This $162,243 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to advance predictive understanding of landscape evolution and erosional extremes under changing climatic conditions. The key objectives are to: (1) extract local geomorphic transport laws driving landscape evolution using large-scale experimental data and novel physics-informed artificial intelligence methods; (2)...
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 $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support a research project titled "RAISE: CHIRRP: CENTERING EQUITY IN COASTAL COMMUNITY CLIMATE RESILIENCE." The project will work with California coastal communities to produce research and adaptation strategies that address resiliency in the face of increasing coastal flooding, storm intensity, and storm frequency. The...
This five-year, $475,451 National Science Foundation project grant in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research examining how topography preserves details of the seismic cycle. The principal investigator will develop computational landscape simulations under varying tectonic and climatic conditions to identify topographic signatures of the seismic cycle. They will then assess whether these signatures are recognizable in natural landscapes with independent constraints on seismic...
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 $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 $174,924 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a multiphysics numerical framework to analyze soil engineering properties and slope stability in post-wildfire environments. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the 24-month project at Lawrence Technological University will empirically identify wildfire impacts on soil, analytically evaluate fundamental physics during and after wildfires, and numerically...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $692,942 in funding to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop an integrated experimental and computational framework for modeling the hydro-chemo-mechanical behavior of geomaterials across scales. The key objectives of this 5-year research project are: 1) Creating a machine learning-enabled multiscale material characterization framework for heterogeneous geomaterials,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year $336,534 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support collaborative research on the role of extreme rainstorms and hydroclimatic regimes on arid escarpment retreat and sub-cliff slope evolution. The research funded through this award will strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as outlined under...