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Opportunity Summary:

The Geotechnical Engineering (GTE) grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number PD 10 1636) is a National Science Foundation research grant program in the Science and Technology/Research and Development category (CFDA 47.041, Engineering Grants). Its main purpose is to fund fundamental, research-driven work focused on the geotechnical dimensions of civil infrastructure, with particular attention to improving how infrastructure systems are understood, designed, built, and maintained when soil, rock, groundwater, and geologic processes are central factors. The program’s research scope covers core geotechnical engineering topics such as foundation engineering and site characterization, as well as the engineering challenges tied to underground construction, tunneling, drilling, and mining. In addition, it explicitly includes geoenvironmental engineering, which often involves understanding and managing interactions among soils, contaminants, and groundwater, along with broader environmental and infrastructure performance concerns.

A major part of the opportunity is also dedicated to geohazards and hazard-related geotechnics. This includes research on events and processes such as tsunamis, landslides, mudslides, debris flows, scour, and erosion, all of which can threaten infrastructure and communities through ground failure, soil movement, and severe terrain or channel changes. The opportunity also includes geotechnical earthquake engineering, with an important limitation: projects in this area are supported as long as they do not involve using the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) facilities. Across all these themes, the program highlights sustainability and resilience as central priorities, meaning proposals are expected to strengthen long-term performance, reduce lifecycle impacts, improve adaptability to changing conditions, and help infrastructure and communities better withstand and recover from extreme events and chronic stressors.

From an administrative and eligibility standpoint, the opportunity is listed as a discretionary grant with no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to applicant types, subject to any further clarifications that would normally appear in the program’s eligibility text. The posting date is August 4, 2010, and the program information was created on December 9, 2011. The original closing date shown is October 1, 2010, and the submission windows are described as recurring annual due dates, with proposals due by 5 p.m. local time during two cycles: one spanning September 1 to October 1, and another spanning January 15 to February 15. The listing is archived as of December 9, 2011, and the “current closing date” notes that it was replaced by a later program listing (12 1636), indicating applicants should consult the updated NSF program description for the most current solicitation details, requirements, and deadlines.

The funding record as provided lists expected awards and estimated total funding as zero, which typically indicates that the archived Grants.gov entry is informational or superseded rather than a live competition snapshot, not necessarily that the NSF program itself never makes awards. For practical next steps, applicants who need the full announcement are directed to NSF’s Grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov, and an additional information link is referenced for the NSF Program Description (10 1636), which would normally contain the most useful details on scope fit, proposal preparation, review criteria, and submission mechanics.

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