This contract award to Duke University was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $570,375.65 grant is for a research project with goals that parallel those of the Decadal Survey, which tracks flows of energy and changes in ecosystem structure, function and biodiversity. The work relies on national field data collection and NASA space-borne mission data. The grant was awarded on November 1, 2019 with a completion date of October 25, 2022....
Duke University was awarded a $119,858.96 training grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center on September 1, 2017. The contract is for research to understand the impacts of saltwater intrusion on coastal wetland ecosystems through field experiments and remote sensing analysis. Duke will use chemical analysis, biophysical assessments, and thermal and visible imagery from drones and satellites to monitor changes in soil chemistry and vegetation. This...
This is a $129,385.50 grant awarded by NASA to Duke University for research relevant to the agency's Earth Sciences Division. The research aims to understand how freshwater systems are responding to global change. The award has no set-aside designation and was made directly to Duke University's Office of Research Administration Division as the prime contractor. Duke University has extensive experience as a prime and subcontractor on federal contracts and grants, collaborating with partners to...
This is a $543,376.57 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University to examine mangrove cover change and its impacts on ecosystem services in South Asia over a three-year period. The project will develop an operational methodology for monitoring annual mangrove cover changes, create a comprehensive database of these changes from 1985 to the present, quantify the impacts on carbon sequestration and biodiversity, and analyze the effectiveness of...
This is a $90,763 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University, a prestigious private research institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The grant is part of NASA's ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) funding opportunity, which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, advance discovery in emerging fields, and develop a...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University in the amount of $522,655.02. The grant is part of the Next Generation Cold Land Processes Experiment, which aims to improve satellite-based remote sensing capabilities for monitoring snow mass over large, remote regions. Duke University will integrate distributed ground-based observations with existing field measurements to constrain and evaluate coupled snow hydrology-microwave...
This is a $909,347 federal grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University, a prestigious private research institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The grant is for Duke University to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The work will focus on scientific research of, on, and...
Duke University Office of Research Administration Division was awarded a $130,078.97 training grant contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for a comprehensive survey and analysis of pothole wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of the American Midwest, combining LiDAR data and Landsat imagery to develop models for predicting future wetland storage and behavior under different climate scenarios. This research is intended to...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University Office of Research Administration Division, a private non-profit educational institution, to conduct research on the effects of biomass burning on the chemical and climate system. The $452,564.59 grant will fund a project to enhance NASA's GISS Model E coupled chemistry-climate model, including improvements to the prognostic fire simulator and injection height model. The research involves...
This is a federal research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Yale University, a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. The grant, valued at $124,343.99, aims to use remote sensing and animal tracking data to assess individual-level environmental specialization across 12 species of wading birds, waterfowl, and raptors. The research aligns with NASA's Earth Science Research Program's goal to detect and predict changes in ecological and...
Duke University was awarded a $511,367 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to fully integrate key remote sensing variables with continental scale ecological data to provide broadly accessible ecological forecasts to a user community of ecologists and managers. The product will integrate biological data and remote sensing to translate directly to decision-ready products, improving the reliability and precision of species distribution models used to anticipate community responses to climate change. This two-year research project will move the current version of the tool from Technology Readiness Level 3/4 to 6, enabling instant selection and retrieval of key remotely-sensed products and biodiversity data via web APIs, as well as parameterization of the model and display/download of model output. No set-aside designation was indicated for this grant award.