This is a $452,580.81 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to conduct interdisciplinary research on the formation and early evolution of the solar system, with a focus on investigating the physics and chemistry of solid and liquid material formation in the protoplanetary disk, and how those materials accreted into larger bodies. The research combines astrophysical-cosmochemical theory and modeling, petrological...
This is a $513,931 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for a research project titled "READ BETWEEN THE LINES: DETERMINING ATMOSPHERE AND BULK COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANETARY MASS OBJECTS USING SPECTRAL RETRIEVALS." The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund AMNH's research on characterizing the atmospheric and compositional properties of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs using spectral analysis...
This is a $499,518 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, for a project titled "Refractory Minerals - Archives from the Early Solar System." The grant, awarded under NASA's Shared Services Center, will support the museum's research using Atom-Probe Tomography (APT) to study the compositions of presolar nanograins, which are too small to be analyzed using other techniques. The project aims to...
This is a $86,323.86 grant awarded by NASA to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for the Backyard Worlds project. The award period is from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Under this grant, the AMNH team will execute observing programs using various telescopes, reduce and analyze the collected data, lead binary analysis efforts, and publish 1-2 papers on the current data. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting AMNH's status as a large non-profit research...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $704,081 grant for research to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. The grant will support AMNH in executing a balanced science program that aligns with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies, NASA's exploration initiatives, and Congressional direction. AMNH will focus on advancing scientific discovery, particularly in emerging interdisciplinary fields, and developing applied...
This is a federal grant award to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, NY from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, with an award value of $351,650.00. The grant, titled "UNDERSTANDING THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANET FORMATION IN DYNAMICALLY EVOLVING ENVIRONMENTS," is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. AMNH is a renowned scientific and educational institution that conducts extensive research and provides educational programming across various...
The U.S. government has awarded a $69,998 grant to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for a research project titled "Characterizing Complex Rotators in TESS Cycle 6 Benchmark Clusters." The grant, awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, supports AMNH's research on advanced astronomical observations and data analysis related to stellar rotation. As a non-profit research institution, AMNH has a history of federal contract and grant awards for...
This federal contract award is for a grant to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), a renowned non-profit research institution located in New York City. The $99,736.87 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will fund research related to the migration timescale of exoplanets, the rate of giant impacts, and the assembly of terrestrial planets. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, is part of AMNH's extensive portfolio of prime federal...
This federal contract award, valued at $670,723.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), a renowned non-profit research institution located in New York City. The contract is for a research grant focused on "The Origin of Ultra Faint Dwarf Galaxies and Their Globular Clusters", which aligns with AMNH's expertise in astrophysics and planetary science. The award has an ultimate...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Chicago, a private non-profit academic and research institution, for a project titled "The Oxidation State and Mineralogy of Extraterrestrial Materials". The $643,000 grant will support the use of synchrotron-based X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and high-speed X-ray microdiffraction (micro-XRD) techniques to analyze the chemical state and mineralogy of...