The University of South Florida received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2022. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), which aims to enhance STEM competitiveness through capacity building and broadening participation in research and education. The grant funds the "NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK E: LINKING THE GREEN ECONOMY TO THE BLUE ECONOMY AT...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities provided $749,688 under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to Stony Brook University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The grant funded the "NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK E: RECONFIGURING URBAN SHORELINES FOR RESILIENCE: CONVERGENCE RESEARCH MESHING ECOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE" project. This project conducted research at the convergence of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities provides $739,184 to Tulane University for collaborative research under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The research aims to design a sustainable agricultural production system through convergence research using a multi-scale ecosystems approach. Tulane will work with sub-awardees the University of North Carolina at Wilmington ($55,278) and Mesoamerican Development...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $166,475 to the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (Tulane University) provides funding for collaborative research to explore the unique properties of highly branched, polyhydroxylated polymeric compounds and their potential utility for advanced dielectric applications. The principal investigators, Dr. Scott Grayson of Tulane University and Dr. Sergei Nazarenko of the University of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $749,997 to Rutgers, The State University for the project "NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK E: REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS TO ENABLE EQUITABLE OCEAN PLANNING FOR THE BLUE ECONOMY." The funding period is from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Through this award and sub-awards to The Nature Conservancy, the University of Connecticut, the University of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $749,997 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The grant will fund a project titled "NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK I: A TALE OF TWO CITIES OPTIMIZING CIRCULARITY FROM MOLECULES TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT." The project aims to advance circular economy principles in Atlanta, GA and Pittsburgh, PA by developing interconnected circular models for waste...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) provided $966,750 to The Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund (Tulane University), a private university in New Orleans, Louisiana, to acquire an X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) instrument. The XPS instrument will enable researchers at Tulane and other universities in the Greater New Orleans area, including Xavier University of Louisiana, to study the chemistry of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program grant, totaling $167,361, will fund a collaborative research project to improve the ability to distinguish between marine and terrestrial sediments in coastal wetlands. The project will employ a multi-proxy approach, including X-ray fluorescence analysis, textural analysis, palynological analysis, and radioisotopic dating, to establish elemental signatures that can discriminate between storm surge and fluvial...
The West Virginia University Research Corporation received a $686,462 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The award will support the NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK E: DATA INTERFACING OF HUMAN USE, CULTURE, ECONOMICS, AND ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE BLUE ECONOMY FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS project. This project aims...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of South Carolina (USC) to develop a comprehensive system for predicting, assessing, and mitigating storm-induced contamination of freshwater systems. The project, titled "NSF Convergence Accelerator Track K: COMPASS - Comprehensive Prediction, Assessment, and Equitable Solutions for Storm-Induced Contamination of Freshwater...