This is a $803,868.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) for "AUTONOMOUS RADIOMETRIC VALIDATION OF PACES OCI IN THE GULF OF MEXICO". The award is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. USM, a comprehensive public research university, will leverage its expertise in oceanography and environmental monitoring to perform autonomous validation of ocean color imaging on NASA's PACES...
This federal contract award, valued at $563,293.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) through a Cooperative Agreement. The purpose of the award is to develop a method using multi-angle polarimetry data to improve the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) correction for the Hyperspectral Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) on NASA's upcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. The...
This $75,257.39 federal grant award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of South Florida (USF) to implement and test preliminary atmospheric correction algorithms and process airborne hyperspectral data collected by the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) and Airborne Compact Atmospheric Mapper (ACAM) instruments. The award has a period of performance from February 12, 2018, to May 20, 2021. No...
This is a $125,490.66 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of South Florida (USF) for research related to NASA's goals of understanding ocean physics, biology, and ecosystems. The grant, contract number 80NSSC19K1358, has a performance period from September 1, 2019 to December 18, 2023. No small business or socioeconomic set-aside designations were used for this award. As a major public research university with broad expertise across...
The University of Maine System (UMS), through its University of Maine Division, has been awarded a $1,053,680.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "VALIDATION OF OCEAN SURFACE DOWNWELLING IRRADIANCE AND ITS UNDERWATER PROPAGATION FOR THE PACE MISSION" project. This project supports NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which aims to study the Earth's ocean and atmosphere. The grant, which does not have a set-aside...
This is a $1,124,316.97 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Earth And Space Research (ESR), a nonprofit oceanographic research institute. The grant is for a research project investigating the dynamic nature of marine eco-regions in the North Pacific using biological datasets and satellite oceanographic data. The project aims to study how "Meso-Marine Ecosystems" (MMEs) may move in response to changing ocean conditions,...
This is a $536,050.79 grant award to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division, doing business as URI - Research, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant is for a research project titled "North Atlantic Plankton Population Dynamics: Quantifying the Predictive Values of Temperatures, Light and Hyperspectral Ocean Color Data." The research aims to measure plankton population dynamics, growth rates, and predator-induced mortality...
This federal contract award for $648,365.13 was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of South Florida (USF) to study and quantify decadal variations in the transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The award will leverage data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GFO) missions to better understand how these important climate systems are...
This is a $207,085 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) for the "AIRBORNE ASSESSMENT OF HYPERSPECTRAL AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND WATER-LEAVING REFLECTANCE PRODUCT PERFORMANCE FOR PACE (AIRSHARP3)" project. UCSC, a Hispanic-Serving Institution and land grant university, will conduct research and development to support NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which aims to study...
This is a $409,727.04 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida. The grant is for a research project titled "Improving Altimetry's Non-Tidal High-Frequency Ocean De-Aliasing Correction Through the Inclusion of GRACE Data." The project aims to develop new, high-resolution gravity time series from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data to improve the accuracy of...