<div dir="ltr">Greetings, NAPPN Members.<div><br></div><div>It was wonderful seeing many of you last week in Tucson. We are writing to <b>follow up on the request for Affinity Groups</b> and to <b>share an announcement from the NSF</b> concerning an RFP that may be relevant to some of you.</div><div><br></div><div><b>1. Affinity Groups:</b> Please send an email message to Darwin Campbell at <a href="mailto:darwin@iastate.edu">darwin@iastate.edu</a> to express your interest to lead a NAPPN affinity group. The current list of groups and their leaders is shown below. If you want to organize a group or if you volunteered to lead a group and are not shown in the list, please let Darwin know and he will follow up with you.</div><div> Robotics - Amy Tabb</div><div> Diversity and Inclusion - Argelia Lorence</div><div> Photosynthesis - Zbigniew Kolber</div><div> Software Interoperability - David Lebauer</div><div><br></div><div><b>2. NSF announcement</b> for "Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea." Please see details below (thanks to Cliff Weil at PGRP for thinking of our community to share this news).</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Carolyn Lawrence-Dill on behalf of the NAPPN Executive Board:</div><div><i>Frank Dohleman</i></div><div><i>David Ertl</i></div><div><i>Jian Jin</i></div><div><i>Carolyn Lawrence-Dill (chair)</i></div><div><i>Andrew Leakey</i></div><div><i>Charlie Messina</i></div><div><i>Chris Topp</i></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2019 12:01 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea</font>
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<p class="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808x_MsoNormal">I am a member (along with Karen Cone) of the Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea working group. The recent lapse in appropriations disrupted our role-out of a key part of this initiative: one solicitation was released just prior to
shutting down giving us no opportunity to do proper outreach and another release was delayed. The effect was that much of the response that came in during the furlough period lacked sufficient representation from the science (ie non-technical) communities.
To address this situation, the working group had extended the deadlines and is stepping up the outreach with a webinar to be held this Friday. We in BIO have drafted the attached letter which we encourage you to distribute to your communities. This letter
has also been posted on our blog at: </p>
<p class="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808x_MsoNormal"><a href="https://dbiblog.nsfbio.com/2019/02/11/harnessing-the-data-revolution-informational-webinar-and-funding-opportunities/" id="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808LPlnk869688" class="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808OWAAutoLink" target="_blank">https://dbiblog.nsfbio.com/2019/02/11/harnessing-the-data-revolution-informational-webinar-and-funding-opportunities/</a>
if you wish to simply distribute the URL. </p>
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Funding Opportunities and Informational Webinar</a></div>
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NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) is a national-scale activity to enable new modes of data-driven discovery that will allow fundamental questions to be asked and answered at the frontiers …</div>
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BIO maximizes its benefit from this activity. Therefore we encourage all members of the BIO community to consider participating in HDR in one of the alternate solicitations described in this communication. Feel free to contact Karen or I if you have any questions.
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<p class="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808x_MsoNormal">Thanks!</p>
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<p class="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808x_MsoNormal">Peter</p>
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<p class="m_8318893917221219621m_1756434376277518323m_1245803318849425808x_MsoNormal">Peter McCartney (<a href="mailto:pmccartn@nsf.gov" target="_blank">pmccartn@nsf.gov</a>)</p>
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