This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was granted to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to conduct research on improving the understanding of the various processes controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The $193,047 grant, awarded on October 24, 2018, focuses on leveraging data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and OCO-3 satellites to quantify anthropogenic CO2 emissions from urban...
This is a $162,136.72 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant, titled "Quantifying Global Megacity CO2 Emissions", supports research to utilize data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to improve understanding of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, particularly in major urban areas. The project will focus on megacities like Los Angeles, London,...
This is a $177,770.54 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit corporation that provides weather and climate research services to the government. The grant supports the validation and application of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite in the northeastern United States. The key objectives are to: 1) assess OCO-2's ability to accurately measure regional-scale...
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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $250,191 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (doing business as the University of Michigan) for research related to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) missions. The primary objectives of the OCO missions are to make global observations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere to improve understanding of the various processes controlling atmospheric CO2. This grant will focus on quantifying and attributing...
This is a $440,227.28 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado (CU) to support research related to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite mission. The grant will fund a multi-year effort to utilize high-altitude aircore measurements and aircraft data to improve the bias corrections and scaling of OCO-2 total column carbon dioxide (XCO2) retrievals, and to evaluate the accuracy of flux estimates from OCO-2 data in climate...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The $87,379.26 grant is for a 3-year research project to quantify urban biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes in the Los Angeles (LA) basin. The project aims to disentangle anthropogenic and biogenic contributions to urban carbon cycling and atmospheric CO2 enhancements by leveraging remote sensing data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon...
This is a $568,011.92 grant awarded to The Johns Hopkins University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center on July 19, 2018. The grant supports research on interannual variability in the global carbon cycle, using data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). The research aims to estimate multiple years of global terrestrial and marine CO2 fluxes, diagnose and quantify the effects of...
The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, has been awarded a $148,048 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on carbon and nitrogen isotope signatures in extraterrestrial organics. The research will utilize picomolar scale compound-specific isotope analysis techniques. The grant is set to run through December 31, 2025. Penn State, a public research university and one of the nation's original land-grant institutions, has a...
This federal contract award to Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, was issued by the Shared Services Center on behalf of NASA. The $682,223.64 grant is for a project titled "Tackling Aerosol-Induced CO2 Uncertainties Through the Synergistic Use of MODIS and OCO-2 Observations." The objective is to explore the benefits of combining data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $185,170 grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to support the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission. The goal of OCO-2 is to make global observations of carbon dioxide (CO2) to improve understanding of the processes controlling emissions and uptake of carbon. The grant will enable Penn State to focus on quantifying CO2 emissions from four major global cities - Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tokyo - by linking atmospheric concentration data from OCO-2 with high-resolution emissions modeling and ground-based observations. This work will provide critical information to support OCO-2's primary science objectives related to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on April 9, 2015 with a targeted completion date of April 8, 2019.