Voyage into the Sun
Check out Prof. Silvina Guidoni talking about solar physics in the Voyage to the Sun documentary!
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Silvina Guidoni received a $9,000 grant from NASA for the project "Comprehensive Solar Eruption Models: Understanding Flare Arcades from the Global to Kinetic Scales.”
Nathaniel Roth received an $18,854 grant from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) for the project "Subsurface Thermal Photometry of NEAs: Characterizing the Regolith.”
Frederick Bruhweiler (Physics) received a $182,869 grant from NASA for the project "Continued Development of IR & Visible Spectrometer and Imaging Arrays for Ground-based & Space-borne Planetary Observations." He also received supplemental funding of $49,691.13 (new total: $775,702.74) from NASA for the project "Developing Technologies for Instruments to Study High-Energy Processes in the Solar Atmosphere.” He was also mentioned as a featured expert in a Space.com article on the sun.
Nathaniel Roth received a $14,514 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSCI) for the project "An Empirical Calibration of the NIRSpec IFU Point Spread Function to Enable High Contrast."
Philip Johnson received a $133,619 grant from NASA for the project "Terahertz Heterodyne Spectrometer for In-Site Resource Utilization." He also received supplemental funding of $505,559.59 (new total: $865,182.40) from NASA for the project "Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System and Beyond.”
Philip Johnson received a $77,178.75 grant from NASA)for the project “Spectroscopic Investigations of Processed Planetary and Astrophysical Ices with the Sublimation Laboratory Ice Millimeter/submillimeter Experiment.”
Pankaj Kumar received a $60,000 grant from NASA for the project “Understanding How Solar Filament Channels Form.”
Thomas Fauchez received a $24,613 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute for the project "How Are Active Region Properties and Heating Connected?"
Vladimir Airapetian received supplemental funding of $39,972 (new total: $78,779) from University of California, Berkeley, for the project “Observationally Constrained Modeling of the Origin and Impacts of Exoplanetary Space Weather.”
Vladimir Airapetian received supplemental funding of $10,051 (new total: $50,259) from the Space Telescope Science Institute for the project “Evolving Magnetic Lives Of Young Suns.”
Frederick Bruhweiler received a $112,044 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute for the project “High Resolution Spectroscopic Mapping of Mass Loss in Luminous Blue Variables.”
Frederick Bruhweiler received supplemental funding of $32,000 (new total: $667,770) from NASA for the project “Developing Technologies for Instruments to Study High-Energy Processes in the Solar Atmosphere.”
Thomas Fauchez received a $112,413 grant from NASA for the project “Detectability of water in the atmosphere of terrestrial habitable zone exoplanets due to exo-volcanism: a false positive for habitability.”
Philip Johnson received supplemental funding of $53,364 (for a new total of $267,344) from NASA for the project “Interpreting Cassini CIRS Data with a Photochemical Model using Improved ab initio Reaction Rate Coefficients.”
Thomas Fauchez received a grant from NASA for the project “Detectability of water in the atmosphere of terrestrial habitable zone exoplanets due to exo-volcanism: a false positive for habitability”
Nathan Harshman received a grant from NASA for $110,000 for “District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium Budget Proposal for National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020-2024.”
Gregory Harry received a $66,519 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “Collaborative Research: Center for Coatings Research.”
Philip Johnson received a $27,297.89 grant (in addition to previous funding of $393,230.11) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the project “Research on the Causes and Consequences of Ionospheric Outflow.”
Will Barnes received a $24,870 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “Python Development for the CHIANTI Database.”
Boncho Bonev received supplemental funding of $43,969 (in addition to previous grant funding of $83,657) from the University of Michigan for the project “The Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Composition of the Cometary Coma.” He also received supplemental funding of $64,734 (in addition to previous grant funding of $134,013) from Johns Hopkins University for the project “A comparative study of how ices are stored in cometary nuclei.”
Frederick Bruhweiler received two grants in the amount of $260,000 and $33,956 (in addition to prior funding in the amount of $1,104,680) from NASA for the project “Advanced Development of IR and Visible Array Spectrometers and Imagers for Ground-based and Space-borne Planetary Observations.”
Nathan Harshman received an $800,000 grant (in addition to prior funding in the amount of $2,450,858) from NASA for the project "District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium Budget Proposal for National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020-2024.”
Philip Johnson received a grant from NASA for the project "JWST Observations of Solar System Objects.”
Pankaj Kumar received an $83,946 grant from NASA for the project titled “Grant - Single Source, Observational Studies of the Formation and Eruption of Solar Filament Channels.”
Silvina Guidoni received a $29,932 grant from NASA for the project “Connecting The Origins of Flux-Ropes In The Lower Corona With Their Evolution Heliosphere.”
Dennis Lucarelli received a $32,088 grant (incrementally funded for a total of $63,241) from Dartmouth College for the project “Quantum Characterization and Model Reduction for Fault-Tolerant Quabit Networks.”
Philip Johnson received a $29,199 grant (funded over three years for a total of $887,417) from NASA for the project titled “Modeling of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Climates.”
Prof Nate Harshman connects students and faculty of diverse backgrounds and skill sets with NASA's space missions through the DC Space Grant Consortium.
Read more about cosmology, AU physics—and whimsy in From the Subatomic to the Cosmological: AU’s Professor Nathan Harshman.
Check out Prof. Silvina Guidoni talking about solar physics in the Voyage to the Sun documentary!