Funding
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SHINE is an affiliation of researchers within the solar and heliospheric
communities, dedicated to promoting enhanced understanding of and
predictive capabilities for solar disturbances that propagate to Earth. As a
community-based group supporting Space Weather research, it is allied with
the older GEM and CEDAR programs within the National Science Foundation
(NSF), which support space weather research in magnetosphere physics and in
aeronomy and the upper atmosphere, respectively.
In 2001 the Solar Terrestrial Research Program of NSF's Division of
Atmospheric Sciences began to solicit proposals in support of the research
activities of SHINE. Proposals must meet the standards for intellectual
merit and programmatic relevance of the NSF Solar Terrestrial Research
Program. The broader impact of submitted proposals will be evaluated in
consideration of the relation of the proposed activity to the goals and
objectives of SHINE, and the likelihood that the work will contribute
directly to the interactive process at SHINE workshops.
SHINE fosters research on the processes by which energy in the form of
magnetic fields and particles are produced by the Sun and/or accelerated
in interplanetary space and on the mechanisms by which these fields and
particles are transported to the Earth through the inner heliosphere.
SHINE research in particular focuses upon the connection between events and
phenomena on the Sun and their relation to solar wind structures in the
inner heliosphere. The goal of the research is to enhance both physical
understanding as well as predictive capabilities. Major topics under study
by SHINE include variations in the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic
field and plasma structure, coronal mass ejection genesis, initiation, and
propagation, and the production and propagation of solar energetic
particles. Proposals exemplifying a broad diversity of approaches are
encouraged, but the relationship of the research to the SHINE goals should
be made clear.
Further details about the NSF SHINE program solicitation can be found at this URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5749&org=NSF
GEM: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html
CEDAR: http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/index.html
Annual Solicitation for Research in Support of the National Space Weather Program (NSWP):
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5575