Cooperative Agreement NNX10AD30A

This five-year, $622,775 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's National Center for Atmospheric Research to generate actionable climate intervention scenarios. The research team will advance the scientific understanding of portfolio approaches combining mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management strategies to limit global warming to 1.5...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, under the International Science & Engineering program (CFDA 47.079), provides $1,499,365 to Clark University to co-create research and education capacities addressing climate change impacts and inequities in central Mexico. The project will develop an open-source GIS/remote sensing-based climate atlas mapping social, environmental, and climate conditions. It will also...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $126,270 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that will advance the monitoring and understanding of forest carbon dynamics in the Earth system. The 3-year project aims to: Create cross-platform and cross-region learning frameworks to enable fine-scale carbon dynamics monitoring at large geographic scales. Develop high-fidelity fast...

This $649,008 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to infuse climate change curriculum into technology programs. The project, led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Queensborough Community College, seeks to develop 10 educational modules that will integrate climate change topics into existing mechanical and electrical engineering technology programs. Key objectives include...

This five-year, $224,915 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities' Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research exploring combined climate intervention strategies for stakeholder use. A team of experts from climate science, engineering, behavioral science and ecology at Louisiana State University will advance the state of science on climate intervention scenarios that keep warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius. The researchers will...

This $1,499,999 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will establish the ACCELNET-ACCORD network to advance climate change research and adaptation in the Andes mountain region. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year award include: Developing a new, comprehensive Andean climate database and observational network to improve understanding of Andean mountain climate dynamics, extreme events,...

This three-year, $511,918 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds research to develop a new framework for advancing climate model representations of cloud and convective processes. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct fully-coupled, isotope-enabled climate simulations for the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene, and Pre-Industrial periods using an ensemble of cloud and convective parameter sets. Paleoclimate data assimilation will...

This $449,885 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program aims to design, implement, and test climate science and history professional learning materials and experiences for high school teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The University of California, Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will work with a team of scientists, historians, and educators to co-develop curricular planning tools and lesson plans to help teachers integrate...

This Project Grant award of $891,928 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a 3-year research project led by Carnegie Mellon University to improve the understanding of global aerosol concentrations and composition. The key objectives are to: 1) Build a global network of embassy partners and stakeholders to enable worldwide data analysis and interpretation; 2) Quantify concentrations and trends of major aerosol components at over 15 embassy locations...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $449,321 is supporting the development of a mathematically rigorous method to create AI-based stable and physically consistent global atmospheric models. The objective is to create AI-based climate emulators that can reliably perform both short-term forecasting and long-term climate modeling at a fraction of the computational cost of current physics-based models. Key innovations include...