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Opportunity Summary:

The Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) grant opportunity is a National Science Foundation (NSF) discretionary research grant program supporting science and technology research and development focused on how solar disturbances form, evolve, and propagate through the heliosphere to affect Earth. The core purpose is to strengthen scientific understanding and improve predictive capabilities for space weather drivers, especially the solar events and interplanetary conditions that can influence Earths magnetosphere, ionosphere, and technological systems. The opportunity is explicitly aligned with the priorities and research questions being actively discussed within the SHINE community, a broad, grass roots, community-organized effort that convenes workshops to coordinate progress on shared scientific challenges. In practice, this means proposals should be tightly connected to topics currently under consideration at SHINE workshops, rather than being broadly solar or heliophysics related in an unfocused way, and investigators are expected to track SHINEs current themes via the SHINE website (http://www.shinecon.org).

Administratively, this funding opportunity is issued by NSF under Funding Opportunity Number 04-585, with a funding activity classification of Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and it is associated with CFDA number 47.050 (Geosciences). The instrument type is a grant, and the program anticipates making around 8 awards under the solicitation. The estimated total funding level is approximately $700,000, indicating a modest, competitively allocated portfolio intended to support a small set of meritorious projects that directly advance SHINE-relevant research directions.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the competition is broadly open to any type of applicant entity, subject to any additional constraints that might appear in the full solicitation text under the eligibility section. The opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching funds, which can simplify budgeting and lower barriers for participation by institutions or teams without non-federal matching resources.

In terms of timing, the solicitation historically used an annual full proposal deadline scheduled for the third Wednesday in August. The record shows an original closing date of August 19, 2009, and a later listed current closing date of August 21, 2013, both consistent with that mid-August annual cycle. Anyone preparing a submission would need to follow the current NSF guidance and the full publication details (identified as NSF Publication 04-585) to confirm the applicable deadline year, required documents, formatting rules, and any updates to the program scope or review criteria.

For access and support, NSF directs applicants who have trouble accessing the full announcement through Grants.gov to contact NSF Grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov. The synopsis also references help for linking issues related to the announcement, pointing applicants toward NSF support channels when technical problems arise.

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