The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $586,313 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University located in Piscataway, New Jersey. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "Collaborative Research: Oligohaline Dispersion: Transport Processes at the Estuary-Tidal River Transition" under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This project aims to quantify tidal dispersion and identify the underlying mechanisms driving transport...
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey received a $102,894 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "EMPOWERING STUDENTS TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: A CASE STUDY IN POST-GLACIAL PER" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024....
This $399,843 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a collaborative research project to study the transformation of soil minerals in estuarine wetlands. The primary awardee is Rutgers, The State University, which will partner with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority to conduct field studies in the New Jersey Meadowlands. The research aims to improve understanding of how estuarine water chemistry affects the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $508,608 to Rutgers, The State University for collaborative research titled "Tidally Rectified Flows in Multiple Inlet/Lagoon Systems: Consequences for Transport and Residence Times." The research will study shallow lagoon systems with multiple inlets using idealized and realistic numerical modeling combined with field observations. Focusing on...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $225,000 to Rutgers, The State University to develop middleware and prototypes that enable the seamless federation of commercial cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The project will investigate advanced resource management approaches to integrate data-driven methods with computational simulations for improved sea-level rise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Rutgers, The State University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The grant supports a civic innovation project that pilots solutions to assist low-resource urban residents in adapting to increasing heat stress and local air pollution, both outdoors and indoors. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: 1) Deploying a...
This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, supports modeling of intergovernmental fiscal impacts from coastal hazards in New Jersey. Rutgers, The State University will collect 20 years of property tax, municipal budget, and state/federal spending data to develop a fiscal impact model and behavioral model through surveys and focus groups. An agent-based...
This $2,646,047 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is developing a national integrated watershed evaluation framework to improve water resource management. The framework will bring together diverse hydrologic datasets and provide tools for advanced model evaluation and exploration of watershed conditions. The project, led by Princeton University, will engage a diverse community...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded William Paterson University of New Jersey a $292,640 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining socio-economic patterns, public perceptions, and climate vulnerabilities of water resources and quality. In line with the program's goals of strengthening basic research in the social, behavioral and...
This Project Grant award of $255,493 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a 4-year collaborative research project titled "Known Rivers: Creating Justice-Centered Water Literacy Along the Lower Mississippi River." The University of Arizona, working with a network of public charter schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, will engage approximately 16 teachers and 640 students in grades 3-8 to develop and study the implementation...