This $189,514 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will establish a collaborative partnership among three Southern EPSCoR jurisdictions - Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana - to advance education, scientific research, and workforce development in data science and related fields. The project, led by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) with participation from Alabama A&M University, Mississippi State...
The University of Alabama received a $233,318 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund collaborative research to extend tree-ring based reconstructions of Atlantic Gulf Basin hydroclimate over the Common Era using old-growth sinker wood. Researchers will collect samples from old-growth bald cypress and longleaf pine trees harvested in the late 19th and...
This $113,389 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of Alabama from February 2022 to January 2025 to develop integrated drought management strategies for the Upper Colorado River Basin. The research team will evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of droughts on agricultural and urban communities under current water management practices. They will also develop and assess alternative drought...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $477,000.00 in funding to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to support 15 EPSCoR Graduate Fellows over a 3-year period from July 2025 to June 2028. The grant aims to increase the number of STEM Ph.D. graduates at UAH across six signature research areas: astronomy & astrophysics, heliophysics & low-temperature plasmas,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $227,474 Project Grant to the University of Alabama from October 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds a collaborative proposal titled "Scaling Climate, Connectivity, and Communities in Streams" that will deliver research services to promote progress in the biological sciences. Specifically, the award supports work to increase scientific knowledge and enhance...
The University of Alabama in Huntsville will receive $505,313 from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "CAREER: Integrating Resilience and Social Vulnerability into the Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems" from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2027. The project aims to develop new models and metrics for assessing infrastructure resilience that integrate social vulnerability factors. This will allow...
The University of Alabama was awarded a two-year, $264,390 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 utilizing elaborated situational judgment tests to improve employee selection processes and enhance workplace training efforts. Specifically, the University will develop new selection tools and training curricula focused on...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $194,928 to the University of Alabama from January 2023 through December 2024. The funding will support collaboration between the University of Alabama and the Water Tower Institute to develop methods for characterizing extractable organic fluorine and closing the fluorine mass balance in potable water reuse scenarios. Specifically, the grant will establish scholarly partnerships to...
The University of Alabama received a three-year, $342,355 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program. The university will develop new magnetorheological emulsion formulations and investigate their properties to dissipate energy more efficiently at lower magnetic field strengths. Researchers will determine the key parameters governing emulsion-based magnetorheological fluid performance, visualize their magnetized structures, and establish a theoretical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $376,120 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GCR: SCALING-UP TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION THROUGH SOCIO-AGROCLIMATOLOGY" to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The grant, funded through the NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program, supports research to develop a new "socio-agroclimatology" approach linking social processes that influence farmer management choices with land-atmosphere interactions and...
The University of Alabama was awarded a $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The grant will support the development of a graduate training program focused on improving hydrologic forecasting and decision-making through research translation and operational partnerships. The program aims to train 115 Masters and PhD students over five years, including 28 funded trainees, in disciplines such as civil engineering, geography, and computer science. Trainees will gain expertise in hydrologic science, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning techniques while collaborating directly with operational forecasting partners. The goal is to accelerate research advances in data-driven hydrologic modeling and predictive tools, as well as improve communication of forecast products to support water resource management and hazard response decision-making.