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...
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 federal grant award to the University of Washington (UW) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award, valued at $1,297,158.51, is for a project titled "Validating a Glacier Melt Toolbox for High Mountain Asia Using a Remote-Sensing-Driven Data Integration Framework." The project aims to integrate remote sensing data and modeling approaches to better understand the water budget in the High Mountain Asia region, which is...
This is a $1,116,509.73 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant, titled "Precipitation and Glacier Change in High Mountain Asia over the Common Era," aims to quantify the temporal and spatial variability in precipitation over High Mountain Asia and the impacts of this variability on glacier mass balance over the modern era from 1980 to the present. The research will employ statistical climate...
This is a $415,089.67 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona for a project titled "Interlinked Glacier Dynamics, Lakes, Mountain Hazards, and Critical Vulnerabilities in the Himalaya." The project aims to explore the links between mountain hazards, glaciers, permafrost, snowfields, glacial lakes, and unstable mountain slopes in High Mountain Asia, particularly Nepal, and examine potential downstream impacts of glacier lake...
This federal contract award, valued at $525,077, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on ice sheet contributions to global sea level rise. The research project, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to improve the methodology for producing mass concentration (mascon) solutions from data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On...
This $774,723 federal grant award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Office of Research Administration was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate changes in snow hydrology over the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. The project aims to implement a novel Bayesian reanalysis and modeling approach to characterize the spatio-temporal patterns of snowpack states, fluxes, and underlying processes in the HMA region. The reanalysis dataset will...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) is valued at $99,298.57 and has a completion date of March 25, 2020. The project will apply Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data on terrestrial water storage to better understand the impact of hydro-climatic constraints on ecosystem productivity at a global scale. The research will integrate GRACE data with vegetation indices,...
This is a $464,245.69 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to characterize regional drought impacts using satellite observations from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. The project aims to quantify the role of soil moisture variability from SMAP and total terrestrial water storage changes from GRACE in relation to...
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...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for a project titled "Contribution of High Mountain Asia Glacier Changes to River Basin Hydrology Using GRACE Gravity and". The grant, valued at $630,297.97, aims to quantify changes in glacier mass balance in High Mountain Asia (HMA) and determine their contribution to river basin hydrology. The project will employ data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On missions to document glacier changes and their impact on the hydrological budget of single river basins. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, as UC Irvine competes for awards based on its research capabilities. This project aligns with NASA's strategic goals in Earth science and societal applications, particularly in the unique setting of the HMA region, which hosts more than one billion people.