The Regents of the University of Colorado, acting through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a $874,108.00 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct data-driven simulations of two flaring active regions on the Sun. This research will use the Radiative MHD, Magnetic Flux Eruption, and Coronal Global Evolutionary Model codes to model the processes underlying solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The goal is to gain a better...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, has been awarded a $600,000.00 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the origins of sunspots and the Sun's magnetic activity cycles. The grant supports the University's efforts to leverage recent advances in 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to better understand the Sun's complex magnetic dynamo processes and...
This is a federal grant award to The Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research on the characteristics of white-light emission during solar flares. The $235,421.01 grant will fund the investigation of ultraviolet and optical emission from solar flares using data from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. The research aims to improve understanding of the role of nonthermal...
This is a $496,259.67 grant award from the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant is for research on solar magnetic eruptions, which can drive major space weather phenomena like solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar energetic particle events. The award has an ultimate completion date of August 12, 2023 and was made on August 13,...
This is a grant award from 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. The $1,386,417.71 grant is for research to investigate the degree of rotational constraint on solar convection and its impact on the solar dynamo. The research utilizes a combination of theoretical modeling, numerical simulations, and helioseismic observations to characterize the...
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 $195,401.21 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct fundamental research on the lower solar atmosphere. The grant is focused on measuring and quantifying the complex activity of the temporally dynamic and spatially inhomogeneous lower solar atmosphere in order to understand how mass and energy are transported into the...
This $98,588.98 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, acting through its Office of Contracts and Grants, to conduct research on magnetic reconnection processes in the Earth's magnetotail. The University of Colorado, an accredited public research institution, will use this funding to study the rapid transport of magnetic flux and plasma towards and away from the Earth, as observed by satellite...
This $134,813.42 research grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, to study the origin of the sun's magnetism. The research is focused on observing highly regular patterns of magnetic activity on the solar disk, which is one of the most pressing outstanding problems in astrophysics. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2019 and is scheduled for completion on...
The University of Colorado has been awarded a $407,188 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation from the sun and its impact on space weather. This is a 5-year grant that runs from August 2020 to August 2025. The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government entity and accredited public research institution that has previously conducted federal contract work for agencies including NASA, the Department of...
This federal grant award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, is for research to study the impact of solar flares on the Mars upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and induced magnetosphere. The $410,485.26 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aims to address key science questions about how solar flare events affect the near-Mars space environment. The work will leverage sophisticated models to characterize the global Mars system response, including atmospheric loss, and will be validated against observations from Mars-orbiting satellites. This fundamental research supports NASA's Solar System Workings program focus on investigating magnetospheric processes and dynamics in planetary plasma environments.