The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $437,238 Project Grant to the University of Illinois to support research into the mechanisms and variability of tropical cyclone formation under upper-tropospheric influence from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The award is being administered under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and understanding...
The University of Idaho will receive $344,599 under a Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "Exploring the Tempo of Exhumation and Relief Development to Investigate Mantle-to-Surface Connections Around the Yellowstone Hotspot" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes by expanding knowledge of...
The Regents of the University of Idaho (University of Idaho) received a $208,292 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The two-year award will support collaborative research to advance understanding of landscape response to climate change through studying evolving Hawaiian landforms. The University of Idaho will examine landscapes across islands and rainfall gradients to quantify the...
The Regents of the University of Idaho was awarded a $156,022 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund a collaborative research project to perform millennial-length, multi-metric reconstructions of paleoclimates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion through July 2026. Researchers will generate quantitative wood anatomy chronologies from two tree species and produce regional...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $105,497 to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for collaborative research titled "Reconstructing Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Throughout the Southeastern United States." The award period is from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), which supports basic research in the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $258,774 Project Grant to Indiana University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant will support the collaborative research project "Reconstructing Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Throughout the Southeastern United States" or P2C2. As described under the Geosciences program, the funding will strengthen fundamental...
The National Science Foundation's Geosciences program has awarded a $332,982 Project Grant to the University of Illinois. The grant, awarded on November 15, 2023, will fund collaborative research to understand the links between tropical cyclones and tropical circulation under climate change. The research will leverage two idealized configurations of the Community Earth System Model to isolate the mechanisms by which changes in atmospheric overturning cells, such as the Hadley and Walker Cells,...
Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) was awarded a $221,003 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on March 15, 2021 to complete a collaborative research project by February 29, 2024. The research project aims to study the relationship between El Niño-Southern Oscillation diversity and tropical cyclones using a hierarchy of climate models. This work will strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system, in alignment with the goals of the NSF's Geosciences...
This $529,671 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, supports research at the University of Arizona to comprehensively assess the processes governing over-ocean tropical cyclone weakening. The project aims to advance fundamental understanding of hurricanes that weaken while still over the ocean, rather than intensifying, in order to improve forecasting of these events and mitigate risks to vulnerable coastal populations. Key activities...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of Idaho to enhance water budget simulations across the continental United States. The key objectives are to model vegetation's uptake of rock moisture and evaluate its impact on water budget dynamics, with the goal of improving predictions of water availability and environmental resilience. This collaborative two-year project...