NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, to continue collaborative research in the field of Earth systems science.
This $64.8 million five-year agreement funds an already established partnership between NASA’s Earth Sciences Division located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the university’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) to study and forecast impacts of Earth’s connected systems on global and regional environment, weather and climate.
The agreement will continue to give NASA Goddard’s Earth Sciences Division access to ESSIC’s academic and research faculty, students, and its partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS).
The award builds on six major research themes within Earth Sciences: Atmospheric Composition and Processes (Aerosol/Cloud Physics), Atmospheric Chemistry/Carbon Cycle, The Cryosphere, Hydrometeorology/Precipitation Retrieval, Hydrology/Land Surface Processes, and Numerical Modeling/Data Assimilation. This agreement includes high level research and exploration of new innovations that seek to benefit our expanding knowledge of our dynamic planet.
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Cynthia M. O’Carroll
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-4787
cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov