Project Grant 2615702
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University of Florida $498,884 on August 1, 2026, to develop a data-centric geoscience foundation model for predicting extreme weather events including floods and droughts under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The project will construct an artificial intelligence framework using event-manifold learning to encode extreme events as latent trajectories with spatial footprint and contextual drivers. Lightweight...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative develops a next-generation generative downscaling framework that combines diffusion-based generative models with physics-guided constraints and probabilistic uncertainty quantification to...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a cooperative agreement to the University of Maryland, College Park for $300,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405). The recipient will develop artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques leveraging low-earth orbit and geostationary orbit satellite observations to improve 6-to-12-hour quantitative precipitation forecasts. The AI/ML-based QPF products...
- This Project Grant award of $199,316.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to advance the understanding of how extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall and flooding, may change in response to future climate scenarios. The project, titled "EMBRACE-AGS-SEED: Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning to Generate Ensembles of Regional Climate Projections," will evaluate whether artificial intelligence and machine learning can provide...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research by Texas Tech University to investigate the predictability of severe weather events, such as tornadoes, hail, and flooding, under current and future climate conditions. The $380,904 award, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will involve creating and analyzing large datasets of numerical weather model forecasts to understand how and why the predictability of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $319,907 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a machine learning-based emulator for predicting water isotope patterns in fully-coupled global climate models. The primary deliverable is an efficient computational tool that will enable climate scientists to quickly simulate water isotope behavior—which serves as a...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $222,000 on September 15, 2026, for a Global Land Programme project that develops satellite data, artificial intelligence, and advanced mapping technologies to track changes in farmland, forests, water systems, and built environments while training scientists and professionals in land-use monitoring and analysis. The project operates as a hub for land system innovations,...
- This $550,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of data-driven physics-informed machine learning models to predict flood-induced flow and sediment dynamics. Over a four-year period ending June 2027, the grantee will improve existing high-fidelity numerical modeling tools and apply them to evaluate flood impacts on infrastructure stability in large waterways. They will then use simulation results to inform and...
- This Project Grant award of $529,722.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to develop advanced artificial intelligence models to predict the formation and evolution of thunderstorms. The project aims to create a prognostic, diagnostic, and generative deep learning nowcasting tool for convection initiation that can quantify the predictability and uncertainty of these predictions. The research will also seek to discover the physical and...
- 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 Integrative Activities awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $500,000 on August 1, 2026, to develop a data-centric geoscience foundation model for predicting extreme weather events including floods and droughts. The project will construct an artificial intelligence framework using event-manifold learning that treats each extreme event as a coherent, trackable object with spatial footprint and contextual drivers, rather than isolated data points. The framework employs lightweight adapter layers for specialization to extreme-weather applications, physics-regularized decoding to enforce conservation laws and prevent unphysical predictions, and generative modeling to provide uncertainty estimates. The team will demonstrate the approach on flash-flood and drought applications and benchmark performance against operational numerical models. All software and data will be publicly released, and the project will produce educational materials for university classrooms while training students at the intersection of computing and Earth science. This award is a Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen and enhance the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated Earth system in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Work is performed at College Park, Maryland, with a period of performance running from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029. No subawards are planned.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/30/26 |