This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston, a state institution of higher learning located in Houston, Texas. The $337,466.52 grant supports research to investigate the magmatic history and mantle evolution of Mars as revealed by the meteorite record. The research aims to address fundamental questions about the geology of Mars, including the periodicity...
This is a $702,316.92 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Houston System to conduct research on the origins and early evolution of the solar system. The research aims to gain a better understanding of the mixing processes in the solar nebula, the nature of solar and presolar components, and the origin and early differentiation of terrestrial bodies. The grant will fund high-precision isotopic measurements of bulk chondrites using neodymium, samarium, and osmium to investigate these...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1558, is a $695,945.00 grant for research awarded to the University of Houston System by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The award is for a coordinated microstructural, mineralogical, and isotopic study of Forsterite-rich glass inclusions (FGIs) from reduced CV3 chondrites to better understand their origin and nature. The University of Houston System is the prime contractor and there are no set-aside designations...
This is a $706,605.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to conduct research on asteroid 4 Vesta. The grant, titled "IS IMPACT GARDENING THE DOMINANT SPACE WEATHERING PROCESS ON ASTEROID 4 VESTA? A SURVEY OF RAYED CRATERS AND NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROCESSES WHICH REMOVE THEM," will study the processes that shape the surface of this asteroid. The University of Hawaii has a long history of collaboration with...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K1098, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Houston System, a public university system serving as a Hispanic Serving Institution and comprehensive research university. The $520,826 grant is for a research project titled "CHARACTERIZING EXPECTED UNCERTAINTY IN SPACEBORNE HIGH-RESOLUTION TERRAIN MODELS FOR EXAMINING SURFACE PROCESSES", with a performance period ending on June 14, 2026....
This is a $385,114 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Houston System, a state-controlled institution of higher learning, to conduct research on systematically exploring the global atmosphere of Jupiter using observations from two spacecraft and supporting observations from other missions. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025 and was made on October 1, 2021. The award is not a set-aside contract....
This is a $477,090.33 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH), a public university system in Hawaii. The grant is for research to understand early and late-stage processes in the solar system, including the distribution of aluminum-26 and oxygen isotope reservoirs, the origins of ultra-refractory inclusions, and the formation of plastically deformed calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs). Additionally, the research aims to study...
This is a $164,094.17 training grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, supports research to better understand the effects of drought stress on biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and the subsequent impacts on atmospheric composition and climate. The project will implement new stress terms in the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)...
This is a $130,090.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Houston System to conduct research on "SOLUTION CONVECTION AND THE NUCLEATION PRECURSORS IN PROTEIN CONDENSATION". The award has a period of performance ending on December 14, 2025 and was made on December 15, 2023. The University of Houston System is a state institution of higher learning located in Houston, Texas and is classified as a Hispanic Serving Institution....
This is a $98,446.55 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Purdue University, a not-for-profit educational institution. The grant is to study the effects of space weathering on the surfaces of airless bodies such as asteroids, moons, and planetary surfaces. The research will examine how micrometeorite impacts and solar wind irradiation continuously modify these surfaces. The grant has an August 2023 completion date and was awarded in August 2020....