A project led by scientists from the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS focused on researching climate changes and effects of extreme geophysical disturbances in Earth's upper atmosphere has secured a grant from the Russian Science Foundation. A total of 4,491 applications were submitted to the competition titled “Conducting Fundamental and Exploratory Scientific Research by Individual Scientific Groups.” After expert assessment, 534 projects were supported, including the one from Irkutsk-based team comprising ten researchers, five of whom are under 39 years old. The project leader is Academician Gely Zherebtsov, an internationally recognized specialist in atmospheric and ionospheric research, lithosphere–atmosphere–ionosphere interactions, solar-terrestrial couplings, and space weather. The study will be conducted over a period of three years.