Project Grant 2608195
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (National Center for Atmospheric Research) $1,515,241 on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program to develop robust cyberinfrastructure for the Community Earth System Model hierarchy. The project modernizes the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) by establishing an extended, sustainable, and user-configurable hierarchy of idealized model configurations. Work focuses on...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded Regents of the University of Michigan $243,000 on September 1, 2026, to investigate cloud transitions during marine cold-air outbreaks in sub-arctic regions. The research combines airborne observations from the Cold-Air Outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR) field campaign with large eddy simulation modeling to examine how precipitation, sublimation, and surface fluxes drive the transition of...
- NSF SAFE-OSE: Enhancing Safety, Security, and Privacy in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Ecosystem The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.5 million Cooperative Agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Colorado Boulder, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027. This project develops a comprehensive security framework for the Community Earth System Model (CESM), a critical open-source tool used to...
- The University of Michigan will receive $331,413 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to develop precipitation, evaporation and temperature records from tropical lake sediments and cave deposits for the last 700,000 years. The grant will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded The University of Chicago $737,081 for a Project Grant on January 1, 2027, to advance AI-based atmospheric emulators through rigorous theoretical evaluation and uncertainty quantification under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The project develops methods to rigorously test and improve artificial intelligence models trained on observational data to predict regional weather extremes including heat waves and droughts...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $300,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop cyberinfrastructure software, datasets, and AI models supporting human-centric urban micromobility research. The project, titled HUGAI: Human-Geo-AI Coalition Infrastructure Engines for Co-Designing Human-Centric Urban Micromobility Research, addresses the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Regents of the University of Michigan $385,737 on January 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop artificial intelligence and data mining decision support tools for forecast-informed reservoir system operations. The project develops an integrated solution accounting for spatial and temporal variability of precipitation and its uncertainty, and a novel AI...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $304,793 on August 1, 2026, for a Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) focused on data-driven agentic artificial intelligence for trustworthy design of autonomous engineered systems. The award funds development of computational and data-enabled approaches to multidisciplinary design optimization. The project addresses the...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $432,737 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop large-scale pretraining approaches for earth observation foundation models using noisy geospatial labels. The project characterizes scaling laws for earth observation foundation models by studying how model performance varies with dataset size, model size, land...
- This $399,162 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop interpretable, stable, and mass-conserving artificial intelligence (AI) models to improve the computational speed and efficiency of geoscientific models, such as those used for air pollution and climate research. The project will create simpler "surrogate" machine learning models for key components like atmospheric chemistry and wildfire plume rise, allowing for...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $1,519,486 on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop robust cyberinfrastructure for Earth system model hierarchies. The project modernizes the Community Earth System Model (CESM) by establishing a user-configurable hierarchy of idealized model configurations within the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). Work focuses on migrating CAM's existing dynamical cores into the CAM-SIMA (System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere) framework using a common community physics package protocol and implementing inlined analytic initial conditions that dynamically balance across varying computational grids. These enhancements reduce technical and financial barriers to model access and systematically isolate physical mechanisms, allowing scientists to strip away non-essential variables and verify underlying software. The project strengthens the technical workforce through integration of cutting-edge AI models into classroom instruction, hosting of a Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) summer school, and creation of free online training materials for the next generation of atmospheric scientists. These transparent and accessible modeling tools enhance scientific and AI literacy and improve long-term societal readiness for weather-related decision-making. Work is performed at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a period of performance from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.5m | 7/29/26 |