Project Grant 2624310
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded New Mexico State University $299,665 under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) effective January 1, 2027, through December 31, 2028. The award funds an EPSCOR Research Fellows project at New Mexico State University's Las Cruces campus that provides a fellowship to an assistant professor and training for one student trainee. The research investigates how artificial intelligence can be used safely to support...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded the University of New Mexico $469,493 on October 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate soil carbon persistence in dryland floodplains along the Rio Grande in the southwestern United States. The research combines field measurements of groundwater depth and greenhouse gas emissions with laboratory analyses of carbon age and composition in floodplain sediments to develop a mechanistic framework...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of New Mexico received a $3.7 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) on July 15, 2025, for the E-RISE RII: Forest Research for New Mexico Water and Carbon Management project. The award supports an integrated research, education, and workforce development initiative designed to improve understanding and management of New Mexico's forest and woodland watersheds through July...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Boise State University $299,667 on May 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support an EPSCOR Research Fellows project examining early warning signals of dryland ecosystem change. The fellowship supports an associate professor and post-doctoral scholar training at Boise State in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Rudgers at the University of New Mexico. The research integrates ecology, remote...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University of Idaho $232,789 on January 1, 2027, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support radar remote sensing research and workforce development focused on forest monitoring in the Western United States. The research fellowship funds an associate professor at the University of Idaho to advance sub-seasonal tree growth monitoring through integration of radar-based vegetation moisture measures...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded the University of New Mexico $370,309 on May 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support a collaborative long-term experimental ecology research initiative. The project extends a 37-year continuous field study examining how food webs and small mammal populations respond to rainfall pulses and environmental variability in semiarid ecosystems, integrating stable isotope analysis and dietary DNA...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Award Details: New Mexico State University received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083: Integrative Activities program) on January 1, 2026, with a completion date of December 31, 2027. The award supports an EPSCOR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Research Fellows initiative in partnership with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Products and Services: The grant funds...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded New Mexico State University $1,014,360 on August 1, 2026, to acquire a white-laser confocal microscope for multidisciplinary research. The funding supports the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), which enhances research competitiveness through capacity-building and infrastructure development for the nation's STEM enterprise. NMSU will establish the white-laser confocal system as a shared microscopy core facility...
- The University of New Mexico received a $423,431 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on August 1, 2021 to study how wildfire disturbances propagate in fluvial networks. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education to improve quality of life and economic strength. Under this three-year award expiring July...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education (operating as University of Nevada, Reno) $268,130 on January 1, 2026, under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) to develop improved calibration and validation datasets for the LANDFIRE program's fuel metrics used in wildfire behavior modeling and land management. The project builds a comprehensive standardized 3D fuels dataset using terrestrial laser...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University of New Mexico $300,000 on January 1, 2027, through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support a Research Infrastructure Improvement EPSCOR Research Fellows fellowship for developing and validating methods to calibrate NASA's NISAR synthetic aperture radar satellite against in situ soil moisture and live fuel moisture content measurements. The recipient will deploy networks of wireless sensors across five high-fire-risk sites in New Mexico to collect co-located live fuel moisture, dead fuel, soil moisture, and micrometeorological data transmitting via LoRaWAN. These ground observations will calibrate and validate L-band and S-band NISAR backscatter measurements in semi-arid conifer ecosystems, grounding the calibration framework in dielectric properties shared by impedance-based plant sensors and spaceborne radar rather than site-specific empirical regressions. The work will deliver the first systematic NISAR validation across topographically complex, mixed-cover landscapes in New Mexico. Data and methods will be publicly shared to support fire managers in issuing earlier and more accurate fire risk warnings, planning prescribed burns, and protecting drinking water watersheds serving New Mexico communities. The fellowship funds a Research Assistant Professor position at the University of New Mexico's Albuquerque campus and is conducted in collaboration with Dr. Erika Podest at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Group. The period of performance runs from January 1, 2027, through December 31, 2028. The work integrates ecology, satellite remote sensing, and sensor engineering.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/11/26 |