This is a $501,599.42 grant award from NASA's Solar System Workings (SSW) program to Florida State University (FSU) to conduct geochemical research on clasts (rock fragments) in the Martian meteorite NWA 7533. The research aims to establish a baseline for siderophile (metal-loving) element abundances in Martian igneous meteorites, identify the igneous processes that formed the Martian highlands crust, and determine if the precursors to impact melts experienced chemical weathering on the...
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 $133,884.58 grant was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Florida State University (FSU) on September 1, 2019. The project aligns with NASA's Earth Science Research Program goals to advance understanding of changes in the Earth's radiation balance and air quality resulting from changes in atmospheric composition. FSU, a major public research institution, will conduct research and development through its Sponsored Research Administration Division. No set-aside was used for this...
This is a $15,006.21 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU) for a research project titled "CONFRONTING CMB FOREGROUND MODELS WITH PLANCK DATA". The grant, which does not utilize a set-aside, will support FSU's work in confronting cosmic microwave background (CMB) foreground models with data from the Planck space observatory. As a major public research institution, FSU has a diverse...
This is a $741,131 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU) for a research project investigating the early record of animal life in the Canadian Cordillera region. The proposed work has three main objectives: 1) searching for and documenting paleontological, sedimentological, and stratigraphic information in multiple field sites, 2) integrating these local studies into a regional framework to...
This is a $298,433.31 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct a study on nanoprecipitates within meteoritic metals as tracers of early solar system processes. The proposed research aims to use transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and micro-particle-induced X-ray emission (micro-PIXE) techniques to characterize the nanoscale phase petrology of metal systems in iron meteorites and metal-rich breccias. This...
This $474,659.98 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU) to conduct research on the relationship between ocean-atmosphere oxygenation and the evolution of multicellular life during the Neoproterozoic Era (~1,000-542 million years ago). The project will utilize vanadium isotopes as a proxy to track changes in marine low oxygen conditions over this critical period of environmental change and biological innovation. By...
This is a $261,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Clemson University's Division of Research to conduct research on the origin and history of dust grains that carried isotopes into the early solar system. The research aims to understand the initial chemical state of the solar system and how it evolved as the earliest solar system bodies formed. The project will utilize open-source computer models and codes developed by the Principal Investigator and...
This $1,084,999.00 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU) to improve public health decision making on critical infrastructure (CI) investment through refining satellite observations, portable statistical modeling, and close stakeholder engagement. The overarching goal is to advance the use of satellite data and analytical tools to support public health policy and investment decisions. This grant does not utilize a...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $199,971.41 grant to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) to support research on asteroidal meteorites and their implications for exoplanet atmospheres and early planetary formation. Specifically, the grant will fund the establishment of cosmochemistry and scanning electron microscope laboratories at UCSC to conduct experiments constraining the timing of fluid activity in early planetesimals and the initial abundance of...
This is a $694,695.26 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU). The grant supports two tasks: 1) investigating the origin of nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in palladium (Pd), osmium (Os), and other siderophile (iron-loving) elements in meteorites, and 2) refining the hafnium-tungsten (Hf-W) chronometer to better determine the timing of chemical differentiation in the early solar system. The research leverages mass spectrometry techniques at FSU and the University of Houston. This grant aligns with NASA's strategic science goal to explore and observe objects in the solar system to understand their formation and evolution. The grant does not have a set-aside designation.