Dr. Max Bernstein, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Lead for Research, took us on a guided tour of the Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) call. Max leads the assembly and release of this omnibus announcement of NASA funding opportunities, which is released every year on February 14. Max knows ROSES from the inside and out. As the former PI or Co-I on numerous NASA grants from the Astrobiology, Exobiology, Planetary Geology and Geophysics (PGG), and Origins programs he supported himself and post-docs for a decade on Research and Analysis (R&A) awards. 

The slides shared by Dr. Bernstein during this event and bonus slides he prepared to give additional advice are available here. Check the presenter notes for additional links. If you have trouble accessing this file, please contact Sarah.

Questions, which start just after the 20 min mark in the video, addressed the following:

• How did ROSES get its name and come to be released on February 14, and what’s the big deal about this annual release when calls are so regularly updated?

• About the NASA’s Guidebook for Proposers - when do you have to look at it?

• Do any ROSES elements support research on the practice of citizen science?

• How do you search ROSES for opportunities that you don’t already know about but that might serve you?

• I've heard that serving on a review panel is a great way to learn. How can I volunteer to be placed on a review panel?

• How do we educate panelists about citizen science methods so that they can appropriately evaluate proposals with citizen science methods?

Access additional questions posed and answered in the Zoom Q&A tool here.

We were also joined by Dr. Woody Turner, the Program Manager for Ecological Conservation and the Program Scientist for Biological Diversity in the NASA Headquarters Earth Science Division. Woody was instrumental in shaping the first ROSES element to explicitly call for citizen science methods. He shared the long view of citizen science funding at NASA.