Project Grant SPM07022GR0020

This $449,885 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program aims to design, implement, and test climate science and history professional learning materials and experiences for high school teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The University of California, Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will work with a team of scientists, historians, and educators to co-develop curricular planning tools and lesson plans to help teachers integrate...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA #47.075) program awarded Northwestern University a $100,000 Project Grant to plan for the creation of an interdisciplinary center that would study the social and behavioral aspects of climate change. The planning will involve meetings of experts from disciplines including psychology, sociology, and environmental science to explore how people receive, process, and respond to information about climate change....

This $649,008 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to infuse climate change curriculum into technology programs. The project, led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Queensborough Community College, seeks to develop 10 educational modules that will integrate climate change topics into existing mechanical and electrical engineering technology programs. Key objectives include...

This five-year, $224,915 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities' Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research exploring combined climate intervention strategies for stakeholder use. A team of experts from climate science, engineering, behavioral science and ecology at Louisiana State University will advance the state of science on climate intervention scenarios that keep warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius. The researchers will...

This $1,223,730 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will develop a collaboration model for how planetariums can work with local communities to co-create data-driven visual narratives about the impacts of climate change on their regions. The project will initially establish four "development partnerships" to articulate, test, and refine the collaboration model, which will then be shared as a guide and toolkit for five...

This five-year, $622,775 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's National Center for Atmospheric Research to generate actionable climate intervention scenarios. The research team will advance the scientific understanding of portfolio approaches combining mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management strategies to limit global warming to 1.5...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $628,283 project grant under the Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The goal of this 4-year project is to develop and test an online platform called "ACTLOCAL" that will enable K-12 teachers, students, and the public to create localized climate change adaptation simulations for any location in the contiguous United States. These simulations will allow students to implement and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,994,610 to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY to deliver an arts-based informal STEM learning program focused on climate literacy and climate justice. The project will engage local youth from non-dominant racial backgrounds in a co-design process with scientists and artists to produce public-facing art events integrated into festivals and public programs on Governor's Island. The...

This $696,515 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research and outreach on variations in the pace of surface temperature change. The awardee, University of California Santa Cruz, will conduct statistical analysis of global climate observations to identify regions and periods with accelerated warming rates over the past two centuries. Model simulations will determine the causes of detected changes and quantify future warming rates...

This $204,278 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support research by the University of Chicago to investigate how Arctic sea ice attenuation affects ocean swell, microseisms, and the potential to use seismology as a method for observing sea ice conditions. The key activities include: Analyzing seismic data from stations along the northern coasts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland to detect seasonal and annual changes in microseisms as a...