This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC21M0018, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, as the prime contractor. The $304,979 cooperative agreement is for a project titled "The Impact of Urban Expansion on Peri-Urban Agriculture, Hydrometeorology, Food Security and Human Health" with a performance period ending on October 13, 2025....
This federal contract award, valued at $479,965.17, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a prominent land-grant research institution. The contract is to conduct a research program aimed at advancing scientific understanding of atmospheric isoprene, its emissions from global hotspots, and the impacts of those emissions on the atmosphere's oxidizing capacity. The contract is a grant for research and does not have a...
This is a $1,461,680.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to develop a "Unified Decadal Data Record for Reactive Biosphere Atmosphere Exchange." The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Minnesota is a major land-grant research institution that conducts extensive scientific research and...
This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, valued at $325,094.00, is for a research grant to assimilate satellite observations of reactive ozone precursors in order to advance the GEOS-CF composition forecasts. The award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Minnesota, as a major public research institution, frequently conducts federal contract work and grant-funded...
The federal contract award 80NSSC19K1333, valued at $134,735.99, was granted to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for a research project titled "Physically Constrained Inversion of the First-Order Radiative Transfer Equations for High-Resolution Retrievals of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Water Content Using SMAP Data". This grant-funded research, which does not have a set-aside designation, is being conducted by a student at the University of Minnesota. The contracting...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $493,454.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for research focused on understanding the "transmissivity" or variability in the ratio of downgoing to absorbed energy flux of auroral electron precipitation and its impact...
This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, valued at $245,993.07, is for a research grant titled "INVESTING IN EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: AN URBAN DECISION-SUPPORT TOOL INTEGRATING EARTH OBSERVATIONS, SOCIOECONOMIC DATA, AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICE MODELS." The grant is funded by a civilian federal agency, the Shared Services Center. The contract has no set-aside designation, indicating open competition. The University of Minnesota, a prominent...
This federal contract award, valued at $496,286, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop scalable, parallelized graph-based analysis tools for studying complex Earth system data and climate models. The award supports the integration of these new open-source analytics modules into NASA's Earth Exchange (NEX) platform, enabling climate scientists to further investigate a wide range of Earth system processes...
The University of Minnesota has been awarded a $481,933 federal grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of North American forests threatened by invasive pests, pathogens, and climate change. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. The research will leverage remote sensing techniques to monitor and understand the potential impacts of these threats. As a leading land-grant research...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K0465, was granted to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office Sponsored Projects Administration. The $526,002.12 grant is for research addressing fundamental processes that govern the internal structure, chemistry, and dynamics of bodies in the solar system. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Minnesota is a major land-grant research university that conducts cutting-edge...
This federal contract award, valued at $264,173.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a major land-grant research university. The contract, titled "Integrating Ecosystem Services (ES), the Benefits Provided by Nature to People, into Decision-Making," aims to improve ES valuation tools through the integration of Earth Observation (EO) data.
The University of Minnesota will partner with the Natural Capital Project (NatCap) to engage decision-makers and ES analysts in a series of workshops. These workshops will focus on identifying linkages between EO products and ES models, demonstrating EO-ES connections, and developing new projects. The workshops will bring together the remote sensing and ES communities to address both the scientific and technical challenges of incorporating EO data into ES valuation tools. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, and the University of Minnesota will serve as the prime contractor.