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Dear Colleague:

This is to remind you that NSF has announced another Life in Extreme
Environments (LExEn) competition for 1998. In 1997, some 20+ projects
were funded for a total of $6M. Polar Programs did very well in the
competition with 6 awards totaling more than $1M. For a list of 1997
awards, LExEn highlights and copies of the Announcement of Opportunity,
please access

http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/lexen/start.htm

Call us if you have any questions.

Contacts for the Office of Polar Programs are:

Antarctic: Linda Duguay lduguay [at] nsf.gov, 703-306-1033
Arctic: Douglas Siegel-Causey dsiegel [at] nsf.gov, 703-306-1030

Deadline for Proposals: January 15, 1998

Regards,

Dennis Peacock