This federal contract award is for the "DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE AND AUGMENTED MULTI-DECADAL REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS OF DUST (CAMRO-DUST) DATA RECORD FOR EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS", valued at $610,262.00. The contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), a public research university that is part of the University System of Maryland. The contract...
This is a grant contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to conduct research on dust aerosols and their impacts on the Earth's radiative energy budget. The contract, valued at $134,993.64, supports an investigation into the frequent occurrence of above-cloud dust in the Northeast Atlantic region as observed by spaceborne lidar. UMBC, as a public research university within the...
This is a $528,176 federal grant award to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for the "RETRIEVAL OF SPECTRALLY RESOLVED DUST AEROSOL DIRECT RADIATIVE EFFECT FROM EMIT HYPERSPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS", which involves research and analysis related to Earth science and atmospheric composition. UMBC is a public research university that has a history of supporting NASA's mission...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $150,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to support the "FACILITATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AIR QUALITY SCIENCE: SYNERGY OF NASA'S GROUND-BASED OBSERVATION NETWORKS" project. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is a grant for research that will run until August 31, 2025. UMBC, a public research university, is a...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC18K1599, was granted to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $210,329.86 grant funds research to determine the importance of decoupling in the extratropics and the radiative and climatic impact of these transitions in the extratropical boundary layer. The work leverages satellite data analysis to better understand cloud feedbacks, which is a high...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,015,913.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to perform research on "MAKING A LONG TERM DATA RECORD OF OPPORTUNISTIC EXPERIMENTS FOR STUDYING AEROSOL CLOUD INTERACTIONS". This is a cooperative agreement with a period of performance ending on December 13, 2028. UMBC is a public research university that is part of the University...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC23K1000 was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to conduct research on the recent decadal trend of the Pacific westerly jet in response to anthropogenic aerosol emissions and its impact on trans-Pacific aerosol transport. The $448,071.00 grant is a research contract that does not utilize any set-aside designations. UMBC, a public research university, is the prime contractor for...
This federal contract award is for the "INVESTIGATION OF GLOBAL IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY VARIABILITIES DRIVEN BY E REGION ELECTRON DENSITY" with the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) as the prime contractor. The contract, valued at $355,587.00, is a grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Shared Services Center. The contract has a period of performance through June 6, 2028. UMBC is a public research university...
This is a $339,142.26 grant award from the Shared Services Center of NASA to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to conduct a 3-year research project on how atmospheric aerosols and clouds impact solar radiation and vegetation productivity in the Amazon basin. The project aims to use satellite observations and the GEOS-5 climate model to analyze the seasonal and interannual relationships between aerosols, clouds, radiation, and forest growth in the Amazon. No set-aside was used...
This is a $444,187.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop algorithms and conduct synergistic analysis for retrieving aerosol vertical distributions using measurements from the O2 A/B bands and polarimetric data from blue bands. The award supports UMBC's research in Earth science, which the university has previously conducted for NASA through prime and subcontract agreements. As a member of the University System of...