This is a $3,410,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization, to support STEM engagement in Maine from fiscal year 2025 through 2028. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Under this agreement, the Maine Space Grant Consortium will provide research, development, and advisory services to NASA related to space exploration, such as developing...
This is a $95,941.30 cooperative agreement awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization, to support a research and development project titled "Improving Estimates of Land-to-Ocean Carbon Flux through Characterization of Colloidal Inherent Optical Properties." The project is intended to contribute to improving understanding of land-to-ocean carbon flux, with a completion date of December 31, 2023. The Maine Space Grant...
This is a $1,000,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization. The contract, which runs from May 2022 to May 2027, is intended to contribute to the development of a new space economy in Maine as envisioned by the proposed Maine Spaceport Complex. The agreement will build upon the consortium's core research and workforce development strengths in aerospace...
This federal contract award, valued at $940,308.00, was granted to the University of Maine System's Division of the University of Maine, doing business as Research & Sponsored Program, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract is for the development of an integrated data and methodological framework to quantify forest carbon stocks and fluxes using remote sensing data and process-based landscape modeling. The project aims to provide scientifically sound and...
This is a $749,807.44 cooperative agreement awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization. The award is for a project to use NASA multispectral and sea surface temperature data, as well as new hyperspectral field data, to bio-optically classify different water masses in the Gulf of Maine. The goal is to identify water masses that are preferred habitat for the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium, track these water masses, and map their...
This is a $4,240,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization. The award will support the expansion and diversification of Maine's space exploration research and education capacity over a four-year period from June 2020 to June 2026. The agreement aligns with the Maine Space Grant Consortium's goals to support research, development, and workforce development...
This is a $499,953.81 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC), a non-profit organization, to support the Maine NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Research Infrastructure Development (RID) program from 2015 to 2022. The goal of the program is to enable Maine scientists and engineers to compete nationally in NASA-related research and development activities. Specifically, the grant will fund interdisciplinary...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC19M0046, was granted by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization. The contract is a cooperative agreement with a ceiling value of $436,849.70 and a performance period through May 5, 2024. The award supports the Maine NASA EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) program, which has funded individual researchers since 2006 on projects aligning with Maine and NASA...
This is a $142,127.35 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montclair State University. The purpose of the project is to use semi-automated interpretation of high-resolution satellite imagery to assess changes in shrub cover and aboveground biomass in the Arctic tundra over a 10-15 year period. The goal is to provide data that can be used to validate lower spatial resolution remote sensing data products, initiate and calibrate ecological...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop a global database of tree and water cover using multi-source satellite imagery. The $749,960 grant will refine existing Landsat-based maps of tree and water cover for 2000, 2005, and 2010, and then estimate annual tree and water cover from 2010 to 2015 across North and South America. The research will be partnered with the European Space Agency's...
This $749,605.91 cooperative agreement was awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization, to research and develop geospatial data products to monitor forest health in the Northeastern United States. The project aims to leverage NASA's remote sensing technologies, including the Landsat satellite and the G-LIHT hyperspectral-lidar-thermal system, to provide more detailed and accurate data on forest tree species identification and detection of forest decline and damage caused by pests and pathogens. The goal is to support decision-making for forest management and pest control in the region. This contract is not associated with a set-aside program. The Maine Space Grant Consortium has received previous prime contract and grant awards from NASA and other federal agencies to support space exploration research and the development of Maine's proposed Spaceport Complex.