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 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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $130,076.23 grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the formation environment of the solar system using short-lived radionuclides. This research grant, with a completion date of September 20, 2022, is not set-aside and will be performed at UCLA's facilities in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's Office of Research Administration, a division of the university, is managing this grant award. The work...
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...
This is a $699,981.10 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency of the U.S. government) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a three-year research project to measure the isotopic compositions of select light elements in solar wind samples returned by the Genesis Discovery Mission and from regolith particles of the Itokawa asteroid. The overarching goal is to derive accurate, mass-fractionation corrected, photospheric isotopic abundances of boron, carbon,...
This $150,000.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), acting through its Office of Research Administration. The grant supports research into "A SELF-CONSISTENT MODEL OF THE FIRST STARS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONAL SIGNATURES" and has a performance period ending on September 30, 2026. As the prime contractor, UCLA will leverage its expertise and facilities in Los Angeles to...
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 is a $268,262.42 grant for research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), acting through its Office of Research Administration division. The grant supports research into how sun-grazing comets can provide insights into the solar corona. The research involves developing models of cometary plasma in the solar corona and projecting cometary ion behavior to 1 AU. Results...
This federal contract award is a $730,816.87 grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant funds research to study the 3D structure and dynamics of high-speed jets in the magnetosheath region and their role in dayside magnetospheric processes. The research aims to improve understanding of how these transient events interact with the magnetopause and drive turbulence, reconnection,...
This federal contract award, NNX16AB53G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), operating through its Office of Research Administration. The $218,425.00 grant is for research related to extrasolar cosmochemistry, specifically investigating interior models of extrasolar rocky planets, the variation in oxygen-to-carbon abundance ratios among extrasolar planetesimals, and evidence of plate tectonics on extrasolar planets....