← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, Inc.
$6,201,358
Total funding
15
Grants
Funding over time
peak $2.6M · FY2008–18$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$4,083,892 · 10
DOE$997,820 · 1
DOD$912,148 · 2
USDA$207,498 · 2
By mechanism
—$6,201,358 · 15
Investigators at Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, 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
VERSATILE BIOSENSING PLATFORM FOR MONITORING BONE MARKERS FOR SPACE MEDICINE THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT - INCLUDING MICROGRAVITY - IS KNOWN TO INDUCE ME$1,437,214
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TAS::89 0321::TAS WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION BIODIESEL PROJECT$997,820
· FY2010 · Department of Energy
FUNCTIONALIZED NANOSPRING-MATS FOR DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS$803,156
· FY2010 · Department of Defense
KENTUCKY EPSCOR: EFFICACY OF COUNTERMEASURES TO CARDIOVASCULAR DECONDITIONING IN MEN AND WOMEN DURIN$730,868
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MOST FLARE MODELS ASSUME THAT ELECTRONS ARE ACCELERATED IN A CORONAL POINT SOURCE. HOWEVER THE APPEARANCE OF EXTENDED CORONAL SOURCES SHOWS THAT THE ACCELERATED ELECTRONS CAN BE FULLY STOPPED IN THE CORONA AND RHESSI DATA ON THE VARIATION OF HXR SOURCE SIZE WITH ENERGY POINT TO A MODEL IN WHICH TRANSPORT INVOLVES BOTH COLLISIONS AND DIFFUSIVE SCATTERING (AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT IN MHD RECONNECTION) OCCURRING COSPATIALLY. THIS REQUIRES THAT WE PUSH MODELS BEYOND A POINT-SOURCE INJECTION SCENARIO TOWARD A MORE PHYSICALLY REALISTIC SCENARIO INVOLVING AN EXTENDED REGION IN WHICH ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT OPERATE UNDER A UNIFIED PHYSICAL MODEL. THE INVESTIGATION WILL ADDRESS ELECTRON ENERGIES FROM A FEW KT UPWARDS A RANGE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE NOT ONLY FOR MOST OF THE ACCELERATED ELECTRON ENERGY CONTENT BUT ALSO FOR DETERMINING THE COEFFICIENTS OF THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY. OUR APPROACH WILL USE THE CONCEPT OF EFFECTIVE MEAN FREE PATH. FOR COLLISIONS THE ANGULAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT D~1/V^3 AND THUS?~V/D~V^4. FOR DIFFUSIVE SCATTERING THE CHARACTERISTIC MEAN FREE PATH?_T WILL HAVE A VELOCITY DEPENDENCE DETERMINED BY THE SCATTERING MECHANISM PARAMETRIZED AS?_T =?_0 V^A. THUS IN THE PRESENCE OF BOTH COLLISIONS AND TURBULENT ACCELERATION THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A MEAN FREE PATH?(V) =?_CE (V/V_E )^4/( R (V/V_E )^(4-A) + 1); R =?_CE/?_0 . IN THE PRESENCE OF BOTH A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT DT/DX AND AN ELECTRIC FIELD E THE ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION CAN BE WRITTEN AS A CHAPMAN-ENSKOG EXPANSION ABOUT A MAXWELLIAN FORM F0 WITH A FIRST-ORDER ANISOTROPIC TERM F1(V ) = -?(V)[((V/V_E)^2-5/2) D LN T/DX + EE/KT]F0 . (1) SUBSTITUTING THIS IN THE RESPECTIVE EXPRESSIONS FOR THE HEAT FLUX AND CURRENT DENSITY Q =? M_EDV V^5D F1(V ); J = -2?EDV V^3D F1(V ) (2) GIVES THE THERMOELECTRIC RELATIONS Q = - K DT/DX E ; J =?E +? DT/DX WHERE K ? ? AND ARE DETERMINED FROM EQUATIONS (1) AND (2). PRELIMINARY RESULTS SHOW THAT THESE COEFFICIENTS GENERALLY DECREASE WITH R AND CAN ALSO EXHIBIT SOME INTERESTING SIGN CHANGES AS A RESULT OF THE MORE COMPLICATED VELOCITY DEPENDENCE OF?. WE PROPOSE TO EVALUATE K ? ? AND FOR DIFFERENT TURBULENCE MODELS AND USE THE RESULTS TO PREDICT OBSERVATIONALLY TESTABLE QUANTITIES SUCH AS THE COOLING TIME PROFILE FOR CORONAL PLASMA. MODEL PREDICTIONS WILL BE COMPARED WITH RHESSI/AIA IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY DATA IN ORDER TO INFER THE VALUE OF?_T AND HENCE CONSTRAIN THE TURBULENT SCATTERING MECHANISM AND TO GENERATE REVISED ELECTRON ENERGY TRANSPORT MODELS FOR USE IN CALCULATING THE ATMOSPHERIC HEATING PROFILE. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ADDRESSES DECADAL SURVEY GOALS 1 (DETERMINE THE ORIGINS OF THE SUN S ACTIVITY) AND 4 (DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE). THE RESULTS WILL HAVE IMPACT IN SEVERAL AREAS. FOR EXAMPLE CORONAL PLASMA IS OBSERVED TO BE SUSTAINED AT HIGH TEMPERATURES WELL BEYOND THE CONDUCTIVE COOLING TIME LEADING TO THE GENERAL SUPPOSITION THAT ADDITIONAL ENERGY IS INJECTED INTO THE CORONA AFTER THE IMPULSIVE PHASE HAS CEASED. HOWEVER SUCH LONG COOLING TIMES COULD ALSO BE A CONSEQUENCE OF A DECREASE IN THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COEFFICIENT K. LOWERING K WOULD ALSO LEAD TO A HIGHER STEADY-STATE CORONAL TEMPERATURE POSSIBLY ACCOUNTING FOR LOOPTOP CORONAL HARD X-RAY SOURCES. A REDUCTION IN THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY? ENHANCES OHMIC LOSSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE BEAM-NEUTRALIZING RETURN CURRENT AFFECTING NOT ONLY ELECTRON TRANSPORT DYNAMICS BUT ALSO THE ASSOCIATED HEATING PROFILE AND HENCE THE HYDRODYNAMIC RESPONSE OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. AND BECAUSE THE HARD X-RAY PRODUCTION OF A POPULATION OF ACCELERATED ELECTRONS DEPENDS INVERSELY ON THE ENERGY LOSS RATE THE RESULTS WILL IMPACT THE TOTAL ENERGY CONTENT IN ACCELERATED ELECTRONS$678,050
· FY2017 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KENTUCKY NASA EPSCOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMTHE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE KENTUCKY$396,227
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF COASTAL FOREST ECOSYSTEMS$359,746
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES LEADING TO ENERGY RELEASE IN SOLAR FLARES, IN PARTICULAR THE PROCESSES THAT LEAD TO SUCH C$296,349
· FY2010 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ENHANCE THE SAFETY OF LOCALLY GROWN FRESH PRODUCE THROUGH RESEARCH AND EXTENSION$209,928
· FY2014 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
NASA' STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1.4 IS TO "UNDERSTAND THE SUN AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM, INCLUDING SPACE WEATHER." THE OBJECTIVE$113,847
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION EFFICACY.$108,992
· FY2015 · Department of Defense
LIGHT CURVES AND MASSES OF AGN IN THE KEPLER FIELD OF VIEW THE KEPLER MISSION WILL STARE AT THE SA$47,553
· FY2010 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RAPID OPTICAL VARIABILITY IN INFRARED AND OPTICALLY BRIGHT BLAZARSBLAZARS ARE EXTREME EXAMPLES OF THE PHENOMENA KNOWN AS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN). THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF BLAZARS ARE A FEATURELESS (OR NEARLY FEATURELESS) OPTICAL CONTINUUM LARGE AMPLITUDE AND HIGHLY VARIABLE POLARIZATION AND LARGE AMPLITUDE CONTINUUM VARIABILITY AT ALL WAVELENGTHS. THEIR WEAK OR COMPLETELY ABSENT DISCRETE SPECTRAL FEATURES LEAVES US WITH ONLY CONTINUUM VARIABILITY AS A DIAGNOSTIC OF THE EMISSION MECHANISMS AT WORK IN THESE OBJECTS. LONG CADENCE OBSERVATIONS OF A SAMPLE OF OPTICAL AND IR BRIGHT BLAZARS IDENTIFIED IN THE F4 AND F5 FIELD OF THE K2 MISSION ARE PROPOSED. THE SOURCE SAMPLE WILL BE COMPRISED OF BLAZARS WITH KEP MAGNITUDE<17 WHICH ARE EITHER ALREADY IDENTIFIED AS BLAZARS OR SOURCES IN THE FIELDS FOUND ON THE WISE BLAZAR STRIP THAT ARE NOT PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED BLAZARS. THE CONTINUOUS HIGHLY SAMPLED LIGHT CURVES THAT WILL BE OBTAINED IN THE K2 MISSION WILL ALLOW A DETAILED EXPLORATION OF BLAZAR VARIABILITY ON TIMESCALES OF MINUTES TO SEVERAL MONTHS THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITH GROUND BASED OBSERVATIONS. IN PARTICULAR THESE OBSERVATIONS WILL ALLOW: THE DETERMINATION OF THE MINIMUM TIMESCALE OF THE VARIABILITY THE DETERMINATION OF THE SLOPE OF THE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD) ON TIMESCALES FROM MINUTES TO SEVERAL MONTHS SEARCHES FOR BREAKS IN THE HIGH FREQUENCY PSD WHICH INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF CHARACTERISTIC VARIABILITY TIMESCALES AND SEARCHES FOR QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN THE OPTICAL LIGHT CURVES OF BLAZARS. BRIGHT BLAZARS ARE BEING CHOSEN SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED FROM THE GROUND POST K2 IN ORDER TO EXTEND THE TIME SERIES AND CHARACTERIZE THE PSD ACROSS A WIDER RANGE OF FREQUENCIES.$12,077
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RAPID OPTICAL VARIABILITY IN INFRARED AND OPTICALLY BRIGHT BLAZARS BLAZARS ARE EXTREME EXAMPLES OF THE PHENOMENA KNOWN AS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN$11,961
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ENHANCE THE SAFETY OF LOCALLY GROWN FRESH PRODUCE THROUGH RESEARCH AND EXTENSION$-2,430
· FY2018 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture