Project Grant 80NSSC25K0050
- This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) under CFDA Number 43.001 provides $275,000.00 to the University of Maryland, College Park from February 21, 2025 to February 20, 2028 to conduct research on "Bridging Small- and Large-Scale Electron Transport Models in Solar Flares to Determine the Accelerated Electron Distribution." The university will use this funding to perform advanced scientific modeling and...
- This $134,877 project grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science), supports research to study the Sun's corona and solar wind. The award will fund in-situ measurements of heavy ion abundances and solar wind entropy, which will provide insights into the complex physical processes that govern the partitioning of energy in the solar corona. The research will be conducted by the Regents of the University of...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $117,065.00 Project Grant under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant, titled "SOLAR FLARE ENERGY RELEASE (SOLFER) COLLABORATION AND EARLY CAREER PROGRAM," has a performance period from June 15, 2023 to June 14, 2026. Through this award, the University of Maryland, College Park will conduct research and collaboration related to solar flare energy release....
- This $554,951 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant supports research by the University of Maryland, College Park to investigate energy conversion processes associated with non-equilibrium plasma velocity distribution functions during dayside magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause. The research aims to understand when, where, and how energy conversion...
- This $167,285 federal Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) to American University will support research to "UNDERSTAND HOW SOLAR FILAMENT CHANNELS FORM" over the period of April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027. The research aims to expand scientific knowledge through theoretical modeling, simulations, data analysis, and other investigative methods related to solar physics and heliophysics. As a...
- This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) in the amount of $114,661 will support research activities at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) over a 1-year period from Nov 5, 2024 to Nov 4, 2025. The funded project will involve the Principal Investigator and two undergraduate student researchers presenting their work at the MMS Community Workshop, TRACERS team meetings, and the UMBC...
- This $218,697.00 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) supports research on the "Investigation on the Morphology and Magnetic Structure of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Inner Heliosphere" over the period from February 21, 2025 to February 20, 2028. The project aims to expand scientific knowledge in the field of heliophysics through this...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $101,646 Project Grant under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, titled "UNDERSTANDING SMALL-SCALE GRADIENTS OF CHARGED PARTICLES DURING SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE EVENTS", will fund research to expand scientific knowledge in the field of heliophysics. The award period runs from July 15, 2024 to July 14, 2027. As a leading public research university, the...
- This Project Grant award of $104,392.00 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) supports research to expand human knowledge through scientific discoveries. The award to the University of Maryland, College Park covers a performance period from June 26, 2025 to June 25, 2028. The university will conduct a range of scientific studies and technological development across disciplines such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence,...
- This $558,790 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences supports a study on the spatio-temporal variability of solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the inner heliosphere. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is the prime awardee, leading the project to gain better insights on SEP characteristics, including intensity, flux, and evolution. The project will leverage data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, along with...
This $297,162 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) under CFDA 43.001 (Science) will fund research by the University of Maryland, College Park to investigate the roles of turbulence and reconnection in generating suprathermal seed populations for solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The project aims to expand understanding of the physical processes underlying SEP events, which are critical for space weather prediction and protecting astronauts and spacecraft. The University of Maryland, a prominent research institution, will leverage its extensive capabilities in areas like space exploration, plasma physics, and numerical modeling to execute this 2-year fundamental science project. The award supports theoretical, computational, and experimental work to elucidate the complex interactions between turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and particle acceleration that produce the energetic seed particles for large SEP events.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $297.2k | 7/23/25 |