This federal contract award, valued at $2,385,495.69, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) under a cooperative agreement. The objective is to produce new Earth Science Data Records (ESDRs) to support the understanding of ice sheet dynamics and their contribution to sea level rise. Key deliverables include monthly ice motion maps, a new bed topography and ice thickness model for Antarctica, annual grounding line...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct gravity sounding research on glaciers in southern Greenland. The $984,614 grant will enable UC Irvine to employ a novel approach using high-resolution helicopter-borne gravity data to map glacier thickness at a spatial resolution of 500 meters with a precision of 50 meters. This data will be integrated with other sources, including...
This federal contract award, ID 80NSSC21K0917, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on May 20, 2021. The $484,367.00 grant is for a research project aimed at improving estimates of ice mass balance in Antarctica by combining observations from NASA's ICESat/OIB/ICESat-2 laser altimetry missions and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)/GRACE-Follow On (GRACE-FO)...
This federal contract award, valued at $525,077, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on ice sheet contributions to global sea level rise. The research project, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to improve the methodology for producing mass concentration (mascon) solutions from data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC20K1076 was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for a project focused on improving the modeling of the Antarctic ice sheet and its impact on sea level rise. The $1,021,181 grant aims to map the shape of sub-ice-shelf cavities, run high-resolution ocean modeling, and analyze the relationship between climate variables and ice shelf melt rates. This research will enhance...
This is a $118,512.21 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine), a major public research university located in California. The contract aims to use data assimilation techniques to better understand the processes driving the rapid changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet and improve projections of its contribution to sea level rise. This effort will combine NASA's Ice Sheet System Model...
This federal contract award, with a value of $946,783, was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for a research grant titled "IMPROVING ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES USING LASER RANGING INTERFEROMETER (LRI) AND MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT (MWI) GRACE-FO AND GRACE DATA" and has an ultimate completion date of June 19, 2028. UC Irvine, a public research university, has...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K1618, was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The 3-year, $135,000.00 grant is for a research project that explores the physics driving short-term dynamics and addresses the question of ice shelf stability in northern Greenland, using a combination of remote sensing and modeling techniques. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, as...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $738,346.00 grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on the sea level contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet. The grant, titled "SEA LEVEL CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET WITH IMPROVED REPRESENTATION OF GROUNDING ZONE DYNAMICS AND OCEAN CONDITIONS," is intended to improve scientific understanding of the processes driving ice sheet changes and their impact on global...
This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for research on projections of sea level change contributions from the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. The grant is a research contract with a period of performance ending on August 31, 2024. UC Irvine is a major public research university and has received past federal contract and grant awards from agencies including the Department of...