Project Grant 1832195

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $131,882 to support coordination of the Belmont Forum's Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. The University of Colorado Boulder, through its Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub, will coordinate activities and provide organizational support for 15 international, transdisciplinary research teams examining...

This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a regional sustainable systems research network focused on food and water systems in the Washington D.C. region. Over an 11-month period ending January 2023, Georgetown University will work with academic, industry, government and non-profit partners to lay the groundwork for a collaborative network that maps challenges, envisions sustainable...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,472,016 Cooperative Agreement to develop a Water-Energy Nexus Open Knowledge Network (WEN-OKN) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The WEN-OKN project aims to interconnect currently siloed water and energy data across multiple federal agencies, including USGS, NOAA, DOE, EPA, FEMA, DOT, NASA, and USACE, into a densely interconnected knowledge graph. This will enable improved understanding and...

This $1.5 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will fund the development of a climate-resilient and sustainable food production system utilizing controlled environment hydroponic agriculture with novel wastewater treatment and reuse technologies. Led by Clemson University in collaboration with universities in South Korea, the award will support five key activities over a two-year period from January 2023 to December...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation project grant, awarded to Purdue University, aims to develop approaches for the joint operation of coupled municipal drinking water and electric power distribution networks. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: Developing operational planning and real-time control strategies for these coupled water-power networks under uncertainty. Designing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $176,259.00 to the University of Virginia to support the development of a community partnership addressing food, energy, and water (FEW) security concerns in rural Alaska. The one-year planning project will involve the PI team meeting with community members virtually and in-person to build trust, discuss local FEW security challenges, and explore issues such as infrastructure, the built...

This $235,137 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities supports participation in a multi-country research initiative on sustainable conjunctive management of soil and groundwater resources. The award funds a U.S. research team contribution to a larger collaborative project selected through the Belmont Forum, a consortium representing over 55 countries focused on global environmental change challenges. The research will involve seven...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...

This $749,628 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research to advance community-centered, sociotechnical innovation to strengthen urban infrastructure in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan region. The project will engage communities, municipalities, and energy utilities to co-design carbon-neutral energy infrastructure solutions that leverage distributed solar energy and battery storage...