← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Nmc, Inc.
$17,614,926
Total funding
21
Grants
Funding over time
peak $5.4M · FY2009–25$10M$7.5M$5M$2.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$7,730,377 · 7
DOE$7,407,987 · 10
DOD$2,380,048 · 3
USDA$96,514 · 1
By mechanism
—$17,614,926 · 21
Investigators at Nmc, Inc.
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
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Emerging Leaders
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Largest grants
OPTIMIZING SELECTION PRESSURES AND PEST MANAGEMENT TO MAXIMIZE ALGAL BIOMASS YIELD$3,677,980
· FY2021 · Department of Energy
THE NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM (NMC) IN LOS ALAMOS NM PROPOSES THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES SUPPORT OF VAN ALLEN PROBES EXTENDED MISSION SCIENCE. THE PI FOR$3,000,000
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS IS PROPOSAL TO: COLLECT DATA FROM THE HOPE INSTRUMENT AND TO PROCESS DATA FROM THE RBSP-ECT INSTRUMENT SUITE OPERATING A SCIENCE DATA CENTER FOR THIS TEAM AND ALL OTHER USES. THE PROPOSERS WILL PRODUCE DATA PRODUCTS ANALYZE THE DATA DOCUMENT THEIR RESEARCH AND BE AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT RESEARCH BY OTHERS. THEY WILL CALIBRATE THE OBSERVATIONS AND DELIVER THEM TO A NASA-DESIGNATED REPOSITORY.$1,999,942
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TAS::57 3600::TAS "COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES OF ULTRACOLD PLASMAS:"$1,855,799
· FY2012 · Department of the Air Force
SUCCESS THROUGH SYNERGY: INCREASING CULTIVATION YIELD AND STABILITY WITH RATIONALLY DESIGNED CONSORTIA$1,296,613
· FY2017 · Department of Energy
AURORASAURUS IS AN SMD FLAGSHIP PROJECT IN CITIZEN SCIENCE DEMONSTRATING THE BEST OF WHAT CITIZEN SCIENCE CAN DO AND PROVIDING A GREAT WAY TO FULFILL HELIOPHYSICS OBJECTIVES OF THE NEW SPD-33. AURORASAURUS WAS INITIALLY FUNDED BY NSF (2013-2017)$981,002
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEW; TITLE: INSTABILITY AND TRANSPORT OF LASER BEAM IN PLASMA; PI - HARVEY ROSE$658,491
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
THE ROLE OF KINETIC ELECTRONS IN ALFVEN WAVE PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES AT LOW PLASMA BETA$607,923
· FY2025 · Department of Energy
THE SOLAR WIND IS THE HIGH SPEED PLASMA FLOW ORIGINATED FROM THE SUN CARRYING MAGNETIC FIELD AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES AND PROPAGATING THROUGHOUT THE HELIOSPHERE. IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT SOLAR WIND IS TURBULENT AND IONS ARE HEATED THOUGH$585,001
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE ARE RESPONDING IN THE BROADEST SENSE TO THE LARS GOAL WHICH IS STATED IN THE ROSES SOLICITATION AS TO MAXIMIZE THE SCIENCE DERIVED FROM PLANETARY SAMPLE-RETURN MISSIONS. GENESIS IS ONE OF THE TARGET SAMPLE-RETURN MISSIONS. WE PROPOSE TO PERFORM CRITICAL SAMPLE ANALYSES AND TO UTILIZE THESE MEASUREMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE SOLAR-WIND FRACTIONATION. WE BELIEVE IT IS MOST PRUDENT TO USE THESE MEASUREMENTS IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER DATA AVAILABLE TO STUDY SOLAR-WIND FRACTIONATION. BY THIS MEANS WE CAN PLACE ALL GENESIS SAMPLE MEASUREMENTS IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXT IN WHICH SOLAR ISOTOPIC AND ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES CAN BE DETERMINED (SEE OBJECTIVES BOX AND DISCUSSION ABOVE). ANALYSIS OF GENESIS MATERIALS IS OBVIOUS BUT IT IS ALSO CRITICAL TO DEAL WITH ALL FACTORS WHICH MIGHT AFFECT THE ABILITY TO IDENTIFY GENESIS RESULTS WITH ISOTOPIC AND ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF THE SOLAR NEBULA. TO THE EXTENT THAT THIS WORK HELPS US UNDERSTAND AND CORRECT FOR SOLAR-WIND FRACTIONATION IT IS OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITY AMONG GENESIS WORK BECAUSE IT TIES ALL SOLAR WIND COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS TO ACTUAL SOLAR AND SOLAR-NEBULA COMPOSITIONS.$571,191
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES OF ALFVEN WAVES IN LOW-BETA PLASMAS$570,073
· FY2020 · Department of Energy
SPARSE DATA CULTURE MODELS$519,249
· FY2010 · Department of the Navy
OUR OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. DETERMINE USING DATA AND A PHYSICS-BASED DRIFT MODEL HOW MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA EVOLVES FROM LOW TO HIGH L-SHELL AND DETERMINE THE PROCESSES THAT INFLUENCE THIS EVOLUTION (E.G. FROM CHANGES IN COMPOSITION ENERGY PITCH ANGLE ETC.). 2. QUANTIFY HOW THE IONS AFFECT THE RATE OF RECONNECTION AT THE DAYSIDE (E.G. BY CALCULATING THE PERCENTAGE REDUCTION IN THE RECONNECTION RATE AS A FUNCTION OF ACTIVITY AND SOLAR WIND CONDITIONS). 3. REVEAL THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF THE ION PLASMA CLOAK THE PLASMASPHERIC PLUME AND THE LLBL PLASMA ON THE DAYSIDE RECONNECTION RATE (E.G. BY COMPARING THE RATE FOR PLUME PLASMA WITH THAT FOR CLOAK PLASMA AND LLBL PLASMA). THE PROPOSAL IS RELEVANT TO THREE DECADAL SURVEY GOALS: DETERMINE THE DYNAMICS AND COUPLING OF EARTH S MAGNETOSPHERE IONOSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL INPUTS; DETERMINE THE INTERACTION OF THE SUN WITH THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. .THE METHODOLOGY CONSISTS OF: (I) STATISTICAL STUDIES OF IONS IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE AND AT THE RECONNECTION SITE (E.G. AS A FUNCTION OF L MLT AND ACTIVITY); (II) CONJUNCTION EVENT STUDIES WHERE TWO OR MORE OF THE MMS VAP AND LANL SATELLITES ARE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AND WHEN SPACECRAFT ARE WIDELY SEPARATED BUT ON THE SAME DRIFT PATH; (III) DRIFT MODELING OF IONS AS THEY MOVE FROM INNER TO OUTER MAGNETOSPHERE DURING THESE EVENTS. FOR THE CONJUNCTIONS WE DETERMINE AND QUANTIFY IF AND HOW THE ION POPULATION EVOLVES DURING ITS DRIFT. ULTIMATELY THIS METHODOLOGY WILL LEAD TO QUANTIFICATION OF THE REDUCTION OF THE DAYSIDE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION RATE THAT RESULTS FROM THE PRESENCE OF MAGNETOSPHERIC IONS AT THE DAYSIDE RECONNECTION SITE. .$443,241
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
STEPS TOWARD DIRECT OBSERVATION OF THE ALFVEN WAVE PARAMETRIC DECAY INSTABILITY IN A
LABORATORY PLASMA$178,417
· FY2023 · Department of Energy
MULTIPOINT MEASUREMENTS IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE CAN ALLOW THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF VARIOUS PARTICLE POPULATIONS AND WAVE MODES TO BE DISENTANGLED. IN PARTICULAR SPATIAL SCALES OF WAVE ACTIVE REGIONS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN ESTIMATED FOR A RANGE OF WAVE MODES INCLUDING WHISTLER MODE CHORUS ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON (EMIC) AND QUASI-PERIODIC WAVES. UNDERSTANDING THE DRIVERS CONTROLLING THE SPATIAL SCALES OF WAVE ACTIVITY IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE IS CRITICAL FOR UNCOVERING THE UNDERLYING PHYSICS BEHIND THE WAVE GENERATION AS WELL AS FOR BETTER PREDICTION OF WHERE AND WHEN WAVES WILL BE PRESENT. RECENT STUDIES OF EMIC WAVES REVEAL A DEPENDENCE OF THE WAVE SPATIAL EXTENT ON MAGNETIC LOCAL TIME (MLT) WAVE FREQUENCY AND L SHELL. VARIOUS HYPOTHESES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THESE PATTERNS INCLUDING DIFFERENT SOURCES (AND SPATIAL EXTENTS) OF ION ANISOTROPY ON THE DAY VERSUS NIGHT SIDE COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS THROUGHOUT THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE OR COLD PLASMA DENSITY STRUCTURE. STUDIES OF ION DYNAMICS IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE HAVE SHOWN RAPID EVOLUTION IN SPATIAL STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARIES AS WELL AS COMPOSITION BUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE VARIATIONS AND CHARACTERISTIC EMIC WAVE SCALES HAS YET TO BE EXPLORED. THIS WORK PROPOSES TO USE MULTIPOINT MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL EXTENTS AND EVOLUTION OF PLASMA STRUCTURES IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE DRIVERS OF MAGNETOSPHERIC WAVE CHARACTERISTIC SCALES. IN PARTICULAR WE FOCUS ON EMIC WAVES AND THE PLASMA PARAMETERS IMPORTANT FOR THEIR GROWTH NAMELY COLD PLASMA DENSITY AND WARM ION DENSITY ANISOTROPY AND COMPOSITION. STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARIES IN THE LOCAL PLASMA POPULATIONS CAN HAVE DIRECT IMPACT ON WHERE AND WHEN WAVE GROWTH CAN OCCUR. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL ADDRESS THE IMPORTANT QUESTION OF WHAT PHYSICAL PARAMETERS CONTROL EMIC WAVE CHARACTERISTICS AND HOW DO THESE VARY THROUGHOUT THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. UTILIZING DATA FROM THE VAN ALLEN PROBES AND THEMIS MISSIONS WE PROPOSE TO: 1. INVESTIGATE SPATIAL STRUCTURES OF H+ HE+ AND O+ POPULATIONS IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE. THE MULTIPLE PROBES CAN REVEAL THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF THESE STRUCTURES AND HOW PERSISTENT VARIOUS PLASMA BOUNDARIES AND GRADIENTS ARE. 2. ESTIMATE ION ANISOTROPY AND THE SPATIAL SCALES OF ANISOTROPIC REGIONS. VARIATIONS IN THESE SCALES ACROSS L SHELL AND MLT MAY SUGGEST DIFFERENT PHYSICAL MECHANISMS GENERATING THESE ANISOTROPIES. 3. CHARACTERIZE COLD PLASMA DENSITY STRUCTURE INCLUDING FINE SCALE STRUCTURE AND ITS VARIABILITY ACROSS L SHELL AND MLT. DR. LAUREN BLUM PI HAS WORKED ON NUMEROUS STUDIES RELATED TO EMIC WAVES - INCLUDING WAVE SPATIAL AND COHERENCE SCALE ESTIMATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FREE ENERGY SOURCES FOR WAVE GROWTH. DR. MICK DENTON CO I HAS STUDIED PLASMASPHERIC STRUCTURE AND REFILLING PROCESSES. RECENT WORK INCLUDES INVESTIGATIONS OF STORM-TIME ION DYNAMICS AND COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS IN EARTH S MAGNETOSPHERE. RELEVANCE TO NASA PROGRAMS: THIS PROPOSAL RELATES DIRECTLY TO TWO OF THE FOUR HELIOPHYSICS DECADAL SURVEY GOALS DETERMINING THE DYNAMICS AND COUPLING OF EARTH S MAGNETOSPHERE IONOSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL INPUTS AND DISCOVERING AND CHARACTERIZING FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. THE GENERATION OF PLASMA WAVES IS A CRITICAL PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE HELIOSPHERE; THE PROPOSED WORK WILL HELP DETERMINE THE FACTORS CONTROLLING WHERE AND WHEN PLASMA WAVES DEVELOP IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE AND WHAT THE UNDERLYING PHYSICAL PROCESSES CONTROLLING WAVE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES ARE.$150,000
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TURBULENCE, STRUCTURES, AND DIFFUSIVE SHOCK ACCELERATION$149,977
· FY2017 · Department of Energy
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EFFECTS OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD SHEAR AND FLOW SHEAR ON THE KINETIC PHYSICS AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION$148,132
· FY2019 · Department of Energy
NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS OF ALFVEN WAVES IN MULTI-ION PLASMAS$120,380
· FY2020 · Department of Energy
FIRETEC AND WFDS MODELING OF FIRE BEHAVIOR$96,514
· FY2016 · Forest Service
TAS::57 3600::TAS "CONFERENCE ON THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF MOLECULAR MOTORS" (THE GRANTEE'S TECHNICAL PROPOSAL); THE RESEARCH TERMS$5,000
· FY2010 · Department of the Air Force