Grant For Research 80NSSC24K1627
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- This federal award is a $435,251 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts college located in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The grant was awarded on April 10, 2019 for research to explore the atmospheric dynamics and thermal structure of Pluto. The research will aim to reconcile discrepancies between recent observations from the New Horizons spacecraft and decades of previous stellar occultation data, in order to better...
- This federal award to Wellesley College is a $305,719.40 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research related to measuring and modeling vacuum ultraviolet and UV molecular photoabsorption cross sections. The research focuses on isotopologues of CO2, O2, and CO, as well as N2, to support efforts to interpret, model, and understand observations of planetary atmospheres, particularly the Martian atmosphere. This work responds to the specific data needs of ongoing...
- This federal contract award is a purchase order from the U.S. government to Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts college, for $15,674.00 to cover tuition for CSPILAURA VAN DER POL in the fall of 2005. The award had an ultimate completion date of August 27, 2005 and was not set aside for any specific designation. Wellesley College is a federal contractor and grantee that provides research, technical assistance, and educational services across various scientific and technological...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $370,608 grant to Wellesley College for archiving and developing tools to analyze radio science occultation data collected at Saturn and Uranus. The three-year contract, running from December 1, 2022 through November 30, 2025, will support Wellesley College's work in archiving radio science data gathered during planetary ring occultations and developing related data analysis tools. No subcontractors were...
- This federal contract award, NNX15AM40G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts college, to conduct research on the modification sequence of impact craters on the Martian surface. The $150,727 grant supports Wellesley's efforts to leverage high-resolution stereo imagery and topographic data to precisely measure the evolution of impact crater shapes resulting from processes like aeolian erosion, burial, and volcanic...
- This is a $88,153.78 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Amherst College, a private non-profit educational institution, for a research project titled "Integrating Surface and Subsurface Observations to Understand Glacier Sliding in West Antarctica." The grant is for fundamental research focused on studying glacier dynamics, internal geometry, and basal conditions of ice sheets and glaciers using advanced techniques like...
- This federal contract award, with identification number 80NSSC21K0753, was granted to Amherst College, Trustees Of, doing business as Amherst College, a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The contract, valued at $486,490.00, is a grant for research and was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. The contract supports research on the use of ice-penetrating radar to explore the internal...
- This is a $1,619,471.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a private non-profit research organization, for a project titled "ADVANCING REMOTE SENSING INSIGHT INTO COASTAL SEA ICE ECOSYSTEMS". The grant, which has no set-aside designation, supports WHOI's research on using remote sensing techniques to study coastal sea ice ecosystems. The project has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025....
- This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Dartmouth College, a private, non-profit Ivy League university, to conduct research related to planetary ice shells. The $522,825.00 grant, awarded on September 1, 2021, with a completion date of August 31, 2025, will fund a combined experimental and numerical approach to place realistic constraints on the cryopetrology of these ice shells. Dartmouth College has a long history of securing federal research...
- This is a $553,666 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to contribute to the development of a fully coupled cryosphere-climate model capability in MODELE and related science applications. The grant is not set aside and runs through June 10, 2026. MIT is a premier private research university that specializes in delivering advanced scientific research, technological development, and engineering solutions to...
Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, received a $228.8K grant award (23-BPSF23-0079) from the NASA Shared Services Center for research titled "Bridging Fundamental Ice Chemistry Studies and Ocean World Explorations." The contract, awarded on August 1, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2026, carries no set-aside designation and represents a non-competitive grant for research purposes. This award supports Wellesley College's research capabilities in planetary science, leveraging the institution's undergraduate research infrastructure to advance NASA's exploration objectives. The project aligns with NASA's broader ocean world exploration initiative, which focuses on understanding the potential habitability of icy moons in our solar system. Wellesley College's involvement demonstrates the agency's commitment to engaging diverse academic institutions, particularly those emphasizing undergraduate research experiences, in advancing scientific knowledge. The institution's track record with NASA includes similar research contracts focused on specialized scientific data analysis and tool development for space exploration, positioning this grant within the college's established portfolio of federally-funded planetary science research.
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