The Long Beach Research Foundation of California State University received a $244,349 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources. Under the award, the Foundation will...
This $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project titled "Expanding Geoarchaeology Opportunities for Underrepresented Students through Multiproxy Investigations of Human-Environmental Dynamics." The project aims to expand training opportunities for students in archaeological field and laboratory methods, with a focus on removing barriers that limit...
The National Science Foundation awarded $147,370 to the Long Beach Research Foundation California State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024. The Project Grant funding will support the development of a civic digital commons and digital rights platform to empower Long Beach, California residents with transparency and control regarding the collection and use of their personal data from smart...
This $227,192 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation, supports research to unravel spatiotemporal deformation patterns in the Basin and Range and Walker Lane provinces. The award aims to combine geochronology methods and scaffolded peer-peer student mentoring to better understand how tectonic plates interact by moving towards each other (convergent), moving away from...
This $268,585 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075) supports long-term research examining human-environment interactions along the Pacific Coast. The research team from the University of Nevada, Reno will conduct archaeological surveys and excavations, radiocarbon dating, and stable isotope analysis of marine shells and fish remains to develop a chronology of coastal occupation and paleoenvironmental change over...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $399,975 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) funds research to identify "bright spots" of improving ecological conditions and human resilience, as well as "hot spots" of land degradation and human vulnerability. The project integrates household surveys, community-level interviews, and drone-derived imagery to understand...
This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at East Carolina University's Coastal Studies Institute. Over three years, the project will engage undergraduate researchers from diverse backgrounds in team-based research investigating coastal resilience challenges across communities in the face of climate change impacts like sea level rise and extreme...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $199,718 project grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside for research related to "PROCESSES INFLUENCING STABILIZATION IN THE FORMATION OF STATES." The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and will support research through June 30, 2025. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $338,649 Project Grant to Columbia University on April 1, 2021 for a research experience program titled "REU SITE: BEYOND BASIC SCIENCE ? CONNECTING CLIMATE TO COMMUNITIES." The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. Under the award, Columbia University will operate a Research Experiences for...
This $1,599,937 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of California, Davis and Humboldt State University from July 2021 through June 2026. The grant funds ecological and social science research to develop a socio-environmental systems framework for informing coastal habitat restoration decisions under climate change. At UC Davis, the grant supports coordination of scuba diving research at multiple northern...