Cooperative Agreement NA13NES4400005

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities and Directorate for Geosciences, totaling $200,000, supports the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) aim to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will deliver coordination network activities to improve disciplinary practices in past global change research from...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $623,273 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to prototype the Tephra Information Portal (TIP), a sustainable framework for enabling fair, open, and accessible data practices within the Earth science research community. The project aims to improve data curation, integration, sharing, and discovery by developing a centralized platform that aggregates previously...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure provides $159,341 to support the Alexandria Archive Institute in developing interoperable data systems and best practices for the geoscience community. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award period is from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. Specifically, the Institute will improve the interoperability and reproducibility of...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.431) will provide $200,000 to develop an end-to-end data management system for Arctic research data. Key project components include: A data submission system and metadata upload/edit tool to streamline data archival and ensure FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) compliance for Arctic research data. A...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,199,999 in funding to Iseechange Inc. to develop a real-time community-in-the-loop platform for improved urban flood forecasting and management. The project aims to transform flood management tools by combining community insights with artificial intelligence to generate hyper-local data on flood dynamics, impacts, and root causes....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $710,411 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to build an inclusive geoscience community through accessible, reusable, and reproducible scientific workflows. This project builds upon the Pangeo and Project Pythia community-driven open geoscience efforts to reduce barriers to scientific progress. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing,...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $955,837 to the University of Maryland, College Park for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EARTHCUBE CAPABILITIES: ICESPARK: AN OPEN-SOURCE BIG DATA PLATFORM FOR SCIENCE DISCOVERIES IN THE NEW ARCTIC AND BEYOND." The award supports the Geosciences program under the CFDA number 47.050, which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded...

This $652,363 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports capacity building and engagement activities for U.S. scientists conducting global change research through Future Earth. Future Earth will provide strategic communications, publications like the award-winning Anthropocene magazine, and convenings like the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress to connect the global scientific community studying sustainability...

Iseechange Inc. was awarded a $274,381 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an integrated methodology for using residents' experiences with flood and other climate change events to validate modeling in real time. Under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, Iseechange will create a community knowledge platform to process user-generated text and photo data submitted by residents on flood occurrences and severity. This platform will analyze the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $747,051 to establish the SANDPIPER framework, a community toolchain to support geomorphology research from data acquisition to analysis. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware-firmware system for uniform data acquisition in geomorphology labs globally. Developing a...