This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project titled "Analyzing Spatial Co-Benefits of Carbon and Structural Diversity in South East Asia with GEDI". The project will run from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027 and is not a set-aside contract. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, has a history of conducting scientific...
This is a $687,078 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "Mapping Boreal Forest Biomass Recovery Rates Across Gradients of Vegetation Structure and Environmental Change." The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund research to study boreal forest recovery and the impacts of environmental changes. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and research...
This is a $429,145 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research on understanding post-fire disturbance forest recovery in Mediterranean ecosystems using the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument. The grant has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2028 and was awarded on May 1, 2024. UMD, as a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and...
This is a $265,351.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to assess the hydrological and ecological status and future sustainability of terminal lakes in the Great Basin of the western United States in consideration of ongoing and predicted climate change. The grant is part of UMD's broad portfolio of federal research contracts and grants, which includes work for agencies such as the Department of Defense,...
This is a $840,079.86 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for a study titled "Towards Near Daily Monitoring of Inundated Areas over North America through Multi-Source Fusion of Optical and SAR Data." The goal is to develop automated algorithms to monitor terrestrial inundation using Landsat-8, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 satellite data. The algorithms will be calibrated and tested across different biomes...
This federal award is a research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), a state-controlled institution of higher learning. The $649,256.99 grant aims to study the impacts of recent agricultural land use changes, such as the conversion from rice to sugarcane cultivation, on ecosystem services, soil quality, and the socioeconomic well-being of rural communities in central and northeast Thailand. The...
This is a $504,960.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project titled "The Future Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone: Influence of ODSs, VSLs Cl, and GHGs". The award has an ultimate completion date of April 20, 2026. UMD is a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and state-controlled institution of higher learning with extensive federal research...
This is a $150,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research on the climate change impact on major crop production. The research aims to determine that agriculture productivity changes will be noticeable much earlier than previously anticipated. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, has extensive capabilities in conducting sophisticated research and technical...
This is a $600,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a project titled "Satellite Observations of Arctic Sea Ice". The grant is for research to document the decline in Arctic sea ice extent using passive microwave measurements over the past four decades. This research supports NASA's Earth Science mission. UMD is a prominent research university and a state government entity that frequently...
This is a $1,720,555.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to continue developing and expanding their approach to high-resolution forest carbon monitoring and modeling. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Maryland, College Park, is a subcomponent of the larger University System of Maryland, which has received numerous federal contract and grant awards, including from the Department...
This $106,465.61 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research on the impacts of sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, and other climate change effects on coastal wetland ecosystems. The research aims to develop remote sensing modeling techniques to assess the vulnerability of peat collapse and changes in blue carbon sequestration. UMD will leverage existing field observations in the Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite data, and other remote sensing data to monitor changes in coastal hydrology and carbon cycling. This work supports NASA's strategic goal of improving the detection and prediction of climate change impacts on threatened landscapes. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. UMD, a state-controlled institution of higher education, is the prime awardee. The University System of Maryland oversees UMD's operations. This grant contributes to UMD's extensive history of conducting scientific research, including many prior federally funded efforts in areas like space physics, exoplanet astronomy, and biomass mapping.