The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $963,000 - Wednesday the 14th of March 2012
  Department Of Navy
  SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS
  DESCOPE, REVISE SOW, REVISE CDRL, REWORD TRAVEL CLAUSE, ADD SPECIAL PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS CLAUSE, UPDATE FEE CLAUSE, INCREMENT OF FUNDING

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• $9,400 - Wednesday the 4th of April 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  EASTERN FIELD DELEGATES OMAO
  BERTHING FOR NOAA SHIP HENRY BIGELOW

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• $91,667 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  PI WILL ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TECHNICAL WORK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS INVESTIGATION ASSIGNING TASKS TO VARIOUS SUPPORT TECHNICAL STAFF AS APPROPRIATE. HIS SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE DEVELOPING BIOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL ALGORITHMS, ANALYZING MODEL OUTPUT, AND INTERPRETING SATELLITE DATA COMPARISONS OF CURRENT CESM SIMULATIONS. HE WILL ALSO SUPERVISE THE PROJECT AND PERSONNEL VIA MEETINGS WITH CO-I S AND PROGRAMMERS AS WELL AS ATTENDANCE AT NATIONAL MEETINGS. CO-I WILL JOIN THE RESEARCH TEAM DURING THE SECOND YEAR AND PROVIDE DESIGN SUPPORT FOR 21ST CENTURY CESM SIMULATIONS. CO-I, THROUGH A SUBCONTRACT TO WHOI, WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROPOSED RESEARCH BY PARTICIPATING IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MODEL PARAMETERIZATIONS THAT WILL TREAT CALCIFIERS MORE EXPLICITLY AND WILL MAKE BIOLOGICAL CALCIFICATION AND CARBONATE DISSOLUTION DEPENDENT ON MODELED SEAWATER CHEMISTRY. HE WILL PERFORM COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS WITH THE NEW PARAMETERIZATION ON NCAR SUPERCOMPUTERS, INCLUDING BASELINE AND FUTURE PROJECTION EXPERIMENTS. HE WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVALUATION OF THE SKILL OF THE NEW PARAMETERIZATIONS, IN DEVELOPMENT AND BASELINE EXPERIMENTS THROUGH COMPARING MODEL RESULTS, INCLUDING CALCIFICATION RATES, TO AVAILABLE SATELLITE AND IN SITU DATA SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY.

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• $90,000 - Tuesday the 28th of February 2012
  Department Of Navy
  OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)

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• $8,928 - Tuesday the 14th of August 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  WESTERN FIELD DELEGATES NMFS
  CARBON ANALYSIS FOR SEA TURTLE RESEARCH

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• $8,592 - Wednesday the 1st of August 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - DENVER
  OT - ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETER ANALYSIS

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• $849,704 - Friday the 28th of September 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NUWC NEWPORT
  SERVICES

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• $8,268 - Wednesday the 11th of July 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - SACRAMENTO
  WHOI/COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY

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• $82,497 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  REMOTE SENSING OF GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE WIND FIELDS BY MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS AND SCATTEROMETERS HAS COLLECTIVELY PRODUCED DATA RECORDS FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES SINCE JULY 1987. THE EFFORTS OF SYNERGIZING THE WIND MEASUREMENTS FROM THESE TWO TYPES OF SENSORS, MADE BY THE OBJECTIVELY ANALYZED AIR-SEA FLUX (OAFLUX) PROJECT IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS, HAVE PRODUCED A TIME SERIES OF GLOBAL DAILY OCEAN VECTOR WIND ANALYSIS ON 0.25-DEGREE RESOLUTION. OUR PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS REVEALED A PROFOUND INCREASE OF GLOBAL OCEAN WINDS IN THE PAST TWO DECADES, AND THE INCREASE APPEARS TO BE IN PHASE WITH THE RISING OF THE GLOBAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST). YET, THE CHANGE IN OCEAN WINDS IS NOT UNIFORM AMONG GLOBAL BASINS. FOR INSTANCE, THE LINEAR TRENDS OF WIND SPEED IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN DISPLAY A STRIKING INTERHEMISPHERIC DIPOLAR PATTERN, SIMILAR IN PATTERN TO THE WIDELY KNOWN INTERHEMISPHERIC DIPOLAR SST MODE BUT WITH HIGHER (LOWER) WIND SPEED OVER LOWER (HIGHER) SST. MEANWHILE A WESTWARD INTENSIFICATION OF THE TRADE WINDS IN THE TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN IS EVIDENT, WHICH, TOGETHER WITH SATELLITE-BASED SST AND SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH) OBSERVATIONS, SUGGESTS A LA NI A-LIKE RESPONSE OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC TO THE GLOBAL WARMING. IF VALIDATED, CLIMATE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE NEW OBSERVATIONAL PATTERNS WOULD BE BROAD AND PROFOUND. OCEAN SURFACE WINDS NOT ONLY DRIVE THE WIND-DRIVEN OCEAN GYRE CIRCULATION BUT ALSO AFFECT SURFACE HEAT FLUXES THAT DIRECTLY FORCE THE THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION. IN FACT, OCEAN WINDS AFFECT VIRTUALLY EVERY DETAIL OF OCEANIC ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A HIGH QUALITY, CONSISTENT GLOBAL VECTOR WIND TIME SERIES TO ACCURATELY QUANTIFY THE TREND AND VARIABILITY OF GLOBAL WINDS CAN NEVER BE OVERSTATED. HOWEVER, ALL DERIVED PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THE OAFLUX WIND ANALYSIS, CANNOT BE REGARDED AS THE TRUTH . THEY ARE DEVELOPED FROM SATELLITE RETRIEVALS AND ARE INFLUENCED BY THE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS IN WIND RETRIEVALS FROM SCATTEROMETERS AND RADIOMETERS, AMONG WHICH THE EFFECT OF RAIN APPEARS TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE OF BIAS. HENCE, THE PROPOSED STUDY FOCUSES ON TWO LINES OF RESEARCH: ONE IS TO USE THE OAFLUX GLOBAL VECTOR WIND ANALYSIS TO INVESTIGATE THE VALIDITY OF THE PATTERN OF CHANGE IN GLOBAL VECTOR WIND FIELDS IN THE PAST TWO DECADES, AND TO STUDY THE CAUSES, IMPACTS, AND CLIMATE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE LONG-TERM CHANGES IN THE WARM CLIMATE; AND THE OTHER IS TO IMPROVE AND REFINE SKILLS TO ENSURE THE QUALITY OF THE TIME SERIES AND TO EXPAND THE ANALYSIS TO INCLUDE ASCAT TO ENSURE A CONTINUOUS VECTOR WIND ANALYSIS FOR THE COMING YEARS ESPECIALLY WHEN QUIKSCAT CEASES OPERATIONS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AIMS AT (I) ESTIMATING QUANTITATIVELY THE CHANGES IN GLOBAL OCEAN VECTOR WIND FIELDS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHANGES IN SST; (II) PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO THE FEEDBACK RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OCEAN WIND AND SST AND ADDRESSING KEY DYNAMICS THAT GOVERN THOSE SST-WIND RELATIONSHIPS IN GLOBAL BASINS; (III) PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO IMPROVING THE PREDICTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SKILLS FOR FUTURE CHANGES OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN WINDS IN THE CHANGING CLIMATE; AND (IV) APPLYING THE OAFLUX ALGORITHMS FOR NEAR-REAL TIME GLOBAL SYNTHESIS OF SATELLITE PASSIVE AND ACTIVE WIND RETRIEVALS THAT CAN BE USED FOR WEATHER, DISASTER FORECASTING AND MONITORING, AND FOR BROAD CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYSES AND APPLICATIONS INCLUDING THE DESIGN OF LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC FIELD PROGRAMS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH CONTRIBUTES TO AND BENEFITS FROM THE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS EMPHASIZED BY THE RESEARCH THEMES OF THE NASA OVWST PROGRAM. THE OAFLUX GLOBAL OCEAN VECTOR WIND ANALYSIS WILL BE UPDATED AND IMPROVED DURING THE PROPOSED STUDY PERIOD, AND DISSEMINATED TO THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PROJECT WEBSITE AT HTTP://OAFLUX.WHOI.EDU/.

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• $75,000 - Tuesday the 8th of November 2011
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - DENVER
  CARBON ANALYSIS

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