The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $130,076.23 grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the formation environment of the solar system using short-lived radionuclides. This research grant, with a completion date of September 20, 2022, is not set-aside and will be performed at UCLA's facilities in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's Office of Research Administration, a division of the university, is managing this grant award. The work...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AE77G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct a series of investigations on the mineralogic components of chondritic meteorites. The goal is to develop improved chronological constraints on the formation and aqueous evolution of asteroids, which aligns with NASA's objective to understand the formation and early evolution of the solar system. The...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), through its Office of Research Administration division, has been awarded a $1,115,212.62 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the transformations of energy accompanying solar magnetic activity. This 4-year grant, with a period of performance from February 2020 to February 2024, is part of NASA's broader efforts to understand the complex, dynamic nature of the heliosphere. As a premier public...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 training grant contract to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 1, 2018 with a performance period ending on August 31, 2021. The contract, which had no set-aside designation, supports a research project to characterize the timing and nature of chemical evolution occurring in the early solar system by conducting petrographic and isotopic analysis of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. This...
This federal grant award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) provides $158,476.00 in funding for the creation of a public archive of iron meteorite compositional data. The award was made on October 6, 2022 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of October 5, 2025. UCLA, acting through its Office of Research Administration division, is the prime recipient of this non-set-aside grant. As a public university and recipient of...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Office of Research Administration. The $525,937.01 grant is funding two research projects at UCLA: 1) experiments simulating the chemical and isotopic effects of collision-induced melting of planet precursors, and 2) analysis of the possible crystal chemical controls on high-precision oxygen isotope ratios in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $279,313.87 grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to produce a database of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) data for 750 iron meteorites and develop data management software to provide public access to the archive. The first year of the two-year project will focus on updating INAA data for 12-15 elements in certain iron meteorite groups, while the second year will expand the analysis to the...
This $520,732 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will support the execution of a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The award enables UCLA to participate as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The grant also supports...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the project "EVALUATING GEOCHRONOLOGIC COMPLEXITY AND IMPACTOR DIVERSITY OF HIGHLAND IMPACTITES". The $142,036.77 grant has an ultimate completion date of May 13, 2025. UCLA, a U.S. state government entity and 1862 Land Grant College, is the prime awardee and has demonstrated extensive capabilities in providing specialized research and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $541,000 grant to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit research organization. The grant supports research to examine chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) in primitive meteorites to determine if they preserve evidence of volatile incorporation from the solar nebula and record open-system behavior during parent body alteration. The...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), acting through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $423,979.57 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct coordinated petrologic, mineralogical, and isotopic investigations of early-formed nebular condensates preserved in chondritic meteorites. This research aims to better constrain the earliest environments in the solar nebula and shed light on the formation and early evolution of the solar system. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, supports studies of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) and hibonite-bearing inclusions - some of the oldest known solids in the solar system. UCLA researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, will perform detailed mineralogical and isotopic analyses on these rare, pristine samples to reconstruct the conditions in the solar nebula during the condensation of these early-formed solids. This work aligns with NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which focuses on understanding the formation and early evolution of the solar system.