This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $174,000 to fund research from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2024. The funding supports a study investigating the impact of flooding intensity on levee development and dynamics. The Geosciences program aims to advance fundamental knowledge and understanding of Earth's integrated systems through basic research in atmospheric, Earth, and ocean sciences. This award will further those goals by exploring...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $180,000 from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027 will support a postdoctoral research project using numerical modeling and synthetic stratigraphy generation to evaluate the impacts of extreme storms on delta channel mobility. The key objectives are to: 1) clarify expected rates and types of delta shoreline evolution over 100 to 10,000 years, informing coastal mitigation plans; 2) determine if...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,000 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research titled "UNRAVELING FLUVIAL KINEMATICS BEFORE THE RISE OF LAND PLANTS: BRIDGING LABORATORY AND GEOLOGIC SCALES." The two-year award beginning August 1, 2021 will fund basic research at the University of California, Santa Barbara to enhance understanding of the integrated Earth system through expanded knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $101,529 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop a predictive framework for understanding how the structural, geometric, and emergent features of river networks influence the dynamics of flux movement, such as the transport of water, sediment, and nutrients. The three-year project aims to (i) unveil the key controls imposed by river networks on flux aggregation during...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,000 project grant to support research examining the impact of varying sediment supply on Arctic delta-front transport processes. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support research from April 2021 to March 2023 exploring fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund analysis of how...
This $325,029 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to investigate the coupling between superelevation and gradient advantage in river avulsions. The project aims to develop a new unified theory for the processes that prime river avulsion, and test the theory using experiments and satellite observations. The research will focus on two key conditions thought to destabilize rivers and lead to avulsions: superelevation...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $271,639 Project Grant to Williams College on August 1, 2023 under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the formation of oxbow lakes. The 3-year collaborative research project will employ field data collection and numerical modeling methodologies to evaluate how the initial geometry of river channel cutoffs impacts the likelihood of oxbow lake development. The research team will work with the Indiana...
This $259,328 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at Tulane University to develop novel methods for real-time streamflow estimation and forecasting. The University will integrate direct measurements with numerical models to more accurately capture short-term flood wave propagation effects and seasonal impacts of riparian vegetation changes. Researchers will combine experimental, data-driven, and physics-based modeling to enable...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $574,550 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. The award will support research examining the Lagrangian transport and patchiness of buoyant material in estuarine systems through an integrated program employing conceptual models, observations, and simulations. Key objectives include assessing and advancing...