Cooperative Agreement NA21NOS4290106

The University of Hawaii was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant, titled "ECHOES OF WAI (WATER): ORAL HISTORIES FROM MAUI," seeks to document the voices and experiences of Maui residents through 30 oral history interviews. Twenty interviews will focus on the Lahaina area affected by the August 2023 fires, and ten will cover the adjacent Central Maui...

This federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289). The $250,000 grant was awarded on July 1, 2025 to Waterfire Providence, a non-profit organization, to support their efforts in revitalizing the urban experience in Providence, Rhode Island through the WaterFire sculpture and event programming. The grant funding will enable Waterfire...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $369,530 will support Portland State University's efforts to build research capacity for collaborative, interdisciplinary study of water and society issues through 2025. The University will establish an interdisciplinary research collaboration between scholars in geography, environmental studies, applied linguistics, and anthropology focusing on themes of water values,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

This $2,040,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) supports the "Safe Water Together" program led by the Institute for Water and Health at Georgia Southern University. The program is designed to ensure sustainable and equitable access to safe water in coastal Georgia by engaging a network of community partners to address challenges from rapid growth,...

This two-year, $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into the influence of critical zone water storage on forest drought vulnerability and transpiration fluxes across complex mountainous terrain in Colorado. The grantee will employ field investigations using seismic surveys and electrical resistivity tomography to gather data on belowground structure and water storage along hillslope transects in the Boulder Creek...

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 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will support research to investigate the distribution and origin of water in coral skeletons. The $225,632 award to St. Olaf College, spanning 3 years from September 2024 to August 2027, aims to create 2D and 3D maps of water in lab-grown coral skeletons using nanoscale imaging techniques. The research will also test the ability of coral skeletons to retain water and determine whether the...