This two-year, $259,515 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will fund the development of deep learning models and tools to assess dynamic connectivity and nitrate removal efficacy across wetlandscapes. Awarded on January 15, 2023 to the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., the grant provides support for an assistant professor fellowship and graduate student training in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $499,696 to the Stroud Water Research Center Inc. to conduct collaborative research on nitrogen pollution removal processes in riparian soils and wetlands. Specifically, the award will fund an innovative study from July 2022 to June 2025 to identify the key soil conditions that regulate the balance between dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) project grant provides $268,516 to Kansas State University (KSU) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to study how changes in land cover and climate are impacting grassland water and carbon cycles below-ground. The project will: 1) quantify how woody encroachment alters soil water flow and groundwater; 2) measure the impact of woody encroachment on stream flow sources; 3) quantify changes in below-ground carbon...
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a $432,634 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant falls under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Through this four-year award beginning August 1, 2021, the University of Kansas and its parent institution will collaborate on research titled...
The National Science Foundation awarded $487,827 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to Kansas State University from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2027. The project grant will fund research and education activities to quantify and advance the understanding of nitrous oxide emissions from forage conservation processes. Specifically, the university will conduct integrated laboratory and field experiments to measure and study the mechanisms of nitrous oxide produced by microorganisms...
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year project will use the eastern Kansas River Basin as a case study to explore potential climate risks, adaptation strategies, environmental impacts, and socioeconomic consequences of a changing climate on the region's agricultural systems and...
This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at Pennsylvania State University to investigate how concurrent changes in climate and land cover, specifically the encroachment of woody vegetation into grasslands, impact below-ground water and carbon cycling processes. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify how woody encroachment alters soil water flow and storage; 2) measure the impact on groundwater and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Michigan Technological University to develop and test modeling approaches that quantify denitrification and nitrogen fixation in streams. The grant, which runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025, supports research to improve understanding of nitrogen cycling and removal in freshwater ecosystems. The project aims to create open-source models that can estimate denitrification rates in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will provide $260,103 from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030 to the University of Illinois to research nitrogen cycling in tile-drained Midwestern agricultural watersheds. The project aims to better understand the linkages between subsurface water storage, flow paths, and biogeochemical nitrogen cycling in order to quantify nitrogen source-sink dynamics and improve watershed nitrogen...
The University of Nebraska received a $492,056 Project Grant award from the US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes federal grant program (CFDA 15.805). The award will fund a research project titled "Nitrate Loading and Legacy Effects on Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling in Playa Wetlands of the High Plains" from February 7, 2023 through February 6, 2026. The project will conduct field studies and laboratory...