This federal contract award, valued at $93,594.06, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to the University of Washington. The contract is a training grant and aims to utilize satellite-based hydrologic observations to study temporal variations in water stored in reservoirs globally. This research supports a key science question for the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, which will provide unprecedented...
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $105,000 grant to the University of Washington under contract 21-SMDSS21-0029 to support research exploring synergies between measurements from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission and airborne altimetry. Specifically, the grant will fund work investigating how data from SWOT's wide-swath interferometry can improve hydrologic studies of surface water dynamics when combined with measurements from the...
This federal contract award to the University of Washington (UW) provides $668,427.00 in funding for research related to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. SWOT is a joint satellite mission between NASA, the French space agency CNES, the Canadian Space Agency, and the UK Space Agency that will observe the 2-D structure of sea surface height on 15-120 km wavelength scales, potentially transforming understanding of ocean dynamics at these scales. The contract, awarded by the...
This is a $824,494.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Washington for a research project titled "QUANTIFYING THE NET IMPACT OF THE SWOT MISSION IN IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN REGULATION OF SURFACE WATER AROUND THE WORLD." The contract has a period of performance from September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2028 and is not a set-aside award. The University of Washington is the prime contractor and will be conducting the...
This federal contract award, identified as NNX16AH65G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington. The $352,925.31 grant will fund research to quantify ocean variability at 15-100 km wavelengths, assess how submesoscale to mesoscale processes will be captured by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, and develop sampling strategies for SWOT validation and integrated regional observational...
This federal grant award to the University of Washington (UW) supports research to improve the measurement and modeling of mountain snow, which is critical for understanding water supplies and ecosystems. The $1,174,641 grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting UW's status as a large educational institution. As a leading...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC24K1660, is a $882,981.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington. The contract is for a project titled "OCEAN SURFACE DYNAMICS UNVEILED WITH SWOT-DRIFTER SYNERGY" and has an ultimate completion date of August 4, 2028. The University of Washington, a leading research university, will be conducting research services for this project...
This is a $75,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington to create a reproducible and scalable flood forecasting system for flood-prone river deltas in the developing world. The project aims to implement the system on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin and assess the forecast skill for Bangladesh during the 2015 to 2019 monsoon seasons. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $150,000.00, was granted to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "REVEALING THE HYDROSPHERE: MAPPING WIDTHS AND HEIGHTS OF NARROW RIVERS WITH SWOT" project. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UMass, as the prime contractor, will utilize its expertise in areas such as engineering, computer science, and environmental studies to conduct...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will support pre-launch preparations and scientific development for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, a joint effort between NASA, CNES, and CSA. The $744,348 grant aims to establish calibration and validation sites, collect field and remote sensing datasets, and conduct studies on the impact of factors like vegetation and permafrost on SWOT data products. This work will contribute to SWOT's...