Project Grant NA21OAR4590124

This three-year, $846,782 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the effect of future climate change on severe convective storms. The awardee, the University of Washington, will combine self-organized maps and idealized storm-scale simulations to examine how severe thunderstorms and tornadoes may change in a warmer climate. Researchers will first use data-based methods with climate model simulations to understand...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $391,865 Cooperative Agreement under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, with performance period from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2027. The project, "Virtual Risks and Hero Projects: Activating Transformative Community Actions for Climate Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events Through Extended Reality and...

This $358,332 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project to develop improved communication strategies for delivering actionable snow avalanche information to decision makers in Alaska. The project, conducted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, seeks to establish new connections between the fields of communication, actionable science, and natural hazards. The research...

This $343,324 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop empirically validated perceptual tasks for data visualization. The goal is to refine and evaluate a model of the lower-level perceptual processes underlying higher-level data analysis and visualization tasks. Researchers will conduct qualitative studies to document how people decompose tasks and then empirically evaluate proposed perceptual subtasks like filtering images, judging...

This Project Grant award of $529,722.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to develop advanced artificial intelligence models to predict the formation and evolution of thunderstorms. The project aims to create a prognostic, diagnostic, and generative deep learning nowcasting tool for convection initiation that can quantify the predictability and uncertainty of these predictions. The research will also seek to discover the physical and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $190,215 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of South Florida (USF) to conduct collaborative research on linking saccadic eye movement behavior to cognitive and linguistic processing during goal-directed reading. The project aims to better understand the relationship between brain activity and reading behavior, and how this relationship changes under different reading tasks...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to investigate the cognitive processes that underlie how students and experts reason about complex atmospheric processes, including the prediction of extreme weather events. The $203,017 award to Towson University aims to 1) contribute to cognitive science by developing new theories of human reasoning about fluid phenomena, 2) understand how atmospheric science...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $371,469 to the Trustees of Indiana University to develop a computational model and conduct empirical studies to understand the dynamics of how people generate subjective probability forecasts under time pressure. The key objectives are to: 1) develop a computational model to predict how people's subjective probability judgments change over time as they...

This $778,398 National Institute of Mental Health project grant will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to test the accuracy of eye tracking as an early screening tool for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the general pediatric population. The research aims to screen approximately 8,000 toddlers ages 12-24 months attending well-baby checkups over the five-year period from May 2023 to March 2028. Researchers will use eye tracking technology to measure social attention...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $427,442 to fund research at the University of California, Irvine from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research will be conducted under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the researchers...