NASA Solicits Proposals for Cryosphere Research to Address Urgent Climate Topics
NASA has issued Amendment 71, announcing a new opportunity under A.16 Cryosphere, which solicits high-impact research proposals focused on sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers. The initiative expects proposed investigations to utilize the extensive data available from NASA satellites and airborne campaigns. The goal is to address the most urgent and impactful topics in cryospheric science, as identified in the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey, 'Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space' (2018). Potential research areas include interactions between ice, ocean, atmosphere, and land, and their impacts on the Earth system; ice sheet stability, including observations of processes governing stability and their representation in models; and seasonal-to-decadal prediction of sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers, with a specific focus on Arctic sea ice. 
