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Award ID | Description | Recipient | Total Value | Awarding Agency | Funding Agency | Set Aside | NAICS | PSC | Award Date | Start Date | End Date | |
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| GENETIC ANALYSIS OF WILD HORSE AND BURRO HAIR FOLLICLE SAMPLES | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $124,629 | BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT | BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 14, 2028 | ||
| IGF::CL::IGF LAB ANALYSIS - CATALOG G040062 TERL, FILE 6069 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $13,881 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Jul 20, 2016 | Jul 20, 2016 | Jul 19, 2017 | ||
| IGF::CL::IGF LAB ANALYSIS - CATALOG G040061 TERL FILE 6057 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $26,058 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Jun 28, 2016 | Jun 28, 2016 | Jun 27, 2017 | ||
| IGF::CL::IGF LAB ANALYSIS - CATALOG 6070121 TERL FILE 6047 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $4,620 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Jun 6, 2016 | Jun 6, 2016 | Jun 5, 2017 | ||
| IGF::CL::IGF LAB ANALYSIS - CATALOG 7030162 TERL FILE 6001 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,925 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Jan 14, 2016 | Jan 14, 2016 | Jan 13, 2017 | ||
| IGF::CT::IGF LAB ANALYSIS - CATALOG 2140000 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $7,392 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Aug 19, 2015 | Aug 19, 2015 | Aug 18, 2016 | ||
| IGF::CT::IGF LAB ANALYSIS - CATALOG 7030160 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,889 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 541380Testing Laboratories and Services | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Aug 17, 2015 | Aug 17, 2015 | Aug 16, 2016 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION (FHWA) WITH "SYNOPSIS OF NEW/EMERGING METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES TO COLLECT DATA FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND MODELING," IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ATTACHED STATEMENT OF WORK. | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 | FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION | FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | U005EDUCATION/TRAINING- TUITION/REGISTRATION/MEMBERSHIP FEES | May 15, 2015 | May 15, 2015 | May 13, 2016 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF -- BAA LOG 12-0008 -- "HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRON- MENT AT HIGH LATITUDES: FATE, EFFECT, AND TRANSPORT OF CONTAMINANTS NEAR AN ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC BASE" U437H00 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $248,450 | DEPT OF THE ARMY | DEPT OF THE ARMY | — | 541712 | AZ11 | Mar 18, 2013 | Nov 9, 2012 | Dec 31, 2014 | ||
| BECAUSE OF THEIR LARGE SPATIAL EXTENT AND TENUOUS BUT PERSISTENT CLOUD COVER, MARINE SUBSIDENCE REGIONS ARE A CRITICAL MODULATOR OF THE GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY BALANCE, YET REMAIN ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT REGIONS TO ADEQUATELY OBSERVE AND SIMULATE. THESE REGIONS APPEAR AS VIRTUAL DESERTS IN GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGIES SUCH AS THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT (GPCP) DUE THE INHERENT INABILITY OF CONVENTIONAL SPACEBORNE SENSORS TO MEASURE LIGHT PRECIPITATION FROM SHALLOW LIQUID CLOUDS. THE PROPOSED WORK IS MOTIVATED BY RECENT CONVERGENT ESTIMATES OF THE GLOBAL SURFACE RADIATION FROM THE GLOBAL ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT (GEWEX) SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET (SRB) AND A-TRAIN BASED ESTIMATES THAT SUGGEST A MORE VIGOROUS CYCLING OF WATER AND THUS LATENT HEAT FROM THE SURFACE TO THE ATMOSPHERE THAN IS CURRENTLY ESTIMATED BY GPCP. FURTHER ANALYSIS IS NECESSARY TO IDENTIFY WHAT REGIONS AND MODES OF PRECIPITATION MAY PLAY INTO THE APPARENT INCONGRUITY IN GLOBAL SCALE RADIATION AND WATER CYCLE ESTIMATES. THE APPROACH OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO IMPROVE THE GLOBAL CLOSURE OF THE WATER AND ENERGY BUDGETS BY FOCUSING ON CLOSURE WITHIN A SPECIFIC REGIME (MARINE SUBSIDENCE REGIONS) WHERE THE CONVENTIONAL PRECIPITATION SENSORS HAVE KNOWN SHORTCOMINGS AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS CONFIRM THAT LIGHT PRECIPITATION IS A COMMON OCCURRENCE. THIS PROPOSAL WILL SUPPORT THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CLIMATOLOGY (2.3) WORKING GROUP BY EXPLORING THE REGIONAL CLOSURE OF THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE AND WILL LINK TO OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE NEWS PROGRAM BY LEVERAGING BOTH OBSERVATIONAL AND MODEL-REANALYSIS ESTIMATES OF SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERIC FLUXES OF HEAT AND MOISTURE THAT WILL INCLUDE NEW REGIONAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGIES IN MARINE SUBSIDENCE REGIONS. SPECIFIC DELIVERABLES OF THE PROPOSAL INCLUDE (1) A CHARACTERIZATION OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLES IN MARINE SUBSIDENCE REGIONS, (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE PRECIPITATION FROM CLOUDSAT OBSERVATIONS, AND (3) AN EVALUATION OF THE MOISTURE AND ENERGY FLUXES IN NASA S MODERN ERA RETROSPECTIVE-ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS (MERRA) PROJECT. ANALYSIS OF THE REGIONAL WATER AND ENERGY BUDGET REQUIRES ESTIMATES OF (A) THE SURFACE SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES, (B) THE SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENT OF THE RADIATION BUDGET, AND (C) THE ATMOSPHERIC FLUX DIVERGENCE OF ENERGY AND MOISTURE. SURFACE SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT ESTIMATES WILL BE USED FROM THE FORTHCOMING GODDARD SATELLITE-BASED SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES VERSION 3 (GSSTF-3) PRODUCT. RADIATION PRODUCTS WILL INCLUDE ESTIMATES FROM THE CLOUDS AND EARTH S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) INSTRUMENT, THE CLOUDSAT FLUXES AND HEATING RATES PRODUCT, AND THE GEWEX SRB. WATER VAPOR DIVERGENCE WILL BE ESTIMATED FROM THE OBSERVATIONAL PRODUCT OF HILBURN (2009). THE UNIQUE OBSERVATIONS OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION FROM CLOUDSAT WILL BE USED TO QUANTIFY THE PRECIPITATION IN THE SUBSIDENCE REGIONS. CLOUDSAT IS IDEALLY SUITED TO COMPLIMENT THE EXISTING PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY IN THESE REGIONS WHERE THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRECIPITATION IS DOMINATED BY LIGHT WARM RAIN EVENTS. RELEVANT TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE NEWS PROGRAM, THIS PRECIPITATION DATASET WILL BE COMPARED AGAINST THAT OF GPCP AND CMAP IN ORDER TO REFINE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ESTABLISHED GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY. IN ADDITION, THE OBSERVATIONAL WATER AND ENERGY FLUXES WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE MERRA IN THESE SUBSIDENCE REGIONS TO DETERMINE HOW WELL MODERN REANALYSIS PRODUCTS CAPTURE THE REGIONAL WATER AND ENERGY BUDGETS. | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $137,098 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Nov 27, 2012 | Dec 1, 2012 | Mar 9, 2016 | ||
| A CRITICAL LIMITATION TO ASTRONAUT PERFORMANCE DURING SPACEFLIGHT MISSIONS INCLUDING THOSE TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND MARS IS THE IMPAIRED CONTRACTILE ABILITY OF SKELETAL MUSCLES. SKELETAL MUSCLE IS A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TISSUE THAT RAPIDLY ADAPTS TO DYNAMIC CHANGES IN MECHANICAL LOADING BY MODIFYING ITS ULTRASTRUCTURE AND MASS. DETECTION AND TRANSMITTANCE OF LOADING ARE VITAL TO MUSCLE INTEGRITY AND PROTEIN TURNOVER, WITH A NEXUS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SUBSARCOLEMMAL CYTOSKELETON THAT INCLUDES THE DYSTROPHIN-GLYCOPROTEIN COMPLEX (DGC) AND CAVEOLAE. THIS INTERFACE BETWEEN MYOCYTES AND THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX CONFERS MECHANICAL INTEGRITY AND ACTIVATES CELL SIGNALING PATHWAYS THAT REGULATE PROTEIN TURNOVER, MITOCHONDRIAL MUSCLE FIBER CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA, AND FIBER PHENOTYPE. MECHANICAL UNLOADING EXPERIENCED IN THE MICROGRAVITY OF SPACEFLIGHT ELICITS LARGE DECREMENTS IN FORCE GENERATING CAPACITY VIA REDUCTION IN MUSCLE FLBER CROSS SECTIONAL AREA OR ATROPHY. WHILE UNLOADING-INDUCED ATROPHY IS A FUNCTION OF REDUCED PROTEIN SYNTHESIS COUPLED WITH INCREASED PROTEIN DEGRADATION, ACTIVATION OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS FOX03A AND NUCLEAR FACTOR-KAPPAB HAVE DRAWN SIGNIFICANT ATTENTION AS MEDIATORS. ALTHOUGH THE UPSTREAM TRIGGERS ARE NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD, TRANSLOCATION OF NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE (NNOS) FROM THE DG^ AND SARCOLEMMA TO THE SARCOPLASM IS A NOVEL SIGNALING EVENT THAT STIMULATES PROTEOLYSIS, AND THUS ATROPHY. NEW CLUES CAN BE GLEANED FROM DUCHENNE AND MANY OFTHE LIMB-GIRDLE MUSCIDAR DYSTROPHIES, PATHOLOGIES INVOLVING MUTATIONS TO DGC AND OTHER SARCOLEMMAL PROTEINS. BECAUSE MDS ANTL MICROGRAVITY BOTH INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MUSCLES TO DAMAGE, OXIDATIVE STRESS, AND PRO-INFLAMMATORY SIGNALING, A SHARED ROOT CAUSE IS SUSPECTED: DISRUPTION OFTHE SUBSARCOLEMMAL CYTOSKELETON. NEW STUDIES AND PRELIMINARY DATA INDICATE THE IMPORTANCE OF NAD(P)H OXIDASE (NOX), A SARCOLEMMAL SOURCE OF OXIDATIVE STRESS, AND CAVEOLIN-3 IN STIMIDATING MYOPATHY IN MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY MODELS. NOX MAY BE ACTIVATED UPSTREAM BY ANGIOTENSIN II AND C-ABL, A TYROSINE KINASE. FURTHER, OUR PILOT DATA SHOW THAT UNLOADING-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN CAVEOLIN-3 AND NNOS ARE REDOX DEPENDENT AND LINKED TO ATROPHY AND SHIFT IN MUSCLE FLBER-TYPE. OUR CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS IS THAT OXIDATIVE STRESS PRODUCED BY NOX PATHWAYS AND MITOCHONDRIA DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE TO A SARCOLEMMAL LOSS OF NNOS DURING MECHANICAL UNLOADING, ENHANCING PROTEOLYSIS AND SUPPRESSING PROTEIN SYNTHESIS. THE RODENT HINDLIMB UNLOADING MODEL AND NOVEL FRACTIONAL SYNTHESIS AND DEGRADATION WILL BE USED TO TEST OUR HYPOTHESES. SPECIFLC AIM 1 WILL IDENTIFY NOX-DEPENDENT SIGNALING ON NNOS TRANSLOCATION AND MUSCLE FLBER ATROPHY WITH HINDLIMB UNLOADING. SPECIFLC AIM 2 WILL DETERMINE DIRECTLY THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIAL AND CYTOSOLIC OXIDATIVE STRESS IN MOVEMENT OF NNOS AWAY FROM THE MUSCLE CELL MEMBRANE AND DISRUPTION OF DGC WITH MECHANICAL UNLOADING. IN SHORT, OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY THE TRIGGER BY WHICH SKELETAL MUSCLES SWITCH FROM BEING AN ANABOLIC TO A CATABOLIC MACHINE DURING SPACEFLIGHT, CAUSING MUSCLE ATROPHY AND WEAKNESS. WE PROPOSE THAT OXIDATIVE STRESS PRODUCED BY A NOX PATHWAY AND MITOCHONDRIA MOVE THE "MASTER SWITCH" PROTEIN (NNOS) AWAY FROM THE CELL MEMBRANE, WHICH SLOWS PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AND ACCELERATES BREAKDOWN OF PROTEIN. OUR STUDY WOULD DIRECTLY ADDRESS HIGH-PRIORITY GAPS IN "RECAPTURING A FUTURE FOR SPACE EXPLORATION" INCLUDING THE ROLE OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN PROTEIN BALANCE AND MAINTAINING THE SLOW CONTRACTILE PHENOTYPE. OUR GRANT PROPOSAL WOULD ALSO FORWARD OUR UNDERSTANDING OF (1) ALTERATIONS IN THE SUBSARCOLEMMAL CYTOSKELETON AND MEMBRANE DOMAINS, (2) SENSING AND TRANSDUCTION OF LOADING AND GRAVITY, (3) PROTEIN TURNOVER, AND (4) REGULATOIY MECHANISMS THAT GOVERN ALTERATIONS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE, ALL PROGRAMMATIC EMPHASES AND GOALS OFTHE CURRENT SPACE BIOLOGY NRA. | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $0 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Sep 25, 2012 | Aug 24, 2012 | Jan 24, 2013 | ||
| CATALOG 3080063-011 (GERG) 21ST SEDIMENT | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $12,600 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Sep 12, 2012 | Sep 12, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | ||
| CATALOG 3070058-017 SAVANNA ARMY DEPOT P | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $4,200 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Sep 11, 2012 | Sep 11, 2012 | Sep 10, 2013 | ||
| CATALOG 7030148 036 NPS YBLO EGGS | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $7,560 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Aug 31, 2012 | Aug 31, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | ||
| CATALOG 7030151 039 KENAI FJORDS R. EGGS | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $13,230 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Aug 31, 2012 | Aug 31, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | ||
| CATALOG 2020132 016 FISH OR AMAFCA NORTH | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $4,800 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Aug 27, 2012 | Aug 27, 2012 | May 10, 2015 | ||
| CATALOG 3080064 GERG- FILE 014 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $11,775 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Aug 27, 2012 | Aug 27, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | ||
| CATALOG 7030147 024 GERG- SEA DUCK SAMP. | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $34,017 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Aug 22, 2012 | Aug 22, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | ||
| CATALOG 7020105 027 BROWN BEAR | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $33,400 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B504SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL | Aug 21, 2012 | Aug 21, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | ||
| ICESAT-2 SCIENCE DEFINITION STUDIES TO MEASURE FOREST STRUCTURE THIS PROPOSAL RESPONDS TO ICESAT AND CRYOSAT PROGRAM OF NASA ROSES-2011 CALL FOR THE RECOMPLETE OF THE ICESAT-2 SCIENCE DEFINITION TEAM. THIS PROPOSED ACTIVITY ADDRESSES A PRIMARY ISSUE REGARDING THE APPROPRIATE USE OF ICESAT-2 PHOTON-COUNTING LIDAR DATA FOR CRITICAL CARBON CYCLE AND ECOSYSTEM MEASUREMENTS. AT THIS POINT, THE ICESAT-2 ENGINEERING DESIGN IS ESTABLISHED ALTHOUGH STILL SUBJECT TO MINOR MODIFICATION. NASA EXPECTS TO LAUNCH A 6-BEAM, 1 K HERTZ, 10M FOOTPRINT, 40M IFOV, PHOTONCOUNTING MICROPULSE LIDAR WITH 3 PAIRED, 0.532 UM WAVELENGTH, WEAK/STRONG BEAMS 25 UJ AND 100 UJ - IN 2016. GIVEN THESE SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES, WE WILL SEEK TO DEVELOP ONE OR MORE ALGORITHMS USING BEST AVAILABLE SIGNAL-PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL IDENTIFY THE GROUND SIGNAL, TOP-OF-CANOPY, AND INTERMEDIATE FOREST CANOPY RETURNS WITHIN DATA LIMITATIONS IMPOSED BY (D.1) AMBIENT ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS, (D.2) DATA ACQUISITION TIME (I.E., DAY VERSUS NIGHT), (D.3) SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO, (D.4) BEAM STRENGTH, (D.5) LOCAL/REGIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS, (D.6) FOREST CANOPY DENSITY, AND (D.7) GROUND SURFACE REFLECTANCE. THE TEAM WILL UTILIZE SIMULATED ICESAT-2 DATA ACQUIRED BY THE ER2-MABEL AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT WHICH ACQUIRES PHOTON-COUNTING OBSERVATIONS THROUGH 90% OF THE EARTH S ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN. ALGORITHMS DEVELOPED BY THIS NASA/TAMU/DUKE TEAM WILL BE COMPARED TO PROCEDURES DEVELOPED BY OTHER ICESAT-2 VEGETATION TEAM MEMBERS WITH THE IDEA THAT THE BEST ATTRIBUTES OF ALL ALGORITHMS WILL BE INTEGRATED TO PRODUCE THE PROGRAM(S) NEEDED TO POST-PROCESS GLOBAL, TERRESTRIAL ICESAT-2 DATA. EXPECTED RESULTS INCLUDE (R.1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS DESIGNED TO EXTRACT GROUND AND FOREST CANOPY SIGNALS FROM AMBIENT PHOTON NOISE, (R.2) AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCURACY OF THESE ALGORITHMS WITH RESPECT TO ESTIMATING FOREST CANOPY HEIGHT AND CANOPY CLOSURE BY COMPARING ALGORITHM RESULTS WITH GROUND PLOT, TERRESTRIAL LIDAR, AND AIRBORNE LIDAR MEASUREMENTS, (R.3) THE USE OF THESE SIMULATED ICESAT-2 HEIGHT AND CANOPY CLOSURE METRICS TO PREDICT FOREST BIOMASS AND CARBON AND TO ASSESS THE ACCURACY/PRECISION OF THESE ESTIMATES BY COMPARING PREDICTED ESTIMATES TO GROUND MEASUREMENTS, AND (R.4) THE DEFINITION OF THE D.1-D.7 LIMITS WITHIN WHICH THESE ICESAT-2 METRICS AND ESTIMATES CAN BE MEASURED/PREDICTED. EXPECTED RESULT R.4 IS NOTABLE IN THAT, USING SIMULATED ICESAT-2 DATA OBTAINED FROM A HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRBORNE PHOTON COUNTING LASER (MABEL), WE WILL IDENTIFY, FOR THE WEAK AND STRONG BEAMS, (1) CANOPY CLOSURE LIMITS ABOVE WHICH GROUND SIGNALS CANNOT BE RELIABLY RETRIEVED BENEATH DENSE FOREST CANOPIES AND (2) CANOPY CLOSURE LIMITS BELOW WHICH CANOPY HEIGHTS CANNOT BE RETRIEVED DUE TO THE SHORT STATURE OR LOW STEM DENSITY OF THE FOREST CANOPY. THE RESULTS FROM THIS PROPOSED INVESTIGATION WILL HELP PROVIDE DATA GLOBALLY THAT CAN BE USED TO ADDRESS SEVERAL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS POSED BY NASA S EARTH SCIENCE ENTERPRISE INCLUDING: WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF GLOBAL FOREST RESOURCES? HOW ARE GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS CHANGING? WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE? HOW IS THE EARTH S SURFACE BEING TRANSFORMED AND HOW CAN SUCH INFORMATION BE USED TO PREDICT FUTURE CHANGES? | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $0 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Jun 1, 2012 | May 17, 2012 | May 16, 2015 | ||
| THIS STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) DESCRIBES TWO ELEMENTS OF THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TASKING BETWEEN NASA‐JSC AND TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOR ACTIVE DEBRIS REMOVAL (ADR) SUPPORT DURING FY12‐FY14. THE FIRST ELEMENT OF THE FY12 SUPPORT WILL TO DEVELOP A GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROL (GNC) PACKAGE INTENDED FOR GROUND TESTING. THE SECOND PRINCIPLE ELEMENT IS DESIGN AND ALGORITHM SUPPORT FOR AN AIR BEARING VEHICLE EMULATOR DEVELOPMENT LEAD BY JSC. THE SECOND ELEMENT WILL BE INITIATED DURING FY12 AND COMPLETED DURING FY 13‐FY14. LEVERAGING ITS PRIOR EFFORTS TO THE GREATEST REASONABLE DEGREE, TEXAS A&M WILL DEVELOP A PROXIMITY OPERATIONS GNC PACKAGE TAILORED TO ENABLE GROUND EXPERIMENTS OF AUTONOMOUS DEBRIS REMOVAL (ADR) ON THE AIR BEARING FLOOR AT JSC. THIS GNC PACKAGE, INDEPENDENT OF A FLIGHT GNC PACKAGE BEING DEVELOPED AT JSC, IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE NASA WITH AN EARLY DYNAMIC TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR SENSOR TESTING WHILE THE NASA SYSTEM PROCEEDS UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THE HARDWARE ELEMENTS OF THIS PACKAGE WILL CONSIST OF AN OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM THAT GENERATES 3D POINT CLOUDS IN REAL TIME, ALONG WITH RGB TEXTURE OF A TARGET VEHICLE IMAGED BY A CHASE VEHICLE, AND A MICROPROCESSOR TO PROCESS THE MEASURED DATA IN REAL TIME. THE DATA FROM THE OPTICAL SYSTEM WILL BE OPERATED ON, IN NEAR REAL TIME, BY ALGORITHMS THAT STITCH DATA TOGETHER OVER TIME BY TRACKING BOTH RESIDENT FEATURES ON THE TARGET AND IR PROJECTED FEATURES. IN ADDITION TO ESTABLISHING THE TARGET VEHICLE GEOMETRY, THE ALGORITHMS WILL ESTABLISH BEST ESTIMATES FOR THE 6DOF RELATIVE POSE OF THE SENSOR FRAME TO THE TARGET VEHICLE. INCLUDED IN THIS EFFORT, TEXAS A&M WILL DEVELOP ALGORITHMS TO GENERATE LINEAR AND ANGULAR VELOCITY COMMANDS WHICH WILL BE MAPPED INTO THRUSTER FIRINGS TO DRIVE THE SYSTEM TOWARD CAPTURE. THE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE OF THE GNC SYSTEM WILL BE REALIZED AS A PHYSICAL ENGINEERING MODEL AND A MECHANICAL INTERFACE TO A BASE VEHICLE ("THE SLED") UNDER PARALLEL DEVELOPMENT AT JSC. IN ADDITION THIS SYSTEM WILL ALSO HAVE A SEPARATE MECHANICAL AND DATA INTERFACE DEVELOPED TO DRIVE THE HOMER ROBOT AT LASR LABORATORY. THE ELECTRICAL/DATA INTERFACE WITH THE SLED WILL BE DEVELOPED BY JSC PERSONNEL IN COORDINATION WITH THE TAMU INVESTIGATORS. THE SECOND SUPPORT ELEMENT AREA, SLED DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT, SHALL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT AREAS, BUT CAN BE EXTENDED TO INCLUDE OTHER AREAS BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT OF BOTH PARTIES: 1. SUPPORT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE INTERFACE DEFINITIONS 2. SUPPORT LAYOUT AND SELECTION OF HARDWARE COMPONENT PARTS 3. SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF SLED OPERATING SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS 4. SUPPORT DESIGN OF A TIME SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM FOR THE SLED COMPONENTS 5. SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF THE SLED DATA BUS AND EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM 6. LEAD DEVELOPMENT OF A SLED FLOOR POSITION SENSOR 7. LEAD DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE CONSOLE COMMAND AND DATA HANDLING SOFTWARE/DISPLAYS | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $0 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | May 1, 2012 | Apr 9, 2012 | May 25, 2012 | ||
| EEL TISSUE AND EGG- 5050080 (TERL) 007 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,478 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611310Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Apr 27, 2012 | Apr 27, 2012 | Sep 30, 2012 | ||
| EEL TISSUE AND EGG- 5050080 (GERG) 008 | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $32,890 | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE | — | 611710Educational Support Services | B599SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- OTHER | Apr 26, 2012 | Apr 26, 2012 | Sep 30, 2012 | ||
| THE CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION (CALIPSO) IMAGING INFRARED RADIOMETER (IIR) MEASUREMENTS PROVIDE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO RETRIEVE ICE CLOUD PROPERTIES. TO BE MORE SPECIFIC, INFRARED CHANNELS ARE INDEPENDENT OF SOLAR RADIATION AND THUS CAN BE APPLIED TO BOTH DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME CLOUD PROPERTY RETRIEVAL. FURTHERMORE, INFRARED CHANNELS ARE SENSITIVE TO OPTICALLY THIN CIRRUS CLOUDS AND INSENSITIVE TO THE OVERALL SHAPE AND SURFACE TEXTURE OF ICE CRYSTALS ASSUMED IN THE FORWARD LIGHT SCATTERING CALCULATION INVOLVED IN THE RETRIEVAL. ICE CLOUD PROPERTY RETRIEVAL BASED ON THE IIR OBSERVATIONS WILL BE COMPLIMENTARY TO THE EXISTING RETRIEVAL PRODUCTS BASED ON VISIBLE/NEAR-INFRARED DAYTIME ICE CLOUD PROPERTY PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM THE MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MODIS) OBSERVATIONS AND CALIPSO CALIOP LIDAR MEASUREMENTS. THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS TO RETRIEVE ICE CLOUD PROPERTIES (SPECIFICALLY, ICE CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS AND EFFECTIVE PARTICLE SIZE) BASED ON THE CALIPSO IIR MEASUREMENTS. THE FINAL ALGORITHMS, ALGORITHM COMPUTER CODES, AND RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE CALIPSO TEAM. | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $39,069 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Apr 10, 2012 | Jan 10, 2012 | Apr 29, 2013 | ||
| THE SPECTRAL REGION BETWEEN 15 UM AND 100 UM IS REFERRED TO AS THE FAR-INFRARED (FAR-IR) PORTION OF THE SPECTRUM. THE FAR-IR RADIATION IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE RADIATION BUDGET OF THE EARTH-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM. HOWEVER, THE SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INFORMATION CONTENT OF THE FAR-IR RADIATION HAVE NOT BEEN EXTENSIVELY STUDIED IN COMPARISON WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS FOR SHORTER SPECTRA. THE NOVEL FAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF THE TROPOSPHERE (FIRST) INSTRUMENT DEVELOPED BY NASA (MLYNCZAK ET AL. 2006), WHICH IS A MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER, PROVIDES UNPRECEDENTED DATA SETS TO UNDERSTAND THE FAR-IR RADIATION. WE PROPOSE RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF THE FIRST PROJECT. THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF TILE PROPOSED RESEARCH ARE AS FOLLOWS: - COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FIRST MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS BASED ON STATE-OF- THE-ART MODELING CAPABILITIES, AIMED AT THE VALIDATION OF THE FIRST INSTRUMENT FROM THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE. - ANALYSES OF THE FIRST MEASUREMENTS TO UNDERSTAND THE SENSITIVITY OF THE FAR-IR RADIATION TO ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE (E.G., THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE) AND ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS (E.G., WATER VAPOR) WHICH ARE AVAILABLE FROM COLLOCATED DATA SETS OR RETRIEVAL PRODUCTS BASED ON OTHER INSTRUMENTS (E.G., THE ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER). - EXPLORATION OF THE INFORMATION CONTENT ABOUT ICE CLOUDS AND AEROSOLS IN THE FAR-IR RADIATION ON THE BASIS OF STATE-OF-THE-ART MODELING CAPABILITIES AND THE FIRST MEASUREMENTS, AIMED AT DEVELOPING OF ALGORITHMS TO RETRIEVING ICE CLOUD AND AEROSOL PROPERTIES FROM THE FAR-IR RADIATION. | TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $52,190 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | — | AR21 | Jan 17, 2012 | Jan 17, 2012 | Jun 2, 2012 |