Project Grant 2437668
- This Project Grant award for $200,000, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at Clarkson University to investigate the impact of climate change and permafrost degradation on the dynamic behavior of pile foundations in Alaska. The key objectives are to: (1) characterize how the distribution of frozen and unfrozen soil layers affects the dynamic stiffness and damping of soil-pile systems through laboratory tests; and (2) study...
- This $602,967 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The grant supports a multiscale research project to enhance understanding of permafrost and frozen soil properties, and how they respond to climate change over time. The research team from Montana State University will employ advanced imaging techniques, laboratory experiments, and computer simulations to investigate how microstructural features of frozen soil affect...
- This $288,835 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities will fund a collaborative research project titled "Arctic, Climate, and Earthquakes (ACE): Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Arctic Infrastructure and Social Systems amid Changing Climate." The award will support research and education activities over a five-year period from January 2023 through December 2027. The project aims to improve understanding of how Arctic changes impact...
- This $378,140 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research project at Auburn University focused on the multiscale characterization of permafrost and frozen soil properties. The project aims to bridge the knowledge gap in predicting how permafrost will respond to warming temperatures over time by examining permafrost at scales ranging from ice crystals to frozen landscapes. Using advanced imaging techniques, laboratory...
- 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,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $447,754 from the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program aims to explore infrastructure interdependencies in the rapidly changing Arctic region. The project, led by the University of Texas at Austin, involves an interdisciplinary team that will integrate systems engineering, organizational sciences, civil engineering, and public health approaches to map critical infrastructure services (CIS) interdependencies in three Alaskan hub...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $270,548 project grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2027. The grant will support a collaborative research project to improve understanding of the impact of Arctic changes on seismic preparedness and response through monitoring of infrastructure, centrifuge modeling of permafrost thawing effects, co-development of community resilience capacities, systems...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,690,654 project grant to the University of New Hampshire under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2027. The grant funds a collaborative research project titled "Arctic, Climate, and Earthquakes (ACE): Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Arctic Infrastructure and Social Systems amid Changing Climate." The project aims to improve understanding of how Arctic changes impact seismic...
- This Project Grant award of $325,875.00 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to assess the contribution of permafrost-derived greenhouse gases to global warming since the last glacial maximum. The project combines data on permafrost thaw records, paleoclimate evidence, and ice core-based greenhouse gas concentrations to better understand the effects of warming and permafrost instability on...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $313,686 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct collaborative research on building resilience along permafrost river corridors in Alaska. The key objectives of this research are to: 1) develop advanced information-based tools for decision-making, including river erosion forecasting models and watershed monitoring networks; and 2) explore physical solutions to...
This $121,069 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research project to understand and forecast long-term variations in the geophysical and geomechanical characteristics of degrading permafrost in Arctic Alaska due to climate change. The project will embed a 1.5-kilometer fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing array in Utqiaġvik, Alaska to monitor permafrost conditions over time. The research team will develop data transmission and analysis methods to derive temperature-dependent seismic wave velocity profiles and correlate these with physical permafrost properties. This work aims to transform the ability to monitor dynamic, near-surface soil processes in the active layer and permafrost, generating quantitative knowledge to inform infrastructure evaluation and development in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. The award was made through the Signals in the Soil (SITS) solicitation, a collaborative partnership between NSF and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. No sub-awards are planned under this grant, which has a performance period from July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $121.1k | 7/30/24 |