NASAS MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTISCALE (MMS) MISSION OFFERS A UNIQUE DATASET TO STUDY PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN NONLINEAR TRANSIENT STRUCTURES THAT FORM IN THE FORESHOCK REGION SUNWARD OF EARTHS BOW SHOCK. WITH ITS MULTIPOINT OBSERVATIONS COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUMENT SUITE AND UNPRECEDENTED DATA QUALITY AND RESOLUTION MMS OFFERS THE ABILITY TO DISSECT THE SPATIOTEMPORAL NATURE OF FORESHOCK TRANSIENT EVENTS AND EVALUATE AND MODEL THEIR ABILITY TO ACCELERATE IONS AND ELECTRONS TO VERY HIGH ENERGY (>100S OF KILOELECTRONVOLTS). SINCE THE START OF THE MMS MISSION IN 2015 DR. TURNER ACTIVELY MAINTAINS A LIST OF 100S OF FORESHOCK TRANSIENTS INCLUDING HOT FLOW ANOMALIES FORESHOCK BUBBLES FORESHOCK CAVITONS SHOCKLETS AND SHORT LARGE-AMPLITUDE MAGNETIC STRUCTURES (SLAMS) AND THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO USE THIS DATABASE OF EVENTS AS THE FOUNDATION FOR A SERIES OF STUDIES ON THE NATURE OF HOT FLOW ANOMALIES AND FORESHOCK BUBBLES THE ACCELERATION MECHANISMS THAT THEY ENABLE AND HOW SIMILAR STRUCTURES AT OTHER ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS MAY BE IMPORTANT TO THE ACCELERATION OF COSMIC RAYS. DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES WILL BE USED TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING: THE LOCATIONS AND SOLAR WIND AND BOW SHOCK CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO FORESHOCK TRANSIENT FORMATION; THE PHYSICAL GEOMETRY AND TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF FORESHOCK TRANSIENTS USING MULTIPOINT SPACECRAFT TECHNIQUES. A COMBINATION OF DATA ANALYSIS AND THEORY AND SIMULATIONS WILL BE USED TO STUDY PARTICLE ACCELERATION WITHIN FORESHOCK TRANSIENTS AND TO EXTRAPOLATE RESULTS TO OTHER ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS; THEORY AND MODELS USED WILL BE CONSTRAINED BY RESULTS FROM THE OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES.