The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $329,348.05 research grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to analyze data from solar and space weather monitoring instruments. The goal is to better understand the origin of the solar wind and its impacts on the near-Earth environment. This work supports NASA's heliophysics research program, which seeks to characterize the physical processes driving solar and space weather activity. The grant does not...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,998.21 grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to enhance a solar corona model and improve understanding of the Sun's corona. The one-year research effort aims to upgrade the Coronal Global Evolutionary Model (CGEM), driven by data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission, and analyze the model's output compared to observations....
This is a $135,000.00 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. The grant is to support research on how a planet's interactions with its host star can determine its evolutionary path, specifically focusing on how the plasma environment responds to the star's dynamic radiation and magnetic field. This grant is not set aside for any particular business type. The...
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 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 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...
This is a $309,918.42 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 supports three research topics: 1) statistical analysis of newly discovered wave activities in the inner magnetosphere, 2) analysis of adiabatic vs. non-adiabatic effects in electron heating and acceleration, and 3) modeling the generation process and...
This is a $103,999.84 federal training grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for research related to understanding plasma heating in the solar corona and solar wind. The grant supports data analysis of electric field measurements from the THEMIS mission to characterize turbulence signatures, as well as modeling of electrostatic potentials around the Solar Probe Plus (SPP) spacecraft near perihelion. UC Berkeley will also assist in testing the electric...
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 $66,951.73 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 grant is for a project titled "NuSTAR Observations of Quietest X-Ray Sun: Coronal Heating and Axions", which involves conducting research related to coronal heating and axions. The award does not have a set-aside designation. UC Berkeley, as the prime recipient, will be performing the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $133,316.95 training grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant will fund research to obtain new measurements of the Sun's magnetic field interior to the Earth's orbit, using the time delay of arrival method to trace the trajectories of type III solar radio bursts. The objectives are to evaluate the accuracy of this method, automate the analysis, and obtain a catalog of field line traces over a solar cycle to improve heliospheric modeling and space weather forecasting. The work supports NASA's goals to advance understanding of connections between the Sun, Earth, and planetary space environments. This award does not have a set-aside designation. The State of California Controllers Office is the parent organization of UC Berkeley.