Project Grant 2137410

This three-year, $482,571 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will fund collaborative research between Columbia University, the University of Alberta, and the University of Toronto to understand the impacts of extreme climate events on Arctic Indigenous peoples. The research team, led by Columbia University, will analyze archival materials, oral histories, and tree ring data to identify...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will fund research at Penn State University from February 2022 to January 2023 to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food assistance use in urban Alaska. Through an innovative methodology using mobile phone data and spatial analysis, the research team will evaluate links between social and demographic variables and food pantry access. This will help identify "food insecurity hotspots" with...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $299,817 project grant to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. to conduct collaborative research from November 2021 through October 2024. The research aims to improve understanding of how amplified Arctic warming may influence extreme weather patterns in midlatitudes, as supported by the NSF Polar Programs CFDA #47.078. This program seeks to strengthen polar research and understanding through basic science best...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) funded remote ethnographic research on the rural Alaskan housing crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded February 1, 2021 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for completion by January 31, 2022, this grant directly supported an ethnographic study by the awardee to strengthen understanding of fundamental issues in polar regions. A $200k sub-award to the Cold Climate Housing...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $598,206 to support a multi-day conference titled "Enhancing Arctic Science and Engineering (EASE) Workshop." The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host the workshop from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 to bring together participants from agencies, universities, non-profits, private sector, local officials, students, and Indigenous...

This $288,835 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities will fund a collaborative research project titled "Arctic, Climate, and Earthquakes (ACE): Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Arctic Infrastructure and Social Systems amid Changing Climate." The award will support research and education activities over a five-year period from January 2023 through December 2027. The project aims to improve understanding of how Arctic changes impact...

This $204,278 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support research by the University of Chicago to investigate how Arctic sea ice attenuation affects ocean swell, microseisms, and the potential to use seismology as a method for observing sea ice conditions. The key activities include: Analyzing seismic data from stations along the northern coasts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland to detect seasonal and annual changes in microseisms as a...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $726,093 to Boise State University for collaborative research on interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic. Beginning January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026, Boise State will conduct ethnographic research at the University of Lapland's Arctic Centre through a $XXX,XXX...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $640,041 to President and Fellows of Harvard College to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of vulnerable service sector workers. The key products and services include: Harmonizing and integrating a large-scale survey dataset of over 200,000 service sector workers with data on workplace environments, regulatory policies, and economic conditions. This will...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $447,754 from the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program aims to explore infrastructure interdependencies in the rapidly changing Arctic region. The project, led by the University of Texas at Austin, involves an interdisciplinary team that will integrate systems engineering, organizational sciences, civil engineering, and public health approaches to map critical infrastructure services (CIS) interdependencies in three Alaskan hub...