This $256,252 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research by the Aspen Global Change Institute to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic warming signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. The three-year project grant will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model, statistical learning techniques, and process-based hydrological modeling to analyze uncertainty and attribute changes in...
This $289,806 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of new computational methods for simulating complex geophysical processes like snowmelt, water runoff, and glacier dynamics. The research at Baylor University will focus on deriving high-order numerical techniques that can accurately represent the inequality constraints (e.g., non-negative water/ice depths) present in these partial...
This NSF CAREER grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083), will support a $369,098 research project from May 2025 to April 2030 at the University of Wyoming. The primary objectives are to: 1) Develop a long-term monitoring program to define a snowpack's role in storing and transmitting liquid water to streams under various conditions; and 2) Establish a long-term educational program that promotes mountain hydrology across the University of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,000,000 in funding to the University of Alaska Anchorage to examine the impacts of heavy snow loads in Anchorage, Alaska, improve snow prediction models, and develop management strategies to prevent building collapse and improve community planning. The project, titled "RAISE: Urban Snow Modeling to Advance Resilience for Today and Tomorrow," will work with community...
This $199,242 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Colorado State University will develop and apply novel methodologies for the classification, characterization, and quantification of snowflakes and snowfall. The key products and services to be delivered include: A new AI/ML-enabled approach for automatic classification of precipitation particles based on multiview images from a novel Multicamera Snowflake Profiler (MSP)...
This $518,425 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop a physics-informed graph neural network-based approach for forecasting snow water equivalent (SWE), which is critical for effective water resource management in the Western United States. The project will integrate artificial intelligence techniques, specifically physics-informed neural networks, to create more accurate and reliable SWE forecasts by capturing the detailed...
This $599,998 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic climate change signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the project will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling. It aims to strengthen understanding of when and how much climate change...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $675,290 to Cornell University to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic warming signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Working in the headwaters of the Upper Colorado River Basin, the grantee will use an innovative modeling framework with a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling to assess the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $131,652.00 to Appalachian State University to conduct collaborative research on frontal ablation processes on lake-terminating glaciers and their role in glacier change. The primary objectives are to quantify the amount of additional ice lost through iceberg production and underwater melt on three large glaciers draining the Juneau Icefield that end in lakes, and to develop computer models to...
The University of Wyoming will receive $507,753 from the National Science Foundation under a three-year Project Grant award titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WINTRE-MIX: WINTER PRECIPITATION TYPE RESEARCH MULTI-SCALE EXPERIMENT." The funding supports basic research into integrated Earth system sciences through the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Specifically, the University will conduct research into winter precipitation types at multiple scales from September 2021 through...