This is a $860,630.59 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The grant supports research to develop a prototype methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system for the Boston and San Francisco Bay Area regions, in collaboration with local air quality management districts. The research aims to advance...
This federal contract award to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER) is a $178,869.46 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The purpose of the grant is to provide direct assessment and validation of the capability for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to accurately resolve regional-scale gradients of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in an urban domain. AER will leverage a network of...
This is a $4,403,363 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit company that is a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The grant is for research and development to build a prototype ultra-compact infrared sensor to measure temperature and water vapor in the atmospheric boundary layer. No set-aside designations were used. The work includes developing metamaterial filters, building and testing a benchtop...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The $224,743 grant funds a project to extend regional modeling for NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) in order to estimate North American carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes through mid-2018. The work leverages new datasets, including the first few years of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon...
This federal contract award was granted by a civilian government agency to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The $494,645.00 grant is for research related to the role of ammonia (NH3) in the reactive nitrogen cycle and its impact on ecosystem health and water quality. The research is not designated as a set-aside contract. AER is a for-profit organization that specializes in atmospheric and Earth sciences research, providing advanced...
This is a $64,759 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The grant is for spectroscopy research in support of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) missions. There is no set-aside designation for this award. AER, the prime contractor, is a for-profit organization specializing in atmospheric and Earth sciences research, with expertise in areas such as climate modeling, weather...
This $96,683 federal grant award to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc., supports spectroscopy research in support of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) missions. The research aims to improve the interpretation of spectral observations from the OCO instruments by advancing the state-of-the-art knowledge of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and interferant species absorption coefficients. This award, granted by the Shared Services Center, has an...
This federal contract was awarded by NASA to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit research and consulting firm based in Lexington, Massachusetts. The award, valued at $824,000, is for research related to ocean bottom pressure, a key variable in understanding Earth's climate system. The work will leverage data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and future gravity missions to improve scientific analysis and modeling of ocean mass, freshwater content,...
This is a $249,518 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. for carbon tracking services. The contract supports NOAA's work in climate modeling and environmental data analysis. It was awarded on a sole-source basis without any set-aside designations, as Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. is the only entity capable of providing the CarbonTracker-Lagrange modeling...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0505, was granted to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The $452,865.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center will fund research on the distribution of clouds and their impact on atmospheric radiative heating, circulation, and precipitation. The research aims to improve the understanding of this critical factor in climate and weather systems....
This federal contract award with ID NNX16AP23G was made by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit corporation, to develop a prototype regional carbon monitoring system for urban areas. The award supports research to enhance observational networks, develop high-resolution flux inventories, and advance transport modeling capabilities, with a focus on the Boston and San Francisco Bay Area regions. The work aims to produce and evaluate approaches for monitoring, reporting, verification, and validation of greenhouse gas emissions at policy-relevant scales. This $346,600.41 grant does not have a set-aside designation. Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. has received past prime contract awards and grants from NASA, NOAA, DOE, and NSF supporting a range of atmospheric and Earth sciences research.