Project Grant 2522035
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $465,659 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for collaborative research titled "Predicting Riverbank Erosion in Thawing Permafrost" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The three-year award beginning April 1, 2021 will support research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research on atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the funding will enable Caltech...
- The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $1,376,955 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities to develop capacity for planning and adapting to riverbank erosion and its consequences in the Yukon River Basin from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. Under the grant, Caltech will strengthen understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as part of the National Science...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a two-year, $174,000 Project Grant to researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The grant aims to experimentally study the dynamics of frozen, cohesive river banks to bridge pore-scale properties with channel-scale dynamics under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system, including the atmospheric,...
- This Project Grant award in the amount of $500,000, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 47.050 Geosciences program, supports research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to analyze the changing interactions between climate, water, and society in the Kuskokwim and Selenge River basins of sub-Arctic Alaska and Mongolia. The interdisciplinary research project aims to assess the impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on local communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to develop high spatial-resolution, reliable, hazard risk-assessment, and forecasting decision-support tools for the North Slope Alaskan Arctic coastal communities threatened by increased coastal erosion, flooding, and ground subsidence due to a rapidly warming Arctic. The project is a collaboration between Penn State, the University of Alaska...
- This five-year, $1.39 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities will fund research towards developing climate-resilient water infrastructure in Alaska Native communities. Funded under the Geosciences program, which supports basic research in the earth sciences, this collaborative project will address challenges at the intersection of social, engineered, and natural systems impacting water security. A multidisciplinary team from the University...
- This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research towards developing climate-resilient water infrastructure in Alaska Native communities through 2027. The award is part of the Geosciences program, which supports basic research in integrated Earth system sciences through the expansion of fundamental knowledge. Working with Michigan State University researchers, community leaders and utility staff from the Norton Sound region of western Alaska will co-produce knowledge...
- This $1.125 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research and development of water and sanitation resilience strategies for rural Alaskan communities facing environmental change. Over a three-year period from January 2023 through December 2026, the University of Massachusetts will work with community partners in Kongiganak and Mekoryuk to evaluate near-term and long-term water provision...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Dr. Culha a $180,000 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop predictive models and a digital tool for assessing permafrost landscape hazards and risks. The two-year award running from June 2023 to May 2025 will support creating a regime diagram to predict different permafrost responses to rapid warming events based on landscape and climate characteristics. This will enable hazard maps of vulnerable permafrost areas. A second...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to the University of Arkansas to develop a low-cost approach to monitor the Qanirtuuq River on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska. The award, with an effective date of October 1, 2025 and a completion date of September 30, 2026, involves a university-community partnership to study the river's ecosystem stability and create efficient,...
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 mitigate the impacts of changing rivers, such as community-scale infrastructure to address erosion and siltation, and watershed-scale solutions. The interdisciplinary research team will leverage recent advancements in earth science, satellite imagery, and machine learning to document and forecast ongoing landscape and river changes in the Arctic and subarctic regions of Alaska. This research aims to provide critical knowledge and pragmatic solutions to support federal, state, and tribal governments in assessing and addressing the growing threats to infrastructure, water quality, and fish habitat caused by permafrost thawing and riverbank destabilization.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $313.7k | 8/14/25 |