The University of Maine System, through its University of Maine Division doing business as Research & Sponsored Program, has been awarded a $245,099.00 grant for research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This grant supports NASA's 2022 Strategic Plan and its goal of "scientific discovery and exploration for the benefit of the United States and all of humanity." The university system has extensive experience delivering services to federal agencies...
This federal contract award, valued at $964,806.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maine System (UMS) to execute a balanced science program. The contract requires UMS to provide research and services based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as administration priorities and congressional direction. Key focus areas include scientific research related to the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars,...
The University of Maine System (UMS), through its University of Maine Division doing business as Research & Sponsored Program, was awarded a $115,771 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the impact of cloudiness on estimates of phytoplankton biomass and primary production in the ocean. This grant-funded research project has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2027. UMS, as a public university system, has extensive experience...
The University of Maine System, through its University of Maine Division doing business as Research & Sponsored Program, was awarded a $260,387.79 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to collect and assemble a unique and extensive dataset of physical, optical, biological, and biogeochemical properties of the ocean. The award, with a period of performance ending on March 28, 2024, will study the distribution of optical properties between contrasting environments...
This federal contract award is for a $135,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oregon (UO) for research on the rapid breakup of Greenland's ice tongues and the associated dynamic thinning and retreat of its marine-terminating outlet glaciers. The award does not have a set-aside designation. As a major research institution, UO has extensive capabilities in scientific research, data analysis, and environmental science. Through this grant,...
The University of Maine System, University of Maine Division, doing business as Research & Sponsored Program, has been awarded a $753,361 cooperative agreement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the delivery of improved radiative and biogeochemical products. Specifically, the prime contractor will expand its suite of biogeochemical models to include absorption by phytoplankton and dissolved organic materials, allowing for improved constraints of aquatic...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $133,345 grant to the University of Maine System's University of Maine Division for research and sponsored programs. The objective of the research is to elucidate the ecological, physiological and geophysical mechanisms contributing to observed increases in chlorophyll around remote islands. As the prime contractor, the University of Maine will conduct this research over a four-year period ending in August 2024. NASA's funding will...
The University of Maine System (UMS), through its University of Maine Division, has been awarded a $1,053,680.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "VALIDATION OF OCEAN SURFACE DOWNWELLING IRRADIANCE AND ITS UNDERWATER PROPAGATION FOR THE PACE MISSION" project. This project supports NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which aims to study the Earth's ocean and atmosphere. The grant, which does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award to the University of Maine System (UMS) aims to advance the understanding of full-scale hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerators (HIADs) in support of NASA's space technology roadmap. The $104,284.50 contract will develop computationally inexpensive three-dimensional beam-based finite element models to analyze the HIAD system, which consists of multiple inflatable tori that can enable larger payloads for potential human missions to Mars. While there is no...
This federal contract award is a $119,999.67 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant is for research to investigate the impact of surface melt water on fast-flowing, marine-terminating outlet glaciers over Greenland, building upon previous work examining hydrologic-induced shear weakening over the margins of Jakobshavn Isbr. The research will use numerical ice flow models to quantify the impact of reduced basal...