This is a $1,000,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization. The agreement is focused on contributing to the development of a new space economy in Maine, as envisioned by the proposed Maine Spaceport Complex. The strategy is to build upon the consortium's core research and workforce development strengths to improve Maine's research and innovation capabilities in the space domain. The agreement does not...
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 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 $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...
The U.S. government agency NASA Shared Services Center awarded a $750,000 cooperative agreement to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a non-profit organization. The contract is for the research and development of metastable oxygen nanobubbles and their applications to advanced life support systems for space exploration. The contract has a period of performance from June 7, 2022 to June 6, 2026. This award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle, and no set-aside designation was used....
The federal contract award is a Cooperative Agreement between the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) and the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) with a ceiling value of $4,240,000.00. The award supports the MSGC's proposed programmatic goals over the next four years to expand and diversify Maine's space exploration research and education capacity from K-12 through graduate programs, aligning with NASA's priorities. This contract award does not utilize any set-aside designations. The MSGC, a...
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 federal contract award, with ID NNX15AH80H, was granted by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC), a non-profit organization. The 3-year, $2,698,765.33 training grant aims to address both state and NASA needs in STEM research and education. The program includes undergraduate and graduate fellowships, summer internships, STEM curriculum integration, scientific ballooning, faculty research seed grants, and collaborations with minority-serving...
This federal contract award is a grant for research valued at $127,594.33 awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Maine System. The overarching goal of the study is to elucidate the ecological, physiological, and geophysical mechanisms contributing to observed chlorophyll increases around remote islands. The award was made on September 1, 2020, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2024. No set-aside was used for this award. The...
This is a grant for research awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Maine System (UMS) located in Orono, Maine. The $711,591 grant is for UMS to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. Key focus areas include scientific research related to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as well as advancing discovery in emerging interdisciplinary fields. The grant is...