The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) was awarded a $272,196 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to extend the NISAR Science Team's research on permafrost, ionospheric correction, and disaster response. The grant, which runs through September 1, 2025, supports UAF's expertise in Arctic and climate science as it contributes algorithms and products to the joint NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation NISAR satellite mission. UAF, the prime contractor, will...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The $281,033 grant will support research and development activities related to the NISAR mission, which aims to facilitate significant advances in targeted science disciplines and promote synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology to new application areas. UAF, a public research university, is the prime...
This federal contract award, valued at $113,908.14, was granted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to utilize synthetic aperture radar data for rapid disaster response. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation. UAF, as the prime contractor, will leverage its expertise in Arctic and climate science, geophysics, and environmental monitoring to deliver innovative solutions addressing complex scientific...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AC32G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Grants and Contracts Administration Division. The $3,167,411.23 award is for UAF to perform airborne missions in Alaska to conduct laser altimetry, surface mapping with lidar, and bed mapping radar measurements. This work will extend and link the measurements from past and current NASA satellite missions, such as ICESat, ICESat-2, and...
This federal contract award, valued at $42,959.00, was granted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. Under this grant for research, UAF will provide computer software development and support to integrate the University of Arizona's Sentinel-1 water mapping machine learning model, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Sentinel-1 effective river width code, and associated code from the NASA ACCESS project...
This federal contract award, ID 80NSSC23K1112, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) on June 2, 2023. The $140,788.00 grant provides funding for UAF to leverage its Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) and optical data capabilities to disseminate global surface water mapping to stakeholders worldwide. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. As the flagship research institution and a land, sea, and...
This $280,743.84 federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to conduct geophysical studies using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations. The project, which runs through April 2024, will utilize high-rate GNSS data to derive instantaneous receiver velocities for various research applications. UAF, the state's flagship research university, has extensive expertise in Arctic and climate...
This federal contract award, valued at $99,952.62, was granted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct a sustainable, integrated Arctic research project in the Chukchi Sea. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, is a grant for research activities that will be completed by August 31, 2022. UAF, through its Grants and Contracts Administration Division, is the prime contractor on this project and will...
This federal contract award ID 80NSSC19K0981 was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in the amount of $126,789.35. The contract is a grant for research to investigate the use of satellite data to monitor changes in atmospheric composition due to anthropogenic emissions in remote Arctic regions. The goal is to characterize the impact of increased shipping and oil/gas activities on the...
This federal contract award is a grant for $377,112.22 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to advance earth system science research by contributing to the understanding of climate variability and change on freshwater ice conditions in river basins. The grant is part of NASA's "Community Eyes on River Ice" program, which aims to broaden participation in freshwater ice observation to support hydrologic research,...
This federal contract award with ID NNX16AK55G was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) as the prime contractor. The $344,955 grant supports UAF's continued participation on the NISAR Science Definition Team (NSDT), representing the Earth Science Discipline Cryosphere. UAF's work under this grant focuses on four main objectives: (1) developing and validating science algorithms for observing permafrost change, (2) developing and implementing ionospheric correction technology for the NISAR mission, (3) expanding NISAR's transportation infrastructure applications, and (4) expanding NISAR's volcano hazards applications. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. As the state's flagship research university, UAF brings specialized expertise in Arctic and climate science to support this NASA NISAR mission.