NASA would like the maronet team to help support eumetsat's effort to replicate our successful moby-2 and maronet instruments

The University of Miami received a $159,708 Project Grant from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) awarded on March 25, 2025, with a completion date of March 24, 2028. Under this award, the MARONET team will provide technical support to the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) to assist in replicating NASA's successful MOBY-2 (Marine Optical Buoy) and MARONET (Marine Aerosol and Radiation Network) instruments. While EUMETSAT will directly fund travel costs associated with this effort, this NASA grant covers the personnel time required to execute the technical assistance and knowledge transfer activities.

The project leverages the University of Miami's established expertise in oceanographic and atmospheric instrumentation research to support international scientific collaboration. Work will be performed at the university's facility in South Miami, Florida, and represents a direct contribution to NASA's strategic objective of expanding human knowledge through scientific discoveries by facilitating the international deployment and standardization of validated ocean observation systems.

While eumetsat will directly support our travel to perform this support because of funding restrictions they cannot support our time to do this work.