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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $590,039 grant to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant will fund research to further refine the Complex Terrain Carbon Monitoring System (CMS-Mountains) and deliver products to key stakeholders. Specific objectives include extracting fine-scale information on gross primary productivity in complex terrain using solar-induced fluorescence and MODIS reflectance data combined with...

This $209,975.30 federal grant award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) supports the development and deployment of an Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) for NASA. The award covers providing AVAPS dropsonde hardware, consultation on designing a dropsonde launcher, and field support during deployment. UCAR, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), has extensive expertise in atmospheric research and development to support this...

This is a $154,216.19 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to deploy the Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), also known as a dropsonde, on the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Olympic Mountain Ground Validation Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign from November 10 to December 22, 2015. The...

This is a federal grant award from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for a project titled "HIGH MOUNTAIN ASIA AND BEYOND: REGIONAL CHANGES IN CLIMATE, GLACIERS AND WATER RESOURCES". The $365,725 grant will support research on the impacts of climate change on glaciers, snow cover, and hydrology in the High Mountain Asia region, which provides critical freshwater resources to over 1.3 billion people. The award has no set-aside...

This is a $113,703 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado to conduct research on the impact of wildfire on permafrost active layer thickness (ALT) in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska. The University will use ground-penetrating radar and other field measurements to gather approximately 30,000 ALT data points both within and outside fire-affected areas. The goal is to statistically determine how fire impacts...

This $274,120 federal grant award was provided by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to conduct research on "SINGLE SOURCE" ATMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING THROUGH PLANETARY-SCALE WAVES AT EQUATORIAL LATITUDES. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and this work will be primarily performed at NCAR facilities in Boulder, Colorado. The award does not have a set-aside designation. UCAR...

The University of Colorado, Boulder was awarded a $533,094 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the dynamics of the Martian thermosphere, the upper atmosphere layer extending from 90 km to the exobase at around 200 km. The project will focus on understanding the coupling between the lower/middle Martian atmosphere, as measured by the Mars Climate Database, and the thermosphere up to the exosphere, including the aerobraking region between...

This is a $1,240,757 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division to conduct research on glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA). The research aims to study the role of glaciers in the hydrological cycle, examining their contributions to both water resources and hazards in the region. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Utah is a major research institution that frequently...

This is a $47,455 grant contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit organization that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The contract supports a 3-year project titled "A Transport Overview for ACCLIP (2022) Airborne Observations Through a Lens of Lagrangian Trajectory Modeling." This research grant does not have a set-aside designation. UCAR/NCAR provides...

The Regents of the University of Colorado, through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a $519,733.58 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ensure the continuity of long-term, high-quality measurements of upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) water vapor using NOAA's balloon-borne frost point hygrometers (FPHs). This grant supports the existing FPH sounding programs at three critical monitoring sites: Boulder, Colorado; Hilo, Hawaii;...