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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $148,959 to support the development of real-time data collection and downscaled climate risk models to improve water quality and sustain salt marshes in the Buzzards Bay watershed. Under the official federal grant program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $875,000 in funding to the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority (LCWSA) to implement a project for water and wastewater cybersecurity improvements. The activities to be performed include the replacement and upgrade of all existing communications equipment and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system hardware at...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil and Water Conservation program (CFDA 10.902) provides $225,833 in funding to the University of Connecticut to promote climate-smart conservation (CSC) practices among urban farmers, urban woodlot owners, and other underserved communities. The project will run from June 15, 2024 to December 31, 2027. As the prime awardee, the University of Connecticut will...

The Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service awarded a $220,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Farmers Conservation Alliance on September 20, 2021 through the Conservation Stewardship Program. Under this award, the Farmers Conservation Alliance will collaborate with various local, state, and federal entities through September 2026 to determine the feasibility of using various Natural Resources Conservation Service programs to support watershed plans or irrigation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant (CFDA 47.070) provides $172,848 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to investigate fundamental design trade-offs in a retro-reflective uplink enabled integrated sensing and communication with optical wireless (ISAC-OW) system for large-scale networks. The project will develop a cross-domain framework for the integrated design of efficient and scalable retro-reflective...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), through the Soil and Water Conservation program (CFDA 10.902), awarded a $279,819 Cooperative Agreement to the Wisconsin Wetlands Association Inc. (WWA) on August 1, 2024. The purpose of this agreement is for WWA, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Tribal Conservation Advisory Committee (WTCAC), to create educational videos that inform the audience about wetland conservation. The project has a final completion...

This $372,364 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development and deployment of the Multisensor Agile Adaptive Sampling (MAAS) cyberinfrastructure at Stony Brook University. The MAAS cyberinfrastructure aims to enhance the capabilities of existing atmospheric observation radar systems to better study rapidly evolving weather and climate phenomena. This 3-year...

This $116,850 three-year Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at Arizona State University to develop physical layer security techniques for protecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communication systems. The project will focus on four key areas: 1) creating RIS signal watermarking and...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW), a non-profit organization in Fort Collins, Colorado, a $270,170 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) on September 16, 2024. The grant funds will be used to complete 80% design plans for the restoration of Reach 16 on the lower Cache La Poudre River. The project aims to reconnect the river to its floodplain, reduce flooding risk, and enhance instream habitat....

This Cooperative Agreement award of $249,956 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) is for the COWNET facility, a set of mobile radars and instruments used to study a variety of societally impactful weather phenomena. The COWNET facility comprises two C-band radars (COW and MINI-COW), two X-band radars (RAPID SCAN DOW and CROW-X), and a network of 4 mobile vehicles with meteorological instrumentation. This facility, located at the...