Katrina Bossert
Arizona State University Campus Immersion, AZ·Physics
Space physics studies the environment between the Sun and Earth. This includes space plasma, the ionosphere (the electrically charged upper layer of Earth's atmosphere), the solar wind (the stream of charged particles flowing from the Sun) and how this environment responds to solar events.
- Fields
Physics
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Earth & Environmental Science
- Topics
space physics
heliophysics
ionosphere
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Sep 2026
What they work on
- Establish an interdisciplinary space physics program focused on space plasma, ionospheric dynamics, the solar wind, and how the heliosphere responds to solar events.
- Develop new space physics courses and curriculum and train PhD students, drawing on existing mathematics, astrophysics, geoscience and engineering expertise.
- Bring space physics to the public by adding it to 3-D theater shows and creating a new exhibit for a free public gallery.
More about the research
This grant supports building an interdisciplinary space physics program at Arizona State University. The program draws on existing university strengths in mathematics, statistics, astrophysics, geoscience and engineering.
Why it matters
The program aims to build space physics research and training capacity at a large, diverse university. It plans to produce PhD graduates who study how Earth's upper atmosphere and near-space environment respond to the Sun. It also plans to share this science with the public and K-12 students through planetarium-style shows and gallery exhibits.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
James Sherwood
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA·Engineering
Establish a tenure-track faculty line in Electrical and Computer Engineering focused on space weather, especially how disturbances in the ionosphere affect communication and navigation technologies.
Joseph Baker
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA·Physics
Operate and maintain the U.S. northern-hemisphere SuperDARN high-frequency radars, which span high latitudes from Alaska to Iceland and middle latitudes from Oregon to Virginia, to map ionospheric plasma motion.
Virginia Harvey
University of Colorado Boulder, CO·Earth & Environmental Science
Determine whether the Sun's crossings of cold galactic clouds compressed the heliosphere and altered Earth's radiation, atmosphere and temperature, using astrophysical, heliospheric and whole-atmosphere simulations.
The school
Arizona State University Campus Immersion: 36 labs on PI Pages, $1.0B a year on research, 625 research doctorates a year.
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