Delivery Order EPW06008-EP0045

This federal contract award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) aims to quantify and attribute past air quality trends in ozone and particulate matter over the United States from 2005 to 2018. The $696,948 grant will fund the use of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, constrained by NASA satellite data, to generate daily air quality analyses at the county level. The effort will disentangle the contribution of individual physical and chemical processes...

This firm-fixed price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to the American Public Health Association Inc., a non-profit organization, to produce a special journal issue of the American Journal of Public Health on the topic of "Social Environments and Our Nation's Health." The period of performance was from April 25, 2012 to April 24, 2013, with a potential value of...

The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development awarded a $13,845 purchase order to 2B Technologies, a division of Ludlum Measurements, Inc., to deliver an ozone monitoring system. 2B Technologies, headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, will provide the equipment to the EPA under a firm fixed price contract running from September 26, 2023 through November 30, 2023. As the EPA's research arm works to understand air quality issues, this purchase of an ozone monitoring...

The University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) has been awarded a $613,830 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop observation-based, process-oriented metrics to test chemistry-climate models (CCMs) on their ability to match conditions related to the budgets of tropospheric ozone (O3) and methane (CH4). The core data for these metrics will come from NASA's DC8 aircraft in-situ measurements from recent campaigns, which will be combined with data from the...

This is a $929,964.70 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on using satellite products and models to quantify changes in air pollution levels and associated health effects in New York State over the past decade. The research aims to: 1) conduct a multi-pollutant health impact analysis, 2) attribute background versus U.S. anthropogenic sources, and 3) estimate uncertainties in...

This is a $200,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to The George Washington University (GWU) to conduct a study on using data from the GeoXO atmospheric composition satellites to estimate air pollution-related health impacts across the United States. The sole-source contract was awarded based on GWU's previous work developing the required analysis methodology and code, which NOAA determined could not be...

The federal contract award 80NSSC19K0979 was granted to the University of Colorado, a public research university, to conduct research on improving emission estimates of ozone precursors from U.S. oil and natural gas development and assessing the impacts on tropospheric ozone. The $633,910 grant will expand upon the Fuel-based Oil and Gas (FOG) emissions inventory, add additional pollutants, and model the air quality implications. The research aims to help elucidate the link between oil and gas...

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $203,802 time and materials delivery order to Research Triangle Institute - doing business as R T I International. This order is being issued against the agency's NEW STREAMS IV indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle to develop a spatial modeling tool for evaluating the efficacy of ultraviolet-C disinfection in enclosed environments. The tool will help EPA assess the potential for UVC light to inactivate pathogens indoors and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1.09 million grant to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to use observations from the NASA Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on the Aura satellite. Under the four-year contract, the Smithsonian will improve available global air quality indicators and conduct scientific studies using multiple OMI products to advance understanding of atmospheric chemistry and air quality issues. As the prime...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $18,955 firm fixed price purchase order to the American Meteorological Society, Inc. for non-personal services related to article publications. The contract has no set-aside designation and work is to be performed and completed in Boston, Massachusetts by February 19, 2024. As a leading publisher and provider of weather and climate information, the American Meteorological Society will leverage their...