This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $552,632 provides funding from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025 to support the research project "Defining the Paleoclimate-Fire Relationship in CA Across Temporal Scales Through Integrated Monitoring, Stalagmite Studies, and Proxy System Modeling." The award is made under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support basic research expanding understanding of the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the University of...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $444,727 will fund research to define the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales through integrated monitoring, stalagmite studies, and proxy system modeling. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support four key objectives from August 2022 to July 2025. First, the grantee will develop a process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers through cave monitoring. Second, they...
This three-year, $473,885 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research defining the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales. The award supports four objectives: 1) Monitoring three karst systems to develop process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers; 2) Building a multi-proxy karst system model linking said proxies to environmental drivers; 3) Developing comparable proxy records from ten...
This $178,567 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research defining the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales. The Ohio State University will conduct integrated monitoring of karst systems, develop stalagmite proxy records, and build a karst system model linking hydroclimate and fire proxies to environmental drivers. Researchers will analyze ten stalagmites defining latitudinal and coastal-Sierra Nevada transects...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $270,278 to the University of Rhode Island will support research to better understand the long-term relationship between climate and fire activity in the eastern United States. The project aims to analyze sediment records spanning the Holocene (last ~12,000 years) to compare historical fire and climate patterns prior to significant human impacts. This empirical data will be used to quantify...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $556,655 Project Grant under its Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Auburn University for the research project "Collaborative Research: Resolving Past Fire-Climate Relationships to Understand Future Fire Potential in the Eastern United States." The project aims to better understand the long-term fire-climate relationships in the Eastern United States through the analysis of paleofire records spanning the Holocene period (last ~12,000...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $201,625 Project Grant to Bates College under the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to research the relationship between fire and climate in the Eastern United States. The project aims to better understand long-term fire-climate dynamics in the region and inform climate adaptation efforts related to wildfire risk. Key activities include developing and analyzing Holocene-era paleoclimate data to characterize regional fire patterns prior...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $889,209 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to advance wildfire science, prediction, and management using machine learning. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a large new public dataset of fire-related environmental observations to support large-scale machine learning and reproducible research on wildfire spread modeling. Advancing innovative...
This $202,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a postdoctoral research study to examine the large-scale climate dynamics associated with compound heat wave and wildfire events in the western United States. The award, effective December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2026, will fund a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles and Penn State University under the mentorship of Professors Alex Hall and Colin...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $1.6 million supports research at the University of California, Davis under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from October 2022 through March 2027. The award will fund research to advance understanding of feedbacks governing decentralized water resource systems in California's Central Valley through data-driven approaches. Specifically, the University of California, Davis will characterize decision-making relationships and quantify...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $627,539 will fund research to define the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales through integrated monitoring, stalagmite studies, and proxy system modeling. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support four key objectives from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025.
First, the researchers will develop a process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers through cave monitoring. Second, they will build a multi-proxy karst system model linking these proxies to environmental drivers. Third, they will develop comparable proxy records from ten stalagmites across California transects. Fourth, they will produce quantitative climate and fire reconstructions for the past 70,000 years through proxy-model comparisons.
The University of California, Davis will oversee the work, training a diverse group of early career scientists. Insights gained from this research could inform future climate modeling efforts focused on the drivers of hydroclimate change and fire activity in the western United States.