Delivery Order 47QSWA18D003A-15B30225F00000076

This document describes revisions to the scope and budget for a NASA research grant awarded to Northeastern University. The $352,748.60 grant, with an ultimate completion date of January 25, 2021, was originally proposed under project number 15-SWOT15-0034 and has been selected for funding. The key changes from the original proposal include: (1) fewer and U.S.-only study basins, (2) reduced efforts for developing new reservoir dynamics, and (3) increased focus on flood hazard/risk application in...

This federal contract award, with identification number 80NSSC23K1551, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) at the University at Albany. The $150,000.00 grant is for a research project titled "MEASURING VENTILATION IN TROPICAL CYCLONES USING NASA OBSERVATIONS" with a completion date of August 31, 2026. The contract has no set-aside designation. RF-SUNY, a non-profit educational...

This is a $78,541.41 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY), operating as RF-SUNY at the University at Albany. The grant, with an ultimate completion date of November 24, 2022, will develop a new forward model for microwave emissions from the lunar surface based on dense media radiative transfer theory. This will enable the simultaneous estimation of several thermal and...

This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AD72G, is a grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Resources for the Future Inc., a non-profit research organization. The award, valued at $158,988.00, supports additional research to characterize the socioeconomic benefits of drought and flood forecasts developed under a primary project. The research team has a working relationship with the primary project investigators, facilitating data and analysis...

This is a $466,621.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) at the University at Albany for scientific research. The contract is focused on studying the influence of aerosol particle concentrations from anthropogenic emissions on climate change, specifically the first indirect radiative forcing (FIRF) effect. The research aims to employ data from the CloudSat and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $482,189 grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop multi-decadal time series of elevation and mass balance changes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The research will utilize the Surface Elevation Reconstruction and Change (SERAC) detection approach to analyze historical laser altimetry data, IceBridge airborne laser altimetry observations, and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry...

This is a federal grant award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY), which serves as the fiscal administrator for external funding at the City University of New York (CUNY). The $362,904.09 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), funds the development of a multi-sensor calibration algorithm to improve the retrieval of land surface microwave emissivity. The goal is to create a well-calibrated, multi-year, multi-satellite product...

This federal contract award from the Shared Services Center of a civilian government agency is a grant for $84,067 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Hunter College, a non-profit educational institution. The award is for the Rotating Opportunistic Science for the International Space Station (ROSES) funding opportunity, which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate in the agency's exploration initiative, and advance discovery in emerging...

This is a funding award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Delaware, the prime contractor, to support the Delaware Space Grant College (DESGC) program. The DESGC program aims to increase STEM capacity and engagement at institutions in Delaware, provide scholarships and fellowships for Delaware students in STEM fields, raise awareness of NASA internship opportunities, and enhance STEM education for underrepresented minorities. The award ceiling is...

This is a delivery order contract awarded by the U.S. government to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY), a private non-profit organization that supports CUNY faculty and staff in obtaining external funding. The contract, originally awarded in February 2009, had a ceiling value of $218,835.21 and is for the deobligation of remaining funds on Task Order 2. The contract did not have a set-aside designation. RFCUNY has previously received federal contract and grant...