This is a $543,376.57 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University to examine mangrove cover change and its impacts on ecosystem services in South Asia over a three-year period. The project will develop an operational methodology for monitoring annual mangrove cover changes, create a comprehensive database of these changes from 1985 to the present, quantify the impacts on carbon sequestration and biodiversity, and analyze the effectiveness of...
Duke University was awarded a $119,858.96 training grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center on September 1, 2017. The contract is for research to understand the impacts of saltwater intrusion on coastal wetland ecosystems through field experiments and remote sensing analysis. Duke will use chemical analysis, biophysical assessments, and thermal and visible imagery from drones and satellites to monitor changes in soil chemistry and vegetation. This...
This federal contract award is for a grant to Duke University, a private non-profit research university, to conduct research on "NEW INSIGHTS INTO HIGH RESOLUTION LAKE ICE PHENOLOGY IN ARCTIC WETLANDS USING PLANET IMAGERY." The grant, valued at $253,909.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award does not have a set-aside designation. This grant aligns with Duke University's expertise in conducting research across...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to study the impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) and climate changes on the gross and net primary productivity in the southeastern United States. The $906,216.31 grant will leverage remote sensing data, including historical aerial photos, Landsat imagery, LiDAR, and satellite data, to reconstruct LULC changes and their effects on carbon...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AP74G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University's Office of Research Administration Division. The contract is a $1,224,765.05 grant for research to develop an early warning system for vector-borne disease risk in the Amazon region. The system will leverage NASA Earth observation data, human activity data, and spatio-temporal risk models to predict and monitor diseases like malaria and leishmaniasis....
This federal contract award, valued at $1,310,962.22, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), a division of the University System of Maryland (USM). The award supports a research project focused on improving Indonesia's monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities for peatland carbon emissions to support nationwide Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation...
This contract award to Duke University was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $570,375.65 grant is for a research project with goals that parallel those of the Decadal Survey, which tracks flows of energy and changes in ecosystem structure, function and biodiversity. The work relies on national field data collection and NASA space-borne mission data. The grant was awarded on November 1, 2019 with a completion date of October 25, 2022....
This is a $893,620.97 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on October 31, 2017 with a completion date of October 31, 2022. The grant aims to develop remote sensing-based and modeling tools to characterize, quantify, understand, and predict forest degradation in the tropical woodlands of the Miombo region of Southern Africa. The project has three key objectives: 1) Prototype a remote sensing-based approach to...
Duke University Office of Research Administration Division was awarded a $130,078.97 training grant contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for a comprehensive survey and analysis of pothole wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of the American Midwest, combining LiDAR data and Landsat imagery to develop models for predicting future wetland storage and behavior under different climate scenarios. This research is intended to...
This federal contract award, valued at $547,142.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (ODURF) to develop software tools for extracting and mapping seagrass distribution and biomass from satellite imagery. The goal is to improve the quantification of blue carbon sequestration in seagrass ecosystems, which play a disproportionately important role in carbon burial compared to their spatial extent. The project...
This federal contract award to Duke University, with a ceiling value of $188,746.07, is for a research project titled "Total Carbon Estimation in African Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands in Preparation for REDD and Blue Carbon Credits." The project aims to develop a mangrove total carbon monitoring system in Gabon, Tanzania, and Mozambique, leveraging a suite of remote sensing technologies including airborne LiDAR, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and very high-resolution optical data. This work supports the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (UN-REDD) and other initiatives focused on carbon mitigation in coastal blue carbon ecosystems. The contract is awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and does not have a set-aside designation. Duke University is the prime contractor, and the award is under a larger grant program focused on this topic area.