{"id":10981,"date":"2021-02-22T20:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2021-02-22T20:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:14:50","slug":"mark-engebretson-nsf-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2021\/02\/22\/mark-engebretson-nsf-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Emeritus Mark Engebretson receives 30th NSF grant, continues space weather study"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10983\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Mark-Engebretson_Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Head shot of Mark Engebretson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Mark-Engebretson_Headshot.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Mark-Engebretson_Headshot-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Emeritus <strong>Mark Engebretson<\/strong><em> (Photo by Stephen Geffre)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/engebret\/\"><b>Mark Engebretson<\/b><\/a>, Augsburg University professor emeritus of physics, received a five-year grant totaling $805,744 from the National Science Foundation (Award Number 2013648).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2020\/10\/07\/dr-mark-engebretson-receives-30th-grant-from-national-science-foundation-to-study-space-weather\/\">This grant<\/a> supports the continued operation and data analysis of the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies, which is used to study near-Earth space weather, such as solar winds that may disrupt communication and navigation systems. It represents the 30th research study on which Engebretson has served as the principal investigator through NSF funding.<\/p>\n<p>Engebretson has led several research projects\u2014including some with Augsburg student-researchers\u2014studying ionospheric and space physics in collaboration with European and NASA satellite programs. Nearly 100 Augsburg students have gained paid research experience working on these research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Engebretson has authored or coauthored more than 300 scholarly research articles on topics related to space weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/grants\/news\/\"><em>View more grants news.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Engebretson, Augsburg University professor emeritus of physics, received a five-year grant totaling $805,744 from the National Science Foundation (Award Number 2013648). This grant supports the continued operation and data analysis of the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies, which is used to study near-Earth space weather, such as solar winds that may disrupt <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":10982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102,112,122,105],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-faculty","tag-grants","tag-the-sciences","tag-winter-2020-21"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11350,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions\/11350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}