This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, to conduct research aimed at understanding and predicting the response of Earth's magnetosphere to variations in the solar wind. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan is a leading educational institution that has extensive experience conducting research and...
This $726,353 federal grant award to the Regents of the University of Michigan funds a research project to study the dynamics and coupling of Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial inputs. The project will employ a systems science approach, utilizing advanced numerical models from the University of Michigan's Space Weather Modeling Framework as well as comprehensive observations from NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory and other...
The Regents of the University of Michigan, operating as the University of Michigan, was awarded a $249k grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research relating to magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling through field-aligned currents. The 26-month grant, which commenced in August 2023, will support the University's study of interactions between Earth's magnetic field and electrically charged particles in the upper atmosphere and how...
The Regents of the University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects division, was awarded a $2,603,382.00 grant for research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant, awarded on July 1, 2021, is for a project titled "The Idea of Using High-Power Electron Beams to Trace Magnetic Field Lines and Unambiguously Connect Physics Phenomena Occurring in the Magnetosphere with Their Image in the Ionosphere." The grant has an ultimate...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $953,830 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), a U.S. state government educational institution. The grant is for research to examine fundamental questions related to ionospheric outflow and the impact and feedback of heavy ions in the magnetosphere. The research will investigate ion transport through the magnetosphere,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,231 research grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, to conduct a study using observations from NASA's magnetospheric missions and ground-based radar and magnetometer networks, along with the University of Michigan Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF). The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a completion date of October 31, 2024. The University...
This federal contract award is a grant for $144,091 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan). The grant is for research to understand and quantify the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere response for extreme space weather conditions using advanced computer modeling. The research will analyze the physical mechanisms behind the unusually fast...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $137,004.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract is for research related to the Earth's magnetosphere-ionosphere system and its interaction with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field. This is not a set-aside contract. The University of Michigan is a U.S. state government-controlled...
This is a $439,322.38 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to examine data from the Van Allen Probes and THEMIS missions. The goal is to assess the connections and drivers of inner magnetospheric current densities and hot ion structures. Specifically, the research will test hypotheses about how localized electric field perturbations influence the spatial distribution of hot ions in the inner magnetosphere. This...
This is a $90,002 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for research related to the magnetic fields and atmospheres of planetary bodies. The award is not associated with a set-aside program. The University of Michigan has a history of conducting research and providing services for various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health. The University...