This is a $415,548 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), a premier public research university. The grant is for the "NISAR PRODUCTS, CAL/VAL, AND EARLY SCIENCE RESULTS FOR GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS (AUG)" project, which involves research and development related to the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant has an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2025. UC Irvine, a...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the NISAR Mission Products, Cal/Val, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. The grant, valued at $347,099.80, is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UC Irvine, a major public research university, has a history of providing research and development services to various federal agencies, including the...
This is a $2,856,673.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for the "EARTH SYSTEM DATA RECORD OF ICE MOTION, GROUNDING LINE, AND BED TOPOGRAPHY IN ANTARCTICA FROM NISAR AND OTHER SENSORS" project. The award has an ultimate completion date of July 26, 2028. UC Irvine, a non-profit educational institution, will perform the work at its facilities in Irvine, California. This contract is not set aside for any...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $352,684.99 grant is for the recipient to contribute to the development of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission through supporting the Science Definition Team (SDT). The work will focus on using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques to monitor changes in permafrost and...
This is a $135,000 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on September 1, 2018. The grant supports research to characterize the topology and flux partition characteristics of Arctic delta channel networks and their connectivity with thermokarst lakes. The goal is to improve understanding of how localized changes in connectivity drive system-wide response and reorganization in...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $738,346.00 grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on the sea level contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet. The grant, titled "SEA LEVEL CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET WITH IMPROVED REPRESENTATION OF GROUNDING ZONE DYNAMICS AND OCEAN CONDITIONS," is intended to improve scientific understanding of the processes driving ice sheet changes and their impact on global...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The NISAR mission will use radar to study changes in polar ice sheets and sea ice, measure Earth's surface deformation, and characterize global ecosystems. This grant, valued at $345,775.36, supports MIT's role as the Applications Lead for the NISAR Science Definition Team. The contract...
This is a federal grant award from the Shared Services Center (part of NASA) to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for $99,984.00 to perform research on using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from the UMBRA satellite constellation to study cryosphere processes. The award has an ultimate completion date of July 29, 2025. UC Irvine is a public research university with extensive expertise across disciplines including engineering, physical sciences, and climate research. The grant...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stanford University for research on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant, valued at $322,552.91, aims to help ensure NISAR provides data that supports a wide range of scientific investigations and societal applications, with a focus on maximizing the mission's ability to observe surface deformation even in challenging environments through the use of persistent scatterer InSAR...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct gravity sounding research on glaciers in southern Greenland. The $984,614 grant will enable UC Irvine to employ a novel approach using high-resolution helicopter-borne gravity data to map glacier thickness at a spatial resolution of 500 meters with a precision of 50 meters. This data will be integrated with other sources, including...