Project Grant 23DG11132544020

This $100,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) supports Wageningen University in the Netherlands to enhance forest monitoring capabilities through advanced satellite technology. The key project activities include: Adapting deforestation alert methods to meet specific country needs and implementing them in open-source platforms like R, SEPAL, and Google Earth Engine to facilitate broader...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $106,810 Cooperative Agreement under its International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an international non-profit organization, for the "Mangrove Monitoring for Climate Change Mitigation in India" project. The project, with a period of performance from June 27, 2023, to June 1, 2025, supports CIFOR's research and policy engagement activities related to monitoring...

This $1,999,950 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The project, awarded to the Urban Forest Carbon Registry in August 2024, delivers three key solutions over 3 years to enable hundreds of land trusts to enroll thousands of rural landowners in carbon offset and ecosystem services programs: Technical assistance toolkits to help landowners assess eligibility,...

This Cooperative Agreement award was granted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The $1,763,109 award will fund the creation of regional carbon buyer hubs to connect small and underserved forest landowners to new pools of local and regional buyers for carbon offset credits. The prime awardee, the Urban Forest Carbon Registry, will serve as the national coordinating center, providing...

This Project Grant award, valued at $1,018,281 and provided by the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, supports the development of OpenForest4D - a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform for next-generation 4D forest mapping and monitoring. The goal is to apply novel statistical models and artificial intelligence methodologies to a fusion of multi-source remote sensing data to generate on-demand, research-grade estimates of forest structure and above-ground...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $183,000 project grant to Unique Land Use GMBH under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) to support the "ETHIOPIA MRV OF LIVESTOCK GHG EMISSIONS IN OROMIA" effort. The May 6, 2022 award provides funding through March 31, 2024 for measuring, reporting, and verifying greenhouse gas emissions from livestock in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The International Forestry Programs aim to improve forest policies and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $4,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Sky Harvest Resources, LLC, a small business based in Dallas, Texas, under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The award supports the "Carbon Credit Landowner Access Project" with a performance period from August 6, 2024 to March 31, 2027. The project aims to help underserved private forest landowners participate in emerging environmental markets,...

This two-year, $297,190 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Michigan Technological University to investigate drivers of carbon storage in temperate forests over successional time. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological science knowledge and address major problems facing the nation. The grantee is measuring forest structure, soil nutrients, and carbon fluxes in six experimentally cut and burned forest stands representing different disturbance dates...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $183,000 Cooperative Agreement under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) to Agritix Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia. The purpose of this 5-year award, with a start date of September 4, 2024 and completion date of July 31, 2029, is to develop and deploy an automated wood identification model for West Africa. This project aims to address critical global challenges such as climate change, forest conservation, and supporting...

American Forests will provide $250,000 in climate-smart reforestation services to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks under a four-year cooperative agreement from the National Park Service's Natural Resource Stewardship program. Key activities include meeting with indigenous stewards to develop reforestation goals, evaluating assisted adaptation strategies, collecting tree cones, growing seedlings, planning post-fire recovery, and stakeholder engagement. American Forests will work with...