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 is a $461,480 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on June 2, 2018. The grant supports research to better quantify the uncertainty and model the runoff production from surface melt, which is a key component of the mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet. The research will leverage data from automated weather stations, snow pits, and ice cores to evaluate the ability of regional atmospheric climate models...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the NISAR Mission Products, Cal/Val, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. The grant, valued at $347,099.80, is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UC Irvine, a major public research university, has a history of providing research and development services to various federal agencies, including the...
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 is a $738,346 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for research on the "Sea Level Contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with Improved Representation of Grounding Zone Dynamics and Ocean Conditions." The grant is not set aside for any specific designation. UCI is a prominent public research university known for its expertise in areas such as biomedical research, engineering, artificial intelligence,...
This is a $135,000 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on September 1, 2018. The grant supports research to characterize the topology and flux partition characteristics of Arctic delta channel networks and their connectivity with thermokarst lakes. The goal is to improve understanding of how localized changes in connectivity drive system-wide response and reorganization in...
This is a $946,783 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on June 20, 2024. The grant, titled "IMPROVING ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES USING LASER RANGING INTERFEROMETER (LRI) AND MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT (MWI) GRACE-FO AND GRACE DATA", is for research to improve estimates of ice sheet mass balance using data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) missions....
This federal contract award, valued at $2,385,495.69, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) under a cooperative agreement. The objective is to produce new Earth Science Data Records (ESDRs) to support the understanding of ice sheet dynamics and their contribution to sea level rise. Key deliverables include monthly ice motion maps, a new bed topography and ice thickness model for Antarctica, annual grounding line...
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) was awarded a $415,548 research grant on October 26, 2022, for NISAR Products, Calibration/Validation, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. This non-set-aside grant, managed through a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center, supports research activities to be conducted at UCI's Irvine, California campus with an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2026. The NASA Imaging Radar (NISAR) mission represents a collaborative...
This is a $429,931 research 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 Irvine, California. The grant is for a two-year research project focused on developing a methodology to improve the accuracy and resolution of satellite-based precipitation retrieval estimates. The research aims to incorporate spatial patterns and covariation of satellite...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for $1,774,769.92. The grant is for research to develop new probabilistic, global and local sea-level projections that link physical models with observations of sea level and ice sheet changes. The goal is to reduce uncertainty in predicting future sea-level rise by extending ice sheet models with new glaciological processes, coupling with climate and earth-gravitational models, and leveraging satellite-based constraints. This research directly targets four NASA Sea Level Science Team objectives, including baseline sea-level analysis, probabilistic analysis of local sea-level rise, improved modeling of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and integrated forecasts of sea-level rise and storm-tide exceedances. No set-aside designation was indicated. UC Irvine, a major public research university in California, has extensive experience providing research and development services to federal agencies through past prime and sub-contract awards.