AM to 11:30AM to meet Bill Easterling, Head of the NSF Geosciences Directorate. Dr. Easterling will share information about the Directorate, which supports research in atmospheric, Earth, oceanic and polar sciences. This event is open to all members of the campus community. RSVP required.

This event was organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and is open to all members of the campus community.  Space is limited. Should you have any questions, please contact us at ovcr@conet.ucla.edu.

NSF in Transition: Use-Inspired Research and the Geosciences

NSF, together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are the primary US federal agencies promoting fundamental, curiosity-driven research.  Encouragement by the research community, the public and its elected leaders has led to the expansion of the NSF mission to support research that not only contributes fundamental new knowledge but that also hastens scientific advances and/or delivers information that addresses critical societal needs such as food, energy and water security. Convergence science is introduced.  NSF’s Big Ideas, as convergence science, are discussed with emphasis on new initiatives in the Arctic and cyber-science and engineering.  New initiatives being developed in the Geosciences Directorate, such as Coastlines and People (CoPe) are presented. The talk concludes with examples of exciting new research findings that demonstrate that NSF must continue to maintain fundamental, curiosity-driven research but that that research is in balance with interdisciplinary, convergence research.

• Session for Early Career Faculty Nov 1, 2:30p-3:30p
• Session for Graduate Students & Postdocs Nov 2, 11:00a-12:00p