Past Funding


DOE  - Collaborative Research:  Physics of Magnetized Dusty Plasmas (DE - SC0010485)
PIs:  E. Thomas, Jr., U. Konopka (8/15/13 - 8/14/16)
Funding:  $750,000

NSF  - Collaborative Research:  Physics of Magnetized Dusty Plasmas (PHY-1301881)
PIs:  E. Thomas, Jr., U. Konopka (8/15/13 - 8/14/16)
Funding:  $15,000

NSF  - MRI: Development of a Magnetized Dusty Plasma Device (PHY-1126067)
PIs:  E. Thomas, Jr., R. L. Merlino, M. Rosenberg (9/1/11 - 8/31/14)
Funding:  $1,488,000 (NSF) + $638,000 (AU Cost Share) = $2,126,000 (Total)

NASA - PLASMALAB:  Measurements 
PI:  E. Thoms, Jr.(12/31/12 - 3/15/17)
Funding:  $320,000

DTRA - Laboratory Investigation of Radiation Belt Electron Pitch-Angle Scattering by Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves (HDTRA1-10-1-0019 - no-cost extension through 3/14)
PIs:  E. Thomas, Jr., W. E. Amatucci (3/15/10 - 3/14/14)
Funding:  $653,000

DOE-OFES - Multiscale investigation of sheared flows in magnetized plasmas 
(DE-FG02-00ER54476 - in no-cost extension through 10/31/13)
Funding:  $225,000

Pre-2013

Agency
Grant No.
PI
Duration
Title
NASA NNX10AR53G E. Thomas, Jr. 9/1/10 -
12/31/12
PLASMALAB: Measurements
NSF PHY-0810419 E. Thomas, Jr. 9/1/08 -
8/31/12
Effect of ion flows on heating and instabilities in weakly coupled dusty plasmas
NSF PHY-09356470 E. Thomas, Jr. 7/1/09 -
6/30/10
Support for ad hoc workshop on
Magnetized Dusty Plasmas
NSF

PHY-0354938

E. Thomas, Jr.

7/1/04 -
6/30/07

Experimental Studies of Particle Cloud - Plasma
Boundaries and Velocity Space Distribution
Functions in Glow Discharge Dusty Plasmas
DOE-OFES

DE-FG02-00ER54476

E. Thomas, Jr.

11/1/04 -
10/31/07

Asymmetric response of a magnetized plasma
column to applied electric fields
DOE-OFES

DE-FG02-00ER54476

E. Thomas, Jr.

11/1/01 -
10/31/04*

Impact of axial and radial electric field shear on
plasma instabilities in a linear plasma column

NSF

PHY-0244923

E. Thomas, Jr.

5/15/03 -
5/14/04**

Control and application of particle transport in a
dc glow discharge dusty plasma
NSF

PHY-9733554
PHY-0096254

E. Thomas, Jr.

5/1/98 -
4/30/04**

Studies of the physical and thermodynamic
properties of dusty plasmas and
plasma crystals
NSF

PHY-0216421
(MRI Award)

E. Thomas, Jr.

8/1/02 -
7/31/04
MRI: Acquisition of a stereoscopic particle
image velocimetry system and particle
transport diagnostics for dusty
plasmas investigations
NASA/
NSSTC
NASA-NCC8-151-B J. D. Perez,
Y. Lin,
E. Thomas, Jr.

5/1/02 -
4/30/03

Research Studies in Sun-Earth Connection
for NSSTC

NASA

NAG-8-1538

E. Thomas, Jr.

7/13/98 -
7/12/99

A laboratory investigation of collective grain charging in space dusty plasmas 

DOE-OFES

DE-FG02-98ER54476

E. Thomas, Jr.

5/1/98 -
10/31/01
An investigation of the effects of a driven plasma rotation on fluctuations in a magnetized linear plasma source
COSAM Dean's Research
Initiative
E. Thomas, Jr. 11/1/01 -
2/28/02
Laboratory simulation of planetary ring formation
using dusty plasmas


NSF - National Science Foundation
DOE-OFES - Dept. of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NSSTC - National Space Science and Technology Center
COSAM - Auburn University - College of Sciences and Mathematics


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