2022 Funding Opportunity: Research Relevant to the Search for Life – Within or Beyond the Solar System
Release Date: November 1, 2021
Proposal Due Date: December 17, 2021
Overview
A private donor supporting space science and engineering at Caltech has made it possible to solicit an opportunity through the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to fund 1 grant totaling $85k (direct cost) to carry out technical development efforts that meet the following criteria:
- topic should be relevant to the search for life, either within or beyond the solar system, including both direct searches for signatures of life, and determination of conditions suitable for the emergence of life,
- funding is designated for efforts on Campus with Campus personnel that support innovative approaches for space exploration, and
- the period of performance is one year.
Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation must have a Caltech Campus Principal Investigator (PI) who is a member of the faculty. Special consideration will be given to proposals which support the work of graduate students and postdocs.
Proposals must be submitted to ichatila@caltech.edu by December 17, 2021.
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