This is a $504,960.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project titled "The Future Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone: Influence of ODSs, VSLs Cl, and GHGs". The award has an ultimate completion date of April 20, 2026. UMD is a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and state-controlled institution of higher learning with extensive federal research...
This $277,499.12 federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) supports the development and production of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) data products from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument. The goal is to continue the critical Earth Observing System (EOS) data records for these key air quality and climate indicators that were previously provided by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)...
This is a $379,999.63 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for air quality and bromine research. The grant is focused on two main tasks: 1) evaluating and improving air quality models using NASA satellite and field campaign data to understand the relationship between surface ozone, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds; and 2) computing the stratospheric burden of bromine monoxide to quantify the...
This is a grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $599,923.77 grant funds a project to quantify the processes controlling the temporal variability of biosphere-atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) flux on seasonal and interannual timescales from 1989 to 2018. The research aims to improve predictions from Earth system models by combining remote sensing observations, mechanistic models, and NASA's Goddard...
This federal contract award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to enhance the science value of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) sulfur dioxide (SO2) data product. The $732,900.50 grant-funded research will improve the OMI SO2 retrieval algorithm using principal component analysis, producing significantly better estimates of anthropogenic SO2 and volcanic SO2 cloud height. This will enable new air quality and...
This $608,878 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was made to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on surface ozone formation and atmospheric composition in the Mid-Atlantic region. The research will leverage observations from prior aircraft field missions, including the NASA-sponsored DISCOVER-AQ, OWLETS, and LISTOS campaigns, to characterize the vertical distribution and diurnal variations of ozone precursors. This analysis,...
This federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on May 25, 2018. The $101,434 award funds research to analyze results from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to improve inverse models of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. The key objectives are to identify and address biases in atmospheric transport modeling, develop methods for optimizing inverse...
This is a $256,160.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to improve coupled atmosphere-ocean Earth system analyses and weather forecasts by directly assimilating data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The primary goal is to enhance understanding of the air-sea interface through advanced data assimilation techniques. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. UMD is a...
This is a $239,864.29 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park on August 19, 2015. The grant is part of the "Next Generation UAV Based Spectral Systems for Environmental Monitoring" major program, and the work will concentrate on utilizing project technology to examine the scaling in sub-pixel canopy cover estimates from polar orbiter satellite platforms. The grant will also fund the development of methods for...
This federal contract award was granted to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project focused on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements. The contract, valued at $224,561.61, is a grant for PI Sourish Basu to coordinate various collaborative activities, including working with NASA, NOAA, and international partners to collect in-situ and satellite-based CO2 data. The project aims to design and perform...
This is a $368,388.65 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct a three-year research project on calibrating and inter-comparing data from two satellite instruments that measure trace gas species like formaldehyde. The project aims to improve the consistency and long-term trends in these satellite products by reconciling differences between the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2A) sensors. This research is relevant to NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) program and will contribute to the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS). The award does not have a set-aside designation. UMD, as the prime contractor, will leverage its extensive experience working with ultraviolet instrument data from satellites like OMI, Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), and Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS).