Project Grant 2617820
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded The Regents of the University of Colorado $101,703 on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support collaborative research on how the Sun's galactic environment has influenced Earth's history through the Center on Solar Wind-Milky Way Impacts on Complex Earth Systems (COSMIC). The project investigates the heliosphere's contraction during the Sun's passages through cold galactic...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $109,992 to the Smithsonian Institution, doing business as Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support collaborative research on solar wind–Milky Way impacts on complex Earth systems (COSMIC). The award funds research examining how the Sun's galactic environment has influenced Earth's history. The project integrates expertise in astronomy,...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the Trustees of Boston University $767,975 on September 1, 2026, through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support collaborative research on solar wind and galactic impacts on Earth systems as part of the Center on Solar Wind-Milky Way Impacts on Complex Earth Systems (COSMIC). The award funds research investigating how the Sun's movement through the galaxy and traversals of cold galactic clouds have...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded the University of California, Berkeley $509,494 on February 15, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate the formation and evolution of energetic particles streaming sunward from the Sun through interplanetary space during solar events that affect Earth. The project will analyze how energetic particles from solar and heliospheric sources form and evolve, with emphasis on...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $202,000 to investigate the structure of the solar corona using ground-based radio observations and space-based white-light imaging under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) effective October 1, 2026. The research employs two complementary observational approaches: white-light image data from the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) and radio Faraday rotation data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Oregon State University received a $418,063 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (CFDA 47.050: Geosciences) effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. The award funds fundamental research to advance understanding of cloud radiative effects (CRE) in tropical oceanic intertropical convergence zones (ITCZs) in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic regions. The project addresses a significant gap...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the Desert Research Institute $299,567 on February 1, 2027, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support research on low cloud evolution and aerosol interactions. The award funds a fellowship for an assistant research professor and training for a graduate student at Desert Research Institute, with collaboration from Dr. Sarah Doherty at the University of Washington. The research investigates how...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded The Regents of the University of Colorado $240,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to model space weather impacts on Earth's hydrogen exosphere through physics-based and machine learning methods. The research team will combine exosphere modeling, machine learning techniques, and ultraviolet observations to determine how geomagnetic storms modify the density and energy distribution of...
- Oregon State University was awarded an $847,422 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support OSU's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EARTHCUBE CAPABILITIES: REPURPOSING FAIR-COMPLIANT EARTH SCIENCE DATA REPOSITORIES" project. Specifically, OSU will work to enhance existing earth science data repositories and infrastructure to...
- 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...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Oregon State University $130,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support the Collaborative Research Center on Solar Wind–Milky Way Impacts on Complex Earth Systems (COSMIC), a convergent research initiative studying how the Sun's galactic environment has influenced Earth's climate and atmospheric history over millions of years. The project assembles interdisciplinary expertise in astronomy, heliophysics, atmospheric science, and paleoclimate to investigate how the Sun's transit through galactic cold clouds shrinks the heliosphere and exposes Earth to increased radiation and interstellar hydrogen, potentially altering atmospheric temperature and composition. The research will employ astrophysical simulations, heliospheric modeling, whole-atmosphere simulations from the upper atmosphere to the surface, existing datasets, and new cosmogenic data from marine records. Beyond the research objectives, the award supports professional workforce development through skills and communication training, summer schools, and webinars designed to increase recruitment, retention, and career development of early-career STEM researchers and train the next generation of scientists in team-based, transdisciplinary convergent research. Performance occurs at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, with a period of performance through August 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $130.0k | 8/14/26 |