Block Grant 2020WAAX0032

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $351,638 to Indiana University to conduct research exploring how to create enduring change in public behavior to support effective action to address climate change impacts on society. The research project consists of three studies over three years. The first study examines the impact of moral, ethical, and spiritual interventions on participant...

The University of Massachusetts received a $388,812 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers program (CFDA 15.820). The project, titled "Thermal Calendars to Inform Management in a Changing Climate," will develop data products and research papers to support natural resource management activities in the Northeastern U.S. in response to climate change impacts. Key project...

This $696,515 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research and outreach on variations in the pace of surface temperature change. The awardee, University of California Santa Cruz, will conduct statistical analysis of global climate observations to identify regions and periods with accelerated warming rates over the past two centuries. Model simulations will determine the causes of detected changes and quantify future warming rates...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $626,036 to the University of Cincinnati to conduct research on the role of seasonality in abrupt climate change during the last ice age. The researchers will map and date glacial landforms in Maine to reconstruct the pattern and timing of recession of an ice cap that persisted in the region through the end of the last ice age. They will also...

This $599,998 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic climate change signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the project will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling. It aims to strengthen understanding of when and how much climate change...

This $649,008 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to infuse climate change curriculum into technology programs. The project, led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Queensborough Community College, seeks to develop 10 educational modules that will integrate climate change topics into existing mechanical and electrical engineering technology programs. Key objectives include...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $649,755 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the Trustees of Boston University. The grant will fund research from 2022 to 2025 to enhance understanding of the potential consequences of climate change for the economic health of U.S. farmers. Researchers will investigate how climate change impacts domestic crop yields through direct changes in meteorology as well as...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $220,480 to the University of Iowa to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on drought effects from 2022-2024. The University will analyze how much past climate change has exacerbated drought impacts on plant productivity during the 2012-2015 California drought and 2012 Midwest drought. Using remote sensing and climate modeling, the researchers will attribute changes...

This three-year, $109,644 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences aims to advance understanding of abrupt climate change through reconstructing fluctuations of a late-glacial ice mass in eastern North America. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the University of Arizona will lead efforts to determine the role of seasonality in abrupt climate shifts by mapping glacial landforms and dating the pattern and timing of recession for an ice cap...

This three-year, $846,782 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the effect of future climate change on severe convective storms. The awardee, the University of Washington, will combine self-organized maps and idealized storm-scale simulations to examine how severe thunderstorms and tornadoes may change in a warmer climate. Researchers will first use data-based methods with climate model simulations to understand...