Project Grant 80NSSC20K1829

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $620,904 to support numerical modeling of reconnection-generated transients in the solar corona. The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, will utilize the funding from March 15, 2022 through February 28, 2025 to conduct a comprehensive, multidisciplinary...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a $582,399 research project by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to investigate the origins of "active longitudes" on the Sun's surface and their connection to the solar dynamo and coronal mass ejections. The 3-year project will utilize 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations and 17 years of observational data from the National Solar Observatory's Global Oscillation Network...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $150,000 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology to advance understanding of coronal heating mechanisms in the Sun. Through a combination of multi-wavelength microwave imaging observations from the Extended Owens Valley Solar Array and 3D numerical simulations, the grantee will examine the coupling of thermal and magnetic structures...

This three-year, $435,681 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into mini-filament eruptions and their relationship to small-scale magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind. The New Jersey Institute of Technology will investigate the kinematic, thermal, and magnetic properties of mini-filaments and any connections between their eruptions and detected small-scale flux ropes in the solar wind. Researchers will analyze high-resolution...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $265,312 to American University to address key science questions regarding particle acceleration in coronal jets and their escape into the heliosphere. The award supports an observational and theoretical study combining high-quality observations with state-of-the-art simulations. Researchers will select and analyze coronal jet events at...

This $468,460 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Texas at Austin on May 1, 2024. The award will support the "SHINE: Origin and Evolution of Compressible Fluctuations in the Solar Wind and their Role in Solar Wind Heating and Acceleration" research project, which aims to investigate the impact of compressible fluctuations and wave-particle interactions on solar wind dynamics and thermal properties. Key...

This $568,185 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to study the origin and evolution of jets emanating from coronal holes on the Sun. The project, titled "SHINE: Statistical Birth Conditions of Coronal Hole Jets Using the Legacy Dunn Solar Telescope," will use measurements from the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico and other observatories to trace the properties of these jets across different atmospheric...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $287k to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct collaborative research on regulating electron heat flux in the solar wind. The research aims to address the compelling science question of what regulates the solar wind's heat flux through electrons. It will use self-consistent quasilinear theory and kinetic theory of...

This $300,519 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and outreach activities to study the parametric decay instability mechanism's potential role in solar corona heating. Funded under the Geosciences program, which supports basic research to improve understanding of Earth's integrated systems, the two-year award to New Mexico Consortium will analyze observational data and conduct numerical simulations. Postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate students at Columbia...

This $688,588 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Boston University to advance understanding of solar wind dynamics and their effects. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the funding will be used to investigate how positive and negative changes in solar wind dynamic pressure impact waves, energetic particles, and precipitation in Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Researchers will analyze satellite data from missions such as THEMIS, Van Allen Probes, MMS,...