NSF-GEO-RISE Awards for 2014

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CNH: Competing Demands and Future Vulnerability of Groundwater: Drinking Water Quality and Food Security in Arsenic-Impacted South and Southeast Asia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Benjamin C Bostick($1,456,710), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Irrigation Pumping, Irrigation Water, Rice Crops, Affected, Aquifers, Contamination, Decisions, Deep, Drinking, Evidence, Expected, Farmers, Fertilizer, Food, Gain, Groundwater, Human, Increase, Levels, Municipal, People, Protect, Soil, Yields.

CNH: The Dynamics of Multi-Scalar Adaptation in Megacities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Matei Georgescu($1,498,870), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Mexico City, Adaptation, Changing, City-level, Complexity, Conditions, Decision, Developed, Environmental, Geographic, Hydro-climatic, Infrastructure, Interdisciplinary, Model, Populations, Priorities, Produce, Reducing, Residents, Scenarios, Simulate, Spatially, Strategies, Vulnerable.

CNH-Ex: A Model for Groundwater Allocation and Management at the Bakken Shale in Western North Dakota
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Zhulu Lin($249,423), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Depot-based Water Allocation, Oil And Gas, Western North Dakota, Agent-based Model, Bakken Shale, Depot-based Water, Fh-hc Aquifer, Groundwater Model, Hydraulic Fracturing, Regional Groundwater, Unconventional Oil, Water Depot-based, Water Resources, Agent-based, Developed, Development, Dynamics, Energy, FH-HC, Has, Increased, Industry, Integrated, Interactions, Natural, Policy, Regions, Rural.

CNH: Coupled Climate, Cultivation, and Culture in the Great Plains: Understanding Water Supply and Water Quality in a Fragile Landscape
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Aleksey Y Sheshukov($1,450,000), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Aquatic Ecosystem, Policy Optimization, Water Quality, Water Supplies, Water Sustainability, Affected, Central, Challenged, Climate, Coupled, Development, Ecological, Ecosystems, Freshwater, Has, Human, Human-landscape, Hydrosystem, Land, Mechanistic, Model, Models, Natural, Plains, Population, Potential, Produce, Resources, Scenarios, Services, Society, Strategies.

SEES Fellows: An Integrative Model of Riparian Ecosystem Dynamics to Support Sustainable Management of Regulated Rivers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Rebecca Diehl($375,161), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Colorado River Basin, Current Condition, Riparian Ecosystem, Advantage, Applied, Approach, Demands, Dominant, Ecological, Ecosystems, Enable, Environmental, Fellows, Flow, Framework, Geomorphic, Has, Hydrologic, Inform, Integrate, Interactions, Management, Mentor, Model, Modeling, NSF, Organization, Processes, Program, Rivers, Shape, Supply, Sustainability, Vegetation, Water.

EAGER: Repository Cross-Linking for Open Archiving and Sharing of Scientific Data and Articles
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Don E Middleton($72,553), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Connecting Resources, Access, Articles, Atmospheric, Common, Connections, Exchange, Geosciences, Increasing, Information, Looks, NCAR, Previously, Produce, Repositories, Repository, Services, Software, Time, UCAR, Workflows.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: GeoLink - Leveraging Semantics and Linked Data for Data Sharing and Discovery in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Cynthia Chandler($286,780), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Krzysztof W Janowicz($481,214), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Michelle Cheatham($416,745), Wright State University, Dayton
4. Douglas Fils($189,416), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
5. Thomas W Narock($144,401), Marymount University, Arlington
6. Suzanne Carbotte($369,179), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Access, Approach, Art, Central, Challenge, Content, Cyberinfrastructure, Demonstrate, Discovery, Earthcube, Extendable, Geolink, Geoscience, Heterogeneity, Integration, Knowledge, Linked, Repositories, Respected, Shared, Sustainable, Underlying.

EarthCube Building Blocks Collaborative Proposal: Digital Crust ? An Exploratory Environment for Earth Science Research and Learning
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Ying Fan Reinfelder($249,570), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Ilya Zaslavsky($502,497), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
3. Shanan E Peters($246,997), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Digital Crust, Aspects, Contribute, Environment, Existing, Gaps, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Knowledge, Multiple, Platform, Processes.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: A Geo-Semantic Framework for Integrating Long-Tail Data and Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Luigi Marini($647,149), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Leslie Hsu($87,673), Columbia University, New York
3. Scott D Peckham($262,299), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Emerging Long-tail Model, Existing And Emerging, Unique And Transformative, Emerging Long-tail, Integrate Existing, Knowledge Framework, Knowledge Latency, Long-tail Model, Long-tail Resources, Transformative Approach, CSDMS, Challenges, Concepts, Discovery, Geoscience, Individual, Integration, Metadata, Modeling, Models, Seamless, Semantic.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: Cloud-Hosted Real-time Data Services for the Geosciences (CHORDS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Branko Kerkez($40,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Ve Chandrasekar($40,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Sara J Graves($120,000), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
4. Frank L Vernon($20,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
5. Michael D Daniels($284,673), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Optimal Allocation, Built, CHORDS, Cloud, Complex, Constrained, Demonstrate, Deployment, Earthcube, Enable, Experiments, Faults, Framework, Geo-scientific, Geosciences, Importance, Infrastructure, Initial, Real-time, Resources, Sensor, Sources, Streams, Via.

EarthCube RCN: An EarthCube Oceanography and Geobiology Environmental Omics Research Coordination Network (ECOGEO RCN)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Edward F DeLong($359,995), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Management And Analyses, Oceanography And Geobiology, Analytical Strategies, Ecogeo Rcn, Environmental Omic, Environmental Omics, Geobiology Omic, Ocean Scientists, Omic Datasets, Virtual Network, Access, Allied, Approaches, Beyond, Broader, Challenges, Collaborations, Communication, Complex, Discovery, Diverse, Earthcube, Enable, Expression, Generation, Geoscience, Human, Mechanisms, Models, Range, Rapidly, Reach, Scenarios, Serve, Share, Sharing, Standards, Survey, Tools.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: Enabling Scientific Collaboration and Discovery through Semantic Connections
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Linda R Rowan($386,875), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
2. Dean Krafft($404,884), Cornell University, Ithaca
3. Matthew Mayernik($856,480), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Leverage Linked, Virtual Organizations, Adoption, Application, Discovery, Geoscience, Geosciences, Information, Organizational, Produce, Source, Structured, VIVO, Web.

Earthcube RCN: Coral REef Science & CYberinfrastructure NeTwork (CReSCyNT)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Megan Donahue($299,845), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coral Reef, Image Processing, Sub Discipline, Activities, Advance, Advances, Analysis, Approaches, Broad, Broader, Collaborative, Computer, Crescynt, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Disciplinary, Geosciences, Graphic, Integration, Integrative, Management, Media, Meet, Network, Node, Nodes, Structures, Visualization.

Earthcube RCN: iSAmplEs: The Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($299,965), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Computer And Information, Coordination Network, Domain Scientists, Information Scientists, Access, Allow, Availability, Collected, Collections, Critical, Curation, Curators, Digital, Earthcube, Entire, Existing, Generated, Infrastructures, Internet, Knowledge, Management, Natural, Practices, RCN, Repositories, Resources, Sharing, Technology, Theme.

EarthCube Building Blocks: CyberConnector: Bridging the Earth Observations and Earth Science Modeling for Supporting Model Validation, Verification, and Inter-comparison
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Daniel Tong($1,000,000), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Geospatial Web Service, Sensor Web Technologies, Standard-based Geospatial Web, Automatically Process, Earthcube Building, Metadata Standards, Model Outputs, Standard Interfaces, Standard-based Geospatial, Capabilities, Cyberconnector, EO, End-user, Information, Initialization, Inter-comparison, Models, Observation, Preparation, Products, Validation.

EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: GeoSoft: Collaborative Open Source Software Sharing for Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Chris A Mattmann($1,048,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Christopher J Duffy($147,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Scott D Peckham($330,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Software Stewardship, Advance, Context, Formation, Framework, Geocamp, Geosciences, Geosoft, Infrastructure, Knowledge, Maintaining, Publication, Social, Training, Turbosoft.

EarthCube Building Block: GeoDataspace: Simplifying Data Management for Geoscience Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Tanu Malik($519,440), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Model Coupling Frameworks, Computational Geoscience, Analysis, Approach, Developing, Files, Geodataspace, Geoscientists, Leading, Management, Models, Pilot, Run, Sharing, Simplify, Time.

EarthCube Conceptual Design: A Scalable Community Driven Architecture
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Daniel Pilone($299,994), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Conceptual Architecture, Development, Earthcube, Efforts, Models.

EarthCube Domain Workshop: Data Facilities
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($93,147), Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson
Key terms: Act, Agenda, Challenges, Earthcube, Ensure, Facilities, Governance, Incorporated, Workshop.

Collaborative Research:Energy, Environment and Social Learning Network (ENERGY NET): Enhancing Opportunities for Learning Using an Earth System Science Framework
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION

1. Lauren Giarratani($200,000), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Geoscience Squads, Museum Staff, CMNH, ENERGY-NET, Education, Energy, Environment, Experiences, Framework, Geosciences, Geoscientists, Opportunities, Public, Rich, Society, Teens, Workforce.

Global Engagement and Collaboration: Strategic Initiatives of the U.S. National Committees for the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Katherine E Bailey($1,110,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: International Union, International Unions.

Belmont Forum - European Joint Programming Initiative Collaborative Research: Hydro-social and environmental impacts of sugar cane production on land use and food security
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Trent Biggs($36,613), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. Matei Georgescu($28,419), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Cristina Milesi($0), University Corporation at Monterey Bay, Seaside
4. Mutlu Ozdogan($26,188), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Food Security, Global Challenges, Approach, Benefits, Environmental, Funding, Increased, International, Land, National, Participating, Resources, Social.

14th National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy, and the Environment: Building Climate Solutions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Peter D Saundry($30,000), National Council for Science and the Environment/CEDD, Washington
Key terms: Advance, Climate, Conference, Connect, Consequences, Decision-making, Environment, Government, International, National, Organizations, Policy, Solutions.

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: 01/01/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ACT

1. Faisal Hossain($138,733), University of Washington, Seattle
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.

MSI-REaCH: Minority-Serving Institution-Reconstructing Earth's Climate History Program to Enhance Ocean and Climate Curricula and Provide Authentic Research Opportunities
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kristen St John($654,576), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Design And Implement, Faculty And Students, Advanced Geoscience, Msi Faculty, Ocean Drilling, Past Climate, Short Courses, Administer, Collaboration, Core, Curricula, Development, Educational, Expands, Experiences, Experiential, Focused, Follow-up, Foundation, Four-year, Guide, Integrating, Literacy, Marine, Mentoring, Msi-reach, NSF, Opportunities, Paleoclimate, Process, Program, Prototype, Research-based, Spectrum, Texas, Two-year, Undergraduate.

A workshop to implement GeoLEAD: A multi-stakeholder initiative to increase the size and diversity of the Earth and space science talent pool
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Harry Furukawa($69,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Geolead Portal, Geoscience Workforce, Undergraduate Students, Collaboration, Diversity, Future, Geosciences, Growing, Individual, Initiative, Natural, Planning, Resources, STEM, Venue, Workshop.

Enhancing Accessibility in the Geoscience: A Field-Based Workshop for Accommodating Students with Disabilities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christopher L Atchison($68,729), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. Christopher L Atchison($74,998), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Accessible Field, Field Workshop, Geoscience Education, Barriers, Conjunction, Design, Disabilities, Experiences, Faculty, Field-based, Future, Geosciences, Guidelines, Inclusive, Natural, Offered, Public, STEM, Students, Vancouver, Variety.

GLOBE Program Online Teacher Professional Development Conference
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. James Short($49,164), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Online And Blended, Effective Online, Globe Program, Stem Educator, Development, Diverse, Education, Educators, Engages, Leverage, NSF, Potential, Students, Training, Workshop.

US -Thailand, Czech Republic, Norway, South Africa Workshop: Catalyzing GLOBE Alumni International Near-peer Mentoring (CGAIN)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Elena B Sparrow($47,258), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alumni Near-peer Mentoring, Globe Alumni Near-peer, Alumni Near-peer, Education Program, Globe Participants, Globe Program, Near-peer Mentoring, Activities, Collaboration, Cost-effective, Diverse, Engage, Engaged, Environment, GLE, Global, Has, International, Million, NASA, NSF, Network, Npeer, Process, STEM, Schools, Sharing, Skills, Strategic, Students, Teachers, Trainers, Upgrades, Workshop.

Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Food System Governance, Food Sercurity and Land Use in Southern Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Alexa J Lamm($120,560), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Belmont Forum, Food Security, Global Challenges, Approach, Countries, Distribution, Environmental, Funding, International, Land, National, Natural, Participating, Partners, Resources.

Belmont Forum - European Joint Programming Initiative Collaborative Research: Sustainable Management of Agro-ecological Resources for Tribal Societies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Steven Gray($299,894), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Security And Land, Belmont Forum, Food Security, Global Challenges, Agricultural, Approach, Environmental, Farmers, Framework, Funding, Increase, International, Investigate, Management, National, Participating, Resilient, Resources, Rural, Seeks, Solutions, Technologies.

Capacity Development of Developing Nations in Regional Global Change Research in Asia and the Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Intl Global Change Res & Coord

1. Linda A Stevenson($362,038), 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.

SEES Fellows: Leveraging the waterscape to increase agricultural landscape sustainability
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: SEES Fellows

1. Amy T Hansen($476,039), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Policy Implementation, Agricultural, Challenges, Controlling, Define, Economic-environmental, Enable, Environmental, Fellows, Hydro-biogeochemical, Importance, Loading, Mentor, Minnesota, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Processes, Retention, Sustainability, Watershed, Wetland, Workforce.

SEES Fellows: Enhancing Sustainability of Shellfish Harvest in Alaska: Addressing the Ecology of Alexandrium Blooms and their Sociocultural Impacts.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Fellows

1. Elizabeth D Tobin($386,516), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Harmful Algal Bloom, Harmful Algal Blooms, Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, Alexandrium Blooms, Sociocultural Impacts, Southeast Alaska, Challenges, Cyst, Efforts, Emergence, Enable, Environmental, Fellows, Future, Has, Human, Information, Knowledge, Mentor, Monitoring, Strong, Sustainability, Toxic, Workforce.

SEES Fellows: The true meaning of "success": Developing adaptive social-ecological frameworks for evaluation of marine protected areas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SEES Fellows

1. Tara S Whitty($419,336), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mpa Evaluation, Approaches, Biodiversity, Challenges, Collection, Ecological, Enable, Engineering, Fellows, Frameworks, Future, Interdisciplinary, Marine, Mentor, Mpas, Program, Refine, Sites, Social, Social-ecological, Success, Sustainability, Workforce.

SAVI: Crossing the Boundaries of Critical Zone Science with a Virtual Institute
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Science Across Virtual Instits

1. Timothy S White($1,382,827), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Critical Zone, CZ, CZO, Coupled, Czos, Demand, Development, Directorate, Diverse, Establish, Graduate, Humanity, Increase, International, Junior, Processes, SAVI, Society, Student, Surface.

SAVI Belmont Forum International Collaboration: Community-driven strategy to deliver e-Infrastructures and Data Management for global environmental challenges
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Science Across Virtual Instits

1. M. Lee Allison($652,648), Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson
Key terms: Knowledge Hub Activities, Global Environmental, Implementation Plan, Collaboration, Countries, Decision, Development, Directorate, E-infrastructure, Efforts, Globe, Governance, International, Interoperability, Management, Roadmap, Virtual.