This is a $477,090.33 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH), a public university system in Hawaii. The grant is for research to understand early and late-stage processes in the solar system, including the distribution of aluminum-26 and oxygen isotope reservoirs, the origins of ultra-refractory inclusions, and the formation of plastically deformed calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs). Additionally, the research aims to study...
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 is a $547,130 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) for research on the Ostwald ripening of nanophase particles and their effects on visible to near-infrared spectra. The grant has a performance period ending on April 29, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. UH is a public university system in Hawaii that serves as a prime contractor and grant recipient for numerous federal agencies, including NASA, the...
This is a $763,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa for research related to the Stardust and Hayabusa space missions. The research will focus on microanalysis of returned comet dust from Stardust and asteroid dust from Hayabusa, which is significant for improving understanding of the mixing of materials in the solar system and the effects of space weathering on asteroids. This grant is not a set-aside award. The...
This is a $583,805.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) to investigate processes occurring on planetary bodies and minor bodies and define the physical and chemical processes that affect the surfaces of planetary bodies. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 18, 2025. UH is the prime contractor for this award, which is not a set-aside contract. This grant is part of NASA's broader research initiatives on...
The University of Hawaii (UH) has been awarded a $2,814,649 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "FLIGHT RECEIVERS FOR ORBITAL REMOTE SENSING OF BURIED LUNAR ICE DEPOSITS VIA CORALS: THE COSMIC RAY LUNAR SOUNDER" project. This grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for research related to the remote sensing of lunar ice deposits using cosmic ray detectors. UH, the prime recipient, is a public university system and the primary...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) for $757,667.00. The goal of the project is to conduct observations of small bodies in the solar system to test current models of solar system dynamics. Specifically, the research will characterize a set of minimally active objects on long-period comet orbits to understand the distribution of small body surface material types. This work is relevant to NASA's cross-cutting themes...
This is a $706,605 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The grant will fund research to determine whether impact gardening can explain the erasure of rays on the asteroid Vesta, as observed by the Dawn Discovery Mission. The research will provide new constraints on solar system processes like space weathering and regolith development. The grant does not have a set-aside designation....
This is a $493,305 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant public research university in Hawaii. The grant is not associated with a set-aside program. The grant funding supports three key research objectives: 1) characterizing the mobility of phosphorus in olivine crystals in the lunar crust and upper mantle, 2) determining if the phosphorus enrichment observed in a previous study...
This $399,114.91 grant award to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) supports research on the cosmogenic neutrino flux. The grant, which has no set-aside designation, will run through March 1, 2023. UH, a public university system that serves as the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii, has extensive expertise in astronomy, oceanography, and other scientific fields. It holds a significant Indefinite Delivery Contract...
This is a $308,730.00 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Hawaii (UH) to investigate the flux and nature of extraterrestrial materials arriving on Earth and other planets over time. The research aims to study the impact history of planetary bodies and the dynamical evolution of the asteroid belt by analyzing extraterrestrial chromite grains isolated from slowly deposited sedimentary sections. This grant is part of NASA's Solar System Workings program, which seeks to understand processes occurring throughout the solar system. The University of Hawaii, a recognized leader in fields such as astronomy and earth sciences, will leverage its expertise and specialized analytical capabilities to carry out this interdisciplinary project. The award does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting UH's status as a large educational institution eligible for federal research grants.