Project Grant 2529754
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded $539,134 to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) for the project "GEM: AI-Based Discovery of the Governing Equations Describing the Geospace Environment." Initiated July 1, 2025, and concluding June 30, 2028, this three-year project delivers innovative research methodology for automatically discovering the partial...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded a $534,210 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports research titled "Time Domain Structures Driven by Whistler and Kinetic Alfven Waves in a Laboratory Plasma" from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. Under this award, UCLA researchers will investigate time-dependent structures in plasma driven by whistler and kinetic Alfven waves. This work furthers...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $521,853 CAREER project grant to the University of Colorado (Regents) on June 1, 2025, with completion anticipated by May 31, 2030, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This research initiative will advance fundamental knowledge of magnetospheric plasma waves and their role in Earth's space environment by utilizing multipoint satellite measurements to study the drivers,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research on ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves in the Earth's inner magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms. The $415,309 award to The Johns Hopkins University aims to observationally determine whether the physical properties of symmetric ULF waves and the associated particle environment are consistent with drift compressional instability. The 3-year project (8/1/2024 - 7/31/2027) will utilize...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded $509,494 in Project Grant funding to the University of California, Berkeley on February 15, 2026, through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research into sunward-streaming energetic particle formation and evolution. The project will deliver peer-reviewed scientific research findings and datasets examining how solar energetic particles are transported and...
- 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 three-year, $223,760 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of California, Los Angeles to study energetic electron interactions with oblique whistler-mode chorus waves. Under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to enhance understanding of the integrated Earth system, this award will quantitatively analyze wave-particle dynamics using numerical models. Researchers will compare simulations of oblique chorus wave...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $419,448 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on understanding the causes of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) and their impact on critical infrastructure. The key objectives are to: Expand the application of the Spherical Elementary Current System (SECS) method to analyze GMDs observed by ground magnetometers in North America and Greenland, in order to estimate...
- Grant Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $417,053 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Space Science Institute, with performance occurring in Boulder, Colorado. This collaborative research project, initiated August 1, 2025, and concluding July 31, 2028, involves partnerships between the Space Science Institute, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Ben-Gurion University in Israel. The project delivers fundamental research products...
- This $348,127 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to develop new physics-informed machine learning and stochastic modeling techniques for improving magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will lead this 3-year project, which aims to enhance the performance of global magnetosphere MHD models used for...
Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $299,614 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2028) to develop and implement the Wave Distribution Function (WDF) method for analyzing plasma wave data from the Van Allen Probes (RBSP) satellite. The primary deliverable is a new computational analysis code capable of extracting the full range of directional propagation information from complex electromagnetic wave measurements, which current single-plane wave models cannot resolve. This work will produce a validated WDF analysis tool applied to the extensive RBSP wave dataset, including critical calibration and refinement of electric field wave data to ensure precise alignment with magnetic field measurements. The research advances space plasma wave analysis capabilities by enabling detection and characterization of multiple overlapping plane waves arriving simultaneously from various directions and sources—a common occurrence in the magnetosphere that cannot be detected with existing methods. Products and services include the developed WDF methodology code, processed wave normal angle distributions extracted from the complete Van Allen Probes dataset, and improved understanding of magnetospheric wave dynamics. These deliverables will enhance space weather prediction and modeling capabilities used to protect satellites, astronauts, and space-based technologies from energetic particle effects driven by plasma waves in Earth's space environment.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $299.6k | 3/18/26 |