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University System Of New Hampshire dba Sponsored Programs Administration

  • University System Of New Hampshire dba Sponsored Programs Administration

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  • Durham, NH 03824
  • Phone: 603-862-0533
  • Corporate URL: www.unh.edu
  • Estimated Number of Employees: 3,800
  • Estimated Annual Receipts: $679,000,000
  • Business Start Date: 1923
  • Contact Person: Louise Griffin
  • Contact Phone: 603-862-0152
  • Contact Email: louise.griffin@unh.edu
  • Business Structure:
  • Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
  • Business Type:
  • Non-Profit Organization
  • 1862 Land Grant College
  • Educational Institution
  • Industries Served: Testing Laboratories, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Computer Training, Professional and Management Development Training, Space Research and Technology
  • Product Areas: ADVERTISING SERVICES, SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

  • $980,000 - Friday the 21st of April 2017
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
    THE PURPOSE OF THIS NEGOTIATION IS TO DEFINITIZE THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE (UNH) PROPOSAL FOR PHASE E EFFORT ON THE COSMIC RAY TELESCOPE FOR THE EFFECTS OF RADIATION (CRATER) INSTRUMENT FOR THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (LRO) PROJECT.
  • $94,069 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    SINCE THE LAUNCH OF AGILE AND FERMI, THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS IN HIGH-ENERGY (EG>~200 MEV) GAMMA-RAY SCIENCE HAS BEEN, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE DRAMATIC. BOTH OF THESE TELESCOPES COVER A BROAD ENERGY RANGE FROM ~20 MEV TO>10 GEV. HOWEVER, NEITHER INSTRUMENT IS OPTIMIZED FOR OBSERVATIONS BELOW ~200 MEV WHERE MANY ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS EXHIBIT UNIQUE, TRANSITORY BEHAVIOR, SUCH AS SPECTRAL BREAKS, BURSTS, AND FLARES. HENCE, WHILE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS FROM CURRENT OBSERVATIONS IS EXPECTED, THERE WILL NONETHELESS REMAIN A SIGNIFICANT SENSITIVITY GAP IN THE MEDIUM-ENERGY (~0.1 200 MEV) REGIME; THE LOWER END OF THIS RANGE REMAINS LARGELY UNEXPLORED WHEREAS THE UPPER END WILL ALLOW COMPARISON WITH FERMI DATA. TAPPING INTO THIS UNEXPLORED REGIME REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN SENSITIVITY. A MAJOR EMPHASIS OF MODERN DETECTOR DEVELOPMENT, WITH THE GOAL OF PROVIDING SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN SENSITIVITY IN THE MEDIUM-ENERGY REGIME, FOCUSES ON HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTRON TRACKING BECAUSE PHOTONS CAN ONLY BE DETECTED VIA THEIR CHARGED INTERACTION BYPRODUCTS WITH MATTER. THE THREE- DIMENSIONAL TRACK IMAGER (3-DTI) PROPOSED HERE IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE HIGH RESOLUTION TRACKING OF THE ELECTRON-POSITRON PAIR FROM GAMMA-RAY INTERACTIONS FROM 5 TO 200 MEV. THE 3- DTI CONSISTS OF A TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER (TPC) AND 2-D CROSS-STRIP MICRO-WELL DETECTOR (MWD). THE LOW-DENSITY AND HOMOGENEOUS DESIGN OF THE 3-DTI, OFFERS UNPRECEDENTED SENSITIVITY BY PROVIDING ANGULAR RESOLUTION NEAR THE KINEMATIC LIMIT. ELECTRON TRACKING ALSO ENABLES MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA-RAY POLARIZATION, A NEW TOOL TO STUDY ASTROPHYSICAL PHENOMENON. THIS PROPOSED WORK BUILDS ON PREVIOUS PROPOSALS (NRA-00-01-HEA-047 AND APRA04-0031- 0093) THAT FABRICATED HIGH-GAIN 5 5 CM2 MWDS AND SUCCESSFULLY IMAGED 6.13 MEV GAMMA RAYS WITH A PROTOTYPE 3-DTI, SEE 4.2. THIS PROPOSAL ALSO LEVERAGES THE NEUTRON IMAGING CAMERA (NIC) TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE DEVELOPED WITH FUNDING FROM THE DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY (DTRA) FOR IMAGING NEUTRONS FROM SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS (SNM) VIA NEUTRON CAPTURE ON 3HE, 3HE(N,P)T. WE DEMONSTRATED THE 10 10 15 CM3 3-DTI/NIC PROTOTYPE AT THE NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER (NSWC) ACCELERATOR BY 3-D TRACKING OF THE PROTON AND TRITON EMANATING FROM THE INTERACTION VERTEX, SEE 4.3. NEUTRON IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CAN BE APPLIED TO THE INSTRUMENTATION NEEDED FOR MEDIUM-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS. THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN THE TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED FOR GAMMA-RAY IMAGING ARE: 1) MUCH HIGHER GAIN MWDS TO IMAGE THE ELECTRON/POSITRON (LEPTON) TRACKS THAT HAVE MUCH LOWER IONIZATION DENSITY COMPARED TO THE PROTON/TRITON (HADRON) TRACKS, 2) USE OF XENON GAS AT 3 ATM, RATHER THAN 3HE, TO PROVIDE THE PAIR CONVERSION MATERIAL, AND 3) IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE AND SIMULATIONS TAILORED TO GAMMA RAY IMAGING.
  • $89,424 - Friday the 23rd of October 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS A DYNAMIC REGION. LOW ENERGY PARTICLES CONVECT IN FROM THE TAIL, AND THE DISTRIBUTIONS DEVELOP PITCH ANGLE ANISOTROPIES THROUGH ENERGY AND SPECIES DEPENDENT LOSS PROCESSES. THE DISTRIBUTIONS CAN BECOME UNSTABLE TO WAVE GROWTH, LEADING TO WAVE GENERATION. THIS IN TURN CAN CAUSE PARTICLE ACCELERATION OR LOSS. THESE DYNAMIC PROCESSES AFFECT THE GENERATION AND LOSS OF THE RADIATION BELTS AND RING CURRENT. THE LOW ENERGY (~40 EV TO 40 KEV) PLASMA IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE PROVIDES A SENSITIVE MEASURE OF THE IMPORTANT PROCESSES IN THIS REGION. THE IONS IN THIS ENERGY RANGE ARE PREDOMINANTLY DRIFTING FROM THE PLASMA SHEET. THE ENERGY SPECTRA HAVE SHARP MINIMA AND CUTOFFS THAT INDICATE THE DIVIDING ENERGIES BETWEEN IONS ON OPEN AND CLOSED DRIFT PATHS, AND IONS DRIFTING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. THEY COVER THE RANGE WHERE THE TRANSPORT CHANGES FROM BEING DOMINATED BY EXB DRIFTS TO BEING DOMINATED BY GRADIENT AND CURVATURE DRIFTS. AS A RESULT, THE ENERGY SPECTRA ARE A SENSITIVE MEASURE OF THE GLOBAL CONVECTION FIELDS. IN ADDITION, SOME OF THE IONS ARE ON VERY SLOW DRIFT PATHS, AND THEREFORE SHOW THE MOST EVIDENCE OF THE INTEGRATED EFFECTS OF THE LOSS PROCESSES. THUS COMPARISONS OF THE ENERGY SPECTRA OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES AT THE ENERGIES WHERE THE DRIFTS ARE SLOW ARE A CLEAR INDICATOR OF THE IMPORTANT SPECIES DEPENDENT LOSS PROCESSES. THE CLUSTER SPACECRAFT LAUNCHED IN LATE 2000, TOWARD THE PEAK OF SOLAR CYCLE 23, AND HAS BEEN OPERATED CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH THE PRESENT SOLAR MINIMUM. THE ORIGINAL CLUSTER ORBIT WAS POLAR WITH APOGEE AT 20 RE AND PERIGEE AT 4 RE. THUS DURING ITS PERIGEE PASSES, CLUSTER SAMPLES L-SHELLS FROM 4 RE OUTWARD. THE ORBIT PRECESSES IN TIME, SO THAT OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR IT COVERS THE FULL RANGE OF LOCAL TIMES. IN MORE RECENT YEARS THE LINE OF APSIDIES OF THE SPACECRAFT HAS SHIFTED SOUTHWARD, SO THAT THE SPACECRAFT NOW MEASURES MORE OF THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE CLOSER TO THE EQUATOR, AND SAMPLES LOWER L-VALUES. THUS THE CLUSTER SPACECRAFT PROVIDE AN IDEAL DATA SET TO STUDY HOW THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE HAS CHANGED OVER THE COURSE OF THE SOLAR CYCLE, AS A FUNCTION OF ENERGY AND LOCAL TIME. THE GOALS OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE TWO-FOLD. FIRST WE WILL USE THE CLUSTER/CODIF DATA SET TO DEVELOP AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF THE ION DISTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SPECIES H+, O+ AND HE+ AS A FUNCTION OF RADIAL DISTANCE, LOCAL TIME AND PHASE IN THE SOLAR CYCLE. WE WILL THEN USE THIS EMPIRICAL MODEL TO TEST AND VALIDATE THE RESULTS OF THE LATEST VERSION OF THE RING CURRENT-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION (RAM) MODEL, WHICH CURRENTLY INCLUDES SELF-CONSISTENT MAGNETIC FIELDS AND WILL SOON ALSO INCLUDE SELF-CONSISTENT ELECTRIC FIELDS. THIS DATA/SIMULATION COMBINATION WILL ALLOW US TO IDENTIFY WHICH ASPECTS OF THE OBSERVATIONS ARE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD GIVEN THE STATE-OF-THE-ART MODEL, AND WHERE THERE ARE STILL OPEN QUESTIONS. THIS EFFORT WILL PROVIDE A CRITICAL VALIDATION OF THE SIMULATION MODEL THAT WILL BENEFIT THE RBSP MISSION.
  • $89,200 - Tuesday the 17th of November 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    NUMEROUS RECENT FINDINGS USING SATELLITE SCATTEROMETER OCEAN WIND DATA HAVE CEMENTED A ROLE FOR THIS SENSOR IN IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS, AND THIS AT DECREASING SCALES IN TIME AND SPACE. AS AN ERA BEGINS WHERE LONG-TERM SCATTEROMETER ESTIMATES OF WIND STRESS ARE USED TO REVISIT COUPLED AIR-SEA NUMERICAL MODEL PHYSICS AND TO FORCE HIGH RESOLUTION OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS, THE DESIRE FOR REFINED VALIDATION OF VECTOR WIND AND WIND STRESS DERIVED USING REMOTE SENSING HAS BEEN RENEWED. FIELD STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT AIR-SEA INTERACTION DYNAMICS INCLUDING WIND-WAVE DEVELOPMENT, SURFACE CURRENTS, LAND AND SEA BREEZES, LARGE AIR-SEA TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES, AND RAPIDLY EVOLVING BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES CAN ALL PLAYA ROLE IN MODIFYING THE SURFACE WAVES AND NEAR SURFACE WIND STRESS THAT ARE CENTRAL TO SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS. BUT THIS SENSORS WIND RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS AND THEIR VALIDATION ARE ALWAYS BUILT AROUND BULK, OR SCALAR, METEOROLOGICAL WIND DATA AND PRIMARILY PERFORMED IN A GLOBAL AVERAGE SENSE USING LARGE OPEN OCEAN BUOY DATA SETS. WE POSIT THAT THE LARGE SIGNALS AND SHORTER TIME AND SPACE SCALES FOR AIR-SEA INTERACTION IN COASTAL AND WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT REGIONS PRESENT AN INTRIGUING NEW OPPORTUNITY TO CHARACTERIZE THE ROLE THESE DYNAMICS PLAY IN ALTERING SCATTEROMETER WIND VECTOR AND WIND STRESS ACCURACY. THIS OPPORTUNITY APPLIES NOT ONLY TO THE KU-BAND QUIKSCAT SATELLITE DATA, BUT ALSO FOR DOCUMENTING AND RESOLVING CONTROLS DICTATING OBSERVED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN C AND KU-BAND DATA AND BETWEEN SATELLITE PRODUCTS OF VARIED SPATIAL RESOLUTION SPANNING 5-50 KM. THUS, AS A COMPLEMENT TO LARGE BUOY NETWORK GLOBAL VALIDATION PROJECTS, WE PROPOSE TO ANALYZE SCATTEROMETER VECTOR WINDS AND STRESS IN SEVERAL WELL-STUDIED AND INSTRUMENTED REGIONS USING A BREADTH OF INFORMATION INCLUDING IN SITU DATA (A LARGE NETWORK OF METEOROLOGICAL BUOYS, WITH SURFACE CURRENT AND WAVE SENSORS), NUMERICAL MODELS (WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING AND OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS), HF SURFACE CURRENT MEASUREMENTS, AND COMPLEMENTARY SATELLITE DATA (ALTIMETRY, RADIOMETRY, AND IR AND SAR IMAGERY). CONSTRAINED STUDIES USING THE REGIONAL TIME SERIES DATA SETS WILL BE USED TO ISOLATE THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE CURRENTS, ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY, AND WAVE STEEPNESS ON SCATTEROMETER WIND STRESS. C-BAND ASCAT AND ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION QUIKSCAT DATA WILL BE EVALUATED ALONGSIDE 12 KM QUIKSCAT DATA TO PROVIDE A DETAILED SCATTEROMETER MODEL FUNCTION EVALUATION TOOL THAT SUPPORTS QUANTIFICATION OF WIND STRESS ACCURACY WITHIN A DECADAL WIND VECTOR CLIMATE DATA RECORD. A KEY STUDY CONTRIBUTION WILL BE THE PROVISION AND STUDY APPLICATION OF A LARGE NEW DATABASE OF DIRECT WIND STRESS MEASUREMENTS COLLECTED AT SEVERAL LONG-TERM EDDY COVARIANCE FLUX STATIONS IN THE NW ATLANTIC WITH EMPHASIS ON THE 15 MONTH CLIMODE DATA SET NEAR THE GULF STREAM NORTH WALL.
  • $71,000 - Thursday the 14th of May 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THIS PROPOSAL INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TASKS: (1) ONGOING CALIBRATION OF THE CODIF INSTRUMENT: BECAUSE THE EFFICIENCIES OF THE DETECTORS CONTINUE TO CHANGE, CALIBRATION IS AN ONGOING EFFORT. IT INCLUDES - NORMALIZING THE CALIBRATION AT DIFFERENT POSITIONS, USING GYROTROPIC TIME PERIODS. THIS IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN A VALID VELOCITY. IT MUST BE DONE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. - ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION FROM USING ENGINEERING RATES - 0+ ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION, USING PURE 0+ EVENTS (E.G. LOBE BEAMS) - CROSS CHECKS, INCLUDING PRESSURE BALANCE TESTS, AND CROSS-CALIBRATION WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS (HIA, PEACE WHISPER). THE ABOVE ARE MAINLY DONE FOR THE HIGH SIDE THAT IS USED IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE. WE DO ADDITIONAL SPOT CHECKS ON THE LOW SIDE THAT IS USED IN THE MAGNETOSHEATH. (2) DATA IMPROVEMENTS : -MAGNETOSHEATH HIGH RATE CORRECTION. THE MAGNETOSHEATH DATA WITH CORRECTIONS FOR HIGH RATE TIME PERIODS NEED TO BE PROCESSED TO CREATE A VALID MAGNETOSHEATH DATASET. A VALID DATA SET WITH THESE CORRECTIONS NEEDS TO BE GENERATED AND DELIVERED TO THE CAA -RADIATION BELT - WE HAVE DEVELOPED AN ALGORITHM TO SUBTRACT OUT THE RADIATION BELT BACKGROUND FROM THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE PASSES. SO FAR, IT HAS ONLY BEEN USED FOR SPECIAL REQUESTS. WE HAVE COMPILED THE INFORMATION TO RUN IT FOR ALL INNER MAGNETOSPHERE PASSES. WE WILL RUN THIS AND CREATE A CORRECTED DATA SET FOR THE CAA. -WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON IMPROVING THE HE+ AND HE++ DATA PRODUCTS. BOTH OF THESE AT TIMES SUFFER FROM CONTAMINATION FROM THE H+ BECAUSE THEIR FLUX IS SO LOW RELATIVE TO H+, SO EVEN A FEW PERCENT SPILLOVER EFFECTS THE DATA. FOR HE+, THE ALGORITHMS ARE DONE. THE DATA NEEDS TO BE PROCESSED INTO THE FORMAT FOR THE CAA. FOR HE++ THE CORRECTION FOR THE LOW GEOMETRIC FACTOR SIDE (LS) IN THE MAGNETOSHEATH LOOKS FEASIBLE, AND ALGORITHMS ARE BEING WORKED. IN ADDITION, WE WILL SUPPORT REQUESTS FOR HELP WITH ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING DATA FROM THE CODIF INSTRUMENT FROM MEMBERS OF THE SPACE SCIENCE COMMUNITY.
  • $71,000 - Thursday the 14th of May 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THIS PROPOSAL INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TASKS: (1) ONGOING CALIBRATION OF THE CODIF INSTRUMENT: BECAUSE THE EFFICIENCIES OF THE DETECTORS CONTINUE TO CHANGE, CALIBRATION IS AN ONGOING EFFORT. IT INCLUDES - NORMALIZING THE CALIBRATION AT DIFFERENT POSITIONS, USING GYROTROPIC TIME PERIODS. THIS IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN A VALID VELOCITY. IT MUST BE DONE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. - ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION FROM USING ENGINEERING RATES - 0+ ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION, USING PURE 0+ EVENTS (E.G. LOBE BEAMS) - CROSS CHECKS, INCLUDING PRESSURE BALANCE TESTS, AND CROSS-CALIBRATION WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS (HIA, PEACE WHISPER). THE ABOVE ARE MAINLY DONE FOR THE HIGH SIDE THAT IS USED IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE. WE DO ADDITIONAL SPOT CHECKS ON THE LOW SIDE THAT IS USED IN THE MAGNETOSHEATH. (2) DATA IMPROVEMENTS : -MAGNETOSHEATH HIGH RATE CORRECTION. THE MAGNETOSHEATH DATA WITH CORRECTIONS FOR HIGH RATE TIME PERIODS NEED TO BE PROCESSED TO CREATE A VALID MAGNETOSHEATH DATASET. A VALID DATA SET WITH THESE CORRECTIONS NEEDS TO BE GENERATED AND DELIVERED TO THE CAA -RADIATION BELT - WE HAVE DEVELOPED AN ALGORITHM TO SUBTRACT OUT THE RADIATION BELT BACKGROUND FROM THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE PASSES. SO FAR, IT HAS ONLY BEEN USED FOR SPECIAL REQUESTS. WE HAVE COMPILED THE INFORMATION TO RUN IT FOR ALL INNER MAGNETOSPHERE PASSES. WE WILL RUN THIS AND CREATE A CORRECTED DATA SET FOR THE CAA. -WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON IMPROVING THE HE+ AND HE++ DATA PRODUCTS. BOTH OF THESE AT TIMES SUFFER FROM CONTAMINATION FROM THE H+ BECAUSE THEIR FLUX IS SO LOW RELATIVE TO H+, SO EVEN A FEW PERCENT SPILLOVER EFFECTS THE DATA. FOR HE+, THE ALGORITHMS ARE DONE. THE DATA NEEDS TO BE PROCESSED INTO THE FORMAT FOR THE CAA. FOR HE++ THE CORRECTION FOR THE LOW GEOMETRIC FACTOR SIDE (LS) IN THE MAGNETOSHEATH LOOKS FEASIBLE, AND ALGORITHMS ARE BEING WORKED. IN ADDITION, WE WILL SUPPORT REQUESTS FOR HELP WITH ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING DATA FROM THE CODIF INSTRUMENT FROM MEMBERS OF THE SPACE SCIENCE COMMUNITY.
  • $70,000 - Tuesday the 17th of November 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    NUMEROUS RECENT FINDINGS USING SATELLITE SCATTEROMETER OCEAN WIND DATA HAVE CEMENTED A ROLE FOR THIS SENSOR IN IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS, AND THIS AT DECREASING SCALES IN TIME AND SPACE. AS AN ERA BEGINS WHERE LONG-TERM SCATTEROMETER ESTIMATES OF WIND STRESS ARE USED TO REVISIT COUPLED AIR-SEA NUMERICAL MODEL PHYSICS AND TO FORCE HIGH RESOLUTION OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS, THE DESIRE FOR REFINED VALIDATION OF VECTOR WIND AND WIND STRESS DERIVED USING REMOTE SENSING HAS BEEN RENEWED. FIELD STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT AIR-SEA INTERACTION DYNAMICS INCLUDING WIND-WAVE DEVELOPMENT, SURFACE CURRENTS, LAND AND SEA BREEZES, LARGE AIR-SEA TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES, AND RAPIDLY EVOLVING BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES CAN ALL PLAYA ROLE IN MODIFYING THE SURFACE WAVES AND NEAR SURFACE WIND STRESS THAT ARE CENTRAL TO SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS. BUT THIS SENSORS WIND RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS AND THEIR VALIDATION ARE ALWAYS BUILT AROUND BULK, OR SCALAR, METEOROLOGICAL WIND DATA AND PRIMARILY PERFORMED IN A GLOBAL AVERAGE SENSE USING LARGE OPEN OCEAN BUOY DATA SETS. WE POSIT THAT THE LARGE SIGNALS AND SHORTER TIME AND SPACE SCALES FOR AIR-SEA INTERACTION IN COASTAL AND WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT REGIONS PRESENT AN INTRIGUING NEW OPPORTUNITY TO CHARACTERIZE THE ROLE THESE DYNAMICS PLAY IN ALTERING SCATTEROMETER WIND VECTOR AND WIND STRESS ACCURACY. THIS OPPORTUNITY APPLIES NOT ONLY TO THE KU-BAND QUIKSCAT SATELLITE DATA, BUT ALSO FOR DOCUMENTING AND RESOLVING CONTROLS DICTATING OBSERVED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN C AND KU-BAND DATA AND BETWEEN SATELLITE PRODUCTS OF VARIED SPATIAL RESOLUTION SPANNING 5-50 KM. THUS, AS A COMPLEMENT TO LARGE BUOY NETWORK GLOBAL VALIDATION PROJECTS, WE PROPOSE TO ANALYZE SCATTEROMETER VECTOR WINDS AND STRESS IN SEVERAL WELL-STUDIED AND INSTRUMENTED REGIONS USING A BREADTH OF INFORMATION INCLUDING IN SITU DATA (A LARGE NETWORK OF METEOROLOGICAL BUOYS, WITH SURFACE CURRENT AND WAVE SENSORS), NUMERICAL MODELS (WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING AND OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS), HF SURFACE CURRENT MEASUREMENTS, AND COMPLEMENTARY SATELLITE DATA (ALTIMETRY, RADIOMETRY, AND IR AND SAR IMAGERY). CONSTRAINED STUDIES USING THE REGIONAL TIME SERIES DATA SETS WILL BE USED TO ISOLATE THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE CURRENTS, ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY, AND WAVE STEEPNESS ON SCATTEROMETER WIND STRESS. C-BAND ASCAT AND ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION QUIKSCAT DATA WILL BE EVALUATED ALONGSIDE 12 KM QUIKSCAT DATA TO PROVIDE A DETAILED SCATTEROMETER MODEL FUNCTION EVALUATION TOOL THAT SUPPORTS QUANTIFICATION OF WIND STRESS ACCURACY WITHIN A DECADAL WIND VECTOR CLIMATE DATA RECORD. A KEY STUDY CONTRIBUTION WILL BE THE PROVISION AND STUDY APPLICATION OF A LARGE NEW DATABASE OF DIRECT WIND STRESS MEASUREMENTS COLLECTED AT SEVERAL LONG-TERM EDDY COVARIANCE FLUX STATIONS IN THE NW ATLANTIC WITH EMPHASIS ON THE 15 MONTH CLIMODE DATA SET NEAR THE GULF STREAM NORTH WALL.
  • $64,866 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THIS PROPOSAL IS IN RESPONSE TO THE LIVING WITH A STAR (LWS) TARGETED RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (TR&T) SOLICITATION OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) UNDER THE PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT/SOLICITATION NUMBER: NNH10ZDA001N-LWSTRT. A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON (EMIC) WAVES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS CRITICAL FOR UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING CHANGES IN THE NEAR-EARTH ENVIRONMENT, E.G., THE SCATTERING LOSS OF RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS IN THE RADIATION BELTS AS WELL AS ENERGETIC IONS IN THE RING CURRENT. HOWEVER, DUE TO THE LACK OF SUFFICIENT IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND THE INCOMPLETE PICTURE OF WAVE GROWTH AND EFFECTS IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE, THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTIES OF EMIC WAVES ARE STILL POORLY UNDERSTOOD. THE CLUSTER OBSERVATIONS CAN CHANGE THIS. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE ABUNDANT IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF MAGNETIC FIELD AND PLASMA DURING THE CLUSTER MISSION (2001 CURRENT), WE PROPOSE AN EXTENSIVE DATA ANALYSIS STUDY TO INVESTIGATE EMIC WAVES AND ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROPERTIES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. BESIDES THE EMIC WAVES THEMSELVES, THREE CRUCIAL EMIC WAVE-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROPERTIES WILL BE STUDIED: 1) ION HEATING, WHICH INDICATES THE EFFECT OF THE EMIC WAVES, 2) HOT ANISOTROPIC H+, WHICH IS THE FREE ENERGY PROVIDER OF THE EMIC WAVES AND SERVES AS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR THE EMIC WAVE GROWTH, AND 3) COLD DENSE PLASMA, WHICH PLAYS A CATALYTIC ROLE IN THE WAVE GENERATION. IN THE PROPOSED WORK, THE FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE QUESTION THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED IS: HOW DO THE DISTRIBUTIONS OF HOT ANISOTROPIC H+ AND COLD DENSE PLASMA IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE CONTROL THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTIES OF EMIC WAVES, AND THE RESULTING ION HEATING? TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, WE WILL FIRST OBTAIN A LIST OF ALL CLUSTER-OBSERVED EMIC WAVE EVENTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE, THEN COLLECT LISTS OF WAVE-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROPERTIES, AND NEXT EXAMINE THE OCCURRENCE DISTRIBUTIONS OF ALL THE TYPES OF EVENTS. IN THIS WAY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE PLASMA CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO THE EXCITATION OF EMIC WAVES, AND WHEN AND WHERE THESE CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. THE PROPOSED STUDY IS EXPECTED TO IMPROVE OUR PRESENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTIES OF EMIC WAVES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH PARTICLES. THE EXPECTED OUTCOME OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS A DETAILED OCCURRENCE DISTRIBUTION MAP SHOWING WHERE EMIC WAVES ARE LIKELY TO BE OBSERVED OVER THE CLUSTER ORBIT IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE, AND WHAT THE PLASMA CONDITIONS ARE WHEN THEY ARE OBSERVED. THE PROJECT TEAM, CONSISTING OF THREE SCIENTISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, HAS THE NECESSARY DATA-ANALYSIS RESOURCES AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED FOR THE SUCCESSFUL PURSUIT OF THE PROPOSED STUDY. THE OUTCOME OF THIS PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE OF HIGH VALUE TO NASA INTERESTS AND PROGRAMS. IN PARTICULAR, THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPICS (D) OF THE 2010 NASA LWS TR&T PROGRAM: "INCORPORATING PLASMA WAVES IN MODELS OF THE RADIATION BELTS AND RING CURRENT". BY COLLABORATING WITH OTHER MEMBERS IN THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPIC TEAM, WE WILL PERFORM BOTH CASE AND STATISTICAL STUDIES OF THE CLUSTER-OBSERVED EVENTS. THE KEY WAVE AND PLASMA PARAMETERS OF THE EMIC WAVES WILL ALSO BE USED AS BOTH INPUT AND OUTPUT TO TEST EXISTING AND UPDATED WAVE THEORIES AND MODELS. THE RESULTS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPIC TEAM.
  • $63,035 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THIS PROPOSAL IS IN RESPONSE TO THE LIVING WITH A STAR (LWS) TARGETED RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (TR&T) SOLICITATION OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) UNDER THE PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT/SOLICITATION NUMBER: NNH10ZDA001N-LWSTRT. A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON (EMIC) WAVES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS CRITICAL FOR UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING CHANGES IN THE NEAR-EARTH ENVIRONMENT, E.G., THE SCATTERING LOSS OF RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS IN THE RADIATION BELTS AS WELL AS ENERGETIC IONS IN THE RING CURRENT. HOWEVER, DUE TO THE LACK OF SUFFICIENT IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND THE INCOMPLETE PICTURE OF WAVE GROWTH AND EFFECTS IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE, THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTIES OF EMIC WAVES ARE STILL POORLY UNDERSTOOD. THE CLUSTER OBSERVATIONS CAN CHANGE THIS. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE ABUNDANT IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF MAGNETIC FIELD AND PLASMA DURING THE CLUSTER MISSION (2001 CURRENT), WE PROPOSE AN EXTENSIVE DATA ANALYSIS STUDY TO INVESTIGATE EMIC WAVES AND ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROPERTIES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. BESIDES THE EMIC WAVES THEMSELVES, THREE CRUCIAL EMIC WAVE-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROPERTIES WILL BE STUDIED: 1) ION HEATING, WHICH INDICATES THE EFFECT OF THE EMIC WAVES, 2) HOT ANISOTROPIC H+, WHICH IS THE FREE ENERGY PROVIDER OF THE EMIC WAVES AND SERVES AS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR THE EMIC WAVE GROWTH, AND 3) COLD DENSE PLASMA, WHICH PLAYS A CATALYTIC ROLE IN THE WAVE GENERATION. IN THE PROPOSED WORK, THE FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE QUESTION THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED IS: HOW DO THE DISTRIBUTIONS OF HOT ANISOTROPIC H+ AND COLD DENSE PLASMA IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE CONTROL THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTIES OF EMIC WAVES, AND THE RESULTING ION HEATING? TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, WE WILL FIRST OBTAIN A LIST OF ALL CLUSTER-OBSERVED EMIC WAVE EVENTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE, THEN COLLECT LISTS OF WAVE-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROPERTIES, AND NEXT EXAMINE THE OCCURRENCE DISTRIBUTIONS OF ALL THE TYPES OF EVENTS. IN THIS WAY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE PLASMA CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO THE EXCITATION OF EMIC WAVES, AND WHEN AND WHERE THESE CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. THE PROPOSED STUDY IS EXPECTED TO IMPROVE OUR PRESENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PROPERTIES OF EMIC WAVES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH PARTICLES. THE EXPECTED OUTCOME OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS A DETAILED OCCURRENCE DISTRIBUTION MAP SHOWING WHERE EMIC WAVES ARE LIKELY TO BE OBSERVED OVER THE CLUSTER ORBIT IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE, AND WHAT THE PLASMA CONDITIONS ARE WHEN THEY ARE OBSERVED. THE PROJECT TEAM, CONSISTING OF THREE SCIENTISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, HAS THE NECESSARY DATA-ANALYSIS RESOURCES AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED FOR THE SUCCESSFUL PURSUIT OF THE PROPOSED STUDY. THE OUTCOME OF THIS PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE OF HIGH VALUE TO NASA INTERESTS AND PROGRAMS. IN PARTICULAR, THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPICS (D) OF THE 2010 NASA LWS TR&T PROGRAM: "INCORPORATING PLASMA WAVES IN MODELS OF THE RADIATION BELTS AND RING CURRENT". BY COLLABORATING WITH OTHER MEMBERS IN THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPIC TEAM, WE WILL PERFORM BOTH CASE AND STATISTICAL STUDIES OF THE CLUSTER-OBSERVED EVENTS. THE KEY WAVE AND PLASMA PARAMETERS OF THE EMIC WAVES WILL ALSO BE USED AS BOTH INPUT AND OUTPUT TO TEST EXISTING AND UPDATED WAVE THEORIES AND MODELS. THE RESULTS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPIC TEAM.
  • $61,300 - Wednesday the 27th of June 2012
    National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
    WESTERN ACQUISITION DIVISION - SEATTLE
    CONDUCT SOCIAL NORM ANALYSIS

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