This is a $2,721,400.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) to support the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC). The SDSGC's mission is to expand aerospace, Earth science, and STEM education, research, and public service opportunities for all South Dakotans, with a focus on including women, Native Americans, and other underrepresented groups. The award does not have a set-aside...
This is a training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of South Florida (USF) in the amount of $88,799.84. The purpose of the grant is to investigate the relationships between the flow mobility metrics of recent volcanic mass flow events, such as pyroclastic density currents and lahars, and the topographic parameters of five selected active volcanoes. The research will leverage high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) from various...
This is a $78,643.53 grant awarded by NASA to the University of South Florida (USF) for research directly aligned with NASA's goal to address increasing exposure to natural hazards. The grant falls under one of NASA's top research directives from its Decadal Survey to improve the accuracy of digital elevation models (DEMs) at active volcanoes. The award has a period of performance from October 2, 2019 to June 28, 2022. USF, a major public research university, has a strong track record of...
This is a $4,240,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) for the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium. The award has no set-aside designation and is expected to be completed by February 22, 2026. SDSM&T is a public university that specializes in engineering, materials science, and scientific research, and frequently performs contract work for...
This federal contract award to Stanford University from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for research to advance volcano monitoring techniques using joint inversion of seismicity and geodetic observations. The $271,103.51 grant will be used to develop methods for modeling dike propagation and the onset of volcanic eruptions, building on previous work on the 2014 Bardarbunga volcano intrusion in Iceland. The research aims to improve real-time, physics-based data...
This federal contract award, valued at $750,000.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology under a Cooperative Agreement. The project will develop research infrastructure in South Dakota through the acquisition and implementation of a planar-casting system for synthesizing Microwave Absorbing Nanocomposite Structures (MANCS) for the first time in the state. This contract does not have...
This is a $541,921 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Illinois for research on using interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (InSAR) and GPS data to develop a data assimilation framework to detect precursors and forecast eruptions for high-risk volcanoes in the Aleutian Arc. The grant aims to build a near real-time monitoring system to provide eruption forecasts in coordination with the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The research will optimize the use of satellite InSAR data, combine it...
This is a $198,495 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to South Dakota State University (SDSU) to conduct research on detecting land surface phenology from high-resolution satellite imagery in the semiarid western United States. The award is pursuant to the ROSES2020 A.42 solicitation focused on commercial smallsat data analysis. SDSU, a public land-grant university, has a history of federally-funded research and support work for agencies like the Army Corps...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $450,000.00 cooperative agreement to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines) to continue the South Dakota Research Infrastructure Development (RID) program. The goal of the RID program is to promote competitive research and technology development in areas of strategic importance to NASA, through close coordination among the state's research institutions, government, industry, and NASA. The program focuses on...
This $366,015 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) will fund research to improve understanding of volcanic processes on Mars. The research aims to validate terrestrial lava flow propagation models for Martian applications, determine eruption conditions that produced Martian lava flows, and assess variations in flow rheology and crystal content. The work leverages data from the recent 2012-2013 Tolbachik...
This is a $276,284.34 grant awarded by NASA to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, a science and engineering university, to advance the numerical modeling methods used to quantify magma migration within the non-uniform rheological structure and stress field of an active volcano. The project aims to improve the interpretation of InSAR data for active volcanoes by developing tools to estimate parameters and uncertainties that describe the shape of the magma chamber, the history of magma flux, and the surrounding rheological structure. The work will support NASA's interest in characterizing the dynamics of the Earth's surface and interior, which is key to assessing and mitigating natural hazards. This grant does not have a set-aside designation. The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has a history of receiving federal contract awards and grants from agencies like NASA, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation for research and development projects across various technical disciplines.