The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $395,440.51 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning. The grant supports research to study the relationship between wave-particle interactions and magnetic reconnection, a key process investigated by NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The research aims to...
This federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) provides $430,716.51 to study the role of whistler-mode chorus waves in driving the dynamics of energetic electrons in the Earth's magnetosphere. The research aims to characterize the global distribution of chorus waves by combining data from multiple spacecraft missions. This will allow developing statistical models to parameterize chorus wave properties...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $697,981 grant to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization in Boulder, Colorado. The grant supports research to study waves generated by accelerated particles in the Earth's magnetosphere and their impact on space weather. The research will utilize data from the ARTEMIS spacecraft, the VLASIATOR simulation code, and a new analytical model to examine the properties and dynamics of ultra-low frequency...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $109,650.59 grant for research to the University of Colorado, Office of Contracts and Grants Division. This grant supports a study of strong turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath using data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The research aims to analyze kinetic-scale turbulence, dissipative processes, and resulting particle heating and acceleration. The University will use MMS magnetometer and plasma...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Space Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The $183,984 grant is for a project focused on studying the properties of fast mode waves in the Earth's magnetosphere outside the plasmasphere. The research aims to answer questions about how the energy of these waves is distributed and their typical amplitudes compared to other ultra-low frequency waves. The project...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $350,000.00 grant to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center, to investigate the effects of low-energy plasma composition on electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in the Earth's magnetosphere. The grant supports analysis of particle and wave measurements from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to better understand the role of plasma composition in the properties of EMIC...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The $426,752 grant funds a research project to study the interactions between radiation belt electrons and whistler-mode chorus waves, which is a high priority area under NASA's Heliophysics Decadal Survey and Heliophysics Supporting Research (H-SR) program. The research aims to quantify the effects of...
This $60,768.27 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to support research for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS). The MMS has collected extensive high-resolution plasma, particle, and magnetic field data in the Earth's magnetotail region from altitudes ranging from 12 to 29 Earth radii. The grant, awarded on September...
This is a $237,675.87 grant award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project examining the physical processes that control the cold ion composition in the plasmasphere. The grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Heliophysics program. The research project aims to use numerical simulations, data analysis, and model validation to better...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, received a $614,573.66 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the importance of including low-frequency hiss, exohiss, and plasmapause-organized hiss in predictive modeling of electron dynamics in the inner magnetosphere. The research aims to quantify the impact of these "missing" aspects of hiss physics...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $520,129 grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver, to conduct research on whistler mode waves and their influence on radiation belt dynamics. The research seeks to understand the prevalence and impact of cold plasma density structures on the propagation and interactions of chorus waves, a type of whistler mode wave, in the Earth's magnetosphere. The project will leverage data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and Cluster spacecraft missions to characterize density structures and then model their effects on chorus wave parameters and wave-particle interactions. The research aims to address key scientific objectives of NASA's heliophysics program. The grant does not have a set-aside designation.