This federal contract award is for the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America (ACT-America) mission, which aims to improve the ability to predict and manage future climate change by enabling policy-relevant quantification of the carbon cycle. The $461,068.19 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University to advance atmospheric inversion systems for quantifying carbon dioxide and methane sources and sinks. This work will help...
This is a $305,449 grant awarded by NASA to Clark University to support the ACT-America research project. The overarching goals of ACT-America are to reduce uncertainties in mesoscale atmospheric transport and biogenic surface carbon flux estimates using targeted aircraft measurement campaigns and a regional inversion system. This will improve constraints on surface biogenic carbon fluxes and associated ecosystem model parameters, which will then be transferred to a multi-year, continental-scale...
The University of Colorado, through its Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), was awarded a $1,734,905.37 grant by NASA to support the "Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America" research project. The grant tasks include air sampling, data quality assurance, inventory analysis, flight planning assistance, scientific analysis, and carbon-tracker modeling. This work is in support of the project led by Kenneth J. Davis. The award was made on April 20, 2015...
This is a federal grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, doing business as the Carnegie Institution for Science, a non-profit research organization. The $159,051.93 grant is for the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America (ACT-America) mission, which aims to advance the ability to predict and manage future climate change by enabling policy-relevant quantification of the carbon cycle....
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 $1,282,535.77 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant supports research to better understand the global sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4), leveraging a combination of in-situ measurements, remote sensing data, and isotopic source signature analysis. The research aims to identify spatial...
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 is a $690,489.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project focused on characterizing the volatility of organic aerosols (OA) in the atmosphere. The project aims to leverage data from multiple NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) airborne measurement campaigns to develop improved parameterizations of...
This is a $110,362 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for research on "Constraining Carbon Fluxes and Transport Patterns Using New Spatiotemporal Information in Remotely Sensed CO2." The award has a performance period from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2027. CU, a prominent public research university in Boulder, Colorado, has extensive expertise in space sciences, climate research, and federal...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research titled "CAN SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS FROM AIRS ENHANCE THE DETECTION OF RECENT AND FUTURE ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE?". The award, which runs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2026, is for fundamental research to expand scientific knowledge...
This is a $680,590.95 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado (CU) to participate in the second through fifth field studies of the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America (ACT-America) mission. The goal of ACT-America is to better understand and quantify sources and sinks of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane. CU will fabricate a compact atmospheric spectrometer instrument for installation on NASA's UC-12 aircraft to acquire highly sensitive airborne measurements of ethane and methane. CU will also collaborate with atmospheric modelers to analyze the data collected during the 4-year field campaign covering the central and eastern United States. This grant was awarded without a set-aside designation.