The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), acting through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $423,979.57 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct coordinated petrologic, mineralogical, and isotopic investigations of early-formed nebular condensates preserved in chondritic meteorites. This research aims to better constrain the earliest environments in the solar nebula and shed light on the formation and early evolution of the solar...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 training grant contract to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 1, 2018 with a performance period ending on August 31, 2021. The contract, which had no set-aside designation, supports a research project to characterize the timing and nature of chemical evolution occurring in the early solar system by conducting petrographic and isotopic analysis of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. This...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Office of Research Administration. The $525,937.01 grant is funding two research projects at UCLA: 1) experiments simulating the chemical and isotopic effects of collision-induced melting of planet precursors, and 2) analysis of the possible crystal chemical controls on high-precision oxygen isotope ratios in...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC19K0794, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specifically its Office of Research Administration division. The two-year, $102,938.99 grant supports a petrologic-geochemical study to investigate secondary alterations in Apollo 14 high-alumina mare basalts, especially rock sample 14072, and continues research on similar alterations in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $279,313.87 grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to produce a database of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) data for 750 iron meteorites and develop data management software to provide public access to the archive. The first year of the two-year project will focus on updating INAA data for 12-15 elements in certain iron meteorite groups, while the second year will expand the analysis to the...
This federal grant award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) provides $158,476.00 in funding for the creation of a public archive of iron meteorite compositional data. The award was made on October 6, 2022 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of October 5, 2025. UCLA, acting through its Office of Research Administration division, is the prime recipient of this non-set-aside grant. As a public university and recipient of...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC19K0511, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as the prime contractor. The $619,809.28 grant supports research into the use of stable isotope ratios to investigate the formation and early evolution of rocky planets and planetary bodies in the solar system. The objectives of the research include calibrating models for isotope fractionation during the evaporation...
This is a $24,964 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on "Compositions and Parent-Body Processes in Chondrites and Irons." The grant, which has an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2026, is part of NASA's broader scientific investigation and exploration initiatives. As a leading research institution, UCLA has extensive capabilities in providing specialized research and...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the project "EVALUATING GEOCHRONOLOGIC COMPLEXITY AND IMPACTOR DIVERSITY OF HIGHLAND IMPACTITES". The $142,036.77 grant has an ultimate completion date of May 13, 2025. UCLA, a U.S. state government entity and 1862 Land Grant College, is the prime awardee and has demonstrated extensive capabilities in providing specialized research and...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K0931, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on July 1, 2020. The $456,986.00 grant supports research to take advantage of automated methods to detect recent craters on Mars in approximately 150,000 image pairs. This award is not set aside. UCLA, the prime contractor, is a U.S. state government entity and 1862 Land Grant College that has demonstrated extensive...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AE77G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct a series of investigations on the mineralogic components of chondritic meteorites. The goal is to develop improved chronological constraints on the formation and aqueous evolution of asteroids, which aligns with NASA's objective to understand the formation and early evolution of the solar system.
The $1,089,990.33 grant will enable UCLA, as the prime contractor, to utilize petrography, chemistry, and in-situ isotopic analyses to address timescales of early geologic activity on asteroidal parent bodies. This includes studying the Mn-Cr, O-isotope, and C-isotope systems in carbonates and other secondary minerals of carbonaceous chondrites. UCLA also plans to follow up on indications of 60Fe activity in early-formed carbonates. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The research will be conducted at UCLA's facilities in Los Angeles, California.