OpportunityTitle: RIDGE 2000
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: *Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following:    -For-profit organizations: U.S. commercial organizations, especially small businesses with strong capabilities in scientific or engineering research or education.    -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities.    -Universities and Colleges - Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions.    *PI Limit:  Ridge 2000 Research Program. None specified for proposals addressing Integrated Research Studies or Time Critical Studies.    Ridge 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. There are eligibility requirements for the Postdoctoral Fellowship program.     Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents; initiate the award no more than two years after receipt of their doctoral degree; and have a commitment from a scientificsponsor at a host institution that is different from the applicant&apos;s previous PhD and/or doctoral work.
Description: Ridge 2000 is a science initiative focused on integrated geological, biological, and geochemical studies of the Earth-encircling mid-ocean ridge system. Central to the Ridge 2000 program is the recognition that the origin and evolution of life in deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems are inextricably linked to, and perhaps an inevitable consequence of, the flow of energy and material from Earth&apos;s deep mantle to the seafloor and ocean via magmatic and hydrothermal systems. To sharpen our knowledge of mid-ocean ridge systems, the first phase of the Ridge 2000 program involved integrated field, laboratory, and modeling studies of three representative, but geographically limited study sites. Research activities spanned a broad range of disciplines: from geophysics to geochemistry and from geology to biology to hydrothermal vent fluid dynamics.With this solicitation, Ridge 2000 moves into its integration and synthesis phase where results from previous and on-going interdisciplinary field expeditions and laboratory studies are to be brought to bear on advancing our conceptual and quantitative understanding of mid-ocean ridge systems and the processes that link geological, geophysical, geochemical, hydrothermal, and biological processes. As such, the program now shifts its focus from field data acquisition to integration and synthesis to help the program achieve its science goals.
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