This federal contract award is a $213,196 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Aerodyne Research Inc. (ARI), a for-profit manufacturer and R&D services provider. The grant funds a collaborative project between ARI and researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder to conduct measurements of ambient aerosol particles using ARI's aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS) instruments. The project aims to improve the calibration of...
This is a grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado in the amount of $752,955.23 to conduct research using an Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ field campaign. The research aims to improve understanding of the sources and chemical evolution of organic aerosols (OA) over the Korean Peninsula, which is critical for improving satellite aerosol retrievals and regional air quality models. The University will use the AMS to...
This is a $350,135.38 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Denver to collaboratively update the aerosol observing capability of high-altitude NASA aircraft. The award will fund the building, calibration, and flight-testing of a new Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Aerosol Measurement Package (UTLS-AMP). This package includes several updated instruments, such as the Nucleation-Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer (NMASS),...
This is a $690,489.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project focused on characterizing the volatility of organic aerosols (OA) in the atmosphere. The project aims to leverage data from multiple NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) airborne measurement campaigns to develop improved parameterizations of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $395,440.51 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning. The grant supports research to study the relationship between wave-particle interactions and magnetic reconnection, a key process investigated by NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The research aims to...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, in the amount of $839,559.91. The grant funds research to characterize primary organic aerosol (OA) and inorganic emissions from agricultural and wild fires, and study the evolution of OA and inorganic aerosols downwind of these fires, including secondary OA formation and...
This is a $718,755.59 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government research institution, for a 3-year research project under NASA's FIRECHEM solicitation. The project aims to acquire high-quality, fast, sensitive measurements of key atmospheric gases like formaldehyde, methanol, ethylene, and ethane that are important for understanding the impacts of wildfires on regional emissions and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research investigating the processes that couple atmospheric layers in order to improve understanding of daily variability in Earth's upper atmosphere. This research grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on September 1, 2019 with a completion...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, received a $614,573.66 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the importance of including low-frequency hiss, exohiss, and plasmapause-organized hiss in predictive modeling of electron dynamics in the inner magnetosphere. The research aims to quantify the impact of these "missing" aspects of hiss physics...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $259,283 grant to the University of Colorado (CU) for a single-source investigation of turbulent magnetic reconnection using observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission during the 2023 Unbiased Magnetosheath Campaign. This grant, awarded on November 1, 2023, has a performance period ending on October 31, 2025. The University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, will use...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $444,160.19 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research on Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometers (AMS). The objective is to better constrain the uncertainties in AMS quantification, particularly for NASA aircraft measurement campaigns. The research tasks include investigating AMS quantification using existing NASA datasets, examining ammonium salt detection with soft-ionization, measuring the relative ionization efficiency and collection efficiency for ambient organic aerosols, and evaluating the recently-developed Capture Vaporizer. The results will be integrated to improve AMS quantification protocols and increase confidence in AMS data for NASA missions. This grant award is not associated with a set-aside designation.