The University of Florida received a $107,801 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on August 15, 2021 to support research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports the development of disciplinary knowledge guided big spatial structured models for geoscience applications through July 31, 2022. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Florida (UF) aims to develop an integrated GeoAI toolset for identifying locations and drivers of pond collapse in coastal salt marshes using high-resolution remote sensing imagery. The main goals are to build a high-resolution marsh feature database, enable detection of pond collapse, support new geomorphology research, provide a weakly supervised learning framework...
This $162,243 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to advance predictive understanding of landscape evolution and erosional extremes under changing climatic conditions. The key objectives are to: (1) extract local geomorphic transport laws driving landscape evolution using large-scale experimental data and novel physics-informed artificial intelligence methods; (2)...
The University of Florida was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The grant will support research from September 2021 through August 2024 titled "ATD: NEW ALGORITHMS FOR INFERENCE AND PREDICTIONS ON LARGE GEOSPATIAL DATASETS." The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $712,258 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to acquire an integrated LiDAR and hyperspectral sensing system. The goal is to capture and integrate visible and invisible data using this new sensing system, which will be mounted on drones, robots, and ground vehicles. This will enable researchers to monitor and analyze structural and environmental changes over time...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Florida Atlantic University under the CFDA Program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" with a period of performance from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The grant supports a collaborative research project to develop a new framework for "Open-World and Streaming Network (OWSN) Learning" that can effectively process and model evolving graph data from applications like hydrology,...
The University of Florida was awarded a $331,244 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from October 2021 through September 2023 to develop novel biologically inspired methods for analyzing multilayer networks. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research, cyberinfrastructure development, and related...
This $1,324,092 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Florida International University (FIU), establishes the South Florida Coastal Environmental Data and Modeling Center. The center will focus on developing AI/ML techniques for understanding and predicting key processes affecting coastal environments in Southeast Florida, with an emphasis on addressing challenges like flood damage, sea-level rise, urban flooding, water quality, and...
The University of Florida was awarded a three-year, $285,458 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research on combined waves and currents over multi-scale topography, from boundary layer dynamics to parameterization. As outlined in the program description, the Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $253,946 Project Grant to the University of Florida (UF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to enhance the accessibility of novel geostatistical inversion workflows for cryosphere research. The project aims to create freely available geostatistics software with novel methods for combining physical and statistical information to enable fast, scalable simulations that account for spatial and physical constraints. This software will be...