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...
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 Division of Environmental Biology awarded The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees a $374,855 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The grant will support collaborative research on the interplay of nitrogen loading and ecosystem sustainability in threatened wetlands located in the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $250,000 to Stetson University, Inc. will establish a pilot green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) bioswale and associated hydrologic monitoring system at Veterans Memorial Park in the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The project aims to objectively test the field performance of GSI interventions for mitigating stormwater-based flooding and non-point nutrient load issues in the Indian River Lagoon watershed, a...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to identify promising treatment technologies for phosphorus (P) mitigation in the Everglades ecosystem of South Florida. The University of Florida (UF) is the prime awardee and will engage with stakeholders to understand their technological needs and perspectives, evaluate existing and emerging P-sorbing products and technologies, and develop...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $856,624 provides funding from January 2023 through December 2025 to support research entitled "Continental-Scale Determinants of Stream Solute Spatial and Temporal Patterns." The award is made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Florida will leverage a continental-scale dataset across the eastern United States to...
The University of Florida was awarded a $181,121 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund a research project titled "RAPID: TRACKING THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERED SYSTEM FAILURES ON NEARSHORE NUTRIENT LOADS AND HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS USING MULTIPLE STABLE ISOTOPES" from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The project will use...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $149,989 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to support work under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funding will support research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 aimed at improving aesthetic, social, water quality, and ecological values of urban watersheds. Specifically, the University of Georgia Research Foundation will conduct work to achieve...
This $749,908 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a comprehensive research study on the spatial dynamics of emerging chemical threats and their impacts on coastal communities in the Tampa Bay, Florida region. The project, led by the University of South Florida, aims to integrate social and environmental science approaches to provide a thorough assessment of human health risks, with a focus on subsistence fishers who may face...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded the University of South Florida a $1,499,759 cooperative agreement under the Geographic Programs - Gulf of Mexico Program (CFDA 66.475) to restore the health and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico by reducing runoff and nutrient discharges from an urban storm water pond into Tampa Bay. Funded activities include stakeholder outreach, installation of bio-infiltration systems, and experimental and modeling studies assessing reductions in runoff...