This $256,252 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research by the Aspen Global Change Institute to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic warming signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. The three-year project grant will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model, statistical learning techniques, and process-based hydrological modeling to analyze uncertainty and attribute changes in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $675,290 to Cornell University to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic warming signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Working in the headwaters of the Upper Colorado River Basin, the grantee will use an innovative modeling framework with a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling to assess the...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $899,544 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to leverage emergent climate model evaluation techniques to reduce uncertainty in regional climate change projections, particularly related to the water cycle. This 3-year project will focus on applying these methods to high-resolution climate model simulations of the western United...
This $397,337 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into the drivers and impacts of warm-season climate extremes in North America under a changing climate. The awardee, Northern Illinois University, will use high-resolution global climate modeling to examine how factors across various spatial scales influence extreme events like floods, heat waves and droughts. Researchers will simulate past and potential future warm seasons to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado (UC Boulder) to study the groundwater connection between melting glaciers and mountain streams under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The project will characterize two glaciated watersheds in Colorado and Montana, analyze relevant environmental data, and conduct numerical modeling to understand how glacier meltwater affects aquifer...
This $1,237,840 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under CFDA Program 47.078, will fund research by the University of Colorado to quantify climate variability and extremes over the past 100,000 years. The research team will use high-resolution measurements from ancient polar ice cores to statistically analyze changes in climate variability and the frequency of extreme events as the Earth's average climate has fluctuated over...
This three-year, $1,135,926 National Science Foundation project grant funds research to reconcile hydroclimate model projections and geologic data from a warmer period in the past to improve understanding of future water availability in the Southwestern United States. The awardee, Colorado State University, will collect new stable isotope data from sedimentary carbonates in New Mexico spanning the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum. Analysis of existing climate model simulations will differentiate...
This two-year, $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into the influence of critical zone water storage on forest drought vulnerability and transpiration fluxes across complex mountainous terrain in Colorado. The grantee will employ field investigations using seismic surveys and electrical resistivity tomography to gather data on belowground structure and water storage along hillslope transects in the Boulder Creek...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Wake Forest University from January 2023 through December 2024 to develop a modeling framework integrating vegetation phenology and dynamic water storage under drought conditions. Funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the research aims to better understand land-atmosphere interactions characterizing drought events in mountainous regions of Colorado. Specifically, the university will couple a land surface...