The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $9,900 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - DENVER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS, COMPUTER FACILITY SUPPORT SERVICES

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• $9,736 - Tuesday the 11th of September 2012
  Environmental Protection Agency
  LAB - CORVALLIS, OREGON CONTRACTING OFFICE
  SEAWATER SYSTEM MAINTENANCE

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• $96,437 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ONE OF THE MAJOR CHALLENGES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CARBON PROGRAM IS TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZING REGIONAL CARBON BUDGETS. NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE (NEE), THE NET BIOLOGICALLY DRIVEN EXCHANGE OF CO2 BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS AND THE ATMOSPHERE, IS ARGUABLY THE SINGLE-MOST IMPORTANT VARIABLE THAT SHOULD BE MEASURED AND MODELED BECAUSE IT DIRECTLY INFLUENCES INTRA-ANNUAL AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIATION IN THE CO2 CONCENTRATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL GENERATE DAILY AND ANNUAL ESTIMATES OF GROSS ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE AND NEE OVER NORTH AMERICA AT THE 1 KM SPATIAL RESOLUTION FOR THE MODIS ERA USING SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED MODELS. WE WILL INVESTIGATE SOURCES OF VARIATION AND UNCERTAINTY IN OUR ESTIMATES ASSOCIATED WITH INTERANNUAL VARIATION IN CLIMATE, WITH HOW DISTURBANCE HISTORY IS CHARACTERIZED, AND WITH THE FORM OF THE SPECTRAL DATA USED IN THE SCALING PROCEDURE. THE APPROACH WILL USE A COMBINATION OF PROGNOSTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC CARBON CYCLE MODELS, WITH A FOCUS ON SATELLITE-DRIVEN DIAGNOSTIC MODELS DEVELOPED WITH PREVIOUS NASA SUPPORT. THERE WILL BE HEAVY RELIANCE ON EDDY COVARIANCE FLUX TOWER OBSERVATIONS FOR MODEL PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION AND VALIDATION, AND THE CORE TOWER SITES WILL INCLUDE 8 SITES PREVIOUSLY USED FOR VALIDATION OF MODIS LAND PRODUCTS IN THE NASA-SUPPORTED BIGFOOT PROJECT. DISTURBANCE HISTORY WILL BE PRESCRIBED WITH DATA FROM THE LEDAPS PROJECT AND THE MODIS BURNED AREA PRODUCT. ALTERNATIVE FPAR (FRACTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION ABSORBED BY THE VEGETATION CANOPY) PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THOSE FROM THE MODIS, SEAWIFS, VEGETATION, AND MERIS SENSORS, WILL BE TESTED ALONG WITH THE MODIS EVI PRODUCT AT 250, 500, AND 1000 M RESOLUTION. WE WILL EVALUATE OUR CONTINENTAL NEE ESTIMATES BY COMPARISONS TO CONTINENTAL SCALE ESTIMATES OF NEE FROM AN INVERSION APPROACH BASED ON OBSERVATIONS OF CO2 CONCENTRATION (NOAA S CARBONTRACKER). OUR FLUXES WILL ALSO BE INPUT TO CARBONTRACKER AND DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN OBSERVED AND PREDICTED CO2 CONCENTRATIONS WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE ALTERNATIVE MODEL ALGORITHMS AND INPUTS (E.G. MODIS VS. SEAWIFS FPAR). BY INCLUDING SATELLITE-BASED INFORMATION ON PREVIOUS DISTURBANCE, AND MODEL ALGORITHMS THAT ACCOUNT FOR INCREASED HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION AFTER DISTURBANCES, OUR APPROACH ADDRESSES A MAJOR GAP IN THE CURRENT NACP EFFORT TO QUANTIFY THE CARBON BUDGET OF NORTH AMERICA. BY INCLUDING SATELLITE-BASED INFORMATION ON VEGETATION PHENOLOGY, ALONG WITH DISTRIBUTED CLIMATE DATA, THE PROPOSED WORK WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE OUR ABILITY FOR ATTRIBUTION, I.E. DISTINGUISHING THE RELATIVE ROLES OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION IN ACCOUNTING FOR INTERANNUAL VARIATION IN NEE. BECAUSE QUANTIFYING THE TERRESTRIAL CARBON SINK IN NORTH AMERICA IS OF POLICY SIGNIFICANCE IN RELATION TO ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE, THIS RESEARCH CONTRIBUTES TO THE NASA STRATEGIC GOAL OF ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF EARTH AND MEETING SOCIETAL NEEDS. IT WILL FURTHER THE NASA RESEARCH OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING CARBON CYCLE MODELS, AND RESULTS WILL INFORM THE NEXT NACP ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF THE CARBON CYCLE.

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• $92,723 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS HAVE REVEALED A REMARKABLY STRONG COUPLING BETWEEN SURFACE WINDS AND SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) ON SCALES SHORTER THAN ~1000 KM. WINDS ARE STRONGER OVER WARM WATER AND WEAKER OVER COLD WATER. SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SST FIELD THEREFORE RESULT IN SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SURFACE WIND FIELD, WITH WIND STRESS CURL THAT GENERATES ORDER 1 PERTURBATIONS TO OPEN-OCEAN UPWELLING AND ALTERS THE SST FIELD ITSELF. THE COUPLING BETWEEN SST AND SURFACE WINDS IS THUS 2-WAY. SST GRADIENTS ALSO GENERATE ATMOSPHERIC DIVERGENCE AND VERTICAL MOTION THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH STRATUS CLOUDS. SST-INDUCED MOTIONS PENETRATE BEYOND THE MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER AND POTENTIALLY PLAY A ROLE IN THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE. OBSERVATIONAL AND MODELING STUDIES CONDUCTED TO DATE HAVE BEEN LIMITED TO INVESTIGATION OF THE COUPLING BETWEEN SST AND SURFACE WINDS ON SCALES OF ABOUT 50 KM AND LARGER. FROM OUR PREVIOUS NASA-FUNDED RESEARCH, WE HAVE SHOWN THAT THE OBSERVED CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS AIR-SEA INTERACTION ON THESE SCALES ARE WELL REPRESENTED BY THE WEATHER RESEARCH&FORECASTING (WRF) MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC MODEL. IN MANY REGIONS, SST VARIABILITY OCCURS ON SCALES MUCH SMALLER THAN 50 KM. THE DEGREE TO WHICH SST INFLUENCES THE ATMOSPHERE ON THESE SMALLER SCALES HAS NOT BEEN INVESTIGATED. THE FOCUS OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO INVESTIGATE THE SCALE DEPENDENCE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE TO SST ON SCALES DOWN TO SOMEWHAT SMALLER THAN 10 KM. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH INCLUDES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE-BASED SST PRODUCT THAT BUILDS UPON THE PROCEDURES THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE SST ANALYSES THAT ARE NOW PRODUCED DAILY ON A 1/4 GRID AT THE NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER. THE ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE TO SST WILL BE INVESTIGATED FROM SIMULATIONS WITH THE WRF MODEL FORCED WITH IDEALIZED AND REAL SST FIELDS, INCLUDING OUR NEW HIGH-RESOLUTION SST FIELDS. IN ADDITION TO THE SURFACE WIND RESPONSE TO SST, WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN THE SST INFLUENCE ON CLOUD FORMATION AND TROPOSPHERIC WINDS. THESE MODELING STUDIES WILL BE CONDUCTED FOR THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM REGION WHERE SST GRADIENTS ARE STRONG WITH SMALL SPATIAL SCALES DURING THE SUMMER AND FALL, WHICH IS ALSO THE TIME OF YEAR THAT THE WINDS ARE RELATIVELY STEADY WITH CLEAR-SKY CONDITIONS PREVAILING APPROXIMATELY HALF THE TIME. THESE CHARACTERISTICS WILL FACILITATE THE PROPOSED ANALYSIS, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SST FIELDS. THIS CHOICE FOR THE REGION OF STUDY WILL FURTHER BENEFIT FROM OCEAN MODELING STUDIES BEING CONDUCTED BY COLLEAGUES AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY.

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• $920 - Wednesday the 7th of March 2012
  Forest Service
  TONGASS NF-KETCHIKAN AREA
  REDOUBT WATER SAMPLE ANALYSIS

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• $85,445 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  GLACIAL ICE CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL MARTIAN WATER BUDGETS HOW MUCH NON-POLAR ICE IS THERE ON MARS? WHAT IS THE VOLUME OF ICE IN NON-POLAR, ICE-RICH SURFACE DEPOSITS, AND WHAT PROPORTION OF THE MARTIAN WATER INVENTORY DO THEY REPRESENT? TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS, MANY GEOMORPHIC ANALYSES HAVE MAPPED THE DISTRIBUTION AND AGE OF MID-LATITUDE LANDFORMS INTERPRETED AS INDICATORS OF GROUND ICE IN THE MARTIAN SUBSURFACE, NOTABLY, LOBATE DEBRIS APRONS, CONCENTRIC CRATER FILL, AND LINEATED VALLEY FILL (LDA, CCF, AND LVF, RESPECTIVELY). HOWEVER, NO STUDY HAS FULLY ASSESSED THE VOLUME/MASS OF ICE CONTAINED IN THESE LANDFORMS OR ITS PROPORTION OF THE MODERN WATER INVENTORY ON MARS. ESTABLISHING THE MODERN INVENTORY OF WATER ICE AT THE SURFACE AND IN THE NEAR SUB-SURFACE OF MARS HAS ALSO LONG BEEN OF INTEREST BOTH BECAUSE OF ITS POTENTIAL INFLUENCE ON AMAZONIAN CLIMATE, AND BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE FOR UNDERSTANDING VOLATILE HISTORY OF MARS AS A PLANET. BY FAR, THE MOST SENSITIVE PARAMETERS FOR DETERMINING HOW MUCH NON-POLAR, NEAR-SURFACE GLACIER ICE EXISTS ON MARS ARE 1) THE AERIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE LANDFORMS (HOW MANY LDA/LVF/CCF ARE PRESENT AT THE SURFACE), AND 2) THE DEPTH STRUCTURE OF THE LANDFORMS (HOW FAR BELOW THE SURFACE DOES THE ICE EXTEND). ACCORDINGLY, THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO CREATE A QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE AMOUNT OF MARTIAN ICE PRESERVED IN LOBATE DEBRIS APRONS, LINEATED VALLEY FILL, AND CONCENTRIC CRATER FILL DEPOSITS PRESENT BETWEEN 30-50 NORTH AND SOUTH LATITUDE. WE WILL TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE MASS OF ICE PRESENT IN GLACIER-LIKE LANDFORMS EQUALS OR EXCEEDS THE MASS OF WATER ICE PRESENTLY STORED IN THE MARTIAN RESIDUAL POLAR ICE CAPS. QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND CALCULATED DEPTH PROFILE OF THESE LANDFORMS WILL PROVIDE A VOLUMETRIC CONSTRAINT ON THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN CIRCULATION DURING AMAZONIAN CLIMATE EVOLUTION. THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WE PROPOSE CONSIST OF IDENTIFYING THE LOCATIONS OF CCF, LVF, AND LDA DEPOSITS USING PREVIOUSLY-PUBLISHED LANDFORM INVENTORIES AND CTX IMAGE DATA, MAPPING THEIR SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AT 1:500K, AND THEN QUANTITATIVELY ESTIMATING THE CURRENT MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM SUBSURFACE ICE VOLUMES IN EACH DEPOSIT BASED ON GEOMETRIC INFERENCES SUGGESTED BY SHARAD RADARGRAMS AND MOLA ALTIMETRY DATA. CCF VOLUMES WILL BE CONSTRAINED BY A SOLID-OF-REVOLUTION TECHNIQUE BASED ON THE FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRATER DEPTHS AND DIAMETERS ON MARS. LDA VOLUME WILL BE CONSTRAINED BY CALCULATIONS OF SHARAD-IMPLIED PLANAR BASAL TOPOGRAPHY UNDER LDA AND GIS-BASED CUT/FILL CALCULATIONS BASED ON MOLA TOPOGRAPHY. LVF VOLUMES WILL BE CONSTRAINED BY VALLEY WALL PROFILES FROM MOLA AND HRSC AND BY EXISTING SHARAD- MEASUREMENTS OF LVF THICKNESS. THE PROPOSED WORK IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE MDAP OBJECTIVE OF ENHANCING THE SCIENCE RETURN FROM NASA MISSIONS TO MARS. THE GROUND ICE INVENTORY WILL COMBINE MGS-MOLA DATA WITH MRO-CTX DATA TO DRIVE ANALYSES THAT COMBINE THE TOPOGRAPHIC PRECISION OF THE MOLA DATASET WITH THE REGIONAL, HIGH-RESOLUTION GEOMORPHIC INFORMATION IN THE CTX DATASET, TO DRIVE A NEW SERIES OF ANALYSES. BY GENERATING A SPATIALLY-DISTRIBUTED INVENTORY OF THE GROUND ICE RESERVOIRS STORED IN LVF, LDA, AND CCF DEPOSITS, THIS PROJECT WILL LEVERAGE SPACECRAFT DATA TO DEVELOP GRIDDED WATER ICE DISTRIBUTION DATASET SUITABLE FOR INCORPORATION INTO 3D MARTIAN CLIMATE MODELS. THE VOLUME OF WATER ICE IN THESE DEPOSITS WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR THE MODERN GLOBAL WATER BUDGET ON MARS, AS PRELIMINARY CALCULATIONS SUGGEST THESE DEPOSITS MAY BE COMPARABLE TO THE VOLUME OF MARS' POLAR CAPS. THESE ANALYSES WILL ALSO FEED FORWARD TO ONGOING MARS MISSIONS, BY PROVIDING A UNIFORMLY-MAPPED DISTRIBUTION OF TARGETS THAT MAY BE SUITABLE FOR TARGETING BY SHARAD. FINALLY, QUANTIFICATION OF THE EXISTING NEAR-SURFACE MARTIAN WATER ICE INVENTORY WILL HELP INFORM THE UPCOMING RESULTS FROM MAVEN, WHICH AIM TO CONSTRAIN THE LOSS RATES OF WATER FROM THE MARTI

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• $8,509 - Monday the 6th of May 2013
  Department Of Navy
  NAVSUP FLT LOG CTR PUGET SOUND
  TELEPHONE SERVICE FY12

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• $8,500 - Thursday the 28th of June 2012
  Bureau Of Land Management
  OR-OREGON STATE OFFICE
  HARDWOOD SILVICULTURE COOPERATIVE ANNUAL DUES

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• $84,914 - Tuesday the 1st of November 2011
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  NOT IN USE
  PROGRAM SUPPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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• $8,000 - Friday the 6th of July 2012
  Bureau Of Land Management
  OR-OREGON STATE OFFICE
  PACIFIC NORTHWEST TREE IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH COOPERATIVE ANNUAL DUES

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