[aerohead]

That can easily be true, as it's a real luxury to have free time enough to look beyond aerodynamics to see what the mice have been doing while the cat was away.
NASA isn't looking at Geomagnetics, in the sense of 'disasters.' They're always my first stop.
At home I have a list of dozens of other research organizations, worldwide, that look at the heavens and Earth. They publish. They collaborate. They perform peer-review functions with the scientific journals.
Over time I could look up present research programs at each of those I suppose.
Expensive timewise.