Cooperative Agreement NR223A750025C013

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (CFDA 15.810), provides $602,976 to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) for a 2-year project period from September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2026. The key objectives of this award are to: 1) create standardized digital geologic map databases from legacy analog geologic maps covering regions of Alaska...

This $499,348 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil Survey Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.903) will support The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York in establishing and evaluating a spatiotemporal DSP modeling framework that leverages modern multi-source data inputs and reports uncertainties associated with model and field-based dynamic soil property estimates. The project...

Project Grant Summary: Alaska BLM Data Rescue Project The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Financial Support & Services, received a $240,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. The Alaska Division of Geological Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) will digitize and preserve a collection of over 30 pallets of undigitized Bureau of...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) received a $690,084 project grant from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (CFDA 15.814). The grant will fund two key activities over a 3-year period from July 2024 to June 2027: Hyperspectral scanning of 7,000 core boxes from the Geologic Materials Center to preserve and improve accessibility to critical mineral and resource data. DGGS will...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a $438,322 Cooperative Agreement to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to contribute to the development of an urban soil health assessment framework that links digital soil property (DSP) data and soil health metrics, aligning with various ongoing NRCS initiatives. The project, with a performance period from September 3, 2024 to September 29, 2026, is funded under the...

This $1,575,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) will fund geologic mapping and mineral resource assessments in the Steese region of Alaska. The project will generate new geological data, including a geologic map, rock descriptions, chemical analyses, and age estimates for the targeted area. This information will be used to better understand the region's potential for critical mineral deposits, such as...

This $494,888 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902 Soil and Water Conservation) will leverage the NCSS SOLUS product at the University of Arizona to generate gridded soil hydraulic properties using ensembles of pedotransfer functions. The award will support technical assistance and scientific research to promote sustainable agriculture practices and help private landowners, conservation districts, and tribes...

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...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Colorado State University received a $957,085 Project Grant award (dated September 30, 2025) from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Open Data Standards program (CFDA 10.233) to develop TerraSCOPE, an integrated modeling and decision-support system for soil health management. The platform combines grower-reported data with scientific simulations and artificial intelligence algorithms to help agricultural producers, researchers, and...