This is a $415,548 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), a premier public research university. The grant is for the "NISAR PRODUCTS, CAL/VAL, AND EARLY SCIENCE RESULTS FOR GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS (AUG)" project, which involves research and development related to the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant has an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2025. UC Irvine, a...
This is a $461,480 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on June 2, 2018. The grant supports research to better quantify the uncertainty and model the runoff production from surface melt, which is a key component of the mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet. The research will leverage data from automated weather stations, snow pits, and ice cores to evaluate the ability of regional atmospheric climate models...
This is a $118,512.21 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine), a major public research university located in California. The contract aims to use data assimilation techniques to better understand the processes driving the rapid changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet and improve projections of its contribution to sea level rise. This effort will combine NASA's Ice Sheet System Model...
This is a $946,783 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on June 20, 2024. The grant, titled "IMPROVING ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES USING LASER RANGING INTERFEROMETER (LRI) AND MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT (MWI) GRACE-FO AND GRACE DATA", is for research to improve estimates of ice sheet mass balance using data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) missions....
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $738,346.00 grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on the sea level contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet. The grant, titled "SEA LEVEL CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET WITH IMPROVED REPRESENTATION OF GROUNDING ZONE DYNAMICS AND OCEAN CONDITIONS," is intended to improve scientific understanding of the processes driving ice sheet changes and their impact on global...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the NISAR Mission Products, Cal/Val, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. The grant, valued at $347,099.80, is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UC Irvine, a major public research university, has a history of providing research and development services to various federal agencies, including the...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K1618, was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The 3-year, $135,000.00 grant is for a research project that explores the physics driving short-term dynamics and addresses the question of ice shelf stability in northern Greenland, using a combination of remote sensing and modeling techniques. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, as...
This federal contract award, ID 80NSSC21K0917, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on May 20, 2021. The $484,367.00 grant is for a research project aimed at improving estimates of ice mass balance in Antarctica by combining observations from NASA's ICESat/OIB/ICESat-2 laser altimetry missions and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)/GRACE-Follow On (GRACE-FO)...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC20K1076 was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for a project focused on improving the modeling of the Antarctic ice sheet and its impact on sea level rise. The $1,021,181 grant aims to map the shape of sub-ice-shelf cavities, run high-resolution ocean modeling, and analyze the relationship between climate variables and ice shelf melt rates. This research will enhance...
This federal contract award, valued at $848,484.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to provide scientific guidance and support for NASA's Operation IceBridge (OIB) mission. The objective is to study coastal ice dynamics and ice sheet mass balance in Greenland and Antarctica using a variety of measurement techniques, including laser altimetry, to bridge the gap between the ICESat-1 and ICESat-2 missions and...