This $225,351 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of AI emulator tools for improving the estimation of statistics for rare and extreme climate events, such as heat waves and cold spells. The project, led by New York University (NYU), will focus on creating novel methods to leverage AI techniques to better model and predict the impacts of these...
The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago to develop responsible artificial intelligence systems to support effective climate change policymaking through 2026. Funded under the CFDA 47.079 International Science and Engineering program, this collaborative research between U.S. and Australian researchers aims to bridge information gaps between publicly available climate change data and actionable...
This $599,411 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 a "Trustworthy Toolbox for Double-Correct Predictive Modeling in Sciences." The project aims to create advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models that can make accurate predictions while also providing transparent, scientifically-grounded rationales for their outputs. This...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $752,656 Project Grant under its Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation. This 4-year award from September 2023 to August 2027 will expand the AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) partnership between SDSU, University of California Irvine, and two Hispanic-Serving Institutions. The project will scale up existing AI research and education programs at...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $497,419 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Colorado State University (CSU). The grant, titled "CAIG: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Cloud Processes and Future Storm Modes Using AI," aims to develop novel algorithms that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced mathematics to gain a deeper understanding of cloud formation and hazardous weather patterns in the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). This planning project aims to develop the "Center for Climate Leadership and AI-Driven Integrity and Mitigation", which will investigate the societal, regulatory, and governance implications of private sector climate commitments in the realm of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The...
This Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is funding the development of a transformative AI-based framework for generating high-fidelity, physically consistent, and uncertainty-calibrated geoscience data. The goal is to overcome limitations in observational infrastructure and computational cost to produce enhanced datasets that can improve decision-making for disaster preparedness, emergency response, and infrastructure...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences) supports a partnership between geoscientists and computer scientists to co-develop novel AI-based approaches to quantify and explain uncertainty and inequity in geoscience. The $813,628 award, effective September 1, 2024 through April 25, 2025, will fund three key algorithmic innovations: A computationally efficient framework to produce interpretable estimates of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $660,984 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Brown University. The grant, titled "CAIG: Navigating the Climate Science Deluge: Training Language Models to Assist in Comprehensive Assessments," aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) climate science chatbot assistant to help researchers more efficiently review and summarize the growing body of climate research literature. The project will create new methods...
This $250,000 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The project aims to develop generative artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to aid scientific reasoning and accelerate sustainable development. Specifically, the grant will fund the creation of new generative AI architectures, objectives, and techniques to efficiently...