The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $81,537 - Tuesday the 29th of November 2011
  Forest Service
  R1, LOLO NATIONAL FOREST
  EXERCISE OPTION YEAR THREE, CONTINGENT UPON THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

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• $77,072 - Tuesday the 5th of May 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE (NEE) OF CO2 WITH THE ATMOSPHERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL MEASURE OF THE BALANCE BETWEEN CARBON UPTAKE BY VEGETATION GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION (GPP) AND CARBON LOSS THROUGH AUTOTROPHIC AND HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION, COLLECTIVELY TERMED ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION (RECO). WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A CONTINUOUS, INTEGRATED GLOBAL RECORD OF NEE AND COMPONENT CARBON FLUXES (GPP AND RECO), AND ASSOCIATED SOIL TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE CONSTRAINTS ON THESE FLUXES. WE WILL ACCOMPLISH THESE OBJECTIVES BY FUSING SYNERGISTIC SATELLITE MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL-IR REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION FROM AMSR-E AND MODIS WITHIN A TERRESTRIAL CARBON MODEL FRAMEWORK, WHERE MODIS PROVIDES CRITICAL INFORMATION ON GPP AND AUTOTROPHIC RESPIRATION, WHILE AMSR-E IS USED TO CHARACTERIZE SURFACE (<10CM DEPTH) SOIL MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS, WHICH ARE PRIMARY ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS TO SOIL HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION. WE WILL APPLY A LAND SURFACE MODEL (LSM) ASSIMILATION SCHEME TO MITIGATE ATMOSPHERE AND VEGETATION BIOMASS CONSTRAINTS TO THE AMSR-E RETRIEVALS AND PRODUCE CONTIGUOUS AND CONTINUOUS ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS OF THESE PARAMETERS FOR THE ENTIRE TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE. THE MODEL ASSIMILATION PROCESS WILL ENSURE SUPERIOR ACCURACY ABOVE AMSR-E OR LSM APPROACHES ALONE AND WILL PROVIDE A MEANS FOR ASSESSING THE VALUE OF AMSR-E INPUTS FOR IMPROVING LSM ACCURACY. THESE DATA WILL BE USED WITH MODIS GPP, LAND COVER AND DISTURBANCE TIME SERIES TO MAP AND ANALYZE SPATIAL PATTERNS, TEMPORAL ANOMALIES AND RECENT TRENDS IN NEE AND THE BIOPHYSICAL DRIVERS OF THESE FLUXES. SENSITIVITY STUDIES WILL BE CONDUCTED TO ASSESS SPATIAL SCALE EFFECTS AND DISTURBANCE, LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE IMPACTS TO THE NEE CALCULATIONS. IN OUR PREVIOUS EOS SCIENCE TEAM EFFORTS, WE SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED A TERRESTRIAL CARBON FLUX (TCF) MODEL UTILIZING MODIS AND AMSR-E INPUTS TO QUANTIFY NEE AND COMPONENT CARBON FLUXES ON A DAILY BASIS. WE ALSO DEVELOPED A SUPPORTING SET OF AMSR-E ALGORITHMS AND GLOBAL RETRIEVALS FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE, VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH, FREEZE/THAW STATE DYNAMICS AND SOIL MOISTURE. THE TCF ALGORITHMS AND REMOTE SENSING INPUTS ARE ROBUST AND HAVE BEEN VERIFIED USING BIOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS FROM REGIONAL STATION NETWORKS AND RELATIVELY FINE SCALE REMOTE SENSING. WE WILL EXTEND THIS ACTIVITY TO A GLOBAL DOMAIN, DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED, LONG-TERM (10+ YR) RECORD OF NEE AND COMPONENT CARBON FLUXES AND UNDERLYING MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE CONTROLS WITH WELL DEFINED ACCURACY. WE WILL APPLY THESE NEW DATA RECORDS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF RECENT GLOBAL WARMING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES TO TERRESTRIAL SOURCE/SINK ACTIVITY FOR ATMOSPHERIC CO2. WE WILL ALSO ASSESS WHETHER SATELLITE OPTICAL-IR AND MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING FROM MODIS AND AMSR-E CAN BE USED TO MAP NEE AND ASSOCIATED MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE CONSTRAINTS WITH SUFFICIENT ACCURACY TO RESOLVE SPATIAL PATTERNS, SEASONAL TO ANNUAL VARIABILITY AND RECENT TRENDS IN TERRESTRIAL SOURCE/SINK ACTIVITY CONSISTENT WITH TOWER EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENT BASED APPROACHES. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIVE TO NASA SMD AND EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND OBJECTIVES, AND NASA NRC DECADAL SURVEY CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE OBJECTIVES FOR REDUCING UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE ##MISSING SINK## ON LAND FOR ATMOSPHERIC CO2. THIS RESEARCH WILL ALSO SPAN THE GAP BETWEEN EOS ERA CARBON PRODUCTS AND SIMILAR PRODPLANNED UNDER THE SMAP DECADAL SURVEY MISSION (PROJECTED 2014 LAUNCH). THIS RESEARCH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND MONITORING OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND CARBON CYCLE DYNAMICS AND CONTRIBUTE TO US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM (GCRP) GOALS FOR BETTER QUANTIFICATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF ENVIRONMENTAL FORCINGS AND DRIVERS OF ECOSYSTEM VARIABILITY, AND ECOSYSTEM SENSITIVITY AND RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE.

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• $7,350 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Forest Service
  SOUTHERN REGIONAL OFFICE
  IGF::CT::IGF CRITICAL FUNCTIONS: LOGISTICAL SUPPORT FOR SALE AREA LAYOUT AND HARVESTING INSTITUTE.

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• $6,583 - Wednesday the 12th of September 2012
  Forest Service
  SOUTHERN REGIONAL OFFICE
  50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WILDERNESS ACT PROMOTIONAL ITEMS.

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• $57,859 - Friday the 28th of August 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  NASA'S GENESIS MISSION IS PROVIDING SOLAR-WIND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION RESULTS WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACIES (I.E., UNCERTAINTIES DOWN TO FRACTIONS OF A PERCENT), AND IS ALSO PROVIDING DATA ON SOLAR-WIND ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS. HOWEVER, IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT SOLAR-WIND ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES ARE MODIFIED ("FRACTIONATED") RELATIVE TO SOLAR COMPOSITION, AND IT HAS RECENTLY BEEN SHOWN THAT ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS ARE ALSO MODIFIED DURING ACCELERATION OF THE SOLAR WIND, POTENTIALLY AS MUCH AS 6% FOR IMPORTANT ISOTOPES. TO ACHIEVE THE MISSION GOAL--ACCURATE SOLAR ISOTOPIC AND ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES--THERE IS A CLEAR NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE FRACTIONATIONS BETWEEN SOLAR-WIND AND SOLAR COMPOSITIONS. WE PROPOSE TO APPLY CURRENT THEORIES OF SOLAR-WIND ACCELERATION TO CONSTRAIN AND DETERMINE THE FRACTIONATION CORRECTIONS TO APPLY TO THE GENESIS SOLAR-WIND DATA. IN ADDITION TO CURRENT THEORIES, WE WILL USE HIGH ACCURACY GENESIS DATA FROM SAMPLES OF DIFFERENT SOLAR-WIND REGIMES TO PLACE FURTHER CONSTRAINTS ON SOLAR-WIND FRACTIONATION TO, AS ABOVE, SUPPORT THE GENESIS MISSION GOAL OF ACCURATE SOLAR COMPOSITION. ADDITIONALLY, MANY OF THE TOP-PRIORITY GENESIS MEASUREMENTS UTILIZE SAMPLES FROM THE SOLAR-WIND CONCENTRATOR, AN INSTRUMENT DEVELOPED, BUILT, AND MODELED BY THE AUTHORS OF THIS PROPOSAL. THE CONCENTRATOR HAS AN INSTRUMENTAL FRACTIONATION UP TO 6% THAT DEPENDS ON A NUMBER OF PARAMETERS, INCLUDING SOLAR-WIND ION MASS-TO-CHARGE RATIO, VELOCITY, AND ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION. TO OBTAIN SOLAR-WIND COMPOSITIONS FROM THE CONCENTRATOR, THE INSTRUMENTAL FRACTIONATION MUST BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED. WE PROPOSE TO PERFORM THE NEEDED MODELING, IN CONCERT WITH OTHER MEASUREMENTS, TO ACCURATELY DETERMINE CONCENTRATOR FRACTIONATION. FURTHER, WE PROPOSE TO SUPPORT OVERALL GENESIS MEASUREMENTS BY PROVIDING CALIBRATION TARGETS IN THE FORM OF ION IMPLANTS PRODUCED AT LANL'S ION BEAM MATERIALS LABORATORY (IBML). WE ALSO PROPOSE TO CARRY OUT SOLAR-WIND IMPLANT MODELING USING THE THEORETICAL RANGES OF IONS IN MATTER (TRIM) CODE.

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• $51,634 - Monday the 24th of September 2012
  Environmental Protection Agency
  REGION 8 CONTRACTING OFFICE
  FLATHEAD LAKE BIOSTATON

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• $45,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Forest Service
  R1, LOLO NATIONAL FOREST
  IGF::OT::IGF REGIONAL AND FOREST-LEVEL REPORTS ON MILLING CAPACITY AND UTILIZATION IN USFS REGION ONE. OTHER FUNCTIONS

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• $44,380 - Wednesday the 19th of September 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - DENVER
  OT - LAKE TROUT GENOTYPING

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• $437 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Forest Service
  SOUTHERN REGIONAL OFFICE
  IGF::CT::IGF CRITICAL FUNCTIONS: LOGISTICAL SUPPORT FOR SALE AREA LAYOUT AND HARVESTING INSTITUTE.

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• $43,000 - Tuesday the 12th of June 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - DENVER
  OT - SNP GENOTYPING FOR WESTSLOPE CUTTHROAT TROUT

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