Project Grant DESC0004956

Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. was awarded a $117,746 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on October 1, 2021 to complete work by September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the grant will fund collaborative research to determine the climatology of atmospheric unstable...

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded $571,879 to Michigan Technological University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. This Project Grant aims to advance understanding of stochastic processes in physical and radar meteorology through the development and application of a statistical analysis method capable of detecting weak signals in climatological data without...

This $2,171,913 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) supports research to improve the predictability of regional coastal sea levels due to large-scale climate variability. The research team at Colorado State University will analyze tide gauge observations and climate model simulations, leveraging state-of-the-art explainable AI (XAI) approaches to quantify relationships between...

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $600,124 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder to conduct observational and modeling studies on thermosphere-ionosphere metal (TIMT) layers over the Boulder region. This research aims to enhance understanding of metallic ions, plasma-neutral coupling, and thermospheric tides at midlatitudes, which can advance space weather research. The project will utilize lidar observations and regional TIMT...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,996 to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Tracy, CA, to develop an optical solution for detecting and tracking small space debris. The project, titled "Space-Time Projection Optical Tomography (SPOT)", aims to leverage graphical processing unit (GPU) computing to enable the detection of space debris...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431), provides $298,677 to The Aspen Global Change Institute, Inc. to design and implement an evaluation framework to examine the impact of case studies in supporting climate change adaptation planning and implementation. The key products and services to be delivered include: (i) learning what makes an impactful adaptation case study,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $730,826, is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the CFDA 15.808 Research and Data Collection program. The project aims to leverage the expertise and infrastructure of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to accelerate synthesis research on climate-mediated species range shifts, engaging the Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) early career scientists. The key products and services to be...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences has awarded Spectral Sciences, Inc. a $488,993 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to model the seasonal distribution of atmospheric haze on Saturn's moon Titan. The 3-year project will expand radiative transfer codes to accurately simulate the complex scattering and absorption effects of Titan's tropospheric haze, producing the first comprehensive maps of the haze distribution....

This three-year, $252,816 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Texas A&M University to develop data-driven methods for adaptive frequency band estimation of nonstationary functional time series. The researchers will create computational tools and statistical models to objectively identify optimal frequency bands for summarizing time-varying power spectral information in wind velocity data....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Arizona State University to develop a geostatistical framework for modeling spatiotemporal extremes, such as heat waves, drought, and intense precipitation. The research aims to better understand the distributions of extreme weather events and develop statistical tools to model the associated spatial and temporal trends and uncertainties. The project will...