This contract award to Oregon State University is part of the Next Generation CLPX Science Definition Team proposal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve remote sensing of snow in forested regions. The contract, valued at $209,248.53, focuses on evaluating how forest structure and litter impact snow properties and how remote sensing technologies and snow models can be used to better characterize snow in forested areas. Key objectives include deriving forest...
This federal contract award to Oregon State University (OSU), a public land-grant research university, supports the development of new metrics for monitoring snow cover trends and impacts in a warming climate. The $460,348.18 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aims to create a suite of leading and lagging snow indicators to serve as climate change metrics for the National Climate Assessment. The project will leverage remote sensing, in-situ, and climate...
This federal contract award is for a grant provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Oregon State University (OSU) to advance the mapping of snow water equivalent using space-ready remote sensing through snow model integration. The award, valued at $466,796.00, has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2026. OSU, as the prime contractor, is a public land-grant research university with extensive expertise in areas such as agriculture, forestry, environmental...
This federal contract award, valued at $483,955.00, was granted to Portland State University (PSU) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. The contract is for research to characterize snow albedo (reflectivity) across spatial and temporal scales in the Alaskan boreal forest region, evaluate uncertainties in current remote sensing products, and develop improved modeling of snow albedo and its impacts on snow hydrology. This research aims to address key uncertainties in global...
This federal contract award, valued at $293,973.68, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct research on plant water use strategies across different climates, topographies, and biomes. The project aims to improve crop and land surface model predictions by quantifying the strategies plants employ to regulate their water use, which is critical for accurately modeling soil moisture dynamics and the productivity of natural...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0198, was granted to Oregon State University (OSU) on January 1, 2021. The $393,392.00 grant is for research related to the interplay between water resources and local microclimate, which is critical for ecosystem productivity and habitat suitability. The contract is a grant for research, awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. Oregon State University, a public land-grant research university, frequently partners with federal...
This is a $135,000.00 research grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Oregon State University (OSU). The grant's objective is to improve habitat summary descriptions using deep neural networks. OSU is a public land-grant research university and does not have a set-aside designation for this award. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. While the data does not mention a specific solicitation, OSU's expertise in areas like environmental...
This federal contract award, valued at $45,489.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to The Ohio State University to design and implement a sampling strategy to assess active microwave snow water equivalent (SWE) retrievals in tundra and boreal forest environments during the 2022-23 winter season and evaluate the potential for spaceborne observations. This is a grant for research with no set-aside designation. The Ohio State University has a history of providing...
This federal contract award, valued at $89,373.73, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Oregon State University (OSU) to address the pressing need for shallow bathymetry data in coastal and inland waters worldwide. The contract is a research grant with no set-aside designation, allowing OSU to leverage its expertise in oceanography, environmental sciences, and data collection to conduct the required work. OSU, a public...
This federal contract award to Oregon State University (OSU) is for the development and testing of algorithms to generate new coastal, geospatial data products from the ICESat-2 ATLAS sensor. The objective is to enable enhanced assessment of coastal change and climate vulnerabilities in the Arctic and other remote coastal regions. The $430,754.75 grant-funded project will leverage OSU's previous work in algorithm development and LiDAR analysis, and will involve empirical assessments of the...
This federal contract award to Oregon State University (OSU) for $93,449.57 is focused on enhancing the understanding of how forest structure affects snow accumulation and melt. The overarching goal is to improve the ability to estimate snow cover in forested regions using a combination of remote sensing, field measurements, and computer modeling.
The project will address three key research questions related to characterizing the relationship between canopy structure and snow processes, using high-resolution data and indices to determine canopy metrics important for snow modeling, and evaluating the effects of spatial scale on these canopy structure metrics. OSU will leverage its existing forest snow monitoring network and expertise in remote sensing and snow modeling to deliver this research, which aims to benefit hydrologists, forest managers, and land surface modelers by providing a more detailed understanding of snow-forest interactions. This contract award does not have a set-aside designation, and OSU is serving as the prime contractor without any major subcontractors mentioned.