Portland State University was awarded a $298,737 research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center on July 19, 2023, to conduct flow-dependent optimization of observation performance in NASA's GEOS Hybrid 4D-ENVAR ADAS (Advanced Data Assimilation System). The project, which is scheduled for completion on July 18, 2026, represents a non-set-aside grant focused on advancing data assimilation methodologies critical to Earth observation and weather prediction capabilities. This research aligns with...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Portland State University (PSU) supports the development of improved barotropic and baroclinic tide models to support the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. The $219,631.62 grant aims to address the unique challenges of accurately modeling tides, particularly in high latitudes, shallow seas, and estuaries, which are critical for achieving the SWOT mission's objectives of studying ocean...
This is a $617,238.00 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Oregon State University (OSU) to continue studying ocean surface and internal tides using satellite altimeter data, other data types, and numerical modeling. The award builds on OSU's previous Oceanic and Solid Earth Geophysics program investigations. The work aims to produce highly accurate tidal atlases that can be used to compute altimeter tide corrections for both barotropic and...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Oregon State University (OSU) for $226,912.00 to continue studying ocean surface tides and internal tides using satellite altimeter data, other data sources, and numerical modeling. The research builds on OSU's current work in this area and aims to produce highly accurate global tidal atlases, clarify the stationarity of internal tides, and better understand the role of tidal energy in...
This is a $107,276 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Oregon State University (OSU) for research on ocean tides. The grant is a continuation of a long-standing collaboration between OSU researcher Gary Egbert and NASA scientist Richard Ray, focused on studying tidal energetics and internal tides using satellite altimeter data. The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023. OSU is a public land-grant research university with expertise...
This $179,198.43 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Portland State University will support research to assess glacier volume change in the American West using airborne microwave sensor data. The objective is to track the magnitude and rate of alpine glacier retreat due to climate change, which impacts global sea level rise. The project will provide a baseline dataset of glacier topography that can be used to measure future volume changes. This work expands the...
This is a grant award to Oregon State University (OSU) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on ocean surface tides and internal tides using satellite altimeter data. The award, valued at $76,058.00, builds on the principal investigator's previous work under the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) program. The grant has a performance period from May 25, 2021 to May 24, 2022 and does not have a set-aside designation. OSU, a public land-grant...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC25K7387, was granted by the Shared Services Center of an unspecified civilian agency to Portland State University (PSU), a public research university located in Portland, Oregon. The $597,747.00 grant is for a 3-year period ending in May 2028 and tasks PSU with executing a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The work will focus on scientific research related to...
Portland State University was awarded a $149,828 grant by a Shared Services Center (civilian federal agency) on November 19, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of November 18, 2028. The contract is structured as a research grant with "Other" pricing type and carries no set-aside designation, indicating competitive selection. The award tasks PSU with executing a balanced science program informed by discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,...
This is a $302,078.02 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Portland State University (PSU) to develop a "robust indicator of extreme precipitation over the Continental United States" based on data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) programs. The indicator will categorize extreme precipitation events similar to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, allowing tracking of trends in...
This is a $207,458.11 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Portland State University (PSU), a public research university in Oregon. The grant supports continued research on ocean surface tides and internal tides using satellite altimeter data, numerical modeling, and data assimilation. Key objectives include producing highly accurate global tidal atlases, investigating the stationarity of low-mode internal tides, and improving estimates of tidal energy dissipation and its role in ocean mixing. This builds on PSU's previous work in this area. The grant has no set-aside designation and will run through April 30, 2020. As a public research university, PSU has a long history of supporting federal agencies across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains through both contracts and grants.