Project Grant 2345296
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,948 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The grant, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, will support research examining the ecological impacts of the 2023 Lahaina, Maui wildfire on nearby coral reef ecosystems. The project employs a "before-after control-impact" design to compare affected and unaffected reefs, focusing on the effects of runoff containing...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program Project Grant award of $200,000 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa supports an urgent data collection effort for wildfire modeling research related to the Lahaina Fire on Maui. The grant aims to leverage various data sources, including social media and timestamped photos, and apply AI-enhanced methods for data gathering, processing, and integration to advance understanding of fire propagation...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The grant funds a rapid response study to assess the impacts of a recent wildfire disaster in Lahaina, West Maui, Hawaii. The research team will collect field data on water quality, sediment fluxes, and soil/ash samples to document the post-wildfire runoff dynamics, sedimentation, and contaminant transport in the coastal urban...
- This $850,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to characterize the effects of ash deposition from terrestrial wildfires on tropical coral reef ecosystems. The project, led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, aims to expand understanding of how wildfire disturbances impact nutrient cycling and microbial communities in coral reef environments. The award will fund research activities over a 3-year period from...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $270,278 to the University of Rhode Island will support research to better understand the long-term relationship between climate and fire activity in the eastern United States. The project aims to analyze sediment records spanning the Holocene (last ~12,000 years) to compare historical fire and climate patterns prior to significant human impacts. This empirical data will be used to quantify...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award of $200,000 provides funding to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa to enhance capacity and facilitate an equitable response to water contamination issues resulting from the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii in August 2023. The project will leverage prior work on water contamination response and community collaborations to: Develop innovative approaches to predict and detect the extent and distribution of...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the NSF Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will support a $366,958 research project at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to study the impacts of smoke particles and lofted dust from the 2019-2020 "Black Summer" wildfires in Australia on mixed-phase clouds over the Southern Ocean. The project aims to improve understanding of key aerosol-cloud interaction processes that influence weather, climate, and air quality....
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Office of Research Administration. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will support a research project to characterize and understand smoke transport from the 2023 Hawaii wildfires using geostationary satellite observations and numerical modeling. Key objectives include: 1) quantifying the characteristics and temporal...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $290,165 to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa will support a collaborative research project to improve subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) forecasting of extreme hydrometeorological events and their impacts in Hawaii. The project aims to deepen the understanding of intraseasonal climate variability in the central Pacific and develop an S2S forecast system for events like heavy rainfall, flooding,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to gain predictive understanding of the physical processes driving rapid wildfire spread and associated smoke transport. The $108,519 award to the University of Oklahoma will support research to analyze non-modal instability and large-scale turbulent flows in fire-generated smoke plumes. This work will help guide firefighters to more safely and effectively suppress wildfires by improving...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $168,845 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa aims to advance the understanding of the subseasonal-to-seasonal variability of wildfires in Hawaii and improve the accuracy of long-term wildfire forecasting. The research will use a combination of historical data and reanalysis techniques to quantify the variability of wildfires and fire weather in Hawaii, and identify the climatic factors contributing to longer-term fire risk. Additionally, a forecasting platform will be developed to predict wildfire potential at the subseasonal-to-seasonal scale using state-of-the-art numerical models. The results are expected to provide new insights into the mechanisms driving wildfires in Hawaii and a framework for improved emergency response planning. The award period is from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $168.8k | 9/11/23 |