Project Grant NA16OAR4310139

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences) aims to develop community-driven tools for monitoring and forecasting flash droughts in the agricultural sector. The $300,000 award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will fund a collaborative effort between researchers, academics, and community leaders to enhance resilience and reduce the socio-economic impacts of rapid climate fluctuations on farmers, ranchers, and other stakeholders....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $582,109 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to research the role of land-atmosphere interactions in the development of flash droughts. The project aims to characterize flash droughts, investigate the impact of atmospheric conditions and land-surface feedback, and explore land-atmosphere interactions through climate modeling. The research seeks to improve forecasting of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded a $262,898 project grant to the University of Wisconsin System to support collaborative research on uncovering the role of land-atmosphere feedbacks on flash drought intensification, severity, and expansion. The key objectives of this 2-year project are to better understand the conditions in which land-atmosphere interactions contribute to rapid...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $142,090 Project Grant to James Madison University (JMU) under the Geosciences CFDA program. The grant supports a collaborative research project to "Uncover the Role of Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks on Flash Drought Intensification, Severity, and Expansion." The project aims to better understand the conditions under which land-atmosphere interactions contribute to rapid drought intensification and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) Program (CFDA 15.805) provides $592,916 to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute to develop a framework for predicting the impacts of wildfires on flood frequency in the western United States. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a dynamic parameterization algorithm to represent wildfire-driven changes in hydrologic parameters,...

This National Science Foundation award provides $353,470 to the Desert Research Institute, a division of the Nevada System of Higher Education, to develop new technology and computer-generated predictions to improve the prediction of derecho windstorms. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the two-year project will create models and 4D visualizations synthesizing atmospheric conditions conducive to long-lasting and devastating derechos. By better representing the jet stream,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes (CFDA 15.805) program, aims to improve flood prediction and risk assessment capabilities across the United States. The $165,000 project, running from January 16, 2025 to January 15, 2026, will be carried out by Purdue University. The research team will develop a new computer model that integrates river data, rainfall patterns, city drainage systems, and land...

This two-year, $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at California State University, Long Beach to advance understanding of drought characteristics in snowy regions. The grantee will investigate the propagation of different types of drought across water cycle components, with a focus on snowpack-dependent areas in the western U.S. The research aims to quantify the rates at which droughts spread between snow,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program grant of $189,997 awarded to Iowa State University of Science and Technology will develop a data-driven, physics-informed early warning system to predict flood occurrence and support communities in agriculture-dominated watersheds across the Midwestern U.S. The project will integrate complex watershed characteristics, human land use, and management practices into hydrological modeling to improve flood forecasting accuracy...

This $620,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) supports South Dakota State University in developing a scalable decision support tool (S-DST) for equitable water resource allocation and drought mitigation in the Missouri River Basin. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year project include: (1) analyzing climate change projections to assess drought risks, (2)...