This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $105,435, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award will fund a collaborative research project between Central Michigan University and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) titled "GP-UP: Short-Term Immersive Experience for Atmospheric Science Undergraduates for Retention and Community-Building." The primary goal of the project is to address the critical...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to investigate the cognitive processes that underlie how students and experts reason about complex atmospheric processes, including the prediction of extreme weather events. The $203,017 award to Towson University aims to 1) contribute to cognitive science by developing new theories of human reasoning about fluid phenomena, 2) understand how atmospheric science...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $400,676 Project Grant titled "REU SITE: STUDENT TRAINING IN OCEANOGRAPHY, REMOTE SENSING, AND METEOROLOGY (STORM)" to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This 3-year grant, awarded under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a 10-week summer research program to train 30 undergraduate students (10 per year) in oceanography, remote sensing, and meteorology. Students will conduct...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $424,952 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to study the connections between tropical heating, planetary-scale stationary waves, and extratropical storm track activity. The study, to be conducted by two Ph.D. students at Stony Brook University, aims to demonstrate how tropical deep convection and variations in zonal mean temperature gradients influence the behavior of extratropical...
This three-year, $251,073 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development and testing of an approach to adapt weather curriculum materials for middle school students with disabilities. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research will establish a team of local STEM educators, content specialists in atmospheric sciences, special educators, and individuals with disabilities working in STEM fields. This team will support student...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $281,037 to develop online and classroom training materials for careers in the weather, water and climate industry. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Research Application Lab will collaborate with private industry subject matter experts and atmospheric science...
Central Michigan University was awarded a $190,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to enhance understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under this three-year award running from August 2021 through July 2024, Central Michigan University will conduct collaborative research on mesoscale air masses with high theta-e, also known as...
This Project Grant award of $499,715.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to increase student awareness, interest, and preparation for careers in the geosciences, a field projected to face a significant workforce shortage. The three-year project engages students from an urban two-year college in conducting authentic oceanographic research focused on assessing the health of the local marine ecosystem. Participants gain hands-on...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $495,364 to the University of South Florida to support an interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program focused on weather, climate, and society from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The funding supports a nine-week summer REU program that will engage 10 undergraduate students per year, with an emphasis on underrepresented groups, in mentored...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $750,167 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (UM) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support a longitudinal, mixed-methods study examining the impact of academic climate factors, such as authorship climate and the COVID-19 pandemic, on career outcomes and professional pathways for early-career STEM scholars, particularly those from marginalized groups. The study will build on prior survey...