This $159,482.00 federal grant award to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Michigan Tech, a public research university, has extensive experience partnering with federal agencies on projects spanning areas like environmental monitoring and analysis. This grant supports research to understand the role of Great Lakes coastal wetlands as part of the largest surface...
This $975,357.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for research on the carbon footprint of managed agricultural and forest landscapes in the Kalamazoo River Watershed in Michigan. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to quantify the landscape-scale carbon fluxes from both physical and social factors, including land use and management practices, and how they are impacted by climate change. The...
This $119,822.25 federal contract award to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate how environmental conditions like climate change impact the delivery of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from terrestrial watersheds to the coastal zone of Lake Superior. The contract has three main objectives: 1) Studying the effects of increased snowmelt and warmer spring temperatures on the terrestrial origins of DOM...
This is a $660,000 grant award to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and evaluate ocean color satellite-based models for estimating carbon fixation in freshwater lakes worldwide. The three-year program will generate the first global dataset of freshwater lake carbon fixation, which supports NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) research objectives. The project builds upon previous NASA-funded work by Michigan...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on September 10, 2019 and has a completion date of September 9, 2022. The research is focused on using remote sensing technologies to study two-dimensional characteristics of land cover,...
This is a research and development contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University, a U.S. 1862 Land Grant College and state-controlled institution of higher learning. The key objectives of the $134,107.00 training grant are to characterize the relationships between remotely sensed land use, climate, and primary productivity, with different forms of stream insect diversity across three spatial scales within the continental United...
This federal contract award to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project focused on mapping and monitoring invasive stands of Phragmites australis along the coastlines of the Laurentian Great Lakes. The $154,674.00 grant does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on May 28, 2021, with a final completion date of November 27, 2024. As a public research university with expertise in...
This $787,902 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) will focus on using remote sensing data to characterize changes in wetland status and their impact on waterfowl habitat in northern North America. The research will utilize field, airborne, and satellite data to map wetlands and monitor seasonal inundation, with the goal of improving forecasting of habitat suitability for migratory waterfowl under climate change. The work will build on past...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,111,327.94 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan to study the mechanisms by which climate variability affects terrestrial carbon fluxes. The 4-year research project aims to leverage climate-carbon feedbacks evident in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate to better understand how large-scale climate oscillations influence regional climate and terrestrial carbon fluxes. The research will use a combination of climate...
The Regents of the University of Michigan were awarded a $151,400.48 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate the impact of seasonal changes in temperature and water availability on carbon uptake and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations across North America. The research will leverage a combination of ground-based, airborne, and satellite observations, including new solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence measurements, to improve...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,598,346 grant to Michigan Technological University to conduct research on the impacts of global change on ecosystems at land/water interfaces within the Great Lakes basin. The research will use remote sensing and modeling to understand how changes in land use, agricultural practices, and climate have affected and will further affect wetland plant communities and ecosystem function in the region. The project builds on previous NASA-funded work and will couple hydrological, wetland ecology, and crop growth models to assess the effects of agricultural runoff and nutrient loading. The research aims to translate the findings into stakeholder tools that can inform land management decisions. This is not a set-aside contract.