NASA EPSCoR Project Office Opportunities

New Opportunities from NASA EPSCoR National Project Office

• NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (Cycle III)
• FY20 R3 Topics Summary (xls)

Guidelines:

• States (South Dakota) may submit ONE proposal per task.
• Proposals MUST be submitted by the state NASA EPSCoR Director (Ed Duke)
• Persons interested in developing a proposal must contact Ed Duke; in cases where more than one group is planning to propose to the same task, a down-selection process will be required
• Proposal length:  2-3 pages
• Proposals due:  January 6, 2020
• Maximum funding and period of performance: up to $100,000 per proposal for period not to exceed one year (anticipate 20 awards in this cycle)

Topical areas (see also attached worksheet):

1. Science Mission Directorate Planetary Division

Extreme Environments applicable to Venus, Io, Earth volcanoes and deep sea vents

Examples:

• High-Temperature Subsystems and Components for Long-Duration (months) Surface Operations:
• Aerial Platforms for Missions to Measure Atmospheric Chemical and Physical Properties:
• Extreme Environment Aerobot

1. Commercial Space Capabilities Office

• Renewal of Previously Selected Cycle 1 CSCO R3
• Landed Sensing of Mars Ice
• Improvement of Space Suit State of Art

1. Science Mission Directorate Earth Sciences Division

Research Topics to Address Earth System response to disasters

Examples:

• Oil spills (e.g. improved mitigation strategies; further understanding of oil distribution through time; comparison between spills in similar settings)
• Hurricanes (e.g. impacts on coastal communities/ecosystems and subsequent recovery; comparison of storm types and ecosystem damage)
• Wildfires (linkages of various wildfires (type, extent) to climatic conditions; societal impacts; recurrence and ecosystem response)
• Harmful algal blooms (e.g. impacts on air/water quality; comparison of climatic conditions for different blooms; comparison of blooms across regions)
• Volcanic eruptions (e.g. atmospheric composition/distribution of plumes of same volcano through time)

1. NASA Space Life and Physical Sciences and Research Applications

• Physical Sciences Program — Dusty Plasmas
• Fluids Physics and Combustion Science — Drop Tower Studies
• Combustion Science — Transcritical Combustion
• Physical Sciences Program — Quantum Effects
• Fluid Physics — Flow Boiling in Reduced Gravity
• Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences Informatics System
• Bioinformatic Analysis of Space Biology Data in the NASA GeneLab Data System
• Space Biology Program — Biofilms and the Built Environment
• Space Biology Program — Plant and Microbial Interactions
• Physical Sciences Program — Extraction of Materials from Regolith
• Space Biology Program — In-Situ Food Safety Monitoring

1. Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Office

• Conversion of CO2 into Fuel
• Evaluation of Low Pressure Air Plasma for Passivation of Metal Components

1. Goddard Space Flight Center Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO)

• Computational and Technological Advances for Scientific Discovery

Proposers are encouraged to contact the research task point of contact (POC) listed on page 4 of the RFP for clarification/information on the tasks.

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Edward F. Duke, Director
South Dakota Space Grant Consortium and
South Dakota NASA EPSCoR Program

501 East Saint Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701-3995
Phone: 605-394-2388

Email:  Edward.Duke@sdsmt.edu

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