This federal contract award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will support pre-launch preparations and scientific development for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, a joint effort between NASA, CNES, and CSA. The $744,348 grant aims to establish calibration and validation sites, collect field and remote sensing datasets, and conduct studies on the impact of factors like vegetation and permafrost on SWOT data products. This work will contribute to SWOT's...
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 federal contract award, in the amount of $596,831.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), doing business as the Office of Research Administration. The contract is a grant for research to help develop SWOT-based runoff data products for use in hydrologic modeling, particularly in areas with inadequate current measurements. The contract has no set-aside designation and is...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $135,000.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to demonstrate the applicability of 35 GHz Ka-band radar for mapping water surface inundation and elevation, and to investigate and quantify sources of absolute errors in water surface elevation estimates. This grant has a performance period ending on December 31, 2023. UCLA is the prime contractor for...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AH05A, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as the prime contractor. The $3,209,408.52 cooperative agreement was awarded on June 11, 2015 with a completion date of June 10, 2020. The purpose of this contract is to produce "Earth System Data Records (ESDRs) of suitable quality to support long-term trend analysis (hence, Climate Data Records, or CDRs) for the longest length...
This federal contract award is a $329,925 grant for research to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. The grant will leverage data from the Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) missions to advance hydrometeorology and terrestrial ecosystem science, with a focus on understanding the role of soil moisture in water and carbon cycle interactions. The award does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a $349,327.62 grant for research to investigate the formation and variability of sea surface salinity maxima in subtropical oceans using data from the Aquarius satellite. The research will combine satellite measurements with Argo float data and numerical models to (1) identify the ocean processes governing the subtropical salinity maxima, (2) examine...
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $105,000 grant to the University of Washington under contract 21-SMDSS21-0029 to support research exploring synergies between measurements from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission and airborne altimetry. Specifically, the grant will fund work investigating how data from SWOT's wide-swath interferometry can improve hydrologic studies of surface water dynamics when combined with measurements from the...
This federal contract award, number 80NSSC22K0926, was granted to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - doing business as the Office of Research Administration. The $619,628.00 grant is for a research project titled "SUBSEASONAL-TO-SEASONAL PREDICTION OF WINTER PRECIPITATION: DETERMINATION FROM INNOVATIVE SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSES OF OBSERVATIONS FOR FACILITATING IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES IN THE WESTERN U". The award, which has an ultimate completion date of...
This federal contract award, NNX15AG75G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration. The $213,555.95 grant supports UCLA's research focused on evaluating the utility of Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) products for hydrologic prediction in topographically complex regions. This work aligns with the agency's interest in mitigating the impacts of natural disasters,...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to support research and development for the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.
The contract, valued at $757,031.89, aims to address key challenges in mapping water bodies using the mission's Ka-Band Radar Interferometer (KARIN) sensor. UCLA will develop model-based approaches to accurately identify lakes, rivers, and wetlands from the KARIN data, accounting for factors like incidence angle variations, topographic layover, and foreshortening effects. The university will also leverage its global lake database to augment the SWOT water body mapping, including estimating the area and volume changes for smaller lakes not directly observed by the satellite.
This research grant does not have a set-aside designation, and the work will be performed at UCLA's facilities in Los Angeles. As the prime contractor, UCLA is supported by its parent organization, the California State Controller's Office, which has extensive experience managing federal awards across a range of scientific and technological domains.