This Project Grant award of $397,498 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to identify the impact of irrigation on the movement of water through urban landscapes across different climates, spatial scales, and time periods. The project, titled "EMBRACE-EAR-GROWTH: Evaluating the Scale-Dependent Impacts of Irrigation and Water Limitations on Ecohydrological Functioning of Urban Landscapes," will use targeted field research,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to strengthen urban stormwater infrastructure and improve water quality management in Chicago. The project leverages citizen science approaches to collect hydrological data and engage the public, while also developing a training program to prepare the next generation of engineers, scientists, and advocates to address challenges in...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $273,286 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences on January 15, 2022 to complete the project by December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research on concentration-ratio-discharge relationships of transient water-age distributions under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanding fundamental knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $415,098 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from February 2022 to January 2027 related to climate-driven risks to the urban environment through hybrid modeling and adaptation strategies. Specifically, the University of Illinois will utilize hybrid modeling approaches to better understand climate change impacts on urban areas and identify strategies for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $101,087 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Illinois for a collaborative research project titled "Ultra-High Resolution Paleostreamflow in Southeast Asia--Proxy/Model Comparison". The goal of this 2-year project, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, is to synthesize existing tree-ring proxy data to create a seasonal-resolution paleo-streamflow reconstruction for...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $249,987 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning." The goal of the research is to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, Earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, this Project Grant will fund the...
This Project Grant award for $260,103 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Illinois. The primary objective is to better understand the linkages between subsurface storage, flow path variations, and biogeochemical nitrogen cycling in tile-drained Midwestern agricultural watersheds. The research will integrate water age data and nitrate isotope analysis to quantify nitrogen source-sink strength and mass balance. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $1,499,981 to Villanova University to develop innovative real-time monitoring and AI-driven models to support sustainable management of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) systems in urban environments. The project aims to integrate engineering, computer science, urban planning, and social science to enable effective, accurate, and culturally responsive GSI operations. A sub-award of...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to enhance the resilience of groundwater resources in major U.S. agricultural regions through a participatory planning approach. The project team at Southern Illinois University, with sub-awards to Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska, will develop an AI-based modeling system to empower farming communities in addressing groundwater depletion and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $254,976 Project Grant to Resbonds International Corporation through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a digital platform for assessing water quality at urban-watershed interfaces. The platform will integrate physical data from advanced monitoring systems with artificial intelligence to serve as a scalable analytics platform using environmental, economic, and social data. It aims to help cities and utilities finance infrastructure projects...