This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities and Directorate for Geosciences, totaling $200,000, supports the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) aim to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will deliver coordination network activities to improve disciplinary practices in past global change research from...
This $399,992 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of a comprehensive curriculum and training program to empower social science researchers to utilize geospatial data and cyberinfrastructure tools. The multidisciplinary project team at Purdue University will create five instructional modules covering the acquisition, analysis, and management of geospatial social...
This $912,722 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the Geospatial Sciences Alliance for International Women Faculty Advancement (GAIA) project. The project brings together the University of Northern Colorado and two STEM professional societies, the American Association of Geographers and the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, to identify and address systemic inequities in academic workplaces...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $397,999 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Clark Atlanta University to develop and implement new undergraduate geospatial research courses in the political science curriculum, incorporate geospatial data systems and/or data analytics modules in existing political science courses, and increase geospatial research and data analytics through faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects. The goal of this 3-year project...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $206,815 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the collaborative research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEOPATHS IN: DIG CAMP - DATA IN GEOSCIENCES: COLLABORATION AND MENTORING PROGRAM?TEAMING LATINX HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR DATA USE IN GEOSCIENC." The three-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will provide funding for the University of California,...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $213,433 to the University of Idaho to enhance the lead researcher's career trajectory in data science and geoinformatics. The primary objectives are to: Establish a reusable methodology for efficiently deploying data science in geoscience studies to accelerate scientific discoveries, with a focus on mineralogy. This will involve integrating existing software and...
This $148,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will enable the University of California Santa Cruz to modify the existing STRABOSPOT digital data system to develop a collaborative environment for researchers to collect and analyze geological data more efficiently. The project will create "group-level workflows" to facilitate collaborative research on subduction zones, a key focus area for the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four...
This $383,941 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) supports the development of a collaborative digital platform and research network focused on mapping the historical origins of residential segregation patterns in U.S. urban areas. The key objectives are to create an open-access digital database and GIS mapping resources that enable interdisciplinary research on the locational attainments and household-level...
This Project Grant award of $213,705 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) is supporting the development of an interoperable toolchain called "SANDPIPER" to enable collaborative research in geomorphology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy. The key products and services being delivered through this 4-year award, which runs from August 2024 to July 2028, include: Designing and implementing an affordable...
This $2,228,505 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a cloud-based, open, and collaborative cyberinfrastructure to enable data-driven exploration and modeling of urban data. The project aims to address two critical obstacles in urban computing: the lack of robust, well-engineered tools and open computing platforms, and the dispersed community of cross-disciplinary...