This is a $525,760 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. The grant is for a research project titled "Variability and Implications of Suprathermal Electron Properties During Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections." The grant is not set aside for any specific business type. The period of performance runs from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2027. As a...
This $736,800 grant was 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 for a research project titled "MAGNETIC FLUX EMERGENCE AND COUPLING OF SCALES IN ERUPTIVE CONFIGURATIONS FROM THE UPPER CONVECTION ZONE TO THE SOLAR CORONA". This is a fundamental research study that aims to improve understanding of solar physics and solar...
This award is a $411,460.44 grant for research provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant will support a project that involves analyzing data from spacecraft such as Helios, Wind, and ACE, as well as developing simulations using a Langevin model/collisional hybrid expanding box code. The research aims to study the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $453,052 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to conduct research on the microphysics of supercritical collisionless shocks in astrophysical environments. The research aims to probe the electromagnetic and electrostatic processes that occur at the Earth's bow shock, which serves as a natural laboratory for studying these phenomena. The grant,...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $413,075 award will fund research on "Properties of the Suprathermal Ion Population in the Inner Heliosphere During Quiet Times" over a period ending on September 30, 2025. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. As a public research university, UC Berkeley has received numerous federal...
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 Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded a $997,040 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on forecasting large solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The research aims to use data-driven modeling and multipoint observations to better understand the connectivity between SEP origin regions, shock fronts, and the observing spacecraft. This will help quantify the...
This is a $801,981 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 for a research project titled "CONNECTING MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS OF IMBALANCED TURBULENCE TO UNDERSTAND PLASMA HEATING". The grant has a performance period from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2026. UC Berkeley is a public research university that has received...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded a $524,603 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on field-aligned currents in the near-Earth magnetotail. This research is expected to be completed by February 28, 2026. The grant is not set aside for a specific business type. As a public research university, UC Berkeley has a long history of supporting federal agencies through...
This is a $135,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant, which has no set-aside designation, is for research related to coronal heating, which is a significant driver of energy in the regions connecting the Sun and the Earth. As the parent organization, the State of California Controllers Office would...