Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres
Supports early career researchers collaborating across disciplines to develop and improve models for understanding atmospheres on Earth and other worlds using new data and innovative scientific tools.
Funder: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Due Dates: April 15, 2027: Application/self-nomination submission deadline for full consideration | November 6, 2027: Scialog team seed-proposal submission deadline
Funding Amounts: Seed grants typically $50,000–$60,000 per team for one year; multiple awards anticipated per annual cycle.
Summary: Supports early career faculty to collaborate on innovative, cross-disciplinary research advancing atmospheric models for Earth and other worlds.
Description
This initiative aims to bridge the gap between the rapidly growing volume of high-quality atmospheric data (from missions like the James Webb Space Telescope) and the scientific community’s ability to interpret these data through robust, process-based atmospheric models. By bringing together early career astrophysicists, exoplanet observers, planetary scientists, atmospheric modelers, astro-statisticians, and chemists, the program fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to develop, validate, and cross-check new tools for understanding terrestrial and extraterrestrial atmospheres. The ultimate goal is to deepen insight into planetary evolution and atmospheric processes on both Earth and other worlds.
