The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $590,039 grant to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant will fund research to further refine the Complex Terrain Carbon Monitoring System (CMS-Mountains) and deliver products to key stakeholders. Specific objectives include extracting fine-scale information on gross primary productivity in complex terrain using solar-induced fluorescence and MODIS reflectance data combined with...
This federal contract award, valued at $853,863.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Utah for a research project titled "Towards a Carbon Monitoring System for Urban Carbon Emissions (CMS Cities) in Support of Emissions Reporting and Assessment." The project aims to leverage satellite data to monitor carbon emissions (CO2 and CH4) and their changes in urban areas within the contiguous United States, as well as develop emission...
This $89,939.21 federal grant award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the "CARBON MONITORING SYSTEM IN MOUNTAINS (CMS-MOUNTAINS): LEVERAGING SATELLITE-BASED SOLAR-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE TO UNDERSTAND FOREST DROUGHT AND MORTALITY IN THE WESTERN U.S." project. The grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UCAR, which manages the National Center for...
This federal contract award is a $159,968.00 grant for research to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The award, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, is focused on developing new algorithms for detecting and quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions from point sources using airborne spectroscopic imaging data. The research aims to improve upon current satellite-based methods by incorporating...
This federal contract award, NNX17AC75G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The $110,477.49 grant is for research and analysis related to the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on the Aqua and Terra spacecraft, as well as other related sensors like the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite. The research activities will be divided into two...
This $181,953 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division is for a research project titled "Reducing CH4 and Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions". The grant aims to leverage emerging airborne and satellite remote sensing capabilities to provide trusted, timely, and spatially-relevant data and analytics on methane and carbon dioxide emissions at the facility scale. This data is intended to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a grant worth $160,857.46 to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division for research related to the modeling of greenhouse gases and the biosphere. This award includes a subcontract to support the work of Dr. John Lin, an expert in this field, as well as a graduate student. The award has a completion date of November 19, 2021 and was initially made on November 20, 2018. No set-aside designation was specified for...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $300,568.00 grant to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division to conduct research on open-canopy woodland ecosystems and their role in the global carbon cycle. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, and the research is scheduled for completion by April 20, 2025. The University of Utah is a top-tier research institution that has previously received prime and sub-contracts from various federal...
This is a $655,371 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The award is for a research project titled "Multiscale Monitoring of Drought Induced Forest Mortality by Detecting Spatial Anomalies in Land Surface Temperature and Infrared Reflectance." The University of Utah, a major public research institution, will conduct this scientific research project, which aims to...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant is for a research project titled "A SURFACE VELOCITY INVESTIGATION OF LAKE-TERMINATING GLACIERS IN HIGH MOUNTAIN ASIA" with a period of performance through August 31, 2025. The University of Utah is a top-tier public research institution that conducts cutting-edge research across numerous scientific and medical...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,184,031.89, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The award is for a research grant titled "Towards a Complex Terrain Carbon Monitoring System (CMS-Mountains): Development and Testing in the Western U.S." The project aims to leverage satellite remote sensing and modeling to improve the understanding of carbon dynamics in mountainous regions, which have significant uncertainties due to complex atmospheric flows and lack of observations. The research will address key scientific questions related to combining satellite, atmospheric, and ecological data to inform carbon budgets in complex terrain, the relationship between satellite-retrieved solar-induced fluorescence and leaf-level physiology, and the impacts of drought on carbon cycling in mountainous areas. The framework developed under this grant is expected to be applicable to other regions of complex terrain around the world. This award is not associated with a set-aside program.