This is a $1,240,757 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division to conduct research on glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA). The research aims to study the role of glaciers in the hydrological cycle, examining their contributions to both water resources and hazards in the region. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Utah is a major research institution that frequently...
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 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 $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant is for a research project titled "A SURFACE VELOCITY INVESTIGATION OF LAKE-TERMINATING GLACIERS IN HIGH MOUNTAIN ASIA" with a period of performance through August 31, 2025. The University of Utah is a top-tier public research institution that conducts cutting-edge research across numerous scientific and medical...
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...
The University of Utah has been awarded a $353,170.99 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project to improve operational snowmelt forecasting models in the Colorado River Basin. The project aims to develop the capacity to run a spatially distributed snow energy balance model informed by remote sensing data, in order to better account for factors like dust deposition that can significantly impact snowmelt timing and magnitude. This research is...
This is a $677,471 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division for research on "Bayesian Quantification of Antarctic Surface Mass Balance". The research aims to use statistical modeling and data compilation to map the spatial and temporal variations in surface mass balance over the Antarctic ice sheet, which is essential for understanding ice sheet response to climate change and associated sea...
This is a $185,877.84 grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to quantify the temporal and spatial variability of snow and ice in High Mountain Asia (HMA) using satellite remote sensing. The objectives are to create a 35+ year daily record of snow/ice surface properties and mass estimates, including snow water equivalent, snow/ice melt, and sublimation at 500-meter resolution. This will contribute to an improved understanding of the processes controlling...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah for a research project focused on cloud and precipitation processes over the Southern Ocean region. The two main objectives are to fully explore the information content in A-Train satellite data for characterizing the cloud-precipitation microphysical processes in marine boundary layer shallow convective clouds, and to address relevant science questions in the Southern Ocean region using...
This is a federal grant award from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for a project titled "HIGH MOUNTAIN ASIA AND BEYOND: REGIONAL CHANGES IN CLIMATE, GLACIERS AND WATER RESOURCES". The $365,725 grant will support research on the impacts of climate change on glaciers, snow cover, and hydrology in the High Mountain Asia region, which provides critical freshwater resources to over 1.3 billion people. The award has no set-aside...
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 modeling, regional climate modeling, and glacier mass balance modeling approaches to improve understanding of precipitation and glacier change across the region. The grant is not associated with any set-aside designation. The research products, data, and tools developed under this grant will directly support other studies in the region, including those focused on snow, glaciers, permafrost, ecosystems, and hazards, in alignment with NASA's objectives to better characterize and understand processes controlling precipitation.