{"id":796,"date":"2017-10-16T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/?p=796"},"modified":"2017-10-16T19:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:11:55","slug":"engebretson-awarded-nsf-grant-for-magnetospheric-and-ionospheric-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2017\/10\/16\/engebretson-awarded-nsf-grant-for-magnetospheric-and-ionospheric-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Engebretson awarded NSF Grant for magnetospheric and ionospheric research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Engebretson, Professor Emeritus of Physics, has received a three year grant totaling $512,043 from the National Science Foundation to continue operation of the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS) network as well as analyze and disseminate its data. MACCS is a longitudinal array of high latitude magnetometers, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">instruments used for measuring the earth&#8217;s magnetism<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covering the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Each MACCS site transmits data in near-real time, providing critical data for studies of various geospace phenomena, including solar wind-magnetosphere and magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions, the dynamics of the high latitude polar cap regions of the magnetosphere, and geomagnetic storms and substorms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engebretson and his team (Jennifer Posch, Laura Simms, Slava Pilipenko, and Erik Steinmetz) will conduct detailed studies of high-latitude ultra-low frequency waves using both ground-based and satellite data during magnetic storms. They will also explore the physical mechanisms involved in the excitation and propagation of ultra-low frequency waves through the magnetosphere-ionosphere system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to six undergraduate students will have the opportunity to conduct research alongside Engebretson.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1651263<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.***<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Engebretson, Professor Emeritus of Physics, has received a three year grant totaling $512,043 from the National Science Foundation to continue operation of the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS) network as well as analyze and disseminate its data. MACCS is a longitudinal array of high latitude magnetometers, instruments used for measuring the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2017\/10\/16\/engebretson-awarded-nsf-grant-for-magnetospheric-and-ionospheric-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Engebretson awarded NSF Grant for magnetospheric and ionospheric research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}