ROSES 2020: Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (NASA)

• Date: 02 July 2020
• Published date: 02 July 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31171

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Grants alert (cont.)

ROSES 2020: SAGE III/ISS Science Team (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the ROSES 2020:

SAGE III/ISS Science Team announcement to monitor

the vertical distribution of aerosols, ozone and other

trace gases in Earth’s stratosphere and troposphere

to enhance our understanding of ozone recovery and

climate-change processes in the stratosphere and upper

troposphere.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Sept. 18, 2020; proposals,

Nov. 6, 2020.

Funds: $1.5 million for up to 10 awards. The maximum

project period is three years.

Eligibility: U.S. institutions.

Areas: NASA said research topics include but are not

limited to: assessing long-term changes in atmospheric

composition, aerosol and cloud studies, data analysis

and modeling efforts using SAGE datasets, multisensor

data product development and limb scatter retrieval

algorithm development or adaptation.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NNH20ZDA001N-SAGEIII

ROSES 2020: Citizen Science for Earth Systems

Program (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the ROSES

2020: Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program

announcement to develop and implement capabilities

to augment and enhance NASA scientic data and

capacity through voluntary observations, interpretations

or other direct participation by members of the general

public to advance understanding of the Earth as a

system.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Aug. 4, 2020; proposals,

Sept. 11, 2020.

Funds: $3 million for all proposals selected for the initial

18 months, and then $2 million per year total for the

Type 1 proposals selected for continuation. Up to 13

awards are expected.

Eligibility: U.S. institutions.

Areas: NASA said for the purpose of this program,

citizen science is dened as efforts or projects that use

voluntary public participation in the scientic endeavor,

including but not limited to formulating research

questions, conducting experiments, collecting and

analyzing data collected by citizen and/or professional

scientists, interpreting results, making new discoveries,

and/or developing or deploying technologies and

applications. Crowdsourcing, another frequently used

term describing voluntary contributions, is included

under citizen science in this program element.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NNH20ZDA001N-CSESP

ROSES 2020: Solar Irradiance Science Team (NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the ROSES

2020: Solar Irradiance Science Team announcement to

support the development of consistent multi-instrument/

multiplatform space-based datasets of both total and

spectrally resolved solar irradiance.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Aug. 7, 2020; proposals,

Sept. 11, 2020.

Funds: $1 million for six to eight awards. The maximum

project period is three years.

Eligibility: U.S. institutions.

Areas: NASA said the datasets should be useful as

input to global models (e.g., general circulation models,

atmospheric chemistry/transport models) and data

assimilation systems, so that the effects of variations

in solar output can be properly represented and their

impacts on the Earth system investigated. The efforts

carried out in this area will be expected to involve

components such as: rigorously accounting for drifts

in instrument operation over the respective instrument

lifetimes, determining calibration offsets that can be

applied to one or more datasets to create a consistent

data record and reprocessing datasets from previously

operating satellites using newly obtained calibration

information, among many others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NNH20ZDA001N-SIST

ROSES 2020: Ocean Salinity Field Campaign

(NASA)

Scope: The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration seeks applications for the ROSES 2020:

Ocean Salinity Field Campaign announcement to conduct

a dedicated Ocean Salinity Field Campaign in the 2022–

23 timeframe, integrated with satellite observations

and modeling studies in support of the salinity remote

sensing missions and polar oceanography.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Aug. 27, 2020; proposals,

Sept. 24, 2020.

Funds: $5.5 million for one award. The maximum project

period is three years.

Eligibility: U.S. institutions.

Areas: NASA said the program is intended to clarify the

role of salinity in ocean-ice interactions by characterizing

salinity signatures and possible salinity-ice feedback

mechanisms in rapidly changing polar environments.

Outcomes of this eld campaign are also expected

to inform the development of new concepts of future

remote sensing capabilities that improve salinity

retrievals in cold waters.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NNH20ZDA001N-OSFC

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