This federal contract award, valued at $150,000.00, was granted to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "REVEALING THE HYDROSPHERE: MAPPING WIDTHS AND HEIGHTS OF NARROW RIVERS WITH SWOT" project. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UMass, as the prime contractor, will utilize its expertise in areas such as engineering, computer science, and environmental studies to conduct...
The Trustees of Princeton University received a $800,000 research grant from NASA's Shared Services Center for "High Fidelity Modeling of Parasitic Capillary Wave Dynamics for Remote Sensing." The contract, awarded on May 9, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of May 8, 2027, was issued without a set-aside designation. Work will be performed at Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration in Princeton, New Jersey. The project focuses on advanced modeling of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000 training grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. The contract supports a research study to assess the performance of different data assimilation approaches for inferring river discharge from surface water elevation measurements collected by the upcoming NASA/CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, which is scheduled to...
This is a $150,790.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois to support research on integrating reservoirs into the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission's global surface water storage and discharge monitoring. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 13, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime contractor, the University of Illinois has extensive experience delivering research, products,...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University, with a ceiling value of $104,871.57, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to analyze the impacts of the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission on understanding global runoff patterns. The project aims to determine how current in-situ and remote sensing data can explain variability in runoff characteristics across global watersheds, and how the SWOT mission's river discharge...
This is a grant award to The Ohio State University from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to improving discharge estimates from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The research objectives are to: 1) integrate lateral inflows into a SWOT discharge algorithm, 2) integrate lake/reservoir dynamics into a SWOT discharge algorithm, 3) develop a SWOT modeling application for community water resources planning and flood...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $353,970 grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to support research and development activities related to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The tasks to be completed under this grant include implementing and testing a data assimilation framework, producing and evaluating SWOT Level 4 data products, testing the use of derived runoff products for hydrologic model calibration, and assessing...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington to determine if river discharge and subsurface river dynamics can be described from a Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) measurement of the surface height anomaly within an estuary and at the river mouth. The $103,758.67 grant involves a laboratory experiment, analysis of field data, and development of an analytical model to predict...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University, with a ceiling value of $714,403.44, supports the comprehensive validation of algorithms for estimating river discharge across different river types. The goal is to develop accurate discharge estimation capabilities in support of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, a key transformational capability for terrestrial hydrology. The work will leverage various data sources, including AirSWOT measurements, field data, SWOT...
The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $692,483 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center, effective January 1, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. This non-competitive grant supports execution of a balanced science program aligned with guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, congressional direction, and administration priorities. The award carries no set-aside designation and is classified as a Grant for Research with...
This federal contract award, NNX16AH84G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University, Office of Research and Project Administration, to develop algorithms and modeling systems to retrieve river discharge estimates globally from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. The overarching goal is to create a forecast assimilation system that utilizes the Catchment-based Macro-Scale Floodplain (CAMA) Flood River Routing Model to assimilate SWOT water elevation and slope measurements and produce spatially and temporally continuous river discharge records. The $654,374.00 grant does not have a set-aside designation and is for research to support the SWOT mission's ability to monitor global surface water bodies. As a private university, Princeton has extensive experience providing research services to government agencies like NASA across various scientific domains.