This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to improve the measurement of inherent optical properties (IOPs) for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) ocean color remote sensing mission. The $377,473.70 grant aims to better quantify uncertainties in absorption and backscattering measurements, which are critical for remote sensing validation and algorithm development. The project will...
This is a $598,319.64 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) on July 31, 2020. The contract supports the development of a new semi-analytical ocean color model and inversion algorithm for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. This work builds on previous NASA-funded research by the awardee. The contract has an ultimate completion date of July 30, 2024 and does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award is for a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to conduct research on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes from coastal marine sediments. The grant is valued at $736,236.00 and has a performance period ending on July 12, 2025. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. FAU, a public research university in southeast Florida, has received numerous federal contracts and grants for research and...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC19K1195, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The $652,038.29 grant is for research to develop and test future validation capabilities for ocean color imagers in the Copernicus Sentinel satellite constellation, as well as to assess the performance of the ZTT algorithm for these imagers. FAU will participate in the European Union-funded programs...
This is a $731,443 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) for the "Refinement & Advancement of the ZTT Semi-Analytic Algorithm for PACE" project. The grant is for research and development work, with a period of performance ending on July 1, 2027. FAU, a Hispanic-Serving Institution and public research university, has a proven track record of successfully executing federal research contracts and grants across various scientific and...
This is a $107,692.20 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Florida Atlantic University, a public university in Boca Raton, Florida. The grant is for research to improve the accuracy of remote sensing data used in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) forecasting model for harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Erie. The research will utilize newly available autonomous radiometric data collected from a NASA Aerosol...
This $122,441.47 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Florida State University (FSU) to conduct research that will improve the understanding of ocean circulation and allow for more accurate modeling of how changes in the climate system will affect the oceans. The award, which has a period of performance through August 31, 2023, does not utilize any set-aside designations. FSU, a non-profit educational institution, manages this grant through its...
The U.S. government has awarded a $220,731 grant to the University of South Florida (USF) to conduct research on "SPATIOTEMPORALLY-BASED PACE ALGORITHMS FOR IMPROVED OPTICALLY SHALLOW WATER RETRIEVALS AND GLOBAL APPLICATIONS." This research grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will have a performance period through July 31, 2027. USF, a major public research university in Tampa, Florida, has a long history of supporting federal agencies through...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $430,653 research grant to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant supports a project to study the impact of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) photobleaching on the accuracy of water quality measurements obtained through remote sensing of ocean color. The research aims to develop a database of CDOM photobleaching rates, assess the effects on apparent optical properties,...
This is a $481,776 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Oregon State University on June 20, 2018. The grant is for a research project to advance the understanding of global ocean phytoplankton through the use of satellite remote sensing data from the MODIS-Aqua and CALIOP sensors. The research aims to improve the parameterization of ocean color inversion algorithms to generate global fields of particulate backscatter and absorption coefficients, which will...