Past National NASA EPSCoR Research Groups in Montana

NASA EPSCoR Research Group grants are awarded nationally each year. For the past several years, Montana groups have been successful in winning a number of these large awards. Pre-Proposals are submitted to the Montana NASA EPSCoR office each fall and two groups are selected to submit full proposals for the national competition.

2017 - 2021

• Exploring Extreme Gravity: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

2014 - 2018

• Nanostructured Polarization Optics for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

2013 - 2017

• Minerva: A Dedicated Observatory for Exoplanet Science

2011 - 2015

• Enhancement of NASA's Polar Missions: Adjoint Data Assimilation into Numerical Models to Reveal Physical Properties of the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Large-scale Content-based Image Retrieval System (CBIR) for Interactive Search through Virtual Solar Observatory

2010 - 2014

• Development and Testing of a Radiation Tolerant Flight Computer with Real-Time Fault Detection, Recovery, and Repair

2009 - 2014

• Regenerative SOGC Development for Aerospace Technology Platforms

2008 - 2013

• Development of a Novel High Spectral Resolution Lidar for Studies of the Effects of Aerosols on Earth's Climate

2007 - 2011

• Biomolecular Substrates for Extraterrestrial Life: Revealing Secrets of Extremophiles