How YOUR tax dollars are spent
NASA is wonderful right?
I have been a space-NASA aficionado since high school. My dad wanted me to be a NASA engineer.. Glad I disappointed him and became a heart surgeon instead. But yes, having dipped my toe in SBIR funding of military and space request for proposals (RFPs).. I still read the NASA requests. Here is one published today. Most coming out relate to issues, questions like this. All kinda squishy to be able to fit into whatever mold the politicians of the day and media want to see NASA studying. I read this and honestly, it is kinda like a nothing burger but looks like a big deal. Well it is a big deal when the recipients get YOUR hard earned tax dollars at the barrel of an IRS gun.
Does this excite you? Appears about 40% of Americans are so leftist and environmentally active they probably will like it. Here you go. Knock yourself out and keep sending in those IRS checks.
Quoting —- (oh and yes the links work…)
Program element A.60 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team (ST) solicits proposals for studies that use past and future GEDI data to address scientific questions in terrestrial ecology, carbon cycle science, biodiversity, and interactions of the biosphere with the atmosphere and hydrosphere. However, proposers are expected to use GEDI data in combination with other space-based, airborne, and surface observations. Selected principal investigators will become members of the Competed GEDI Science Team
ROSES-2023 Amendment 22 releases final text and due dates for A.60 GEDI ST, which was previously TBD. Notices of intent are requested by July 20, 2023, and proposals are due August 24, 2023.
On or about May 2 2023, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2023" (NNH23ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2023 and will appear on SARA's ROSES blog at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2023/
Questions concerning A.60 GEDI ST may be directed to Michael Falkowski at Michael.Falkowski@nasa.gov and Hank Margolis at Hank.A.Margolis@nasa.gov.