Cooperative Agreement W9126G1720040

This $141,318 National Science Foundation award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest cities in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 sq km of the urban landscape, making it the largest such subsurface survey ever performed in the Americas for an archaeological site. This near-total geophysical survey of the subsurface will...

This $313,226 National Science Foundation project grant will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest cities in the United States through non-invasive archaeological techniques. The awardee, Colorado State University, will perform high-resolution magnetometry surveys covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map buried archaeological features across the entire urban landscape. This will be the largest such geophysical survey ever conducted in the Americas on...

This five-year, $475,451 National Science Foundation project grant in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research examining how topography preserves details of the seismic cycle. The principal investigator will develop computational landscape simulations under varying tectonic and climatic conditions to identify topographic signatures of the seismic cycle. They will then assess whether these signatures are recognizable in natural landscapes with independent constraints on seismic...

This $138,559 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of machine learning methods to automatically detect archaeological features of varying sizes as well as anthropogenic landscape modifications in light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data from tropical regions. Awarded on August 1, 2022 to the University of Nebraska with a completion date of July 31, 2024, this grant falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). An...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $128,099 to Cornell University from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026 to develop a 3D virtual model of the Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) archaeological site at Pompeii. The project will use excavation data, lidar scanning, and 3D-GIS to construct a detailed virtual model of the Pompeian house and garden as they existed in 79 CE. This will...

This $170,710 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund collaborative research by Bryn Mawr College to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest urban centers in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map archaeological features below the surface. This will be the largest such survey ever performed in the...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $348,190 to Vanderbilt University over a three-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The project, titled "GEOPACHA 2.0: LARGE-SCALE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGERY SURVEY THROUGH HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING," will revise Vanderbilt's existing web application "GEOPACHA: Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History, and Archaeology" to enable...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $246,347 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, which runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, will fund the development of an expansive, public-facing website to reconstruct the demography and topography of the Greek Orthodox communities in late Ottoman Istanbul during the 19th and 20th centuries. The project will...

This $191,559 Project Grant Award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will enable Arizona State University to continue developing and operating the OpenTopography (OT) cyberinfrastructure platform. The OT platform provides web-based access to comprehensive topographic data from technologies like LiDAR, along with processing tools and educational resources. This award will advance the platform's capabilities to support new AI and ML use cases, facilitate...

This three-year, $399,376 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the development of the Metapolis digital research infrastructure platform at Harvard University. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, Metapolis aims to spatially reconstruct historical places through archival sources. As an interactive map-based publication platform, it will enable users to cross-reference archival, bibliographic and multimedia sources with...