Project Grant 2511904
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $135,294 from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027, supports the "Collaborative Research: Citizen CATE Next-Generation 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Experiment, Phase 3." The project aims to characterize the processes that shape the heating, structure, and evolution of the solar corona through high-resolution, high-cadence, and wide field-of-view ground-based observations...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,044 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct the Citizen CATE (Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse) Next-Generation 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Experiment. This collaborative project between SwRI, the National Solar Observatory, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research aims to deploy 40 teams of citizen scientists along the path of the April...
- This $215,044 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences supports the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (Citizen CATE) experiment for the 2024 total solar eclipse. The grant will fund the deployment of 40 teams of citizen scientists along the path of totality to collect over 60 minutes of high-resolution polarimetric data on the solar corona. The research aims to better understand the physical processes that shape the heating,...
- This $182,730 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) aims to improve the understanding of the Sun's corona, the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere. The research will analyze imaging data from five total solar eclipses between 2015-2024 and compare it to advanced magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the coronal electron temperature, electron density, and magnetic field structure. This will enhance...
- This $385,959 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve the understanding of the Sun's corona, the outer layer of the solar atmosphere, by analyzing data from total solar eclipses. The award recipient, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Inc., will study coronal electron temperature, electron density, and magnetic field structure using imaging observations from five total solar eclipses spanning 2015 to 2024. The research...
- This $177,334 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support imaging and spectral observations of the 2023 and 2024 total solar eclipses conducted by President and Trustees of Williams College. Key deliverables include high-resolution Fabry-Perot and Lyot/Halle filter observations of the solar corona, high-frequency (>1 Hz) power spectra measurements of coronal loops to study coronal heating...
- This $135,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to study the impact of solar eclipses on the ionosphere, a critical region of Earth's atmosphere that affects radio communications and navigation. The lead awardee, the Regents of the University of Colorado (a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning), will coordinate multi-instrument observations of ionospheric parameters during...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), provides $206,422 to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to investigate transverse wave fluctuations in the solar corona using the advanced instrumentation of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST). The project aims to characterize the impulsive and wave heating mechanisms in the solar corona, which is...
- This $238,190 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Colorado Denver and the University of California, Berkeley to study the lower ionosphere during the 2024 solar eclipse in the eastern United States. The researchers will make very low frequency radio observations before, during, and after the eclipse to better understand the spatial and temporal scales of ionization and...
- This $305,598 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund collaborative research between the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama, Huntsville to study solar flare-producing active regions. The researchers will leverage high-resolution observations from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and other ground-based and space-based telescopes, along...
The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) awarded Southwest Research Institute a $399,696 project grant to conduct the Collaborative Research: Citizen CATE Next-Generation 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Experiment, Phase 3. This 2-year project, from September 2025 to August 2027, will leverage the unique observational opportunities provided by the 2024 total solar eclipse to study the solar corona and address fundamental questions about its heating, structure, and evolution. The research aims to: (1) determine the connectivity of structures spanning the middle corona; (2) measure the flow of the nascent solar wind; (3) identify and characterize magnetic reconnection; and (4) characterize polarization in prominences to derive important physical parameters. This project will provide high-resolution, high-cadence, and wide field-of-view polarized coronal imaging during the eclipse, which is critical for understanding the complex magnetic fields and plasma dynamics in the middle corona, a region that remains poorly characterized due to observational challenges.
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| Not listed | $0 | 9/3/25 | ||
| Not listed | $399.7k | 8/14/25 |