Project Grant NNX15AB89G

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 $568,185 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to study the origin and evolution of jets emanating from coronal holes on the Sun. The project, titled "SHINE: Statistical Birth Conditions of Coronal Hole Jets Using the Legacy Dunn Solar Telescope," will use measurements from the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico and other observatories to trace the properties of these jets across different atmospheric...

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 of $578,828 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences was provided to Predictive Science Incorporated, a San Diego-based research and analysis company, for the project "SHINE: How Does Surface Flux Evolution Determine the Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere?". The project, running from May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028, aims to better understand the connection between the solar...

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...

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 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $150,000 to the New Jersey Institute of Technology to advance understanding of coronal heating mechanisms in the Sun. Through a combination of multi-wavelength microwave imaging observations from the Extended Owens Valley Solar Array and 3D numerical simulations, the grantee will examine the coupling of thermal and magnetic structures...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $144,535 to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct collaborative research on coronal magnetic structure and solar flares/coronal mass ejections. The research team will employ Gauss's separation method and nonlinear force-free field extrapolations to analyze photospheric vector magnetograms of solar active...

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...