The University of Colorado, Boulder, received a $858,863.99 grant from NASA to create an integrated time series of altimetry-based elevation models using data from various satellite and airborne altimetry instruments, including ICESat-2. The goal is to improve understanding of mass balance, surface melting, and energy fluxes in the climate system, particularly for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The research directly supports NASA's Earth Science Research Opportunities in Space and Earth...
This is a $100,803.88 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, an accredited public research university, to conduct research on monitoring and measuring changes in the mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The research aims to improve predictive models for sea level rise by analyzing surface mass balance and firn structure data collected during NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne survey missions. The grant supports...
This is a federal research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, to improve the constraints on estimating mass changes in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The $149,999.94 grant will fund research into two main areas: 1) assessing changes in surface roughness and melting of the Greenland ice sheet over the past 20 years, and 2) classifying the types of...
This is a $91,027.48 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado for research on Antarctic ice heights and changes over time. The project will create a digital elevation model (DEM) database from satellite imagery collected between 2009 and 2016, co-register the satellite DEMs to airborne laser altimetry data, and use deep learning to co-register historical aerial photography to the satellite imagery and DEMs. The goal is to produce...
This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant is for research focused on studying the Thwaites Glacier and the Amundsen Sea Sector of West Antarctica, which are losing mass at a faster rate than any other region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is for...
This is a $450,340.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant is for a research project focused on understanding the export of grounded ice from Antarctica's floating glacial ice shelves through calving and basal ice shelf melt, particularly in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) region where there have been accelerated...
This is a $334,928 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Colorado School of Mines, a public research university in Golden, Colorado. The grant is for research related to the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission, as well as aerogeophysical and ground-based surveys of the Antarctic ice sheet. The research is focused on understanding the complex and dynamic hydrological systems underlying the fast-flowing portions of the Antarctic...
This is a $720,771.62 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado's Office of Contracts and Grants. The grant, titled "Bridging the Snow - Sea Ice Gap: A Snow on Sea Ice Assimilation System for the Arctic", aims to develop daily and monthly snow depth and density products to support improved satellite-based measurements of sea ice thickness. This information is critical for understanding and predicting changes in...
This is a $582,084 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Colorado School of Mines, a public research university, for research on ice shelves and tributary glaciers in Antarctica. The research aims to improve understanding of Antarctic ice sheet mass loss, which is a major source of uncertainty in 21st-century sea-level rise projections. The grant is a research contract with a performance period ending on January 31, 2026. The Colorado School...
This is a $677,471 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division for research on "Bayesian Quantification of Antarctic Surface Mass Balance". The research aims to use statistical modeling and data compilation to map the spatial and temporal variations in surface mass balance over the Antarctic ice sheet, which is essential for understanding ice sheet response to climate change and associated sea...
This federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, to map the surface mass balance (SMB) of the Antarctic ice sheet at high resolution using a combination of satellite altimetry data and atmospheric reanalysis. The goal is to better understand the dynamics and contribution of ice sheet elevation changes to sea level rise. The $616,158.82 grant does not have a set-aside designation and is focused on leveraging NASA's ICESAT-2 mission, CRYOSAT-2 data, and MERRA-2 reanalysis to model snow redistribution processes at a 1 km scale. The research aims to improve models of polar precipitation and use satellite altimetry to determine properties of the ice sheets critical to sea level rise projections. This grant is an early outcome of the ICESAT-2 program and involves no subcontractors, representing direct research at the University of Colorado.