Geospace Environment Modeling  (GEM)

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  10-510

Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I: Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of this new requirement).

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  October 15, 2010

SYNOPSIS

GEM is a broad-based, community-initiated research program on the physics of the Earth's magnetosphere and the coupling of the magnetosphere to the atmosphere and to the solar wind. The purpose of the GEM program is to support basic research into the dynamical and structural properties of geospace, leading to the construction of a global Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM) with predictive capability. The exact structure of a GGCM may be modular or may consist of a "spine" such as a global MDH model with links to special modules. The strategy for achieving GEM goals is to create a series of Focus Groups, each of which addresses a specific problem in understanding and modeling the magnetosphere.  More information on the structure of the GEM program, the currently active Focus Groups, and the mechanism for creating a new Focus Group can be found at the GEMwiki web site.

RELATED PROGRAMS

Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions

Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment

RELATED URLS

GEM Wiki Main Page

GEM Focus Groups

CEDAR, GEM, SHINE Postdoctoral Research

CEDAR

SHINE

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF

Upper Atmosphere Research Section

What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)