The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $399,826 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research relevant to NASA's Emerging Worlds program. The research will focus on studying melt inclusions and minerals in Apollo lunar samples to characterize the budget of volatiles acquired by the early primordial Moon and use this information to constrain the origin and evolution of the Moon. This grant award does not have a set-aside designation, and the...
This federal contract award, valued at $556,709.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, operating through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The goal of the research is to conduct laboratory experiments that will provide a more quantitative understanding of the relationship between oxygen fugacities and the ratio of oxidized iron (Fe3+) to total iron (FeTOT) in Martian basalts. This contract is not...
This is a $670,174 grant award to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a prominent non-profit land-grant research institution. The grant is from the Shared Services Center, a civilian U.S. government agency, and will fund the university to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The university will participate as a key partner and enabler in the...
This $266,124.87 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to support research on the characteristics of comets and their implications for the formation and evolution of our solar system. The award is part of NASA's broader efforts to enhance understanding of the chemical composition and internal structure of comets, which can provide...
This is a $293,684.92 grant awarded by NASA to Brown University to conduct research on the abundance, role, and gas-melt partitioning behavior of volatile species in lunar magmas. The research aims to improve understanding of the evolution of the lunar surface and crust, which is a key objective of NASA's Solar System Workings (SSW) program for the Moon. The grant will fund three main tasks: (1) experiments to determine how other volatile species partition into early CO-rich vs. late H2O-rich...
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 federal contract award, valued at $479,965.17, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a prominent land-grant research institution. The contract is to conduct a research program aimed at advancing scientific understanding of atmospheric isoprene, its emissions from global hotspots, and the impacts of those emissions on the atmosphere's oxidizing capacity. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $155,321.91 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a non-profit educational institution. The grant supports the study of particles accelerated during solar flares, which is relevant to understanding the dynamics of solar magnetic fields. This research grant is not set aside for any specific business type. The Regents of the University of...
This is a $541,919 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, for research on the role of wave cross-scale coupling in particle dynamics in the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind. The award has a period of performance through January 31, 2026. The University of Minnesota is a major public research institution that conducts a wide range of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $900,245.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant, which has no set-aside designation, is intended to effectively enable the NASA-funded science community's use of transformational data sets. As a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college, the Regents of the University of Minnesota has extensive experience conducting...