University of Alberta

$240,000.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year

Department: Canadian Space Agency
Program: Class Grant and Contribution Program to Support Research, Awareness and Learning in Space Science and Technology
Recipient country: Canada
Fiscal year: 2016-2017
Agreement period: March 30, 2017 – —
Reference: csa-asc:003-2016-2017-Q4-03342

Published purpose

The project is entitled 'Can EMIC waves solve the mystery of extremely fast ultra-relativistic electron loss in the outer Van Allen radiation belt?'. The Van Allen radiation belts are regions of radiation surrounding the Earth that are dangerous to both humans and technology. The project team will use magnetic and electric field data from Canada's ePOP satellite and Europe's Swarm satellites to investigate the role that ultra low frequency waves (known as EMIC waves) play in draining dangerous electrons from the radiation belts.

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