This contract is a $192,394.95 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Universities Space Research Association (USRA) on March 26, 2019. The contract is for an investigation into changes in vegetation patterns along the taiga-tundra ecotone in response to Arctic warming. The project aims to use remote sensing data, modeling, and observations to examine and quantify the likelihood of predicted changes in forest...
This federal contract award for $836,656.64 was granted by NASA to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to serve as the science team lead and conduct research on mapping and modeling the attributes of an Arctic-boreal biome shift as part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABOVE) program. ABOVE is an interdisciplinary NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program research effort focused on understanding the vulnerability and resilience of Arctic and boreal ecosystems to environmental change, and...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K1183, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to conduct research on tropospheric ozone (O3) formation and its impacts on air quality. The $21,869.88 grant-funded contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, will run through September 30, 2023. USRA, a nonprofit research organization, has extensive experience supporting NASA's science missions and programs....
This is a $116,262.40 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to develop a flexible data integration, simulation, and evaluation framework to support NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABOVE) field campaign. The ABOVE study aims to improve scientific understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of Arctic and boreal ecosystems in Alaska and western Canada to environmental change. The specific goals of this agreement are to intercompare models,...
This is a $80,245.19 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to support research on monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from space-based observations. The primary objective is to improve understanding of the processes controlling atmospheric CO2, including the anthropogenic emissions that drive long-term CO2 growth. The research will leverage data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory...
This $179,884.47 federal contract award to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, on October 1, 2021. The contract is a grant for research that does not have a set-aside designation. The contract supports USRA's role in providing a complete and physically consistent set of global flux and atmospheric concentration data products to the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) program, which USRA has supported since the program's...
This federal contract award, valued at $63,575.50, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit research organization. The contract is for research and analysis that will address an Earth System Science Societal Benefit Area through the use of NASA technology, models, and data sets to benefit public health. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting USRA's...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1065, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit research organization. The $109,043 grant is for a research project that will analyze data from the OCO-2 and OCO-3 missions to improve understanding of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, including attribution to socioeconomic sectors. This work does not have a set-aside designation. USRA has extensive experience...
This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Montana for a project titled "Satellite Data Driven Model Assessment of Landscape Variability and Environmental Controls on the Arctic-Boreal Carbon Budget." The $699,995.51 contract aims to apply a satellite data-driven carbon model framework to improve the understanding and quantification of carbon (CO2 and CH4) fluxes and environmental...
This is a letter task order awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) for continued support of science instrument development, infrared science archive transition, and data cycle system development. The $36,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting USRA's status as a large nonprofit entity. USRA is providing these services as part of its extensive experience supporting NASA's science missions and...