Letters announcing the results of the competition for new Fiscal Year (FY) 1996 awards from the SR&T and Suborbital Program in Solar Physics were mailed to Principal Investigators in March 1996. These awards were made on the basis of proposals submitted in response to NASA Research Announcement NRA-95-OSS-11. FY 1996 Supporting Research and Technology (SR&T) funding approximately matches that of FY 1995, at $6.2 M. The Suborbital Program budget was augmented about five per cent to $3.6 M. The selections were based on these budgets.
Proposals describing 84 investigations (including five Suborbital) were received in the competition for FY 1996 funding from the Solar Physics program. These were rated in a peer review of their scientific merit. The total FY 1996 funding requested was $8.2 M and the funding available for competition was $3.5 M (including $0.6 M in Suborbital). The assignment of ratings was based on requirements set out in the NRA. Selection for funding from among scientifically competitive proposals is typically based on a combination of programmatic, budgetary and operational considerations. The available funding proved sufficient to allow selection of 37 proposals, 35 of which were the highest ranked by peer review. All selected proposals were funded at the levels recommended by the review panels; in only two cases was this level less than requested by the proposer.
The next opportunity to propose for Solar Physics funding will be in response to the 1996 NRA for the Sun-Earth Connections Supporting Research and Technology and Suborbital Program, which was released May 20, 1996. This NRA is now available on the Web at:
A list of the proposals selected for FY 1996 is appended. A full list of the Solar Physics investigations which are being supported in FY 1996 will be posted in the future.
Solar Physics SR&T Program Investigations Selected for Initiation in FY 1996:
Aschwanden/U of MD Electron Time-of-Flight Kinematics in Solar Flares Antiochos/NRL Physics of the Solar Corona and Transition Region Avrett/SAO Basic Modeling of the Solar Atmosphere and Spectrum Bagenal/U of CO Evolution and Activity in the Solar Corona: A comparison of Coronal and Chromospheric Structures Seen in Soft X-Rays, White Light & Emission Lines Bhatia/GSFC Modelling the Effects of Optical Depth on Solar Active Region and Flare Diagnostics Birn/LANL Modeling of Three-Dimensional Reconnection Related to Coronal Eruption and Ejection Processes Brosius/Hughes/STX Solar Coronal Plasma Properties of Active Regions, Quiet Sun Areas, and a Polar Coronal Hole from SERTS EUV Spectra and Images Bruner/L-MPARL Solar Coronal Structure Study Canfield/MT State U Magnetic Helicity and the Solar Dynamo Chutjian/JPL Measurement of Absolute Electron-Ion Collision Cross Sections for Solar Plasma Diagnostics DeLuca/SAO Chinks in Solar Dynamo Theory: Turbulent Diffusion, Dynamo Waves & Magnetic Helicity Emslie/U AL-H Diagnostics of Mass Motions in Solar Flares Esser/SAO Mapping the Solar Wind from its Source Region into the Outer Corona Fisher, G./UCB The Interrelation of Soft and Hard X-ray Emission During Solar Flares Fisher, G./UCB Large Scale Currents as a Coronal Heating Source Gary/MSFC Analysis and Properties of Magnetic and Electric Current Systems in Solar Active Regions Hoyt/Hughes/STX Additional Work on the Reconstruction of Solar Activity, 1610 - 1994 Huba/NRL Ion-Neutral Dynamics in the Solar Chromosphere: First Ionization Potential Fractionation Krieger/Rad Sci Development of a Focussing Hard X-Ray Telescope: Preliminary Design of a Wolter Type I Hard X-Ray Telescope Lang/Tufts U Radio Studies of the Solar Corona in Support of NASA Missions Lean/NRL Co-Temporal Evolution of Magnetic Variability Structures in the Global Corona, Chromosphere and Photosphere Mariska/NRL Solar Flare Looptop Emission McAllister/Helio Res X-Ray Structures in and Around Filament Channels McConnell/U NH The Development of a Solar Flare Hard X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Miller/U AL-H Electron Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flares Ryan/U NH Demonstration of SONTRAC Principles: A Solar Neutron Track Chamber Telescope Share/NRL Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Flares in Cycles 21 and 22 Sheeley/NRL Magnetic Fields, the Corona, and the Solar Wind Stein/MI SU Solar Convection and Atmospheric Dynamics Title/L-MPARL Michelson Vector Magnetograph for Solar Lite Thomas, J./U Roch Sunspot Dynamics Vestrand/U NH New Technology CdZnTe Detectors for High-Energy Flare Spectroscopy: The Room Temperature Semiconductor Spectrometer for JAWSAT Webb/Bos Col Study of Disconnection of Magnetic Fields Associated with Coronal Mass Ejections Wolfson/Middlebury Col Coronal Mass Ejections and Large-Scale Evolution of the Solar Corona Woo/JPL Probing Coronal Structures with Radio Propagation Measurements *** Solar Physics Suborbital Program Investigations Selected for Initiation in FY 1996: Golub/SAO Global Corona Structure Investigation Hassler/NCAR Coronal Helium Imager and Abundance Experiment Rust/JHU-APL Solar Activity Research with the Flare Genesis Telescope
FINDINGS OF THE SOLAR PHYSICS MOWG--December 1994
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