FY18 CSES Funded Projects

FY18 CSES Funded Projects (pdf)

Astrophysics, Cosmology

• Searching for Dark Matter in the Galactic Center with HAWC
• Creating an Astrophysically Relevant Magnetic Dynamo in the laboratory
• Quantum Effects of Cosmological Observations as a Probe of BSM & Nuclear Physics
• Kinetic Processes of Particle Acceleration and Radiation in Relativistic Astrophysical Plasma Outflows
• Primordial Explosions and Black Holes: Direct and Indirect Signatures in Deep Sky Image
• Automated Selection and Characterization of Explosive Astrophysical Transients; Modern Data Analytics meets computational physics models

Earth Systems

• Scaling Missing State to Predict Properties of Carbonaceous aerosols: From Laboratory to field to Climate Models
• Climate System Response as Understood Through a Novel Analysis of Ocean Circulation and Energetics
• High-Resolution Earth System Model (ESM) Simulation
• Impacts of root associates on plant drought tolerance and carbon sequestration
• Modeling disturbance effects on tropical forests
• Vegetation-insect Dynamics under global Warming

Geophysical

• Next Generation Microseismic Event Detection
• Probing the Critical Stress state in Earth’s Crust via induced Seismicity and fluid injection
• 3D Mapping of Shallow Targets Using Microgravity and Cosmic Ray Muons
• Reduced-Order Models for Subsurface Sensing using internet of Things (loT) Devices

Space

• Kinetic Electron Dynamics of Asymmetric Reconnection
• Listen to the Canary: Understanding and Utilizing a Storm Precursor in Low-Earth-Orbit
• DREAM Capability Demonstration Utilizing Van Allen Probe Space Environment Data
• IMAP Development
• Thermal neutron flux characterization at aircraft altitudes with the TinMan Detector
• Wave-Partical interactions in the near-Earth environment