Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as Carnegie Institution for Science, has been awarded a $521,855 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct an experimental study of planetary differentiation and core composition. As the prime grantee, Carnegie Institution for Science will leverage its expertise in Earth and planetary science to advance NASA's goals of furthering scientific understanding of planetary formation and...
This federal contract award to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as Carnegie Institution for Science, a renowned non-profit research organization, supports fundamental scientific research on early solar system materials. The $318,241.16 grant from NASA's Shared Services Center aims to investigate the formation and evolution of chondrite matrices and chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles, which contain clues about processes in the early solar system. The research...
This is a $172,613 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a renowned non-profit research organization. The grant, titled "INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF PARENT BODY AQUEOUS ALTERATION ON THE STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF METEORITIC SOLUBLE ORGANIC MATTER," will fund research to study the impact of aqueous alteration on the stable isotopic...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit research organization. The grant, valued at $359,486.77, is for a research project titled "PRESOLAR STARDUST IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM". The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion on July 31, 2022. As a prime grantee, the Carnegie Institution for...
This is a $524,030 grant award from the NASA Shared Services Center to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a non-profit research organization. The grant is for a project titled "Quantifying Climate Sensitivities of Photosynthesis and Respiration in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems from Top-Down Observational Constraints." The award does not have a set-aside designation and the performance period runs through September 30, 2025. As...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $541,000 grant to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit research organization. The grant supports research to examine chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) in primitive meteorites to determine if they preserve evidence of volatile incorporation from the solar nebula and record open-system behavior during parent body alteration. The...
This federal contract award from NASA's Shared Services Center, with a total ceiling value of $539,399.36, was granted to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a renowned non-profit research organization. The award supports a project titled "Developing Insights into Debris Disk Composition from Dust Scattering," which aims to enable better interpretation of visible to near-infrared spectrophotometric imaging of debris disks...
This is a grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a renowned non-profit research organization. The $749,640.00 grant supports research to address two key questions: (i) how does life evolve under high-pressure and energy-limited conditions, and (ii) what is the role of virus-host interactions. This research aligns with NASA's...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit research organization. The grant, valued at $500,000.00, is for a research project titled "Compositions, Physical Properties, and Mobility of Liquids at High Pressure: Implications for Differentiation and Core Properties of Planetary Bodies." The research aims to simulate the early...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC25K7142, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a renowned non-profit research organization. The $30,000.00 grant is for a "WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION, SELECTION, AND EVOLUTION (WISE)" and has an ultimate completion date of October 7, 2025. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The Carnegie Institution for...