This $182,421 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program award to the University of Hawaii at Manoa will support a 5-year project titled "CAREER: Climate Variability in Hawaii through Scientific and Indigenous Approaches." The project aims to combine quantitative scientific methods with traditional ecological knowledge from Hawaii's indigenous communities to provide a holistic understanding of climate variability and extreme weather events in the Hawaiian islands. The...
This $215,146 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) is funding research to investigate how the expansion rate of tropical cyclones (hurricanes) changes with warming. The research systematically analyzes the relationship between tropical cyclone size and sea surface temperature in historical data, climate model simulations, and simplified model experiments. The goal is to improve forecasting of tropical cyclone hazards, such as wind,...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $409,127 provides funding from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026 to support collaborative research on hurricane risk amplification and changing North Atlantic natural disasters. The award is made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the funding will support research examining hurricanes...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of machine learning methods for estimating the risk of adverse weather and climate events, such as rapid changes in solar power generation and flooding. The University of Hawaii at Manoa, as the prime contractor, will apply advances in generative artificial intelligence...
This $999,732 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will develop tools and solution alternatives for coastal communities impacted by compounding flood hazards. The project will partner with local organizations in San Juan, Puerto Rico to use advanced computer models and affordable flood sensors to improve flood modeling and mitigation for combined flood events from multiple simultaneous sources like rainfall, high tides, and storm surges....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $588,786 project grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to develop replicated coral geochemical reconstructions to understand dynamics of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) in the context of climate change. The project aims to analyze temperature-sensitive elements preserved in coral cores from American Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga to reconstruct...
This $167,227 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). The grant aims to advance knowledge on the processes and predictability of low-probability tropical cyclogenesis in the western Atlantic and Caribbean regions. The research will utilize conventional and AI techniques, ensemble forecasts, and state-of-the-art modeling to investigate the mechanisms...
This $199,052 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a planning project titled "CHIRRP: Engagement and Mitigation for Building Resilience Against Cascading Events in Puerto Rico." The project aims to collaborate with underserved communities in Puerto Rico to formulate research questions, conceptualize actionable solutions, and co-produce a research program that advances scientific knowledge, builds community capacity, and...
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 $499,450 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a Research Coordination Network (RCN) focused on building cross-disciplinary capacity to understand the complex dynamics of climatic processes, bioaerosols, and infectious pathogens. The network brings together geoscientists and healthcare professionals to develop frameworks for predicting and preventing the transmission of environmentally sensitive, climate/weather-modulated...