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South Engineers Win ‘Living With a Star’ Grant from NASA

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Lance Crawford
Lance Crawford

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Dr. Mohamed Shaban, left and Dr. Edmund Spencer have received a $635,000 'Living With A Star' grant from NASA.The grant is for a project combining physics modeling and artificial intelligence for better detection and understanding of substorms, which are geomagnetic events in the earth's protective magnetosphere.

The University of South Alabama has been awarded a NASA ‘Living With a Star’ grant worth $635,000 over four years. The ‘Living With A Star’ program targets specific aspects of the Sun-Earth system that affect life and society. 

The grant is for a project combining physics modeling and artificial intelligence for better detection and understanding of substorms, which are geomagnetic events in the earth's protective magnetosphere. Often referred to as space weather, substorms are brief solar events that can interfere with satellite electronics, GPS signals and even electrical power grids.

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