Project Grant NA16OAR0110062

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $131,882 to support coordination of the Belmont Forum's Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. The University of Colorado Boulder, through its Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub, will coordinate activities and provide organizational support for 15 international, transdisciplinary research teams examining...

This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a regional sustainable systems research network focused on food and water systems in the Washington D.C. region. Over an 11-month period ending January 2023, Georgetown University will work with academic, industry, government and non-profit partners to lay the groundwork for a collaborative network that maps challenges, envisions sustainable...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,472,016 Cooperative Agreement to develop a Water-Energy Nexus Open Knowledge Network (WEN-OKN) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The WEN-OKN project aims to interconnect currently siloed water and energy data across multiple federal agencies, including USGS, NOAA, DOE, EPA, FEMA, DOT, NASA, and USACE, into a densely interconnected knowledge graph. This will enable improved understanding and...

This federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides support for the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress to be held in Chicago, Illinois from June 16-20, 2025. The congress is the world's largest annual event focused on sustainability science and innovation, bringing together researchers, policymakers, business leaders, and civil society from over 100 countries to advance progress toward sustainability...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $149,923 project grant to the University of Nevada, Reno under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop the Nevada Water Network from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. The Network aims to create a dynamic research, societal, and education partnership between water suppliers, users, policymakers, and academics across Nevada to address critical urban-rural water sustainability challenges. Key activities include identifying water sustainability...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...

This $10,000,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to build resilient agriculture-water-community systems (RAWCS) in the western U.S. The award supports research, extension, and education activities focused on identifying key drivers and solutions for addressing interconnected water scarcity challenges impacting irrigated agriculture, river ecosystems, and local communities in the Rio Grande,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...

This $650,920 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079), aims to investigate the vulnerabilities of community-managed water systems to climate change impacts and identify opportunities to strengthen their resilience. The project will focus on five climate-vulnerable locations globally, including indigenous communities in Kenya, South Sudan, Norway, Canada, and Alaska. Through a combination of climate scenario...

This $527,360 Project Grant awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research to support evidence-based policymaking for agricultural water conservation. The key objectives of the 3-year project include: 1) collecting irrigation water rights and runoff data to create a geospatial database, 2) exploring the impact of water rights and supply uncertainty on...