Cooperative Agreement DEFC0206ER54856

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $660,242 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan to investigate variations in solar wind during the last solar cycle using advanced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The project, titled "Unraveling Solar Wind Variations in the Last Solar Cycle Using Global Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Simulations," aims to understand how Alfvén wave turbulence-based models can consistently...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $589,888 to the Space Science Institute (SSI) to conduct a series of laboratory experiments to better understand wave-wave interaction processes that may control imbalanced solar wind turbulence at ion scales. Specifically, the project will investigate the behavior of two interactions between co-propagating Alfvén waves: a novel interaction driven by Hall physics, and the dispersive...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) awarded a $105,576 Project Grant to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct research on "DETERMINING THE FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS OF EMIC WAVES OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY". The grant, awarded on December 18, 2024, supports SwRI's research focused on understanding the underlying physics of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves, which are important for advancing space weather modeling and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences provides $757,404 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will support collaborative experimental and numerical studies of the effects of wind, wave scale, and salinity on bubble entrainment by breaking waves. Researchers will leverage the Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research...

This $439,516 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project at the University of Washington from September 2022 through August 2025. The project aims to develop a state-of-the-art hydrodynamic galaxy simulation code to study the complex interplay between stellar winds and outflows from star formation with the circumgalactic medium surrounding massive galaxies. Researchers will incorporate a subgrid...

This $499,543 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of novel, high-fidelity computational tools for simulating the interaction between extreme hydrodynamic conditions and coastal structures. The research, conducted by The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Stony Brook University), aims to advance mathematical methods, algorithms, and software to enable more...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York a $652,118 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project to evaluate and parameterize wind stress over ocean surface waves using integrated high-resolution imaging and numerical simulations. The key goals are to: (1) investigate the variability of wind stress and its partitioning over ocean...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences program provides $181,787 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The 3-year project, effective July 1, 2024, will carry out simulations with laboratory experiments and computer models to test the hypothesis that coupling currents and waves is necessary to reliably represent the deepening of the ocean surface layer. The research aims...

This $285,606 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a computational study of energy distribution and dissipation in weakly collisional plasmas. The project will develop reduced plasma physics models and integrate them into an open-source simulation code applicable to astrophysics, space weather, and fusion energy research. Key project activities include leveraging novel machine...

This $590,898 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into modeling chorus wave generation using particle-in-cell simulations. Led by New Mexico Consortium, the project aims to study chorus waves—commonly observed plasma waves in Earth's inner magnetosphere—through large-scale first-principles simulations. The simulations will use realistic magnetic field topology and plasma parameters from observations to test existing theories of...