The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $224,505 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants. The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, aims to develop a novel computational framework that combines physics-based models and data-driven machine learning approaches to enhance understanding of contaminant transport and risk analysis in heterogeneous groundwater aquifers. The proposed work leverages...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $275,832 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to conduct research titled "Collaborative Research: Generation of Rock Damage and Localization of Seismicity Before Large Earthquakes." The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and concluding August 31, 2024, will fund research into strengthening the understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in geosciences, as part...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $786,162 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant will support collaborative research to develop capacity for planning and adapting to riverbank erosion and its consequences in the Yukon River Basin. Specifically, the University of Southern California will work with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $196,357 project grant to Columbia University for research titled "Collaborative Research: Socio-Economic Patterns, Public Perceptions, and Climate Vulnerabilities of Water Resources and Quality." The three-year award, issued on December 1, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2024, will fund research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This...
The University of Southern California will receive $200,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on flexible network inference from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The goal of this three-year project grant award is to advance the scientific understanding of major problems in network analysis through flexible modeling approaches. As part of the work, the University will leverage its...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $188,975 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 fund collaborative research on "Honest and Robust Inference with High Dimensional Data" from July 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to support basic research and education in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $135,001 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support collaborative research on anthropogenic water management, climate change, and environmental sustainability in the Southwestern United States. The three-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 examining the interrelationships between human water usage, climate...
This $235,137 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities supports participation in a multi-country research initiative on sustainable conjunctive management of soil and groundwater resources. The award funds a U.S. research team contribution to a larger collaborative project selected through the Belmont Forum, a consortium representing over 55 countries focused on global environmental change challenges. The research will involve seven...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $175,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The two-year grant will support the university's research project titled "CRII: III: KNOWLEDGE GRAPH COMPLETION WITH TRANSFERABLE REPRESENTATION LEARNING" from October 2021 through September 2023. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and...