Project Grant 80NSSC24K0463

The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) was awarded a $153,856 Cooperative Agreement under the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (CFDA 15.810) by the U.S. Geological Survey. The award will fund the mapping of the surficial geology of three 7.5-minute quadrangles in the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont at a scale of 1:24,000. This mapping effort will provide detailed information on the deglaciation and geology of the area to support watershed planning and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a 2-year, $205,690 Project Grant (CFDA 43.001 - Science) to Trustees of Boston University to study "Solar Wind Interaction with Venus: From the Planetary Interior to Interplanetary Space." This research will investigate the complex interactions between the solar wind and Venus, spanning from the planet's interior to the surrounding interplanetary space environment. The award period runs from September 8, 2023 to September...

The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $496,441 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a collaborative research project entitled "GLOW: Basal Magma Ocean Dynamos of Early Earth, Venus, and the Moon" that aims to understand the origin and dynamics of the ancient magnetic fields of Earth, Venus, and the Moon. The project will...

This $820,304 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences will support the development and enhancement of the Treasure Map, a web-based service to coordinate and visualize the search for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events. The Treasure Map allows scientists to view localization probability contours, submit telescope observations, and track progress in searching for these counterparts. The project will...

The University of Colorado (UEI: SPVKK1RC2MZ3) received a $149,976 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to advance the development of a new 3D visualization tool for the solar wind environment. Under a prior grant, the recipient brought the tool to Technology Readiness Level 4, and this award will support transitioning it to Readiness Levels 5-6 through validation testing within the operational workflows of...

This $299,997 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports the development of free and open-source software and a web interface for extracting high-precision brightness measurements of stars from citizen scientist observations collected with color digital cameras. The project aims to greatly expand the pool of citizen scientists able to contribute to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $149,199, issued on May 1, 2024 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under its Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012), supports the "EVALUATION OF LUNAR MAPS AND TERRAN RELATIVE NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS" project. The awardee, Georgia TECH Research Corp, will conduct research and development activities related to lunar mapping and navigation algorithms to enable future NASA exploration missions. The project has a planned...

This $1,234,570 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop the next generation of small, low-power, autonomous, multi-instrument ground-based geospace observation arrays named the Autonomous Remote Geospace Observation and Research Array (AURORA). The project seeks to fill gaps in the existing ground-based instrument arrays in high-latitude and polar regions, enabling year-round observations despite the remote and harsh...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) under CFDA Program 43.001 - Science, provides funding of $165,218.00 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to improve understanding of the solar flux emergence process. The key products and services to be delivered include: Generating maps of the solar convection zone up to 60 mm beneath the surface using established and novel helioseismic techniques to...

This $279,888 federal Project Grant was awarded by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant will fund the integration of the NSF-sponsored Madrigal database, which stores ground-based geoscience data, with the Heliophysics Application Programming Interface (HAPI) and Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) data access and standardization tools. Key activities include:...