The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,850,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to develop a community sensing, planning, and learning infrastructure to support smart and safe prescribed burning for rangeland and wildland urban interface communities. The project integrates research on multi-scale sensing and data fusion, data-driven burn condition modeling, grassland...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $446,006 to Kansas State University from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2024. The funding supports the research project "Influence of Wildfire Risk Perception on Agricultural Land Management Decisions" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support development of a closed-loop sensing, modeling, and communications system to aid in wildfire detection, mapping, and prediction from July 2022 through June 2025. The system aims to leverage detailed 3D environmental models incorporating fuel, terrain, weather and other...
The federal Project Grant award for $282,070.00 was issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). The award was made to Kansas State University (KSU) on July 12, 2024, with a performance period ending on June 9, 2029. Through this grant, KSU will provide specialized research, education, and extension services focused on wildfire prevention, control, and management across...
The U.S. Forest Service awarded a $151,400 Project Grant to Kansas State University through the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). The grant supports projects that assist with the control of rural fires, prevention and suppression of fires on non-federal forest lands, and the development and transfer of new fire management technologies. Key activities funded include hazardous fuels reduction, community wildfire protection planning, fire prevention...
This $297,813 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research to advance the predictive understanding of wildfire ignitions in the western United States. The project establishes new collaborations between Boise State University, the Universities Space Research Association, and NASA Ames Research Center to analyze the biophysical, social, and management factors associated with different wildfire ignition...
This $370,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville to improve understanding of wildfire behavior in heterogeneous fuel mixtures from July 2022 to June 2025. The research aims to identify key physical and chemical processes controlling ignition and spread of fire in mixtures of living and dead fuels through controlled experiments and computational simulations. Lasers and other...
This $279,480.00 Project Grant was awarded on June 28, 2023 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). The funding will support Kansas State University in conducting activities related to the prevention, control, suppression, and prescribed use of fires on non-federal forest lands and other non-federal lands in the state of Kansas over the period of performance from June...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports research into wildland fire observation, management, and evacuation systems. With $144,967 in funding, the award will develop intelligent collaborative flying and ground systems to aid in monitoring, responding to, and evacuating areas threatened by wildfires. The awardee is the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, operating through its National Center for Atmospheric Research facility in Boulder, Colorado....
The Ohio State University received a three-year Project Grant award of $872,967 from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from January 2022 through December 2025 on integrating autonomous unmanned aircraft systems into wildland fire management. As part of the award, The Ohio State University will collaborate with partners to advance the development and testing of technologies enabling...