Guidelines for NSF NEESR Payload Project SGER Proposal Submission Reference: NEESR solicitation NSF

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Guidelines for NSF NEESR Payload ProjectSGER
Proposal SubmissionReference NEESR
solicitation NSF 06-504 and NSF GPG
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Douglas Foutch (dfoutch_at_nsf.gov), Program
Director, 703-292-7003 Richard Fragaszy
(rfragasz_at_nsf.gov), Program Director,
703-292-7011 Joy Pauschke (jpauschk_at_nsf.gov),
Program Director, 703-292-7024 Division of Civil
and Mechanical Systems (CMS) National Science
Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard Suite
545 Arlington, VA USA 22230 Division Phone
703-292-8360 Division Fax [phone]
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NEESR Payload Project SGER Proposals Background
Work

• Find appropriate NEESR II, SG, or GC project from
  NSF Awards Database Search http//www.nsf.gov/awar
  dsearch/
• Contact NEESR II, SG, and GC project PI for
  concurrence/ feasibility (you will need letter
  from that PI for your SGER proposal)
• Answer the following
• Why is the project important to do as a payload?
• How does the payload utilize the NEESR (II, SG,
  or GC) test set-up?
• Does the NEES equipment site have the capability
  to test the payload?
• How will the project impact the field?
• What will students learn?
• How will students from underrepresented groups be
  involved?

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NEESR Payload Project SGER Proposal Preparation

• Prepare proposal in accordance with the current
  NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) for SGER proposals
• Utilize the test set-up of a NSF-funded NEESR II,
  SG, or GC project (see NSF 06-504)
• Start proposal title with SGER NEESR Payload
  Project to NEESR II (or SG or GC) Award
  CMS-xxxxxxx
• Address explicitly intellectual merit and broader
  impacts in project summary
• Include student support (strongly encouraged)
• Budget up to 75,000 total
• Include in supplementary documentation section
• A letter from PI of NEESR II, SG, or GC project
  confirming agreement/feasibility to use test
  set-up
• Project schedule

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Steps for NEESR Payload Project SGER Proposal
Submission to NSF

• Contact NSF Program Director (PD) of NEESR-funded
  II, SG, or GC project for programmatic interest
  in topic, availability of funds, is it a NEESR
  payload SGER, etc?
• Douglas Foutch, dfoutch_at_nsf.gov, 703-292-7003
• Richard Fragaszy, rfragasz_at_nsf.gov, 703-292-7011
• Joy Pauschke, jpauschk_at_nsf.gov, 703-292-7024
• If invited by PD, then email PD a two-page
  maximum project summary with a one-page draft
  budget (by Feb 1)
• If invited by PD, then email PD the full SGER
  proposal with proposed budget
• If invited by PD, submit the full SGER proposal
  on FastLane (NEESR Payload Project SGER Proposals
  submitted on FastLane without invitation by PD
  will be returned without review)
• Help with pre-award review
• NEESinc Equipment Site Policies Compliance Check
• Final budget negotiations with NSF

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NEESR Payload Project SGER Proposal Awarded by
NSF

• Follow NEESinc policies on awarded project
  (see NSF 06-504 and www.nees.org)
• NEES Facilities User Guide
• NEESinc Data Sharing and Archiving Policies and
  Guidelines
• Other policies, as appropriate,
• Contact NEESinc
• Sign a NEESinc Research Participation Agreement

Note Funding of NEESR Payload Project SGER
Proposals is based on overall quality of the
proposal and availability of funds.
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This slide was added by D. Cox for NEES Tsunami
Workshop, July 2728 at OSU
8. Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)
Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, and
high-risk research in the fields of science,
engineering, and education normally supported by
NSF may be submitted to individual programs. Such
research is characterized as preliminary work on
untested and novel ideas ventures into emerging
research ideas the application of new expertise
or new approaches to "established" research
topics having extreme urgency with regard to
availability of or access to data, facilities, or
specialized equipment, including quick-response
research on natural disasters and similar
unanticipated events and efforts of similar
character likely to catalyze rapid and innovative
advances.
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