← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of Maryland Center For Environmental Science
$20,856,085
Total funding
41
Grants
Funding over time
peak $5.1M · FY2008–25$10M$7.5M$5M$2.5M$0
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By agency
NASA$8,057,376 · 10
DOD$7,715,271 · 25
DOE$4,372,875 · 2
USDA$710,563 · 4
By mechanism
—$20,856,085 · 41
Investigators at University Of Maryland Center For Environmental Science
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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NEW AWARD DE-FE0031914 TITLED A HIGHLY EFFICIENT MICROALGAE-BASED CARBON SEQUESTRATION SYSTEM TO REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSION FROM POWER PLANT FLUE GASES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE$2,686,500
· FY2021 · Department of Energy
NEW AWARD DE-FE0032188 TO UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FOR PROJECT TITLED PHOTOSYNTHESIS-DRIVEN MICROALGAL SYSTEM TO MITIGATE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSION FROM POWER PLANT FLUE GASES$1,686,375
· FY2023 · Department of Energy
INDONESIA IS ENGAGED IN ARGUABLY THE PLANET S LARGEST CARBON-FLUX MITIGATION PROJECT. THROUGH ITS PEATLAND RESTORATION AGENCY (BRG) THEY ARE BLOCKING DRAINAGE CANALS WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF PEATLAND RESTORATION ( REWETTING REVEGETATION AND REVITALIZATION ) FOR 2.5 MILLION HA OF DRAINED AND DEGRADED PEATLANDS BY 2020.$1,562,165
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE PURPOSE OF THIS AGREEMENT IS TO FUND RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF BTO IN THE AMOUNT OF 300,127 ON CONTRACT HR0011-19-2-0005.$1,320,243
· FY2025 · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
INDONESIA RANKS AS THE 3RD LARGEST CO2EQ EMITTING NATION LARGELY DUE TO EPISODIC UNCONTROLLED FIRES WITHIN DRAINED PEAT-SWAMP FORESTS. THE ORIGINAL PROJECT (NNX13AP46G) SET OUT TO 1) PROVIDE EXTENSIVE FIELD INVESTIGATION OF LAND COVER HYDROLOGIC FUEL AND FIRE DYNAMICS IN A 120 000 HA REDD+ PROJECT IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN; 2) COLLECT A NEW LIDAR DATASET TO COMPLEMENT OUR EXISTING 2007 AND 2011 COVERAGES; 3) CONDUCT GROUNDBREAKING DETAILED EMISSIONS FIELD SAMPLING OF SMOLDERING IN-SITU PEAT FIRES; AND 4) GENERATE A FULLY PARAMETERIZED AND VALIDATED ANNUAL EMISSIONS MODEL FOR THE STUDY REGION IN SUPPORT OF ITS REDD+ PROJECT. DESPITE EXTENSIVE BUREAUCRATIC AND LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES AND DELAYS INHERENT IN WORKING IN INDONESIA OBJECTIVES 1-3 HAVE NOW BEEN COMPLETED AND THE MODELING EFFORTS ARE ONGOING WITH ALL NECESSARY DATA NOW IN HAND AS WE COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL PROJECT TIME PERIOD. HOWEVER OUR RECENT UNPRECEDENTED EMISSION FINDINGS (STOCKWELL ET AL. 2016) GAINED IN SITU DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE 2015 EL NI O HAVE DOCUMENTED SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ACTUAL REGIONAL PEAT FIRE EMISSIONS AND EXISTING EMISSION FACTORS INDICATING REGIONAL INDONESIAN CARBON EQUIVALENT EMISSIONS (100 YEAR) MAY HAVE BEEN 19% LESS THAN CURRENT IPCC-BASED EMISSION FACTOR ESTIMATES. THE IPCC EMISSION FACTORS ARE DERIVED FROM ONE LAB STUDY BURNING PEAT FROM SUMATRA (CHRISTIAN ET AL. 2003) AND CONSIDERABLE VARIATION IN EMISSIONS MAY EXIST BETWEEN PEAT FIRES OF INDONESIA S THREE MAJOR PEAT FORMATIONS HIGHLIGHTING THE NEED FOR THE ADDITIONAL FIELD EMISSIONS MEASUREMENTS WE INTEND TO CARRY OUT IN THE CONTINUATION OF THE PROJECT PROPOSED HERE. WE PROPOSE EXPANDING TO A NATIONAL LEVEL OUR SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL (KALIMANTAN) CMS PROJECT (NNX13AP46G) TO BETTER ADVANCE INDONESIA S MONITORING REPORTING AND VERIFICATION (MRV) CAPABILITIES FOR PEATLAND CARBON EMISSIONS AND SUPPORT NATIONWIDE REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION (REDD) EFFORTS. WE WILL IMPLEMENT OUR STANDARDIZED FIELD-BASED ANALYSES OF FUELS HYDROLOGY PEAT BURNING CHARACTERISTICS AND FIRE EMISSIONS DEVELOPED FROM OUR ONGOING WORK IN A 120 000 HA REDD + PROJECT TO REGIONALLY PARAMETERIZE OUR PEATLAND EMISSIONS MODEL FOR ALL OF INDONESIA S MAJOR PEATLAND AREAS BY INCLUDING THREE NEW LOCATIONS RIAU AND JAMBI (SUMATRA) AND WESTERN PAPUA (PAPUA) FOR INCLUSION WITHIN THE INDONESIAN NATIONAL CARBON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (INCAS). WE WILL CONDUCT ON-SITE WHOLE AIR SAMPLING OF NATURAL PEAT SMOKE PLUMES IN SITU FOR PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF NONREACTIVE GREENHOUSE GASES COLLECT PEAT SAMPLES JUST IN FRONT OF THESE ACTIVE PEAT FIRES AND BURN THE SAMPLES IN THE US WHILE MEASURING AEROSOL MASS AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND REACTIVE GASES. THIS WILL CREATE COMPREHENSIVE AND PERTINENT EMISSIONS FACTORS (EFS) FOR EACH STUDY REGION THAT WILL BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR ASSESSING HEALTH IMPACTS AND TOTAL GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL (GWP) OF THESE EMISSIONS. REMOTELY SENSED LAND COVER/CHANGE (LANDSAT) AND SURFACE FIRE IGNITION TIMING AND LOCATIONS (MODIS) PROVIDE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DRIVERS FOR THE MODELLED EMISSIONS THAT WILL NOW BE VALIDATED/CONSTRAINED AT A NATIONAL LEVEL USING BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS ESTIMATIONS DERIVED FROM VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER AND RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) ON BOARD THE SUOMI NATIONAL POLARORBITING PARTNERSHIP (NPP) SATELLITE AND THE NEW JAPANESE GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE (HIMAWARI-8). MULTIPLE LIDAR DATASETS (2014 2011 2007) FOR KALIMANTAN ARE BEING USED TO QUANTIFY MODEL ACCURACY AND NEW WORK WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO QUANTIFY UNCERTAINTY IN OUR MOST RECENT LIDAR-BASED DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL (DTM) FURTHER IMPROVING ASSESSMENTS OF MODELLING ERRORS.$1,310,962
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS OF MARINE ZOOPLANKTON HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR ENHANCING GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS AND ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT OF OCEAN RESOURCES. AS THE CRUCIAL LINK BETWEEN PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND UPPER TROPHIC LEVELS (SUCH AS FISH) ZOOPLANKTON GRAZING AND BIOMASS INFLUENCE BOTH CARBON EXPORT AND FISHERIES PRODUCTION. THE IMPORTANCE OF MESOSCALE FEATURES SUCH AS FRONTS AND EDDIES ON ZOOPLANKTON DYNAMICS ARE WELL ESTABLISHED BUT HIGH FREQUENCY LARGE-SCALE SAMPLING OF THESE FEATURES IS CURRENTLY ONLY POSSIBLE USING SATELLITES. NEXT GENERATION SENSORS WILL OBSERVE THE OCEAN AT HIGHER SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS INCLUDING PROXIES FOR SURFACE CURRENTS (E.G. SURFACE WATER OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY) AS WELL AS HIGHLY SPECTRALLY-RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS FOR DETECTING PHYTOPLANKTON FUNCTIONAL TYPES AND RATE PROCESSES (E.G. PRE-AEROSOL CLOUD OCEAN ECOSYSTEM). TO TRANSLATE THESE FINE-SCALE MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN PHYSICS AND PHYTOPLANKTON INTO FISHERIES RELEVANT QUANTITIES WE MUST UNDERSTAND THEIR EFFECTS ON ZOOPLANKTON. OUR GOAL IS TO USE SPACE-BASED HIGH-RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS TO PREDICT ZOOPLANKTON AND GRAZING IN RELATION TO MESOSCALE EDDY FEATURES. A CORNERSTONE OF OUR STRATEGY WILL BE LINKING AN EXISTING COUPLED OCEAN ECOSYSTEM MODEL WITH EXPLICIT MICROZOOPLANKTON TO A LAGRANGIAN INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL OF TWO FORMS OF MESOZOOPLANKTON (EACH WITH FIVE STAGES AND STAGE-SPECIFIC SIZE BEHAVIOR GROWTH AND GRAZING PROPERTIES). WE WILL USE THIS MODEL FOR DEVELOPING BOTH EULERIAN AND LAGRANGIAN ALGORITHMS THAT RELATE SURFACE OCEAN FIELDS IN THE MODEL RESULTS (SUCH AS: CURRENTS TEMPERATURE SIZE-SPECIFIC PHYTOPLANKTON CARBON BIOMASS AND PRODUCTION RATES) TO MICROZOOPLANKTON AND MESOZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE AND GRAZING. THE COUPLED MODELS WILL SERVE AS A KNOWN SYSTEM FOR UNDERSTANDING ERROR PROPAGATION. THE ALGORITHMS WILL THEN BE APPLIED TO SATELLITE-DERIVED FIELDS (E.G. PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY SIZE-SPECIFIC PHYTOPLANKTON CARBON BIOMASS NET CHANGE IN PHYTOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE TEMPERATURE THERMOCLINE OR NUTRICLINE DEPTH) TO PREDICT MICRO AND MESOZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE. BECAUSE ZOOPLANKTON ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT IS A CHALLENGING PROBLEM WE PROPOSE TO EVALUATE THREE COMPLEMENTARY ALGORITHM APPROACHES IN A SHARED QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORK: EMPIRICAL ALGORITHMS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE MECHANISTIC ALGORITHMS BASED ON EQUATIONS DESCRIBING GROWTH AND GRAZING OF PHYTOPLANKTON AND THEORETICAL ALGORITHMS BASED ON THE FLOW OF ENERGY FROM ONE TROPHIC LEVEL TO THE NEXT USING ALLOMETRIC SCALING. WE WILL THEN VALIDATE THE SPACE-BASED ESTIMATES OF ZOOPLANKTON FIELDS IN TWO TEST REGIONS THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SELECTED BASED ON THE AVAILABILITY OF EXTENSIVE EXISTING ZOOPLANKTON DATABASES. WE WILL QUANTITATIVELY EVALUATE THE SKILL OF THE SATELLITE-DERIVED ZOOPLANKTON FIELDS IN RELATION TO OBSERVATIONS OF MICRO- AND MESO-ZOOPLANKTON AND EDDY VARIABILITY. THE REALIZED ZOOPLANKTON DISTRIBUTIONS WILL BE USED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION; HOW DO FRONTS AND EDDIES IN THE OCEAN INFLUENCE TROPHIC TRANSFER OF ENERGY UP THE FOOD WEB INTO ZOOPLANKTON? LARVAL FISH OFTEN AGGREGATE IN FRONTS AND EDDIES INDICATING THAT TROPHIC LEVELS ABOVE ZOOPLANKTON RESPOND TO THE EDDYING ENVIRONMENT. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT GRAZING AND TROPHIC TRANSFER BY ZOOPLANKTON WILL BE GREATER IN AN EDDYING OCEAN WHEN COMPARED TO LARGE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL AVERAGES OF THESE PARAMETERS. THIS PROPOSED EFFORT ADVANCES NASA RESEARCH OBJECTIVES THROUGH IMPROVING SPACE-BASED PREDICTION OF OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO ECOSYSTEM BASED MANAGEMENT OF THE OCEANS AT SCALES RELEVANT TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND PLANNED NASA MISSIONS.$1,032,195
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
IMPORTANT EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OBJECTIVES ARE TO QUANTIFY CHLOROPHYLL A (CHLA) IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, KNOW THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY AND ENSUR$1,030,755
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ECONOMIC VALUATION OF FRESHWATER LAKES AND RESERVOIRS EXPERIENCING HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS$899,062
· FY2024 · Department of the Army
INDONESIA S TROPICAL PEATLANDS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR STABILIZING GLOBAL CLIMATE AND CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY. THESE PEATLANDS COVER AN ESTIMATED 200 000 KM2 ARE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS AND COMPRISE A 57 GT CARBON RESERVOIR.$718,807
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
DEVELOPING BENEFIT INDICATORS AND VALUATION APPROACHES FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICE EVALUATION$694,256
· FY2015 · Department of the Army
A TREND TOWARDS A LONGER GROWING SEASON, HERE DEFINED BY THE NUMBER OF DAYS BETWEEN THE SPRINGONSET AND AUTUMN OFFSET OF GREENNESS, HAS BEEN OBSERVE$653,018
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SUPPORT FOR "INCORPORATING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN CORPS OF ENGINEERS PROJECT PLANNING"$613,669
· FY2011 · Department of Defense
INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING AND BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATIONS TO MAP AND MONITOR PLANT TAXONOMIC PHYLOGENETIC AND FUNCTIONAL BETA-DIVERSITY IN THE GREATER CAPE FLORISTIC REGION$600,000
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EXACERBATION OF FLOODING RESPONSES DUE TO LAND COVER/LAND CHANGE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.$570,464
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ON-FARM RESEARCH ON DRAINAGE WATER MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS LEACHING: TRADE-OFFS WITH N2O AND CH4 EMISSIONS$499,950
· FY2016 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
NATIONAL INFORMATION COLLABORATION ON ECOHYDRAULICS (NICE): BENEFICIAL USE FOR FISHERIES$445,477
· FY2024 · Department of the Army
THERE IS WIDE RECOGNITION THAT SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT OF EASTERN TEMPERATE FORESTS REQUIRES A THOUGHTFUL AND DELIBERATE APPROACH THAT SEEKS TO BALANCE VARIOUS USES RESOURCES AND VALUES SUCH AS WILDLIFE AND AESTHETIC BEAUTY TIMBER PRODUCTS WATER PURIFICATION GAS EXTRACTION AND A VARIETY OF RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. IN PARTICULAR WE NOW KNOW THAT THE DUAL GOALS OF TIMBER PRODUCTION AND THE MAINTENANCE OF HIGH QUALITY WILDLIFE HABITAT CAN BE COMPLEMENTARY BECAUSE MANY MEASURES OF BIODIVERSITY AND THE ABUNDANCE OF KEY RARE SPECIES (PARTICULARLY FOREST-DWELLING BIRDS) REQUIRES FORESTS OF DIVERSE AGE AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS. FOR EXAMPLE RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT FLEDGLING HABITAT USE AND SURVIVAL FOR SPECIES SUCH AS GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER CERULEAN WARBLER AND WOOD THRUSH IS ENHANCED BY THE AVAILABILITY OF A RANGE OF FOREST AGE-CLASSES WITH DIVERSE STRUCTURE INTERSPERSED THROUGHOUT LOCAL LANDSCAPES. HOWEVER MANAGING FOR SUCH CHARACTERISTICS IS DIFFICULT WITHOUT DATA PROVIDING THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREST STRUCTURE AND MODELS ESTIMATING HOW BIRDS USE THIS STRUCTURE. THIS PROPOSAL PUTS FORTH A PLAN FOR THE USE OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS OF FOREST DISTURBANCE HISTORY AND FOREST STRUCTURE COMBINED WITH CONNECTIVITY MODELING BETWEEN FORESTS OF DIVERSE STRUCTURE TO MODEL THE DISTRIBUTION OF 3 KEY BIRD SPECIES ACROSS 16.7 MILLION ACRES OF FOREST IN PENNSYLVANIA USA. OBSERVATIONAL DATA AND MODELS WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP A STATE-OF-THE-ART DECISION SUPPORT TOOL USED FOR GUIDING THE PLACEMENT OF FOREST HARVEST ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY EACH OF OUR PROJECT PARTNERS: (1) THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES BUREAU OF FORESTRY (2) THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE AT ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST (3) THE PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION AND (4) THE AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY. MAPS OF FOREST STRUCTURE AND CONNECTIVITY WILL HIGHLIGHT HOW PAST FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES ON FEDERAL STATE AND PRIVATE LAND HAVE INFLUENCED BIRD HABITAT THROUGHOUT THE STATE. WE WILL QUANTIFY THESE MANAGEMENT IMPACTS TO BIRD HABITAT AND COMPARE THEM TO IMPACTS EXPECTED FROM ALTERNATIVE HARVEST SCENARIOS THAT ARE GUIDED BY THE NEW TOOL THUS DEFINING TOOL EFFECTIVENESS. THE DECISION SUPPORT TOOL WILL BE WELL DOCUMENTED AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS REPORTED TO OUR END USERS. IF THE TOOL IS PROVEN SUCCESSFUL THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES BUREAU OF FORESTRY WILL ASSIST WITH MAKING THE FINAL PRODUCTS AVAILABLE TO USERS. OUR PROJECT PARTNERS COLLECTIVELY MANAGE 4.2 MILLION ACRES OF FOREST AND ARE EAGER TO ATTEMPT THIS NEW APPROACH TO LARGE AREA CONSERVATION AND INCORPORATE IT WITHIN THEIR EXISTING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS.$425,677
· FY2017 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TOWARD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OCEAN-WAVE-TYPHOON INTERACTIONS IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN$374,345
· FY2009 · Department of Defense
NATIONAL INFORMATION COLLABORATION ON ECOHYDRAULICS RESEARCH ON BENEFICIAL RE USE FOR CHESAPEAKE BAY FISHERIES$369,755
· FY2024 · Department of the Army
ASSESSING SHORELINE EROSION AND SEDIMENT DEPOSITION AS CONTRASTING INFLUENCES ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF NATURAL MARSHES AND LIVING SHORELINES$345,490
· FY2020 · Department of the Army