EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships

The summary for the EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Science Foundation, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships: <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. The research and education plans of each fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplines.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The program supports researchers for a period of up to two years with fellowships that can be taken to the institution of their choice (including facilities abroad). The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential, and provide them with research experience, mentorship, and training that will establish them in leadership positions in the Earth Sciences community. Because the fellowships are offered only to postdoctoral scientists early in their career, doctoral advisors are encouraged to discuss the availability of EAR postdoctoral fellowships with their graduate students early in their doctoral programs. Fellowships are awards to individuals, not institutions, and are administered by the Fellows.</span>
Federal Grant Title: EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships
Federal Agency Name: National Science Foundation
Grant Categories: Science and Technology
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: 15-568
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 323892, 323893
CFDA Descriptions: Geosciences
Current Application Deadline: Jan 10, 2017
Original Application Deadline: Jan 10, 2017
Posted Date: Jun 11, 2016
Creation Date: Jun 11, 2016
Archive Date: Feb 8, 2018
Total Program Funding: $1,740,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: none
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $87,000
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following:
-Unaffiliated Individuals: Scientists, engineers or educators in the U.S. who are U.S. citizens.

*Who May Serve as PI:
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">An individual is eligible to submit a proposal to the NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship program if all the following criteria are met:</span>

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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Be U.S. citizens (or nationals) or legally admitted permanent residents of the United States (i.e., have a &ldquo;green card&rdquo;) at the time of application; </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Either currently be a graduate student or, at the deadline date, have served in a position requiring the doctoral degree for no more than 18 full-time-equivalent months since earning the degree. If more than18 months have elapsed between conferral of the doctoral degree and the deadline date, the candidate must include specific language in their Biographical Sketch (discussed below) affirming that they meet this eligibility requirement; </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Must present research plan that falls within the purview of the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF (</span><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=EAR"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #3c75cf; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-underline: none;">http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=EAR</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">); </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Applicants are encouraged to expand the network of collaborators and implement the fellowship at an institution new to the applicant. However, applicants who choose to carry out the postdoctoral fellowship at the institution where they received their PhD or their current institution at the time of submission must: (1) have been at this institution for at least 12 months at the time of submission; (2) present a strong justification and clearly explain the benefits of this choice to their research and educational goals; and (3) have two scientific mentors, one at the hosting institution and a second mentor at a different institution who is a new collaborator with the applicant;</span></li>
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