This is a $213,310.15 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY), a non-profit organization that manages research contracts and grants for the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The grant is for a research project focused on land-atmosphere interactions and their role in climate predictability at 7-30 day timescales. This aligns with NASA's work in studying Earth system processes and...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K1535, is a grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The $134,706 grant supports research to investigate whether Mars was likely habitable in its early history, with a focus on the role of liquid water in surface environments. The award has an ultimate completion date of August 22,...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), on behalf of Stony Brook University, for a research project focused on exploring the formation, characterization, and stability of amorphous salts on Mars. The $729,546.12 grant will fund a three-year research effort to better understand the possible phases that could comprise hydrated amorphous materials detected on the Martian...
This is a $97,266 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, operating as Stony Brook University, to investigate the age, origin, and abundance of chloride salt deposits on Mars. The award is part of NASA's planetary science research program and does not have a set-aside designation. Stony Brook University is a major research institution that frequently receives federal grants and contracts to support...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The $126,133.91 grant supports research to explore the formation, characterization, and thermodynamic properties of amorphous, nanocrystalline, and/or poorly crystalline sulfate, chloride, oxychlorine, and multicomponent salts relevant to Mars. The award aims...
This federal contract award, valued at $274,114.29, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), which operates on behalf of Stony Brook University. The award, titled "Spectroscopy of Salt-Bearing Mineral Assemblages," supports two tasks to constrain the physical properties and composition of chloride salt-bearing deposits on Mars and determine the detection limits of various...
This is a $77,891.49 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant supports research relevant to several key science objectives for the Mars 2020 mission, including characterizing the processes that formed and modified the geologic record within a field exploration area on Mars. There is no set-aside designation for this award, which has an...
This is a $454,091 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, to conduct research on the contributions of magmatic gas and Martian surface interactions to Martian fines. The award has a completion date of July 31, 2025. RF SUNY is a non-profit organization that serves as the fiscal agent for sponsored programs and research activities across the State...
This is a Grant for Research award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stony Brook University, a research institution within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The $150,981.01 award will fund a two-year project to study the geochemical and mineralogical composition of sediments derived from basaltic sources, with the goal of providing a reference frame for interpreting Martian sedimentary rock data. The research will be conducted in basaltic watersheds...
This federal contract award, valued at $307,216.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), a non-profit research administration organization that serves as the fiscal agent and sponsored programs administrator for the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The contract is for the execution of a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the National...