NERC-NSF Lead Agency — Collaborative
Supports joint United Kingdom and United States environmental teams through the NERC NSF Lead arrangement for collaborative proposals and shared review.
The NERC-NSF Lead Agency arrangement is a permanently open bilateral scheme enabling UK and US environmental scientists to pursue collaborative research under a single coordinated review process, avoiding the duplication of parallel national applications. Under the arrangement, NERC and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — specifically NSF's Geosciences (GEO) or Biological Sciences (BIO) dir…
Collaborative environmental science within both NERC's remit and NSF GEO or BIO scope. Requires both a UK and US co-lead.
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