Grant For Research 80NSSC19K0933
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- This is a $565,000 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports a study on the isotopic composition of refractory lithophile elements in the earliest solar system materials, including refractory inclusions and chondrites. The goal is to better understand the nebular processes that controlled the chemical fractionation and mixing of elements during the formation of the solar system and the subsequent...
- This contract is a $127,926 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Chicago, a private university and non-profit organization. The grant supports research to study the isotopic evolution of presolar silicates and "glass with embedded metal and sulfides" (GEMS) to understand their origins, histories, and relationships. This research directly addresses NASA's Planetary Science Division goals to explore...
- This is a $909,647.43 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago, a private non-profit university. The grant supports research goals to study the chronology of cometary and asteroidal dust, nucleosynthetic isotopic anomalies in cometary and interstellar dust, and elemental abundances and acceleration mechanisms of the solar wind. Key measurements will be conducted using the CHILI resonance ionization mass spectrometer on samples...
- This is a $279,633.25 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago for continuing Phase 2 development and testing of synchrotron micro-X-ray absorption fine structure (micro-XAFS) and micro-X-ray diffraction (micro-XRD) techniques. These techniques are aimed at studying picogram extraterrestrial samples, typical of current and future sample return missions. The award has a completion date of July 25, 2023 and does not have a set-aside...
- This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Chicago, a private non-profit academic and research institution, for a project titled "The Oxidation State and Mineralogy of Extraterrestrial Materials". The $643,000 grant will support the use of synchrotron-based X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and high-speed X-ray microdiffraction (micro-XRD) techniques to analyze the chemical state and mineralogy of...
- This is a $85,786.09 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago. The grant is part of NASA's Solar System Workings program and will fund a study using non-destructive electron and X-ray microbeam techniques to analyze lunar rock samples. The goal is to determine the valence and coordination of titanium, vanadium, and chromium in the lunar rocks, which will provide insights into the redox conditions of the lunar mantle and crust during...
- This is a $1,240,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Chicago, a leading research university, to conduct scientific research on the early solar system and its precursors. The research aims to better understand the nature and timing of mixing and nebular processing in the early solar system, the sources of dust in the solar nebula, stellar nucleosynthesis, and the chronology of the first few million years of...
- This federal contract award, valued at $749,931.32, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago to conduct research on kinetic isotopic fractionation of solar system materials. The research aims to provide laboratory calibration experiments under controlled conditions to quantify isotopic and chemical fractionation effects observed in early solar system materials, such as calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) and olivine crystals from...
- This is a $268,102.03 grant awarded to the University of Chicago by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the origin of the volatile envelopes of small-radius exoplanets. The purpose is to improve understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern exoplanet surfaces, interiors, and atmospheres, as well as the origins of their volatiles. The research will combine models of planet thermal evolution and outgassing to explore two scenarios for how water...
- This is a $699,981.10 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency of the U.S. government) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a three-year research project to measure the isotopic compositions of select light elements in solar wind samples returned by the Genesis Discovery Mission and from regolith particles of the Itokawa asteroid. The overarching goal is to derive accurate, mass-fractionation corrected, photospheric isotopic abundances of boron, carbon,...
This is a $437,906.24 grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago. The grant is for the development of a laser-based, low-blank, stepwise heating gas extraction system to analyze noble gas isotopes in planetary samples returned from space missions like OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa-2. The goal is to improve the ability to detect indigenous noble gas components in the samples and quantify the concentration and isotopic gradients near the grain surfaces to assess the effects of space erosion and ion implantation. This work is relevant to the Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples (LARS) program, which aims to maximize the science derived from planetary sample-return missions. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00007 | Funding Only Action | ($17k) | 4/16/25 | |
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| P00006 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 4/22/24 | |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/1/23 |