The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $1,009,909.00 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), for research related to developing very large format, high-resolution detectors for potential future NASA satellite missions in the ultraviolet, such as LUVOIR (LUMOS) and HABEX (UVS). This grant does not have a set-aside designation. UC Berkeley, a public research university, will...
The University of California, Berkeley received a $413,075 grant award from a civilian federal agency (through the Shared Services Center) on October 1, 2021, to conduct research on "Properties of the Suprathermal Ion Population in the Inner Heliosphere During Quiet Times." The research grant, which extends through September 30, 2026, represents a competitive award with no set-aside designation, reflecting the university's selection based on scientific merit. UC Berkeley, a premier...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $133,316.95 training grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant will fund research to obtain new measurements of the Sun's magnetic field interior to the Earth's orbit, using the time delay of arrival method to trace the trajectories of type III solar radio bursts. The objectives are to evaluate the accuracy of this method, automate the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,998.21 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to enhance a solar corona model and improve understanding of the Sun's corona. The one-year research effort aims to upgrade the Coronal Global Evolutionary Model (CGEM), driven by data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission, and analyze the model's output compared to observations....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $329,348.05 research grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to analyze data from solar and space weather monitoring instruments. The goal is to better understand the origin of the solar wind and its impacts on the near-Earth environment. This work supports NASA's heliophysics research program, which seeks to characterize the physical processes driving solar and space weather activity. The grant does not...
The U.S. government has awarded a $449,852 grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for a research project titled "CHARACTERIZING LUNAR DAYSIDE PHOTOEMISSION AND ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES". The grant was awarded on March 15, 2025 with an ultimate completion date of March 14, 2028. The research is being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and will be conducted at UC Berkeley's facilities in Albany, California. This grant supports UC...
This is a $100,474.03 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant is part of NASA's Astrophysical Research Program and will directly benefit the agency's Exoplanet Exploration Program, which focuses on discovering and characterizing exoplanets. The contract has no set-aside designation and is for the purpose of conducting research. UC...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $475,275.00 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), for research related to recent observations from the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) probes. The research aims to investigate the presence of heavy ions of ionospheric origin mass. The grant is a 5-year contract, running from April 1, 2020 to...
The University of California, Berkeley received a $7,486.46 research grant from a civilian federal agency (via the Shared Services Center) awarded on January 1, 2022, with completion expected by December 31, 2024. The grant funds research investigating X-ray bremsstrahlung signatures produced by non-thermal electrons within solar flares in the solar corona. The project employs disk occultation techniques utilizing NuSTAR and Solar Orbiter STIX instrumentation to study non-thermal processes...
The University of California, Berkeley received a $736.8K research grant awarded on October 17, 2022, with a completion date of April 16, 2026, to investigate magnetic flux emergence and the coupling of scales in eruptive solar configurations. The project involves large-scale, high-resolution three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations combined with observational data analyses to understand how magnetic flux emerges through the Sun's visible surface. The four primary scientific...
The University of California, Berkeley received a $813,139 research grant from NASA to develop advanced ultraviolet remote sensing and imaging technologies for heliophysics science missions. The project, which commenced on May 1, 2019 and concluded on October 31, 2024, focuses on miniaturized optics and detector systems to support low-complexity, compact imagers for examining Earth's space environment and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. These innovations align with NASA's Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Living with a Star programs, building upon decades of successful UV imaging implementations in missions including TIMED, POLAR, IMAGE, ICON, and GOLD. The research aims to provide scientists with instruments capable of delivering large field-of-view imaging with high spatial resolution while maintaining good technical margins, ultimately supporting space weather nowcasting and prediction capabilities.
This grant was awarded without a set-aside designation, indicating competitive selection based on technical merit. UC Berkeley, as a land-grant research institution and established federal research partner, leveraged its expertise in advanced instrumentation and space science to address NASA's heliophysics research objectives. The work performed at the Berkeley, California location represents continued collaboration between the university and NASA in developing next-generation space-based remote sensing capabilities essential for understanding the dynamic coupling between solar energy inputs and Earth's atmospheric and space environments.