This federal contract award is a $134,857.89 grant for research being provided to Colorado State University (CSU) by a civilian agency, the Shared Services Center. The proposed project will serve as a Ph.D. project for FI Bonnell, opening doors into early-career cryosphere/remote sensing scientist positions with NASA or other agencies. The grant is evaluating NASA's SnowEx 2020 L-band InSAR for the future of snow remote sensing. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. CSU is the...
This is a $370,500.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University for research to make the SNOWMODEL data-model fusion system available for NASA's terrestrial hydrology applications. The award has an ultimate completion date of October 4, 2025. Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, will be performing the work through its Sponsored Programs division. This award is not associated with a set-aside program....
This is a $20,806 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University for travel support related to the SnowEx-Alaska field work in 2022 and 2023. SnowEx is a NASA-led field campaign focused on improving snow hydrology measurements and modeling. The grant supports Colorado State University's participation as a research partner. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Colorado State University has a history of providing research,...
Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division was awarded a $999,954 research grant by a civilian federal agency on September 1, 2023, to develop high-resolution multidecadal satellite remote sensing-based snow lifecycle reanalysis products over the Northern Hemisphere. The grant, which runs through August 31, 2028, represents a competitive award with no set-aside designation. This work will be performed at CSU's Fort Collins, Colorado campus and aligns with the university's...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University for a project titled "NASA's Next Generation Cold Land Processes Experiment(s) (NG-CLPX)." The objective is to develop a data-model fusion system that integrates ground-based, airborne, and satellite observations to create value-added snow property products for the snow science community. This work supports NASA's efforts to advance remote sensing tools and...
This is a $470,584 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to conduct research related to the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission. The research will focus on three main objectives: 1) validating and improving GPM precipitation algorithms over land, ocean, and complex terrain using field campaign data; 2) investigating the three-dimensional characteristics and lifecycle of extratropical cyclones using GPM...
This is a $239,894.94 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to conduct research on improving the evaluation of bin and bulk microphysics in winter precipitation modeling. The research will leverage data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Ground Validation (GV) campaigns and initial GPM satellite data, along with a mesoscale model using state-of-the-art bin microphysics, to advance the understanding of mixed...
This federal contract award to Colorado State University (CSU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for the high-resolution estimation of groundwater withdrawals using machine learning integration of satellite datasets. The $398,055.00 grant-funded research project has a period of performance through September 5, 2026. CSU, a public land-grant research university, has significant expertise in environmental management, natural resource conservation, and federal...
This is a $134,499.67 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Colorado State University (CSU) for research to improve satellite retrievals of high-latitude precipitation by better constraining drop size distributions. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2019, with a completion date of January 26, 2023. Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, is performing the work through its Sponsored Programs division....
This is a $451,995.00 grant award to Colorado State University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project titled "REAL-TIME SATELLITE AND SENSOR FUSION FOR PREDICTING AND UNDERSTANDING WATER QUALITY THREATS TO WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS OF NORTHERN COLORADO". The award, which has a period of performance through May 1, 2026, will support research and technical services focused on using satellite data and sensor fusion to understand and predict water...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU), a public land-grant research university, is for a research grant to analyze ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data collected during the NASA SnowEx campaign. The goals are to quantify snow depth, density, and snow water equivalent (SWE) to provide robust ground validation datasets for satellite algorithm development, collaborate on GPR sampling strategies for future SnowEx campaigns, and contribute to the development of a future snow satellite mission algorithm. The $443,448.27 grant does not have a set-aside designation and will support one new Ph.D. student and two early-career scientists, as well as a new collaboration between research groups at CSU, University of Colorado, and Boise State University. The research aims to advance remote sensing techniques for measuring this vital water resource.