Project Grant 80NSSC26K0494

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $287k to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct collaborative research on regulating electron heat flux in the solar wind. The research aims to address the compelling science question of what regulates the solar wind's heat flux through electrons. It will use self-consistent quasilinear theory and kinetic theory of...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $426,760 to the University of Maryland, College Park to support collaborative research on electron heat flux regulation in the solar wind. The research aims to address the compelling science question of what regulates the solar wind heat flux by studying the relative importance of competing physical processes, including whistler heat-flux...

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 $468,460 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Texas at Austin on May 1, 2024. The award will support the "SHINE: Origin and Evolution of Compressible Fluctuations in the Solar Wind and their Role in Solar Wind Heating and Acceleration" research project, which aims to investigate the impact of compressible fluctuations and wave-particle interactions on solar wind dynamics and thermal properties. Key...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $265,312 to American University to address key science questions regarding particle acceleration in coronal jets and their escape into the heliosphere. The award supports an observational and theoretical study combining high-quality observations with state-of-the-art simulations. Researchers will select and analyze coronal jet events at...

This three-year, $435,681 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into mini-filament eruptions and their relationship to small-scale magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind. The New Jersey Institute of Technology will investigate the kinematic, thermal, and magnetic properties of mini-filaments and any connections between their eruptions and detected small-scale flux ropes in the solar wind. Researchers will analyze high-resolution...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a $582,399 research project by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to investigate the origins of "active longitudes" on the Sun's surface and their connection to the solar dynamo and coronal mass ejections. The 3-year project will utilize 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations and 17 years of observational data from the National Solar Observatory's Global Oscillation Network...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $620,904 to support numerical modeling of reconnection-generated transients in the solar corona. The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, will utilize the funding from March 15, 2022 through February 28, 2025 to conduct a comprehensive, multidisciplinary...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $588,121 project grant to the University of Delaware to study plasma turbulence at the boundary between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. The research, titled "SHINE: Evolution of the Turbulent Solar Wind Across the Terrestrial Bow Shock," aims to enhance understanding of space weather, planetary magnetospheres, and astrophysical systems by analyzing the dynamic interactions between the solar wind and...