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South Dakota State University

  • South Dakota State University

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  • Brookings, SD 570070001
  • Phone: 605-688-6696
  • Estimated Number of Employees: 2,070
  • Estimated Annual Receipts: $195,616,352
  • Business Start Date: 1881
  • Contact Person: Jacqueline Nelson
  • Contact Phone: 605-688-5113
  • Contact Email: jacqueline.nelson@sdstate.edu
  • Business Structure:
  • U.S. Government Entity
  • Business Type:
  • U.S. State Government
  • 1862 Land Grant College
  • Educational Institution
  • Industries Served: Engineering Services, Research and Development in Biotechnology, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • Product Areas: ENGINEERING (ADVANCED), R&D- GENERAL SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY: ENGINEERING (ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT), ADP SYSTEMS ANALYSIS SERVICES, IT AND TELECOM- SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

  • $8,415 - Monday the 21st of November 2011
    Veterans Affairs Department
    438-SIOUX FALLS VA MEDICAL CENTER
    EISP SCHOLARSHIP TUITION PROGRAM
  • $48,818 - Thursday the 9th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    THIS RESEARCH WILL FIRST DEVELOP AND VALIDATE AN AUTOMATED COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY TO EXTRACT CROPLAND AND GRASSLAND FIELD BOUNDARIES AND DERIVE FIELD SIZES FROM THE WELD PROCESSED LANDSAT DATA, SECOND GENERATE CONUS FIELD SIZE DATA SETS FOR THREE DECADAL PERIODS: 1987, 1997 AND 2007, THIRD CHARACTERIZE THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF FIELD SIZES FOR THE CONUS, AND FOURTH ADDRESS EXPLANATORY HYPOTHESES CONCERNED WITH CONUS FIELD SIZE EVOLUTION.
  • $477,934 - Thursday the 31st of December 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    FIRE IS AN INTEGRAL BUT POORLY UNDERSTOOD COMPONENT OF THE EARTH SYSTEM. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO ESTIMATE FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS UPON THE FIRE ENVIRONMENT AND RESULTANT FEEDBACKS WITH HUMAN LAND USE AND MITIGATION EFFORTS. TO THIS END, WE HAVE ASSEMBLED A TALENTED MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM OF SCIENTISTS TO CONDUCT INTEGRATED RESEARCH ON FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM. OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE QUANTITATIVE AND APPLIED REMOTE SENSING, FIRE AND LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS, DYNAMIC VEGETATION AND LAND USE MODELING, ECONOMICS, LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE RESEARCH, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE, AND FIRE MANAGEMENT. IN RESPONSE TO NASA S INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN EARTH SCIENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS IN THE AREA OF INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEM RESPONSES TO EXTREME DISTURBANCES (SUB ELEMENT 1), WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE THE PROPENSITY FOR EXTREME FIRE OCCURRENCE AS FUNCTIONS OF CLIMATE, LAND COVER AND LAND USE/MANAGEMENT ACROSS 3 CONTINENTS; AUSTRALIA (ENTIRE), NORTH AMERICA (LOWER 48 STATES U.S.) AND SOUTH AMERICA (BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA). WE WILL PROVIDE COMPARABLE TESTS OF PROPOSED HYPOTHESES AND ESTIMATION OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ACROSS MULTIPLE ECOREGIONS WITHIN MOST OF THE WORLD S TERRESTRIAL BIOME TYPES (BOREAL TUNDRA AND TAIGA WILL BE THE ONLY MAJOR VEGETATED BIOME TYPES NOT EXAMINED). ONLY THROUGH THIS TYPE OF LARGE-SCALE STUDY THAT INCORPORATES MANY OF THE WORLD S ECOSYSTEMS, LAND MANAGEMENT APPROACHES AND CLIMATES, WILL IT BE POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE THE CONTEXT NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND HOW FIRE IS RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE. WE WILL QUANTIFY CHANGES IN FIRE DANGER SINCE 1901 (SINCE 1948 IN AMAZONIA) AS WELL AS FIRE INCIDENCE AND FIRE EFFECTS IN RECENT DECADES. THE PROBABILITY AND LOCATIONS OF EXACERBATED FIRE REGIMES UNDER PROJECTED FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS WILL BE INVESTIGATED. EXPECTED SIGNIFICANCE: THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL MAKE USE OF NASA ASSETS (LANDSAT, MODIS) AND PRODUCE THE FIRST MULTICONTINENT ANALYSES OF FIRE REGIME SHIFTS DUE TO CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGES AND ALSO ESTIMATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ONGOING MITIGATION EFFORTS. ONLY THROUGH LARGE SCALE ANALYSES IS IT POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE TO WHICH CLIMATE MAY BE CHANGING LANDSCAPE LEVEL FIRE BEHAVIOR AND THE PROPENSITY FOR FUTURE EXTREME FIRE EVENTS TO OCCUR. SUCH KNOWLEDGE IS CRITICAL FOR SOCIETY IN ORDER FOR PROPER DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, REGIONAL ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION EFFORTS TO TAKE PLACE. OUR PROPOSED WORK WILL ADDRESS FOUR OF THE FIVE REQUESTED COMPONENTS: 1. CHARACTERIZE THE NATURE, MAGNITUDE, AND DISTINGUISHING ATTRIBUTES OF EXTREME FIRE EVENTS. 2. ASSESS MANY NATURAL (ECOLOGICAL, BIOGEOCHEMICAL, CLIMATIC, BIOGEOGRAPHIC AND HUMAN (LAND USE, CONSERVATION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC) ASPECTS OF EXTREME FIRE DISTURBANCES. 3. QUANTIFY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANY TYPES OF FIRE MITIGATION EFFORTS OVER LARGE REGIONS. 4. INVESTIGATE THE EARTH SYSTEM FEEDBACKS AMONG CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGES AND THE PLACEMENT, TIMING AND CHARACTERISTICS OF EXTREME FIRES OVER TIME. BY APPLYING WHAT WE LEARN TO OUR ANALYSES OF PROJECTED FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGES AND SIMULATED INCREASES IN CLIMATE VARIABILITY, WE WILL PROVIDE A SOLID UNDERSTANDING OF WHEN AND IN WHICH ECOREGIONS ALTERED FIRE REGIMES MAY POSE A RISK TO BOTH HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES. IF LARGE-SCALE, INTEGRATED, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH SUCH AS THIS IS NOT CONDUCTED, THEN FIRE S FUNCTION IN THE EARTH SYSTEM WILL REMAIN POORLY UNDERSTOOD AND HUMANITY WILL BE LEFT INCREASINGLY VULNERABLE TO UNFORESEEN AND POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC FIRE REGIME SHIFTS AS THE CLIMATE CONTINUES TO CHANGE.
  • $4,591 - Wednesday the 22nd of February 2012
    Veterans Affairs Department
    438-SIOUX FALLS VA MEDICAL CENTER
    TUITION FOR NNEI/EISP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
  • $3,710 - Friday the 28th of September 2012
    Department Of Air Force
    FA4690 28 CONS LGC
    OSHA TRAINING CLASS FOR 30 STUDENTS,&6 EXTRA ATTENDEES FOR OSHA TRAINING CLASS.
  • $279,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
    National Aeronautics And Space Administration
    NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
    STORMS, FORMS, AND COMPLEXITY OF THE URBAN CANOPY: HOW LAND USE, SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, AND THE SHAPES OF CITIES INFLUENCE SEVERE WEATHER URBAN AREAS INCREASINGLY CONCENTRATE POPULATION, RESOURCES, WEALTH CREATION, AND INNOVATION. AS CITIES GROW AND DEVELOP, THEY AFFECT THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AT VARIOUS SCALES RANGING FROM THE URBAN CORE, ACROSS SUBURBS AND INTO OUTLYING AND SOMETIMES DISTANT AREAS. YET THE URBANIZATION PROCESS AND ITS MANIFOLD INFLUENCES ON WEATHER HAVE BEEN UNDERSTUDIED TO DATE, PARTICULARLY FOR SMALL TO MID-SIZED CITIES. OF PARTICULAR SOCIETAL CONCERN ARE THE VULNERABILITIES OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS TO VARIOUS FORMS OF SEVERE WEATHER. ALTHOUGH PRIOR RESEARCH HAS EVALUATED STORM MODIFICATION BY URBAN AREAS FOR SPECIFIC CITIES, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF HOW THE SIZE, SHAPE, CONFIGURATION, AND COMPLEXITY OF CITIES AND ADJACENT LANDS AFFECT STORMS AND ASSOCIATED METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA. THE US GREAT PLAINS OFFER AN EXCELLENT NATURAL LABORATORY TO INVESTIGATE THESE RELATIONSHIPS: IT EXPERIENCES FREQUENT SEVERE WEATHER AND INCLUDES CITIES IN A WIDE VARIETY OF SHAPES AND SIZES THAT ARE RELATIVELY ISOLATED FROM ONE ANOTHER AMIDST A MATRIX OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USES WITH MINIMAL TERRAIN EFFECTS. THIS PROJECT EXPLORES THE HYPOTHESIS THAT STORMS OF A CERTAIN SIZE AND INTENSITY RESPOND TO THE VARIOUS AND VARIABLE BIOGEOPHYSICAL IMPRINTS OF THE URBANIZED AREA, AND DEPEND ON CITY SIZE, SHAPE, ACTIVITY, AND ON THE LANDSCAPE MATRIX THAT EMBEDS THE URBANIZED AREA. WE EXAMINE THE ROLES OF THE PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF URBANIZED AREAS THROUGH THE FOLLOWING SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS: Q1. DOES CITY SIZE AFFECT STORM INITIATION, DEMISE, TRACK, OR INTENSITY? Q2. DOES CITY SHAPE AFFECT STORM INITIATION, DEMISE, TRACK, OR INTENSITY? Q3. DOES THE URBAN DOME AIR POLLUTION STATE AFFECT STORM INITIATION, DEMISE, TRACK, OR INTENSITY? Q4. CAN EFFECTIVE THRESHOLDS BE DETERMINED FOR VARIOUS FOR SIZE, SHAPE, AND POLLUTION STATES? IF SO, HOW DO THEY VARY ALONG ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS? Q5. HOW CAN THE CONCEPT OF LAND ARCHITECTURE SERVE TO BRIDGE BIOGEOSCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE ON URBAN REGIONS WITH THOSE ARISING FROM PLANNING AND DESIGN OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE? WE ADDRESS THESE QUESTIONS USING A COMBINATION OF: (I) MESOSCALE AND CONVECTIVE-SCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODELS WITH URBAN CANOPY AND ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY SUBMODELS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF URBAN POLLUTION AND FORM; (II) DIVERSE SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING DATA (E.G., MODIS, VIIRS, OMI, TM/ETM+, ASTER, AND ORBVIEW-3) AND GROUND LEVEL OBSERVATIONS (NEXRAD WEATHER RADAR, WEATHER STATIONS, US EPA AIR POLLUTION MONITORING NETWORKS, AND PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVERS) TO CONDUCT STATISTICAL ANALYSES LINKING SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS IN THE LANDSCAPE AND CITY WITH STORM CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOR; AND (III) STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH SCIENTISTS, PLANNERS, AND DESIGNERS TO DEVELOP A MULTI-SCALE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF URBAN DYNAMICS THAT FACILITATES PRODUCTIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THESE GROUPS. OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM SPANS MULTIPLE FIELDS INCLUDING TERRESTRIAL AND ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, URBAN AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING, AND METEOROLOGICAL MODELING AND WILL SYNTHESIZE THESE RESULTS TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF URBAN SIZE AND FORM ON ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA IN THE US GREAT PLAINS.
  • $2,760 - Wednesday the 22nd of February 2012
    Veterans Affairs Department
    438-SIOUX FALLS VA MEDICAL CENTER
    TUITION FOR NNEI/EISP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
  • $22,696 - Monday the 30th of July 2012
    Department Of Army
    W071 ENDIST OMAHA
    CIVIL - SALARY
  • $1,988 - Monday the 1st of October 2012
    Veterans Affairs Department
    568-VA BLACK HILLS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
    CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE PHARMACISTS FOR THE V ABLACK HILLS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
  • $182,984 - Tuesday the 20th of December 2011
    Veterans Affairs Department
    568-VA BLACK HILLS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
    CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE PHARMACISTS FOR THE V ABLACK HILLS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

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