This is a $856,871.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for a project titled "Whole Air Sampling (WAS) from the NASA DC-8 Aircraft during ASIA-AQ: High-Precision Measurements of ~100 Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)". The project involves whole air sampling from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the ASIA-AQ campaign to conduct high-precision measurements of approximately 100...
This federal contract award is for the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to participate in the Biomass Burning and Air Quality Field Study FIRECHEM as part of the DC-8 aircraft payload. UC Irvine will employ its proven technique combining whole air sampling and gas chromatography to provide high-quality measurements of 60-70 trace gases, including priority compounds like non-methane hydrocarbons, alkyl nitrates, halocarbons, and sulfur compounds. UC Irvine will collect up to 168 air...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1136, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to continue the university's long-running program monitoring global atmospheric trace gas levels. Since 1978, UCI has collected over 9,000 whole air samples from remote regions of the Pacific Basin, analyzing them to track levels of methane, halocarbons, and other trace gases. The $1,443,820 grant will fund UCI's sampling and...
This federal contract award funds the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to continue its long-standing global atmospheric monitoring program, which has measured concentrations of key trace gases since 1978. The $1,433,026 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will allow UCI to maintain its seasonal air sampling at 40-50 remote Pacific basin sites, analyzing up to 55 compounds including greenhouse gases, ozone-depleting agents, and other key atmospheric...
This federal contract award to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, provides $373,914.32 in funding for UNH's contributions to the DC-8 aircraft payload for the KORUS-AQ (Korea-United States Air Quality) field campaign led by NASA's Tropospheric Chemistry Program. The award supports two primary objectives: 1) measurement and analysis of inorganic ions in bulk aerosols, and 2) measurement and analysis of atmospheric distributions of nitric acid and fine...
This federal contract award is for $600,403.76 to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to provide measurements of nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2, NOy) and ozone (O3) from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ international air quality field study over South Korea. The measurements are critical to addressing the campaign's three key science questions related to satellite observations, ozone photochemistry,...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) is a grant for $131,989.46 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on atmospheric aerosols and their impact on ocean phytoplankton growth, marine productivity, and carbon sequestration. As a leading public research university, UC Irvine has extensive expertise in disciplines like engineering, physical sciences, and climate science, which enables it to support NASA's mission...
This federal contract award, valued at $613,830.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to develop observation-based, process-oriented metrics to test chemistry-climate models (CCMs) on their ability to predict tropospheric ozone (O3) and methane (CH4) budgets. The core data for these metrics will come from NASA's DC8 aircraft in situ measurements from recent campaigns. The goal is to provide guidance in...
This federal contract award is a $374,988 grant for research awarded by NASA to the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The contract, which runs through August 31, 2026, seeks to develop a method to construct Hitopo BCS that improves NASA's Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) and works across a range of GCMS and resolutions. The award is not set aside for any specific designation, indicating UCI's competitive research capabilities. UCI is a prominent public research university with...
This federal contract award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Korea-U.S. Air Quality Study (KORUS-AQ) through the deployment of solar radiation measurement instrumentation on the NASA DC-8 aircraft. The primary objective is to collect spectrally-resolved actinic flux data and calculate photolysis frequencies for over 30 atmospheric species to improve understanding of photochemistry supporting the...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is for the provision of whole air sampling (WAS) from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ field campaign. Under this $649,106.46 grant, UCI will employ its proven technique of combining WAS with laboratory analysis using gas chromatography to provide high-quality measurements of various trace gas species, including nonmethane hydrocarbons, halocarbons, and alkyl nitrates. These measurements will address fundamental NASA atmospheric composition science questions and support the overall goals of the KORUS-AQ study to understand ozone photochemistry and organic aerosol evolution in the Korean peninsula region. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and UCI will collaborate with other academic institutions and partners to conduct this research. The funding agency is the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within NASA.