This is a federal contract award to Silvestrum Climate Associates LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract, valued at $50,844, is for an assessment of NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) blue carbon products in the context of blue economy finance. The contract was awarded under a competitive procurement process, without a set-aside, pursuant to a Special Notice posted by NASA. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $59,917.00, was granted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Silvestrum Climate Associates LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract, awarded without a set-aside, focuses on "Integrating Lateral Carbon Fluxes into CMS Ocean Carbon Estimates" as part of NOAA's work under the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) program. Silvestrum, a limited liability company with expertise in coastal wetlands...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The $224,743 grant funds a project to extend regional modeling for NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) in order to estimate North American carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes through mid-2018. The work leverages new datasets, including the first few years of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon...
This is a federal contract award to Science Systems And Applications, Inc. (SSAI), a woman-owned small business, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center. The $884,734 contract is for providing scientific, engineering, and technical support services related to aerosol, ocean, and trace gas lidar (light detection and ranging) mechanical fabrication. The work supports various NASA Earth science programs, including the Climate Absolute Radiance and...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,218,989.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the prime contractor, Science Systems And Applications, Inc. (SSAI). The contract supports science, technology, and research services for various NASA scientific programs, including the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder mission, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation...
This federal contract award is a $145,803.25 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Earth Big Data LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The grant supports research and development to advance capabilities for environmental monitoring and modeling using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and other earth observation data sources. The work is relevant to NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) program, which aims to develop rigorous methods for exploiting...
This federal contract award, NNX17AE13G, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Woodwell Climate Research Center, a non-profit research organization. The $1,377,716.44 grant supports a research project to investigate the causes and implications of enhanced seasonal CO2 exchange in Arctic and boreal ecosystems. The project will utilize remote sensing data, land surface modeling, atmospheric transport modeling, and meta-analysis of in...
This federal contract award to the Woodwell Climate Research Center, a non-profit research organization, was issued by the NASA Shared Services Center. The $841,742 grant supports the development of a novel methodology to monitor carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes to the atmosphere from losses due to deforestation and forest degradation, as well as gains from vegetation uptake, specifically in the Amazon Basin. The project aims to integrate data from multiple sensors, including the TanDEM-X...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,963.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Aerodyne Research Inc., a small business based in Billerica, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development and demonstration of a new instrument capable of measuring the primary clumped isotope of carbon dioxide (13C18O16O) and the mass-independent 17O content using tunable infrared laser direct absorption spectroscopy (TILDAS) technology. This instrument will...
This $786,457 federal contract award to the Woodwell Climate Research Center, a non-profit organization, was granted by NASA's Shared Services Center to improve estimates of carbon dioxide and methane exchange in Arctic-boreal ecosystems. The research aims to enhance understanding of how changing environmental conditions and community structure in these rapidly warming regions are impacting atmospheric radiative forcing and climate. The contract supports integration of field observations, remote...