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 $490,344.00 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 research on collisionless shocks, which play crucial roles in astrophysical and heliospheric plasmas, from solar wind interaction with planets to acceleration of cosmic rays. The grant has a performance period from February 14, 2020 to February 13, 2026. It is not...
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 (UC Berkeley). The $226,349.78 grant is for a research project investigating electron heating and isotropization at the Earth's bow shock, which is relevant to NASA's Heliophysics program and the goals of the Heliophysics Decadal Survey. The project will analyze data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)...
This federal contract award, valued at $604,914.00, was granted 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 award is for a research grant titled "Alfvénic Cross-Scale Coupling in the Inner Magnetosphere" and does not have a set-aside designation. The research aims to investigate the processes that drive the transport of energy across scales in...
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...
This federal contract award, NNX16AI59G, was granted by NASA to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $287,893.29 grant supports an integrated research program to investigate the microphysical mechanisms that regulate the kinetic, non-thermal features of solar wind electrons. The research focuses on evaluating the role of collisions versus collisionless processes in regulating electron heat flux, analyzing core and halo drifts,...
This is a $520,337 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct research on solar wind turbulence and dissipation. The award aims to investigate how kinetic-scale fluctuations in the solar wind may contribute to heating and isotropizing the solar wind as it travels towards Earth. This research aligns with NASA's focus on understanding the physics of the Sun and solar system. The award was made directly to the...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC19K0848, was granted by the Shared Services Center of 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 $702,891.12 grant is for research on observations from the Van Allen Probes, which have revealed new nonlinear electron-scale features in the outer radiation belt that are important for particle acceleration and...
This is a $367,127.99 grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research on the structure and variability of the solar wind. The research aims to investigate how the magnetic geometry of the solar corona influences the heliospheric solar wind. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. As a parent organization, the State of California Controller's Office would administer any funding provided to UC Berkeley under this grant. UC Berkeley...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $770,386 grant to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research related to space physics. As the prime contractor, UC Berkeley will provide data analysis and research services under the grant through December 2024, building upon its work on NASA's RHESSI mission to study solar flares. No set-aside was specified. The State of California Controllers Office will administer any funding to...