The University of Iowa was awarded a $525,311.00 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on "IDENTIFYING PARTICLE ENERGIZATION MECHANISMS IN MAGNETIC RECONNECTION THROUGH THEIR VELOCITY SPACE SIGNATURES". This is a research grant with a performance period ending on April 8, 2027. The University of Iowa is a large public research institution that has extensive experience supporting various federal agencies through contracts and grants....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $675,467.00 grant for research to The University of Iowa, a public research university located in Iowa City, Iowa. The research contract aims to investigate and contrast the effects of stochastic (diffusive) transport processes with transport resulting from coherent interactions of energetic particles with large-scale magnetospheric disturbances. This research supports NASA's broader mission in studying the dynamics of...
This is a $502,279.36 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The University of Iowa for research related to the variability of flows, fields, and forces in the magnetospheres of unmagnetized bodies. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a research project that will use modern magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study these phenomena at Mars and Venus under varying solar, solar wind, and seasonal...
This federal contract award to The University of Iowa, with an ID of 80NSSC20K1509, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $113,673.68 grant is for research to expand existing theory on particle energization in the solar wind and create context for future application of field-particle correlations to data from NASA spacecraft in the inner heliosphere. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a major public research...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC18K0643, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa, a major public research university. The contract, valued at $483,483, is a grant for research to study the physical mechanisms responsible for the collisionless removal of energy from turbulent fluctuations in heliospheric plasmas. This research aims to develop a predictive capability for understanding the macroscopic evolution of heliospheric...
This federal contract award to The University of Iowa supports research to understand how energy is converted and distributed in high-temperature, low-density turbulent plasmas found in space environments. The $493,723 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to apply a novel field-particle correlation technique to data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The goal is to diagnose the mechanisms responsible for the removal of energy from turbulent...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K1514, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The University of Iowa, a public research university. The $135,000.00 grant is for a research project focused on studying the drivers and energies of pulsating aurora, with the goal of better understanding their contribution to the coupling between the magnetic field and the atmosphere. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. In addition to this grant...
This is a $1,236,519 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The University of Iowa for research on collisionless shocks in the heliosphere. Collisionless shocks play an important role in converting the energy of supersonic plasma flows into other forms like plasma heat, particle acceleration, and electromagnetic field energy. The research will involve kinetic numerical simulations to better understand these processes. The grant has an ultimate completion date of...
This is a $539,217 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa on August 1, 2021. The grant is for observational analysis and data quality control/assurance research, utilizing statistical techniques to evaluate model results. The grant has a period of performance through July 31, 2026. The University of Iowa is a major public research university that has extensive experience supporting federal agencies through contracts and grants, with no...
The University of Iowa was awarded a $368,017.00 research grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate data products from the ICESat-2 satellite's atmospheric observations. This grant, awarded on October 28, 2022, has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2025. The University of Iowa, a major public research university, has a long history of providing research and specialized services to various...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a grant for $618,417.89 to the University of Iowa to conduct research on "A NEW, PHYSICALLY VIABLE, FLUID CLOSURE FOR HEAT CONDUCTION IN A FULLY IONIZED PLASMA." This research is suitable for applications such as the formation of the corona-wind, large-scale reconnection scenarios, and modeling of space weather effects. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on June 12, 2019, with a completion date of February 22, 2022. As a leading public research university, the University of Iowa has a proven track record of successfully executing federal research contracts and grants across a wide range of disciplines, including biomedical sciences, defense systems, and environmental studies.