This is a $480,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the California State University San Marcos Corporation (CSUSM Corp), a non-profit organization and Hispanic Serving Institution. The award will fund the CSUSM NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy, which aims to engage underserved youth in STEM activities related to aerospace. The cooperative agreement has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025. CSUSM Corp...
This is a $119,893 grant awarded by NASA to The University Corporation, a non-profit auxiliary organization affiliated with California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The grant supports research to improve understanding of Cascadia hazards, which aligns with NASA's goals to enhance the capability to assess and respond to natural hazards. The research will quantify the value of emerging remote sensing technologies and explore tradeoffs between onshore and seafloor geodetic observations. This...
This is a $498,626 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) for a research project titled "From Meteors to Mesospheric Clouds with MMX". The grant, which has a performance period ending on June 22, 2032, will support research on meteoric metals in the Martian atmosphere and high-precision aerosol measurements for climate studies. CSUSB, a non-profit...
This is a $71,883.85 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino. The grant, titled "Martian Cloud Watching", is for a research project with a period of performance ending on July 25, 2024. The University Enterprises Corporation is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that functions as a Hispanic Serving Institution, providing research, educational, and...
This $665,864.55 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California State University San Marcos Corporation (CSUSM Corp), a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, to conduct a joint study of ocean color satellite data and the latest generation of Earth System Models (CMIP6). The goals are to: (1) improve the KSM09 algorithm for retrieving size-partitioned phytoplankton carbon concentrations and carbon-based phytoplankton size classes from...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $199,971.41 grant to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) to support research on asteroidal meteorites and their implications for exoplanet atmospheres and early planetary formation. Specifically, the grant will fund the establishment of cosmochemistry and scanning electron microscope laboratories at UCSC to conduct experiments constraining the timing of fluid activity in early planetesimals and the initial abundance of...
This is a $149,498 grant contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to California State University, Stanislaus (CSU Stanislaus), a Hispanic Serving Institution and minority institution, to execute a balanced science program. The contract supports scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond, as well as programs focused on Earth science applications, space weather, planetary defense, and space...
This is a $374,904 grant awarded by NASA to California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), to increase diversity in STEM fields. The grant, titled "INCREASING DIVERSITY IN STEM AT A HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION (HSI) THROUGH SHADOWING NASA PLANETARY SCIENTISTS," will fund a research project to enhance STEM education and outreach at CSUCI. As an HSI, CSUCI has a history of securing federal grants and contracts, including from the Department of...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides $104,391.51 in grant funding to the Cal Poly Corporation, a non-profit organization serving as the auxiliary for California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The grant supports the development of models, feasibility analysis, and a spacecraft system architecture for a mission that would use a directed energy beam to vaporize and analyze the molecular composition of distant solar...
This is a $365,954 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) for research on "Nanoscale Analysis of Processing Signatures in Returned Asteroid, Comet and Interstellar Samples." The grant, with a period of performance ending on December 29, 2025, is part of NASA's research program to study samples from asteroids, comets, and interstellar sources. ASU, a comprehensive public research university, has a long history of...