This $87,736.10 training grant was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct research related to quantifying the impact of calcifying and non-calcifying phytoplankton on regional iron and carbon cycles in the Patagonian Shelf and adjacent South Atlantic waters. The project aims to leverage remote sensing data and numerical modeling to understand the spatial and temporal patterns of these phytoplankton and their contributions to the regional biogeochemical cycles. This research supports the goals of NASA's Earth Science Research Program in the areas of carbon cycle and ecosystem monitoring. The award has no set-aside designation, indicating OSU competed for this contract based on its technical expertise. As a prominent public land-grant institution, OSU frequently partners with federal agencies on a wide range of research and technical services across domains such as agriculture, forestry, oceanography, and environmental sciences.