Solar Physics SR&T Program Investigations Selected for Initiation in
FY 1998:

Cattaneo, Fausto/University of Chicago
Fast Dynamos and Small Scale Photospheric Fields

Chapman, Gary A./California State University at Northridge
Acquisition and Analysis of Precise Ground-Based Photometric
Full-Disk Images for the Understanding of Space-Based Solar
Total and Spectral Irradiance Observations

Cook, John W./Naval Research Laboratory
Magnetic Origins of Solar Irradiance Variability in the Far
Ultraviolet

Doschek, George A./Naval Research Laboratory
A Proposal for Analysis of High Resolution X-ray, EUV, and UV
Solar Spectra

Feynman, Joan/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Clustering of Emerging Magnetic Flux and its Association
with Fast Coronal Mass Ejections (1 year)

Fisher, George H./University of California at Berkeley
The Relationship Between the Soft X-ray Differential Emission
Measure and Nonthermal Hard X-Ray Emission in Solar Flares
(1 year)

Fisher, George H./University of California at Berkeley
Physics of Active Regions (1 year)

Gary, Dale E./New Jersey Institute of Technology
Broadband Microwave Imaging of the Sun with the OVRO Solar
Array

Hathaway, David H./Marshall Space Flight Center
Analysis and Modeling of Photospheric Flows

Hurlburt, Neal E./Lockheed Martin Advanced Technolgy Center
Sunspots and Their Role in Coronal Heating

Joseph, Charles L./Rutgers University
UV Solid State Detectors

Judge, Darrell L./University of Soutern California
Miniaturized Optics Free EUV Array Spectrometer to Provide
Stable Solar EUV Spectra (2 years)

Karpen, Judith T./Naval Research Laboratory
Theoretical Studies of Magnetic Reconnection in Active Regions
and Coronal Holes

Krieger, Allen S./Radiation Sciences, Inc.
Development of a Wolter Type I Hard X-ray Telescope for
Solar Flares

Kundu, Mukul R./University of Maryland
Research in Solar Radio Astronomy at Short Wavelengths
(1 year)

Kumar, Pawan/Princeton University
Theoretical Study of Solar Acoustic Oscillations (1 year)

Lang, Kenneth R./Tufts University
VLA Observations of Noise Storms and Related Coronal
Activity (1 year)

Linker, Jon A./SAIC
Global Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of the Solar Corona
(1 year)

Martin, Sara F./Helio Research
Dynamics of Prominences in the Quiescent, Pre-Eruptive and
Early Eruptive States

Matthaeus, William H./University of Delaware
Turbulence, Reconnection, and Heating in the Lower Corona

McConnell, Mark L./University of New Hampshire
SOLPOL - A Solar Polarimeter for Hard X-Rays and
Gamma-Rays (1 year)

McKibben, R. Bruce/University of Chicago
Development of a Miniaturized Low-Energy Solar Neutron
Detector for Application to Near-Sun Exploratory Missions
(2 years)

Metcalf, Thomas R./Lockheed Martin Advanced Technolgy Center
The Magnetic Free Energy in Active Regions (2 years)

Mullan, Dermott J./University of Delaware
Heating of Coronal Loops:A Test of Resonant Absorption
(1 year)

Murphy, Ronald J./Naval Research Laboratory
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Solar Flares in Cycles 22 and 23
with CGRO/OSSE

Petrosian, Vahe/Stanford University
Studies of Impulsive Phase of Solar Flare:Basic Mechanism
and Parameter Distributions

Ramaty, Reuven R./Goddard Space Flight Center
Theoretical High Energy Solar Physics

Sackmann, I.-Juliana/California Institute of Technology
Higher Flux from the Young Sun as an Explanation for Warm
Temperatures on Early Earth and Mars

Thejappa, Golla/University of Maryland
Emission Processes Associated with Solar Type III Radio Bursts

Uitenbroek, Han/Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Investigating the Nature of the Chromospheric Network

Walton, Stephen R./California State University at Northridge
A Public Archive of Photometric Full-Disk Solar Images
(1 year)

Wang, Haimin/New Jersey Institute of Technology
Statistical Studies of Filament Disappearances by Analyzing
Full-Disk Yohkoh SXT and BBSO H-Alpha Data

Widing, Kenneth G./Naval Research Laboratory
Evolution of Element Abundances in Solar Active Regions
(1 year)

Solar Physics Suborbital Program Investigations Selected for
Initiation in FY 1998:

Brueckner, Guenter E./Naval Research Laboratory
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Subarc-second Ultraviolet
Structures in the Solar Atmosphere (1 year)

Foukal, Peter V./Cambridge research & Instrumentation, Inc.
A Bolometric Imager for Solar Irradiance Studies (2 years)

Moses, J. Daniel/Naval Research Laboratory
EIT Calibration Rocket (CalRoc) (1 year)

Walker, Arthur B. C./Stanford University
Investigation of the Corona/Chromosphere Interface with
the Chromospheric/Corona Spectroheliograph (2 years)