Project Grant 80NSSC21K0600

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $210,153 to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to conduct collaborative research on the ionospheric density response to solar eclipses across the United States. The research project aims to quantify the impact of solar eclipses on the ionosphere, a crucial region of the atmosphere that affects radio communication and navigation, and to identify the key factors driving these ionospheric...

This 3-year, $562,565 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a research program led by the University of Arizona to extend ground-based astronomy into the near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectrum. The program will utilize an ultraviolet-optimized camera located at an astronomy site to observe transient events like supernovae, providing critical NUV data to support existing space-based UV telescopes like NASA's...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $587,441 to the University of Delaware over 3 years, from August 2023 to July 2026. The purpose is to adapt time-domain data analysis tools previously used in other scientific fields for application in astronomy, specifically for searches of Earth-like exoplanets around distant stars. The key deliverables include: Developing new variance-suppressing power spectrum estimators, like the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $900,000 in funding to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to deliver the "WOU-MMA: Very-High-Energy Neutrino Observations with the Trinity Demonstrator Cherenkov Telescope" project. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) observe the first-ever very-high-energy (VHE) and ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, 2) prove the long-term stability...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $294,330 to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will fund collaborative research on short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging of auroral and airglow emissions. The key objectives are to: Investigate the role of Alfvén waves in generating auroral arcs and forms, as compared to monoenergetic particle influx. Measure metastable helium (He) emissions at 1083 nm to study exospheric density variability over...

This $525,731 National Science Foundation project grant will support the creation of precision models for a reference set of Mira variable stars. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will analyze archival data spanning several years from multiple space missions, along with recent observations, to provide fundamental parameters for each star. These parameters include variability periods, bolometric fluxes, radii, masses, luminosities, effective temperatures and distances. The work...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $676,546 Project Grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to acquire a Ka-band profiling radar for the university's Mobile Atmospheric Profiling Network (MAPNET) facility. This state-of-the-art radar will enhance researchers' ability to study a variety of atmospheric processes, including cool season stratocumulus clouds, convective systems, cloud electrification, hurricane...

This $222,693 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to build the next-generation North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) pulsar timing array using the DSA-2000 radio telescope. The research aims to observe the gravitational waves generated by the merging of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, which stretch and squeeze spacetime and cause...

This $359,936 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a three-year observational program to measure winds and temperatures in the thermosphere near the ionospheric peak density from multiple sites along the eastern seaboard of the Americas. The project uses a network of Fabry-Perot interferometers to provide high-precision, real-time data on thermospheric dynamics and conditions that impact critical communication, navigation,...

This $228,262 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) award to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will investigate the electrodynamic properties of meso-scale auroral forms to improve understanding of multi-scale ionospheric electrodynamics. The research aims to discover new morphologies of auroral forms using advanced computer vision techniques, characterize their electrodynamic features, and analyze their occurrence patterns during geomagnetic activity. The...