Project Grant 80NSSC24K1628

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award provides $300,000 over three years to Northern Arizona University (NAU), Lowell Observatory, and the USGS Astrogeology Science Center to host an astronomy and planetary science research program. The project will pair 10 undergraduate students per year with scientists from these organizations to conduct astrophysics research across a range of topics, including planetary, solar, stellar, and galactic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund a $697,725 project over 3 years to detect and characterize new low-mass planets orbiting distant stars. The award will support a team at San Francisco State University, which will use the EXPRES high-precision radial velocity spectrograph to find small, long-period planets in systems similar to our own solar system....

This Project Grant award, valued at $548,202.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The funding will support a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in astronomy and astrophysics over a 3-year period from May 2025 to April 2028. The REU program aims to provide foundational, hands-on research experiences to 8 undergraduate students each summer, working...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $599,498 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to establish an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site in solar physics. The 3-year program will pair 8 undergraduate students per summer with SAO researchers to work on novel data analysis, numerical modeling, and instrumentation projects related to space weather and solar physics. The program aims to foster...

This National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences award, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $488,953 to Montana State University from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. Through this Project Grant, undergraduate students majoring in physics or related fields will conduct research in solar astrophysics and space physics with faculty and graduate students at Montana State University. The research aims to improve understanding of the physical...

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...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), will support collaborative research to develop and maintain geospace instrumentation at the U.S. Antarctic research stations of South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer. The $199,162 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2029, will enable studies of interrelated geospace phenomena observed at southern high latitudes. The project will integrate a suite of ground-based instruments,...

This $366,410 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to compare fundamental radial transport processes in the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. The project will conduct high-resolution global simulations to quantify particle transport throughout these planetary magnetospheres, with a focus on the transition from dipole to stretched magnetic field topology. The research aims...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will provide $465,071 to the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA to fund a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on astronomy, astrobiology, and planetary science. The award will support undergraduate students conducting research with SETI Institute scientists on topics including exoplanets, asteroids, comets, the outer solar system, and...

The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $159,728 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences to operate an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site titled "Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experiences (ASSURE)" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant supported hands-on research experiences for undergraduate...