Delivery Order DASW0103D0002-0002

This is a $5,292,844.19 federal grant award to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) Inc., a U.S. not-for-profit research and educational institution focused on oceanography and marine science research. The grant is part of the CORAL: CORAL REEF AIRBORNE LABORATORY program, which is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The principal investigator, Eric J. Hochberg, has overall responsibility for the 3-year scientific investigation, including leading...

This is a $531,193 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct research on amino acid experiments at hydrothermal conditions. The principal investigator, Dr. Robinson, is an expert in hydrothermal organic chemistry and will lead the experiments with support from co-investigators Dr. Shock and Dr. Hartnett, who have expertise in aqueous thermodynamics and experimental design/analysis. The research will focus on...

This is a $286,032.03 grant awarded to Purdue University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on planetary basin formation. The principal investigator, Brandon Johnson, will oversee the project, which involves using hydrocode models and analyzing gravity and topography data to study the crustal structure of planetary basins. A graduate student researcher will perform much of the day-to-day modeling and lead manuscript preparation. The research will also...

This is an international research proposal consisting of two synergistic projects to be carried out by the German Aerospace Center (DLR)/European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The contract, awarded as a $2,472,133.00 grant to the University of Pennsylvania, aims to study the effects of prolonged space missions on astronaut cognitive performance, brain structure and function, and risk of psychiatric disorders. The research will utilize state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques to determine the...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $433,954.61 grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to support the operations and data analysis for the 3D Plasma and Energetic Particle Investigation (3DP) instrument on the WIND spacecraft. The 3DP instrument, led by Professor Stuart D. Bale, the Principal Investigator, consists of electrostatic analyzers and semiconductor telescopes to measure 3D electron and proton energy distributions. This grant, which...

The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $338,866 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center on March 1, 2021, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2026. This non-set-aside grant supports research titled "Connecting In-Situ and Global Responses in the Heliosheath and Very Local Interstellar Medium" (20-ECIP20_2-0023), which builds on seven years of scientific measurements conducted by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in the previously unexplored very local...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $5.05 million civilian research grant effective September 27, 2018, with a completion date of December 31, 2024, to support the Auroral Emission Radio Observer (AERO) mission under the direction of Principal Investigator Phil Erickson at MIT Haystack Observatory. AERO is a one-year CubeSat mission in polar orbit designed to advance understanding of Earth's auroral phenomena and space physics processes through observations of auroral radio...

This is a $961,826 grant award from NASA to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to purchase a Polarimetric Airborne Microwave Radiometer (PAMR) instrument. The University of Miami is responsible for the data retrieval development and subsequent scientific analysis. The grant includes funding for a postdoctoral research associate and salary support for a principal investigator. The effort involves collaboration with a NASA Langley Research Center...

This federal contract award to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization, supports the development of a novel type of particle detector capable of measuring a wide range of space plasmas, from a few kiloelectron volts (keV) up to a few megaelectron volts per nucleon (MeV/nuc). The $433,543.23 grant aims to establish methods for using Avalanche Photodiode (APD) detectors to measure suprathermal and energetic ions, which is crucial for understanding particle...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division, valued at $142,509.73. The goal of the grant is to define objectives, desired capabilities, and observing system approaches for the Aerosol and Cloud, Convection and Precipitation (A-CCP) designated observable (DO) observing systems. The Principal Investigator is the co-chair of the Science Community Cohort (SCC), which provides...