Mission,
South Dakota - - Staff at the
Sinte Gleska University (SGU), Mission, South Dakota, the U.S. Geological
Survey's (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center,
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Global Science and Technology, Inc, Greenbelt,
MD, Earth Satellite Corporation, Inc, Rockville, MD, and NASA Ames Research
Center, Mountain View, California have collaborated to receive a substantial
NASA grant to transform earth system data into products,
information, and new knowledge about our planet.
The
project funded under this Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) offers
solutions to use USGS, SGU, and NASA assets and capabilities to support
science findings and applications to understand
and predict the future of the Earth.
The winning proposal -- A Geospatial Extension of the NASA
Information Power Grid -- will develop policy and resource management
decision support systems, and generate educational tools to inspire and
train current and future generations of Native and non-native scientists.
The
projects funded under this CAN will join on-going NASA data and information
projects to form the NASA Earth Science Research, Education and Applications
Solutions Network (Earth Science REASoN). The research, applications
and education elements of the NASA Earth science community share interests
and requirements that can best be met through cooperative efforts that
generate, access and distribute data, information and knowledge. These
projects will unite previously disparate activities and programs under a
unified management approach, taking full advantage of public and private
resources and partnerships to derive maximum benefit for the public good,
and consistent with the President's initiative on competitive sourcing.
For
more information, please contact:
James
Rattling Leaf
Land
& Natural Resource Developer
Sicangu
Policy Institute
Sinte
Gleska University
Rosebud
Sioux Reservation
P.O.
Box 557
Mission,
SD 57555
(605)
856-4262
e-mail:
jamesrl@sinte.edu
Or,
visit the following web site: http://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_y/nra/current/CAN-02-OES-01/winners.html