This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K1523, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University, a renowned private research institution located in Stanford, California. The contract is a grant for research related to understanding how droughts can affect the land's capacity for carbon uptake through photosynthesis and available water resources, as well as how droughts can influence their own propagation and atmospheric patterns. The contract...
This federal contract award, valued at $431,029.00, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University), a renowned private research institution, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract is a grant for research that aims to compare soil moisture data derived from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite's L-band vegetation optical depth (VOD) to existing estimates from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University. The $132,500.00 award is a training grant that supports research to measure soil moisture using data from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. The goal is to leverage the correlation between soil moisture and water table depth to estimate carbon emissions from tropical peatlands in...
This is a $120,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University, to develop improved algorithms for measuring phytoplankton biomass and productivity in the changing Arctic Ocean. The goal is to enhance the use of satellite remote sensing to monitor the ever-changing Arctic ecosystem, which is critical for understanding the ecological and biogeochemical impacts of climate change in...
This is a $135,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University. The contract is focused on improving models for predicting forest mortality rates by incorporating vegetation water content as an internal stress parameter, in addition to external climatic factors. Stanford, a renowned private research institution, will leverage its expertise in environmental sciences and other...
This federal contract award, NNX17AE65G, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency. The $356,262.82 grant aims to develop several technologies to enable significantly larger arrays of X-ray microcalorimeter sensors for future NASA missions such as the X-Ray Surveyor. Key focus areas include sensor fabrication, readout strategies, and the use of novel doped AlMn alloy materials to precisely control the transition...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC22K1016, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the federal agency) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University), a renowned private research institution. The $759,927.00 grant is for a research project titled "TOWARD A CONSENSUS FOR MULTI-SOURCED PHOTOSPHERIC MAGNETIC FIELD CROSS-CALIBRATIONS" with a completion date of May 31, 2026. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and...
This federal contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) is for the execution of a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The $80,000.00 grant for research contract, which has a completion date of January 3, 2026, tasks Stanford with participating as a key partner and enabler in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon,...
This federal contract award, NNX16AJ33G, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency. The $327,000.00 grant supports research to investigate the production of the eukaryotic biomarker tetrahymanol by the methanotroph Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum under varying conditions of oxygen concentration, salinity, and temperature. The goal is to characterize the response of the tetrahymanol synthase gene and overall...
This federal contract award, valued at $19,005.65, was issued by the Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) under a Cooperative Agreement. The contract is for the "MYCO-ARCHITECTURE OFF PLANET: GROWING SURFACE STRUCTURES AT DESTINATION" project, which is not set-aside. The contract supports research and development related to growing surface structures off-planet, likely for space exploration and habitation purposes. Stanford University, a...