Lee Vierling's Overheads for 3/24/00 NASA EPSCoR Meeting Opening Comments

"Unifying Themes" of NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise (ESE), 1999-2002

1. Biology and Biogeochemistry of Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle
2. Climate Variation and Prediction
3. Global Water and Energy Cycle
4. Solid Earth and Natural Hazards
5. Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry

NASA’s View of EPSCoR
(as stated on opening page of NASA-EPSCoR Research Compendium)

• "NASA-EPSCoR operates in tandem with NASA Space Grant program"
• "EPSCoR emphasizes building research infrastructure and capacity"
• "Space Grant emphasizes education and public service in addition to building research capacity"
• "NASA-EPSCoR seeks to identify capable researchers in states that have not traditionally been strongly funded for R&D"

EPSCoR Proposal Schedule

• Announcement of Opportunity: Aug. 2000
• Letter of Intent: October 2000
• Proposal: December 2000
  - Potential budget: $500,000 yr^-1
• Start Date: March 2001

Meeting Goals (for 3/24/00 SD NASA EPSCoR Meeting)

• Define and discuss collaborative experimental research plans for this summer

- who is involved
- research goals

• Identify established linkages between SD researchers and NASA scientists/centers
  
• Define 2 focal points for SD EPSCoR research

- identify associated, realistic research sub-projects
- assign writing tasks for first draft of proposal

Program Elements of Earth Science Enterprise
(as described in NASA-EPSCoR Research Compendium

• ESE 1      EOS Interdisciplinary Investigations*
• ESE 2      Global Modeling and Analysis
• ESE 3      Land-Cover and Land-Use Change*
• ESE 4      Global Data Integration and Validation
• ESE 5      Pathfinder Data Sets
• ESE 6      Land Surface Hydrology*
• ESE 7      Atmospheric Dynamics and Remote Sensing
• ESE 8      Geologic Research
• ESE 9      Geodynamics and Geopotential Fields
• ESE 10    Polar Research
• ESE 11    Atmospheric Effects of Aviation
• ESE 12    Terrestrial Ecology*
• ESE 13    Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis*
• ESE 14    Upper Atmosphere Research
• ESE 15    Trospospheric Chemistry Program*
• ESE 16    Radiation Science
• ESE 17    Biological Oceanography
• ESE 18    Physical Oceanography
• ESE 19    UAV Science
• ESE 20    Mission Science Teams
• ESE 21    Applications*
                  Sub-Themes:

• Agriculture*
• Natural Resources
• Disaster Management
• Urban and Infrastructure
• Environment

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