Dartmouth College received a $322,516 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations exploring the physics of magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas. This research supports NASA's ongoing Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, which aims to resolve the diffusion scale physics of magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetosphere. Dartmouth will collaborate with the MMS theory and modeling team, as well as the Fast...
This is a $276,486.00 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Dartmouth College, a private non-profit academic institution. The grant is for a project titled "EO14042 ORIENTATION, VELOCITY, AND STRUCTURE OF RECONNECTING REGIONS" with a period of performance from June 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025. Dartmouth College, which has extensive experience conducting research under federal contracts and grants, will use its academic...
This is a grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Trustees of Dartmouth College for a research project titled "The Earthward Ejecta of the Near-Earth Magnetotail Reconnection is Dipolarizing Flux Bundles (DFBs), Flux Tubes with the Intense Magnetic Field." The $749,999.00 grant has a performance period ending on July 31, 2025. Dartmouth College, a private non-profit educational institution, will conduct the research as the prime contractor. This grant does not have a...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Dartmouth College, a private non-profit university, for a project to model the fundamental nature of magnetic reconnection using fully kinetic simulations. The $323,999.00 grant-funded research contract has a completion date of December 17, 2025. As a prestigious Ivy League institution, Dartmouth College has extensive experience conducting federally-funded research across scientific...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Dartmouth College, Office of Sponsored Projects, doing business as Dartmouth College. The grant, valued at $375,998.00, is to conduct research on methods to determine the orientation, velocity, and structure of magnetic reconnection regions, and to support other groups of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) science team in their investigations. The grant was originally awarded on March 5, 2019...
This is a $100,000.00 grant awarded to Trustees of Dartmouth College by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on current continuity in auroral system science using a 3D modeling approach. The award, which is not set aside, will run from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025. Dartmouth College, a prestigious Ivy League institution, will leverage its academic expertise and research capabilities to contribute to this NASA project aimed at advancing knowledge...
This is a grant award to Trustees of Dartmouth College, Office of Sponsored Projects Division, doing business as Dartmouth College, to conduct research on the mechanisms of oxygen upwelling and acceleration in the Earth's magnetosphere-ionosphere system. The $807,368.54 award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under contract number 80NSSC19K0071 will allow Dartmouth to use advanced modeling techniques coupled with observational data to investigate how solar wind...
This is a $703,968 grant awarded to Dartmouth College by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate the impact of current sheet scattering on radiation belt relativistic electron loss. The award does not utilize a set-aside and has an ultimate completion date of August 3, 2025. Dartmouth College, a private, non-profit educational institution, is the prime contractor on this research grant. The college leverages its academic expertise and research capabilities...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Dartmouth College, Office of Sponsored Projects Division, doing business as Dartmouth College, a private non-profit university. The $647,023.00 grant is for research to develop new models for flare energetic particle production and study the evolution of solar energetic particle (SEP) composition in space and time. The goal is to clarify the origin and distribution of seed particles and their...
This is a $1,001,720.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Dartmouth College, a private non-profit educational institution, for the research project "FROIDE: FUNDAMENTAL REPRESENTATION OF OCEAN-ICE SHELL DYNAMIC EVOLUTION". The grant is for a period ending on October 6, 2027 and has no set-aside designation. As an Ivy League university with expertise in scientific research, Dartmouth will leverage its academic and research...