This federal contract award, valued at $1,184,031.89, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The award is for a research grant titled "Towards a Complex Terrain Carbon Monitoring System (CMS-Mountains): Development and Testing in the Western U.S." The project aims to leverage satellite remote sensing and modeling to improve the understanding of carbon dynamics in mountainous regions,...
This $89,939.21 federal grant award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the "CARBON MONITORING SYSTEM IN MOUNTAINS (CMS-MOUNTAINS): LEVERAGING SATELLITE-BASED SOLAR-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE TO UNDERSTAND FOREST DROUGHT AND MORTALITY IN THE WESTERN U.S." project. The grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UCAR, which manages the National Center for...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, doing business as the University of Nevada, Reno. The $812,411.19 grant is funding a project to develop a Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) to estimate three-dimensional changes in forest biomass using remote sensing technologies like airborne and terrestrial lidar, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and ground-based imagery. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $853,863.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Utah for a research project titled "Towards a Carbon Monitoring System for Urban Carbon Emissions (CMS Cities) in Support of Emissions Reporting and Assessment." The project aims to leverage satellite data to monitor carbon emissions (CO2 and CH4) and their changes in urban areas within the contiguous United States, as well as develop emission...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $38,399.97 cooperative agreement to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The agreement supports research to improve understanding of the feedbacks associated with climate change in northern boreal forests. Specifically, the university will establish a quantitative framework linking surface measurements of solar induced fluorescence and vegetation reflectance to estimates of gross primary productivity at...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $180,647 grant for research to Michigan State University. The work directly responds to requests in the Carbon Monitoring System solicitation for continued development of prototype CMS products, including the use of remote sensing data for carbon monitoring efforts to support decision making. Performance will occur in East Lansing, Michigan, with no set-aside designation. As the prime contractor, Michigan State...
This federal contract award is a $159,968.00 grant for research to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The award, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, is focused on developing new algorithms for detecting and quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions from point sources using airborne spectroscopic imaging data. The research aims to improve upon current satellite-based methods by incorporating...
This $189,177.73 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park supports the development of a prototype system for monitoring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) regional-scale carbon stocks and fluxes under the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) program. The grant aims to expand the current scope of validation methods for CMS products by acquiring and analyzing airborne eddy covariance carbon flux observations over the Maryland...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $210,300.80 grant to the University of Montana to investigate the response of seasonal phenology, carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange, and atmospheric CO2 to spring warming, soil thaw, and liquid water availability in North America. The research project, which does not have a set-aside designation, will leverage multi-scale carbon and water cycle observations, as well as land and atmosphere models, to elucidate the impacts of...
This is a $289,235 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop a Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) to leverage satellite-based solar-induced fluorescence to understand forest drought and mortality in the western United States. The grant is for research and development, with a completion date of February 28, 2025. Caltech is a private research university with extensive experience in scientific research and...