Grant List
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Also, most of the energy consumption is wasted as heat. This combination of toxic environmental emissions and high energy inefficiencies demands better thermal engineering strategies capable of efficiently utilizing the wasted heat as reusable energy, thus lowering the consumption of the ever-depleting nonrenewable resources in the process. One innovative strategy, which goes beyond the traditional approach of utilizing passive thermal components to cool electronic devices is to actively control heat flow in electronics through thermal switches. This project will build on recent advances in 2D polymers to design new materials with superior thermal switching properties. Through this project, collaboration with local high schools will be initiated to develop educational modules for K-12 teachers and students providing opportunities for them to get exposure to nanotechnology through extracurricular activities in the Providence school system, which is the largest urban district in Rhode Island.<br/><br/>The overarching goal of this proposed research program is to develop a bottom-up design criterion for a dynamic thermal switch based on molecular framework materials, possessing the ability to actively manipulate thermal gradients with high switching ratios and fast response times. The project team will perform systematic studies of structure-property relationship on 2D covalent organic frameworks, an emerging class of crystalline and porous polymeric materials, by implementing both theoretical and experimental approaches. All measurements will be performed using advancements in pump-probe optical spectroscopy techniques and these experiments will be corroborated with first-principles calculations and molecular dynamics simulations to access the atomistic and mode-level dynamical processes involving different types of energy carriers in these novel materials. This project will advance the fundamental understanding of energy transport mechanisms in molecular framework materials, 2D porous thin films and across hybrid interfaces occurring under structural phase transitions and electronic structure changes resulting from externally applied stimuli. This will open doors for the realization of new paradigms in heat, mass and charge transport properties that are facilitated by the 1D pore channels with high surface areas in 2D polymers.<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": "14361", "attributes": { "award_id": "2122813", "title": "PFI-TT: A reliable, fast and low-cost field test for hemp", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)", "GOALI-Grnt Opp Acad Lia wIndus" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 27174, "first_name": "Debora", "last_name": "Rodrigues", "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": 249956, "principal_investigator": { "id": 27122, "first_name": "Jose", "last_name": "Almirall", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30960, "first_name": "Christopher", "last_name": "Ross", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 207, "ror": "https://ror.org/02gz6gg07", "name": "Florida International University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is to develop a reliable chemical field test that can easily and quickly differentiate between hemp and marijuana plants in the field. A miniaturized testing platform results in improved sensitivity and effectiveness. This technology addresses a need to differentiate plants quickly and effectively for use by law enforcement, regulatory bodies, and also by the hemp growing industry. This PFI-TT project will accelerate the commercialization of a viable solution that will compete favorably with an existing technology and incorporate engineering expertise to address the scaling challenges to commercialize the rapid test kit.<br/><br/>The proposed project seeks to use a polymer-coated fiberglass substrate and a robust chemical reaction to provide miniaturized reaction results. The major technical challenge in the commercialization of the rapid test kit is the development of a prototype that can be industrially scalable for various market segments. In order to address the technical challenges, the team will validate the prototype kit with industry partners and standardize a versatile platform that is commercially viable and that can address various market segments.<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": "14362", "attributes": { "award_id": "2122779", "title": "PFI-TT: Storing energy in the electric vehicle’s automotive body", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)", "GOALI-Grnt Opp Acad Lia wIndus" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2267, "first_name": "Samir M.", "last_name": "Iqbal", "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": 250000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30962, "first_name": "Svetlana", "last_name": "Shtrom", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30961, "first_name": "Svetlana S", "last_name": "Shtrom", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 173, "ror": "", "name": "The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is the development of a body shell for electric vehicles (EVs) that addresses the range anxiety, i.e., drivers concern about the miles per charge. The proposed project seeks to increase the miles per charge by developing a dual-function carbon fiber composite for the automotive body. The carbon fiber composite will store electrical energy in addition to providing the mechanical strength necessary to function as a structural component. The stored energy achieves enhanced miles per charge, attracting better acceptance for EVs. The increased EV usage imparts a positive impact on the environment. Beyond EVs, the energy-storing carbon composite has potential application as the structural component of space vehicles. The energy-storing capability may also be used in wearable electronic devices. Finally, the project develops entrepreneurial and leadership skills for participating undergraduate and graduate students.<br/><br/>The proposed project increases the miles per charge of electric vehicles (EVs) by storing energy in their automotive body shell in addition to the existing batteries. Currently, there is a significant effort to manufacture more EVs to reduce global warming and make the US less dependent on foreign fuel. A major limitation to achieving the widespread use of EVs is the low miles per charge. The objective of the research is to make a 0.5 m2 dual-function carbon composite. The highly enhanced energy storage ability of the carbon composite is obtained by judiciously engineering carbon fibers. This project provides the ability to make an energy-storing composite with aqueous semisolid gel electrolytes. The structural composites will be safe from fire hazards in case of an accident, unlike organic electrolyte-based lithium-ion batteries. As carbon composites are already being employed in vehicles as lightweight structural components, vehicle manufacturers may be able to easily adopt a dual-function carbon composite as the body shell.<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": "14363", "attributes": { "award_id": "2127476", "title": "MCA: Multi-scale considerations of climatic signatures on debris flows and alluvial fans", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "PMP-Particul&MultiphaseProcess" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 30324, "first_name": "Amanda", "last_name": "Keen-Zebert", "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": 368342, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30963, "first_name": "Kimberly", "last_name": "Hill", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 227, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Worldwide, communities are experiencing historic changes in storm frequencies and magnitudes that destroy homes and lives. One of the most devastating effects of frequent and/or intense storms is the way in which associated rainfall can destabilized earthen materials and liquefy the very foundation of natural and built infrastructure. Under such conditions, these materials can flow downslope, subsequently entrain additional materials, and increase in dramatically size. Their growth rate and evolution can be alarming as they add mud, rocks, and even meter-sized boulders to become massive rivers of debris flows. These debris flows may abruptly change direction as they flow, and even create their own channel walls, or levees, thus maintaining a high speed as they “super-elevate” relative to their surroundings. The unpredictability of the timing, directions, and magnitudes of these flows can add to their devastation as evident, for example, in the deaths and destruction of the 2018 debris flows in Montecito County, California. For better hazard mitigation scientists need to understand how details such as local materials, moisture, and local climate conditions dictate these behaviors. This project involves research using data from previous flows and their deposits, physical experiments, and computational simulations to help us better anticipate and predict behaviors of likely future flows under varying climatic conditions. <br/><br/>This project combines field work, laboratory experiments, granular physics theory, and computational modeling to understand combined effects climate conditions external to specific debris flow events and flow physics embedded in those conditions. This will involve a new framework relating sediment-fluid specifics and boundary conditions as it relates to debris flow behaviors under varying conditions. Experimental work will include: (1) controlled slump-slurry experiments with simplistic basal conditions; (2) erosional channelized experiments, and (3) alluvial fan experiments. Computational work will build on sediment-fluid rheology embedded in a multi-phase discrete-element-method (DEM) model. Field work will include debris flow deposits at sites selected for their distinct climatic and physics-based signals to help identify signals from each: (1) on periglacial deposits in the Richardson Mountains (changing sediment supply with climate changes) with collaborative partner Professor Marisa Palucis of Dartmouth College; (2) on wetter warmer deposits along the Laonong River Valley, Taiwan (high sediment supplies, moist conditions, distinct catchment lithologies); (3) in drier hotter deposits in Owens Valley that contain signatures of distinct climate and lithology differences. Planned work with indigenous communities will contribute to the science with their active involvement and community records. This award is jointly funded by the Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics Program and the Particulate and Multiphase Processes 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": "14366", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120210", "title": "Collaborative Research: RUI: Climatic and geologic controls on the threshold conditions for bedrock single- and multi-thread channels", "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": 29169, "first_name": "Raleigh", "last_name": "Martin", "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": 195586, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30964, "first_name": "Sarah", "last_name": "Schanz", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1846, "ror": "https://ror.org/03tg3h819", "name": "Colorado College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "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/>Rivers carve valleys, transport nutrients and sediment, and create habitat in mountainous regions. Of particular importance in mountain regions are bedrock rivers, whose banks and bed are solid rock rather than gravel or sand. Bedrock rivers can be contained to a single channel or can branch into multiple channels known as braided or anastomosing. Whether the river has one or multiple channels impacts the hillslope-to-floodplain-to-river connection that is crucial to nutrient transfer and habitat. The goal of this project is to understand why bedrock rivers form one or multiple channels based on the climate and tectonic conditions. The research will help understand where bedrock rivers have greater potential for habitat and can inform conservation efforts in mountain rivers. The project will introduce high performance computing to a small undergraduate college through mentored research and will support outreach to Colorado K-5th grade schools through a flooding and erosion hazards activity.<br/><br/>This research tests the climatic, lithologic, and rock uplift conditions that lead to single-thread bedrock channel stability through the development of a new numerical model that explicitly considers variable channel width during meandering. The numerical model is calibrated using cosmogenic radionuclide and optically stimulated luminescence derived rates of channel migration and erosion in the Smith River, Oregon, as well as a global dataset of bedrock channel conditions. Expected results will distinguish the geologic and climatic conditions suitable for rich habitat development and nutrient/sediment connectivity, and help scientists understand the past conditions encoded in bedrock rivers and their terraces. The developed model will be publicly shared through the NSF-supported Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS).<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": "14367", "attributes": { "award_id": "2116957", "title": "Doctoral Dissertation Research: High school choice and the social meanings of a sound change in language", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "DDRI Linguistics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 30463, "first_name": "Jorge Valdes", "last_name": "Kroff", "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": 9977, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30965, "first_name": "Jaime", "last_name": "Benheim", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30965, "first_name": "Jaime", "last_name": "Benheim", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 317, "ror": "https://ror.org/000e0be47", "name": "Northwestern University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "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 and why language change occurs is central to understanding the nature of human language. Recent work among adults has found that the type of high school an individual attends can influence how that person engages with place-linked linguistic features (such as regional accents). However, although adolescents often lead linguistic change, the impacts of high school choice remain under-examined among high school students themselves. This doctoral dissertation project builds upon previous work on an important regional sound change currently occurring in American English by examining how the social associations adolescents attribute to the features undergoing change relate to their own use of these features and how the social environments within different types of schools might influence the social meanings that are associated with these and other regional linguistic features. In addition to the training of a doctoral student, results will be shared publicly with participants and community members. <br/><br/>Through sociolinguistic interviews, social evaluation tasks, and perceptual dialectology tasks with adolescents in different types of high schools, this project provides new and deeper insights into the social meanings that high school students attribute to a specific set of regional accent features. The exploration of how adolescents' own understandings of the social meanings of linguistic features relate to their social environments in school and their placed, racialized, and classed identities will in turn enhance our understanding of the mechanisms – both social and linguistic – at work during the course of language changes.<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": "14368", "attributes": { "award_id": "2115689", "title": "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Parent Input Effects on Heritage Speakers Knowledge of Mood Selection", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "DDRI Linguistics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 30463, "first_name": "Jorge Valdes", "last_name": "Kroff", "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": 11356, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30966, "first_name": "Javier", "last_name": "Jasso", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30966, "first_name": "Javier", "last_name": "Jasso", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30967, "first_name": "Belem G", "last_name": "Lopez", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 156, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at Austin", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "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/>Heritage language speakers, who grow up in household where a minority language is used in addition to the society's majority language, have a grammatical system that differs in patterned ways from monolingual speakers and those learning the heritage language as a second language, but many questions remain about the nature of this process. Characterizing and explaining what aspects of the language's grammar are most commonly changed, and where in the transmission process these changes occur is a longstanding question. Heritage grammars have been primarily studied in adult bilinguals in university settings, and group differences are assumed to occur at the level of the child. However, parents' grammars have also been shown to change over speakers' lifespans. Direct evidence of language performance from child and parent speakers can inform which structures were present but not acquired and which structures were absent from the input itself. Statistical methodological advances can aid in understanding questions of parent-child input/transfer related to language transmission. By studying these small-scale intergenerational changes in speakers' grammatical representations and the speaker characteristics involved, this study contributes to an understanding of bilingual acquisition processes.<br/><br/>This study uses a dyadic design (1 parent, 1 child), which offers novel methodological and analytical contributions to the study of heritage grammars. Parent–child input transfer is explored through the comprehension–production of mood selection (indicative vs. subjunctive), a well-established variable phenomenon, in the heritage language through timed acceptability ratings and an elicited production task. The study examines 1) child–parent mood selection, 2) the effect of internal (categorical vs. variable contexts) and external factors (e.g., speakers' language experience and proficiency), and 3) the direct effect of parent's use of mood on child production. Statistical models including dyadic analyses will directly test the effect of parent mood production on child comprehension and the individual factors that contribute to members' own performance.<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": "14369", "attributes": { "award_id": "2121367", "title": "Collaborative Research: Understanding the Turbulent Dynamics of Convective Bursts and Tropical Cyclone Intensification Using Large Eddy Simulations and High-Order Numerics", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Physical & Dynamic Meteorology" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 12876, "first_name": "Nicholas", "last_name": "Anderson", "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": 289005, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30968, "first_name": "Simone", "last_name": "Marras", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 228, "ror": "https://ror.org/05e74xb87", "name": "New Jersey Institute of Technology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Hurricane intensity changes are governed by a number of complex and competing processes that are difficult to simulate. This project will address one of the key uncertainties in hurricane intensity, the turbulent mixing of air and moisture in the inner core of a hurricane. In particular, the study will focus on convective bursts, which are roughly equivalent to large thunderstorms near the hurricane’s eyewall, and how they influence the intensification cycle. Rapid intensification changes have occurred in many recent high-impact storms and while forecasters know the general conditions that may lead to rapid intensification, the exact timing and magnitude of those changes are difficult to predict. This research will provide additional information to the scientific community which may result in improved numerical modeling of these storms. The project will also provide training and outreach opportunities to several students, thereby training the next generation of scientists.<br/><br/>The goal of the project is to understand the fundamental physics of tropical cyclone intensification with an emphasis on the role of turbulent dynamics. The researchers aim to 1) understand the turbulent nature of the convective burst cycle from formation to maturation and decay during intensification, and 2) identify the roles of axisymmetric and asymmetric dynamics in the intensification of tropical cyclones in a fully turbulent regime characterized by a wide range of energetic length scales with a minimally dissipative dynamic core. To address these aims, the researchers plan to conduct very high-resolution Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of tropical cyclones at 50m horizontal and vertical grid spacing using the newly developed ClimateMachine community model. The model output will be analyzed using diagnostic budget calculations for angular momentum, kinetic energy, and thermal energy equations in a Eulerian and Lagrangian reference from to enable improved physical insight.<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": "14370", "attributes": { "award_id": "2125441", "title": "Floodplain ecogeomorphic processes: interactions between floodplain forest characteristics, wood accumulations, and hydrogeomorphology", "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": 30324, "first_name": "Amanda", "last_name": "Keen-Zebert", "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": 407205, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30970, "first_name": "Katherine", "last_name": "Lininger", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30969, "first_name": "Jeff D", "last_name": "Marr", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 172, "ror": "", "name": "University of Colorado at Boulder", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "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/>Downed, dead pieces of wood in rivers and floodplains influence physical and ecological processes in river systems. Many river restoration efforts use wood to provide habitat for organisms, but wood on floodplains can also create habitat. However, very little is known about how wood is moved onto floodplains by rivers and then moved from floodplains back to river channels. This project uses scaled physical models of rivers and floodplains (flumes), numerical modeling, and fieldwork to determine how flooding, forest characteristics, and physical characteristics of rivers and floodplains cause the deposition of wood onto floodplains. The results of the project will be presented to the river restoration community. The project will also create educational lessons using flumes for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level students.<br/><br/>Downed, dead wood on the floodplain influences geomorphic processes and provides ecological benefits to river corridors. However, understanding the interactions between floodplain vegetation, wood, and hydrogeomorphology is a new frontier in geomorphic research, and numerical modeling of wood transport and deposition has only recently been developed. This project combines flume experiments, numerical modelling, and field observations integrating floodplain forest stand characteristics, hydrogeomorphology, and wood transport and deposition during floods to assess the controls on wood deposition in floodplains and subsequent wood remobilization. The research objectives include (1) understanding the role of the forest stand density on the deposition and storage of wood in floodplains, (2) unravelling the importance of floodplain and channel morphology on floodplain wood dynamics, and (3) assessing overbank flow conditions needed to deposit and remobilize wood onto and from the floodplain to better understand wood jam formation and persistence. Flume experiments will simulate different forest stand densities, overbank flow conditions, and wood transport regimes. The data gathered during the physical experiments will provide baseline information needed to develop empirical relationships for floodplain flow-forest-wood-morphologic interactions. The flume experiments will be used to test and enhance a 2D hydrodynamic model to further explore wood dynamics on floodplains, which will then be applied to a field site where large amounts of floodplain wood jams are present due to a recent flooding event. The results of the project will be disseminated to management agencies and restoration groups in the US and Europe that are incorporating floodplain wood into efforts to enhance floodplain ecosystem functioning. This project will also develop K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level flume laboratory assignments and lessons on floodplain dynamics.<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": "14371", "attributes": { "award_id": "2119959", "title": "MCA: Post-Nuclear Granules Traffic mRNAs through Helicases and Initiation Factors to Set Their Translational Fates", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "Genetic Mechanisms" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 3970, "first_name": "Arcady", "last_name": "Mushegian", "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": 263393, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30971, "first_name": "Brett", "last_name": "Keiper", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 709, "ror": "https://ror.org/01vx35703", "name": "East Carolina University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project investigates how animal cells specialize to give rise to gametes (eggs and sperm). This Mid-Career Award will enable the PI, who is an expert in biochemistry, to gain expertise in molecular genetics and microscopy by working with a collaborator at a different institution. The project will also train students in classical RNA-protein biochemistry approaches as part of summer lab courses co-hosted by the PI and collaborator.<br/><br/>Transcriptional regulation of genes during development is insufficient to account for the observed temporal and spatial patterns in proteins required for differentiation and development. Instead, many mRNAs critical for development are also regulated at the level of translation initiation. Translation initiation is controlled by initiation factors such as eukaryotic initiation factor 4 (eIF4). In previous work, the PI’s lab studied how unique forms of the eIF4 protein selectively translate mRNA during the development of Caenorhabditis elegans, a simple nematode. The hypothesis for this proposal is that isoforms of eIF4E known as IFE-1 and IFE-3 selectively recruit dormant mRNAs to ribosomes for efficient protein synthesis. The first goal of this project is to use resolved polysome RNA Seq, a technology developed in the PIs lab, to identify all RNAs that rely on IFE-1 or IFE-3 for efficient translation. The second uses CRISPR/Cas9 technology to fluorescently tag each IFE to determine its localization in vivo, and allow characterization of its storage and retrieval complexes by proteomics.<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": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }