Award Abstract # 2027210
Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC:Conjugate Experiment to Investigate Sources of High-Latitude Magnetic Perturbations in Coupled Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Ground System

NSF Org: AGS
Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
Recipient: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Initial Amendment Date: August 30, 2020
Latest Amendment Date: October 14, 2020
Award Number: 2027210
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Chia-Lin Huang
chihuang@nsf.gov
 (703)292-7544
AGS
 Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: October 1, 2020
End Date: September 30, 2026 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $295,128.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $295,128.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2020 = $295,128.00
History of Investigator:
  • Michael Hartinger (Principal Investigator)
    mhartinger@spacescience.org
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
4765 WALNUT ST STE B
BOULDER
CO  US  80301-2575
(720)974-5888
Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
CA  US  91426-0118
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
32
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): KCBXMSFGQGY3
Parent UEI: KCBXMSFGQGY3
NSF Program(s): ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci,
MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS
Primary Program Source: 01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
0100XXXXDB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 1679, 4444, 5115, 5750
Program Element Code(s): 511500, 575000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.050

ABSTRACT

This is a project that is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation?s Directorate of Geosciences (NSF/GEO) and the National Environment Research Council (UKRI/NERC) of the United Kingdom (UK) via the NSF/GEO-NERC Lead Agency Agreement. This Agreement allows a single joint US/UK proposal to be submitted and peer-reviewed by the Agency whose investigator has the largest proportion of the budget. Upon successful joint determination of an award, each Agency funds the proportion of the budget and the investigators associated with its own investigators and component of the work. This project is to (1) operate, maintain, and expand a high-latitude array of autonomous instruments to support research of the wider geospace research community into the sources of inter-hemispheric asymmetries, (2) conduct focused science investigations to develop understanding of the sources of high-latitude magnetic perturbations in the multi-scale, global, solar wind - magnetosphere ? ionosphere ? ground (SWMIG) system, including during the 2021 solar eclipse and (3) conduct education and outreach to facilitate broader access to polar research efforts. These objectives will be achieved through an unsurpassed network of closely-spaced magnetically-conjugate magnetometers in Antarctica and in the Northern Hemisphere near the 40 degree magnetic meridian, most of which have already been deployed. This project expands an existing Virginia Tech/Technical University of Denmark partnership to include the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Space Science Institute, and UCLA. Graduate and undergraduate students will be supported, including a special research program to engage students from minority-serving institutions.

Measurements of surface magnetic field perturbations are important to remotely sense and characterize the SWMIG phenomena that affect technology ? such as geomagnetically induced currents ? and thereby to develop physical models and forecast space weather impacts. However, understanding the sources of magnetic perturbations in the coupled SWMIG system is challenging due to their simultaneous dependence on driving conditions, ionospheric conductivity and ground conductivity. We seek to address the following science questions, "How do magnetosphere-ionosphere current systems couple to high-latitude ground magnetic perturbations? What roles do current system spatial scale, inhomogeneous ionospheric conductivity, and inhomogeneous ground conductivity play?" By combining British Antarctic Survey, Technical University of Denmark, and NSF-supported magnetometers, a new combined array will provide unprecedented coverage throughout the auroral zone/cusp in both hemispheres simultaneously. These data enable novel experiments to isolate the respective contributions of driver spatial/temporal scale, ionospheric conductivity, and local ground conductivity in the generation of ground magnetic perturbations. This project includes field work in the Antarctic, supported by both the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and the BAS. USAP and BAS have agreed to support maintenance visits to receiver site locations and to support the retrograde of equipment at the end of the program. BAS and USAP will work collaboratively to deploy an additional instrument to a logistically feasible location that best serves the project. The USAP and BAS have agreed to support this program logistically, with the first field deployment year to be determined after the uncertainties related to the coronavirus pandemic are resolved.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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A. Carter, J. and Dunlop, M. and Forsyth, C. and Oksavik, K. and Donovon, E. and Kavanagh, A. and E. Milan, S. and Sergienko, T. and C. Fear, R. and G. Sibeck, D. and Connors, M. and Yeoman, T. and Tan, X. and G. G. T. Taylor, M. and McWilliams, K. and Gj "Ground-based and additional science support for SMILE" Earth and Planetary Physics , v.8 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023055 Citation Details
Angelopoulos, V. and Zhang, X. -J. and Artemyev, A. V. and Mourenas, D. and Tsai, E. and Wilkins, C. and Runov, A. and Liu, J. and Turner, D. L. and Li, W. and Khurana, K. and Wirz, R. E. and Sergeev, V. A. and Meng, X. and Wu, J. and Hartinger, M. D. and "Energetic Electron Precipitation Driven by Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves from ELFINs Low Altitude Perspective" Space Science Reviews , v.219 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-00984-w Citation Details
Archer, Martin O and Shi, Xueling and Walach, Maria-Theresia and Hartinger, Michael D and Gillies, D Megan and Di_Matteo, Simone and Staples, Frances and Nykyri, Katariina "Crucial future observations and directions for unveiling magnetopause dynamics and their geospace impacts" Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences , v.11 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1430099 Citation Details
Archer, M_O and Hartinger, M_D and Rastätter, L. and Southwood, D_J and Heyns, M. and Eggington, J_W_B and Wright, A_N and Plaschke, F. and Shi, X. "Auroral, Ionospheric and Ground Magnetic Signatures of Magnetopause Surface Modes" Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , v.128 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031081 Citation Details
Coyle, S_E and Baker, J_B_H and Chakraborty, S. and Hartinger, M_D and Freeman, M_P and Clauer, C_R and Xu, Z. and Weimer, D_R "Substorms and Solar Eclipses: A Mutual Information Based Study" Geophysical Research Letters , v.50 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106432 Citation Details
Coyle, S_E and Hartinger, M_D and Clauer, C_R and Baker, J_B_H and Cnossen, I. and Freeman, M_P and Weygand, J_M "The 2021 Antarctic Total Eclipse: Ground Magnetometer and GNSS Wave Observations From the 40 Degree Magnetic Meridian" Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , v.128 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031142 Citation Details
Coyle, Shane and Clauer, C. Robert and Hartinger, Michael D. and Xu, Zhonghua and Peng, Yuxiang "The impact and resolution of the GPS week number rollover of April 2019 on autonomous geophysical instrument platforms" Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems , v.10 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-10-161-2021 Citation Details
Engebretson, Mark J. and Gaffaney, Sean A. and Ochoa, Jesus A. and Runov, Andrei and Weygand, James M. and Nishimura, Yukitoshi and Hartinger, Michael D. and Pilipenko, Vyacheslav A. and Moldwin, Mark B. and Connors, Martin G. and Mann, Ian R. and Xu, Zho "Signatures of Dipolarizing Flux Bundles in the Nightside Auroral Zone" Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , v.129 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA032266 Citation Details
Engebretson, Mark J. and Simms, Laura E. and Pilipenko, Viacheslav A. and Bouayed, Lilia and Moldwin, Mark B. and Weygand, James M. and Hartinger, Michael D. and Xu, Zhonghua and Clauer, C. Robert and Coyle, Shane and Willer, Anna N. and Freeman, Mervyn P "Geomagnetic Disturbances That Cause GICs: Investigating Their Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Control by IMF Orientation" Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , v.127 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030580 Citation Details
Noh, Sung Jun and Kim, Hyomin and Ozturk, Dogacan and Kuzichev, Ilya and Xu, Zhonghua and Zhang, Hui and Vu, Andrew and Liu, Terry and Weygand, James M. and Hartinger, Michael D. and Shi, Xueling and Engebretson, Mark and Gerrard, Andrew and Kim, EunHwa "Interhemispheric Observations of ULF Waves Caused by Foreshock Transients Under Quiet Solar Wind Conditions" Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , v.128 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031596 Citation Details
Peng, YuXiang and Scales, Wayne A and Hartinger, Michael D and Xu, Zhonghua and Coyle, Shane "Characterization of multi-scale ionospheric irregularities using ground-based and space-based GNSS observations" Satellite Navigation , v.2 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1186/s43020-021-00047-x Citation Details
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