January 30th, 2009
Posted by Max Bernstein at 2009/02/12 13:54:06.542 US/Eastern
Selections for a dozen programs from ROSES 2008 were announced since the last SARA letter in December, and summary information for these are posted as html on the Grant Stats page. In addition, selections were announced for the final two programs from ROSES 2007 (Energy and Water Cycle Study and Terrestrial Hydrology), and these can be found at the archive page where we have grant stats from ROSES 2007. These and all prior selections can be found on the updated spreadsheets of ROSES selection information, which are downloadable in Excel and PDF format.
We are done selecting proposals submitted in response to ROSES 2007, and the plots of the time that elapsed between submission and selection, both by program and by proposal, show that selections were made much faster than in prior years, though we handled more proposals than ever before.
The grant solicitations page has been updated, including the new deadline for our graduate student fellowship program, NASA's Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF).
As always, a number of updates have been made to the information on the SARA web page, including the list of program officer contact information, and we have posted a FAQ with the latest information on how ROSES 2009 will differ from prior years.
Finally, we have posted, with permission, a summary of Greg Davidson’s latest Science News metric on the science matters page. This annual measure of NASA contributions to worldwide scientific discovery reports that “NASA’s 9.2% contribution to worldwide scientific discoveries in 2008 is the fourth-highest in the 36 years covered by the Science News metric” and that “NASA’s non-mission science produced 1.3% of world-wide science.”
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