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Opportunity Summary:

The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) grant opportunity (NSF Funding Opportunity Number 10-612) was a National Science Foundation program designed to support research that looks at people and nature as a single, interconnected system. Instead of treating environmental processes and human behavior as separate topics, CNH emphasized interdisciplinary work that examines how natural systems influence human decisions and outcomes, and how human actions, institutions, and economies in turn reshape ecosystems, landscapes, and Earth system processes. A central theme of the program was understanding complex feedbacks, thresholds, and interactions across different spatial and temporal scales, from local communities and watersheds to regional and broader-scale coupled dynamics.

This opportunity fell under NSF's Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity area and drew on multiple NSF disciplinary domains, reflected in the CFDA listings for Geosciences (47.050), Biological Sciences (47.074), and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (47.075). That mix signals the intent of the program: proposals were expected to integrate perspectives, theories, and methods across the natural and social sciences, and often to include teams capable of bridging those fields. In practice, CNH projects commonly involved combining ecological or geophysical data with social science data, building coupled models, testing hypotheses about human-environment feedbacks, and generating insights that improve understanding of sustainability challenges, resource management, land-use change, hazards, climate impacts, or other issues where human and natural processes are tightly linked.

The program offered funding through a grant mechanism and was categorized as a discretionary funding opportunity. NSF anticipated making about 18 awards under this solicitation, with an estimated total program funding level of approximately $17,000,000. Individual award sizes were substantial, with an award floor of $500,000 and an award ceiling of $1,500,000, which aligned with the expectation of ambitious, multi-investigator interdisciplinary research. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning applicants were not required to contribute non-federal funds as a condition of receiving an award.

Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning it was open to any type of applicant entity, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications in the full solicitation text. This generally indicates broad eligibility across universities, nonprofits, for-profits, governmental entities, and other organizations that meet NSF's standard award requirements, though the definitive rules would have been contained in the full NSF publication.

In terms of timing, the solicitation was originally posted on September 10, 2010, with full proposal deadlines listed as December 9, 2010 and November 15, 2011, and then "the third Tuesday in November, annually thereafter." The opportunity is now archived and was later replaced by NSF 14-601, meaning this specific solicitation (10-612) is no longer active. The archive date is listed as August 20, 2014, which is also shown as the record creation date for the archived listing. For historical reference or details about requirements, the solicitation pointed applicants to NSF Publication 10-612 as the additional information link.

For support, the notice directed applicants who had trouble accessing the announcement through Grants.gov to contact NSF's Grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov, and it also mentioned contacting NSF if there were issues linking to the funding announcement.

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