This $413,487 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of the "SANDPIPER" community toolchain to advance geomorphology research from data acquisition to analysis. The key objectives are to: Design and implement an affordable, open-source hardware-firmware system for geomorphological data acquisition in labs globally. Establish a community-backed data standard to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $1,140,007 to develop the SANDPIPER community toolchain to support collaborative geomorphology research. The key products and services being delivered under this 4-year award, which begins on August 15, 2024, include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for uniform data acquisition in...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $417,746 to Texas A&M University to develop the SANDPIPER community toolchain. The key products and services delivered under this 4-year project include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for geomorphology data acquisition in laboratories worldwide. Establishing a community-backed data standard...
This $713,476 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 new computational methods to simulate and study the dynamic interplay between Earth's surface and interior processes. The grant enables the coupling of two widely used community software packages - ASPECT for modeling mantle dynamics and long-term tectonics, and LANDLAB for simulating surface processes. The...
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 $201,076 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering") aims to integrate two data systems, MacroStrat and Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments (SGP), to better link geochemical proxy records to crustal stratigraphic context. Key activities include: Connecting SGP sample data to MacroStrat's geologic units and columns Developing new web...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $317,272 will fund the development of new computational methods to simulate and advance the understanding of the dynamic interplay between the Earth's surface and interior processes. The principal awardee, the University of Colorado, will couple two widely used community codes - ASPECT (originally for simulating mantle dynamics) and LANDLAB (for modeling surface processes) - to enable...
This $193,783 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, under CFDA 47.070, supports the development of new computational methods to simulate and advance the understanding of the dynamic interplay between Earth's surface and interior processes. The award enables the coupling of two widely used community codes - ASPECT for modeling mantle dynamics and long-term tectonic processes, and LANDLAB for simulating...
This $850,370 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will enable the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to develop collaborative digital workflows to integrate field and laboratory data for the Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions (SZ4D) research community. The project will enhance the existing Strabo Spot data system to facilitate collaborative data collection, analysis, and knowledge sharing among geoscientists studying...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $306,062 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research from April 2022 through March 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of cohesive sediment transport through multiscale experiments and numerical simulations. Specifically, the university will combine nano- to microscale imaging and molecular dynamics simulations, micro- to mesoscale millifluidic experiments and...
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 open-source hardware-firmware system for geomorphological data acquisition in labs worldwide.
Establishing a community-backed data standard to promote and simplify data sharing among researchers.
Developing a flexible and interoperable data analysis software library to mitigate algorithm drift.
Creating science museum exhibits and an interactive web interface to advance science and technology education in geomorphology.
This award aims to break down silos between experimental, observational, and modeling approaches in geomorphology research by providing a unifying cyberinfrastructure framework. The project team is led by the University of Colorado, a prominent public research university with extensive federal research contracts and grants across scientific and technological domains.