This is a $180,647 federal grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Shared Services Center to Michigan State University (MSU) to advance operational forest carbon monitoring in interior Alaska through a partnership with the U.S. Forest Service. The proposed work directly responds to requests in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) solicitation for continued development of prototype CMS products, including the use of remote sensing data for carbon monitoring efforts...
This $975,357.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for research on the carbon footprint of managed agricultural and forest landscapes in the Kalamazoo River Watershed in Michigan. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to quantify the landscape-scale carbon fluxes from both physical and social factors, including land use and management practices, and how they are impacted by climate change. The...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to American University, a private university located in Washington, D.C. The $123,636.00 grant funds research to contribute to collaborative forest inventory efforts in Alaska, improve characterization of the biogeography of interior Alaska, and develop more robust approaches for integrating NASA's G-LiHT hyperspectral and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. The...
This federal contract award, valued at $439,308.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research on using GEDI data to improve understanding of species-specific central Africa tropical forest regrowth. The contract is a grant for research, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2028. MSU is a premier land-grant public research institution that has received numerous federal contract and grant awards spanning diverse...
This federal contract award is a $772,076 grant to Michigan State University (MSU) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project addressing "Land-Use Transitions in Asia" and "Forced and Truncated Agrarian Transitions in Asia Through the Lens of Field Size Change". The award is responsive to NASA's NNH18ZDA001N-LCLUC (Land-Cover and Land-Use Change) call. MSU, a prominent public land-grant research university, has a strong track record...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $254,247.34 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on the growth, disturbance, and carbon dynamics of northern hemisphere forests. The research aims to improve understanding of Arctic/boreal terrestrial ecosystems and their potential to release stored carbon. The study will leverage NASA/USGS Landsat satellite imagery and WorldView sub-meter imagery to quantify ecological relationships between stand...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. The $135,165.64 grant is for a 10-year project to conduct a systematic inventory of forests in interior Alaska, combining ground-based forest inventory plots with data from NASA's G-LIHT airborne remote sensing system. The partnership aims to address science questions related to shrub biomass, pest and pathogen impacts,...
This is a $2,100,003.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for a project titled "SOUTH ASIAN SMALLHOLDER FORESTS AND OTHER TREE-BASED SYSTEMS: SYNTHESIZING LCLUC DATA AND.APPROACHES TO FOSTER A NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTION THAT IMPROVES LIVELIHOODS." The grant has an ultimate completion date of July 19, 2026. MSU, a public land-grant research university, is known for its extensive federal contract and grant work...
This is a $853,319.00 grant awarded to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for a project titled "INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING AND MODELING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE VULNERABILITY OF BOREAL-TAIGA ECOSYSTEMS TO WILDFIRE" and has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2026. Michigan Tech, a public research university specializing in STEM disciplines, has extensive experience...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research on the impact of global warming trends on permafrost degradation in the Arctic/tundra region. The grant has a ceiling value of $345,854.00 and a completion date of June 15, 2025. MSU, a leading research institution, has a strong track record of providing research and development services to federal agencies, including radiation...
This federal contract award supports a research project to expand forest carbon monitoring in Interior Alaska using remote sensing data. The $179,352 grant was awarded by NASA to Michigan State University (MSU), a premier public research institution.
The project leverages an existing NASA-U.S. Forest Service (USFS) pilot project to inventory a second USFS region in Interior Alaska using airborne LiDAR, hyperspectral, and thermal data. The research aims to develop new spatially-explicit estimates of forest carbon stocks and losses from factors like insects and disease. This will provide critical information for carbon monitoring and resource management in this remote region, which is not covered by the USFS's standard field inventory. The award does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting MSU's status as a large educational institution.