This federal contract award, valued at $102,914.89, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) under a cooperative agreement. The contract aims to evaluate the vulnerability of boreal landscapes to changes in water movement, carbon source and composition, and carbon processing and emissions in inland waters across boreal northwestern North America. The research will involve characterizing subsurface...
This federal contract award is a $126,113.47 training grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW). The contract is focused on using Landsat 8 satellite data to map carbon dynamics in Arctic and boreal water bodies to better understand the role lakes play in the circumpolar carbon cycle. This technical approach involves blending cloud-based data fusion techniques with ground-based, airborne, and remote sensing...
This federal contract award, valued at $4,983,843.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Washington (UW) to conduct research on the decline of Arctic sea ice cover. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UW is a prominent research institution with expertise in fields such as climate science, oceanography, and interdisciplinary innovation. Through this contract, UW will leverage its extensive...
This federal contract award was granted to the University of Washington (UW) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. The $613,486 grant is for a research project titled "Changing Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces in Arctic-Boreal Landscapes Control the Form, Processing, and Fluxes of Carbon?" The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. The University of Washington is a prominent public research university that has a strong track record of securing...
This is a $120,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to improve snow water equivalent (SWE) modeling in forested regions using remote sensing data. The contract is focused on deriving forest metrics from Landsat imagery and assimilating canopy snow presence/absence from the MODIS FSCA product into hydrologic models to better represent forest-snow interactions. This will help increase...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,798,362.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Washington (UW) for the Greenland Ice Mapping Project: The NISAR Era. This is a cooperative agreement with no set-aside designation, and the ultimate completion date is July 26, 2028. The University of Washington is a prominent public research university that provides a wide range of specialized research, scientific, and technical services to various federal...
This federal contract award to the University of Washington by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center is for $329,555.82 to construct navigability indicators for the Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route based on satellite data of sea ice conditions. The goal is to analyze trends in navigability and the potential impact on marine mammal habitats. The project will coincide with the U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council from 2015 to 2017. The contract does...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC20K0427, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) for a research study to develop a remote sensing approach to monitor total carbon stocks of forested wetlands. The $575,047 grant has a completion date of June 30, 2023 and does not have a set-aside designation. As a leading public research university, UW has a track record of securing prime federal...
This federal contract award is for a grant to the University of Washington (UW) to conduct research on leads and ridges, also known as linear kinematic features (LKFs), and their impact on the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and sea ice in the Arctic. The award, with a ceiling value of $1,268,882.00, was made on June 29, 2020, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of June 28, 2026. The University of Washington is a prominent...
This federal contract award to the University of Washington (UW) under the NASA Shared Services Center is a Cooperative Agreement with a ceiling value of $90,485.00. The contract is for a "Citizen Science Campaign to Validate Snow Remote Sensing Products", which will leverage UW's existing database and web services to engage citizen scientists in collecting snow depth and snow crystal data across the Pacific Northwest. This data will be used to validate NASA's remote sensing products...
This federal contract award, valued at $993,814.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) through a cooperative agreement. The contract aims to quantify inundation extent across important classes of hydrologic connectivity in the Arctic-boreal region, using previously acquired airborne remote sensing data to map vegetation and inundation patterns. This research supports Tier 2 science questions focused on the intersection of changing hydrology, species composition, and carbon cycling across the terrestrial-aquatic interface. The research team includes carbon biogeochemists and physical geographers, and will involve collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and other partners. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.