Cooperative Agreement 5850623001

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) totaling $649,975 aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative approach to monitoring methane emissions from livestock using advanced gravimetric microsensor technology. The project is led by the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, a non-profit marine research organization, and involves sub-awards to The William H Miner Agricultural Research...

Verdant Robotics, Inc. will receive $650,000 under a three-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a bio-economic farm model and test next generation precision agriculture technologies. The funding is provided through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. Specifically, Verdant Robotics and Professor Aaron Smith will create a mechanistic tool to model the economic and agroecological value...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC. The purpose of the award is to extend the generalizability and improve the accuracy and precision of the company's "SubTerra Green" system, a mobile soil laboratory that uses visible/near-infrared spectroscopic probes to...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the "LEVERAGING BIO-CHEMICAL AND GREENHOUSE GAS SENSORS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE INNOVATIONS (BIOSENSEINNOVATIONS)" project. The project aims to develop cutting-edge sensors that can detect nutrients, chemical compounds, soil microbiomes, and greenhouse gases in real-time to advance precision agriculture and promote sustainable farming...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) to develop a sustainable vertiport system and autonomous drone swarm for methane emission monitoring over orphaned oil and gas wells. The $149,999 grant will fund three technical objectives: (1) a low-cost, portable, and sustainable vertiport to enable precision...

The University of Texas at Arlington will provide services to monitor greenhouse gas emissions using an intelligent crop sensor network under a $129,964 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. The award's period of performance is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding supports the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), which aims to make agricultural...

S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a prototype soil carbon mapping unit. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program grant, with CFDA number 10.212, will support modifications to an existing prototype unit to enable rapid and accurate three-dimensional mapping of soil organic carbon content to a depth...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy awarded Blue Sky Measurements, Inc. a $499,500 project grant to develop an "optical NIR fixed-position passive scanner for methane detection and measurement." The grant was awarded under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954, Topic T, on June 21, 2021 with a completion date of December 20, 2022. Through this funding, Blue Sky Measurements will deliver an optical scanner that utilizes near infrared...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $610,609 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Merced, a minority-serving and Hispanic-serving educational institution. The grant, titled "Collaborative Research: Elevating Farm Worker-Robot Collaborations in Agri-Food Ecosystems", aims to shape the future farm workplace by developing intelligent agricultural robots that can operate in seamless partnership...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $460,747 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop innovative remote sensing technologies and methodologies for precision agriculture. The 4-year project, running from October 2023 to May 2027, aims to recycle existing radio frequency (RF) communication and navigation signals to enable new remote sensing capabilities in microwave spectrum...