This is a $239,450.58 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa, a public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university in Hawaii. The grant is for a project titled "Science Goals and Objectives: Total Solar Eclipses Provide Unique Opportunities to Explore the Inner Corona in an Uninterrupted Heliocentric Distance of 1 to 5 Solar Radii (Rs), with an Angular Resolution of 1- 4." The project aims to...
This is a $238,922 grant award to the University of Hawaii (UH) from the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, for a research project to observe the 2024 total solar eclipse. The goal is to use NASA's WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft to acquire superior quality spectral data and imaging observations of the solar corona over the 270-1100 nanometer wavelength range. This will yield insights into coronal plasma composition, temperatures, and coronal mass ejections. The award...
The University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa was awarded a $390,997 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project titled "KITE-BORNE PLATFORM FOR TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE CORONA AND THE SOURCES OF THE SOLAR WIND." The grant, which has a period of performance through July 31, 2025, will support UH's specialized research on solar physics and the solar wind. This award is not associated with a set-aside program. UH is a...
This $399,114.91 grant award to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) supports research on the cosmogenic neutrino flux. The grant, which has no set-aside designation, will run through March 1, 2023. UH, a public university system that serves as the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii, has extensive expertise in astronomy, oceanography, and other scientific fields. It holds a significant Indefinite Delivery Contract...
This is a $81,330 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a public research university in Hawaii. The grant is for a research project titled "DIRECT DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANETS WITH IMAGING FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY" and is under the supervision of student Jingwen Zhang. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Hawaii at Manoa is the prime recipient of this award,...
This $462,974 federal grant award to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The grant aims to position UH as a key partner and enabler in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond. The award also seeks to advance...
This is a $477,090.33 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH), a public university system in Hawaii. The grant is for research to understand early and late-stage processes in the solar system, including the distribution of aluminum-26 and oxygen isotope reservoirs, the origins of ultra-refractory inclusions, and the formation of plastically deformed calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs). Additionally, the research aims to study...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center has awarded a $94,428.00 grant for research on "Tidal Disruption Events Under the Multiwavelength Microscope" to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa. The grant has a performance period ending on August 31, 2025. UH is a public university system in Hawaii that has a history of delivering specialized research, educational, and technical services to the federal government through contract and grant...
The University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa was awarded a $199,301.07 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to inferring stellar masses, radii, luminosities, and ages using a combination of spectroscopic, photometric, and rotation-based proxies. This grant, contract number 80NSSC21K0246, has a period of performance ending on November 4, 2023. UH, a public university system and the primary institution of higher education in Hawaii, has...
This is a $522,170 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii (UH) to conduct research on the magnetic field of the solar polar region. The grant is part of NASA's ongoing research efforts to understand the global poloidal field in the Sun's interior, which is a major source of the open magnetic flux. UH, as a renowned research university with expertise in fields like astronomy and space science, will be responsible for performing this...
This is a $212,081.99 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a research university in Hawaii. The grant is for designing and building two new triple-channel imaging spectrographs to study the coronal plasma, solar wind, and coronal mass ejections during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. The data collected will help understand the sun's interactions with Earth and the solar system, addressing NASA's strategic objectives. There is no set-aside designation for this award, and it does not appear to be associated with a larger contract vehicle. The University of Hawaii has extensive experience in federal research contracts and grants, including work with NASA, the Department of Defense, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.