Cooperative Agreement G17AC00354

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded a $133,333 Project Grant to Mountain Studies Institute Inc. under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). The grant will fund the organization's Bridging Mountains: Enhancing Equitable Environmental Education for Southwest Colorado program from April 2023 through April 2025. As the primary recipient, Mountain Studies Institute will implement environmental education activities in 15-20 schools across eight communities in...

Lehigh University has received a three-year, $290,936 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research between Lehigh University and Mongolian researchers to better understand the coupling between solid earth and atmospheric processes through studying the uplift history of the Altai Mountains in Central Asia. Researchers will use weather modeling to predict changes in...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (doing business as the University of Colorado) on May 15, 2024. The 5-year project will synthesize 40 years of research and monitoring data from the Loch Vale watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park to interpret the impacts of climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on alpine and subalpine...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $379,230 Cooperative Agreement to Montana Technological University (Montana Tech) under the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (EARTH MRI) program (CFDA 15.073). The 3-year project, running from September 2024 to August 2027, will conduct geologic mapping, geochemical sampling, and critical mineral resource assessments in the Basin District and Boulder Batholith region of southwestern Montana. Key deliverables include geologic maps at 1:48,000 and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $414,744 to Colorado State University from September 2022 through August 2025 to investigate past, present, and future glaciated alpine landscapes using integrated data and modeling. The award supports developing detailed modern and paleo glaciological datasets from the Teton Range in Wyoming and integrating them into a state-of-the-art glacier model (PyG2D) to simulate past and ongoing glacier...

This $205,015 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey will support research on the influence of paraglacial processes on rock slope stability in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Funded through the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), the University of Utah will conduct field characterization of rock slope materials and conditions. Researchers will use these data to parameterize thermo-hydro-mechanical models simulating progressive rock mass failure over time during...

This Project Grant award of $180,000 was issued by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to a researcher at Mount Pleasant, MI. The grant aims to develop methods for automatically detecting landslides and other erosion on former mountaintop removal coal mining sites in Central Appalachia. The project will leverage LiDAR data to observe erosion and deposition processes at a regional scale, train deep learning models for automated geomorphic mapping, and conduct...

This $129,997 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports two primary objectives: Providing tools and assisting with data collection and management of snowpack data for water resource planning for the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. This includes deploying a hydroclimatic automated weather station and using uncrewed aerial systems to collect high-resolution snowpack data, which will be integrated and...

The US Geological Survey awarded a $375,000 cooperative agreement to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 under the U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808). The award will support geologic mapping and geochemical sampling of the La Plata Mountains area in Colorado to collect data on areas with potential critical mineral resources. Key deliverables include new 1:24,000 scale geologic maps of four quadrangles in...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) provides $1,340,879.80 to Mountain Hydrology LLC to conduct a 3-year project focused on improving snow monitoring and water supply forecasting in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Conducting annual spring airborne LiDAR snow surveys over 10 watersheds in the Wind River Range to...