Project Grant N629092312022

This five-year, $721,211 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will support research at Colorado State University to develop more robust representations of sociotechnical transitions related to housing, well-being, and energy. The multidisciplinary team will conduct interviews and surveys to understand diverse stakeholder perceptions of well-being and social paradigms of change. They will represent the influence of networks and institutions in models...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $200,000 to the University of California, Berkeley to study explanations for ambitious climate policy. The research will compare updated national climate targets and COVID-19 economic recovery packages across several countries to analyze the political and economic drivers of differences in climate...

This $411,251 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) aims to generate the first empirical estimates of the behavioral costs of carbon (BCC) associated with climate change in the United States. The key objectives are to: 1) estimate the substance use cost of carbon by analyzing national survey and hospital data on alcohol consumption and substance use disorders; 2) evaluate the sleep cost...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop novel techniques and design approaches to minimize the carbon footprint of data centers while increasing the utilization of renewable energy sources on the power grid. Key objectives include: Estimating fine-grained...

This three-year, $234,197 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund the development of an integrated systems model to understand and predict energy futures. Awarded to Georgia Tech Research Corporation on April 1, 2023 and set to be completed by March 31, 2026, this grant is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant recipients will develop a holistic model of energy demand that...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant awarded $929,354 to Cornell University to develop the "DELPHI" framework - an end-to-end system that prioritizes environmental impact while designing sustainable edge computing devices like wearables, cameras, and sensors. Through this 4-year project, the researchers will: 1) quantify the environmental impact of edge device components and develop new carbon models, 2) create...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $520,553 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Cincinnati. The grant supports a 3-year research project to establish a community-engaged process and integrated modeling platform to help residents in underserved communities in Cincinnati, Ohio identify, plan, and implement decarbonization retrofits for their homes. The project aims to democratize scientific data on building...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $265,702 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated systems model linking consumer activities, expenditures, and energy use from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The research will construct a holistic model of U.S. energy demand considering how consumer actions simultaneously impact multiple sectors, including residences, vehicles, commercial buildings, server networks,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the University of Vermont under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) from September 2022 to August 2025. The grant supports research to strengthen understanding of travel behavior in small and rural communities and evaluate the effects of infrastructure investments and policies on transportation greenhouse gas emissions. The University of Vermont will build a novel dataset fusing spatially detailed...