This $499,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the impacts of climate change on coastal communities in an urban environment. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (August 2024 - July 2027) include: Analysis of the alignment between water infrastructure, policies, and practices with emerging climate and environmental challenges such as...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will develop a new decision-support toolkit to help coastal communities in Greater Miami, Florida visualize, test, and prioritize localized climate adaptation and mitigation strategies to improve resilience to sea-level rise. The $196,402 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026, will establish researcher-community partnerships to co-produce modeling tools that examine the...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Florida (UF) aims to develop an integrated GeoAI toolset for identifying locations and drivers of pond collapse in coastal salt marshes using high-resolution remote sensing imagery. The main goals are to build a high-resolution marsh feature database, enable detection of pond collapse, support new geomorphology research, provide a weakly supervised learning framework...
This $3,319,335 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support a collaborative research effort led by the University of Delaware to investigate saltwater intrusion in Delaware's complex coastal environment. The multidisciplinary project team, which includes faculty, staff, and students from several Delaware institutions, will collect field data, conduct experiments, and develop computer models to advance the understanding of...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to provide insights into the factors controlling soil salinization and saltwater intrusion in coastal landscapes impacted by rising sea levels and changing climate conditions. The research team at East Carolina University will use hydrogeophysical and other hydrogeological methods to study saltwater intrusion processes in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System and...
This $329,272 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the impacts of sea level rise on stemflow dynamics and associated hydrological and biogeochemical processes in coastal forests along the Atlantic seaboard. The University of Delaware, as the prime awardee, will use field measurements, laboratory analyses, and statistical modeling to understand how changes in stemflow (precipitation channeled down tree...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,537 Project Grant to the University of South Florida (USF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate how groundwater discharge delivers important nutrients like dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and iron to the coastal ecosystems of the West Florida Shelf. Motivated by preliminary observations, the research will quantify the flux and isotopic signatures of submarine groundwater discharge-derived DON and iron, evaluate their...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will develop tools and solution alternatives for coastal communities impacted by compounding flood hazards from multiple simultaneous sources. The $999,732 project, which runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2030, will partner with local organizations in San Juan, Puerto Rico to use advanced computer models and affordable flood sensors to improve flood modeling and produce guidelines...
This $299,920 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund a research fellowship at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) to develop a state-of-the-art modeling framework for understanding and predicting saltwater intrusion in Hawaii's coastal aquifers. The project will engage an assistant professor and a graduate student in collaboration with researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The goal is...
This $1,324,092 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Florida International University (FIU), establishes the South Florida Coastal Environmental Data and Modeling Center. The center will focus on developing AI/ML techniques for understanding and predicting key processes affecting coastal environments in Southeast Florida, with an emphasis on addressing challenges like flood damage, sea-level rise, urban flooding, water quality, and...