FY17 CSES Funded Projects

Astrophysics, Cosmology

• First Science with the HAWK Gamma Ray Experiment
• Dark Matter Astrophysics
• New Neutrino Radiation Transport Methods for 3D Breakthrough Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Burst Central Engines
• Close-in Exoplanets: Origin and Dynamics of Hot Jupiters and Super-Earths
• Towards a Unitary and Self-Consistent Treatment of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Spectral Variation Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Climate

• Detection of Climate Signals from Millennial Length Ice Core Records
• Parameterization of Ridges and other Spatial Sea-Ice Properties from Geomathematical Analysis of Recent Observation for Improvement of the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, CICE
• Using Experimental Data to Improve Enthalpy-Base Models of Ice-Sheet Ablation Zones
• Effects of Wintertime Warming on the Arctic Vegetation
• Real Time Methane Isotope Observation: Attributing Sources from Arctic and Gas Fields
• Assessing Impacts of Wind Turbines & Wind Farms
• From Big Whirls to Little Whirls to Viscosity: Understanding the Energetics of Hurricane Dynamics
• Canopy Carbon Dynamics in a Hotter, Drier Climate

Space

• Experimental Test of Carbon Monoxide Self-Shielding Model and It’s Implications for the early Solar System’s Oxygen Isotope Evolution
• Investigating Mass Loading from the Enceladus Plume by Observations and Simulations
• Wave-Particle Interaction-Radiation Belt
• Data-Based Model of the Earth's Magnetosphere Magnetic Field

Geophysical

• Computational Solution of Fluid-Rock Systems and Explosive Volcanism
• Triggering of Seismic and Aseismic Fault slip: the Role of Fault Zone Properties and Dynamic Stressing
• Assessment of Geothermal Resources of the Socorro and La Jencia Basins, New Mexico using High Resolution Hydrothermal Models
• Attenuation Structure of Northeast China and North Korea
• Discrete Fracture Network Models for Coupled Thermo-Hydrologic-Mechanical
• A Stochastic-Deterministic Modeling for Induced Seismicity caused by Sub-Surface Fluid Injection