Project Grant 2503071
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $303,942 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, to conduct collaborative research on assessing past and future droughts in the Colorado River Basin. The primary objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) extend tree-ring reconstructions of drought in the Colorado River Basin back 2,000 years, 2) characterize the severe drought that occurred in the 2nd...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $464,646 Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) project grant to the University of Wyoming (UW) to study the magnitude and drivers of past droughts in the headwaters of the Snake, Colorado, and Missouri Rivers. The project aims to quantify changes in precipitation, evaporation, and snowmelt processes in the Rocky Mountains over the past 15,000 years since the last ice age. This research will provide robust benchmarks for evaluating changes to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $542,834 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research reconstructing Southern Rocky Mountains warm season temperatures over the past 2,000 years. The research aims to develop a temperature reconstruction using bristlecone pine from the Rio Grande headwaters region, augmented with updated hydroclimate reconstructions, to evaluate long-term regional temperature and hydroclimate...
- Northern Arizona University will receive $390,528 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to reconstruct temperature and hydroclimate trends in the Southern Rocky Mountains over the past 2,000 years. The university will develop new temperature reconstructions using bristlecone pine samples from the Rio Grande Headwaters region, augmented with updated hydroclimate reconstructions. Researchers will address how temperature influences...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $135,001 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support collaborative research on anthropogenic water management, climate change, and environmental sustainability in the Southwestern United States. The three-year award, made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 examining the interrelationships between human water usage, climate...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,996 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) to conduct collaborative research on identifying non-linearities in rainfall and river responses to consecutive Paleogene global warming events. This 3-year project, starting September 1, 2025, aims to advance fundamental understanding of how rainfall patterns and river systems respond to a changing climate by collecting new...
- This National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $381,192 to the University of Missouri System from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The funding will support development of tree ring chronologies from juniper, pine, and taxodium trees within and near the Great Plains to reconstruct past seasonal precipitation, soil moisture balance, and drought over the region from the Medieval period to present. Researchers will produce five gridded reconstructions at...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $343,807 to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project will test whether quantitative paleohydrologic reconstruction methods are consistent with existing detrital provenance data interpretations of drainage network changes across the western United States during the Laramide orogeny from the late Cretaceous to early Eocene...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to reduce uncertainties in tree-ring records of wet extremes to better interpret past climate and plan for future changes. The total funding amount is $324,677, with an award date of July 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Using dendrometers (instruments that record tree growth in real-time) to...
- 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 National Science Foundation Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) award of $258,917 to Northern Arizona University supports collaborative research to assess past and future droughts in the Colorado River Basin over the past 2,000 years. The project will extend tree-ring reconstructions of drought and combine them with other geological records to characterize the intensity and persistence of past droughts, including a potentially severe drought in the 2nd century. This research aims to inform understanding of long-term drought trends and the impacts of warming versus drying on Colorado River streamflow, with the goal of providing data to support water resource management. The project also includes developing K-12 homeschool educational materials and providing research opportunities for a postdoctoral fellow and undergraduate students. The project will be conducted from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $258.9k | 8/14/25 |