The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $125,345.58 training grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota (doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration), a non-profit organization and land-grant university. The grant is to develop new constraints on northern U.S. wetland methane fluxes, advance understanding of the evolving environmental factors driving emissions, and improve predictions of emission response to climate change. The research...
This federal grant award to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, titled "Examining the Links between Agriculture and Human Health in a Context of Climate Change: A Case Study", is valued at $90,970.18. The grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and aims to quantify the relationships between food availability and food insecurity in the countries of Niger, Mali, and Burkina-Faso using various NASA data products, including MODIS, NDVI, SRTM, and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $444,321.00 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), a U.S. state government educational institution. The grant is for a research project focused on methane, which is an important short-lived climate pollutant. The period of performance runs from May 4, 2021 through May 3, 2025. This award does not have a set-aside designation....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $295,348.74 grant to the University of Rochester to reevaluate the atmospheric methane budget within the NASA GISS ModelE global chemistry-climate model. The project aims to exploit methane isotopic signatures to better refine source contributions at regional scales and incorporate new estimates of methane outgassing from the ocean and freshwater lakes. This interdisciplinary research project combines expertise from atmospheric...
Regents of the University of Minnesota has been awarded a $600,029 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research titled "Development and Analysis of New VOC Retrievals from the CRIS Sensors: Global Constraints on Anthropogenic, Biogenic, and Pyrogenic Emissions." The research will analyze volatile organic compound emissions observed by NASA's Cross-track Infrared Sounder sensors to better constrain global emission sources...
This is a $1,282,535.77 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant supports research to better understand the global sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4), leveraging a combination of in-situ measurements, remote sensing data, and isotopic source signature analysis. The research aims to identify spatial...
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...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota has been awarded a $493,494 research grant to investigate Arctic lake-ice phenology and methane emissions using Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite observations. The project addresses the significant methane source represented by Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes above 50 degrees north latitude, which comprise over 40 percent of global lake area. The research objectives include expanding and validating radiative transfer models to account for...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $900,245.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant, which has no set-aside designation, is intended to effectively enable the NASA-funded science community's use of transformational data sets. As a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college, the Regents of the University of Minnesota has extensive experience conducting...
This is a $123,851 grant award from 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 conduct research on "GLOBAL MAPPING AT HIGH-RESOLUTION OF GLACIAL UNITS ON MARS: CALCULATING CONSTRAINTS ON THE LONG-TERM EVOLUTION OF THE MARTIAN CLIMATE." The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Minnesota is a major public research institution that...
This award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides a $1,527,183 grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct research on methane emissions in the U.S. Corn Belt and Upper Midwest region. The research program will combine in-situ and remote sensing measurements, agricultural science, hydrology, and micrometeorology with modeling to quantify the net methane flux in the region, understand the magnitudes and drivers of methane emissions from wetlands, rivers, streams, and animal agriculture, and characterize the contributions of other anthropogenic methane sources. This work addresses goals of the NASA solicitation related to improving the understanding of methane processes, sources, and fluxes, integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches, and separating the contributions of managed versus unmanaged ecosystems. The grant does not utilize any set-aside designations and runs through May 2022.