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 is a $204,784.67 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for research on how plasma impacts the surface of Mercury can contribute to its exosphere through ion sputtering. The grant was awarded on June 9, 2020, with a performance period ending on June 8, 2024. The University of Michigan is a prominent U.S. state government-owned educational institution with extensive experience conducting research and providing...
This federal contract award is a $44,963.38 grant for research awarded by 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, titled "Solar Wind Influences on Planetary Ions in Mercury's High-Latitude Magnetosphere", has a completion date of September 9, 2024. The University of Michigan is a highly-regarded public research university and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $530,400 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (doing business as the University of Michigan) to conduct in-depth studies on magnetopause reconnection, flux transfer events, and region-1 field-aligned currents at Mercury using the full dataset from the MESSENGER mission. The research aims to understand the nature of magnetopause reconnection at Mercury, how solar wind conditions affect reconnection rate and related...
The Regents of the University of Michigan has been awarded a $150,000 research grant to conduct coupled fluid-kinetic simulations of Mercury's dynamic nightside magnetosphere. The award, announced on September 1, 2024, is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2027, and represents a competitive, non-set-aside grant from a civilian federal agency. The research will be performed at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus through the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division. This...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $100,000.00 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a project titled "MODELING MERCURYS DAYSIDE MAGNETOPAUSE RECONNECTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL MAGNETOSPHERIC DYNAMICS". The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. The University of Michigan is a U.S. state government entity and educational institution that has previously been awarded prime and subcontracts by federal agencies...
This is a $425,884 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a research project titled "Revealing the Seasonality of Mercury's Magnetosphere with MESSENGER". The grant is not set aside for any socioeconomic category. The University of Michigan has extensive experience supporting federal research and development initiatives across various scientific domains, including medical research, engineering, and...
This is a $970,125.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, to conduct research on the "Magnetic Evolution of Complex Coronal Mass Ejection Structures in the Solar Wind." The award is for a 4-year period of performance from May 2024 to May 2028. The University of Michigan is a highly regarded research institution that has previously received prime and subcontract...
This is a $90,002 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for research related to the magnetic fields and atmospheres of planetary bodies. The award is not associated with a set-aside program. The University of Michigan has a history of conducting research and providing services for various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health. The University...
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 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, valued at $371,205.31. The grant is focused on studying the impact of solar wind conditions on Mercury's magnetosphere and global plasma precipitation. Key research objectives include understanding how Mercury's magnetosphere responds to different types of solar wind conditions, the internal dynamics of the magnetosphere, and the predicted sputtering rate for these conditions and its impact on Mercury's exosphere. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. As a top public research university, the University of Michigan has a history of conducting research and providing services for federal agencies like the Department of Defense and NASA through both prime and subcontract awards.