Project Grant FA95501917039

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $682,313 Project Grant to the Space Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The grant, funded through the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support research to determine whether the solar wind electron strahl acts as a seed population for the Earth's electron radiation belt, and to identify the controlling factors for this process. The project aims to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant awarded to Auburn University totals $149,131 and runs from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2029. The grant focuses on understanding the dynamics of energetic electron "fast, deep injections" into the Earth's inner radiation belt, which can impact spacecraft operations. Key objectives include: 1) investigating the characteristics of 100s of keV electron injections and their relation to solar wind/geomagnetic...

The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $432,033 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026 to quantify the contribution of off-equatorial ultra-low frequency waves on radial diffusion in Earth's radiation belts. Specifically, the University will use satellite data from THEMIS, Van Allen Probes,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $109,432 to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (doing business as Orion Space Solutions) to characterize whistler-mode wave properties in the plasmasphere-plasmatrough transition regions. The research aims to improve understanding of the combined effects of chorus and hiss waves on the Earth's radiation belt environment, which can impact spacecraft and aviation....

This three-year, $969,646 National Science Foundation Project Grant in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of Texas at Dallas to study nonlinear interactions between energetic electrons and oblique whistler-mode chorus waves in Earth's outer radiation belt. The investigators will develop numerical models of oblique chorus wave packets and electron phase space density evolution. They will quantitatively compare model results with in-situ measurements from...

This $688,588 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Boston University to advance understanding of solar wind dynamics and their effects. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the funding will be used to investigate how positive and negative changes in solar wind dynamic pressure impact waves, energetic particles, and precipitation in Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Researchers will analyze satellite data from missions such as THEMIS, Van Allen Probes, MMS,...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $250,059 supports research at the University of California, Los Angeles from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The research aims to advance understanding and prediction of the Van Allen radiation belts through a novel combination of machine learning and data assimilation methods. Specifically, the Principal Investigator will use the Versatile Electron Radiation Belt model and data assimilation to discover generalized Fokker-Planck equations...

This $378,011 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will fund controlled whistler mode wave injection experiments at the High Altitude Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility in Alaska. The project aims to understand how certain radio waves launched into space can be amplified by energetic particles, which is critical for improving models of space weather phenomena and radiation belt dynamics. The award supports graduate and...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $152,260, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) from March 1, 2025, to February 29, 2028. The primary objective of this project is to investigate the sources of day-to-day variability in the near-Earth space environment during geomagnetically quiet periods. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of the connections...