The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), was awarded a $160,401.17 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to understanding the global distribution and dynamics of electric and magnetic fields in the magnetosphere and ionosphere during extreme space weather events. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of how energetic electrons and...
This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, to conduct research aimed at understanding and predicting the response of Earth's magnetosphere to variations in the solar wind. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Michigan is a leading educational institution that has extensive experience conducting research and...
This $726,353 federal grant award to the Regents of the University of Michigan funds a research project to study the dynamics and coupling of Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial inputs. The project will employ a systems science approach, utilizing advanced numerical models from the University of Michigan's Space Weather Modeling Framework as well as comprehensive observations from NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory and other...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $137,004.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract is for research related to the Earth's magnetosphere-ionosphere system and its interaction with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field. This is not a set-aside contract. The University of Michigan is a U.S. state government-controlled...
The Regents of the University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects division, was awarded a $2,603,382.00 grant for research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant, awarded on July 1, 2021, is for a project titled "The Idea of Using High-Power Electron Beams to Trace Magnetic Field Lines and Unambiguously Connect Physics Phenomena Occurring in the Magnetosphere with Their Image in the Ionosphere." The grant has an ultimate...
This is a $439,322.38 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to examine data from the Van Allen Probes and THEMIS missions. The goal is to assess the connections and drivers of inner magnetospheric current densities and hot ion structures. Specifically, the research will test hypotheses about how localized electric field perturbations influence the spatial distribution of hot ions in the inner magnetosphere. This...
The Regents of the University of Michigan, operating as the University of Michigan, was awarded a $249k grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research relating to magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling through field-aligned currents. The 26-month grant, which commenced in August 2023, will support the University's study of interactions between Earth's magnetic field and electrically charged particles in the upper atmosphere and how...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $134,877 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) to conduct research on "IMPLICATIONS FOR CORONAL ENERGY PARTITIONING FROM INSITU MEASUREMENTS OF HEAVY ION ABUNDANCES AND SOLAR WIND ENTROPY". This grant has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2025. The University of Michigan is a U.S. state government-owned educational institution that has previously received prime and...
This federal contract award is a grant for $144,091 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan). The grant is for research to understand and quantify the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere response for extreme space weather conditions using advanced computer modeling. The research will analyze the physical mechanisms behind the unusually fast...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $129,967.90 training grant contract to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan). The contract, awarded on September 1, 2018, is focused on using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modeling to better understand the role of ionospheric conductance in the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and the prediction of ground-induced currents during space...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $953,830 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), a U.S. state government educational institution. The grant is for research to examine fundamental questions related to ionospheric outflow and the impact and feedback of heavy ions in the magnetosphere. The research will investigate ion transport through the magnetosphere, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and the influence of heavy ion presence on magnetic topology and solar wind interactions. The work directly addresses the second science goal of NASA's Heliophysics Grand Challenges Research - Targeted Magnetospheric Studies (HGCR-TMS) program. This grant does not have a set-aside designation.