Edward Oughton, Assistant Professor, Geography and Geoinformation Science, College of Science, received funding for the project: “RAPID: Collecting Perishable Critical Infrastructure Operational Data for May 2024 Space Weather Events.”
Oughton will use this funding to gather perishable operational decision data from critical infrastructure operators. He is taking this step to allow future generations of scientists and engineers to better understand how to model space weather hazards.
Oughton received $84,999 from the National Science Foundation for this project. Funding began in Aug. 2024 and will end in late July 2025.
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