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This $358,332 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project to develop improved communication strategies for delivering actionable snow avalanche information to decision makers in Alaska. The project, conducted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, seeks to establish new connections between the fields of communication, actionable science, and natural hazards. The research...

PROJECT APEX is a teacher training program funded under the American History and Civics Education (CFDA 84.422) program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The $2.87 million project grant, awarded on October 1, 2025, supports professional development seminars for social studies teachers serving grades K-12. The program, operated by Wilderness Education Project, Corp, is part of the broader AHC National Activities - Seminars initiative...

This $129,997 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports two primary objectives: Providing tools and assisting with data collection and management of snowpack data for water resource planning for the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. This includes deploying a hydroclimatic automated weather station and using uncrewed aerial systems to collect high-resolution snowpack data, which will be integrated and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings awarded Boston College $100,000 on July 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to design and develop an educational framework linking undergraduate and middle school students through a hyper-local rainfall sensor network deployed across three cities in two states in the US Northeast. The project integrates the Engineering for One Planet framework with place-based learning to...

The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded $448,074 to Trustees of The Colorado School Of Mines on August 1, 2026, for a CAREER grant to advance understanding of historical and projected changes in Western U.S. snowpack variability. The recipient will develop a spatially distributed ensemble snow dataset covering the Western U.S. from 1950 to present using state-of-the-art modeling approaches including high-resolution unstructured mesh simulations and lateral snow...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded Wyoming Department of Transportation a $472,450 Project Grant on October 24, 2025, under the Technology and Innovation Deployment Program (CFDA 20.227) to design, deploy, and implement an avalanche detection system for the Daniel Junction-Hoback Junction corridor on U.S. Routes 189/191. The project, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2028, represents a demonstration initiative to advance highway safety...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Colorado Boulder received a $934,240 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2029. This award supports a research-practice partnership between the university and the Weld RE-4 School District in Colorado to develop and test an improvement-oriented curriculum adoption...

This two-year, $574,545 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at Dartmouth College to improve understanding of snowpack deformation and avalanche initiation. The Engineering Directorate award will support experiments and micromechanical modeling to observe the behavior of snow and ice lenses under load. Researchers will deform snow and layered snow-ice specimens in a cold room using micro computed tomography to resolve how differences in grain size, type, and density influence...

BSCS Science Learning, in partnership with NatureBridge and the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), will conduct a comprehensive research synthesis study examining the impacts of outdoor and nature-based environmental education programs on educator and youth participant outcomes over a thirty-year period (1994–2024). The project, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $281,037 to develop online and classroom training materials for careers in the weather, water and climate industry. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Research Application Lab will collaborate with private industry subject matter experts and atmospheric science...