FUNDING-ASA
Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program; February 1,
2018
Agency
NASA
Description
NASA
invites applications for 2018-2019 Academic Year fellowships from accredited
U.S. universities on behalf of their students pursuing Masters or Doctoral
(Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences or related disciplines. The purpose
of the NESSF is to ensure continued training of a highly qualified workforce in
disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals outlined above by
performing research projects. Awards resulting from the competitive selection
will be made in the form of training grants to the respective universities with
the advisor serving as the principal investigator. NASA's strategic
objectives are to:
• Understand the Sun
and its interactions with Earth and the solar system, including space weather;
• Advance knowledge of
Earth as a system to meet the challenges of environmental change and to improve
life on our planet;
• Ascertain the
content, origin, and evolution of the solar system and the potential for life
elsewhere; and
•
Discover how the universe works, explore how it began and evolved, and search
for life on planets around other stars.
These
four objectives correspond to the four science divisions of SMD: Heliophysics,
Earth Science, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics.
Announcement
Number:
NESSF18
Closing
Date:
February
1, 2018.
Link
to Full Announcement
Contact
Information
Claire
Macaulay
(202)
358-0151