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Award Data
The Award database is continually updated throughout the year. As a result, data for FY20 is not expected to be complete until September, 2021.
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Developing and Improving Commercial Marine Algal Culture in the United States
SBC: Maine Fresh Sea Farms, LLC Topic: 811FMaine Fresh Sea Farms (MFSF) will build a multi-species, multi-season prototype farm with the goal of having crops of fresh sea vegetables available throughout the year. What isn’t utilized fresh will be dried for longer-term storage and used in other products. Our team will gather data on water quality, nutrients, light levels, and hydrodynamics to assemble profiles of key parameters that deter ...
SBIR Phase II 2015 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Ultra-High Precision Laser Isotope Monitor for I3CO2, CO180 and CO170
SBC: Aerodyne Research, Inc. Topic: 831RCGreenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are primary drivers of global climate change. Hence there is a crucial need to quantify their sources and sinks. A powerful method to constrain source and sink strengths is the analysis of the relative proportions of isotopic variants of GHG’s in atmospheric samples like those collected globally by NOAA’s Cooperative Air Sampling Network. Measurements that are ca ...
SBIR Phase II 2015 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Multi-Purpose Above Surface/Below Surface Expendable Dropsondes (MASED)
SBC: Boston Engineering Corporation Topic: 842WThere are currently no inexpensive, expendable air-deployed monitoring systems (Dropsondes) that measure atmospheric data and oceanographic as a function of depth. These are important data in predicting the intensity and path of hurricanes. Boston Engineering proposes to provide NOAA with a solution to this challenge with the Multi-Purpose Above Surface/Below Surface Expendable Dropsonde (MASED) p ...
SBIR Phase II 2015 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Rapid and Low-Cost Field Toxin Analysis to Monirot Harmful Algal Blooms
SBC: Giner, Inc. Topic: 812NDuring the harmful algal blooms (HAB), marine algal toxins reach concentrations high enough to cause various neurological and gastrointestinal disorders through inhalation of the toxin or consumption of contaminated shellfish. Brevetoxins, produced by dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, are known to disrupt neurological processes to cause an illness called neurotoxic shellfish poisoning. The timely rec ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Supporting Local Decision Making through a Comprehensive Community Driven Data Tool
SBC: Industrial Economics, Incorporated Topic: 851XA central part of NOAA’s mission is to develop and distribute scientific data, including large-scale climate, weather, marine, and coastal information for regional and national analysis. NOAA has also developed local data gathering tools on an as-needed basis. While these approaches demonstrate the power of local data collection, no existing tool meets the broad needs of environmental community ...
SBIR Phase I 2015 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Ultra-High Precision Laser Isotope Monitor for 13CO2, CO180 and CO170
SBC: Aerodyne Research, Inc. Topic: 83Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the atmosphere are primary drivers of global climate change and hence there is a crucial need to quantify their sources and sinks. A general technique to constrain source and sink strengths is the analysis of the relative proportions of isotopic variants of GHG's. These measurements must be performed with extremely high precision. The gold standard technique, i ...
SBIR Phase I 2014 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Multipurpose Atmospheric/Underwater Expendable Dropsonde
SBC: Boston Engineering Corporation Topic: 84There are currently no inexpensive observing systems that detect temperature, salinity and currents under the ocean's surface - all important factors in predicting the intensity of hurricanes. Boston Engineering proposes to develop the Multi-Purpose Above Surface/Below Surface Expendable Dropsondes (MASED). Our design builds on the highly successful air dropsondes already in use, combined with a ...
SBIR Phase I 2014 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Development of Sustainable, Multi-Seasonal, Multi-Species, Marine Algal Aquaculture in Coastal Maine
SBC: Maine Fresh Sea Farms, LLC Topic: 81This Phase I proposal determines the feasibility of growing multiple species of macroalgae in commercial marine aquafarm environments. Marine aquaculture is a logical outgrowth of successful wild harvest seaweed businesses over the last several years. Developing a marine aquaculture prototype will foster the science of sea farming. Extending growing seasons for multi-species would provide year ...
SBIR Phase I 2014 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Surveying Earth's Gravity with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
SBC: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION Topic: 91During the Phase I program, Aurora conducted a comprehensive survey of potential platforms that included government owned and furnished UAVs and manned aircraft as well as Aurora’s Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA). The survey concluded, in part, that UAVs offer a significant improvement in data collection capability when compared to manned aircraft that are currently fielded by NOAA. ...
SBIR Phase II 2014 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Improving Commercial Fish Meal Free Aquaculture Diets
SBC: Bell Aquaculture Topic: 92Domestic US aquaculture is moving toward fishmeal replacement in aquafeeds with a variety of alternative protein sources including plant-based, terrestrial and marine proteins. In our Phase I work we showed the feasibility of modifying the protein quality of several alternate protein sources, specifically animal byproduct meals, and its potential significant impacts on marine fish production. Th ...
SBIR Phase II 2014 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration