NSF-GEO-RISE Awards for 2013

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CNH: Experimental Frameworks for Evaluating Net Effects of Hydrologic Service Payments on Coupled Social-Ecohydrological Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Theresa Selfa($1,475,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Human And Natural, Coupled Human, Ecosystem Services, Phs Policies, Phs Programs, Water Resources, Watershed Sustainability, Application, Approach, Decision, Diverse, Findings, Global, Health, Hydrological, Influence, Information, Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Land, Local, Long-term, Management, Mapping, Modeling, National, Operating, Policy, Quality, Seek, Social, Students, Tools.

CNH: Ecosystems and Societies: Divergent Trajectories and Coevolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Ranjeet John($1,364,000), University of Toledo, Toledo
Key terms: Human And Natural, Carbon Loss, Income Index, Inner Mongolia, Virtual Classroom, Available, Biophysical, Climate, Ecological, Ecosystems, Examined, Feedbacks, Five, Fluxes, Functions, Future, Growth, Has, Interdisciplinary, Land, Lectures, Mongolian, Past, Plateau, Primary, Processes, Regions, Socioeconomic, Students, Technology, Worldwide.

CNH: Socio-Ecosystem Dynamics of Human-Natural Networks on Model Islands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Jennifer G Kahn($1,300,000), Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe
Key terms: Coupled Natural-human, Ecosystem Services, Advances, Complex, Critical, Ecological, Ecosystems, Environmental, Explore, Feedbacks, Frontiers, Humans, Integrated, Interactions, Islands, Knowledge, Models, Natural-human, Resources, Social, Sustainably, Theory.

CNH-Ex: Balancing Water Needs and Water Uses for Humans and Nature
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Marc A Jeuland($249,700), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Water Allocation, Adaptation, Basins, Climate, Coupled, Eco-hydrological, Environmental, Framework, Hydro-economic, Land-use, Landscape, Model, Natural, Policy, Regions, Strategies, Undergoing, Value, Vegetation.

CNH-Ex: Coping with Change: Water Availability and Arid Land Management
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Kimberly D Kirner($249,934), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Variable Water Availability, Arid Land, Arid Lands, Conservation Planning, Land Management, Land Managers, Water Management, Water Policy, Affect, Agricultural, Challenges, Climate, Contribute, Coping, Developing, Development, Economies, Effects, Environmental, Examine, Historical, Human, Knowledge, Local, Natural, Perceive, Perceptions, Policies, Practices, Resource, Resources, Stakeholder, Strategies, Sustainability, Time, Vegetation.

SAVI: Building a framework between the EU and the USA to harmonize data products relevant to global research infrastructures in the environmental field
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Data Cyberinfrastructure

1. Anthony van Eyken($163,452), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Robert A Weller($349,524), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Jeffrey Taylor($1,012,731), Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus
Key terms: Activities, Counterparts, Cyberinfrastructure, Developing, Effective, Environment, Environmental, European, Field, Global, Harmonizing, Infrastructures, Models, Observatories, Observatory, Products, Set, Students.

A Coordination Office for the Climate Change Education Partnership Alliance
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Gail A Scowcroft($1,136,619), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Ccepa Coordination Office, Education Partnership, CCEP-II, Climate, Effective, Increasing, Individual, Initiatives, Network, Practices.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: EarthCube Building Blocks, Leveraging Semantics and Linked Data for Geoscience Data Sharing and Discovery
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Cynthia Chandler($74,993), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Suzanne Carbotte($74,936), Columbia University, New York
3. Pascal Hitzler($74,999), Wright State University, Dayton
4. Thomas W Narock($74,984), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Management Centers, Approach, Available, Collections, Geoscience, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Public.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Deploying Web Services Across Multiple Geoscience Domains
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Timothy K Ahern($1,783,919), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Simple Web Services, Web Services Building, Building Blocks, Time Spent, Centers, Communicate, Dark, Doing, Earthcube, Extend, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Information, International, Public, Resulting, Sets, Significantly, Simplify, Tail.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability (CINERGI)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Ilya Zaslavsky($900,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Building Blocks, Assessment, CI, CINERGI, Components, Discovery, Domain, Domains, Earthcube, Emerging, Existing, Geoscience, Geoscientists, Information, Integrating, Interoperability, Inventory, Resources, Specific, Users, Vocabularies.

EarthCube Building Blocks: A Broker Framework for Next Generation Geoscience (BCube)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Jay Pearlman($1,529,918), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Broker Framework, Grand Challenges, User Scenarios, Web Crawling, Access, Bcube, Bcubes, Capabilities, Capability, Complex, Cross-discipline, Cultural, Cyberinfrastructure, Demonstrate, Discovery, Diverse, Domains, Education, Geoscience, Geoscientists, International, Interoperability, Issues, Modules, Repositories, Semantics, Services, Social, Workflow.

EC3 - Earth-Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges of field data collection, management, and integration
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Basil Tikoff($299,329), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Activities, Collection, Common, Cyberinfrastructure, Digital, Digitization, Facilitate, Field, Foster, Geological, Issues, Meetings, RCN, Recording, Sharing, Typically.

Title: EarthCube Building Blocks: Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Daniel P Ames($899,999), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Common Information Model, Ocean And Solid, Continuous Spatial, Information Model, Defined, Discrete, Domains, Global, Polar, Spaced, Time.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Software Stewardship for the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Christopher J Duffy($315,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Software Generated, Building, Codes, Computer, Creating, Effective, Geoscience, Geoscientists.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Earth System Bridge: Spanning Scientific Communities with Interoperable Modeling Frameworks
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Gary D Egbert($1,699,997), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Geoscientific Modeling, Model Coupling, Modeling Enterprise, Technological Gap, Academic, Architecture, Architectures, Bridge, Cyberinfrastructure, Databases, Deep, Developed, Development, Disciplinary, Disciplines, FDL, Framework, Implementation, Increase, Integration, Issues, Operational, Potential, Prediction, Process, Set, Standards, Tools.

EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. John W Williams($299,381), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Advance, Age, Analysis, Application, CP, Discoveries, Earth-life, Earthcube, Large-scale, Long-term, Management, Public, RCN, Resource, Technologies.

EarthCube Conceptual Design: Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration Across the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Ilya Zaslavsky($313,640), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Ci Components, Information Objects, Social Network, Collaboration, Communication, Designed, Earthcube, Exchange, Geoscience, Interchange, Knowledge, Protocols, Scholarly, Tools.

Earth Cube Conceptual Design: Developing a Data-Oriented Human-centric Enterprise Architecture for EarthCube
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Chaowei Yang($288,272), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Earthcube Enterprise Architecture, Earthcube Enterprise Conceptual, Collaborative Networks, Conceptual Architecture, Conceptual Design, Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure, Achieving, Approach, Bring, Collaborate, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Technology.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Specifying and Implementing ODSIP, A Data-Service Invocation Protocol
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Peter C Cornillon($802,000), Open Source Project for Network Data Access Protocols, Providence
Key terms: Broader Implications, Geoscience Scenarios, Climate, Common, Earthcube, Libraries, ODSIP, Specification.

EarthCube Building Blocks: A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure for Geoscience
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Miron Livny($1,497,798), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Trained Computing, Aggregating, Earthcube, Efficiently, Extracting, Finding, Geosciences, Less, Processing, Structured.

EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance: An Agile Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Christopher M Keane($3,599,687), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Earthcube Stakeholders, Enterprise Governance, Governance Models, Stage Ii, Activities, Agile, Approach, Assembly, Broad, Broader, Cyberinfrastructure, Define, Demonstration, Disciplines, Encourage, Engagement, Evaluating, Evaluation, Geosciences, Knowledge, Outreach, Participation, Serve, Standards, Structure.

Collaborative Project: EarthCube Education End-User Workshop
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: EarthCube

1. Cheryl L Peach($52,998), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Kim A Kastens($46,053), Education Development Center, Waltham
Key terms: Stem Education, Earthcube, Educational, Enabled, Faculty, Future, Geoscience, Programs, Scripps, Students, Undergraduate, Workshop.

GLOBE Program and Next Generation Science Standards Alignment Workshop
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: GLOB LEARN & OBSER TO BEN ENVI

1. Marcene M Seavey($42,608), Iowa Academy of Science, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Alignment Document, Globe Partners, Globe Program, Globe Resources, Activities, Classroom, Development, Educators, NGSS, Participants, Workshop.

Meeting a Critical Need at a Critical Time: The U.S. National Committees for the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Katherine E Bailey($550,216), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: International Union, International Unions.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Multi-scale adaptations to global change and their impacts on vulnerability in coastal areas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. John M Anderies($211,508), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Adaptation Practices, Belmont Forum, Coastal Regions, Effective Adaptation, Global Challenges, Activities, Approach, Capacity, Climate, Cognitive, Consequences, Contribute, Councils, Countries, Decisions, Developed, Environmental, Facilitate, Feedbacks, Funding, Heads, International, Makers, National, Participating, Processes, Resources, Risk, Socio-ecological, Stakeholders, Vulnerability.

Belmont Forum-G8 Collaborative Research: Bangladesh Delta: Assessment of Sea-Level Rise Hazards and Integrated Predictive Development Towards Mitigation and Adaptation (BanD-AID)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. J. Craig Jenkins($611,116), Ohio State University, Columbus
2. Faisal Hossain($43,856), Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
Key terms: Analysis And Prediction, Natural And Social, Belmont Forum, Coastal Regions, Coastal Vulnerability, Global Challenges, Sea-level Rise, Activities, Adaptation, Approach, Bangladesh, Contribute, Councils, Countries, Detrimental, Environmental, Framework, Funding, Hazards, Heads, International, Land, National, Participating, Promote, Resources, Sea-level.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collabrative Research: Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. William D Solecki($308,731), CUNY Hunter College, New York
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Facilitated Resilience, Global Challenges, Activities, Approach, Biophysical, Coastal, Contribute, Councils, Countries, Critical, Development, Environmental, Extreme, Framework, Funding, Heads, Integrated, Interactions, International, National, Participating, Pathways, Policy, Resources, Social, Sustainability, Transformation, Transformations, Urban.

13th National Conference on Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience; Washington, DC
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Peter D Saundry($30,000), National Council for Science and the Environment/CEDD, Washington
Key terms: Disasters And Environment, Environment Conference, Science-based Recommendations, Damage, Eight, Experts, International, NCSE, National, Organizations, Participants, Policy, Range, Science-based, Theme, Workshops.

CORDEX Empirical/Statistical Downscaling Workshops: Establishing a Foundation for Climate-Stakeholder Interaction in Africa
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2013; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. William J Gutowski($99,820), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Adaptation, Bring, Investigate.

CNH: Managing Impacts of Global Transport of Atmosphere-Surface Exchangeable Pollutants in the Context of Global Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Emma S Norman($1,502,550), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Economic Costs, Exchangeable Pollutants, Global Transport, Human Activities, Atmosphere, Caused, Chemicals, Complex, Concerns, Coupled, Cycling, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Education, Efforts, Emitted, Environment, Environmental, Future, Governance, Harm, Has, Health, Humans, Model, Natural, Social, Studying, Surface.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: METROPOLE: An Integrated Framework to Analyze Local Decision Making and Adaptive Capacity to Large-Scale Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Samuel Merrill($693,406), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Global Challenges, Activities, Adaptation, Approach, Capacity, Climate, Coastal, Councils, Countries, Cultural, Directly, Environmental, Framework, Funding, Heads, International, Models, National, Options, Participating, Policy, Processes, Resources, Risk, Social, Sustainability, Values, Visualization.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: XINGU - Integrating Land Use Planning and Water Governance in Amazonia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Christopher Neill($453,523), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
2. Michael T Coe($149,116), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Crop Agriculture, Freshwater Security, Global Challenges, Activities, Agricultural, Approach, Councils, Countries, Effective, Environmental, Expansion, Funding, Governance, Heads, International, Land, Management, Mechanisms, National, Participating, Quality, Rapidly, Resources, Sustainability, Water.

Belmont Forum-G8 Collaborative Research: DELTAS: Catalyzing action towards sustainability of deltaic systems with an integrated modeling framework for risk assessment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Steven L Goodbred($138,402), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou($266,470), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Eduardo S Brondizio($169,874), Indiana University, Bloomington
4. Irina Overeem($166,457), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
5. Charles J Vorosmarty($137,924), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Delta Sustainability, Global Challenges, Activities, Applied, Approach, Councils, Countries, Critical, Decision, Deltas, Economic, Ecosystem, Effective, Environmental, Evidence-based, Framework, Funding, Heads, International, Local, Management, Modeling, National, Participating, Resources, Social, Stakeholders, Vulnerability, Worlds.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Adaptation Research, a Trans-disciplInary transnational community and policy centred approach (ARTISTICC)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Matthew D Berman($541,261), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: Adaptation Strategies, Belmont Forum, Coastal Adaptation, Global Challenges, Activities, Approach, Councils, Countries, Critical, Cultural, Current, Developing, Effective, Environmental, Evidence-based, Framework, Funding, Future, Heads, International, Local, National, Natural, Participating, Past, Resources, Social, Trans-disciplinary.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Coastal Vulnerability: Global learning for local solutions: Reducing vulnerability of marine-dependent coastal communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Christopher Edwards($181,890), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Coastal Vulnerability, Global Challenges, Activities, Adaptation, Approach, Characterizing, Climate, Councils, Countries, Deliver, Effective, Environmental, Food, Funding, Heads, International, Knowledge, Makers, Management, National, Options, Participating, Policy, Resources, Social, Southern.

Enhancing the Capacity of Developing Nations in Regional Global Change Research in Asia and the Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Linda A Stevenson($488,000), Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Chuo-Ku Kobe 651-0073
Key terms: Asia Pacific Region, Global Environmental, APN, Activities, Asia-pacific, Capacity, Challenges, Countries, Country, Decision-making, Development, International, Issues, Leadership, Leading, Levels.

Establishing a Secretariat for The Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Catherine Kaszluga($74,700), SUNY System Administration, Albany
Key terms: Global Sustainability, Alliance, Composed, Create, Creation, Initiative, International, Leaders, Organizations, Planet, Secretariat, Solutions.

RCN-SEES: Sustainable Adaptive Gradients in the Coastal Environment (SAGE): Reconceptualizing the Role of Infrastructure in Resilience
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Research Coordination Networks

1. Elisabeth M Infield($736,707), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Caribbean And European, Planners And Policymakers, Adaptive Gradients, Coastal Hazards, Coastal Infrastructure, European Engineers, Infrastructure Decisions, Resilient Infrastructure, Social Scientists, Climate, Conditions, Coordination, Diverse, Ecological, Ecologists, Effects, Evolving, Experience, Findings, Framework, Geoscientists, Hurricanes, Network, Northeast, Planning, Policy-makers, Practices, Promote, RCN, Sustainable, Training.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Maintaining productivity and incomes in the Tonle Sap fishery in the face of climate change
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Lee Hannah($700,844), Conservation International, Arlington
Key terms: Indiscriminate Fishing Practices, Belmont Forum, Global Challenges, Indiscriminate Fisheries, Tonle Sap, Activities, Approach, Cambodia, Climate, Councils, Countries, Deliver, Environmental, Food, Freshwater, Funding, Governance, Heads, Implications, International, Management, Millions, National, Options, Participating, Resources, Social, Sustainability, Theory, Worldwide.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Enhancing Adaptation and Resilience to Drought in Dry Tropical Social-Ecological Systems: The Guyanacaste, Costa Rica Example
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Mitchell J Small($639,240), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Global Challenges, Activities, Adaptation, Approach, Climate, Contribute, Councils, Countries, Development, Drought, Environmental, Forecasts, Funding, Heads, International, Knowledge, Management, Modeling, National, Participating, Resources, Social, Water, Weather.

Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Integrated Analysis of Freshwater Resources Sustainability in Jordan
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Steven M Gorelick($561,351), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Water Management Strategies, Belmont Forum, Freshwater Security, Global Challenges, Management Options, Activities, Approach, Availability, Capacity, Councils, Countries, Environmental, Feedbacks, Framework, Funding, Heads, Implications, International, Jordan, National, Natural, Participating, Range, Resources, Social, Sustainability, Tools.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Drought Impacts Vulnerability Thresholds in Monitoring and Early Warning Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Mark D Svoboda($542,073), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Drought Impacts, Drought Monitoring, Freshwater Security, Global Challenges, Activities, Adapt, Approach, Approaches, Capacity, Compare, Councils, Countries, Diverse, Effective, Engage, Environmental, Funding, Heads, International, Management, National, Natural, Participating, Range, Resources, Social, Stakeholders, Warning.

Belmont Forum-G8 Initiative Collaborative Research: Southern Africa's Hydro-Economy and Water Security: SAHEWS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: nan

1. Claudia Ringler($252,033), International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington
Key terms: Equitable And Sustainable, Belmont Forum, Freshwater Security, Global Challenges, Southern Africa, Activities, Approach, Councils, Countries, Demand, Effective, Environmental, Funding, Heads, Hydro-economy, Hydro-meteorological, International, Knowledge, Level, Management, National, Participating, Policy, Regional, Resources, Supply, Water.