The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to investigate distributed machine learning for climate modeling and weather forecasting. Through this EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award, UMass will leverage existing testbeds, including the CASA radar network, to support the development of a National Discovery Cloud for Climate...
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth received a $149,314 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2022 to support research activities concluding on February 28, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to integrate land and sea approaches for building coastal resilience and ecosystem services within sustainable urban-rural systems. As the prime awardee, UMass Dartmouth will leverage the funding...
This $372,364 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development and deployment of the Multisensor Agile Adaptive Sampling (MAAS) cyberinfrastructure at Stony Brook University. The MAAS cyberinfrastructure aims to enhance the capabilities of existing atmospheric observation radar systems to better study rapidly evolving weather and climate phenomena. This 3-year...
This $2,495,019 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development and deployment of a smart, cloud-connected electrochemical sensor network to monitor drinking water quality in several socioeconomically diverse Massachusetts communities. The University of Massachusetts Lowell will work with community stakeholders and sub-awardees Loyola University Chicago, the Young Women's...
This $999,668 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaboration between the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to create a "cybercollaboratory" that will integrate cyber infrastructure (CI) expertise with environmental science research. The key...
This $500,000 Project Grant was awarded on February 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The project, titled "RAISE: CHIRRP: CENTERING EQUITY IN COASTAL COMMUNITY CLIMATE RESILIENCE", will work with coastal communities in California to produce research and adaptation strategies that address resiliency in the face of increasing coastal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Virginia. The grant supports the development of new physics-guided graph network models to capture complex, non-stationary, and poorly observed water dynamics in freshwater ecosystems. Key innovations include new graph-based architectures, continual learning strategies, and model initialization methods that leverage...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). The award supports the development and prototyping of decision support and monitoring tools for managing saltwater intrusion and salinity in tidal rivers, which are critical water sources for drinking, power generation, irrigation, and industrial use. The project aims to...
This $499,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the impacts of climate change on coastal communities in an urban environment. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (August 2024 - July 2027) include: Analysis of the alignment between water infrastructure, policies, and practices with emerging climate and environmental challenges such as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $523,014 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to develop computational models of global carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from inland waters. The research aims to provide robust, physically-constrained estimates of CO2 emissions from rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs by coupling hydrologic and hydraulic routing systems with a stream network CO2 model. The project will validate the...