This federal contract award, valued at $4,983,843.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Washington (UW) to conduct research on the decline of Arctic sea ice cover. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UW is a prominent research institution with expertise in fields such as climate science, oceanography, and interdisciplinary innovation. Through this contract, UW will leverage its extensive...
The University of Washington was awarded a $61,104.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to investigate the fate of sea ice in the 'New Arctic' through June 30, 2025. This research contract does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Washington is the prime contractor and there are no major subcontractors noted. The funding is being provided by the Shared Services Center, which is a civilian agency that provides shared services...
This federal contract award, NNX16AK43G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to develop a suite of interrelated sea ice climate indicators to better track the seasonal evolution of the Arctic sea ice cover. The $210,359 grant will fund the production of historical time series data on sea ice melt onset/freeze-up, retreat/advance, and fetch from 1979 to the present, including trend and variability...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington, a public research university located in Seattle, Washington. The $339,723 grant is for research services to assess the impact of NASA's IceBridge and ICESat-2 observations on sea ice forecast skill. This grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Washington is the prime contractor on this award, with no major...
The federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC24K1449, is for a grant to the University of Washington to conduct research on "APPLICATION OF NEW IN-SITU AND REMOTE SENSING TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING ANTARCTIC SEA ICE DYNAMICS AND THERMODYNAMICS." The award, valued at $461,000.00, is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, and has a period of performance ending on September 30, 2027. The University of Washington is the prime...
This federal contract award, valued at $993,814.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) through a cooperative agreement. The contract aims to quantify inundation extent across important classes of hydrologic connectivity in the Arctic-boreal region, using previously acquired airborne remote sensing data to map vegetation and inundation patterns. This research supports Tier 2 science questions focused...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,798,362.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Washington (UW) for the Greenland Ice Mapping Project: The NISAR Era. This is a cooperative agreement with no set-aside designation, and the ultimate completion date is July 26, 2028. The University of Washington is a prominent public research university that provides a wide range of specialized research, scientific, and technical services to various federal...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) on May 1, 2020 with a completion date of April 30, 2025. The grant has a potential value of $616,779.00 and is for research services to analyze sea surface height data from various satellite missions and oceanographic conditions in the Arctic Ocean. The University of Washington is a public research institution that has extensive experience providing...
This federal contract award is for a grant to the University of Washington (UW) to conduct research on leads and ridges, also known as linear kinematic features (LKFs), and their impact on the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and sea ice in the Arctic. The award, with a ceiling value of $1,268,882.00, was made on June 29, 2020, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of June 28, 2026. The University of Washington is a prominent...
This federal contract award, valued at $471,492.77, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Washington (UW) to support research and in situ observations of surface meteorology and sea ice motion. These observations are used to improve numerical weather prediction models for forecasting weather and sea ice conditions. The award is a grant for research with a completion date of May 27, 2024. UW is a prominent research institution that frequently...
This federal contract award to the University of Washington by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center is for $329,555.82 to construct navigability indicators for the Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route based on satellite data of sea ice conditions. The goal is to analyze trends in navigability and the potential impact on marine mammal habitats. The project will coincide with the U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council from 2015 to 2017. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. University of Washington has extensive experience as both a prime and subcontractor on federal research awards across various agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.