Project Grant 2123405

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Oklahoma a $778,913 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GCR: CAN IMPROVED ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING ACCELERATE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION IN URBAN LIGHTING?" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026. The grant supports the provision of research services focused on testing theories of sustainability transformations...

This $749,628 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research to advance community-centered, sociotechnical innovation to strengthen urban infrastructure in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan region. The project will engage communities, municipalities, and energy utilities to co-design carbon-neutral energy infrastructure solutions that leverage distributed solar energy and battery storage...

This five-year, $622,775 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's National Center for Atmospheric Research to generate actionable climate intervention scenarios. The research team will advance the scientific understanding of portfolio approaches combining mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management strategies to limit global warming to 1.5...

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 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Agreement award under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program will assess the economic and ecological costs and benefits of urban tree planting and mortality in socially vulnerable neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina. Key activities include: Assessing Durham's urban canopy and modeling ecosystem services provided Modeling optimal urban tree planting strategies to maximize economic returns and...

This Project Grant award of $499,522 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the Urban Biodiversity Futures Research Coordination Network (UBF RCN). The UBF RCN brings together scholars and practitioners to address the interlinked challenges of biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and social justice in urban areas. Key objectives include synthesizing knowledge, building a transdisciplinary research agenda, and training the next...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program award of $295,683 to the University of Oklahoma, awarded on January 1, 2024, supports the development of an integrated urban building energy modeling framework. The objective is to enhance the predictive understanding of city-level building energy use across the U.S. in response to various local and regional meteorological conditions. The project will integrate multi-scale, long-term urban meteorological predictions and...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to improve understanding of how forest structure and function influence "ecological climate" - the climate experienced by organisms within forest canopies. The $424,492 project, running from August 2024 to July 2028, will integrate data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) into advanced forest canopy models to evaluate how forest diversity...

ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys Across Marine LTER Sites The University of California Santa Cruz received a $211,440 Project Grant awarded on September 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), Division of Ocean Sciences, to conduct collaborative research on seabird community responses to changing ocean conditions. The project, titled "ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys at Three Marine Long-Term Ecological Research...