This federal contract award to Michigan State University (MSU) focuses on improving biodiversity modeling and forecasting by better incorporating geophysical and biological drivers across spatial and temporal scales. The $150,441 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will fund a series of workshops to review existing biodiversity modeling approaches, identify relevant data sets, and determine optimal derived remote sensing data products for use by the biodiversity...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,598,346 grant to Michigan Technological University to conduct research on the impacts of global change on ecosystems at land/water interfaces within the Great Lakes basin. The research will use remote sensing and modeling to understand how changes in land use, agricultural practices, and climate have affected and will further affect wetland plant communities and ecosystem function in the region. The project builds on...
This is a $120,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) to continue the NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards program. The program supports outstanding students and junior scholars to attend the annual conferences of the United States Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) for the next three years (2016-2018). The objective is to enable these students and scholars to present their...
This federal award is for a grant to Michigan State University (MSU) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project "NEW TRANSITIONS IN SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS THAT PROMOTE INCREASED TREE COVER OUTSIDE OF FORESTS". The $694,045.00 grant has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025. MSU is a research university that has received numerous previous federal contract and grant awards, including a $2.7 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with NASA...
This federal contract award is a $772,076 grant to Michigan State University (MSU) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project addressing "Land-Use Transitions in Asia" and "Forced and Truncated Agrarian Transitions in Asia Through the Lens of Field Size Change". The award is responsive to NASA's NNH18ZDA001N-LCLUC (Land-Cover and Land-Use Change) call. MSU, a prominent public land-grant research university, has a strong track record...
This $975,357.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University (MSU) for research on the carbon footprint of managed agricultural and forest landscapes in the Kalamazoo River Watershed in Michigan. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to quantify the landscape-scale carbon fluxes from both physical and social factors, including land use and management practices, and how they are impacted by climate change. The...
This is a $666,746.47 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Michigan State University (MSU) on August 20, 2018. The grant supports a research project focused on using remote sensing techniques and other advanced methods to understand the dynamic interactions among hydropower dams, ecosystem services, and rural livelihoods in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMRB) in Southeast Asia. The project aims to inform policies in the LMRB by...
This is a $748,148 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Michigan State University (MSU) for research related to Southeast Asia's rapid urbanization. MSU is a top research university that provides a range of goods and services to federal agencies through both contracts and grants. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is intended to fund research on the doubling of Southeast Asia's urban built-up land over the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on September 10, 2019 and has a completion date of September 9, 2022. The research is focused on using remote sensing technologies to study two-dimensional characteristics of land cover,...
Michigan State University was awarded a $134,964.14 research grant effective January 1, 2020, with completion targeted for December 31, 2024. The grant supports research addressing the impacts of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem services, with particular focus on biodiversity hotspots that contain approximately 44% of all plant species and 35% of all vertebrate species worldwide. The work will be performed at MSU's East Lansing, Michigan campus. No set-aside designation was used in...
This is a research and development contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan State University, a U.S. 1862 Land Grant College and state-controlled institution of higher learning. The key objectives of the $134,107.00 training grant are to characterize the relationships between remotely sensed land use, climate, and primary productivity, with different forms of stream insect diversity across three spatial scales within the continental United States. This knowledge will enable robust freshwater biodiversity mapping for current and future land use and climate change. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The research will directly support NASA's science goals to detect and predict changes in Earth's ecological and biogeochemical cycles, including land cover, biodiversity, and the global carbon cycle. The findings from this study could help identify the scales at which different NASA data products are effective measures for predicting and mapping freshwater biodiversity.