Project Grant FA23862414010

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $359,725 to the University of Texas at Dallas to explore the variability of the interhemispheric asymmetry (IHA) of the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) in the American sector across different solar cycles and unravel the mechanisms driving significant IHA of the post-sunset EIA. The research aims to enhance the prediction of EIA variations and mitigate the impacts on global...

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 three-year, $289,049 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research exploring the response of the magnetosphere to terrestrial weather. Specifically, the awardee Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (dba Orion Space Solutions) will investigate the extent to which sudden stratospheric warmings can impact the spatial and temporal variability of the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere using the Multiscale...

This federal Project Grant award of $141,789, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports research into the effects of ionospheric density irregularities on high-frequency (HF) radio wave propagation. The project, led by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University, aims to investigate how solar and geomagnetic activities influence ground-based HF communications, analyze small-scale density irregularities in the ionosphere, and evaluate how HF waves...

This three-year, $406,141 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research examining the vertical structures of ionosphere-atmosphere coupling using decadal observations and ionospheric models. Key products include analyses of reanalysis data and satellite observations from the past two decades to derive vertical electron density structures related to the solar cycle, quasi-biennial oscillation, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and Pacific...

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 three-year, $178,427 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research exploring the response of the magnetosphere to terrestrial weather. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research will collaborate with other institutions to investigate how sudden stratospheric warmings impact the spatial and temporal variability of the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere using the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $353,992 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will support collaborative research examining how changes in the thermosphere, the neutral upper atmosphere, affect the formation and evolution of high-latitude electron density structures in the ionosphere and modulate ion outflow. The project will use numerical models of the coupled thermosphere and ionosphere, as well as analysis of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $196,137 to the University of California, Berkeley to characterize the physics of the interactions that drive the outflow of energized ions from the high-latitude ionosphere into near-Earth space. The research will use observations from the FAST spacecraft to resolve the spatio-temporal characteristics of the wavefields and the energization of the outflowing ion populations. The goal is...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $244,218 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, to study the lower ionosphere during the 2024 solar eclipse in the eastern United States. This collaborative project between UC Denver and UC Berkeley will use very low frequency (VLF) and extremely low frequency (ELF) remote sensing techniques to observe the spatial and temporal...