San Diego State University Foundation was awarded a $200,095 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support research into heat and inequality from September 2021 through August 2024 with the place of performance in San Diego, California. As described in the program description, this grant contributes to basic research and education in the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $339,176 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Colorado Boulder on August 15, 2022 for work completing July 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining response and resilience to compound extreme climate events within pastoral systems, with a focus on droughts, floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts. The University of Colorado will lead interdisciplinary work analyzing how...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $399,975 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) funds research to identify "bright spots" of improving ecological conditions and human resilience, as well as "hot spots" of land degradation and human vulnerability. The project integrates household surveys, community-level interviews, and drone-derived imagery to understand...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences provides $294,998 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from September 2021 through August 2025. The funding supports the development of a framework to predict hydrologic processes at continental scales under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $752,656 Project Grant under its Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation. This 4-year award from September 2023 to August 2027 will expand the AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) partnership between SDSU, University of California Irvine, and two Hispanic-Serving Institutions. The project will scale up existing AI research and education programs at...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $198,970 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from December 2021 through November 2022. The grant supports research titled "RAPID: Interactive Effects of Wildfire and Severe Drought on Plants, Soil Microbes and C Storage in a Semi-arid Shrubland Ecosystem." The research will examine how wildfires and drought impact plants, soil microbes, and carbon storage in shrubland...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $108,757 to the San Diego State University Foundation will support a collaborative research project investigating long-term changes in prehistoric human foraging, mobility patterns, and population dynamics in response to environmental change during the later Pleistocene. The project will analyze new archaeological data and leverage agent-based computer simulation modeling to...
The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering awarded $359,029 to San Diego State University Research Foundation under Project Grant CFDA 47.079 for collaborative research titled "Sustainable Water Infrastructure for Adapting to Coastal Climate Change." The three-year award running from June 2021 through May 2024 will support development of sustainable water infrastructure solutions to adapt to effects of coastal climate change in the San Diego region....
San Diego State University Foundation, doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation, received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an agile decision support system for resilient operational planning of the electricity grid under wildfire risk. The two-year project aims to quantify individual power line wildfire ignition risk using differentiable programming accounting for meteorological...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $395,261 project grant from the National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support the project "Asking Different Questions in Climate Change Science, Impact, Mitigation and Adaptation" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The project aims to advance understanding of climate change issues by...