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ROSES-2023

• The 2023 version of Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES-2023) was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2023 on February 14, 2023.
• Table 2 with all program elements organized by due date was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2023table2
• Table 3 with all program elements organized by subject matter was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2023table3
• The FAQ on what's new in ROSES-2023 was posted at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/#1
• We have a few ways for proposers to keep up to date with changes to ROSES after release. You are encouraged to:
  • Subscribe to the SMD NSPIRES mailing lists (by logging in at https://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under Account Management and Email Subscriptions),
  • Bookmark the ROSES-2023 blog for clarifications, corrections and amendments at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2023/ and
  • Subscribe to the relevant ROSES-2023 due date Google calendars. Instructions will be posted at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links on or about February 14, 2023.

ROSES-2022

• The 2022 version of Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES-2022) was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2022 on February 14, 2022.
• Table 2 with all program elements organized by due date was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2022table2
• Table 3 with all program elements organized by subject matter was posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2022table3
• The FAQ on what's new in ROSES-2022 was posted at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/#1 and links to slides and a recording of a What's new in ROSES talk may be found in the Library under "Links".
• We have a few ways for proposers to keep up to date with changes to ROSES after release. You are encouraged to:
  • Subscribe to the SMD NSPIRES mailing lists (by logging in at https://nspires.nasaprs.com and checking the appropriate boxes under Account Management and Email Subscriptions),
  • Bookmark the ROSES-2022 blog for clarifications, corrections and amendments at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2022/
     

Future Solicitations

You may download the current planning list of SMD Solicitations (NRAs and AOs) as a PDF from the SOMA web page. ROSES is released each year on or about February 14^th. Planned program elements of ROSES are listed in the ROSES tables of due dates as 'TBD' and hypertext links from each title in the table of due dates connects to the NSPIRES page for that program element with a summary and point of contact.
 

DRAFT New Frontiers 5 AO Released for Community Comment

Comments due March 3, 2023

The Planetary Science Division has released a Draft of the New Frontiers 5 (NF5) Draft AO for comment. To review the NF5 Draft AO, visit https://go.nasa.gov/NF5DraftAO. Questions and comments may be directed to Dr. Curt Niebur at curt.niebur@nasa.gov. Updates and responses to comments may be posted in the Questions and Answers section of the NF5 Acquisition website at https://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/NF5/
 

2023 Heliophysics Space Weather Focused Mission of Opportunity

As it becomes available, information about a Focused Mission of Opportunity for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager instrument to be hosted on the European Space Agency Vigil mission will be posted on the Vigil FMO Acquisition Website at https://lws.larc.nasa.gov/vfmo/.
 

DYNAMIC AO Delay

SMD is delaying the release of the draft Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) mission solicitation due to reduced budget availability anticipated at this time. Further information specific to DYNAMIC will be posted on the Acquisition Homepage at https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/DYNAMIC/ as it becomes available. The DYNAMIC acquisition planning is described on the Announcements tab of the Acquisition Homepage.

Questions about the DYNAMIC may be directed Jared Leisner at jared.s.leisner@nasa.gov. Depending on the nature of the question(s)/comments, NASA may respond on an individual basis by email or may post responses at the Questions and Answers (Q&A) section of DYNAMIC Acquisition Homepage 
https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/DYNAMIC/faq.html. Anonymity of persons/institutions who submit questions/comments will be preserved.
 

Community Announcements

Information on Future Portal for Archiving NASA-funded Accepted Manuscripts

The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program is developing an external submission portal for NASA-funded investigators to submit Accepted Manuscripts and other STI products. The portal is expected to be available later this summer.

The external portal will be used in place of the National Institutes of Health Manuscripts System (NIHMS), for grant and cooperative agreement recipients. The external portal will provide a more direct and streamlined Accepted Manuscript submission process for recipients. The STI Program will send communications prior to the start date with instructions and reminders.

As part of this transition, an information page about the new portal is available on the STI Program website which will be updated throughout the process: https://sti.nasa.gov/new-external-submission-portal/.

The STI Program invites comments and questions about this new external manuscript submission portal via the Research Access Help Desk at https://sti.nasa.gov/sti-contact-form/?RequestType=ResearchAccess.

Dual-Anonymous Peer Review

In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the use of dual-anonymous peer review in which, not only are proposers not told the identity their reviewers, the reviewers are not told the identity of the proposers (until after they have evaluated the scientific merit of all of the anonymized proposals). To learn more about dual-anonymous peer review see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/dual-anonymous-peer-review.

No Due Dates?

In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the number of programs with no fixed due date. Starting in ROSES-2021, proposals to seven programs in planetary science may be submitted at any time without any preliminary statement such as a Notice of Intent or Step-1 proposal. For more information see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/NoDD.

Need Advice about ROSES and proposal writing?

On the library and useful links page we have resources that may be useful to those who are new to proposing to ROSES: Links to YouTube versions of presentations given at Goddard in February 2022 at https://youtu.be/62QqJ2Nnlzc and older by Max Bernstein (NASA HQ) and Christina Richey (JPL) about proposal writing. Both the video of Dr. Richey (thanks to the SETI Institute) and the video of Max Bernstein (thanks to NASA Ames Research Center). Other information that maybe useful to early career/ potential new PIs may be found at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/new-pi-resources.