Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Amount

$360,000.00

Award Date

6/25/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The principal goal of this research program is to investigate the role of ballooning instabilities, collisionless reconnection and other current-driven instabilities in the triggering and temporal evolution of magnetospheric substorms. The project will us