Project Grant 2534683
- The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $432,033 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026 to quantify the contribution of off-equatorial ultra-low frequency waves on radial diffusion in Earth's radiation belts. Specifically, the University will use satellite data from THEMIS, Van Allen Probes,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $294,241 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEM--DETERMINING THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF NONLINEAR WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN THE RADIATION BELTS," aims to study the effects of large-amplitude waves on the Earth's radiation belts using theory, modeling, and data analysis. The research...
- This Project Grant award of $324,438 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research by the University of Colorado to study how the plasmapause, the outer boundary of the Earth's plasmasphere, controls electron enhancements in the outer radiation belt. The project aims to systematically evaluate the long-term behavior of radiation belt enhancements and conduct in-depth case studies to understand the role of the plasmapause in these...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $250,059 supports research at the University of California, Los Angeles from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The research aims to advance understanding and prediction of the Van Allen radiation belts through a novel combination of machine learning and data assimilation methods. Specifically, the Principal Investigator will use the Versatile Electron Radiation Belt model and data assimilation to discover generalized Fokker-Planck equations...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $515,885 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado's Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant will support a 3-year research project to investigate the inward transport and energy-dependent penetration of energetic electrons (10s of keV to multi-MeV) from the Earth's outer radiation belt into the inner radiation belt. The research...
- 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...
- This $590,898 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into modeling chorus wave generation using particle-in-cell simulations. Led by New Mexico Consortium, the project aims to study chorus waves—commonly observed plasma waves in Earth's inner magnetosphere—through large-scale first-principles simulations. The simulations will use realistic magnetic field topology and plasma parameters from observations to test existing theories of...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $523,833 will fund research into impacts of atmospheric waves and geomagnetic disturbances on space weather through April 2025. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to increase understanding of the integrated Earth system, the awardee Clemson University will collaborate with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Virginia...
- This $212,120 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds research into the impacts of atmospheric waves and geomagnetic disturbances on space weather conditions. Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with Clemson University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025, the research will advance...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $539,134 from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a project titled "GEM: AI-Based Discovery of the Governing Equations Describing the Geospace Environment". The project will use artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to automatically discover the fundamental partial differential equations governing the dynamics...
This $118,893 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports collaborative research to quantify the contribution of off-equatorial ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves on radial diffusion in the Earth's radiation belts. The research aims to derive pitch-angle-dependent magnetic and electric field wave powers, and incorporate them into 3D test particle simulations to estimate improved radial diffusion coefficients. The novel, pitch-angle-dependent diffusion rates will then be introduced into a global model of radiation belt electrons to evaluate the effect on radiation belt dynamics. This research could have significant implications for more accurate modeling of radial diffusion rates in the radiation belts, which is crucial for understanding and predicting space weather effects. The award is effective from Sep 1, 2025 through the ultimate completion date of May 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $118.9k | 8/29/25 |