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This work will be conducted at University of California Berkeley in collaboration with mentor Roland Burgmann. Slip on faults occurs as a spectrum, ranging from slow, continuous sliding (i.e., aseismic slip) to rapid movement during earthquakes (i.e., seismic failure). Aseismic slip can temporarily relieve stress on a fault but may also trigger large, damaging earthquakes on adjacent segments of the fault. Therefore, detecting and understanding this temporary release of stress (called aseismic slip transients) is key in seismic hazard evaluation and has direct societal impacts. Because aseismic slip transients do not generate seismic waves, geodetic instruments like land Global Positional System (GPS) stations with observational limits are required to detect these movements. This project will use related small earthquakes (microseismicity) to infer the location of aseismic slip transients, taking advantage of existing and newly installed instrumentation to create a catalog of seismicity at unprecedented resolution. The results of this project will provide information about spatial and temporal scales of fault slip and have implications for determining seismic hazard. This detailed analysis may also uncover answers to fundamental fault slip questions including how often aseismic slip precedes earthquakes and how often earthquakes trigger aseismic slip transients. We can also gain insights into other tectonic environments where direct observations are limited (e.g., the offshore portion of subduction zones) by studying this natural laboratory. This project also involves educational materials about earthquakes for elementary school students in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, a region with high seismic hazards. <br/><br/>The general objective of this project is to study the spatiotemporal scales of transient aseismic slip on the San Andreas fault near San Juan Bautista in central California at unprecedented resolution to ultimately gain a broader understanding of the nature of fault slip. San Juan Bautista, located at the northwest boundary of the creeping section of the San Andreas fault and the southeast termination point of the Mw 7.9 1906 San Francisco earthquake, forms a creeping-to-locked transition of the fault. The dense instrumentation and historic record of transient aseismic slip near San Juan Bautista make it an excellent natural laboratory to study the interplay of seismic and aseismic slip. We will create a catalog of spontaneous and trigged aseismic slip transients on the San Andreas fault near San Juan Bautista by combining seismic (general seismicity, near-repeating earthquakes) and geodetic (cGPS, InSAR, borehole strainmeter, creepmeter) observations to help answer the following questions: What is the spatial scale, temporal scale, and magnitude of aseismic slip transients? How often and by what mechanism(s) does aseismic slip lead to small and moderate-sized earthquakes? How often do these earthquakes lead to aseismic slip? Based on the scales of transient aseismic slip, is the San Andreas fault near San Juan Bautista capable of large (Mw > 6) earthquakes? We will further study the relationship between shallow and deep aseismic slip, spatiotemporal changes in creep rate in this locking transition, and evaluate the utility of near-repeating earthquakes as a proxy for transient aseismic slip. We additionally hope to gain insights into other tectonic environments, particularly the offshore portion of subduction zones where direct observations are limited, by studying this natural laboratory.<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": "14214", "attributes": { "award_id": "2053009", "title": "EAR-PF: Experimental study of the dynamics of frozen, cohesive river banks: bridging pore-scale properties with channel-scale dynamics.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Postdoctoral Fellowships" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30783, "first_name": "Kieran", "last_name": "Dunne", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2439, "ror": "", "name": "Dunne, Kieran Bernard Jiamin", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Dr. Kieran Dunne has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the effects of widespread thawing in the Arctic on changes in frozen riverbank erosion and on the release of greenhouse gasses and heavy metals. The work will take place under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Lamb at California Institute of Technology. Accelerating climate change in the Arctic is leading to the widespread thawing of permafrost (ice and soil that typically remains frozen throughout the year). The loss of permafrost results in weakening of riverbanks, river channel migration and speeds up the release of greenhouse gasses and heavy metals. These environmental issues combined with changes in the shape of rivers have led to the displacement of communities in the Arctic. This project seeks to characterize the ways that the composition of permafrost riverbank impacts the rate of riverbank erosion and river channel migration in the Arctic. The work includes a series of experiments to determine the properties that control erosion and river migration, contributing to a framework for improved management of river systems in polar regions and a better understanding of the global carbon cycle. The project also includes education and outreach activities that incorporate preexisting California Institute of Technology programs for high school and undergraduate students. Dr. Dunne also plans to develop and distribute online educational modules on river processes hosted on SedEdu.<br/><br/><br/>Huge regions of land in the Arctic through which rivers incise are comprised of permafrost. The presence of pore ice in permafrost substrates has been shown to have a profound effect on the erodibility bank material as pore ice greatly increases the yield strength of frozen soil relative to unfrozen soil. As a result, the erosion rates of permafrost soils are highly sensitive to climate-driven changes to both local hydrological and atmospheric temperature conditions. This study seeks to develop a mechanistic understanding of the effects of permafrost composition and water temperature on the erosion rate of frozen riverbanks. A suite of experiments will be performed to determine the effects of cohesive sediment on the thermomechanical and geotechnical properties of permafrost substrates that govern the rate of riverbank erosion in Arctic regions. This experimental approach will be coupled with analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery of natural, permafrost rivers in the Arctic to determine how rates of channel bank erosion and lateral migration changes throughout the year in response to the governing mechanisms explored in the lab.<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": "14223", "attributes": { "award_id": "263201800042I-0-759102300001-1", "title": "PARENT CONTRACT HHSN261201400011I TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY THIS IS A TASK ORDER FOR MEETING SUPPORT ACTIVITIES FOR THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (NCI) CANCER INTERVENTION AND SURVEILLANCE MODELING", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Cancer Institute (NCI)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2022-11-14", "end_date": "2023-01-31", "award_amount": 21363, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30797, "first_name": "STACY", "last_name": "PHILIPSON GRENIS", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2440, "ror": "", "name": "SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING GRO", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) 2022 Mid-Year Meeting was virtually scheduled for the week of May 2-May 20, 2022. A CISNET Mid-Year and Annual Meeting is mandated under the terms of the cooperative agreement that funds CISNET (U01CA253911, U01CA265739, U01CA265750, U01CA253912, U01CA253913, U01CA199336, U01CA265729-01, U01CA253858, U01CA265735, U01CA253915 ). Investigators funded under this consortium come together to discuss their joint work on the use of simulation modeling to guide public health research and priorities. There is a mid-year meeting in May/June every year at one of the consortium members institutions and the Annual meeting occurs in November or December at NIH. Attendance is mandatory for all the funded investigators, which includes ten multiple Principal Investigator (PI) grants, each with two to six PIs and associated co-investigators. In addition to the grantees, NCI program staff attend, as well as a small number of guests who speak on specialized topics relevant to the groups’ research. The consortium consists of ten cancer sites (breast, bladder, gastric, prostate, colorectal, lung, esophageal, cervical, multiple myeloma and uterine), and each group meets separately between one to three days each. These meetings overlap to some extent, but are strategically scheduled to allow those participating in multiple cancer sites to attend relevant sessions. This set-up enables participants to come only for the days that reflect their specific areas of expertise and/or participate in the entire conference without missing vital information. This year the annual meeting will be in two parts. The “Common Day” sessions which are sessions meant for all members of CISNET will be held virtually on November 9 and 10th, 2022. There are no services requested in this contract for the common day meetings. The 10 cancer site specific sessions will be held the week of December 12-16, 2022 in the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda. If the Montgomery County COVID risk level moves to high, contingency plans are in place to hold the meeting virtually, and no services will be needed under this contract. The purpose of this award is as follows: To obtain meeting support for the in-person Annual CISNET meeting Dec 12 – 16, 2022, in the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD, which will be held unless the Montgomery County risk level goes to high. If the meeting is in-person, participants will be allowed to attend virtually. Specific tasks include meeting folder preparation, preparation of name tags and tent cards, participation in meeting planning calls, and on-site staff for manning the registration desk. Delivering meeting materials and poster boards.", "keywords": [ "Cancer Intervention", "Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network", "Contracts", "National Cancer Institute", "Parents", "Surveillance Modeling", "meetings" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14229", "attributes": { "award_id": "2137600", "title": "LEAPS-MPS: Development of New Photoacid Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 4073, "first_name": "Anne-Marie", "last_name": "Schmoltner", "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": 219797, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30801, "first_name": "Joseph", "last_name": "Badillo", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2441, "ror": "https://ror.org/007tn5k56", "name": "Seton Hall University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "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). In this project, funded by the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and housed in the Chemistry Division, Professor Joseph Badillo and his students at Seton Hall University will study photoacids and photoacid catalysis to help design new chemical reactions that will be important in synthesizing new organic (carbon-based) molecules. A photoacid is a weak acid in its normal state, and only upon irradiation with light does it become a strong acid, and thus catalytically active (able to speed up reactions). This dependence on light-activation offers temporal- and spatial-control not possible with traditional acid catalysis. Despite the unique possibilities of photoacid catalysis, the synthesis and characterization of new photoacids and the development of new photoacid catalyzed reactions remains relatively unexplored. Prof. Badillo also proposes a broadening participation plan that includes having his students present their research at URM-serving conferences such as NOBCChE, working with ACS Project SEED to provide research experiences for URM high school students, and working with several Seton Hall University student organizations to bring science outreach to local minority-serving high schools.<br/><br/>Professor Badillo will perform experiments leading to improved understanding of common photoacid catalysts’ photophysical properties by measuring excited state lifetimes (t) and acidities (pKa*). A series of non-photoracemizable chiral photoacids will be designed, synthesized and characterized, and the use of photoacid catalysis will be explored in the context of C–X (X = H, O, C) bond-forming reactions, including asymmetric excited-state proton transfer, glycosylation, and acetalization reactions. The use of photoacid generators such as halonium and sulfonium ions in the context of catalysis will also be investigated. Prof. Badillo’s plan for integrating research and broadening participation-oriented outreach activities will both bring underrepresented minority high school students to Seton Hall University for research experiences, and send Seton Hall students into local schools for science outreach activities.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14239", "attributes": { "award_id": "2137437", "title": "LEAPS-MPS: Interrogating Negative Thermal Expansion in Earth-Abundant Oxide Materials", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9897, "first_name": "Robert", "last_name": "Meulenberg", "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": 239204, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30807, "first_name": "Joya", "last_name": "Cooley", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2442, "ror": "", "name": "CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation", "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).<br/><br/>Non-Technical Summary<br/>Thermal expansion, the way materials change shape when you heat or cool them, is an important property to be able to understand and control. 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 } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1392, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }