NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2017-2018 academic year.\u00a0 This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines.\u00a0 The purpose of NESSF is to ensure continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA\u2019s scientific goals.\u00a0 Awards resulting from this competitive selection will be made in the form of training grants to the respective universities.<\/p>\n
The deadline for NEW applications is February 1, 2017<\/span><\/span>, and the deadline for RENEWAL applications is March 15, 2017<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n The NESSF call for proposals and submission instructions are located at the NESSF 17 solicitation index page at http:\/\/nspires.nasaprs.com\/<\/a><\/u> – click on “Solicitations” then click on “Open Solicitations” then select the “NESSF17” announcement.\u00a0 Also refer to \u201cProgram Specific Questions\u201d and \u201cFrequently Asked Questions\u201d listed under \u201cOther Documents\u201d on the NESSF17 solicitation index page.<\/p>\n All proposals must be submitted in electronic format only through the NASA NSPIRES system.\u00a0 The faculty advisor has an active role in the submission of the fellowship proposal.\u00a0 To use the NSPIRES system, the faculty advisor, the student, and the university must all register.\u00a0 Extended instructions on how to submit an electronic proposal package are posted on the NESSF 17 solicitation index page listed above.\u00a0 You can register in NSPIRES at http:\/\/nspires.nasaprs.com\/<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n For further information contact Claire Macaulay, Program Administrator for NESSF Earth Science Research, Telephone: (202) 358-0151<\/a>, E-mail:claire.i.macaulay@nasa.gov<\/a> or Dolores Holland, Program Administrator for NESSF Heliophysics Research, Planetary Science Research, and Astrophysics Research, Telephone: (202) 358-0734<\/a>, E-mail: hq-nessf-Space@nasa.gov<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2017-2018 academic year.\u00a0 This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}