This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $717,769 to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to enhance climate change resilience in Indigenous communities in New Mexico and Oklahoma. The project will establish partnerships between UNM, tribal organizations, and the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center to braid Western and Indigenous climate science approaches. Key activities include: Identifying...
This $148,019 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program aims to address the impacts of climate change on tribal nations' agroecosystems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Collaborative evaluation of the feasibility and effects of wastewater gardens as an adaptation strategy to mitigate the impacts of drought and other extreme climate threats on culturally...
This $1,382,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance quality and climate-resilient water management in three U.S. regions - the Lakota tribe in South Dakota, the Navajo tribe in New Mexico, and flood-prone farming communities in Vermont. The "Advancing Quality and Climate-Resilient Water Management with Community Partnerships and Enhanced Sensor Network (AQUA-CLIME)" project will create a...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to establish a climate change research network to help the Lakota Tribe, Navajo Tribe, and Vermont farming communities manage water quality and quantity issues caused by climate change. The $236,472 award to New Mexico State University, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support the creation of an integrated data science framework, a network of affordable water...
The University of Oklahoma, through its Office of Research Administration, was awarded a $159,645 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (NRCASC) program. The project aims to improve an existing drought prediction model for Oklahoma Climate Division 8 (South-Central Oklahoma), which covers part of the Chickasaw Nation's territory. Key activities include conducting a sensitivity...
This Cooperative Agreement award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The $1,133,122 award supports a collaborative research project focused on harnessing controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to enhance food security, nutritional quality, and climate resilience in tribal communities across New Mexico, Wyoming, and South Dakota. The project is a partnership among the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University,...
This Project Grant award of $305,340 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides support for U.S. researchers participating in a multinational, transdisciplinary research project on the biocultural adaptation of resource management traditions under the effects of climate change. The project aims to investigate how indigenous ecological knowledge can provide resilience, mitigation, and adaptation strategies to address climate change impacts. The research will...
This $358,842 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program supports a collaborative research project led by New Mexico State University to harness controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to enhance food security, nutrition, and climate resilience in tribal communities across three EPSCoR jurisdictions. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) characterize how the environment, plants, and microbes interact in hydroponic...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The total award amount is $1,377,954.00, with a project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The award, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RII FEC: ADVANCING QUALITY AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT WATER MANAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND ENHANCED SENSOR NETWORK," aims to develop intelligent and affordable systems to monitor water...
This $1,060,678 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will fund a collaborative research project focused on advancing controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to enhance food security and climate resilience for tribal communities across three EPSCoR jurisdictions. The project team, led by the University of Wyoming, includes researchers from community colleges, universities, and tribal organizations in New Mexico,...