(FOA)-Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem focus area, and as presently implemented, supports research and coordinates projects for the development of a prototype carbon monitoring system. With this program element, NASA CMS will continue to refine, evaluate, and integrate suborbital, airborne, and satellite data, providing products that overlay previous research within a user-defined prototype monitoring system.

 

NASA requests proposals for investigations that will advance products toward the CMS end goal: development of a prototype carbon monitoring system from an Earth’s system perspective. Geographic areas of interest include terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic realms. Proposal emphasis must be directed toward continued development of the established CMS pilot studies (see https://carbon.nasa.gov), synergistic advancements from past CMS activities, as well as acquisition, quantification, and development of prototype CMS system capabilities that can improve existing and new data products toward achieving the levels of precision and accuracy required by current carbon trading activities (e.g., certification of emissions reductions).

 

All proposals are required to target a CMS prototyping activity and not focus solely on carbon cycle science research. This requirement will be factored into the relevance criterion evaluation. Proposals that do not address a CMS prototyping activity will be considered non-responsive. NASA requests proposals for four types of carbon monitoring prototyping and product development activities. NASA is soliciting studies that:

1. Use remote sensing data products to produce and evaluate existing prototype CMS system approaches for potential decision support activities;
2. Develop or refine data products related to the near- or long-term accumulation and fluxes of terrestrial carbon stocks in tropical biomes using satellite or airborne remote sensing, with an emphasis on regional scales, using bottom-up and/or top-down models;
3. Develop and/or refine aquatic carbon sources, sinks, and fluxes using data products or approaches that integrate, or provide the basis for integrating, remote sensing data from current or future NASA missions. This includes studies that will use remote sensing data products to further develop and refine bottom-up processes with top-down stock and flux assessments. Also considered will be studies that advance remote sensing-based approaches to reduce uncertainty in defining the impact land cover changes (e.g., forest degradation, disturbance) have on aquatic systems, including their effects on land-to-river and land-to-ocean carbon fluxes studies, and quantification of carbon in coastal ecosystems;
4. Use stakeholder interests and requirements to understand and engage the user community for carbon products and/or evaluate current and planned NASA CMS products with regard to their value for decision-making by these users, and to assist in having existing products used for stake-holder activities. Priority will be given to proposals where potential stakeholders have in-kind contributions to ensure transfer of CMS activities into their own ongoing or future activity.

 

Announcement Number

NNH18ZDA001N-CMS

 

Closing Date

Notice of Intent: March 25, 2019

Proposals: May 23, 2019

 

Link to Full Announcement

https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId={45A77699-9B54-8B78-4900-F6EA75A589FE}&path=open

 

Contact Information

Kathy A. Hibbard

(202) 358-0682

Kathleen.A.Hibbard@nasa.gov