NASA  Early Career New Investigator Program in Earth Sciences NIP
NNH20ZDA001N-NIP
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The NIP supports all aspects of scientific and technological research aimed to advance NASA's mission in Earth system science (See the NASA Science Plan at http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy/).
In research and analysis, the focus areas are:
•Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems,
•Climate Variability and Change,
•Water and Energy Cycle,
•Atmospheric Composition,
•Weather, and
•Earth Surface and Interior.

In applied sciences, the ESD encourages the use of data from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites and airborne missions to tackle tough challenges and develop solutions that improve our daily lives. Specific areas of interest include efforts that help institutions and individuals make better decisions about our environment, food, water, health, and safety (see http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov). In technological research, the ESD aims to foster the creation and infusion of new technologies – such as data processing, interoperability, visualization, and analysis as well as autonomy, modeling, and mission architecture design – in order to enable new scientific measurements of the Earth system or reduce the cost of current observations (see http://esto.nasa.gov). The ESD also promotes innovative development in computing and information science and engineering of direct relevance to ESD. See Appendix A.1 for more detailed descriptions of the focus areas, themes in applied sciences, and related research topics of high priority to the ESD