This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), through the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), to quantify methane emissions and isotopic signatures across high-latitude peatland ecosystems in the pan-Arctic region. The $1,828,078.96 grant aims to improve biogeochemical models, remote sensing techniques, and mapping of methane emissions and isofluxes to better understand the impact of permafrost...
This is a $474,615.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) through its Office of Sponsored Research. The overarching goal is to understand the diurnal (daily) cycles of plant water use and carbon uptake using data products from the Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and the FLUXNET network. This research is...
The University of New Hampshire, through its Office of Sponsored Research, was awarded a $426,030.00 grant from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on "SOIL MOISTURE AND EARTHQUAKES: INTEGRATING SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE DATA WITH SEISMIC RECORDS". The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, runs from October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2025. The University System of New Hampshire is the parent organization...
This $222,827.52 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) for research to improve the basic theory for satellite microwave measurements of ocean wind-waves and wind stress. The goal is to further understand the physical mechanisms of ocean surface scattering at L-band frequencies, which will benefit applications such as the NASA Aquarius, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), and Cyclone Global Navigation...
This is a $34,616.91 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to investigate the response of seasonal phenology, carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange, and atmospheric CO2 to spring warming, soil thaw, and liquid water availability in North America since 2002. The research aims to quantify interannual variability in spring and fall phenology, CO2 fluxes, and atmospheric CO2, and identify critical water availability thresholds that...
This is a $565,019.15 grant awarded by NASA to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) at the University at Albany to investigate how incorporating high resolution soil moisture data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite can improve short-term weather and wind energy forecasts. The objective is to use the Land Information System (LIS) and Unified Weather Research and Forecasting (NU-WRF) models to better understand the role of model physics, soil...
This is a $736,069 grant awarded to the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), through its University of New Hampshire (UNH) division, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research related to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The research investigates new approaches to account for within-swath variability of surface wind, sea state, and the Ka-band sea state range bias on SWOT range noise and bias at spatial scales of 5-120 km. This...
This is a $572,358.05 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), operating through its Office of Sponsored Research, to investigate interannual variability in freshwater transport along the northwest Atlantic shelf using satellite salinity data. The grant supports a collaborative effort between UNH, the University of Maryland, and the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) to evaluate the use of...
This is a $599,499.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), a 1862 Land Grant College within the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), to conduct research on the impacts of climate change on the tropical forests of South America. The research will examine changes in forest structure, species composition, and carbon storage in response to factors like drought, fire, and human activities. This award is not...
This is a $749,999.44 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to develop autonomous ground-based remote sensing capabilities for studying the Greenland ice sheet. The research builds on Dartmouth's previous work using robotic platforms to conduct ground-penetrating radar and albedo sensor surveys in polar regions. The project aims to improve ice sheet mass balance models by providing high-resolution data to complement aerial and satellite observations....
This is a $468,277 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to study the impact of freeze-thaw cycles on low-volume road networks. The grant is part of the Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) mission, which aims to provide global freeze/thaw observations to understand the relationship between atmospheric conditions and subsurface moisture and freeze-thaw processes.
The study will leverage existing road freeze-thaw observation data and compare it to SMAP data to better understand the temporal evolution of freeze-thaw states in roads versus adjacent lands. The goal is to develop predictive models of road freeze-thaw conditions using passive microwave observations from the SMAP mission. This research is intended to improve knowledge of the impacts of freeze-thaw transitions on the water, energy, and carbon cycles in coupled human-natural systems. There is no set-aside designation for this grant award.