STR Program at NSF: News and Updates

1. STR Program at NSF: News and Updates ILIA I. Roussev iroussev@nsf.gov Program Director, STR Program Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences SHINE Workshop July 24, 2017

2. Synopsis of the Program The Solar-Terrestrial Research (STR) Program supports research on the processes by which energy in diverse forms is generated by the Sun, transported to the Earth, and ultimately deposited in the terrestrial environment. Major topics include space weather impacts, helioseismology, the solar dynamo, the solar activity cycle, magnetic flux emergence, solar flares and eruptive activity, coronal mass ejections, solar wind heating, solar energetic particles, interactions with cosmic rays, and solar wind/magnetosphere boundary problems…

3. STR Program Main Programs ($6.7M): • Core STR Research: ~$3.2M • Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE): ~$3.5M Other Programs($1.1M): • Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER): ~$0.6M • Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF): ~$0.2M • NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering: ~$0.3M Important Statistics: • FY15: funding rate of 23% & mortgage rate of 78% for FY16 • FY16: funding rate of 17% & mortgage rate of 75% for FY17 • FY17: funding rate of 11% & mortgage rate of 46% for FY18

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5. FY14-16 SHINE Competitions SHINE program at AGS/STR has been very successful since its inspection in 2002 • In FY2014, 72 unique projects (78 proposals total) were submitted, and 13 awards were made • Total SHINE expenditures in FY2014: $2.96M, of which $1.257M for new awards • In FY2015, 45 unique projects (55 proposals total) were submitted, and 13 awards were made • Total SHINE expenditures in FY2015: $2.99M, of which $962K for new awards • In FY2016, 56 unique projects (74 proposals total) were submitted, and 15 awards will be made • Total SHINE expenditures in FY2016: $3.20M, of which $1.2M for new awards • In FY2017, 42 unique projects (58 proposals total) were submitted, and 5 new awards will be made • Total SHINE expenditures in FY2017: $3.50M, of which $1.14M for new awards

6. FY17 SHINE Winners Kathy Reeves (SAO) *Bin Chen (NJIT) *Lijia Guo (BAERI) Chengcai Shen (SAO) Joe Borovsky (SSI) Congratulations to all!

7. FY18 SHINE Solicitation FY18 SHINE Program Announcement • Deadlines removed: see Dear Colleague Letter at https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2017/nsf17109/nsf17109.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click • Focused science areas being revised – provide your input to SHINE SC! • New program announcement coming later this summer – stay tuned!

8. SHINE Workshop http://shinecon.org

9. PREEVENTS • Basic purpose • Better understand risks posed by GEO-relevant natural hazards and extreme events – including space weather events–through basic geoscience research in order to help increase resilience and reduce impacts on life, society, and the economy • Primary targets (must address both to be eligible!) • Enhance understanding of fundamental processes underlying natural hazards and extreme events on various scales, and variability inherent in such hazards/events • Improve capability to model and forecast such hazards and events • Subsidiary – encouraged, but not required • Improve understanding of effects of natural hazards/extreme events • Enable development, with other support, of tools to enhance societal resilience

10. Program Design

11. Review and Funding Solicitation for workshops (or Track 1) and Track 2 proposals (FY17): http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16562/nsf16562.htm Track 2 proposals had two-stage review process • Stage 1: thematic virtual panels + ad hoc – gave disciplinary depth • In FY17, 131 projects were submitted (total of 253 proposals) • Stage 2: physical panel for all Stage 2 proposals – gave overall breadth • In FY17, 44 projects (total of 86 proposals) made it to Stage 2 • 13 PREEVENTS awards were made, of which 2 are related to space weather! Co-funding via internal memo only (FY18) • Program reviews proposals, makes decision to fund or not • PREEVENTS Management Team reviews co-funding requests, makes decision to co-fund or not

12. EarthCube • NSF places significant emphasis on computational and data-rich science and engineering, with the goal of providing a sustainable, community-based and open cyberinfrastructure for researchers and learners. • This goal is a major challenge because the number and volume of data sets have grown to proportions well beyond the range of applicability of traditional data handling tools. • The vision of EarthCube is to transform the conduct of research by supporting the development of community-guided CI to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the Geosciences. http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/

13. Important Info for All Proposers The latest NSF “Users’ Manual” can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg17_1/nsf17_1.pdf Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide NSF 17-1

14. Awardee’s Reports to the NSF • In addition to your Final Report to the NSF, you must now submit Project Outcomes online for the public, at http://www.research.gov • Your Annual Report become due 90 days before your award anniversary date, and are overdue on “anniversary date + 1 day” • Your funding increment – and that of anyof your current Co-PIs on any NSF grant – is delayed until your annual report is approved! • Please submit a No Cost Extension if you cannot expend your annual budget due to unforeseen circumstances – do not just delay the submission of your annual report…

15. Review Requests Unless you have been informed that your review is for a special competition, or a specific NSF panel, your review is for a proposal submitted to my core STR program (fund code 1523). We need to obtain a minimum of 3 written reviews within 6 months. Your help is greatly appreciated!!! We would prefer to receive a delayed review than none at all.

16. Questions? Thank you!