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This $910,550 federal grant award to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography will fund a research project titled "NESTED REGIONAL MULTISCALE 4DVAR OCEAN STATE ESTIMATION FOR SWOT FROM GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE TO KM SCALE VARIABILITY IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM". The work will be conducted by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography division of UCSD, a leading center for ocean and earth science research. This award is not associated with any...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,998.74 grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support research using data from the K2 mission. The grant will fund the observation and study of young star clusters and star-forming regions, including revisiting the nearby Praesepe cluster. This research will enable the discovery of young planets and eclipsing binaries, advancing the understanding of planetary and stellar evolution in the critical first...

This federal grant award to the California Maritime Academy, part of the California State University System, provides $26,035.13 to conduct research on measuring the reflectance of whitecaps in ocean color imagery. The objective is to improve the modeling of whitecap contribution to ocean color data, which is necessary for accurately processing and interpreting this imagery. The research will establish a robust dataset of hyperspectral reflectance measurements of breaking waves under varying...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $389,241 grant to Farallon Institute of Petaluma, California. Under the grant, $133,858 will fund salaries, travel, and publications for Farallon Institute team members over a two-year period ending July 31, 2024. Saildrone Inc. was issued a $200,000 subcontract to support the work. The grant aims to advance NASA's earth science programs through collection and analysis of oceanographic data using uncrewed surface vehicles. No...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa has been awarded a $604,508 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to analyze Kepler/K2 mission data and increase the sample of characterized dwarf and subgiant stars with asteroseismic data. The University will homogenize analysis of recently reprocessed short-cadence data from the original Kepler mission to identify additional stars showing oscillations. Spectroscopy and adaptive optics imaging will be used to determine fundamental...

This $639,996.00 grant award to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas, will leverage data from NASA's Kepler, K2, and TESS missions as well as observations from the Keck/KPF and WIYN/NEID spectrographs to measure the masses and sizes of over 40 sub-Neptune sized exoplanets. The research program aims to empirically test the "water world" hypothesis and maximize the scientific return of past and ongoing exoplanet...

This is a $79,213.00 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the Alutiiq Fusion Joint Venture, a partnership registered as an Alaskan Native Corporation Owned Firm, Tribally Owned Firm, Minority Owned Business, For Profit Organization, and Native American Owned business. The contractor shall produce a documentary-style video for the Airspace Technology Demonstrations. This award is not associated with a larger...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $361,063 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to support research on air-sea interaction at the ocean submesoscale level. The research will analyze new high-resolution observational data from NASA's Earth Venture Suborbital-3 Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment to improve understanding of physical mechanisms driving air-sea coupling at horizontal scales of 0.1-10 km. Additionally, the University will evaluate...

This is a $1,016,880.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa for a research project titled "Multi-Scale Interactions in Ocean Satellite and in situ Observations and Model Outputs: Response of". The primary objectives are to study the interactions between small and large spatial scales in ocean circulation, as well as the variability of major ocean currents like the Kuroshio Extension and Gulf Stream. UH will...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. The grant, valued at $749,695.87, is for a research project to examine the role of cross-scale wave coupling processes within Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) vortices in the magnetopause boundary layer. The research aims to understand plasma heating and transport across fluid, ion, and electron scales in the Earth's magnetotail plasma sheet. The project...