Project Grant 2616279
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded University of California, Los Angeles $502,520 on August 15, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop an interpretable deep learning framework for flash drought prediction and forecasting. The project will build a robust, multi-modal, multi-task artificial intelligence model integrating vegetation conditions, atmospheric drivers, soil moisture, and other environmental variables to identify...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Ohio State University received a $899,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This award supports the development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to improve the representation of wetland processes in large-scale earth system models. The project delivers three integrated AI models to simulate...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences) aims to develop community-driven tools for monitoring and forecasting flash droughts in the agricultural sector. The $300,000 award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will fund a collaborative effort between researchers, academics, and community leaders to enhance resilience and reduce the socio-economic impacts of rapid climate fluctuations on farmers, ranchers, and other stakeholders....
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $582,109 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to research the role of land-atmosphere interactions in the development of flash droughts. The project aims to characterize flash droughts, investigate the impact of atmospheric conditions and land-surface feedback, and explore land-atmosphere interactions through climate modeling. The research seeks to improve forecasting of...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $142,090 Project Grant to James Madison University (JMU) under the Geosciences CFDA program. The grant supports a collaborative research project to "Uncover the Role of Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks on Flash Drought Intensification, Severity, and Expansion." The project aims to better understand the conditions under which land-atmosphere interactions contribute to rapid drought intensification and...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $262,898 project grant to the University of Wisconsin System to support collaborative research on uncovering the role of land-atmosphere feedbacks on flash drought intensification, severity, and expansion. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to better understand the conditions in which land-atmosphere interactions contribute to rapid...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $207,236 to California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. on July 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate how repeated cycles of drought and extreme rainfall alter soil properties affecting water absorption, storage, and movement. The research combines field and laboratory experiments across agricultural, woodland, and mountain environments. Field experiments at sites in Indiana,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded $418,481 to the University of California Irvine on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program to diagnose the spatial cascade of precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation in observations and models. The award funds research that will use long-term global satellite records to create a benchmark of the spatial organization of rainfall, soil moisture, and vegetation conditions across landscapes. The project will generate...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded The Ohio State University $390,000 on August 15, 2026, for a collaborative research project leveraging artificial intelligence to understand and forecast flash drought development and propagation. The award is made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The project will develop a robust, interpretable, multi-modal, multi-task deep learning framework to improve flash drought prediction and advance understanding of vegetation-atmosphere interactions. The AI model will integrate multiple sources of information—vegetation conditions, atmospheric drivers, soil moisture, and other environmental variables—and capture spatial and temporal interactions within and across these variables. The work aims to identify environmental signals that predict drought onset and improve scientific capacity for drought early warning to support agricultural and water-resource decision-making. The project will produce open tools and knowledge benefiting researchers, agencies, and communities working to reduce risks from hydroclimate extremes. Performance occurs at Columbus, Ohio, with a period extending from the award date through July 31, 2029. The Geosciences program supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise and increase understanding of the integrated Earth system.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $390.0k | 8/3/26 |