Grant For Research NNG05GG26G

This is a $457,822 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant supports a study to examine the origin and evolution of energetic particle populations in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system, with a focus on rapid space-time scales associated with geomagnetic substorms. The research will utilize coordinated analysis of in-situ measurements from spacecraft like THEMIS,...

This is a three-year, $463,046.05 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the impact of solar wind structures on the Earth's magnetosphere. The research aims to improve understanding of magnetic reconnection processes at the dayside magnetopause and will leverage global magnetohydrodynamic and large-scale kinetic simulations, along with spacecraft observations from missions like Cluster,...

This is a $463,067 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the role of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves and the magnetopause in the rapid dropouts of ultrarelativistic electrons in the Earth's radiation belt. The research aims to address key goals in NASA's Heliophysics Decadal Survey related to understanding the dynamics and coupling of the Earth's magnetosphere. The grant supports...

This is a $614,308.44 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. to conduct research on the nonlinear interaction between Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause. The research aims to understand plasma transport processes and nonadiabatic heating mechanisms in this three-dimensional configuration under different interplanetary magnetic field conditions. The study will employ a combination of...

This is a $369,967.61 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on the dynamics and coupling of the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere in response to solar and terrestrial inputs. The objective is to identify and characterize the primary plasma motions responsible for the onset of explosive magnetotail activity during substorms and bursty bulk flows. The research will use data from NASA's Cluster, THEMIS,...

This is a $150,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nmc, Inc., doing business as the New Mexico Consortium, a non-profit research organization in New Mexico. The grant is for a scientific research project to investigate the spatial and temporal structures of plasma populations and wave activity in the Earth's inner magnetosphere, with a focus on electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves. The research aims to better understand the physical parameters...

This is a $308,034.22 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The grant is for a project titled "Storm-Time Magnetosphere: Specification and Prediction Using a Global MHD Model with Empirical Ring Current Pressure" which aims to improve predictive modeling of the geospace environment during geomagnetic storms. The project will extract equilibrium magnetic pressure data from the Tsyganenko...

This $135,711.86 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant is to study the impact of the plasmaspheric plume, a feature of the Earth's magnetosphere, on magnetic reconnection and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling. The research aims to quantify how the high-density plasmaspheric plume affects the rate of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause, which can significantly...

This is a $319,554.14 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to study the effects of interplanetary shocks on the Earth's magnetosphere. The study aims to improve understanding of how shock-induced cavity mode oscillations (CMOs) interact with energetic electrons in the magnetosphere. The investigation will leverage data from multiple space weather monitoring satellites, including the Van Allen Probes and Time History of...

This is a $403,176.52 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado for a study on the influence of storm-time neutral winds on Subauroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) in the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (MIT) coupling system. The research aims to identify, separate, and quantify the feedback effect of neutral wind-generated electric fields on SAPS electric fields, ring current pressures, and region 2 field-aligned currents in the subauroral ionosphere-inner magnetosphere. The...