This federal contract award, valued at $102,300.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago. The award is part of an investigation into supraglacial lakes and hydrology in North Greenland, with the overall aim of improving understanding of lake development and drainage, and assessing the implications for subglacial hydrology and ice dynamics. The research will analyze lake evolution on grounded and floating ice, investigate lake...
This is a $720,771.62 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado's Office of Contracts and Grants. The grant, titled "Bridging the Snow - Sea Ice Gap: A Snow on Sea Ice Assimilation System for the Arctic", aims to develop daily and monthly snow depth and density products to support improved satellite-based measurements of sea ice thickness. This information is critical for understanding and predicting changes in...
This is a $134,664 training grant awarded to the University of Chicago by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on September 1, 2020. The grant will fund research to model the processes that enabled the stability of surface liquid water on Mars later into its history, potentially extending the planet's habitability. The research aims to constrain the volume of water and number of outflow events required to produce observed surface features called "pollywogs," which...
This is a $25,243.47 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Illinois to conduct research on extracting melt pond data from ICESat-2 satellite data. The two primary tasks are to extract melt pond data using two existing algorithms - the University of Maryland Melt Pond Algorithm and the Density Dimension Algorithm (DDA) - and track the surface and bathymetry of the melt ponds. This research grant does not have a set-aside designation and the...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. It is a $135,000.00 training grant to support research on ice sheet meltwater processes that impact measurements of surface mass balance and contributions to global sea level rise. The research aims to map the spatial extent of the weathering crust on the Greenland Ice Sheet,...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) on September 1, 2018. The $134,883.98 award is a training grant that does not have a set-aside designation. The contract is for proposed research to continue the application of remote sensing data to track changes in Antarctica, a key region of the cryosphere, where large changes...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000 training grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GRIS). The research aims to determine if a connection exists between subsurface meltwater and changes in the surface height of the GRIS due to densification or drainage, in order to better understand the overall mass balance...
This federal contract award, valued at $291,892.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado (CU). The contract is for a research grant titled "Towards Implementation of Melt-Pond Information on the ICESat-2 Sea-Ice Products: Determination of Parameters and Variables of the DDA-BIF-SeaIce Using Airborne Campaign Data." The award is not set aside for any specific...
This federal contract award, Grant ID NNX16AJ38G, was granted to the University of Chicago by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Mars Data Analysis Program. The $250,459.54 grant is funding research to quantify the role of fluvial erosion versus other processes in modifying Noachian craters on Mars. The research aims to better constrain the rates and processes of Noachian landscape evolution, which can inform climate models for early Mars. This grant does not have...
This federal contract award, NNX16AD59G, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $716,781.97 grant is for research to provide an improved and more consistent analysis of the variable and rapidly changing climate at high northern latitudes within the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) framework. This work directly addresses two focus areas of NASA's Modeling Analysis and Prediction...
This is a $114,203.72 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Chicago. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is focused on studying the formation and evolution of melt ponds on the surface of Arctic sea ice. The goal is to improve understanding of the mechanisms governing melt pond evolution and use melt pond patterns to infer the state of the Arctic ice, ocean, and atmosphere. This research will leverage NASA's remote sensing data and contribute to enhancing knowledge of the cryosphere's role in global climate, aligning with the objectives of NASA's Earth Science Division. The contract period of performance runs from September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2019.