Project Grant 2411034

Award Date 8/15/24
Completion Date 7/31/28
Dollars Obligated $418K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
College Station, TX 77843, USA
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  1. Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for geomorphology data acquisition in laboratories worldwide.

  2. Establishing a community-backed data standard to promote and simplify data sharing among geomorphology researchers.

  3. Developing a flexible and interoperable data analysis software library to integrate algorithms and mitigate "algorithm drift" across different research groups.

  4. Creating science museum exhibits and an interactive web interface to advance geomorphology and Earth science education for a broad public audience.

The goal of this project is to enable more collaborative research in geomorphology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy by breaking down silos between modeling, observational, and experimental approaches. The SANDPIPER toolchain is expected to have impacts on seemingly unrelated fields like dendrochronology, hydrology, and seismology as well.

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