This federal contract award, valued at $1,069,228.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a comprehensive public research university system serving as the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii. The award supports the development of tools to ingest, access, and process 30 years of imaging data on comets and small bodies, creating a database of higher-order data products such as astrometry, photometry, and...
This federal contract award to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa, a public university system in Hawaii, provides $959,754 in funding for research on shock metamorphism in CM carbonaceous chondrites and its potential role in fluid mobilization and the growth of carbonates. The contract is a grant for research, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, a civilian agency. The award has a period of performance ending on June 20, 2027. UH, as a...
This federal contract award, valued at $374,425.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center (an agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa. The contract is a grant for research titled "EROS REVISITED: MODERN RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING OF SPACE WEATHERING ON ASTEROID 433 EROS WITH INSIGHTS FROM ITOKAWA". The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Hawaii is a public institution and a...
This federal contract award, valued at $326,802.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a division of NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a state-controlled institution of higher learning. The contract is for the development of an "Acoustic-Field Aerosol Separator for Planetary Atmospheric Sampling," a research effort related to the agency's Planetary Science Division. The University of Hawaii has a long-standing partnership with NASA, including a separate $85,492,611...
This is a $811,427.00 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The grant, titled "ISOTOPIC EVOLUTION OF PROTOPLANETARY DISK RECORDED BY REFRACTORY INCLUSIONS AND CHONDRULES IN CH AND CB CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES," will support research related to the study of protoplanetary disks and meteorites. The University of Hawaii is the prime awardee and there is no set-aside designation. The grant has an ultimate...
This federal contract award, valued at $676,927.30, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa. The project will study the dynamics of anisotropic features in the ocean interior that extend over long distances and have persistent low- or high-salinity signals relative to the surrounding waters. The University of Hawaii is a public university system and the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii. As a recipient of...
This federal contract award, valued at $673,649.32, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) to conduct research on planetary regolith and impact processes. The project aims to update a pioneering model on lunar regolith evolution, which will provide new insights on the regolith characteristics of the Moon, Mercury, Ceres, and Europa. The research is expected to improve understanding of the intensity of the final bombardment of...
This federal contract award to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a subsidiary of the University of Hawaii Systems, is a $538,998.12 grant for research on the formation of alkylphosphonic acids in interstellar ices. The study aims to understand the origin of these biologically relevant molecules, which could have been delivered to early Earth from comets and meteorites. The research methodology involves laboratory experiments that simulate the interaction of ionizing radiation with...
This federal contract award, valued at $70,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to conduct research on the asteroseismology of bright solar-type stars. The award is for a grant to support this research, with a period of performance ending on December 31, 2025. The University of Hawaii is a comprehensive public research university system serving as the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii, and it has...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23K1478, is a grant for research valued at $307,365.00 awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa. The grant is for a project titled "UNVEILING THE FORMATION OF HEMATITE ON THE MOON BY LABORATORY SIMULATIONS OF MICROMETEORITE BOMBARDMENT AND IRRADIATION BY OXYGEN IONS, PROTONS, AND UV PHOTONS". The award has a period of performance through November 30, 2025 and does not have...
This federal contract award, valued at $602,349.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The contract aims to improve understanding of the inter-relationships between amorphous silicates in comets, asteroids, and the interstellar medium. The research will involve detailed microscopic analysis and heating/annealing experiments on amorphous silicate samples from chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles, pristine chondrite matrices, and comet 81P/Wild 2. This work is relevant to NASA's goals of understanding the formation and early evolution of our solar system. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting the University of Hawaii's status as a large educational institution. The University of Hawaii has extensive expertise in astronomy, earth and environmental sciences, and has received numerous federal research grants and contracts from agencies like NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense.