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Many objects that people rely on every day (i.e. building materials, aerospace parts, etc.) can wear out or fail more easily if their thermal expansion is not matched well, thus creating more waste and higher costs in the world. While many materials expand as you heat them, some materials shrink as you heat them and are important to study. Therefore, it is important to understand how to control these properties so that new types of materials can be engineered. With this LEAPS-MPS project, Professor Joya Cooley at California State University, Fullerton, will focus on understanding why certain classes of materials which consist of earth-abundant elements shrink instead of expanding upon heating. The research is conducted at a primarily undergraduate institution where undergraduate students will be trained in a variety of synthetic and characterization techniques. Specifically, students from historically underserved backgrounds will be recruited to work on this project and will disseminate findings to the public through local outreach, allowing participating students to serve as role models for future scientists from historically underserved backgrounds. Furthermore, this local outreach will work to increase the amount of citizen science, public scientific literacy, and overall public interest in materials chemistry.<br/><br/><br/>Technical Summary<br/>This LEAPS-MPS award is aimed at understanding structural and chemical driving forces that lead to technologically relevant negative thermal expansion (NTE) in materials. This work will interrogate local and long-range structure in materials crystallizing as metal pyrophosphates and pyrovanadates (A2B2O7) using inexpensive and readily accessible elements (e.g., A = Mg, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu; B = P, V). The goal is to achieve the following: (1) investigate the role of A and B site elements and their influence on parent crystal structure; (2) understand the role of A and B site elements and their role in tuning temperature and range of NTE. The ability to vary metal (A) and nonmetal (B) identities in pyrophosphate (A2P2O7) and pyrovanadate (A2V2O7) materials by creating solid solutions provides a wealth of exploration possibilities for uncovering the structural drivers for NTE. By creating solid solutions between end members with properties at the extremes, this work will seek to elucidate the structural and chemical variables important to O motion that results in systematic control of NTE. This project will make use of (a) high resolution structural techniques, such as synchrotron diffraction; (a) techniques sensitive to light elements like O, such as neutron diffraction; (c) and techniques that provide a local understanding of atom motion, such as temperature dependent microscopy. Undergraduate students will be trained in solid-state chemistry techniques, including the opportunities to work with national laboratories for remote or hands-on experiments. Historically underserved students will be recruited to be part of this project and will engage in local outreach to increase public scientific interest and literacy.<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": "14243", "attributes": { "award_id": "2104600", "title": "Approaches to Coastal Adaptation in the United States", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30812, "first_name": "Anne", "last_name": "Siders", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30811, "first_name": "Anne R", "last_name": "Siders", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2443, "ror": "", "name": "Doeffinger, Tess", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WV", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. A.R. Siders at the University of Delaware, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist to investigate coastal adaptation pathways in the United States. Sustainable development along the United States’ coast is challenging for several reasons, including continual weathering and climatic shocks. These risks are expected to be exacerbated due to climate change. There are currently a wide range of coastal adaptation responses being employed across the United States. The purpose of this research is to develop a fundamental understanding of the variation in adaptation responses that directly impact households, how these responses were chosen, and also to determine whether the most vulnerable members of communities are benefiting from these responses. The knowledge gained from this research offers the ability to identify gaps in adaptation, track progress, and aid in future decision making.<br/><br/>This research aims to generate novel techniques combining diagnostics, historical pathways, and spatial statistics to evaluate adaptation pathways that have led to the current levels and distribution of adaptation in the United States. This research specifically investigates national, state, and local policies (e.g. zoning restrictions) and infrastructure (e.g. seawalls) that can directly influence households’ adaptation decisions, with three coastal communities in the United States serving as case studies. This research is split into four phases, starting with a short prepping period (Phase 1). Phase 2 utilizes a diagnostic approach to generate a status assessment of coastal adaptation in the three communities through the collection of information on adaptation measures employed, socio-demographics, drivers, and characteristics of the built environment. Phase 3 employs a historical pathways analysis to produce a historical narrative and timeline for each community to highlight path dependencies and critical junctures. Finally, Phase 4 assesses coastal adaptation and equity by mapping adaptation measures versus demographic data. By combining these methods, this research has the potential to enhance contextual knowledge that can lead to an improvement in modeling abilities, and therein, enhance decision making.<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": "14261", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103697", "title": "Climate Conversations: Discursive Strategies of Climate Justice Organizing", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30832, "first_name": "Julia", "last_name": "Fine", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30831, "first_name": "Corrie J", "last_name": "Grosse", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2444, "ror": "", "name": "Fine, Julia Coombs", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Corrie Grosse at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist examining discursive strategies of climate justice organizing. Previous research on climate change communication has largely focused on non-interactive, monologic texts that aim to inform or persuade audiences, rather than on interactive, dialogic conversations about climate change. However, many grassroots climate communicators and organizations currently see such climate conversations as essential for shifting attitudes and inspiring action. The proposed study applies an interactional sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of climate conversations, with the aim of identifying effective discursive strategies for advancing climate justice within and across specific sociocultural contexts in the United States.<br/><br/>Through a participatory research framework that combines survey, interview, and discourse-analytic methods, the study will (a) examine how grassroots climate communicators employ climate conversations in their organizing and (b) identify characteristics of successful climate conversations, determining success through pre- and post-surveys of conversational participants’ climate-related actions and views. Through fine-grained analysis of interactional language use, this analysis will shed light on how slow-moving, intersectional crises such as climate change are managed in discourse. By prioritizing participation by marginalized climate justice organizers, such as Black and Indigenous organizers, this project will help to remedy the underrepresentation of these voices in previous research. The analysis of successful climate conversations will empower climate communicators to hone effective communicative strategies guided by scientific inquiry, helping to address the problem of low perceived efficacy, which has emerged as a barrier to climate action. Finally, the project will generate a corpus of climate conversations that will be of use to other researchers and climate change communication practitioners.<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": "14262", "attributes": { "award_id": "2105418", "title": "Developing equity-oriented data practices for small-scale fisheries", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 148000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30834, "first_name": "Jenny", "last_name": "Goldstein", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30833, "first_name": "Jenny E", "last_name": "Goldstein", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2445, "ror": "", "name": "Drakopulos, Lauren", "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). This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Jenny Goldstein at Cornell University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the social benefits and barriers to integrating new data and technologies in fisheries science and management. Overfishing threatens global fisheries sustainability, yet policies to reduce the impact of fishing are said to be limited by critical data shortages. Digital technologies, such as cameras and geospatial tracking devices, have emerged as low-cost tools for collecting data on fishing activity. However, despite the widespread proliferation of data collection technologies, little research has examined the relational practices through which fisheries data are developed and deployed. This research examines data sharing practices between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), fishers, and other environmental governance actors to understand how digital fisheries data is collected, shared and applied in environmental decision-making. Whereas previous research has focused on planetary-scale environmental data networks, this study foregrounds the quotidian embodied practices of collecting and applying data and the complex interdependencies between the global and the local. This project advances knowledge in key ways by theorizing the linkages between data justice, gender and environmental equity in the Blue Economy, and by exploring gendered experiences with environmental data, particularly in the context of rural and resource-based livelihoods. The results can help inform policies and institutional practices that empower women while also improving fisheries sustainability with technology. <br/><br/>This study employs a multi-sited case study of a new digital fisheries data collection program. This research asks three questions: 1) How do new data streams and data collection technologies enable or constrain fisheries participation, and in particular the participation of women? 2) In what ways do the design and development of data infrastructure and fisheries management strategies mutually inform one another? 3) How can data practices support equity in the Blue Economy? The research objectives are to: i) explore how fishers and women from fishing households perceive digital fisheries data, its role, importance and value, particularly in relation to their fishing livelihoods and; ii) evaluate how fisheries scientists and managers use new data streams collected with digital technologies. The Fellow will collect data through semi-structured interviews with fishers, fisheries scientists and managers, and stakeholders from the technology industry and through participant observation. The research will result in the development of two actionable tools: 1) a data-sharing protocol co-produced with fishers that NGOs can use to increase data accessibility and 2) recommendations for equity-oriented data practices which will be disseminated to policy-makers, NGOs and fisheries scientists and made publicly available. The results of this study will inform key ocean policy debates about fisheries data governance and provide empirical evidence for how gendered access to fisheries data impacts fishing participation. The novel fisheries data equity framework produced through this study has the potential to transform research on the Blue Economy by shifting focus from extractive technologies to data technologies as avenues for advancing more equitable participation in fisheries and oceans governance.<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": "14263", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103310", "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 150000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30835, "first_name": "Timothy", "last_name": "Duff", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2446, "ror": "", "name": "Duff, Timothy", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "GA", "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 Timothy Duff is \" Algebraic vision: geometry and computations\". The host institution for the fellowship is University of Washington, and the sponsoring scientist is Rekha Thomas.<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": "14265", "attributes": { "award_id": "2104594", "title": "Intersectionality and Implicit Bias", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30838, "first_name": "Paul", "last_name": "Connor", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30836, "first_name": "Jonathan B", "last_name": "Freeman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30837, "first_name": "Philip E", "last_name": "Tetlock", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2447, "ror": "", "name": "Connor, Paul Robert", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "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). This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Jonathan Freeman at New York University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating implicit evaluations of multiply categorizable social targets. A large scientific literature suggests that individuals possess implicit evaluative biases with regard to a range of social categories (e.g., automatically associate social categories such as ‘Black’ or ‘White’ with negative or positive valence), yet little is known about how implicit evaluations respond when multiple social categories are perceived simultaneously within the same social target (e.g., when an onlooker perceives an old Black female or a young White male). This is an important gap in our knowledge, because in the vast majority of human interactions, individuals are multiply categorizable. Therefore, understanding how implicit evaluative biases respond to multiply categorizable social targets is likely vital to understanding how those biases shape and affect individuals’ lives, and to the extent that understanding is missing, efforts to identify and ameliorate the social impacts of implicit bias may be limited. The present research is aimed at building that understanding from the ground up, and gaining a firm evidentiary foothold regarding the underlying cognitive processes involved. This knowledge will be vital toward being able to accurately predict where, when, to what extent, and with respect to whom implicit evaluative bias is most likely to manifest, all questions that are crucial toward the development of interventions aimed at identifying and reducing implicit bias, and to creating institutions and systems that can effectively counteract and nullify its harmful effects. <br/><br/>The present project will adopt a novel approach to understanding how implicit evaluations operate in the presence of multiply categorizable social targets. Using an associative learning paradigm previously employed in Professor Freeman’s lab, the present research will seek to create implicit biases ‘from thin air,’ by training participants to associate multiple novel social categories with pro- or anti-social behaviors. Following this, the researchers will observe how implicit evaluative biases are displayed toward novel targets simultaneously displaying each of the behavior-associated categories (likely via Evaluative Priming Tasks, as in previous research conducted in Professor Freeman’s lab). By doing so, the present project will document, for the first time, the basic cognitive processes by which perceivers combine separate implicit evaluative biases in the presence of multiply categorizable social targets. Following this initial step, the present research will seek to investigate a number of potential moderating factors governing these core underlying processes via a series of experiments, including the visual salience of categories, perceivers’ attention to categories, and perceivers’ relative levels of bias with respect to categories.<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": "14266", "attributes": { "award_id": "2105317", "title": "Youth Sports Coaches and their Community in Air Pollution Governance", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30839, "first_name": "Kim", "last_name": "Fortun", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30839, "first_name": "Kim", "last_name": "Fortun", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2448, "ror": "", "name": "Hernandez, Fred Ariel", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kim Fortun at the University of California, Irvine, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist’s investigation of the effects of air pollution on youth sports coaching practices and pedagogical development. Exposure to air pollution during childhood has significant destructive effects on health and well-being, both short and long-term. K–12 students in marginalized communities often suffer disproportionally from exposure to airborne hazards. School staff members, especially sports coaches, are well positioned to mitigate children’s exposure to air pollution through their decisions of when, where, and how to exercise. Yet most coaches are inadequately prepared to address such environmental hazards. This project helps education policymakers and curriculum development professionals dramatically improve their accounting of situated environmental hazards in diverse school settings by giving them access to real-time data. In particular, it focuses on providing working class, minority, and immigrant communities with such data. For while such communities are often the subject of pollution-related research, they are seldom invited to give input during basic data collection—even though they are particularly well positioned and stand to benefit the most. This project develops a new line of research that theorizes coaches as air pollution actors in their everyday activities. Such innovation is possible by using participatory action research design elements and leading community-engaged, environmental justice-oriented research approaches.<br/><br/>The proposed project, “Youth Sports Coaches and their Community in Air Pollution Governance,” will study the daily decision making and pedagogical choices of school sports coaches at a local public school, and its surrounding neighborhood, in the San Gabriel Valley, California, a region with significant air pollution given its proximity to numerous major highways. The project objectives are (1) to collect, organize, and map empirical data on pollution research and governance; (2) to collect interview data from stakeholders; (3) to collect air pollution data through monitoring devices; (4) to develop a multi-scalar theoretical framework to characterize pollution governance; (5) to develop a freeway and transportation corridor archive. The study will employ emerging Urban Humanities methods, ethnographic observations, interviews, archival research, and air quality monitoring data to produce original data sets finely attuned to localized experiences of school coaches. Stakeholder coaches will wear, and neighbors will install, air pollution monitoring devices, and will learn how to access and understand the generated data via smartphone applications. Outcomes include developing maps and other visualizations of the daily activities of coaches on school grounds, situating their pedagogic decisions vis-à-vis the pollution governance infrastructures of school, city, and state. A broader impact of this project is the development of guides for sports coaches and community stakeholders to understand and communicate effectively about air pollution hazards.<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": "14268", "attributes": { "award_id": "2104997", "title": "Land Use Legacies in Agroecosystems", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 148000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30841, "first_name": "Elise", "last_name": "Laugier", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30840, "first_name": "Dan Cabanes", "last_name": "Cruelles", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2449, "ror": "", "name": "Laugier, Elise Jakoby", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NH", "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). This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Dan Cabanes at Rutgers University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating land use legacies in agroecosystems. Agricultural land use is one of the most powerful anthropogenic forces influencing Earth’s systems. Although most historical scientists agree that agriculture has been shaping landscapes for millennia, it remains difficult to quantify the timing and intensity of past land use as well as its long term (legacy) effects. The lack of clarity concerning past land use not only obscures our understanding of past human-environment relationships, it also impairs our collective ability to understand the long-term resilience capacities of vital ecosystem functions with real-world consequences for modern populations. <br/><br/>This research advances human-environmental interaction research by examining the effects of known historical agricultural land use (legacies) on modern soil microbotanicals (phytoliths) and establishing the quantitative relationships between them. The project combines geospatial, geochemical, paleoenvironmental, and ethnographic methods as part of an integrated approach. The research take place where this is continuous records of agriculture and is ideal for examining the long-term dynamics of semi-arid agroecosystems. The overall goal of this research is not only to define the precision with which phytoliths can be used to investigate ancient land use, but also to empower future research by unlocking a potentially valuable source of information on human-environmental interactions.<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": "14269", "attributes": { "award_id": "2104829", "title": "Socio-political drivers of performance in community water systems and their implications for advancing safe drinking water access", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "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": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30843, "first_name": "Kristin", "last_name": "Dobbin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30842, "first_name": "Gregory", "last_name": "Pierce", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2450, "ror": "", "name": "Dobbin, Kristin B", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "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). This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Gregory Pierce at University of California Los Angeles, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the socio-political drivers of community water system performance in California and the implications for equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water. Achieving the human right to water is an important policy priority in California, yet, with nearly a million Californians impacted by unsafe water and as many as a third of Californians impacted by unaffordable drinking water rates, clearly much work remains to be done to achieve this vision. Existing research and policy solutions on this topic focus heavily on engineering and other technical approaches to solving the drinking water crisis, yet mounting evidence indicates that social and political factors also play a key role in shaping outcomes. This research aims to address this gap by examining the role of democratic representation, elections, and institutional design in community drinking water provision. The project will develop several system performance metrics and link them to governance considerations such as competitive elections and diversified board representation. Finally, the project will develop case studies to bring these findings to bear on emerging policy solutions. In doing so the project aims to contribute a more nuanced understanding of both the challenges and opportunities for advancing drinking water equity in California and beyond. <br/><br/>By linking governance characteristics with institutional outcomes this project will not only address the governance gap in drinking water scholarship but also advance key debates in the local and environmental governance literatures. Key hypotheses in theories of representative bureaucracy, electoral accountability and institutional analysis have all been subject to decades of conflicting findings. Using California as a heuristic case, generalized linear models will be used to link socio-political characteristics with various measures of system performance. Using multiple measures of performance will allow for the testing of competing hypotheses without a priori setting them up as mutually exclusive, opening the door to identifying trade-offs between different drivers and facets of performance. These findings will then inform three qualitative investigations that will contextualize the results and identify opportunities and barriers for their application to potential solutions.<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": "14270", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120375", "title": "RCN-UBE Incubator: Transforming Assessment and Feedback in Undergraduate Biology Education", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "UBE - Undergraduate Biology Ed" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 8562, "first_name": "Sophie", "last_name": "George", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 74960, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30845, "first_name": "Michele", "last_name": "Lemons", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30844, "first_name": "Michele L", "last_name": "Lemons", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2451, "ror": "https://ror.org/039k72y49", "name": "Assumption College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Nation needs more STEM graduates in order to meet workforce needs and address societal challenges such as climate change and new infectious diseases. It is very common for students to begin study in these fields only to abruptly leave after a few courses, and this attrition disproportionately affects already underrepresented students such as women and students of color. One possible explanation is that undergraduate biology education largely relies on high-stakes quizzes and exams that students find demotivating, creating an intimidating “weed out” culture. This is dismaying but at the same time, these students must master a high degree of content to successfully transition from community colleges to four-year programs and then to post-baccalaureate science programs or careers. This Research Coordination Network will advance undergraduate biology education by creating a network of scholars not only from biology but also from the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to identify and facilitate educator use of more effective, nontraditional approaches to assessment, grading, and feedback that nonetheless respect the constraints presented by a comprehensive biology education. The goal of this project is to improve assessment and feedback in undergraduate biology education such that we expand and diversify students studying in these fields while not sacrificing standards of excellence. <br/><br/>A diverse network representing institutions ranging from community colleges to primarily undergraduate liberal arts colleges to HBCUs to large research-focused universities will pursue the following aims: establish the research network; use quantitative and qualitative designs within these diverse range of institutions to identify sources of problematic assessments and feedback, use of novel approaches, and barriers to implementation of innovations; present at several leading biology and teaching conferences the insights on current barriers and challenges to undergraduate biology assessment and feedback; and use data gathered to formulate a full proposal that will implement and test effectiveness of novel approaches. The purpose of the current incubator is to clarify the current state in undergraduate biology education—the traditional methods still being used, new methods being attempted and their relative successes and failures, and the constraints and barriers particular to the study of biology that should be kept in mind in the development of any new tools. The results will form the basis for a larger study which will develop and test the effectiveness of new tools for assessment and feedback that encourage rather than discourage wide participation in the study of biology, thereby improving student learning and performance and producing a better prepared and more diverse STEM workforce.<br/><br/>This project is being funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure as part of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).<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": 1385, "pages": 1397, "count": 13961 } } }