Cooperative Agreement NR223A750003C113

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $375,159 Cooperative Agreement to The Regents of the University of Colorado, under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program, to explore management practices that enhance carbon storage and biodiversity. The two-year project will identify areas that have undergone ecosystem transformation, quantify changes in carbon storage, and identify management practices that provide co-benefits such as increased carbon storage,...

This $318,666 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at Carleton College to evaluate carbon sequestration through enhanced weathering in agricultural soils. The three-year field trial will test the carbon removal efficiency and benefits to crops and soils from annual applications of crushed silicate minerals. The investigator will monitor experimental treatments including locally occurring crushed basalt and an industrial slag...

The U.S. Geological Survey, through its Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program, awarded a $386,408.49 Cooperative Agreement to Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to conduct research on carbon stocks and seagrass ecosystems within the Guam Naval Base. The project has four main objectives: 1) Assess above-ground and below-ground carbon stocks across various land cover and ecosystem types, including wetlands, grasses, and seagrass habitats; 2) Monitor seagrass extent,...

This $2,907,825 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) aims to develop and assess agricultural management practices that can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil health and water quality, and enhance the resilience of crop production to droughts caused by climate change. The project is a collaboration among Auburn University, New Mexico State University, and the University of Delaware, with the goal of...

This $500,000 fixed-amount Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will support Living Carbon PBC's research into bioengineered trees that can increase carbon drawdown and retention in terrestrial biomass. The two-year award, made under the Supporting Entrepreneurial Energy Discoveries (SEED) topic of FOA DE-FOA-0001954, will run from August 10, 2021 to August 9, 2023. ARPA-E's mission includes supporting the President's objectives for...

This $420,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) aims to quantify the fate of weathered carbon within an agricultural river system in Illinois. The research team at the University of Washington will measure how submerged plants and algae uptake bicarbonate and convert it back to CO2, as well as assess how seasonal changes impact the balance between carbon sequestration and re-emission from enhanced mineral weathering (EMW). This...

This $372,598 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to incorporate stream biogeochemistry into carbon assessment models for enhanced rock weathering, a carbon dioxide removal approach. The project aims to add biological processes like photosynthesis and respiration into a dynamic river network model to better quantify the fate of bicarbonate generated through enhanced rock weathering. This will help identify river...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to develop consistent, accurate, and transparent multi-scale methane emission measurements in the North-Central region's producing basins. The $20,000,000 award, granted to Colorado State University, will: Collect, validate, and disseminate point source to regional-scale methane emission inventories using...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046), provides funding to the Genesee Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council to develop and update regional climate mitigation plans to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction measures across the metropolitan area. Key activities include conducting a GHG inventory, establishing emissions reduction targets, identifying...

This $169,869 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of an intermediate complexity Earth system model to simulate the cycling of carbon dioxide and methane between vegetation, soils, the atmosphere, and oceans during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, approximately 56 million years ago. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will couple representations of the terrestrial and marine carbon cycles...