This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K1636, was granted to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), doing business as the Office of Research Administration, by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $78,699.87 grant is for research to understand and resolve the ocean dynamics near and within fjords, which is crucial for constraining the ocean-driven melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The award has an ultimate completion...
This is a $118,512.21 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine), a major public research university located in California. The contract aims to use data assimilation techniques to better understand the processes driving the rapid changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet and improve projections of its contribution to sea level rise. This effort will combine NASA's Ice Sheet System Model...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC24K1687, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for research on parameterizing ice shelf cavity processes and basal melt in NASA Earth system models. The $150,000.00 grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, has an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2027. UCLA, a leading public research university, will leverage its extensive facilities, faculty...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the project "INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE DATA ASSIMILATION FOR MOUNTAIN SNOW CHARACTERIZATION." The contract is not set aside and has an ultimate completion date of October 3, 2026. UCLA, a public research university registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) as a U.S. state government entity, an 1862 Land Grant College, and an...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $757,165.68 research grant from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) with an award date of March 13, 2019, and completion deadline of October 31, 2024. Under this grant, UCLA is participating in the Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) Cryosphere Collective (EMC2), a collaborative initiative to integrate cryosphere science into the German Aerospace Center's EnMAP Very Short-Wave Infrared (VSWIR) imaging...
This federal contract award, valued at $525,077, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on ice sheet contributions to global sea level rise. The research project, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to improve the methodology for producing mass concentration (mascon) solutions from data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct gravity sounding research on glaciers in southern Greenland. The $984,614 grant will enable UC Irvine to employ a novel approach using high-resolution helicopter-borne gravity data to map glacier thickness at a spatial resolution of 500 meters with a precision of 50 meters. This data will be integrated with other sources, including...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC17K0602, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the formation mechanisms of ridge-trough systems on the icy moons of Europa and Enceladus. The contract, a training grant with a ceiling value of $84,166.66, will utilize high-resolution imagery from the Galileo and Cassini missions to analyze the surface structures of these icy bodies. The research...
This federal contract award, number 80NSSC22K0926, was granted to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - doing business as the Office of Research Administration. The $619,628.00 grant is for a research project titled "SUBSEASONAL-TO-SEASONAL PREDICTION OF WINTER PRECIPITATION: DETERMINATION FROM INNOVATIVE SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSES OF OBSERVATIONS FOR FACILITATING IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES IN THE WESTERN U". The award, which has an ultimate completion date of...
This federal contract award is for a grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to provide scientific guidance and support to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Operation IceBridge (OIB) mission. The objective is to study coastal ice dynamics and ice sheet mass balance in Greenland and Antarctica using various data sources, including satellite, airborne, and in-situ measurements. The grant will enable UCI to generate two sets of advanced products: 1) ice thinning...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. It is a $135,000.00 training grant to support research on ice sheet meltwater processes that impact measurements of surface mass balance and contributions to global sea level rise.
The research aims to map the spatial extent of the weathering crust on the Greenland Ice Sheet, measure its hydraulic properties, quantify subsurface meltwater and refreezing, and evaluate the impact of these processes on estimates from regional climate models and satellite altimetry. This work directly supports NASA priorities related to climate variability and the water/energy cycle, as well as the ICESat-2 satellite's science requirements. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and performance will take place at UCLA's facilities in Los Angeles.