This federal contract award is a grant for $269,543.52 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. The grant supports the "FIRE impacts on regional to global scales: Emissions, Chemistry, Transport, and Models (FIRECHEM)" campaign, which aims to consolidate multiple air quality forecast systems to assess their performance and reduce uncertainties in smoke...
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 federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K1456, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The $439,151.00 grant funds a research project aimed at enhancing the understanding of atmospheric composition by investigating the impact of wildfires on emissions. The award does not have a set-aside designation. NIA, the prime contractor, is based in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $414,386.50 grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to support the Fire Impact on Regional Emissions and Chemistry (FIRECHEM) science goals. The grant will fund the deployment of solar radiation instrumentation on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to measure spectrally resolved actinic flux and calculate photolysis frequencies for over 30...
This federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU) supports research to improve the understanding of biomass burning and its impacts on air quality and climate in the southeastern United States. The $359,105.77 grant will develop an enhanced inventory of biomass burning emissions in the region, using ground-based observations to improve upon satellite-based estimates. The improved emissions data will then be incorporated...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for a research project related to the interactions and feedbacks between biomass burning and the water cycle. The $165,872.31 grant will fund a study led by Dr. Wang that uses a mesoscale meteorology-chemistry coupled atmospheric model, satellite data, and fire emission data to quantitatively assess the semi-direct effect of sub-Saharan African smoke on atmospheric lapse rate and...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to support the FIRECHEM mission, which aims to study the physics and chemistry linking biomass burning to air quality across the United States. The contract, valued at $787,817.37, is a grant for research and will involve the deployment of Caltech's Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometers aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft to provide high-resolution in-situ...
This $800,826 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for the development and deployment of new decision support and situational awareness tools focused on wildland fire management. The primary goal is to reduce the hazardous risks associated with wildland fires by improving the understanding of the interactions between fire behavior, local weather, and smoke. The project will leverage the existing WRFX...
This is a $718,755.59 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government research institution, for a 3-year research project under NASA's FIRECHEM solicitation. The project aims to acquire high-quality, fast, sensitive measurements of key atmospheric gases like formaldehyde, methanol, ethylene, and ethane that are important for understanding the impacts of wildfires on regional emissions and...
This federal contract award, valued at $649,143.68, was granted by NASA to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit organization that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The contract, titled "NASA's FIRE Impacts on Regional Emissions and Chemistry (FIRECHEM)," is part of an interagency collaboration focused on characterizing the emissions, chemistry, and impacts of North American fires. Under this contract, UCAR/NCAR will...
This is a $412,035 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research institute. The grant supports research to improve understanding of the connections between fuels, fire, weather, atmospheric chemistry, and smoke transport, which are critical to assessing impacts on air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate.
The research involves providing support to guide flight planning for the FIRECHEM campaign, including preparing pre-campaign intelligence on fire locations, providing satellite and ground-based observations of fire activity and smoke, and analyzing the capability of satellites to characterize small cropland and prescribed burns. This work addresses key FIRECHEM research needs related to predicting small fire activity, connecting to ground conditions, and advising on fire selection for targeted observation. The data and analysis produced is expected to be relevant to understanding smoke composition, plume characteristics, air quality, and climate impacts of biomass burning.