The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), operating through its Sponsored Projects Division, was awarded a $104,182.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to evaluate a methodology for archiving forest stands in three dimensions. The goal is to provide rapidly-collected baseline information to examine changes in vegetation. This grant-funded research contract does not have a set-aside designation and is intended to be completed by August 31, 2025. UNR, as the prime...
This is a $149,180 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), for a project titled "Developing Multi-Scaled, Probabilistic Forecasts of Woodland Dynamics in the Great Basin." The award, which has an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2027, is for research work and does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,000,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents, through its Sponsored Programs Office Division. The contract is a Cooperative Agreement without a set-aside designation, indicating NSHE competed for the award based on its research capabilities. The contract supports the Nevada NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research...
This federal contract award IDV 80NSSC19K0013, worth $484,082.60, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to conduct research on the composition and stratigraphy of the southern residual ice deposits on Mars. The effort will systematically explore the geography of ice and dust using data from various Mars-orbiting instruments, with the goal of linking the composition to the stratigraphy of the South Polar Layered Deposits....
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0463, is a $638,425.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for the purpose of improving and expanding solid earth data products generated by UNR's Nevada Geodetic Laboratory using data from over 19,000 GPS stations, and using...
This federal contract award, valued at $356,471.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA), a non-profit academic institution, to conduct research on air pollution disparities in U.S. cities. The research will leverage a range of NASA Earth observation datasets, including satellite remote sensing data and in-situ aircraft measurements, to better understand the atmospheric chemistry, conditions,...
This federal contract award, valued at $416,916.23, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to develop and apply advanced signal processing and image filtering techniques to generate highly accurate, detailed, and temporally resolved maps of vertical land motion across the Earth's continents using GPS data. The goal is to improve the understanding of deep Earth processes, anthropogenic lithospheric processes, and dynamic...
This federal contract award is a grant for $269,543.52 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. The grant supports the "FIRE impacts on regional to global scales: Emissions, Chemistry, Transport, and Models (FIRECHEM)" campaign, which aims to consolidate multiple air quality forecast systems to assess their performance and reduce uncertainties in smoke...
This is a $368,554.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The award is focused on understanding the effects of forests on snow properties and the detection of snow properties by remote sensing, with the goal of improving snow hydrology modeling and remote sensing capabilities in forested regions. The award does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to the San Jose State University Research Foundation, the research arm of San Jose State University, in the amount of $698,979.59. The contract's purpose is to provide satellite-derived PM2.5 grids with dispersion model downscaling to support community-scale air quality health research and policy development. The key deliverables include: 1) Providing daily satellite-derived 10-km PM2.5 grids...
This federal contract award, valued at $75,000.00, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) through its Sponsored Projects Division under the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education. The contract aims to investigate atmospheric aerosol during extreme air pollution events caused by wildfire smoke in the western United States. NASA satellite remote sensing data and ground-based measurements will be used in conjunction with data assimilation techniques to improve the predictive capabilities of air quality associated with changes in atmospheric composition. This work is particularly important for California, which is heavily impacted by biomass burning air pollution. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2019.