This $150,000.00 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to conduct research on "BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LAND AND ATMOSPHERE BY QUANTIFYING WILDFIRE FUELS AND EMISSIONS." As a public research university, UCSB has extensive expertise in climate research and frequently collaborates with other leading institutions on federally funded projects. The grant, which has an ultimate completion...
This is a $90,000.00 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to study riparian woodlands, which are highly productive plant communities in dryland ecosystems. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023. UCSB is a public research university with expertise in areas such as quantum computing, photonics, and climate research. The university frequently partners with other leading...
This is a $260,658.25 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to conduct research on quantifying the ocean's biological carbon pump using a combination of satellite and in-situ oceanographic observations. The work aims to develop models that will improve how NASA uses its resources to monitor and quantify the ocean's carbon cycle. This grant does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was awarded...
This $133,323.40 research grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The research aims to understand the impact of atmospheric rivers on local precipitation regimes in high mountain Asia, using satellite products, global reanalysis, and regional model simulations over a 35-year period. The goal is to explore the climatology of atmospheric rivers in the region and examine their...
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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000 grant for research to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a public research university. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support UCSB's fundamental and unclassified research across disciplines in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, including areas such as quantum computing, photonics, materials science, and biotechnology. UCSB has previously conducted...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) for the development of hyperspectral equivalent water thickness retrievals to monitor water stress. The award is not set aside and has an ultimate completion date of October 3, 2026. UCSB, as a public research university, has extensive expertise in areas such as climate research, remote sensing, and measurement devices, which it will leverage to...
This is a $277,449.73 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to deliver the annual global methane budget and its uncertainties from January 2018 through December 2021. The grant will utilize data, tools, and expertise built from previous NASA-funded research to provide a detailed accounting of methane sources and sinks, including partitioning by source type (e.g., fossil fuels, wetlands, agriculture) and the...
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) was awarded a $165,000.00 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on how humans are interacting with the natural world. The award, Contract ID 80NSSC20K1475, is for a project that will develop techniques and products to utilize NASA and partner organization resources in novel ways to expand our understanding of human-environment interactions. The award does not have a set-aside designation,...
This federal grant award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research related to improving the modeling of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions using data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. The $450,000 grant will be used to: 1) integrate SMAP soil moisture data into the Community Land Model to improve the understanding of processes underlying N2O and CH4 emissions,...
This federal grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), is focused on understanding the sources and variability of methane emissions from tropical aquatic systems, including floodplains, wetlands, lakes, and rivers. The project aims to combine field measurements, hydrological simulations, and remote sensing data to develop mechanistic models that couple floodplain inundation dynamics to methane production and emission. The results will improve capabilities for predicting and simulating methane emissions and their temporal and spatial variations within tropical aquatic systems. The grant, valued at $925,506.98, does not have a set-aside designation and will be performed at UCSB's campus in Santa Barbara, California. As a public research university, UCSB has extensive experience conducting fundamental and unclassified research for federal agencies, including NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.