Project Grant NA20NOS4290077

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $369,530 will support Portland State University's efforts to build research capacity for collaborative, interdisciplinary study of water and society issues through 2025. The University will establish an interdisciplinary research collaboration between scholars in geography, environmental studies, applied linguistics, and anthropology focusing on themes of water values,...

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...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Waterfire Providence, a non-profit organization in Rhode Island, under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289). This two-year grant, effective from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2027, supports Waterfire Providence's efforts to revitalize urban experiences in Providence. The grant will enable Waterfire Providence to deliver event organization,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The "Echoes of Wai (Water): Oral Histories from Maui" project will conduct 30 oral history interviews focused on the Lahaina area of West Maui and adjacent Central Maui regions. The interviews will prioritize the perspectives of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community...

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 $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....

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $575,089.48 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Natural Ocean Well CO. on March 19, 2024. The project proposes to install and evaluate a submerged water filtration system in the Las Virgenes Reservoir. Submerged water filtration is an unconventional approach that can reduce energy requirements by leveraging natural hydrostatic pressure, while also protecting the system from atmospheric climate...

This two-year, $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into the influence of critical zone water storage on forest drought vulnerability and transpiration fluxes across complex mountainous terrain in Colorado. The grantee will employ field investigations using seismic surveys and electrical resistivity tomography to gather data on belowground structure and water storage along hillslope transects in the Boulder Creek...

This $1,382,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance quality and climate-resilient water management in three U.S. regions - the Lakota tribe in South Dakota, the Navajo tribe in New Mexico, and flood-prone farming communities in Vermont. The "Advancing Quality and Climate-Resilient Water Management with Community Partnerships and Enhanced Sensor Network (AQUA-CLIME)" project will create a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Arizona State University (ASU) a $277,490 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support U.S. researchers participating in a multinational Belmont Forum initiative on global environmental change. The project, titled "Coastal Tales, Telling Adaptations: Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience," focuses on integrating local and traditional knowledge, social science, and natural science to determine how past...