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....
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct gravity sounding research on glaciers in southern Greenland. The $984,614 grant will enable UC Irvine to employ a novel approach using high-resolution helicopter-borne gravity data to map glacier thickness at a spatial resolution of 500 meters with a precision of 50 meters. This data will be integrated with other sources, including...
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 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 federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) is valued at $99,298.57 and has a completion date of March 25, 2020. The project will apply Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data on terrestrial water storage to better understand the impact of hydro-climatic constraints on ecosystem productivity at a global scale. The research will integrate GRACE data with vegetation indices,...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC24K0038, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for a research project titled "DETERMINING THE ROLE OF EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS ON SURFACE MASS BALANCE IN EAST ANTARCTICA FROM ICESAT/GRACE DATA, CLIMATE MODELS, AND AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS". The $150,000.00 grant-funded contract has a completion date of October 3, 2026 and does not have a set-aside...
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 $1,774,769.92. The grant is for research to develop new probabilistic, global and local sea-level projections that link physical models with observations of sea level and ice sheet changes. The goal is to reduce uncertainty in predicting future sea-level rise by extending ice sheet models with new glaciological processes, coupling with...
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 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 is for a grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to provide scientific guidance and support to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Operation IceBridge (OIB) mission. The objective is to study coastal ice dynamics and ice sheet mass balance in Greenland and Antarctica using various data sources, including satellite, airborne, and in-situ measurements. The grant will enable UCI to generate two sets of advanced products: 1) ice thinning...
This federal contract award, valued at $525,077, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on ice sheet contributions to global sea level rise. The research project, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to improve the methodology for producing mass concentration (mascon) solutions from data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On missions. This is intended to reduce errors and improve estimates of ice sheet mass balance at the regional scale over longer time periods. The research will compare the GRACE-derived estimates with independent measurements from other remote sensing techniques and model outputs, and will provide feedback to improve climate modeling. UC Irvine, a public research university and member of the Association of American Universities, has extensive expertise in areas such as climate science, remote sensing, and interdisciplinary collaboration to address complex technical challenges.