This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University, Office of Research and Project Administration, doing business as Princeton University, to conduct research related to quantifying the ocean carbon flux response to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The research will leverage data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and atmospheric oxygen (O2) data, particularly from the NASA Atmospheric Tomography...
This is a $572,981.92 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration Division for research related to the ocean's carbon cycle and its response to climate change. The grant is focused on using Earth system models (ESMs) to understand how anthropogenic climate change will impact the ocean's solubility and biological carbon pumps, which have important implications for the coupled...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a private non-profit research organization, with a ceiling value of $566,924.08. The award is for a research project investigating physical, biological, and geochemical processes that control the transfer of carbon from the ocean surface to the deep ocean via the biological pump. The project will use a coupled physical-biogeochemical model and existing...
This federal contract award to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University, supports research to improve satellite-based measurements of ocean net primary production (NPP) and enhance understanding of the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle. The $865,926 grant is part of NASA's CMS (Carbon Monitoring System) program, which aims to promote the utility of space-based assets for studying the Earth's carbon cycle. The project will develop a novel...
This is a research and development contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to study the biological carbon pump in the ocean. The contract has a ceiling value of $105,000.00 and a period of performance through August 31, 2019. The objective is to measure the ratio of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in phytoplankton to better estimate the export of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the deep ocean. This...
This federal contract award to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the effects of natural hydrocarbon seeps on surface phytoplankton populations. The $170,253.38 research grant aims to test three hypotheses related to elevated chlorophyll concentrations observed near natural seeps in the Gulf of Mexico and other regions. The study will leverage advanced autonomous platforms like Saildrone and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $370,019.25 grant to the University of Maine System (UMS) to support the Consortium for Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) project. SOCCOM aims to build a 200-float observatory in the Southern Ocean to improve understanding of the region's contribution to global ocean processes and climate. Through this grant, UMS will add bio-optical sensors to the float array, collect validation data for NASA's...
The Trustees of Princeton University received a $765,282 grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center on June 1, 2022, to investigate the relationship between Southern Ocean salinity and global cloud feedback mechanisms. The research addresses a critical gap in climate science, as cloud feedback represents the greatest source of uncertainty in estimating climate sensitivity. Princeton's research team will conduct climate modeling experiments and analyze satellite-derived and in situ salinity...
This federal contract award was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to conduct research on the impacts of Arctic freshwater loss on biological productivity and carbon export in the North Atlantic Ocean. The $104,999.48 award, which has no set-aside designation, supports the use of satellite data, shipboard observations, and autonomous float measurements to investigate how melting Arctic sea...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division, which is conducting research to refine, validate and maintain global algorithms for the existing standard data product of particulate organic carbon (POC) concentration in the surface ocean. The overarching goal is to ensure a continuous multi-year and multi-satellite POC record to support...
This federal contract award to Princeton University, with a ceiling value of $907,170.04, is for research related to determining the relationship between primary production and net community production in the Southern Ocean. The award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is part of the agency's Carbon Cycle Science program, which focuses on improving the understanding of the global carbon cycle. The research aims to reconcile discrepancies between satellite-derived and in-situ measurements of carbon export from the Southern Ocean, a critical region for global carbon exchange. The work involves using data from the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) project, which has deployed a network of floats to measure key biogeochemical parameters, along with satellite observations and ecosystem modeling. This effort is intended to enhance the utility of satellite data for determining carbon export. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.