← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
$20,759,458
Total funding
39
Grants
Funding over time
peak $6.8M · FY2008–22$10M$7.5M$5M$2.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$16,392,070 · 28
USDA$3,391,026 · 9
DOE$976,362 · 2
By mechanism
—$20,759,458 · 39
Investigators at Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
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SOURCES AND SINKS OF CARBON FROM LAND-USE CHANGE, MANAGEMENT, AND DISTURBANCE IN THE U.S.: STEPS TOWARD A SYNTHESISSOURCES AND SINKS OF CARBON FROM$1,627,303
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE AMPLITUDE OF ATMOSPHERIC SEASONAL CO2 CYCLES IN HIGH LATITUDE ENVIRONMENTS HAS INCREASED BY 30-50% OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS. ROUGHLY TWO-THIRDS OF THIS INCREASE IS ATTRIBUTED TO GREATER SEASONAL CO2 EXCHANGE IN ARCTIC TUNDRA AND BOREAL FORESTS. SEVERAL PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS HAVE BEEN HIGHLIGHTED BUT THE OVERALL CONTRIBUTIONS REMAIN UNKNOWN DESPITE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCTIC AND BOREAL CARBON CYCLING AND CLIMATE FEEDBACKS. FROM A BROAD PERSPECTIVE THE INCREASING AMPLITUDE CAN ONLY BE DUE TO EITHER INCREASED NET CO2 UPTAKE IN THE GROWING SEASON AND/OR INCREASED EFFLUX IN THE DORMANT SEASON. A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS BUT THE CONTRIBUTION FROM EACH PROCESS REMAINS UNCERTAIN. HOWEVER EVEN A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING AT THIS LEVEL IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR DIAGNOSING SYSTEM CHANGES AND PREDICTIVE MODELING AS A VARIETY OF ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WORKS TO FILL THIS KNOWLEDGE GAP BY PRESENTING BOTTOM-UP ESTIMATES OF ECOSYSTEM DRIVERS LEADING TO THIS AMPLITUDE TREND. ESTIMATES WILL BE EVALUATED IN THE CONTEXT OF MULTIPLE TOP-DOWN CONSTRAINTS. BECAUSE ANY ONE RESEARCH TOOL IS INHERENTLY LIMITED THE PROJECT WILL UTILIZE SEVERAL TOOLS AND APPROACHES TO ADDRESS MULTIPLE LINES OF INQUIRY WITHIN A HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK. THESE INCLUDE (I) LARGE-SCALE AND LONG-TERM REMOTE SENSING DATA SETS (II) BENCHMARKING DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTS WITH A LAND SURFACE MODEL (III) MULTI-MODEL INTERCOMPARISONS (IV) ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT MODELING AND (V) META-ANALYSIS OF IN SITU FLUX OBSERVATIONS. RESEARCH TASKS ARE LINKED THROUGH A SET OF COMPLEMENTARY AND TRACTABLE HYPOTHESES. OUR PRIMARY GOAL WILL BE TO ATTRIBUTE THE CAUSES OF THE OBSERVED INCREASED CO2 EXCHANGE IN HIGH LATITUDES. THIS WILL IMPROVE OUR COLLECTIVE UNDERSTANDING AND ABILITY TO PROJECT HIGH-LATITUDE CARBON DYNAMICS. HOWEVER OUR PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ALSO ADVANCE SEVERAL RELATED TOPICS OF BROAD INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY. THESE INCLUDE HOW VEGETATION PROPERTIES HAVE CHANGED IN TUNDRA AND BOREAL FORESTS AND HOW MUCH CHANGE STEMS FROM DISTURBANCE; HOW CLIMATE AND OTHER FACTORS HAVE ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY; AND HOW INCREASED TEMPERATURE SUBSTRATE QUANTITY VEGETATION COVER AND SNOW DYNAMICS HAVE INFLUENCED DORMANT SEASON RESPIRATION. OUR PROJECT ADDRESSES SEVERAL HIGH-LEVEL RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND PRIORITIES FOR DOE NASA AND THE US CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE PROGRAM AS THEY RELATE TO ELEMENT 3.1.2 OF THE CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE SOLICITATION. AMONG OTHERS THESE INCLUDE (I) HOW DO NATURAL PROCESSES AND HUMAN ACTIONS AFFECT THE CARBON ON LAND AND IN THE ATMOSPHERE? (II) HOW ARE ECOSYSTEMS IMPACTED BY INCREASING GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS AND THE ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN CLIMATE? (III) WHAT IS THE DIRECTION AND STRENGTH OF ARCTIC/BOREAL CLIMATE FEEDBACKS? AND (IV) HOW CAN WE BEST REPRESENT MECHANISTIC CARBON FEEDBACKS IN EARTH SYSTEM MODELS? BECAUSE OF THE STRONG LINKS WITH PROCESS-LEVEL UNDERSTANDING EARTH SYSTEM MODELS AND CLIMATE FEEDBACKS WE ARE RECOMMENDING OUR PROPOSAL BE REVIEWED BY DOE. HOWEVER THERE ARE STRONG TIES TO NASA PRIORITIES AND WE PROPOSE TO INCORPORATE EXISTING AND NOVEL REMOTE-SENSING BASED DATA SETS INTO SEVERAL PROJECT COMPONENTS; THUS CO-REVIEW WITH NASA WOULD BE APPROPRIATE.$1,377,716
· FY2017 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MANY TROPICAL COUNTRIES ARE NOW WORKING ON DEVELOPING THEIR STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION, INCLUDING AC$1,063,664
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TODAY'S DATA-DRIVEN AGRICULTURE DEMANDS ACCESS TO HIGH-RESOLUTION SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DATA STREAMS. SOIL SCIENTISTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND GLOBALLY HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO MEET THIS DEMAND. THIS FACT COORDINATED INNOVATION NETWORK WILL PROVIDE A GLOBAL, OPEN-ACCESS AND OPEN SOURCE, EASY-TO-USE PLATFORM FOR RELIABLY PREDICTING SOIL PROPERTIES FROM INFRARED SPECTRA THAT WILL OFFER LOW-COST, MEANINGFUL, AND ACCURATE DATA STREAMS TO MONITOR SOIL HEALTH AS IT IS IMPACTED BY EFFORTS TO CONSERVE IT AND ITS USE BY AGRICULTURE. DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY IS BECOMING AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL IN SOIL SCIENCE; HOWEVER, SEVERAL TECHNICAL CHALLENGES STILL LIMIT ITS BROADER APPLICATION OUTSIDE OF RESEARCH PROJECTS. THIS PROJECT WILL NETWORK SOIL SPECTROSCOPISTS WITH EXPERTS IN INFORMATICS, DATA SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE CURRENT BOTTLENECKS PREVENTING WIDER AND MORE EFFICIENT USE OF SOIL SPECTROSCOPY. THE NETWORK WILL DEFINE A COMMON VOCABULARY, METADATA REQUIREMENTS, SPECTRAL QUALITY STANDARDS, AND BEST PRACTICE LAB PROCEDURES. THE NETWORK WILL CREATE SOFTWARE TO QUALITY CHECK, HARMONIZE AND STANDARDIZE SPECTRA AND SOIL DATA COLLECTIONS. THE NETWORK WILL DELIVER A WEB-BASED SOFTWARE PLATFORM, THE GLOBAL SOIL SPECTROSCOPY LIBRARY, BACKED BY MULTIPLE SPECTRAL DATABASES AND ROBUST STATISTICAL MODELS, THAT DERIVES SOIL PROPERTIES FROM THE SPECTRAL DATA. DEMONSTRATION, OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES WILL PROMOTE THE USE OF THE GLOBAL SOIL SPECTRAL LIBRARY AND DATA-DRIVEN SCIENCE AS SOLUTIONS TO THE SOIL DATA CRISIS.$993,836
· FY2020 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
INTEGRATED BELOWGROUND GREENHOUSE GAS FLUX MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING$982,000
· FY2014 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
LINKING HIGH-FREQUENCY, AUTOMATED MEASUREMENTS OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM SOILS WITH MICROWAVE-BASED ESTIMATES OF SOIL SATURATION IN AGRICULTUR$924,139
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
IN RESPONSE TO THE IMPLICATIONS THAT HIGH UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO FOREST CARBON ACCOUNTING HAVE, NOT ONLY FOR THE CRE$893,504
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
CARBON MANAGEMENT IN THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.: AS$881,107
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SOIL CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE IN THE BIG DATA ERA$800,000
· FY2017 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
THE ARCTIC-BOREAL REGION CHARACTERIZED BY VAST EXPANSES OF TUNDRA BOREAL FORESTS AND WETLANDS CONTINUES TO WARM MORE RAPIDLY THAN ELSEWHERE ON EARTH. REGIONAL WARMING ASSOCIATED SHIFTS IN THE ANNUAL NON-FROZEN SEASON AND SIMULTANEOUS CHANGES IN HYDROLOGY CAN GREATLY INCREASE ECOSYSTEM VULNERABILITY TO CHANGE. ABRUPT DISTURBANCES FROM FIRE AND THE RAPID THAW OF PERMAFROST ALSO THREATEN ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION INCLUDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO CARBON BUDGETS AND CLIMATE FORCING. HOW CHANGING ARCTIC-BOREAL SYSTEMS ARE IMPACTING CLIMATE UNDER CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS IS NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD AND HOW THESE ECOSYSTEMS MIGHT RESPOND UNDER FUTURE CLIMATE REMAINS HIGHLY UNCERTAIN. UNDERSTANDING HOW CHANGES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ULTIMATELY AFFECT ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE FORCING IS KEY TO IDENTIFYING THE ROLE OF THESE SYSTEMS IN AMPLIFYING OR MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE. A PRESSING CHALLENGE IS IMPROVING PROCESS-MODEL ESTIMATES OF CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) AND METHANE (CH4) GAS EXCHANGE FOR HIGH LATITUDE TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS. MODELING STUDIES CONTINUE TO DISAGREE REGARDING THE: 1) NET CO2 SINK OR SOURCE STATUS FOR THE ARCTIC-BOREAL REGION 2) MAGNITUDES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CH4 FLUXES AND COMPONENTS (I.E. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TERRESTRIAL VS. AQUATIC SYSTEMS EMISSION VS. UPTAKE) 3) REGIONAL TRAJECTORIES OF GAS EXCHANGE GIVEN FUTURE CLIMATE CONDITIONS AND ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCES. REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES IN ECOSYSTEM CARBON BUDGETS IS NECESSARY TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE ARCTIC-BOREAL ZONE IS RESPONDING TO/IMPACTING CLIMATE. THIS STUDY FIRST FOCUSES ON IMPROVING ESTIMATES OF CO2 AND CH4 EXCHANGE FOR THE ARCTIC-BOREAL REGION THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC FIELD OBSERVATIONS A SUITE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA AND PRODUCTS AND MODELING (BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC). HERE WE FOCUS ON AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THE DYNAMIC VEGETATION DYNAMIC ORGANIC SOIL TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM MODEL (DVM-DOS-TEM) WITH UPDATED ECOSYSTEM PARAMETERIZATIONS FOR TUNDRA BOREAL FORESTS AND WETLANDS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH NEW ABOVE SYNTHESIS DATASETS OF CARBON FLUX ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES AND DISTURBANCE. SITE-LEVEL VALIDATIONS FOR DVM-DOS-TEM WILL EMPLOY A WEALTH OF DATA FROM MONITORING AND VALIDATION SITES WITHIN ALASKA CANADA AND SIBERIA WE WILL ALSO INCORPORATE ADDITIONAL GLOBAL AND REGIONAL (I.E. ABOVE) MODEL BENCHMARKING. TO ASSESS MODEL SKILL/UNCERTAINTY AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL WE WILL USE A WRFSTILT (STOCHASTIC TIME-INVERTED LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT MODEL DRIVEN BY A POLAR VARIANT OF WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL WINDS) APPROACH AND ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS FROM TALL TOWERS AND AIRCRAFT CAMPAIGNS. FURTHER OUR STUDY INCLUDES A CARBON MODEL INTERCOMPARISON EFFORT TO BETTER IDENTIFY SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN CARBON BUDGET ESTIMATES AND ASSOCIATED UNCERTAINTIES ACROSS THE ABOVE DOMAIN AND EASTERN SIBERIA. WE WILL USE OUR NEW 0.25 DEGREE AND 1-KM MONTHLY CO2 AND CH4 FLUX RECORDS (2001-2021) FOR THE ARCTIC-BOREAL REGION SATELLITEINFORMED RECORDS OF FIRE EMISSIONS AND ALBEDO TO IDENTIFY HOW ECOSYSTEMS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO NET RADIATIVE FORCING AND REGIONAL WARMING OR COOLING. OUR FINAL COMPONENT EXPLORES POSSIBLE FUTURE TRAJECTORIES OF NET ECOSYSTEM CARBON BUDGETS (NECB TERRESTRIAL & AQUATIC CARBON FLUX PLUS FIRE EMISSIONS) AND RADIATIVE FORCING UNDER ALTERNATIVE CLIMATE AND DISTURBANCE SCENARIOS THROUGH 2100. THIS RESEARCH DIRECTLY BENEFITS NASA BY PROVIDING IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE-CARBON CYCLE-DISTURBANCE FEEDBACKS IN ARCTICBOREAL SYSTEMS THROUGH ENHANCED REGIONAL PROCESS-MODEL ESTIMATES OF NECB NEW RADIATIVE FORCING ASSESSMENTS THAT CONSIDER NECB AND ALBEDO AND NEW EVALUATIONS OF HIGH LATITUDE ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE INCLUDING NECB AND RADIATIVE FORCING UNDER FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS.$786,457
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE SAVANNA ECOSYSTEM IS THE SECOND LARGEST BIOME OF TROPICAL SOUTH AMERICA. ALTHOUGH DEFORESTATION OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST HAS RECEIVED MUCH PUBLIC$768,493
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE TIER 2 SCIENCE QUESTION (3.6) OF THE TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY SOLICITATION (A.4): "HOW ARE THE MAGNITUDES, FATES, AND LAND-ATM$763,652
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SCOTT GOETZ/THE WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER, INC.CONTINENTAL SCALE MODELING OF BIRD DIVERSITY USING CANOPY STRUCTURE METRICS OF HABITAT HETEROGENEITY$752,328
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TEMPERATURE INCREASES IN THE NORTHERN HIGH LATITUDES OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES HAVE LED TO A WIDE VA$742,124
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE PROPOSE A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION INTO THE NET RADIATIVE FORCINGS FROM FOREST FIRES IN THE ABOVE DOMAIN. FIRE IS THE DOMINANT DISTURBANCE IN BOREAL$741,804
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE RECENT EXPANSION OF PASTURES AND AGRICULTURAL MONOCULTURES HAS RESULTED IN 730,000 KM2 OF THE AMAZON BASIN BEING DEFORESTED. DESPITE RECENT DECLI$689,602
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE NATIONAL BIOMASS AND DATASET 2000.$634,588
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ECONOMICALLY VIABLE FOREST HARVESTING PRACTICES THAT INCREASE CARBON SEQUESTRATION$603,624
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
WE PROPOSE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONAL MRV SYSTEMS FOR REDD+ THROUGH TWO OBJECTIVES. FIRST, WE WILL DEVELOP, TEST, AND SHA$591,537
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ROBUST ESTIMATES OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF CARBON CONTAINED IN THE ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS (AGB) OF FORESTS ARE NEEDED FOR THE GLOBE TO REDUCE THE UNCERTAIN$488,703
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration