This $123,817.67 federal grant award to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on understanding changes in the global carbon cycle in forests under a changing climate. The research aims to improve models and predictions related to carbon sequestration and release in forest ecosystems. There is no set-aside designation for this grant. As a public research university with extensive expertise across...
This federal contract award funds the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to continue its long-standing global atmospheric monitoring program, which has measured concentrations of key trace gases since 1978. The $1,433,026 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will allow UCI to maintain its seasonal air sampling at 40-50 remote Pacific basin sites, analyzing up to 55 compounds including greenhouse gases, ozone-depleting agents, and other key atmospheric...
This is a $483,933.92 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for research related to understanding seasonal changes in terrestrial carbon uptake and the impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The award, which has no set-aside designation, funds a project to leverage multi-scale observations, including satellite data and ground-based measurements, to investigate how spring...
This is a grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $599,923.77 grant funds a project to quantify the processes controlling the temporal variability of biosphere-atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) flux on seasonal and interannual timescales from 1989 to 2018. The research aims to improve predictions from Earth system models by combining remote sensing observations, mechanistic models, and NASA's Goddard...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $658,252 grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for the "GLOBAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS, CO2, AND CARBON-CLIMATE FEEDBACKS" research project. This grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, is scheduled for completion by August 5, 2026. As the prime contractor, UC Berkeley will conduct research related to global photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, and carbon-climate feedbacks. The State of...
This is a $572,981.92 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration Division for research related to the ocean's carbon cycle and its response to climate change. The grant is focused on using Earth system models (ESMs) to understand how anthropogenic climate change will impact the ocean's solubility and biological carbon pumps, which have important implications for the coupled...
This is a $314,149.35 grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on "Cloud-Relevant Aerosol Chemistry and Physics: Overcoming the Clear Sky Bias." The research aims to understand how aerosol physical and chemical properties differ during cloudy and clear-sky periods over the central and eastern United States, and how the vertical profiles of climate-relevant radiative properties of fine particle mass vary during these conditions. The...
This is a $451,237 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for a project titled "Dynamical Error Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification for Remotely-Sensed Atmospheric Variables". The award has an ultimate completion date of July 18, 2026 and is not set aside for any specific designation, indicating UCI's competitive research capabilities across various scientific domains. UCI, a prominent public...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $354,129.83 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (doing business as the University of Michigan) to conduct research on the variability of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels measured by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The research aims to characterize the spatial and temporal patterns of CO2 mole fraction (XCO2) variations, attribute these anomalies to land, ocean, and human-caused flux...
This is a $464,245.69 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to characterize regional drought impacts using satellite observations from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. The project aims to quantify the role of soil moisture variability from SMAP and total terrestrial water storage changes from GRACE in relation to...
This is a $430,735 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to quantify the processes controlling the temporal variability of biosphere-atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) flux on seasonal and interannual timescales from 1989 to 2018. The research aims to improve predictions from Earth system models by integrating remote sensing observations, mechanistic models, and NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS-5) model. Key objectives are to 1) quantify the processes controlling the temporal variability of biosphere-atmosphere CO2 flux, and 2) evaluate the predictability of carbon flux components on seasonal timescales. This effort supports NASA's goals toward an integrated Earth system modeling and prediction framework. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, and UC Irvine is the prime awardee. The research will leverage UC Irvine's expertise in carbon cycle science and Earth system modeling.