Delivery Order W911SG07D0009-0009

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 a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Clark University, a private non-profit educational institution. The $148,488.15 grant is for the NASA New Investigator Program and supports research to identify patterns of cropland change, trends in agricultural productivity, and the relationship between crop productivity, land cover, and climate variability in Zambia. The original objectives were to develop advanced mapping and...

The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded contract 22-ADAP22-0019 on June 1, 2024, to conduct research on supernova progenitor and explosion properties of galactic supernova remnants. This is a research grant with a ceiling value of $517,032 and an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2027. The work will be performed at Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration in Princeton, New Jersey. The award carries no set-aside designation and is funded through a civilian...

This research grant, awarded on January 1, 2018, by a civilian federal agency to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, provides $1.14 million in funding through February 28, 2025, to develop life detection protocols optimized for high-pressure environments. The project, titled "DEEP," aims to advance NASA's search for extraterrestrial life in the subsurface oceans of Europa, Enceladus, and Titan by studying pressure-adapted microorganisms (piezophiles) at Earth's deepest hydrothermal vents...

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...

Columbia University's Sponsored Projects Administration Division received a $727,899.29 research grant from the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) for its role as a co-investigator institution in the FIREBALL-2 (Faint Intergalactic-Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon) collaborative research program. Under the direction of principal investigator Christopher Martin at Caltech, the lead institution, Columbia University will contribute to the discovery and mapping of faint emission...

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...