Cooperative Agreement NR193A750025C009

This $490,026.87 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey program (CFDA 10.903) supports research to investigate and extend the applicability of digital soil mapping in urban environments. The award to Iowa State University of Science and Technology, a land-grant research university, has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2027. The project aims to advance the understanding and practical...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903) to the University of Florida. The purpose of this 3-year award, with a project period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, is to develop a transformative framework that integrates new digital soil property (DSP) data, historic soil survey data, and environmental covariates to characterize and predict...

The Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has awarded a $600,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903) to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The award, effective July 29, 2024 through August 31, 2028, will support the "Development and Testing of New Methods for Permafrost Tundra Characterization and Integration into DSP Framework." This cooperative research project aims to advance soil science...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC. The purpose of the award is to extend the generalizability and improve the accuracy and precision of the company's "SubTerra Green" system, a mobile soil laboratory that uses visible/near-infrared spectroscopic probes to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.903 - Soil Survey) provides $499,925 to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to create an index of susceptibility to flooding for urban soil carbon, nutrients, and heavy metals. The project aims to inform the USDA's soil survey activities. The award period runs from September 2024 to September 2027. As a sub-award under this grant, the University of Texas at...

This $499,997 Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.903 - Soil Survey) will fund a 5-year project to enhance the characterization of dynamic soil moisture and subsurface hydrology using the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM). The awardee, The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (doing business as Suny ESF), will conduct this research at locations across the United...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Survey Program (CFDA 10.903) provides $499,643.00 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to develop a quantitative photography method for documenting and assessing root-fungi in the field as potential biological indicators of soil health. The award will be used over the project period from Sep 15, 2024 to Sep 30, 2027 to research innovative soil...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $499,841.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903). The award will support research to leverage historic National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) and special project sampling by revisiting sampling locations to provide a 70-year time series. This research aims to examine changes and variability in dynamic soil...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903) provides $299,837.00 to Colorado State University to explore the assessment and use of infiltrometers for estimating the entire infiltration curve across a range of soil properties and moisture conditions. The award period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The project aims to advance soil science...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey program (CFDA 10.903) provides $450,000 in funding to the University of Missouri System to capture fire as a critical driver of ecosystem structure and process in state-and-transition models in an area where research on fire behavior and effects is less than other portions of the country. The project, which runs from September 19, 2024 through June 30,...