The Foundation For Earth Science Information Partners, Inc. (ESIP), a 501(c)3 nonprofit, was awarded a series of grants and cooperative agreements from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to support efforts advancing open data, information sharing, and artificial intelligence research in Earth science. These include a $3.1 million project grant from NASA to coordinate community activities through 2025, a $799,976 cooperative agreement...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $180,238 grant to the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Inc. (IGES), a non-profit organization, to assess and improve NASA Earth observations applications in the U.S. business sector, with a focus on the agriculture, financial services, water, and health sectors. The grant, titled "Seeing Green," supports the convening of workshops with private and public sector stakeholders,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $26,600 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to the American Geosciences Institute, a non-profit organization, for the purchase of 4,433 2023 Earth Science Week kits. The kits will be distributed within the NASA community to support learners. This award is not designated as a set-aside. Through past prime federal contract and grant awards, American Geosciences Institute has provided educational resources and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $503,541 grant to Earth And Space Research (ESR), a non-profit institute specializing in oceanographic research. The grant is for research to study the factors contributing to Antarctic ice sheet mass loss, including basal melting and the calving of icebergs from ice shelves. ESR has previously received multiple prime and subcontract awards from NASA to conduct research on topics such as sea surface salinity, ocean eddies,...
This is a $249,600 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Code For Science And Society, Inc., a non-profit organization that specializes in open science practices, data analysis, and cloud computing services for federal agencies. The grant supports the organization's work on "Reproducibly Analyzing Wildfire, Drought, and Flood Risk with NASA Earth Data Cloud." This aligns with NASA's Science program, which funds projects related to Earth observation data and analysis. The...
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 $440,182 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Earth And Space Research (ESR), a non-profit research institute, for a research project titled "MAY INDICATE THAT THESE ANISOTROPIC PROCESSES ARE HIGHLY INTERMITTENT IN BOTH TIME AND SPACE, OR (AND MORE LIKELY) THERE IS HIGH DEGREE OF ORDER IN CHAOS , WHICH WE INTEND TO EXPLORE." The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a research project...
This is a $211,970 federal grant award to the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), a non-profit organization, to address complex planetary challenges such as climate change and sustainability. The grant was awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA. The grant will fund NCSE's efforts to improve environmental decision-making through science, including hosting conferences, conducting research, and disseminating scientific information related to sustainability, conservation,...
This federal contract award to the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization, is for a two-year research grant of $157,310.93 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant will fund a project to train citizen scientists, educators, and students across the U.S. on using low-cost robotic telescopes to conduct astronomical observations and research. The research will focus on asteroid astrometry and photometry, exoplanet...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $353,445.00 grant to the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization, to conduct research related to the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 lunar missions. The key tasks include digitizing pre-mission maps, creating updated USGS SIM maps, and presenting results at annual meetings. The research will be led by senior scientists Scott Mest and R. Aileen Yingst, who are experts in geologic mapping of...