Project Grant 83523601

This National Science Foundation award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to Cornell University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025 to develop shared community infrastructure and tools for quantifying the carbon footprint of computing platforms across their entire lifecycles. The project aims to create models and simulators that can assess the environmental impact of hardware manufacturing, operational power/energy usage, and...

This $897,042 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an advanced ecological forecasting model by Earthshot Labs PBC, a for-profit technology company. The project aims to create a sophisticated tool capable of accurately predicting reforestation outcomes and carbon sequestration potential across various global landscapes. The approach combines satellite imagery...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports the creation of a database and dashboard of ecosystem guidelines for 80 countries. The $303,440 award to American University will enable a comparative study of how nations execute their pledges related to international environmental agreements. The project will assess national guidelines across key sectors like energy, transportation,...

This $297,277 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research by Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI), a non-profit organization based in Santa Rosa, California, to characterize the long-term ecological legacy effects of colonial plantation agriculture on tropical soils in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The research aims to evaluate how historical land-use changes, such as the widespread deforestation and conversion to sugarcane plantations in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $490,570 Project Grant under its Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to develop an autonomous eddy covariance air-sea CO2 flux measurement system for use on moored ocean buoys. This system is designed to provide accurate, low-power measurements of atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide exchange, which is critical for improving the predictive capabilities of climate models. As part of this project,...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $510,436 provides funding from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2028 to San Francisco State University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will support research and educational efforts to advance understanding of green infrastructure systems' influences on structural performance during natural hazard events. Specifically, the university will conduct sensitivity analyses and nonlinear time history analyses to...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $587,749 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) to improve the sustainability of edge data centers used for artificial intelligence (AI) computing. The project aims to mitigate the environmental impact and boost the efficiency of data processing in edge data centers through multi-layered optimizations, including harnessing renewable...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $235,107, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The primary objective of this 5-year project is to develop an infrastructure for designing sustainable computing platforms using carbon-efficient integrated electro-photonic hardware components. Key products and services to be delivered include: A framework for modeling the embodied...