NASA Awards Cooperative Agreement for Earth Science Research

March 1, 2012

Michael Mewhinney
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-4789
michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov

CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-008

NASA AWARDS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to
the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute of Sonoma, Calif., to
support Earth science research at NASA's Ames Research Center at
Moffett Field, Calif.

The Ames Cooperative for Research in Earth Science and Technology
(ARC-CREST) agreement has a total value of approximately $137
million, which will be funded annually up to $14 million. The 10-year
agreement covers the period from March 1, 2012 through Feb. 28, 2022.

The agreement is based on the original solicitation titled "The
Silicon Valley Earth Science Cooperative Agreement." Partners in the
cooperative agreement include California State University, Monterey
Bay; the University of California, Davis; and the University of North
Dakota, Grand Forks.

Through this new agreement, NASA scientists will collaborate with
scientists from other organizations to conduct Earth science
research, and airborne and space-based Earth observations for NASA's
missions. NASA hopes to expand its cooperative relationships among
Ames Earth scientists and other partners in academia, federal, state
and local agencies, non-profits and private industry.

For more information about Ames, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ames

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