Project Grant 80NSSC22K1478

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) Program award of $160,000 supports a 2-year project to investigate how local Indigenous groups in the inland Southern California borderlands navigated contested spaces around peripheral mission satellite campuses known as asistencias or estancias. The project aims to illustrate the resilience of Indigenous communities and spectrums of resistance through an...

The Tulare Irrigation District in California was awarded a $520,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to develop an advanced online geographic information system (GIS) data management, modeling, and forecasting tool. This tool will elevate the efficiency of surface water and groundwater operations, enabling improved real-time water resource management in the region. The project aims to better...

This $344,113 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The project, titled "Management Strategies for Mega-Disturbances: Building Climate-Resilient Rangelands Amidst Fire, Grazing, and Ecological Invasion in California," will investigate how increased fire frequency, grazing, and invasive species impact rangeland vegetation and soil health. The University of Arizona...

This two-year, $217,923 National Science Foundation project grant funds collaborative research on human networks, sustainable development, and lived experience in a nonindustrial society. Led by researchers from multiple universities and tribal communities, the grantees will investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and quality of life over 800 years in the Southwestern United States. They will combine existing demographic, socioeconomic, health, and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $133,138 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funded the "VOICES OF INTEGRATING CULTURE IN THE EARTH SCIENCES" project from March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The project aimed to assess measures of identity, belonging, place, and security for workshop participants through surveys and interviews. San Francisco State University served as a sub-awardee to design the...

This two-year, $188,177 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the development of new techniques for mapping and monitoring plant drought stress using repeat hyperspectral data. The University of California, Santa Barbara will link detailed measurements of plant drought stress, water use, and water sources to remotely sensed data on plant water content. This will identify areas of drought resilience and vulnerability during an...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) in the amount of $237,361 provides funding to the University of California, Irvine for a 3-year research project focused on advancing predictive understanding of landscape evolution and erosion under changing climate conditions. The research aims to: (1) extract local geomorphic transport laws driving landscape evolution using large-scale experimental data and novel...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $199,574 to the Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation (HSU Foundation) to coordinate a series of planning events focused on interconnecting indigenous and western knowledge systems to advance the science and application of fire in ways that respect tribal sovereignty. The project will bring together the Karuk Tribe, Cal Poly Humboldt, and other partners to identify...

The University of Arizona, as the prime recipient of Cooperative Agreement G24AC00080 from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program, will execute a $349,400 research project titled "Atmospheric Rivers and Downslope Winds as Tollgates of Aridification in the Southwest: Impacts on Water Resources and Wildfire Management." The project aims to assess the long-term impacts of climate change on precipitation patterns,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $730,826 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to advance national-scale synthesis research on the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and biodiversity. The project will leverage UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to harmonize and analyze large-scale data resources needed for national-scale climate change...