This $237,278 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports U.S. researchers participating in a multinational research project on biocultural heritage and climate adaptation in Arctic cities. The project, competitively selected by the 55-country Belmont Forum research consortium, will develop transdisciplinary approaches to investigate the complex interactions between natural and social systems and the ability of Arctic urban...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $288,465.00 to support U.S. researchers participating in a global research initiative through the Belmont Forum on cultural heritage and climate change. The project aims to create a framework for identifying climatic indicators applicable to coastal cultural heritage, enabling improved climate risk assessments by connecting potential impacts with local, societal, economic, and environmental...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $192,300 to support U.S. researchers participating in a multi-national, transdisciplinary research project focused on cultural heritage landscapes and climate change. The project, selected through the Belmont Forum consortium, aims to develop assessment and planning tools to help communities in France, Norway, and Spain evaluate the vulnerability and resilience of cultural landscapes in the...
This $305,340 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports U.S. researchers participating in a multinational Belmont Forum initiative on global environmental change research. The project aims to investigate how indigenous ecological knowledge and diverse technical knowledge can be used to develop adaptation pathways to address climate change challenges. The U.S. researchers will collaborate with partners from at least three other countries...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Arizona State University (ASU) a $277,490 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support U.S. researchers participating in a multinational Belmont Forum initiative on global environmental change. The project, titled "Coastal Tales, Telling Adaptations: Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience," focuses on integrating local and traditional knowledge, social science, and natural science to determine how past...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will examine how indigenous communities have understood, shaped, and responded to environmental changes, particularly climate variability, since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid-1800s. The $124,434 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to April 25, 2025, will support extensive archival research, document analysis, oral histories, and ethnographic interviews to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Virginia (UVA) a $199,958 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from January 2023 through December 2027. The grant will support a collaborative research project to improve understanding of Arctic infrastructure seismic resilience amid climate change. Key deliverables include monitoring infrastructure response to permafrost thawing, co-developing equitable seismic resilience plans with local communities,...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $300,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will support the IRES TRACK I: Manifestations of Climate Change in Extreme Events project. This project aims to enable the U.S. to maintain leadership in the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $700,865 Project Grant under the Geosciences CFDA program to the University of Northern Iowa for the research project "SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION IN RIVER BASINS OF THE SUB-ARCTIC UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE (SESTRA)". This 5-year project, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028, aims to analyze the changing interactions between climate, water, and society in the Kuskokwim and Selenge River...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $312,259 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to conduct collaborative research on the last interglacial period approximately 130,000 to 115,000 years ago, when temperatures were naturally warmer than today. The project aims to better understand when and how much the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted during this period, as well as the climate conditions and ice dynamical...