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Dr. Evan J. Ramos has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research, professional development, and outreach activities at Rice University and Brown University under the mentorship of Professors Mark A. Torres and Daniel E. Ibarra, respectively. This project investigates the nature of silicate weathering, organic carbon (OC) cycling, and their potential couplings across a watershed in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, USA. Silicate weathering and OC cycling in soils influence the transfer of CO2 between the solid Earth and Earth’s ocean and atmosphere, thereby forcing and responding to changes in climate over a range of timescales. These processes are known to influence one another, but without tools to quantitatively probe both simultaneously, our ability to understand how either silicate weathering or OC cycling have responded to past climate change or how they will respond in the future is critically limited. The goal of this project is to develop a multiproxy geochemical approach that allows for the dual analyses of silicate weathering and OC cycling over timescales spanning millennia to millions of years. Motivated by a significant inverse correlation found between published soil lithium (Li) isotope compositions (a measure of silicate weathering intensity) and soil OC concentrations in a soil age sequence in Hawaii, Dr. Ramos will test the applicability of these combined measurements by (1) measuring Li isotope compositions and OC concentrations in soil and river sediments across a watershed with environmental and geologic conditions that differ from Hawaii and (2) developing models that simulate silicate weathering and OC cycling in soils. Research and professional development will involve the training of one undergraduate at Rice and one at Brown in sample acquisition, geochemical analysis of soils, model development, and written and verbal scientific communication. Project findings will be incorporated into a virtual field experience on ecosystems and watersheds, and lesson plans related to this virtual field experience will be developed with Houston-area science educators for usage in middle and high school science classes.<br/><br/>Silicate weathering and organic carbon (OC) cycling in soils respond to and affect climate on a range of timescales, from millennia to millions of years. While typically studied independently of one another, both silicate weathering and OC cycling are intimately tied via the budgets of nutrients, acids, and reactive surfaces in soils. The result is a complex set of positive and negative feedbacks that make it difficult to predict how either weathering or OC cycling will respond to environmental change. Moreover, the relationship(s) between weathering and OC cycling need not be the same across a landscape and may instead be modified by the physical processes operating on distinct landscape elements (e.g., mountain hillslopes, floodplains). Dr. Ramos will test the hypothesis that, over millennial timescales, silicate weathering and OC storage are positively coupled through a mutual dependence on the rate of phyllosilicate (clay) mineral formation and that, as a result, landscape elements where clay mineral formation is favored (e.g., floodplains) strongly impact the net amount of CO2 drawdown. This project will involve sampling of river sediments, soils, and bedrock and subsequent measurements of Li isotope ratios, OC contents, and radiocarbon (14C) contents across an upland to floodplain transition to further our understanding of the coupled inorganic and organic C cycles. The Upper Deschutes Basin in the Oregon Cascades offers a compelling setting to gather critical data that test our hypothesis because of its lithologic (volcanic) uniformity, geologically recent formation (6.8 kya), and its physiographic similarity to other headwater catchments in recently deglaciated terrains. Additionally, results will be used to develop a generic model to address outstanding inconsistencies in modern weathering budgets and the potential magnitude of secular C cycle variation due to changing landscape forms over geologic time.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14077", "attributes": { "award_id": "2052992", "title": "EAR-PF: Mammals as sentinels of biotic recovery and the topographic diversity gradient in the aftermath of the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30597, "first_name": "Lucas", "last_name": "Weaver", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2406, "ror": "", "name": "Weaver, Lucas N", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). <br/><br/>Dr. Lucas N. Weaver has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the ecological recovery of mammals during the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event. Insight from other environmental catastrophes in Earth’s past can provide information about the current environmental crisis. Additionally, impacts of environmental disturbances are not equal across time and space; therefore, it is important to see how resilient or susceptible species are to extinction in different temporal and geographic settings. The K-Pg mass extinction event, which occurred 66 million years ago and is famous for leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs, is similar to the kind of extinction seen today. Towards this end, this project aims to study how mammal communities (including the ancient ancestors of the group to which humans belong) recovered from the K–Pg mass extinction over the first 1 million years of the ‘Age of Mammals,’ in the Denver Basin of Colorado. Mammals are often used as ‘canaries in the coal mine’ for ecological health because environmental variables such as temperature and moisture are related to mammals’ ecological health. The work is based on the hypothesis that the Rocky Mountains acted as a buffer during the K–Pg mass extinction and allowed more mammalian species to survive and diversify in a post-dinosaur world. Given that the Earth is likely in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event in its history, this study provides crucial insight into which ecosystems are at greatest risk, and which ecosystems are better able to ‘weather the storm.’ Broader impacts of this work include working with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to disseminate results to a broad audience through their exhibits; mentoring of undergraduates at University of Michigan and City University of New York, and development of curriculum for high school students. <br/><br/>This project aims to investigate the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mammal recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction (66 million years ago) in the Denver Basin of Colorado. Denver Basin fossil localities are highly resolved chronostratigraphically, allowing precise correlation of the pattern and timing of biotic recovery in different paleogeographic regions of the basin during the first ~1 million years of the Paleogene. Since mountainous regions today are biodiversity hotspots, this project is based on the hypothesis that mammal communities close to the emerging Rocky Mountains (1) were more resistant to the K–Pg mass extinction, and (2) recovered more quickly in its aftermath. To explore these hypotheses, the work will quantify and compare the taxonomic (richness, relative abundance), dietary (inferred via tooth shape), and body mass (inferred via tooth size) diversity between two stratigraphic sequences of fossil mammal assemblages: (1) close to and (2) far from the Rocky Mountain front range. This project will involve field and laboratory work and will use new paleoecological methods to infer community-level mammal diversity patterns through time. This study will be the first to (1) look at spatial heterogeneity in post-K–Pg mammalian recovery in high resolution and (2) explore whether mountain habitats were a driver of early mammalian diversity. These results will help identify geospatial features that promote biological community resilience/reassembly after environmental disasters, and will shed light on the tempo and mode of the post-K–Pg radiation of mammals, which ultimately led to the distribution of terrestrial biodiversity we see today. This work will also integrate data from the mammal fossil record with the broader vertebrate and plant fossil record, and with paleoclimate proxies. This novel multidisciplinary approach will allow collaboration with other scientists to track whole-ecosystem recovery in the aftermath of the K–Pg mass extinction.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14080", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103145", "title": "PostDoctoral Research Fellowship", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Workforce (MSPRF) MathSciPDFel" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2352, "first_name": "Stefaan De", "last_name": "Winter", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 150000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30601, "first_name": "Paula", "last_name": "Burkhardt", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2407, "ror": "", "name": "Burkhardt, Paula Elisabeth", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is made as part of the FY 2021 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. <br/><br/>The title of the project for this fellowship to Paula Burkhardt-Guim is \"C^0 Riemannian metrics with synthetic lower scalar curvature bounds and Ricci flow.\" The host institution for the fellowship is New York University, and the sponsoring scientist is Bruce Kleiner.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14081", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103191", "title": "PostDoctoral Research Fellowship", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Workforce (MSPRF) MathSciPDFel" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2352, "first_name": "Stefaan De", "last_name": "Winter", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 150000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30602, "first_name": "Jacob", "last_name": "Russell-Madonia", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2408, "ror": "", "name": "Russell-Madonia, Jacob", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is made as part of the FY 2021 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. <br/><br/>The title of the project for this fellowship to Jacob Russell-Madonia is \"The mapping class group via hierarchical hyperbolicity\". The host institution for the fellowship is Rice University, and the sponsoring scientist is Christopher Leininger.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14082", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103173", "title": "PostDoctoral Research Fellowship", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Workforce (MSPRF) MathSciPDFel" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 6631, "first_name": "Andrew", "last_name": "Pollington", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 150000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30603, "first_name": "Rita", "last_name": "Teixeira da Costa", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2409, "ror": "", "name": "Teixeira da Costa, Rita", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "", "zip": "", "country": "PO", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is made as part of the FY 2021 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. <br/><br/>The title of the project for this fellowship to Rita Teixeira da Costa is \"The final state conjecture and the large-scale structure of spacetime.\" The host institution for the fellowship is Princeton University, and the sponsoring scientist is Igor Rodnianski.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14083", "attributes": { "award_id": "2046316", "title": "CAREER: Bolstering Food System Resilience to Reduce the Human Impacts of Disasters", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)", "CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 587, "first_name": "Daan", "last_name": "Liang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 521938, "principal_investigator": { "id": 3593, "first_name": "Lauren", "last_name": "Clay", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2410, "ror": "https://ror.org/05adsq794", "name": "D'Youville College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The focus of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to advance the science of food environments and enhance the mitigation and adaptation of social and built environment systems to disasters by bolstering food security and the resilience of food systems. Food is a basic need for human survival and the ability of social systems to meet this need in disaster situations is compromised when our homes, businesses and other structures are damaged and lifelines disrupted. While elements of the various social and built environmental systems that make up the broader food environment as well as food security issues have been studied by various disciplines, a comprehensive, systematic approach has yet to be applied and tested in disaster settings. The overall objectives of this research are to develop a model of the Food Environment in Disasters (FED) along with theory-based tools to support food system resilience. The development of this model and associated tools facilitates a clearer understanding and monitoring of food availability, acceptability, and accessibility to enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences, and health effects of food environment disruption in disasters. This work contributes to NSF’s mission to promote the process of science by developing and validating a new theoretical model and associated metrics on food environment disruption and food security following disasters. The products of this research will advance national health, prosperity, and welfare by supporting improved food security and food system functioning following disasters. <br/><br/>The purpose of this CAREER project is to transform our understanding of disruptions to the social and built food environment and food insecurity in disaster impacted communities. The overall objective of this research is to develop a socio-ecological model of the Food Environment in Disasters (FED), associated metrics, and theory-based tools to generate findings that can bolster food system resilience to hazards. This research departs from the status quo of relying on food system theory and metrics developed in non-disaster contexts to developing an understanding of disaster specific processes and outcomes, thereby enhancing the depth and utility of our knowledge of food environments and security in disasters. Developing a FED theoretical model of food accessibility, availability, and acceptability in disasters will support improved food response and bolsters food system resilience (Aim 1). A new Disaster Research Lab training program based on the Taxonomy of Significant Learning will integrate theory development and empirical testing activities (Aim 2). A portfolio of food system environmental audit tools (EAT) for monitoring disaster preparedness, impact, response, and recovery (Aim 3) will promote improved food environment functioning in disasters. This contribution is expected to help address acute food insecurity issues that can double or triple chronic food security problems following disasters. A public engagement strategic plan for the project will guide meaningful engagement with public stakeholders and audiences to maximize the impact of research activities.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14084", "attributes": { "award_id": "2041294", "title": "Annual REU Site Intersection of Linguistics, Language and Culture Conference", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1351, "first_name": "Josie Welkom", "last_name": "Miranda", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 58364, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30604, "first_name": "Jonathan", "last_name": "Nissenbaum", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30604, "first_name": "Jonathan", "last_name": "Nissenbaum", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2411, "ror": "", "name": "MOLLOY UNIVERSITY", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The NSF REU ILLC annual 2021 and 2022 conferences will coincide with and complement the 2nd Cycle of the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Site 'Intersection of Linguistics, Language and Culture' (ILLC) housed by Molloy College, Long Island and CUNY Brooklyn College, both in New York. The conferences aim at increasing diversity among emerging researchers and among the projects undertaken by future researchers and professionals in linguistics and speech-language-communication sciences. They will involve five components: (i) undergraduate projects by members of cultural, ethnic and linguistic groups underrepresented in higher education, with a focus on novel findings in their language/language varieties, and on STEM-based innovative methodologies and explanations of broader impacts; (ii) participation of high school students so that they discover linguistics and the research areas and professions associated with linguistics, before they enter college; (iii) empowerment of undergraduate and high school students, especially members of groups underrepresented in higher education, to become emergent scholars and valued members of higher education institutions in the process of the organization of the conference; (iv) dissemination of the conference oral and poster presentations during and beyond the conference through two complementary platforms: open-access publications of proceedings and video presentations; (v) recognition and valuing of college and high school participation and work through the competitive awarding of travel expenses and prizes. The proposed conferences will disseminate novel findings that reflect the U.S. and world cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity and that are needed to advance the field. <br/><br/>The proposed conferences will have three sets of broader impacts including (i) the clinical, educational and technological implications of the findings that emerge from the projects conducted by the NSF REU ILLC site fellows and the poster presenters, (ii) the increase of diversity of the workforce among researchers and professionals in speech-language-hearing-communication sciences, (iii) the increase of knowledge in the general population of the significance of linguistics, the fact that it is a STEM-based discipline and that various professional sectors exhibiting rapid growth value both linguistic training and the ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage of minority students from groups underrepresented in higher education<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14091", "attributes": { "award_id": "2050006", "title": "EAR-PF: Towards a robust understanding of the spatio-temporal evolution of foreshock sequences from the laboratory to the field", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30614, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Bolton", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2412, "ror": "", "name": "Bolton, David Chas", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>Dr. David C. Bolton has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the evolution of earthquake foreshock sequences in time and space, explored through natural and laboratory fault zones. Estimating the timing and location of future earthquakes has been a long-standing goal in the study of seismology. However, progress in this area has been slow due to a poor understanding of the connections between the origins of earthquakes and seismic activity. Foreshocks are small earthquakes that precede the main earthquake and are thought to be indirect evidence that a fault is close to failure. However, foreshocks are not an easily observed feature of all earthquakes, and their connection to the impending earthquake is not well understood. This work will integrate laboratory and field-based observations of foreshocks with an aim to provide a coherent understanding of the evolution of foreshock sequences. A significant focus will be devoted to investigating whether foreshock properties encode information about the mainshock size. This work will provide key insights into the preparatory phase of earthquakes and will help advance earthquake early warning systems and improve earthquake hazard assessment. The project will also join forces with the GeoFORCE outreach program led by the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT-Austin to provide research opportunities to underrepresented communities in southwest Texas. <br/><br/>This project will implement novel machine learning and earthquake seismology techniques for developing high-fidelity earthquake catalogs that are rich in small magnitude events. These high-resolution catalogs will illuminate how foreshocks interact with each other, their evolution in space and time, and their connection to the mainshock. The project will utilize laboratory experiments instrumented with acoustic emission monitoring to shed light on the causative processes that drive foreshock sequences. Fault zone properties such as stress, slip displacement, strain, will be integrated with the spatio-temporal patterns of acoustic emissions, allowing for a detailed understanding of the connection between the physics of earthquake nucleation processes and seismic activity. A second key element of the project will involve scaling up the laboratory observations to geologically relevant conditions by detecting and locating foreshocks on the well-characterized and seismically active Apennine fault system in Italy. This multi-scale, integrated research plan represents a unique opportunity to study seismic processes from the laboratory to tectonic scale and will determine if characteristics of laboratory foreshocks can be scaled up to tectonic fault zones. The proposed work has important implications for seismic hazard analysis and could help improve our ability to make accurate hazard forecasts and scientific predictions about earthquake processes.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14092", "attributes": { "award_id": "2052839", "title": "EAR-PF: Active Tectonics and Crustal Structure of Northern Alaska", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Geophysics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30615, "first_name": "Bryant", "last_name": "Chow", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2413, "ror": "", "name": "Chow, Bryant", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "", "zip": "", "country": "NZ", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Dr. Bryant Chow has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the question of why earthquakes occur where they do. This work will take place at the University of Alaska Fairbanks under the mentorship of Dr. Carl Tape. The Earth’s crust is the outermost shell where all human activity takes place. Fractured into many tectonic plates, the crust hosts disastrous events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, near its surface. Earthquakes typically occur where two or more plates meet, but they can also occur far from plate boundaries. The processes that cause these earthquakes are not well understood. This project seeks to characterize Earth’s crustal structure, linking deep-Earth processes with surface geological activity to explore why earthquakes occur where they do. The work will investigate plate tectonic processes and crustal structure in northern Alaska, an understudied region far from plate boundaries that has hosted M>4 earthquakes. The goal is to characterize earthquakes and develop high-resolution models of the crust in order to understand how tectonic forces are transferred far into the interior of plates. Although population density in northern Alaska is low, earthquake hazard remains important for infrastructure, environmental, and industrial purposes and is critical for development in the region. Alaska’s North Slope is a major oil producing region for the United States, and northeastern Alaska is home to the largest national wildlife refuge in the country. This project involves outreach to local communities in northern Alaska using novel teaching tools to convey earthquake risks and hazards. Additionally, Dr. Chow will produce a comprehensive catalog of models that can be used for characterizing earthquake hazard. <br/><br/>This project proposes a detailed seismotectonic investigation of northern Alaska to constrain mechanisms controlling tectonics in and around the region. Northern Alaska features diffuse seismicity and large-scale deformation far from the plate boundaries. However, the structures and processes involved are not well understood. Due to its remoteness, difficulties in mapping and monitoring of northern Alaska have resulted in historically sparse coverage. This changed following the deployment of the EarthScope Transportable Array in Alaska, with years of high-quality seismic data now available for a comprehensive study. This project involves investigation of two scientific questions: Are deformation and structure in northeastern Alaska consistent with (1) far field deformation from plate convergence 1000 km away? and (2) extrusional extension of western Alaska? This work will advance understanding of how global geodynamic processes shape continental scale tectonics and relate to regional deformation and local seismicity, using waveform cross-correlation techniques and 3D numerical waveform simulations. Detection and re-location of seismicity will be followed by inversion of seismic moment tensors to constrain fault structure and deformation characteristics. Waveform simulations will be used to validate existing tomography models of northern Alaska and for subsequent full-waveform tomography, which will result in high-resolution structural models of the crust and upper mantle. Ambient noise adjoint tomography will provide a velocity model of northern Alaska with resolution on the order of tens of km. A subsequent earthquake adjoint tomography inversion will refine a northeastern subset of this model, resulting in km scale resolutions. The success of these tasks will lead to refined earthquake catalogs, high resolution velocity models, and detailed interpretations of tectonic processes for northern Alaska.<br/><br/>This project is jointly funded by the EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship program, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the EAR Geophysics program.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14096", "attributes": { "award_id": "2049767", "title": "Investigating environmental identity development among children in rural Alaska Native communities through intergenerational, culturally responsive community science programming", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "ITEST-Inov Tech Exp Stu & Teac" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 5848, "first_name": "Alicia Santiago", "last_name": "Gonzalez", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 960915, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30623, "first_name": "Jessica", "last_name": "Andrews", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30622, "first_name": "Mary A", "last_name": "Haggerty", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2414, "ror": "https://ror.org/003rjf961", "name": "WGBH Educational Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand culturally responsive approaches supported by appropriate technologies to broaden participation of Indigenous students in STEM studies and careers. In this project, WGBH Educational Foundation and the University of Alaska Fairbanks will work collaboratively with advisors, library workers, public media professionals, and families, educators, and community members from rural Alaska Native villages to inform the research base on environmental identity, i.e., the empathy, knowledge, and skills that children need to act responsibly for the environment. Although environmental identity has come to be understood as an important component in children’s future knowledge of and commitment to the environment, little is known about how elementary school-aged children begin to construct a meaningful environmental identity and how the adults in their lives can support them in doing so, particularly among Indigenous children and families. The project will address this research gap. Building on Molly of Denali, a PBS KIDS animated children’s series that features an Indigenous lead character, the project team will explore how children in rural Alaska Native villages relate to their environments, how parents and other community adults conceive of environmental identity and regard their role in nurturing it with children, and how the project team can leverage these research findings, along with positive perceptions of Molly of Denali, to create an intergenerational, community-based learning program that engages Alaska Native families in environmental science learning while contributing to children’s environmental identity development.<br/><br/>The design-based research project will unfold over three phases: (1) formative research, during which the team will collaborate with three communities to conduct initial research into how 6- to 8-year-old children from rural Alaska Native villages relate to their place and environment; the role adults play in fostering this relationship, and how community assets and technology resources are being used, or could be used, to support science exploration in informal environments; (2) iterative co-design and testing, during which the team will work closely with two rural Alaska Native communities to develop, test, and revise an implementation model and set of prototype multimedia resources for an intergenerational community science program that supports environmental identity development; and (3) scale-pp evaluation, during which Alaska-based evaluator Goldstream Group will work with additional rural Alaska Native communities to assess the revised model and resources and learn more about factors that could support or impede wider implementation of finished materials across Alaska. The materials will be tested with families from at least 4 communities engaging a total of 24 children. The project will also include a process evaluation that will investigate the co-design process. Across all phases, the project will engage children as active researchers, capturing their lived experiences in nature via drawings, descriptions, and child-led nature tours that employ portable cameras. Data will also be collected from informal educators (e.g., library workers, public media representatives), community members (e.g., tribal Elders, local STEM professionals), and parents via interviews and focus group discussions. Throughout, researchers will use qualitative approaches (e.g.,content, narrative, discourse, framework analyses)to identify and describe behaviors associated with environmental identity development and will share findings with the field. This project is funded by the ITEST program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1383, "pages": 1405, "count": 14046 } } }