This $50,606.14 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), acting through its Office of Research Administration division. The grant supports research into the role of the inner magnetospheric electric field in magnetospheric dynamics and its influence on coupling to the ionosphere and earthward particle transport during magnetic storms. This research directly aligns with NASA's mission and science...
This is a $489,235 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere and their connection to substorms. The research aims to understand the generation of compressional PI2 waves in the tail region of the magnetosphere by fast plasma flows and the inward propagation of these waves to the inner magnetosphere. The grant does not have a...
This is a $672,570.60 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for research related to understanding the impact of transient events in the solar wind on the Earth's magnetosphere. The research aims to address three key questions: 1) how foreshock transients evolve as they propagate from the solar wind to the magnetosheath, 2) the 3D structure of magnetopause distortions caused by these transients, and 3) the...
This is a five-year, $735,536 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study the characteristics and behavior of plasma flow bursts in the Earth's magnetosphere. The research aims to identify how these meso-scale flow bursts interact with the large-scale structure of the plasma sheet and lead to geomagnetic disturbances and particle injections into the inner magnetosphere. This grant does not have a set-aside...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for research related to the dynamics and coupling of the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere. The $650,474.92 grant does not have a set-aside designation and will run through March 7, 2024. UCLA, through its Office of Research Administration, will use a combination of data from the Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) and Time History of Events and...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) valued at $194,947.67. The grant is for research on the "Oscillations of Magnetospheric Field Lines with High Azimuthal Wavenumbers (M)" and how they relate to solar wind conditions. The research aims to quantify the occurrence and characteristics of these high-m waves in the magnetosphere, which are important for understanding the dynamics of...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. The $1,372,880.77 grant is for a study to gain a comprehensive understanding of the effects of global-local interactions on the heating and acceleration of ions and electrons observed at Earth's magnetopause and in the magnetotail. The research aims to determine the origin of...
This $564,645 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - through its Office of Research Administration - supports research examining the aurora, currents, and plasma flows in the auroral ionosphere. The award, which has no set-aside designation, will fund this work over a period ending on March 8, 2026. As the prime grantee, UCLA will leverage its scientific expertise, facilities, and partnerships to further...
This is a $601,257.94 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. The grant supports research to understand the physical mechanisms driving modulations of electromagnetic waves, known as chorus and electron cyclotron harmonic (ECH) waves, in the Earth's magnetosphere and their impact on magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. The research aims to analyze electron...
This is a $524,175 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on the characteristics of observed electron precipitations driven by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves. The grant, with a period of performance ending on February 28, 2026, is part of NASA's broader initiatives in space science and atmospheric research. As a public research university, UCLA will leverage its facilities, faculty...