This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division, doing business as Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $135,000.00 grant is for a research project to investigate the sensitivity of tidal coherence to various forces in order to improve the predictability of the non-stationary component. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2022. Scripps Institution of Oceanography is a non-profit, land-grant educational institution that has received numerous federal grants and contracts from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to conduct oceanographic research, operate research vessels, and provide data analysis services.