This is a $415,548 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), a premier public research university. The grant is for the "NISAR PRODUCTS, CAL/VAL, AND EARLY SCIENCE RESULTS FOR GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS (AUG)" project, which involves research and development related to the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant has an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2025. UC Irvine, a...
This $123,817.67 federal grant award to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on understanding changes in the global carbon cycle in forests under a changing climate. The research aims to improve models and predictions related to carbon sequestration and release in forest ecosystems. There is no set-aside designation for this grant. As a public research university with extensive expertise across...
This is a $461,480 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on June 2, 2018. The grant supports research to better quantify the uncertainty and model the runoff production from surface melt, which is a key component of the mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet. The research will leverage data from automated weather stations, snow pits, and ice cores to evaluate the ability of regional atmospheric climate models...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the NISAR Mission Products, Cal/Val, and Early Science Results for Glaciers and Ice Sheets. The grant, valued at $347,099.80, is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UC Irvine, a major public research university, has a history of providing research and development services to various federal agencies, including the...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for research on the impacts of changes in rainfall patterns across the Amazon region. The $893,268.00 grant aims to study how water deficits in the Amazon are affecting both human and natural systems, particularly in the areas of river transportation and agricultural production. The grant has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2025. UC Irvine, a...
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 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...
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 $600,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for research on physics models that simulate large-scale hydro-mechanical processes. The grant aims to address the computational expense and uncertainty sources associated with these physics models, as well as the limitations of observational data. The award has an ultimate completion date of October 11, 2025 and does not...
This is a $300,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for research on "Diabatic Attribution of Marine Heatwave Formation and Destruction". The award, which has a performance period ending on July 31, 2027, is focused on understanding the underlying mechanisms driving the formation and dissipation of marine heatwaves. This grant is part of UCI's broader portfolio of federal research contracts and...
This is a $135,000 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) on September 1, 2018. The grant supports research to characterize the topology and flux partition characteristics of Arctic delta channel networks and their connectivity with thermokarst lakes. The goal is to improve understanding of how localized changes in connectivity drive system-wide response and reorganization in Arctic deltas, which have implications for hydro-geomorphology, carbon cycling, and ecosystems. The research directly addresses key NASA Terrestrial Ecology research priorities related to permafrost dynamics and Arctic hydrology. No set-aside designation was indicated for this award. As a major public research university, UC Irvine has a long history of providing research, development, and other services to federal agencies through prime and subcontract awards.