This is a $313,287 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (doing business as Colorado School of Mines) for the continued development of NuSpaceSim, a modeling tool for simulating extensive air shower signals from cosmic neutrinos for space-based experiments. The grant is for research and development work and does not have a set-aside designation. The Colorado School of Mines is a prominent federal contractor and...
The University of Utah has been awarded a $131,380 federal grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos. This package will model neutrino interactions, air shower signals, and atmospheric effects to support NASA's current and future experimental efforts in cosmic neutrino detection, including ANITA, EVA, EUSO-SPB2, and the POEMMA Astrophysics Probe. The goal is to provide a tool for the research...
This is a $1,820,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Colorado School of Mines to design, build, deploy, and publish scientific results for the second generation of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO-SPB2) to be flown aboard a super-pressure balloon. The EUSO-SPB2 instrument will monitor the night sky of the Southern Hemisphere to study cosmic rays of very high to ultra-high energies and pioneer the search for cosmogenic tau neutrinos...
This $236,965 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos detected by NASA's sub-orbital and space-based experiments. The goal is to provide a standard tool to assess the neutrino measurement capabilities of these missions, which include ANITA, EVA, EUSO-SPB2, and the POEMMA astrophysics probe. The simulation will model neutrino interactions, tau lepton...
This is a $157,611 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as the Colorado School of Mines. The grant's objective is to produce observationally constrained models of all stages of the life cycle of snow over ice sheets in order to improve understanding of Earth's atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions. The grant has a performance period from September 14, 2020 to September 13, 2025 and does not...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center goes to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos from sub-orbital and space-based observations. The $323,519.18 grant will fund the modeling of neutrino interactions, air shower formation, and signal generation across optical, Cherenkov, and radio frequencies. This work aims to provide a standard...
This is a $604,359.00 grant awarded by NASA to the Colorado School of Mines to quantify bias and uncertainty sources between laser and radar retrievals of surface topography over cryospheric targets. The grant has a period of performance through June 14, 2026. The Colorado School of Mines is a public research university known for its expertise in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The university frequently collaborates with prime contractors and other...
This $176,685 grant award to the University of Colorado by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for a research project titled "ASSESSING THE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES OF THERMOSPHERIC NEUTRAL DENSITY MODELS USING PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION METHODS". The award, which has a period of performance ending on November 30, 2025, is a grant for fundamental research in the field of space physics. No set-aside designation was used for this...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $499,624 grant to the University of Chicago to support high energy neutrino astrophysics research. The grant will be used to develop an interferometric phased array trigger system for balloon-borne and ground-based experiments to detect ultra-high energy cosmogenic neutrinos and cosmic rays. This research aims to explore the structure and evolution of the universe, as well as the physics inside astrophysical sources that...
This is a $334,928 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Colorado School of Mines, a public research university in Golden, Colorado. The grant is for research related to the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission, as well as aerogeophysical and ground-based surveys of the Antarctic ice sheet. The research is focused on understanding the complex and dynamic hydrological systems underlying the fast-flowing portions of the Antarctic...
This $268,932 federal grant was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to develop a comprehensive simulation package for measuring cosmic neutrinos from sub-orbital and space-based observations. The goal is to provide an efficient model to gauge the neutrino measurement performance of experiments like ANITA, EVA, EUSO-SPB2, and the POEMMA astrophysics probe. The simulation will cover neutrino interactions, tau lepton propagation, air shower formation, and signal generation and propagation. It will also assess potential backgrounds from ultra-high energy cosmic ray air showers. This work supports NASA's efforts to detect the elusive cosmogenic neutrino flux, which would provide critical insights into cosmic ray acceleration and source evolution. The Colorado School of Mines has significant expertise in areas like materials science, geosciences, and energy research, and frequently collaborates with federal agencies on advanced R&D projects.