Project Grant NA21NOS4290003

This $147,468 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the Inland Seas Education Association to deliver a Great Lakes watershed field course professional development program. The Association will bring 30 K-12 educators to the Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station in Suttons Bay, Michigan from April 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 for four-day training sessions emphasizing hands-on experience with regional conservation success stories. Participants will visit...

This $747,844 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will develop a cybertraining curriculum focused on climate, water and environmental sustainability. Led by Purdue University, the collaborative project will create three levels of curriculum—foundational, expert, and developer—to train students, educators, and professionals on integrating and analyzing open...

This $349,431 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education and STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076) will support the development of virtual reality-enabled curriculum resources to address workforce skills gaps in water treatment operator education. Central Carolina Technical College will partner with Clemson University to design, integrate and evaluate virtual reality modules supplementing the college's existing training programs. Modules will focus...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $145,352 to the University Enterprises, Inc. at Sacramento State University to develop a diverse hydrology workforce through an undergraduate hydrological research experience in a coastal California watershed. The project will engage sophomore and transfer students across three California State University campuses in a year-long learning...

This $567,340 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to advance understanding of lake water quality dynamics across spatial scales using knowledge-guided machine learning. The research aims to develop Ecology-knowledge guided Machine Learning (Eco-KGML) models to improve predictions of water clarity,...

This federal Project Grant award of $703,675.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a 4-year collaborative research project titled "Known Rivers: Creating Justice-Centered Water Literacy Along the Lower Mississippi River." The project aims to develop and study the implementation of a justice-centered water literacy curriculum for grades 3-8 in partnership with public charter schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. The research team will...

This $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Michigan State University (MSU) will develop a graduate training program focused on advancing water sustainability and equity through data-driven research and stakeholder partnerships. The 5-year award will train 58 PhD students, including 33 NRT-funded trainees, across engineering, computer science, biology, ecology, public health, and social science disciplines. The program...

This federal Project Grant award of $255,493.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a 4-year design-based research project to develop and study the implementation of a justice-centered water literacy curriculum for students in grades 3-8 in partnership with public charter schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project aims to engage approximately 640 students and 16 teachers in co-creating curriculum units that respond to the experiences and...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will establish the groundwork for developing a Global Center to provide real-time water quality forecasts and decision support tools for lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. and Australia facing climate change impacts. The key products to be delivered under this 2-year award include: 1) an American-Australian community of water researchers, managers, industry, and...

This $315,618 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support a four-year design-based research project that centers community knowledge and lived experience to develop and study the implementation of a justice-centered water literacy curriculum for grades 3-8 in partnership with public charter schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project aims to engage approximately 16 teachers and 640 students to build relationships between...