REQUESTING THE NSF/NCAR GV FOR THE ECLIPSE 2017 MISSIONBrigitte Baeuerle, EOL

Project Category• “Small”

• Less than $1.25 Million in DP cost• Domestic• Involvement of single facility: NSF/NCAR GV

• “NCAR-led”• Lead PI team from NCAR• Majority of scientific work funded through NSF/UCAR Cooperative

Agreement to NCAR

Documentation Requirements• Science Proposal

• Needed to justify the use of an instrument or platform• Will be send out for peer-review • Proposal has to follow the NSF Grant Proposal Guide

• Facility Request• Available online from EOL website

• Endorsement Letter• Written by PIs Science Division Director or NCAR Associate Director • Confirms financial and institutional support for proposed research• Suggests a Science Division Director or designee as primarily NCAR Point of

Contact for NSF and to answer all questions related to projects (not the PI)

• PandA Registration• Register as unfunded collaboration

• Scientific Overview of Project• Up to 5 presentation slides in electronic format

Deadlines• PandA Registration 15 Nov 2015• Deadline Facility Request 1 Dec 2015• Deadline Science Slides 1 Dec 2015• Deadline Science Proposal31 Jan 2016• OFAP Review May 2016• NSF Decision Summer 2016• Field Campaign Aug 2017

Facility request and slides to B. BaeuerleProposal to V. Grubisic

Review/Approval Process• NCAR-led proposal review conducted by NCAR

Management (usually EOL Director)• Requires appointment of a NCAR Point of Contact

(Associate Lab or Science Division Director) and NSF PoC for communications between NSF, EOL & NCAR Lab

• Science proposal send out for peer review by EOL• NCAR Management will review evaluations and

programmatic decision• OFAP review of facility request• NCAR recommendation to NSF• Final decision by NSF• Notification from EOL