Project Grant 2108354

This $1,599,793 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on the influence of community forestry on integrated socio-environmental systems. Funded under the Geosciences program, which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research, the grant will examine how community forestry impacts the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct analyses to link an agent-based model with an...

This two-year, $143,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program will fund postdoctoral research examining the long-term effects of socioeconomic activity on ecological stability. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kristina Douglass at Columbia University, the early career scientist will study the impacts of different small-scale foraging, herding and agricultural livelihood strategies on soil and vegetation diversity. By shifting...

This $500,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds the Developing New Strategies for Urban-Rural Systems Research Coordination Network (DISES-RCN) led by Iowa State University from August 2022 to January 2027. The DISES-RCN will establish an interdisciplinary network of researchers and stakeholders to address interconnected social, environmental, and technological challenges facing five metropolitan areas and their surrounding rural...

This $284,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to assess the adaptability of resilience models for hazards like hurricanes and wildfires. The project, led by Northern Illinois University (NIU), tests how resilience models can be adapted across multiple scales and communities. Key products include: Conducting public conferences, hazard mapping, and risk perception surveys to explore...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $149,983 to Baylor University to develop integrated modeling and visualization tools to assist rural gateway communities near U.S. national parks, such as Yellowstone, in long-term resilience planning. The project will create multisector dynamic (MSD) models to project future population, economic activity, land use, and infrastructure in...

This five-year, $721,211 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will support research at Colorado State University to develop more robust representations of sociotechnical transitions related to housing, well-being, and energy. The multidisciplinary team will conduct interviews and surveys to understand diverse stakeholder perceptions of well-being and social paradigms of change. They will represent the influence of networks and institutions in models...

This $1,599,825 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The award aims to advance scientific theories and models of land use forecasting by integrating diverse, multi-scale data into dynamic prediction models to inform sustainable land use plans and prevent biodiversity and ecosystem service loss. The research will co-design decision support tools with scientists and policymakers in...

This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a planning project to investigate how people can self-organize to better manage the use of natural resources. The project aims to build communities and networks that help maintain vital natural resources, focusing on native watershed habitat rehabilitation and maintenance in urban/rural settings. The research team will develop multi-site,...

This is a 2-year, $369,330 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The project aims to develop a geospatial land change model that can accurately simulate future urbanization patterns in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, despite population decline driven by economic and climate stressors in these regions. The key activities and deliverables under this award include: (1)...

This four-year, $799,960 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will assess the effects of human activity on the composition of tropical forests. The Florida Institute of Technology will examine how human impacts such as planting, cutting, burning of plants have potentially shaped rainforest ecosystems over extended periods. Alternative hypotheses around more recent intensive...