This $500,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota on January 15, 2025. The grant funds the IMOLA (Intelligent Map Recognition Lab) project, which aims to develop advanced computational methods and scientific approaches to extract historical geographic information from scanned maps originally published by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1884 and...
This $562,092 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) funds research and data infrastructure development to support analysis of historical settlement and population growth patterns in the United States. The University of Colorado, Boulder will collaborate with the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota to develop gridded time series data on census tract-level variables related to...
The Regents of the University of Colorado were awarded a $464,509 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The three-year award, made on August 1, 2023 and set to be completed by July 31, 2026, will support collaborative research into the roles of lithology and water on deep continental crustal rheology using natural field settings and laboratory experiments. The research aims to further fundamental...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) program to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant, awarded on June 15, 2023, will fund a project to build a foundational model for human mobility that can incorporate diverse types of movement, temporal, and socio-demographic data. The model will utilize machine learning techniques to generate outputs relevant to both...
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...
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 $237,361 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to advance predictive understanding of landscape evolution and erosion dynamics under changing climate conditions. The key research objectives are to: 1) Extract local geomorphic transport laws driving landscape evolution under different climatic forcings using large-scale experimental data and novel physics-informed AI methods; 2) Quantify...
The University of Colorado was awarded a $316,331 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ELEMENTS: EXHUME: EXTRACTION FOR HIGH-ORDER UNFITTED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS." The three-year award, issued on June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research activities under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). Specifically, the...
This $1,600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will expand and enhance the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the world's largest population database. The project will: Obtain and preserve census and household survey data from 157 countries, focusing on the most recent census rounds. Clean, process, and consistently code the collected data. Develop comprehensive documentation to guide...
This $100,608 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The project investigates the role of environmental factors in mediating the connections between human activities and the development of place attachment. Using a mixed-methods approach, including geographic mapping of human activities, the research aims to develop a generalized theory on...