Project Grant 2530985
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs awarded a $293,820 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the methane release from the flooding of Arctic permafrost and its impact on the carbon cycle, ocean chemistry, and climate change. The project aims to develop a systematic understanding of the coupled thermal, physical, chemical, and microbial evolution of the Arctic permafrost system in response to warming. It will compile relevant data and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs grant, awarded under CFDA 47.078, supports a research project at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to study the physical and chemical drivers of carbon cycling in Arctic landscapes. The $149,288 award will fund one postdoctoral researcher and analysis of field samples collected from the Canning River in Alaska. The project aims to develop a model simulating carbon flow across the Arctic landscape, including the transformation of...
- This federal Project Grant award of $456,314.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research effort to develop a new paradigm for quantifying unfrozen soil water content in freezing environments. The project aims to improve the fundamental understanding of soil water freezing and thawing phenomena, which will advance the ability to predict and model soil water freeze and thaw behavior. Key outcomes will include clarification of...
- This $602,967 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The grant supports a multiscale research project to enhance understanding of permafrost and frozen soil properties, and how they respond to climate change over time. The research team from Montana State University will employ advanced imaging techniques, laboratory experiments, and computer simulations to investigate how microstructural features of frozen soil affect...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $349,754 to Montana State University (MSU) to quantify how century to millennial-scale hillslope geomorphic processes influence the storage of ice and carbon in Arctic permafrost soils. The research aims to shed light on fundamental geological processes that control the resilience and vulnerability of ground-ice and carbon in permafrost landscapes, which is critical for understanding future...
- This Project Grant award of $325,875.00 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to assess the contribution of permafrost-derived greenhouse gases to global warming since the last glacial maximum. The project combines data on permafrost thaw records, paleoclimate evidence, and ice core-based greenhouse gas concentrations to better understand the effects of warming and permafrost instability on...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,000 project grant to support research examining the impact of varying sediment supply on Arctic delta-front transport processes. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support research from April 2021 to March 2023 exploring fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund analysis of how...
- This $126,270 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop new capabilities to monitor and understand forest carbon dynamics in the Earth system. The key products and services to be delivered include: Cross-platform and cross-region learning frameworks to enable fine-scale carbon dynamics monitoring at large geographic scales. High-fidelity fast approximations of theory-based carbon forecasting models using new meta-learning...
- This $121,069 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research project to understand and forecast long-term variations in the geophysical and geomechanical characteristics of degrading permafrost in Arctic Alaska due to climate change. The project will embed a 1.5-kilometer fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing array in Utqiaġvik, Alaska to monitor permafrost conditions over time. The research team will develop...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $447,754 from the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program aims to explore infrastructure interdependencies in the rapidly changing Arctic region. The project, led by the University of Texas at Austin, involves an interdisciplinary team that will integrate systems engineering, organizational sciences, civil engineering, and public health approaches to map critical infrastructure services (CIS) interdependencies in three Alaskan hub...
This $743,180 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) to the University of Texas at Austin aims to develop new tools to better understand and predict the impacts of thawing Arctic permafrost and the associated release of carbon into the oceans. The project will combine data-driven and physics-driven approaches to create efficient surrogate models that can accurately capture the multi-physics processes within thawing permafrost and quantify permafrost carbon dynamics across the Arctic shelf. This will involve developing novel progressive neural operators that leverage multi-level, reduced-physics training datasets. The project also offers hands-on research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students and will generate publicly available software, training datasets, and documentation to foster broad reuse for energy and environmental research and education. The award period is from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $743.2k | 7/14/25 |