This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC19K0511, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as the prime contractor. The $619,809.28 grant supports research into the use of stable isotope ratios to investigate the formation and early evolution of rocky planets and planetary bodies in the solar system. The objectives of the research include calibrating models for isotope fractionation during the evaporation...
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...
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 contract award, with ID 80NSSC19K0794, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specifically its Office of Research Administration division. The two-year, $102,938.99 grant supports a petrologic-geochemical study to investigate secondary alterations in Apollo 14 high-alumina mare basalts, especially rock sample 14072, and continues research on similar alterations in...
This federal contract award, NNX16AB53G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), operating through its Office of Research Administration. The $218,425.00 grant is for research related to extrasolar cosmochemistry, specifically investigating interior models of extrasolar rocky planets, the variation in oxygen-to-carbon abundance ratios among extrasolar planetesimals, and evidence of plate tectonics on extrasolar planets....
This is a $100,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for research on silicate and thermoelectric dynamos in super-Earths. The grant has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026. UCLA will perform the work through its Office of Research Administration division at its facilities in Los Angeles, California. There is no set-aside designation for this award. As a major research university, UCLA...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to execute a balanced science program. The $521,473 grant will support UCLA's participation as a key partner and enabler in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The contract aims to advance discovery in emerging fields by identifying and exploiting...
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 $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 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the thermal effects of late-stage giant impacts on the atmospheric composition and bulk densities of super-Earth exoplanets. The $327,456.19 grant will allow UCLA researchers to model how such planetary collisions can lead to significant atmospheric mass loss, potentially explaining the observed diversity in super-Earth...
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 extraterrestrial samples.
The research aims to elucidate the processes leading to the formation of Earth and other terrestrial-like planets in the solar system, focusing on the sorting of elements and isotopes by relative volatility. This aligns with the goals of NASA's Emerging Worlds program to foster understanding of solar system formation and evolution. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and performance will take place at UCLA facilities in Los Angeles. The university's parent organization is the State of California Controller's Office, which has also supported federal research grants in areas like natural resources, food safety, and computational biology.