Project Grant 1758625

This $304,963 SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to develop a constellation of small, high-altitude balloons for improved atmospheric data collection. The key product is a global network of long-duration, low-cost, lightweight weather balloons that can significantly reduce weather forecast uncertainty by filling data gaps over oceans and undersampled regions. The project's broader...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $702,252 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to acquire a time-of-flight aerosol chemical speciation monitor (TOF-ACSM) and scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) instrumentation. These instruments will enable research in several key areas, including urban air pollution under cold and dark conditions, aerosol production from boreal forest fires, biogenic secondary organic aerosol...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop a suite of portable, quantum-enhanced sensors for detecting and identifying bioaerosols. The project aims to advance the technology readiness level of sensor technologies targeting bioaerosols, which directly impact human, animal, plant, and climate health. The key products to be...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop optimized high surface area functionalized nanomaterials for parts per billion (PPB) gas sensing using machine learning models. The $274,991 award to Atmosense, Inc., a minority-owned small business located in San Diego, CA, will fund the research and development of advanced materials...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, develops and tests an AI-driven foundation modeling framework of the atmosphere and ocean. The $304,943 award to Planette Analytics Inc. aims to provide businesses and governments with essential environmental intelligence to navigate volatility, including extreme weather events. The project's key focus is on creating an advanced multimodal AI...

This $5,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), aims to increase knowledge about local weather systems in the lower atmosphere. The key activities include: Developing a method to standardize and trace commercial UAS and advanced air mobility (AAM) atmospheric measurements, as well as protocols and standards for the Unmanned Aircraft Meteorological Data Report. Evaluating...

This federal Project Grant award of $175,000.00 was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021). The purpose of the award is to develop a novel, low-cost, internet-cloud-connected solar spectrometer network capable of measuring methane, CO2, and water vapor over wide geographic regions with little or no human intervention. The awardee, Butterfly Photonics, Inc., will leverage this funding to...

BJE Environmental Optics LLC received a $398,671 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program. The grant supports the development of a low-cost atmospheric aerosol monitoring system to measure boundary layer air quality, visibility, cloud ceiling height, and aerosol properties. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector and increase commercialization of research...

This federal Project Grant award of $306,341 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113), is supporting the development of a high-throughput, automated air sample analysis platform (ASAP) by Access Sensor Technologies LLC, a small business located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The ASAP system is designed to enable large-scale characterization of the "air exposome" by automating the analysis of hundreds of air...

The Aerodyne Research Inc. was awarded a $299,842 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program. The grant will fund the development of an in situ system to quantify dissolved greenhouse gases including nitrous oxide and methane in coastal ocean ecosystems from September 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Specifically, Aerodyne Research will design field deployable instrumentation for real-time measurements of...