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This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $299,837.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903). The award to Colorado State University will support research to explore the assessment and use of infiltrometers for estimating the entire infiltration curve across a range of soil properties and moisture conditions. The project aims to enhance understanding of soil characteristics and...

This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.903 Soil Survey) to the University of Florida will develop a transformative framework that integrates new digital soil property (DSP) data, historic soil survey data, and environmental covariates to characterize and predict changes in DSPs using Florida as a model system. The project will run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. As part of the Soil Survey...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903), provides $499,348.00 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to establish and evaluate a spatiotemporal DSP modeling framework that leverages modern multi-source data inputs and reports uncertainties associated with model and field-based dynamic soil property estimates. The project aims...

The National Resources Conservation Service awarded a $197,697 cooperative agreement to the University of Rhode Island from September 2022 through August 2025 under the Soil Survey program (CFDA 10.903). The agreement supports efforts to improve soil taxonomy and provide updated soils information to meet NRCS goals of enabling land use and management. As the prime awardee, URI will leverage its expertise in soil science research to enhance existing soil survey data and interpretations for use by...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $499,841.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903). The award will support research to leverage historic National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) and special project sampling by revisiting sampling locations to provide a 70-year time series. This research aims to examine changes and variability in dynamic soil...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903) provides $490,026.87 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to investigate and extend the applicability of digital soil mapping in urban environments. The award, with a performance period from Sep 28, 2024 to Dec 31, 2027, will support collaborative research to enhance understanding...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Program (CFDA 10.903) provides $271,305.00 to Iowa State University to assess microscopic-scale soil properties that regulate porosity, structure, and hydrologic function at representative ecological sites across the United States. The award, effective from September 11, 2024 through December 31, 2027, supports collaborative research to enhance...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.903 Soil Survey) provides $499,643 to the University of California, Davis to develop a quantitative photography method to document and assess root-fungi in the field that could serve as biological indicators of soil health. The award runs from September 15, 2024 to September 30, 2027. As a major research institution, UC Davis will leverage its comprehensive research...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded a $450,000 Cooperative Agreement to North Carolina State University under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903). The agreement, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 30, 2027, requires NC State to complete time-sensitive and project-specific soil sample analyses in their labs along with related research activities. The Cooperative Agreement supports the program's objectives of...

This $399,574 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903) is funding the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College to assess forested ecosystems and develop site, state, and transition models, as well as dynamic soil property models that drive them. The award, which runs from August 12, 2024 to September 30, 2027, supports collaborative...