Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres
Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres supports early-career scientists pursuing collaborative atmospheric research to build better models for understanding Earth and planetary evolution.
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Funder: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Due Dates: April 15, 2027 (Fellow application, full consideration) | November 3–6, 2027 (Meeting) | November 6, 2027 (Seed proposal, 6:30 a.m.)
Funding Amounts: One year of collaborative seed funding
Summary: Supports early-career scientists developing cross-disciplinary atmospheric research to improve models of Earth and other worlds.
Key Information: Fellows must attend the entire meeting and form funding teams with researchers they have not previously collaborated with.
Description
Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres is a Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Scialog initiative running from 2027 to 2029. It addresses the gap between high-quality observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and other missions and the models used to interpret them. The goal is to link observations, laboratory experiments, and theory to build more realistic, process-based atmospheric models and validated, cross-checked tools for understanding planetary evolution and Earth.
The initiative brings together astrophysicists, exoplanet observers, planetary scientists, terrestrial atmospheric observers and modelers, astro-statisticians, and physical and analytical chemists and experimentalists. Through focused discussions, early-career Fellows develop new collaborations and propose novel, high-risk, potentially high-impact basic science projects for seed funding.
