Project Grant FA95501610070

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to investigate the evolution of the global total electron content (TEC) during solar flares. The $112,514 award to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) aims to improve understanding and predictability of how solar flares impact the upper atmosphere and affect critical communication and navigation systems. The research team plans to analyze global TEC data from...

This Project Grant award of $169,918 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to understand the day-to-day variability of the ionosphere and thermosphere over the American continent during geomagnetically quiet periods. The research aims to characterize the correlation between quiet time ionosphere total electron content (TEC) variability and quiet time thermosphere composition (atomic oxygen to molecular nitrogen ratio) variability. This will...

This $174,257 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund collaborative research to measure daily ionospheric variability and solar eclipse impacts using amateur radio HF Doppler shift receivers. Led by the University of Scranton, the project will deploy thirty GRAPE receivers across North America to study ionospheric responses to dawn, dusk, and solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024. The receivers will generate observations to answer scientific...

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 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 Project Grant award, totaling $416,131, was issued by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund the development of an advanced, low-cost ionospheric scintillation and total electron content (TEC) monitor that leverages multiple global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as the U.S. Global Positioning System. The monitor will have capabilities relevant to geospace studies and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $129,863 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) aims to support collaborative research on short-wave infrared imaging of auroral and airglow emissions for studying magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions and exospheric density variations. The key objectives are to: (1) investigate the role of Alfvén waves in generating auroral arcs and their impacts on atmospheric drag, and (2) measure...

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...