Project Grant NNX16AK71G

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Planetary Science Institute received a $489,147 Project Grant from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) to execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as administration priorities and Congressional direction. The award period runs from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, with research activities conducted at the awardee's facility in...

This $441,114 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences supports the "Active Asteroids Citizen Science Project". The project will use a team of over 8,500 citizen science volunteers to classify nearly 500,000 archival images of asteroids and other small solar system bodies. This data will be used to discover new active asteroids, which are crucial for understanding the distribution of volatiles like water in the solar system. The...

This $330,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a three-year research initiative led by Katie Bristol at Purdue University beginning June 1, 2025. The primary deliverable is a comprehensive paleomagnetic analysis of meteorite samples—specifically refractory inclusions, calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, and amoeboid olivine aggregates—to...

This $365,609 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund research to improve the accuracy of sky position measurements for minor planets using data from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the program aims to study gravitational forces in the solar system by precisely tracking the motions of thousands of Trojan asteroids and over...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences totals $293,281 to improve the accuracy of sky position measurements for minor planets using the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Conducted by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the research will analyze LSST observations of thousands of Trojan asteroids and 200,000 main belt asteroids to measure their motions to within 10 meters and 1 meter, respectively. This highly precise astrometry...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Research (CFDA 47.078) program provides $755,980 to the University of Rochester to obtain and analyze new ice cores from Antarctica's Dome C. The research aims to improve understanding of the history of galactic cosmic ray flux and the global methane budget over the Holocene period. Key activities include: Measuring in-situ cosmogenic carbon-14 in the ice cores to test the assumption of a constant galactic cosmic ray flux,...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) provides $203,512.00 to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to conduct research on "Recovering Planet Populations from Microlensing Surveys". The award period runs from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. As a non-profit research organization, SAO will leverage its specialized scientific expertise and instrumentation capabilities to advance...

This $699,999 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will support the acquisition of a state-of-the-art electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The EPMA is a highly specialized instrument used for rapid, high-resolution elemental analysis of solid materials, advancing research across disciplines such as volcanology, petrology, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, astrobiology, archaeology, and planetary...

Federal Grant Award Summary Award Details: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate awarded a $225,000 Project Grant (CFDA 43.001) to The Regents of the University of Colorado on August 5, 2025, with a completion date of August 4, 2026. The award supports research on explosive phenomena relevant to NASA's strategic objectives of enabling human exploration to the Moon and Mars, with research activities conducted at the University of Colorado's...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $881,843, is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award will support the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in upgrading the MKID Exoplanet Camera, an integral field spectrograph located behind the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument at the Subaru Telescope. The project aims to boost the spectral resolution and array fill factor of the...