This is a $49,873.49 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) for a research project titled "LIFE'S COSMIC HANDSHAKE: WHEN CHIRAL SURFACES MEET CHIRAL ORGANIC MOLECULES". The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support student Kamil Stelmach's research on the interaction between chiral surfaces and chiral organic molecules, which is relevant to understanding the...
This is a $514,384.15 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct research on the chemical and mineralogical features of planetary surfaces, with a focus on the evolution and modification of asteroid surfaces. The research aims to characterize and understand these features, as well as develop a basis for understanding them. The project also includes an educational component to train a post-doctoral researcher,...
This is a $134,752.32 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA), conducting research to quantify, understand, and predict changes in Earth's ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, including the global carbon cycle. The grant is part of NASA's Carbon Cycling and Ecosystems Focus Area and has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023. UVA, as a major research university, has extensive experience...
This is a $774,645.88 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA), a public research university, to continue and enhance a summer program for education and training in computation for students of environmental sciences. The program, called the Intensive Summer School in Computing for Environmental Sciences (ISSCENS), has already trained over 50 students in basic programming and software best practices....
This $422,941.36 federal grant was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct research on the physical and chemical characteristics of high-mass star-forming regions known as "hot cores". The research aims to develop more sophisticated models of hot core formation and evolution, including the influence of temperature, density, and radiation on the chemistry that occurs during the infall and...
This is a grant awarded by NASA to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia, doing business as the University of Virginia (UVA), to integrate NASA's orbital and suborbital observations, satellite and surface measurements from other agencies, U.S. Census data, and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission inventories. The grant has a ceiling value of $131,576.43 and a performance period ending on August 31, 2023. UVA is a leading research university with extensive experience managing complex...
This is a $285,597 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA), a public research university. The grant supports research on "Hot-Atom Collisions in Planetary Atmospheres: Atmospheric Escape," which aims to improve the accuracy of collision cross-section models used in simulations of planetary atmosphere escape processes. This is part of the broader goal of understanding the...
This is a $264,394.29 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia, doing business as the University of Virginia. The grant supports research to investigate the response of seasonal plant phenology, carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations to spring warming, soil thaw, and liquid water availability across North America since 2002. The research leverages multi-scale carbon and water...
This federal contract award, valued at $98,885.29, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct research on "Modeling Chemical Signatures of Comet Irradiation by Supernovae and Hot Stars". The award, which has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2024, is a grant for research and does not involve any set-aside designations. UVA, a public research university located in...
This is a $801,014.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) for the development of a "MINIATURIZED, MULTIFUNCTIONAL, MICROSCOPIC ORGANIC/INORGANIC COMPOSITION ANALYTICAL PROBE FOR PLANETARY IN SITU SPECTROSCOPY (MOCAPS)". The award, which has no set-aside designation, runs from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026. UVA, a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be...
This is a $309,845.48 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia, doing business as the University of Virginia (UVA), for research on the chemical processes occurring within cometary ice. The grant supports the development of computational models to simulate the formation and evolution of complex organic molecules in cometary nuclei, including during the "cold storage" and "active" phases of a comet's orbit. The research aims to improve understanding of the degree to which cometary ices may have delivered prebiotic compounds to the early Earth. This grant is part of NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which focuses on the formation of organic molecules in space and the chemical and physical properties of ancient materials like asteroids and comets. There is no set-aside designation for this award, and it was not made under a larger contract vehicle.