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Conducting successful research cruises on these ships requires scientists (particularly those in supervisory roles on the survey trips – or “chief scientists”) to understand the planning and logistics of how to request time on ships, how to coordinate personnel and equipment, how to plan for operations and survey tasks at sea, and how to work with vessel crew and staff – as well as how to deal with unexpected issues which may arise. To maintain a robust scientific workforce that can effectively request, plan, and lead this type of work, early career scientists need to gain training and experience, with consideration for the unique challenges of work the Arctic, such as planning survey routes through sea ice. There is a particular need for this training and capacity-building at the present time, given increasing interest in Arctic research and a lag in research cruises (and thus junior scientist training) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project will host up to 12 early career participants on a week-long R/V Sikuliaq transit between Seward and Nome, AK. Participants will participate in virtual pre-cruise meetings, a one-day pre-cruise workshop, and diverse training modules on the cruise to develop proficiency, build confidence, and become part of an early career arctic oceanographer cohort. \n\nThis project will implement an early career chief scientist training cruise onboard the R/V Sikuliaq in Alaskan waters to help train a new generation of oceanographers who have the skills and confidence to lead these types of expeditions. Participants will be recruited through an advertisement process and will be introduced to the US Academic Research Fleet (ARF), the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS), and cruise planning and logistics through several virtual pre-cruise meetings prior to the training cruise. Participants will have the opportunity to plan their cruise sampling, communicate plans with the vessel crew, and arrange for mobilization of any required supplies. Topics will include strategies for using the Marine Facilities Planning system and the Cruise Planning workflow, learning how to request and use resources from the UNOLS van pool and other community-based vessel equipment and support groups, and how to coordinate and manage shipboard and shore-based personnel. During a pre-cruise one-day shoreside workshop, participants will engage in targeted activities to build leadership and explore interpersonal dynamics prior to boarding. During the cruise, science mentors and vessel scientific staff will provide guidance to participants and lead a series of presentations and group discussions about how to manage a successful marine survey. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in sampling and daily activity planning. After the cruise, participants will ship any samples collected to their home institution, archive data, and create a cruise report. Specific desired outcomes include developing a well-trained seagoing scientific workforce to promote U.S. national interests in the Arctic through oceanographic research on NSF-supported platforms. The project will help to develop a cohort of early career researchers who can become future mentors among the polar science community.\n\nThis 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": "12862", "attributes": { "award_id": "2146552", "title": "CAREER: How plant genotype and environmental factors jointly influence the structure of microbial communities and plant health", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "Plant-Biotic Interactions" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 27327, "first_name": "Courtney", "last_name": "Jahn", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 532404, "principal_investigator": { "id": 28807, "first_name": "Posy", "last_name": "Busby", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "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/>Understanding how host organisms and their resident microbial communities interact is a central challenge in biology, with broad implications ranging from agriculture to human health. A primary question is what factors and mechanisms shape the composition of microbial communities. A related issue is whether and how the structure of microbial communities affects the host. This project addresses these two questions by focusing on how distinct environmental factors, in combination with host genetic variation, shape the composition and functional influence of microbial communities. The work will take advantage of an established, highly accessible plant-fungal symbiosis in Populus, in which leaf endophytes are known to confer disease protection. A complementary educational program will enrich and broaden the research through student-led work investigating seasonal variation in the drivers of endophyte community structure in common gardens and in greenhouse experiments. Overall, this CAREER project will deepen our understanding of how environment and genotype affect endophyte communities and disease protection in plants, while promoting diversity in a STEM field and contributing to conservation and crop production in the face of climate change.<br/><br/>Interactions between plants and their associated microbial communities are known to be sensitive to the environment, but the underlying drivers of this variation are poorly understood. This CAREER project tests mechanistic hypotheses for how plant genotypes interact with distinct, abiotic and biotic components of the environment to give rise to variation in associated microbial communities. This work will be conducted in the cottonwood model system (Populus trichocarpa), in which host genetics, leaf fungi, and distinct environmental factors can be precisely controlled and quantified. The first objective tests how distinct environmental factors and plant genotype jointly influence the composition of fungal leaf endophyte communities. The second objective is to understand how endophyte community structure affects plants, specifically testing the hypothesis that increasing phylogenetic diversity in an endophyte community provides the host plant with a higher degree of disease protection. The third objective connects the prior two objectives by testing how a particular plant trait (the level of cuticular wax) influences endophyte community structure, thereby indirectly affecting disease susceptibility. By elucidating the environmental sensitivity of host control over beneficial fungi, the results of this CAREER project will inform global efforts to conserve plant biodiversity and to sustainably grow crops for a growing human population. The educational components of the project will provide research opportunities to a diverse group of high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and a postdoctoral scholar.<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": "13457", "attributes": { "award_id": "2138801", "title": "OPP-PRF: Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Bowhead Whales to Identify Biotic and Abiotic Drivers and Timing of Migration", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "POST DOC/TRAVEL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 802, "first_name": "Erica", "last_name": "Hill", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-01-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 285338, "principal_investigator": { "id": 29566, "first_name": "Angela", "last_name": "Szesciorka", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Bowhead whales migrate through the Bering Strait every spring to feed on zooplankton growing in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas; they are vital to the marine ecosystem and to Alaska Native communities. As the Arctic warms, some whales may be changing their migration patterns to spend winter on their summer feeding grounds. Changes to migration could impact breeding and increase competition, killer whale attacks, and ship-strike risk. Bowhead whale vocalizations provide an opportunity to use passive acoustic monitoring to study their movement. This project combines data on bowhead whale calls with environmental and prey data to track movement and predict ship-strike risk. The findings will improve management of this ecologically, biologically, and culturally important species and help researchers understand climate change impacts on whale behavior. Research results will be presented in Alaska and to Arctic researchers. Activities planned for undergraduate, public, and K-12 audiences will provide opportunities to engage participants in marine mammal science and bioacoustics.<br/><br/>This research addresses the impacts of climate change on bowhead migration, the drivers of migration, and the potential for ship strikes in Bering Strait and the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. Long-term passive acoustic data from three mooring locations combined with modeled environmental and prey data are used to examine the drivers of bowhead migration. This research will quantify whale presence during seasonal periods when whales are historically not expected to be present in the area. Results will indicate whether bowhead whales are changing their migratory patterns, which could impact Indigenous communities. Whale presence will be analyzed relative to vessel traffic, which will provide insight on ship-strike risk and effects of ship noise on bowheads.<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": "13522", "attributes": { "award_id": "2138790", "title": "OPP-PRF: Submesoscale Fjord Variability and Its Influence on Glacial Melt", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "POST DOC/TRAVEL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 29659, "first_name": "Lauren", "last_name": "Culler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-01-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 282979, "principal_investigator": { "id": 29660, "first_name": "Ken", "last_name": "Zhao", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Understanding the processes at the boundary where ice and ocean meet, specifically at the faces of melting glaciers, remains a key challenge in our ability to predict the melting and retreat of these glaciers and their influence on sea level rise. The meltwater from these glaciers also has far-reaching implications for the rapidly-changing polar oceans. Recent observations and numerical simulations find unexpectedly high melting at the faces of submerged glaciers, and recent theory suggests that one possible explanation is the existence of relatively small-scale (submesoscale) ocean currents within glacial fjords (which are narrow, deep, and submerged valleys connecting glaciers to the open ocean). This research will connect the submesoscale ocean currents with the physics at the ice-ocean boundary layer to develop improved physical models that take into account the multiscale effects of ocean circulation near ice-ocean boundaries. The research is of critical importance to society since it will improve our understanding of how ocean circulation in fjords contributes to glacial melt and retreat, which will help improve projections of sea level rise and changes in marine life in these regions. This project will enable the training of a postdoctoral researcher (as the primary investigator) and provide funds to mentor two summer undergraduate students. <br/><br/>Currently, there are order-of-magnitude discrepancies between observed and predicted melt rates at marine-terminating glaciers. Recent models suggest that the energetic dynamics at the ice-ocean boundary layer and submesoscale variability within fjords potentially contribute to these elevated melt rates. These discrepancies are hypothesized to arise from multi-scale ice-ocean interactions, with important processes and melt-circulation feedbacks across these scales that together contribute to an amplified melt rate. High-resolution submesoscale-resolving simulations of fjords and Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of the glacial ice-ocean boundary will be used to test the hypothesis that fjord submesoscale variability is a primary source of eddy kinetic energy within fjords and is potentially excited by a combination of shear, convective, and centrifugal instabilities driven by melt over the entire glacial front. These results will be used to test and develop improved parameterizations for the ice-ocean boundary layer that are consistent with previous and ongoing observations at the submarine face of LeConte Glacier, Alaska. These improved parameterizations will reduce uncertainty in glacial melt rate estimates (and thus, sea level rise projections) and improve our understanding of fjord circulation and its influence on polar coastal biogeochemistry. These improvements also likely to benefit our understanding of other types of ice-ocean boundaries.<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": "13538", "attributes": { "award_id": "2127242", "title": "Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Global changes, local impacts: Study of glacial fjords, ecosystems and communities in Greenland", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "NNA-Navigating the New Arctic" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 3760, "first_name": "Colleen", "last_name": "Strawhacker", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-01-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 419172, "principal_investigator": { "id": 29685, "first_name": "Lorenzo", "last_name": "Ciannelli", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security, and resilience of the Nation, the larger region, and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems, natural environments, and the built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Data and Observations, Forecasting, and Global Impact.<br/><br/>Fjords are long narrow inlets that connect glacier-covered land to the ocean. The release of meltwater and sediments from the glaciers makes these waters nutrient rich. These conditions support healthy marine ecosystems with high densities of seabirds, marine mammals, and fishes. As a result, many Arctic settlements whose livelihoods depend on fishing and hunting are located near glacial fjords. Arctic warming is driving the retreat of glaciers, resulting in a warming of the ocean waters that has decreases the prosperity of fjord ecosystems. In addition, human activities such as commercial fishing, resource extraction, and tourism increasingly influence coastal regions. Research on changes in Arctic coastal margins has focused primarily on the impact of changing ice sheets, with comparatively less emphasis on the surrounding fjord systems. Fewer studies still seek to integrate the impacts of changing natural and social systems on fjords. The goal of this project is to understand how the combined impact of these changes affect the greater fjord system comprised of the ice, the fjords, the marine ecosystem, and the local communities that rely on them for their livelihood. This goal will be achieved through a detailed study of physical, biological, and social system interactions in Greenland fjords by an interdisciplinary team of oceanographers, glaciologists, climate scientists, environmental historians, fisheries, and ecosystem experts. The focus of this study will be on two different fjords in Greenland to understand how their unique characteristics influence the ice-fjord-marine life-local people system. Information will be disseminated to US and Greenlandic governments, communities, and other stakeholders to develop adaptive strategies to sustain fjord systems in a changing Arctic.<br/><br/>The goal of this project is to improve understanding of the physical and biological processes that sustain ecosystems in glacial fjords. This will be achieved through an integrated analysis of historical data, collection of new data, and model projections. Specific research activities include: i) sampling cruises to two fjords in Greenland to obtain physical, biological, and chemical oceanographic measurements; ii) ocean mooring to measure the seasonal variability of these systems; iii) collection of fish eggs and larvae for measurement and modeling of transport in fjord systems using particle tracking models; iv) remote sensing and regional-scale modeling to assess glacier changes in the fjords; v) use of climate and ice sheet models to derive future projections; and vi) collation and analysis of local societal histories through archival and on-site research with Greenlandic partners. Results will be integrated into a detailed comparative analysis of the climatic, ecosystem, and societal forces influencing ecosystem sustainability at the local and national level. The collaboration between US and Greenlandic researchers will benefit society by generating information that can be used to help develop adaptive strategies and sustainable practices. Additional benefits to society result from the training of undergraduate and graduate students, and a postgraduate fellow Results will be results will be shared not only through university teaching and academic publishing but also with the broader public in the USA and Greenland through plain-language publications, new websites, a film and other multimedia productions, public lectures, and new international partnerships.<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": "13935", "attributes": { "award_id": "2116026", "title": "Modeling Zoos and Aquariums as Inclusive Communities of Science: Developing a framework of inclusive practices for broadening the participation of autistic individuals", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "AISL" ], "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": 1231231, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30363, "first_name": "Kari", "last_name": "Hart", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30363, "first_name": "Kari", "last_name": "Hart", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30364, "first_name": "Lauren", "last_name": "Weaver", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "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/>Zoos and aquariums have been offering programming, events, and visit accommodations to autistic individuals for several years. While these efforts can provide great experiences, they are focused more on accommodation and the outward-facing guest experience than inclusion. Lack of inclusion features in design, programming, and representation amongst zoo and aquarium representatives, ultimately limits full inclusion and adds to a sense in autistic individuals of not belonging and not being welcomed. To develop a fully inclusive experience for autistic individuals, this project will develop an evidence-based framework of inclusive practices for zoos and aquariums and build a community of practice around inclusion broadly. The project brings together researchers from Oregon State University, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders, and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Researchers will create and investigate the extent and ways in which a research-informed framework and associated tools (i.e. case studies, discussion guides, self-guided audits, etc.) and strategies support science learning for autistic individuals, and help practitioners expand access and inclusion of autistic audiences beyond special events or the general visit experience by applying inclusive practices for programs, exhibit development, internships, volunteer opportunities, and employment. To maximize impact, the project will develop and expand a network of early adopters to build a community of practice around inclusive practices to develop fully inclusive zoo and aquarium experiences for all individuals.<br/><br/>The project will investigate 4 research questions: (1) In what ways and to what extent are zoos and aquariums currently addressing access and inclusion for autistic individuals? (2) How do staff in zoos and aquariums perceive their and their institution’s willingness and ability to address access and inclusion for autistic individuals? (3) What is a framework of evidence-based practices across the zoo and aquarium experience that is inclusive for autistic individuals, and what associated tools and strategies are needed to make the framework useful for early adopters? And (4) to what extent and in what ways does a research informed framework with associated tools and strategies engage, support, and enhance an existing community of practitioners already dedicated to addressing autistic audiences and promote inclusive practices at zoos and aquariums for autistic people? The project is designed as two phases: (1) the research and development of a framework of inclusive practices and tools for supporting autistic individuals and (2) expanding a network of early adopters to build a community of practice around inclusive practices and an overall strategy of implementation. The framework will be informed through a state of the field study across the zoo/aquarium field that includes a landscape study and needs assessment as well as a review of literature that synthesizes existing research across disciplines for developing inclusive practices for autistic individuals in zoos and aquariums. The team will also conduct online surveys and focus groups to gather input from various stakeholders including zoo and aquarium employees and practitioners, autistic individuals, and their social groups (e.g., family members, peers, advocacy organizations). The second phase of the study will focus on sharing the framework and tools with practitioners across the zoo/aquarium field for feedback and reflection to develop an overall strategy for broader implementation and expanding the existing network of zoo and aquarium professionals to build a community of practice dedicated to the comprehensive inclusion of autistic individuals across the full zoo and aquarium experience. The results will be disseminated through conference presentations, scholarly publications, online discussion forums, and collaborative partners’ websites. The project represents one of the first of its kind on autistic audiences within the zoo and aquarium context and is the first to look at the full experience of autistic patrons to zoos and aquariums across programs/events, exhibits, volunteering, internship, and employment opportunities. A process evaluation conducted as part of the project will explore how the approach taken in this project may be more broadly applied in understanding and advancing inclusion for other audiences historically underserved or marginalized by zoos and aquariums.<br/><br/>This Research in Service to Practice project is supported by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments. informal environments.<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": "14416", "attributes": { "award_id": "2121694", "title": "Collaborative Research: How roots, regolith, rock and climate interact over decades to centuries — the R3-C Frontier.", "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": 12641, "first_name": "Richard", "last_name": "Yuretich", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-08-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 624207, "principal_investigator": { "id": 31030, "first_name": "Pamela", "last_name": "Sullivan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "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/>This project will examine how the interaction of climate, the physical and chemical characteristics of the bedrock, and the action of vegetation, control the movement and storage of water and carbon on Earth’s surface. These processes in turn influence climate by altering important factors such as greenhouse gas concentrations like H2O and CO2. Human activities can change these pathways, and this research will enable the forecasting of the possible impacts upon the Earth-surface environment. To achieve this goal requires synthesizing existing datasets, collecting new data, and training teams of people in the fields of water science, geochemistry, soil science, geophysics, ecology, and Earth system modeling. The project will include 28 undergraduate students, four graduate students, and three postdoctoral scholars across seven universities to collectively explore how the interaction of plant roots and bedrock regulate water and carbon movement between the land and atmosphere. The project will also train 45 educators to develop discovery-based learning approaches in their classes, the products of which will be publicly accessible on available web platforms.<br/><br/>This project will investigate when and to what degree bedrock exerts more control than roots on water and carbon fluxes. Using an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates new data collection, data harvesting, machine learning, and numerical modeling, this research will determine the mechanisms by which bedrock and fracture distributions govern the development of preferential flow paths. It will also examine depth, degree, and timing of coupling between the subsurface and atmosphere and its impact on water storage and fluxes. The project will explore how plant roots interact with bedrock to shape the subsurface structure, associated carbon storage, and transpiration rates. Methods will include 3D geophysical surveys and structural soil pore analyses to determine the occurrence of changes in the subsurface and how they govern root water uptake. Global in situ and remotely sensed data will be integrated via machine learning to discern emergent patterns in subsurface structure on larger scales. The project will leverage existing datasets and collect new data from the NSF Critical Zone Cluster Networks (CZCNs), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), and Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs. The ultimate outcome will be a comprehensive framework of hydro-biogeochemical linkages to forecast how climatic conditions and subsurface structure regulate hydrological flow and the carbon cycle.<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": "14551", "attributes": { "award_id": "2240912", "title": "NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Interaction Between Coastal and Riverine Processes and the Built Environment in Coastal Arctic Communities", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "NNA-Navigating the New Arctic" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 31196, "first_name": "kate", "last_name": "ruck", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-07-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 68778, "principal_investigator": { "id": 26979, "first_name": "Emily", "last_name": "Eidam", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by supporting planning activities with clear potential to develop novel, leading edge research ideas and approaches to address NNA goals. It integrates aspects of the natural environment and built environment, addresses important societal challenges, and engages with local communities.<br/><br/>Alaskan communities and their built environment are affected by permafrost thaw, coastal and river erosion, flooding, and other natural processes altered or accelerated by environmental changes. Arctic coastal communities in particular face compound threats from riverbank erosion, permafrost thaw, and increasing coastal storm impacts. As data collection campaigns in the Arctic are costly and often limited to periods of the year when weather affords access to sites of interest, significant gaps in data and information can result. This NNA planning grant employs workshops designed to discover gaps in knowledge and develop associated research questions and hypotheses to address issues affecting coastal Arctic communities in Alaska. It identifies novel strategies for making targeted measurements in these challenging environments. This project also facilitates development of ideas for novel but feasible long-term data collection and monitoring strategies that encourage and rely upon local community engagement. Additionally, this project aids the development of a new multi- and interdisciplinary research team to open pathways towards future research efforts.<br/><br/>This NNA planning grant synthesizes and develops key research questions related to the interaction between coastal and riverine processes and the built environment in the coastal Arctic region in the context of environmental change. This research project is positioned at the nexus between the sciences of the natural and built environments and includes co-production of knowledge with local Arctic communities, as it identifies effective data collection and monitoring strategies to answer these questions, pinpoints expertise needed to assemble a diverse and interdisciplinary research team to address these questions, and engages Alaskan Arctic coastal communities and stakeholders to develop a feasible, sustainable, and impactful research strategy. These goals are achieved through two workshops that include researchers, federal and state agency stakeholders, and community stakeholders, as well as a diverse representation of domestic and international experts, early career researchers, and students. This project engages local community stakeholders into all aspects of the project to learn about and incorporate their knowledge and needs. The project plans to disseminate research findings widely as it assembles a core research team for future steps into research on Arctic coastal communities.<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": "14564", "attributes": { "award_id": "2330737", "title": "MFB: Better Homologous Folding using Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "CHEMISTRY PROJECTS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 27137, "first_name": "Sorin", "last_name": "Draghici", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2024-03-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 1453104, "principal_investigator": { "id": 31212, "first_name": "Liang", "last_name": "Huang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 31211, "first_name": "David H", "last_name": "Mathews", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is of utmost importance in our daily life because it plays essential roles in every living cell. Furthermore, our world was recently turned upside down by an RNA virus, which was then partially contained by an RNA vaccine. Contrary to common wisdom, RNA is not just an intermediate “messenger” between the more well-known DNA and protein, but it can also have profound biological functions such as controlling gene expression. These functions are determined by RNA structures (the “shapes” of the RNAs), and therefore accurate modeling of these structures is critical for understanding RNA functions and for designing vaccines, test kits, and drugs. However, existing experimental methods for determining RNA structure are extremely expensive and often limited to short sequences, and existing computational tools are rather slow and not completely accurate. This slowness hinders their applications to full-length viral genomes such as coronavirus (about 30,000 nucleotides or “letters”). Therefore, there is a critical need to develop better computational methods to predict RNA structures that are more accurate and more efficient and scalable to longer sequences such as whole genomes. Advances in this direction could improve our understanding of RNA viruses (which include common cold, influenza, Rabies, HIV, Ebola, polio, measles, and more) and increase our readiness to fight the next pandemic.<br/><br/>This project develops efficient algorithms for predicting the structures of multiple related (“homologous”) RNA sequences such as SARS-CoV-2 variants. These algorithms will scale linearly in both the average sequence length and the number of sequences. This linear scaling will enable whole genome applications. The researchers aim to achieve these goals with ideas from two branches of artificial intelligence (AI): natural language processing and deep learning. Specifically, this project will improve three types of homologous folding algorithms and adapt them to structure discovery: (1) align-then-fold: first align the homologous sequences and then predict the consensus structure for the aligned sequences; (2) iteratively align-and-fold: iterate between sequence alignment and structure prediction; and (3) simultaneous align-and-fold: jointly predict alignment and structures. The team will adapt these fast methods to discover conserved structures using global structure prediction for RNA viral genomes and transcripts. This research will make it possible to discover new RNA structures and functions, and will help the design of vaccines, test kits, and drugs.<br/><br/>This project is supported by the Divisions of Information and Intelligent Systems and of Chemistry and the Chemical Theory, Models, and Computational Methods Program in the Division of Chemistry.<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": "14654", "attributes": { "award_id": "2401176", "title": "Polar Early Career Chief Scientist Training Program", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Polar Special Initiatives" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 590, "first_name": "Elizabeth", "last_name": "Rom", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2024-03-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 337916, "principal_investigator": { "id": 26979, "first_name": "Emily", "last_name": "Eidam", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 31353, "first_name": "Laurie W", "last_name": "Juranek", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 154, "ror": "https://ror.org/00ysfqy60", "name": "Oregon State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Non-technical:<br/>The National Science Foundation supports ships dedicated to oceanographic research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Conducting successful research cruises on these ships requires that scientists (particularly those in supervisory roles on the survey trips – or “chief scientists”) understand the logistics of how to request time on ships, how to coordinate personnel and equipment, how to plan for operations and survey tasks at sea, and how to work with vessel crew and staff – as well as how to deal with unexpected issues which may arise. To maintain a robust scientific workforce that can effectively request, plan, and lead this type of work, early career scientists need to gain training and experience, with consideration for some of the unique challenges faced at both poles such as planning routes through sea ice. There is a particular need for this training and capacity-building at the present time, given increasing arctic research interests and a lag in research cruises (and thus junior scientist training) during the COVID-19 pandemic. To equip and motivate a new generation of seagoing polar oceanographers to use these assets, the project team will host a training cruise on USCGC Healy for approximately twenty early career participants with support from four science mentors and one or more community observers. Participants will participate in virtual pre-cruise meetings, a one-day pre-cruise workshop, and a variety of training modules on the cruise to develop proficiency, build confidence, and become part of an early career polar oceanographer cohort. <br/><br/>Technical:<br/>The Arctic and Antarctic are hotspots for environmental change and cutting-edge research on oceanographic processes spanning an array of disciplines. Presently the U.S. science community uses a limited suite of vessels for polar oceanographic research, including USCG icebreakers as well as some foreign and private contract research vessels. The barriers to entry for using these platforms are relatively high for junior scientists. Investigators must be familiar with protocols and procedures for requesting these specialized vessels, must have knowledge of how to effectively plan and lead cruises (which sometimes involve multiple and multi-national project teams), and must effectively interface with polar community needs and sensitive ecosystems. As a result, new investigators may be hesitant to propose and lead such cruises, which in turn may limit the amount of novel research being proposed for the U.S. fleet. To equip and motivate a new generation of seagoing polar oceanographers to use these assets, the project team will host a training cruise on USCGC Healy for approximately twenty early career participants with support from four science mentors and one or more community observers. The proposed early career “Chief Scientist” training program will be conducted on an opportunistic transit of Healy through the Northwest Passage, to train participants about the complexities of planning international research cruises and working with multiple specialists including officers, community observers, crew, and technicians as well as interdisciplinary colleagues. Participants will collect measurements and data along the route to use for educational purposes and/or provide pilot data for new proposals. The program will emphasize training in seagoing logistics, cohort building, a positive and supportive at-sea culture, communication with other leaders and specialists, problem-solving skills, and operational awareness and planning.<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": 1384, "pages": 1419, "count": 14184 } } }