This federal contract award, valued at $78,486.47, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct research on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is a grant for research and falls under the purview of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). OSU, a public land-grant research university, has extensive expertise in areas such as astronomy, astrophysics, and space science, making it...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $470,905 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) to mine the Swift gamma-ray burst archive and discover new short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The goal is to systematically search the untapped Swift data archive to find GRBs that were not detected by the on-board trigger system. Any GRBs found will be correlated with signals from other facilities such as the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and gravitational wave...
Oregon State University has been awarded a $727,212 research grant by a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center, with performance in Corvallis, Oregon, and completion scheduled for May 31, 2026. This grant, awarded on October 1, 2020, will build upon an ongoing collaborative research initiative funded by NASA's Earth Science Division, focusing on geomagnetic induction, satellite magnetometry, and ionospheric physics. The award carries no set-aside designation, indicating competitive...
Oregon State University received a $323,548 grant award from a Civilian Shared Services Center to support research on "Probing the High-Z Universe with a Large X-Ray Observatory." The award, issued on December 19, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of December 18, 2027, will be performed in Corvallis, Oregon. This research grant falls within the competitive merit-based selection processes typical of federal science funding, with no set-aside designation applied. The high-redshift...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) for $116,879.00. The grant supports research to search for gamma-ray burst (GRB) events similar to GRB 170817A, which is the only confirmed counterpart to a binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected to date. The goal is to better understand the physics linking BNS mergers to short GRBs, using data from the Burst and Transient Source...
This is a $1,735,280.50 grant award to Oregon State University, a public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant supports a 3-year research project focused on understanding how upper ocean ecosystem characteristics determine the vertical transfer of organic matter from the surface ocean. The project will evaluate how plankton community properties govern organic matter export, and contribute to...
This is a $2,720,534.69 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Oregon State University (OSU), a public land-grant research university, to support the Oregon Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) program from fiscal years 2015 to 2018. The grant aims to provide Oregon students, especially women and underrepresented minorities, with hands-on research and educational opportunities in STEM disciplines, disseminate NASA resources, and invest in interdisciplinary...
This is a $436,539 grant awarded by NASA to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for research on the impact of nucleosynthesis on accretion disks, outflows, and observable signatures associated with the merger of binary compact objects and the central engines of gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. The research program will investigate rapid accretion following the tidal disruption of a white dwarf by a neutron star or black hole, as well as the long-term evolution of...
Oklahoma State University was awarded a $50,000 grant by a civilian federal agency to conduct research on "Exploring Polarization Signatures in Gamma-Ray Bursts Through Fermi-GBM Observations of Earth's Gamma-Ray Albedo" (Award 23-FERMI23-0030). The grant, which commenced on September 11, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of January 10, 2026, represents a research initiative focused on astrophysical observations and analysis. The work will be performed at OSU's Stillwater,...
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 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Oregon State University, a public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon. The $432,020.70 grant is funding a comprehensive study to improve the understanding of the physics of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) in the multi-messenger era, which encompasses the simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, electromagnetic, and possibly neutrino signals. The research aims to support the detection and interpretation of gravitational waves from neutron star binary mergers, which are expected to be the progenitors of SGRBs. The grant involves performing state-of-the-art numerical simulations covering the coalescence and merger of compact binary systems, the dynamics of relativistic jets, and the resulting electromagnetic and neutrino signatures. This research is expected to provide critical insights to maximize the scientific output from multi-messenger observations of these cosmic events. The grant does not have a set-aside designation.