Grant For Research 80NSSC24K0763
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- This $120,509.00 federal grant award to Lumenus Scientific, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, is for research to assess drivers of tropical carbon flux variability across spatial and temporal scales using space-based observations. The award is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, and is classified as a grant for research. The project is set to run until August 30, 2025. Lumenus Scientific, LLC is a technology...
- This is a $177,770.54 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit corporation that provides weather and climate research services to the government. The grant supports the validation and application of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite in the northeastern United States. The key objectives are to: 1) assess OCO-2's ability to accurately measure regional-scale...
- This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, doing business as the Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to study the impact of 3D cloud and surface effects on the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The $543,955.44 grant will fund the development of algorithms to detect 3D cloud effects, quantify associated biases in retrieved CO2 data, and assess...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $279,279.73 grant to Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia, doing business as the University of Virginia, to conduct research on analyzing variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) observed by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The research aims to characterize the magnitude and spatial patterns of CO2 variability, attribute the observed anomalies to terrestrial, oceanic, and human-mediated...
- This $62,500 cost-sharing grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center will fund the development of a scalable framework by Carbon Mapper, Inc., a non-profit organization, for assessing variability in carbon dioxide point sources using multiple satellite instruments. The framework is intended to support NASA's ongoing Earth science research for monitoring greenhouse gases from space. Under the terms of the award, Carbon Mapper will deliver the CO2...
- This federal contract award to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER) is a $178,869.46 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The purpose of the grant is to provide direct assessment and validation of the capability for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to accurately resolve regional-scale gradients of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in an urban domain. AER will leverage a network of...
- This federal contract award to Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, was issued by the Shared Services Center on behalf of NASA. The $682,223.64 grant is for a project titled "Tackling Aerosol-Induced CO2 Uncertainties Through the Synergistic Use of MODIS and OCO-2 Observations." The objective is to explore the benefits of combining data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors to...
- This is a $568,011.92 grant awarded to The Johns Hopkins University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center on July 19, 2018. The grant supports research on interannual variability in the global carbon cycle, using data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). The research aims to estimate multiple years of global terrestrial and marine CO2 fluxes, diagnose and quantify the effects of...
- This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The $87,379.26 grant is for a 3-year research project to quantify urban biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes in the Los Angeles (LA) basin. The project aims to disentangle anthropogenic and biogenic contributions to urban carbon cycling and atmospheric CO2 enhancements by leveraging remote sensing data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon...
- This is a $440,227.28 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado (CU) to support research related to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite mission. The grant will fund a multi-year effort to utilize high-altitude aircore measurements and aircraft data to improve the bias corrections and scaling of OCO-2 total column carbon dioxide (XCO2) retrievals, and to evaluate the accuracy of flux estimates from OCO-2 data in climate...
This is a $283,936 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lumenus Scientific, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The grant is for developing modern machine learning methods to retrieve column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of carbon dioxide (XCO2) with associated uncertainties from data collected by NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) satellites. The project is set to run until August 2027. Lumenus Scientific, LLC is a technology startup specializing in Earth observations and their application to address environmental challenges. This grant aligns with NASA's Science Mission Directorate objectives and contributes to the agency's strategic goal of expanding scientific knowledge through space-based research programs.
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