This program has been archived.


Solar and Planetary Research Grants  (SPG)


Important Announcement for SPG (NSF 16-602)

After 30 September 2018 proposals will no longer be accepted into the Solar and Planetary Research Grants pilot “no-deadline” program.  Effective 1 October 2018, proposals that address topics related to solar and planetary systems should once again be submitted to the AAG program (NSF 18-575) by 15 November 2018.


CONTACTS
Name Email Phone Room
Faith  Vilas (Lead) fvilas@nsf.gov (703) 292-8225  W9155  
David  Boboltz dboboltz@nsf.gov (703) 292-2199  W9156  
Linda  French lfrench@nsf.gov (703) 292-5313  W9157  
Harshal  Gupta hgupta@nsf.gov (703) 292-5039  W9154  
James  E. Neff jneff@nsf.gov (703) 292-2475  W9137  


PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  16-602

Important Information for Proposers

A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 22-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after October 4, 2021. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 22-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.


DUE DATES

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SYNOPSIS

The Solar and Planetary Research Grants (SPG) Program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for observational, theoretical, laboratory, and archival data studies in the science of our solar system and extrasolar planetary systems. Proposals for projects and tools that enable and enhance research in those areas may also be submitted. 

Proposals addressing the astronomy and astrophysics of stars, our galaxy, external galaxies, and cosmology will be handled under a companion NSF solicitation, NSF 16-574, Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG), not under the SPG Program. Proposals that address planet formation within circumstellar disks are appropriate for this SPG Program; proposals that address star formation are better directed to the AAG Program and will not be considered by the SPG Program. Proposals submitted to one of these two programs, and deemed more appropriate for the other program, will be routed to the other program and considered during the next proposal submission season for that program. Potential proposers are cautioned that this could delay a proposal considered more appropriate to the AAG Program for up to a year. 

Proposals that are solely or predominantly for the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of space-based data from NASA-supported missions will be returned without review.

 


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

Map of Recent Awards Made Through This Program