Planetary Science Institute

2024–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Conference: Conference support for the 2nd RAID Science Planning Workshop

John Goodge · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$49.2kCryospheric studies and observations

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

GEM: Understanding the Causes of Geomagnetic Disturbances in Geospace for Hazard Analysis on Equivalent Ionospheric and Telluric Currents in North America and Greenland

James Weygand · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$419.4k

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Subduction Megathrust Rheology: The Combined Roles of On- and Off-Fault Processes in Controlling Fault Slip Behavior

Rob Skarbek · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$169kearthquake and tectonic studies

2023–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

Collaborative Research: Building and Applying a Universal Plagioclase Oxybarometer using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Melinda Dyar · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$506.9k

2023–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

CAREER: Next Generation Models of Planet Formation and Evolution

Nathan Kaib · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$157.6k

2023 · grant · Humboldt Research Award

Humboldt Research Award (March 2023)

Natalia Artemieva · Planetary Science Institute · funded by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

2023–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Evolution and fate of wind-derived internal wave energy

Jonathan Lilly · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$242.7k

2023–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Using Photospheric Imprints of Coronal Currents to Understand Coronal Magnetic Structure

Stuart Gilchrist · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$55kSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics

2022–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

Collaborative Research: Scaffolding middle and high school students’ scientific evaluations of sources and alternative claims in Earth and environmental sciences

Sanlyn Buxner · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$134kScience Education and Pedagogy

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Unraveling the mysteries of small-body ring systems through numerical modeling

Amanda Sickafoose · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$465.2k

2022–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

Phase VI: Development of the Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA

Jonathan Aurnou · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$828.4k

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

The Influence of Fault Geometry on Shallow Frictional Sliding in Subduction Zones

Rob Skarbek · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$139.7kearthquake and tectonic studies

2022–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: A Coordinate-Free Framework for Improving Eddy Parameterizations

Jonathan Lilly · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$334.8k

2021–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Toward a Realistic Model of the Formation of Terrestrial Planets and Water Delivery

Nader Haghighipour · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$301.2k

2021–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Global eddy-driven transport estimated from in situ Lagrangian observations

Jonathan Lilly · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$669.1k

2021–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Mass transport in Jupiter's magnetosphere -- driven by internal or external processes?

Jeffrey Morgenthaler · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$279.5k

2020 · grant · Science

New Tools for Advancing Model Systems in Aquatic Symbiosis

Planetary Science Institute · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$750k

2020 · grant · Science

New Tools for Advancing Model Systems in Aquatic Symbiosis

Planetary Science Institute · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$300.3k

2020 · grant · Science

Optical Fiber Seismic Networks

Planetary Science Institute · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$3.8M

2019–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

A Systematic Large-Scale Survey of the Overlooked Population of Small Objects Between the Orbits of the Outer Planets.

Eva Lilly · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$405.3kAstro and Planetary Science

2019–2023 · grant · Continuing Grant

Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres and Climate Extremes: From Earth to Titan

Jonathan Mitchell · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$683.6k

2019–2026 · grant · Continuing Grant

CAREER: Investigating earthquake nucleation and rupture dynamics while reducing the hazard vulnerability of the immigrant community

Lingsen Meng · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$589.8kearthquake and tectonic studies

2019–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

Mapping Water in the Outer Asteroid Belt

Sarah Sonnett · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$431.7kAstro and Planetary Science

2019 · grant · Standard Grant

RAPID: Microbial cycling of Iron and Sulfur in Spring Creek Reservoir, Iron Mountain Mine

Dawn Sumner · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$73.3kMine drainage and remediation techniques

2018–2022 · grant · Continuing Grant

A New Adjoint-state Full Waveform Tsunami Source Imaging Method

Lingsen Meng · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$378.8k

2018–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Formation, Stability, and Detection of Amorphous Ferric Sulfate Salts on Mars

Elizabeth Sklute · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$366kPlanetary Science and Exploration

2016 · grant · Standard Grant

EAGER: Exploring the potential for the 1.1 Ga Copper Harbor Conglomerate to yield information on terrestrial environments during the rise of the eukaryotes

Aradhna Tripati · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$50k

2016 · grant · Science

Effective Early Warning Decisions in an Earthquake Crisis

Planetary Science Institute · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1M

2016–2019 · grant · Standard Grant

An Innovative Modeling Approach for Understanding Venus' Cloud-layer Dynamics, Polar Vortices, and the Influence of Waves

Helen Parish · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$337.8k

2016–2019 · grant · Continuing Grant

Phase IV: Continued Development of the Core Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at UCLA

Jonathan Aurnou · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$698k

2016–2023 · grant · Continuing Grant

Studying Jupiter's magnetospheric response to Io's volcanic activity

Jeffrey Morgenthaler · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$496.6k

2016 · grant · Science

Enhancing earthquake early warning using next-generation smartphone seismic networks to detect and study earthquake processes

Planetary Science Institute · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1M

2016–2018 · grant · Standard Grant

Improving Back-Projection Imaging with a Novel Physics-Based Aftershock Calibration Approach

Lingsen Meng · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$180kearthquake and tectonic studies

2015–2020 · grant · Standard Grant

Theoretical study of 238Uranium/235Uranium fractionation in nature

Edwin Schauble · Planetary Science Institute · funded by National Science Foundation

$250k