Research Association Inc

THE "GODDARD EARTH SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH" (GESTAR) STUDIES AND INVESTIGATIONS WILL CARRY OUT OBSERVATIONAL, EXPERIMENTAL, AND THEORETICAL

THE CSGRAD4US FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA) WILL MANAGE THE COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (CISE) GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP (CSGRAD4US) PROGRAM WITH THE AIM OF INCREASING THE NUMBER AND DIVERSITY OF DOMESTIC GRADUATE STUDENTS PURSUING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CAREERS IN THE CISE FIELDS. MANY UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENTS HAVE OUTSTANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN INDUSTRY AND AT OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, AND ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF THESE INDIVIDUALS CONSIDERS PURSUING A COMPUTING-RELATED DOCTORAL DEGREE PROGRAM. THE CSGRAD4US FELLOWSHIP PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BACHELOR?S DEGREE HOLDERS WHO MAY BE WORKING IN INDUSTRY OR OTHER SECTORS TO RETURN TO ACADEMIA AND PURSUE RESEARCH-BASED DOCTORAL DEGREES IN A CISE FIELD. THIS PROGRAM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO IMPACT THE DOMESTIC CISE PHD PIPELINE AND PRODUCTION BY PROVIDING THE MONETARY INCENTIVES AND THE SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE TO SUCCESSFULLY APPLY AND PERSIST IN A DOCTORAL PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM STRONGLY ENCOURAGES PEOPLE FROM GROUPS THAT ARE UNDERREPRESENTED IN COMPUTING TO APPLY. THE EVALUATION WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PATHWAYS INTO AND THROUGH PHD PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUALS RETURNING FROM THE WORKFORCE, INCLUDING A MODEL OF MENTORING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT CAN BE USED TO SUPPORT A MORE DIVERSE, DOMESTIC STUDENT POPULATION. BUILDING UPON PAST EXPERIENCE WITH THE CSGRAD4US MENTORING PROGRAM AND COMPUTING INNOVATION FELLOWS, CRA WILL ADMINISTER ALL PHASES OF THE CSGRAD4US FELLOWSHIP INCLUDING: OUTREACH AND RECRUITMENT OF POTENTIAL APPLICANTS; FACILITATING THE FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION PROCESS; IDENTIFYING REVIEWERS AND CONDUCTING PANEL REVIEWS; SELECTING APPLICANTS ACCORDING TO PROGRAM GOALS, RUNNING A MENTORING PROGRAM FOR PARTICIPANTS STARTING WITH THE APPLICATION PROCESS AND GOING THROUGHOUT THE PHD PROGRAM; MAKING AWARDS TO CSGRAD4US INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; CONDUCTING ONGOING EVALUATION TO ASSESS OUTCOMES AND TRACK PARTICIPANTS, AND DISSEMINATING THE FINDINGS. CSGRAD4US INCLUDES PROVIDING UP TO 70 SELECTED INDIVIDUALS EACH YEAR MENTORED PREPARATION, FOLLOWED BY THREE YEARS OF FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT FOR GRADUATE STUDY THAT LEADS TO A RESEARCH-BASED DOCTORAL DEGREE IN A CISE DISCIPLINE AT AN ACCREDITED DOCTORAL DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION HAVING A CAMPUS LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES, ITS TERRITORIES OR POSSESSIONS, OR THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. THIS PROJECT BUILDS UPON THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CSGRAD4US MENTORING PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY CRA?S COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION (CRA-E) AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION (CRA-WP). 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.

STEPHEN MACKWELL / UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONOPERATION OF THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTI

THE RECIPIENT, NAMED USRA, SHALL PERFORM WORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF WORK DATED 09 DECEMBER 2020, ENTITLED "AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY

SPACE LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM

THE CONTINUED OPERATON OF THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE (RIACS)

THIS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT REPLACES NNM08AA00A WHICH WAS ERRONEOUSLY SET UP WITH AN INCORRECT VENDOR CODE IN CMM. THIS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT IS FOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT AT THE NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER.

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCATION (CO-STEM) TO INCREASE THE NATION S QUALIFIED AND DIVERSE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) WORKFORCE BY PROVIDING EXPERIENTIAL MENTOR-GUIDED INTERNSHIPS AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AT ALL EDUCATIONAL LEVELS. NASA INTERNSHIPS AS PART OF THE NASA INTERNSHIPS FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (NIFS) PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE A SINGLE PATHWAY FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO ENGAGE IN STEM AND BUSINESS INTERNSHIPS AT NASA CENTERS AND LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE. UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA) JOINS NASA AND THE NATION TO INCREASE THE COUNTRY S DIVERSE STEM WORKFORCE THROUGH A SHARED VISION FOR HANDS-ON IMMERSIVE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS THAT PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION FOR NASA AND THE NATION S STEM WORKFORCE NEEDS. WITH OVER FOUR DECADES EXPERIENCE MANAGING AND IMPLEMENTING NASA EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS USRA IS A LEADER IN ADMINISTERING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THAT LEAD TO EMPLOYMENT WITH NASA AND INDUSTRY IN STEM AND BUSINESS FIELDS. USRA'S EXPERIENCE AND BEST PRACTICES WILL RESULT IN THE EFFICIENCIES FLEXIBILITY AND SCALABILITY NEEDED TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE THE NASA INTERNSHIPS PROGRAM.USRA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASA WILL IMPLEMENT AND SUPPORT NASA INTERNSHIPS THROUGH INNOVATIVE AND PROVEN PROGRAM MANAGEMENT METHODS AND STRATEGIC BUSINESS PRACTICES THAT WILL 1) INCREASE RETENTION RATES AMONG STUDENTS ENTERING STEM DISCIPLINES; 2) REACH A DIVERSE POPULATION OF STUDENTS; 3) DEVELOP A HIGHLY SKILLED WORKFORCE THAT POSSESSES THE TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO MAKE FUTURE DISCOVERIES AND ADVANCEMENTS IN STEM RELATED FIELDS. THROUGH A STEM EDUCATION NETWORK COMPRISED OF OVER 400 RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES INCLUDING FOUR HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCUS) AND TWO HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS (HISS) USRA CONNECTS THE TOP EXPERTS RESEARCHERS AND FACULTY MEMBERS IN STEM DISCIPLINES WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR STEM INTERNS. USRA'S BROAD REACH INTO THE STEM EDUCATION COMMUNITY WILL SUPPORT NASA INTERNSHIPS TO INCREASE STUDENT DIVERSITY ENHANCE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ENCOURAGE CONTINUITY ACROSS PROGRAMS AND AGENCIES AND MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS. NASA INTERNSHIPS WILL ENGAGE HIGH SCHOOL UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WHO REPRESENT THE DIVERSE POPULATION OF THE NATION THROUGH NASA MENTOR-GUIDED STEM AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES THAT FOSTER THEIR EDUCATION GOALS AND ENGAGE THEM IN NASA'S MISSION.

SPACE LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMNASA'S EXPLORATION GOALS SHALL BE FURTHERED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENCE PROGRAM TO FACIL

THE UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION PROPOSES TO OPERATE THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE AT ITS HOUSTON FACILITY ADJACENT TO NASA JOHNSON SP

THE NATURE OF SCIENCE RESEARCH AT MSFC RELIES ON SMALL FOCUSED INTERDISCIPLINARY AND CROSS CUTTING TEAMS IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THE RESEARCH GOALS AND MEET CUSTOMER NEEDS. USRA HAS VAST EXPERIENCE WORKING INTERCHANGEABLY WITH MSFC RESEARCHERS SO THAT THEY ARE TRUSTED AGENTS TO DEVELOP TOOLS GENERATE AND MODEL DATA DOCUMENT AND PRESENT OR PUBLISH RESULTS. MSFC HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN THE CURRENT RESEARCH TEAMS OVER SEVERAL YEARS IN ORDER TO COLLABORATIVELY ADVANCE THE RESEARCH GOALS. USRA PERSONNEL ARE OFTEN IDENTIFIED BY NAME ON AWARDED RESEARCH PROPOSALS AND IN SOME CASES MAY EVEN BE THE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. USRA POSSESSES UNIQUE CAPABILITIES FOR REACHBACK WITH OVER 100 UNIVERSITIES PROVIDING QUICK ACCESS TO EXPERTS IN MANY AREAS WITHIN OUR RESEARCH FIELDS WHO COULD BE BROUGHT IN TO PROVIDE LIMITED AND FOCUSED SUPPORT. THE VAST EXPANSE OF UNIVERSITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL BE ACCESSED STRATEGICALLY TO GAIN DIRECT ACCESS TO WORLDWIDE LEADERS IN TECHNICAL AREAS ACCESS TO TEST EQUIPMENT DATA OR COLLABORATION ON FURTHERING SCIENTIFIC GOALS.

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF SERTRALINE, PROLONGED EXPOSURE THERAPY AND THEIR COMBINATION OF OEF/OIF WITH PTSD

SINCE ITS INCEPTION MORE THAN FIVE DECADES AGO THE LPI HAS PLAYED A UNIQUE ROLE IN THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE COMMUNITY PROVIDING A MEANS FOR COOPERATION AMONG NASA UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS TO ADVANCE NASA S OBJECTIVES IN PLANETARY SCIENCE. THE LPI S SUCCESS IS DUE TO THE BREADTH OF ITS ACTIVITIES THE ACTIVE SYNERGIES AMONG THEM AND CRUCIALLY THE INFUSION OF SCIENCE INTO EVERYTHING WE DO. THE LPI ALSO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF FRUITFUL COLLABORATION WITH THE ASTROMATERIALS DIVISION AT NASA S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER (JSC) FACILITATED BY THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF OUR TWO ORGANIZATIONS.

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

THE USRA RESPONSE TO NASA EDUCATION ASSOCIATES PROGRAM CAN:USRA PROPOSES TO ASSUME MANAGEMENT OF THE EDUCATION ASSOCIATES PROGRAM (EAP) AND TO USE I

COMPUTING INNOVATION FELLOWS PROJECT 2021

FOR THE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS COMPONENT OF THE UPCOMING DESDYN IR MISSION, NEW CHALLENGES HAVE EMERGED RELATED TO HOW TO MAKE BEST USE OF THE MISSIO

COMPUTING INNOVATION FELLOWS 2020 PROJECT

USRA RESPONSE TO NASA COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NOTICE #NNJ07198752C FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAMUSRA HAS A DEVELOPED A COMPREHENSIVE

5-YEAR RENEWAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT CA 80MSFC17M0022

THE SECOND CI FELLOWS PROJECT

COMPUTING INNOVATION FELLOWS PROJECT

IOWA-WIDE ONCOLOGY RESEARCH COALITION (I-WORC)

EXPANDING NASAS COMMUNITY FOR PLANETARY SAMPLE SCIENCE ENCOMPSS

DESEGREGATION ASSISTANCE CENTERS

CALLABORATIVE RESCH, EDUC, & OUTREACH PROG FOR THE NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECH CENTER

'CAPABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE TO MANAGE THE AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM AT EGLIN AFB' SUBMITTED ON 14 AUGUST 2017 (THE RECIPIENT'S TECHNICAL PROPOSAL) IS IN

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

THE UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA) PROPOSES TO ESTABLISH AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR INNOVOLION IN AEROSPACE METHODS AND

COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM III

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOR THE PHILLIPS RESEARCH SITE (PRS) ISSUED PURSUANT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AFRL SCHOLAR PROGRAM, AGREEMENT FA9453-

WE PLAN TO AUGMENT THE CURRENT TARGET-DRIVEN OBSERVING AT THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY, WHERE EACH TARGET IS CHOSEN AND SCHEDULED IN ADVANCE, WITH A DISCO

THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM II

WE ARE REQUESTING FUNDING FOR FIVE YEARS FOR SUPPORT OF THE OPERATION OF THE 2.38-GHZ RADAR SYSTEM ON THE 305-M ARECIBO TELESCOPE FOR CHARACTERIZATIO

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY IN THE COMPUTING RESEARCH PIPELINE

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

THE THIRD COMPUTING INNOVATION FELLOWS PROJECT

CAREER EXPLORATION PROGRAM

TECHXPERTS

THE UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA), A NOT FOR PROFIT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, IS PLEASED TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING BUDGET JUSTIFICATION I

LUNAR SAMPLES WILL BE ANALYZED AND RELATED MODELS DEVELOPED TO BETTER ADDRESS THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE MOON AS THEY ARE AFFECTED BY IMPACT PRO

FPDS BASE DESCRIPTION MULTIPLE YEAR AWARD&INCREMENTAL FUNDING FOR YEARS ONE TO FIVE. THIS PROPOSAL IS ENTITLED "INNER SOLAR SYSTEM IMPACT PROCESSES: AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS USING EXTRATERRESTRIAL SAMPLES ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING." THIS IS AWARDED IN RESPONSE TO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NOTICE (CAN) NO. NNH13ZDA006C SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION RESEARCH VIRTUAL INSTITUTE (SSERVI) CYCLE TWO. THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IS DR. DAVID A. KRING WITH UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA). PROJECT SUMMARY: LUNAR SAMPLES AND METEORITIC SAMPLES OF NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS WILL BE ANALYZED TO BETTER ADDRESS THE COLLISIONAL EVOLUTION OF THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM RANGING IN THE TIME FROM THE EARLIEST STAGES OF PLANETARY ACCRETION TO THE PROCESSES THAT CREATED THE SURFACES WE SEE TODAY. THESE DATA WILL PROVIDE THE FUEL TO CATALYZE AND CONSTRAIN MAJOR SOLAR SYSTEM HYPOTHESES LIKE THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM IMPACT CATACLYSM&ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORBITAL EVOLUTION OF OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETS. SAMPLE ANALYSES WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS OF NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS AND A GEOLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF THEIR SURFACES. MODELS OF ASTEROIDS&THE IMPACTS THEY PRODUCE WILL THEN BE USED TO DETERMINE THE HISTORICAL FLUX OF IMPACT EVENTS THEIR CONSEQUENCES &POTENTIAL FUTURE HAZARDS. LPI&JSC ARE LEADING A TEAM THAT WILL HELP GROW AN INTEGRATED SCIENCE&EXPLORATION COMMUNITY THROUGH COLLABORATIONS WITH RESEARCHERS AT SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS. THE RESEARCH PROVIDES THE FOUNDATION FOR A RICH TRAINING EDUCATIONAL&PUBLIC OUTREACH (E/PO) PROGRAM. THE TEAM WILL WORK WITH A CONSORTIUM OF NATIONALLY-DISTRIBUTED UNIVERSITIES AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES INCLUDING SEVERAL MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS TO INCREASE EXPOSURE OF UNDERGRADUATE&GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SPACE SCIENCE&EXPLORATION. WE WILL EXPAND OUR CURRENT SUITE OF LUNAR E/PO PROGRAMS TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL LUNAR AND NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID SCIENCE EXPERIENCES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TRAVELING EXHIBITS FOR LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS AN ON-LINE GALLERY OF SOLAR SYSTEM IMAGES AND A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WEBSITE. ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES ARE DESIGNED WITH AN INTERFACE BETWEEN THE SCIENCE&EXPLORATION COMMUNITIES&WILL DEVELOP CONTENT THAT CAN BE USED TO DEVELOP FUTURE ROBOTIC&HUMAN MISSIONS.

CISE-RV: COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM -THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM (CCC) IS ESTABLISHED THROUGH A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) AND THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA). SINCE ITS INCEPTION, THE PURPOSE OF THE CCC HAS BEEN TO CATALYZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOLD, FAR-REACHING VISIONS FOR COMPUTING RESEARCH, AND TO FACILITATE THE COMMUNICATION OF THOSE RESEARCH VISIONS TO STAKEHOLDERS BOTH WITHIN AND BEYOND THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ECOSYSTEM. THE CCC FOSTERS PROACTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH BOTH COMPUTING AND NON-COMPUTING RESEARCH STAKEHOLDERS -- AGENCIES, INDUSTRY, PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, CONSORTIA, AND PHILANTHROPIC STAKEHOLDERS -- TO ENSURE THAT IT CONTINUES TO EXPAND ITS NETWORK AND IMPACT. THE CCC PROVIDES THE CONTINUITY AND CAPACITY TO BRING TOGETHER STAKEHOLDERS THAT DEPEND ON COMPUTING INNOVATION AS PART OF INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NATIONAL AND SOCIETAL NEEDS. THE CCC PLAYS A VITAL AND EFFECTIVE ROLE IN CATALYZING THE COMPUTING RESEARCH COMMUNITY TO ARTICULATE FAR REACHING AND STRATEGIC RESEARCH VISIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO SHAPE THE FIELD FOR DECADES TO COME. THE MAJORITY OF CCC VISIONING ACTIVITIES AND WHITE PAPERS BRING TOGETHER MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE AND NEEDS THAT COMBINE TO CREATE IMPORTANT DISCIPLINARY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES FOR THE COMPUTING FIELD. THE RESULTS OF THESE ACTIVITIES ARE DISSEMINATED BACK TO THE COMMUNITY TO ENSURE CONTINUED REVITALIZATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AREAS AND TOPICS FOR FUTURE COMPUTING RESEARCH. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

EXPANDING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN COMPUTING -THE EXPANDING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN COMPUTING PROJECT IS A PILOT INITIATIVE LED BY THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA) TO EXPAND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOMESTIC STUDENTS. THE PROGRAM ADDRESSES THE NEED FOR EFFICIENT RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND REPORTING OF REU ACTIVITIES BY SUPPORTING STUDENTS TO WORK ON RESEARCH PROJECTS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY SELECTED NSF CISE PROGRAMS. THE PROJECT IS STRUCTURED AROUND THREE PRIMARY GOALS: (1) EXPANDING IMPACTFUL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOMESTIC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN AREAS ALIGNED WITH NSF PRIORITIES; (2) PROVIDING OPTIONAL EVIDENCE-BASED MENTORING AND STUDENT-MENTOR MATCHING TO ENHANCE QUALITY OF THE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE; AND (3) ESTABLISHING A COORDINATED EVALUATION FRAMEWORK TO GENERATE DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS INTO STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND PERSISTENCE IN COMPUTING RESEARCH PATHWAYS. THE PROJECT ENSURES THE QUALITY OF THE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES BY LEVERAGING CURRENT, PEER-REVIEWED NSF CISE AWARDS. BY CENTRALIZING STIPEND DISTRIBUTION AND OFFERING OPTIONAL TRAINING MODULES, THE PROGRAM REDUCES ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN FOR PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (PIS) WHILE MAXIMIZING THE EDUCATIONAL IMPACT FOR PARTICIPANTS. BY PROVIDING IMMERSION IN HIGH-LEVEL RESEARCH AND FACULTY MENTORSHIP, THE PROGRAM INCREASES STUDENT AWARENESS OF INNOVATION PATHWAYS AND PREPARES THEM FOR ADMISSION TO GRADUATE SCHOOL. THE INITIATIVE AIMS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF DOMESTIC STUDENTS PURSUING ADVANCED DEGREES IN COMPUTING. FURTHERMORE, BY OFFERING OPTIONAL MENTORING TRAINING FOR BOTH UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS AND GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORS, THE PROJECT INCREASES THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF DEPARTMENTS TO HOST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS WITHOUT INCREASING LOCAL TRAINING WORKLOAD. CRA?S CENTER FOR EVALUATING THE RESEARCH PIPELINE (CERP) WILL UTILIZE ITS NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION CAPACITY TO PERFORM A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AND A CONTROL GROUP OF PEERS IN OTHER REU PROGRAMS, INCLUDING NSF REU SITES. THIS RESEARCH WILL EXPLORE MEASURABLE INCREASES IN RESEARCH SELF-EFFICACY, SCIENTIFIC IDENTITY, PROFESSIONAL SKILL ACQUISITION, AND THE INFLUENCE OF MENTORING ON STUDENTS' LONG-TERM INTEREST IN GRADUATE STUDIES. THE RESULTING LONGITUDINAL DATA WILL CONTRIBUTE VALUABLE INSIGHTS TO THE BROADER COMPUTING COMMUNITY REGARDING EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF RESEARCHERS. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

THIS IS A PROPOSAL TO CONDUCT FURTHER RESEARCH WITH THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION'S (FAA'S) UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE AND NASA ON UAS USE IN A BROAD RANGE OF PUBLIC SAFETY APPLICATIONS OVER LAND AND MARITIME ENVIRONMENTS

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

A COMMUNITY COASTAL AND OCEAN MODELING TESTBED TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING AND OPERATIONAL FORECASTS OF EXTREME EVENTS AND CHRONIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITI

ADVANCING CORE STEM RESEARCH THROUGH SCIENTIFIC STUDIES AND CAPACITY BUILDING WITH LARGE-SCALE DATA RESOURCES

IOWA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

PARENT INFORMATION AND RESOURCE CENTERS - PARENTAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCE CENTERS

VREO "VISITING RESEARCHER EXCHANGE AND OUTREACH PROGRAM"

CENTER FOR EVALUATING THE RESEARCH PIPELINE: A COMMUNITY RESOURCE -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION?S (CRA) CENTER FOR EVALUATING THE RESEARCH PIPELINE (CERP) WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2013 BY CRA-W AND THE COALITION TO DIVERSIFY COMPUTING WITH A MISSION TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY THROUGH EVALUATION AND RESEARCH. CERP?S VISION IS TO BE A RESOURCE FOR THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY THAT FULFILLS THE NEED FOR NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION, COMPARATIVE AND LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY FOR DISSEMINATION OF BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING (BPC) RELATED RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED BEST PRACTICES. THE CENTER?S ACTIVITIES ARE CENTERED AROUND DATA, EVALUATION AND RESEARCH, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, CERP PROVIDES THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY WITH RESOURCES IN THESE AREAS TO SUPPORT THE COLLECTIVE EFFORT TO CREATE A STRONG COMPUTING EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE PIPELINE. CERP?S ACTIVITIES ARE DESIGNED BASED ON THE COMMUNITY?S NEEDS AND ADJUSTED IN A TIMELY MANNER DEPENDING ON THE CHANGING DEMANDS. BEING PART OF CRA, A SERVICE-ORIENTED ORGANIZATION, CERP MAINTAINS THE EXPERTISE OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF TO OFFER CONTINUOUS SUPPORT TO THE COMMUNITY?S BPC EFFORTS. CERP?S WORK ON SETTING UP INFRASTRUCTURES FOR LARGE SCALE DATA COLLECTION AND SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION SERVICES, COUPLED WITH THE CENTER?S EFFORTS TO CONNECT WITH THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY, MAKES IT UNIQUELY SUITED TO ACT AS A CENTRAL RESOURCE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO BRING CERP?S SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES UNDER ONE UMBRELLA TO SUPPORT THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY?S EFFORTS TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION IN THE FIELD. CERP?S DATA RESOURCES WILL INCLUDE LARGE SCALE LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS OF COMPUTING STUDENTS AT THE HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL AND PROFESSIONALS, DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL DATA, AND CURATION OF DATA RESOURCES FROM THIRD PARTY SOURCES. CERP?S EVALUATION SERVICES WILL RANGE FROM SCALABLE COMPARATIVE EVALUATION TO CUSTOMIZED PROGRAM IMPACT ASSESSMENTS. CERP?S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES WILL UTILIZE BPCNET.ORG AND ITS ASSOCIATED PROJECTS TO PROVIDE CURATED RESOURCES (E.G. BPCNET.ORG RESOURCE LIBRARY, BPCNET.ORG STATISTICS AND DATA HUB), SERVICES (E.G., CONSULTANCY), AND EVENTS (E.G., WORKSHOPS, WEBINARS) FOR THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY. THIS PROJECT WILL GENERATE DATA AND RESOURCES THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE ON COMPUTING EDUCATION AND BROADENING PARTICIPATION. CERP?S NATIONAL LEVEL DATA SOURCES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL RESEARCHERS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS REGARDING COMPUTING EDUCATION AND GAIN A BETTER INSIGHT INTO INDIVIDUALS? EXPERIENCES IN COMPUTING. FURTHER, THE SERVICES (E.G., EVALUATION, BPC CONSULTANCY) PROVIDED BY THIS PROJECT WILL BENEFIT THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY BROADLY AND COMPUTING EDUCATION COMMUNITY MORE SPECIFICALLY. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM

23-NUP2023-0050 2023 SUMMER PROGRAM ENTITLED: 'MATERIALS AND NUCLEAR ANALYSES OF THE CENTRIFUGAL NUCLEAR THERMAL REACTOR'

YOUTH LEADERSHIP NOW (YLN)

ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE AND BUILDING THE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN EDUCATION AND STEM LEARNING

NOVEL PATHWAYS TO CS RESEARCH CAREERS: BROADENING TARGET POPULATIONS AND SCALING OUTREACH PROGRAMS

REENERGIZING LEADERSHIP TO ACHIEVE GREATER STUDENT SUCCESS (RLSS)

THE UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA)-LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE (LPI) PROPOSES TO PLAN AND IMPLEMENT ANNUAL MEETINGS AND PROVIDE TRAVEL AND SALARY SUPPORT FOR NASA S PROGRAM ANALYSIS (OR ASSESSMENT) GROUPS (PAGS). THE EIGHT PLANETARY

IDRA VISIONCODERS

UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION PLANET SEPOF: EXTENDING THE COHERENCE AND REACH OF NASA PLA

THE UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA) ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE (REFERRED TO THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT AS THE INSTITUTE OR LPI) IS PROPOSING A SCIENCE COLLABORATION TO FACILITATE THE EFFORTS OF THE ASTROMATERIALS RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION SCIENCE (ARES) DIVISION BY PROVIDING SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS AND EXPERTISE TO COMPLEMENT AND EXTEND THE EXISTING CAPABILITIES IN ARES. AS A TOP QUALITY WORLD RENOWNED SCIENCE INSTITUTE THE LPI IS UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL PERSONNEL WITH STRONG RESEARCH CREDENTIALS THAT WOULD PROVIDE A FORUM FOR DEVELOPING RESEARCH IDEAS IN LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE. LPI S EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH NASA BADGING AND VISAS FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS BRINGS A UNIQUE RESOURCE TO THE ARES DIVISION. ADDITIONALLY THE LPI WILL PROVIDE USE OF THE FACILITIES AT THE INSTITUTE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MEETING FACILITIES OUTSIDE THE JSC FENCE TO FACILITATE CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLABORATORS; IT RESOURCES AND STAFF THAT PROVIDE COMPLEMENTARY RESOURCES TO THOSE AT JSC; A LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LIBRARY COLLECTION THAT EXCEEDS 62 000 BOOKS JOURNALS AND ARCHIVED NASA DOCUMENTS; THE ENTIRE APOLLO IMAGE COLLECTION HOUSED AT THE INSTITUTE S REGIONAL PLANETARY IMAGE FACILITY (RPIF); AND ACCESS TO SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS TO ADDRESS KEY PLANETARY SCIENCE QUESTIONS.

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) RECOGNIZES THE NATION'S NEED FOR TALENTED AND DIVERSE STUDENTS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEER

WHILE THE ROLE OF OCEANS IN THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE AND ITS EXCHANGES WITH THE ATMOSPHERE ARE INDISPUTABLE IT IS LESS CLEAR HOW THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE UPPER OCEANS DETERMINE THE VERTICAL TRANSFER OF ORGANIC MATTER AND HOW THEY INFLUENCE THE EFFICIENCY OF THESE VERTICAL FLUXES. USING THE EXPERTISE IN OSSES AT THE NASA GLOBAL MODELING AND ASSIMILATION OFFICE (GMAO) WE WILL ASSESS DIFFERENT OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGIES ALLOWING FOR BEST USE OF RESOURCES TO MAXIMIZE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPORT FLUXES PRIOR TO THE EXPORTS FIELD CAMPAIGNS. THE STATE-OF-THE-ART GMAO MODEL WILL ALLOW US TO TEST THESE OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGIES AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES TO INFORM VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE PLANNING. THESE SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS WILL PROVIDE THE LOCATIONS FREQUENCY AND PARAMETERS NEEDED TO REPRESENT THE OCEAN CARBON PATHWAYS OVER A RANGE OF CONTRASTING ECOSYSTEM/CARBON CYCLE STATES. ADDITIONALLY THE COMBINATION OF EXPERTISE AT GMAO IN SEASONAL TO DECADAL FORECAST WITH THE EXPERTISE OF NASA GISS IN DECADAL TO CENTURY CHANGES WILL PROVIDE SHORT- AND LONG-TERM FORECASTS OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN CARBON EXPORT. THESE FORECASTS WILL HELP IN ASSESSING HOW REPRESENTATIVE THE VARIOUS SAMPLING STRATEGIES ARE FOR SEASONAL AND DECADAL VARIABILITY AND CHANGES. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE EXPORT OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION FROM THE SURFACE WATERS TO THE DEEP OCEAN IN THE NASA OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODEL WILL BE USED TO ASSESS FUTURE RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS AND CARBON TRANSPORT.

DESEGREGATION ASSISTANCE CENTERS

NOAA TESTBED: A SUPER-REGIONAL TESTBED TO IMPROVE MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES ON THE U.S. ATLANTIC AND GULF OF MEXICO COASTS.

ANALYSES OF LUNAR SAMPLES EXPERIMENTAL ANALOGUES AND METEORITIC REMNANTS OF COLLISIONAL RESERVOIRS WILL BE USED TO ASSESS THE ACCRETION AND SUBSEQUENT BOMBARDMENT OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THE DELIVERY AND PROCESSING OF VOLA

TRANSITION TO TEACHING PROGRAM -- STATEWIDE

TRANSITION TO TEACHING PROGRAM -- STATEWIDE

PLANETARY EXPLORATION IS AMONG THE MOST EXCITING AND ACCESSIBLE OF THE SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY NASA OR ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY. THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE AND PARTNERS PROPOSE PLANETARY RESOURCES AND CONTENT HEROES (REACH) A PROCESS OR

TAS:: 57 3600::TAS AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOR THE PHILLIPS RESEARCH SITE (PRS) FY 2017 SUMMER PROGRAM

TRANSITION TO TEACHING PROGRAM -- STATEWIDE

EFFECTS OF NOISE EXPOSURE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN ON BALANCE AND STABILITY IN OLDER ADULTS - ABSTRACT LOSS OF STABILITY AND FALLS IS A MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR INJURY AND DEATH IN OLDER ADULTS. PREVIOUSLY OVERLOOKED, LIFETIME NOISE EXPOSURE HAS BEEN SHOWN TO CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE VESTIBULAR PERIPHERY; ALTHOUGH, ANIMAL MODELS AND HUMAN STUDIES THAT CAN PROVIDE A MECHANISTIC BASIS CONNECTING NOISE-INDUCED VESTIBULAR DYSFUNCTION AND AGE-RELATED FALL RISK ARE LIMITED. THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN DETECTION OF HEAD MOVEMENTS AND ORIENTATION WITH RESPECT TO GRAVITY AND IS ESSENTIAL FOR NORMAL VISION AND POSTURAL CONTROL. DUE TO THEIR ANATOMICAL PROXIMITY TO THE COCHLEA, THE OTOLITH ORGANS ARE EXPOSED TO SOUND PRESSURE AND ARE AT RISK FOR NOISE OVERSTIMULATION, WHICH MAY CONTRIBUTE TO VESTIBULAR DYSFUNCTION. HOWEVER, DAMAGE MAY NOT BE LIMITED TO THE OTOLITH ORGANS. RECENT STUDIES HAVE LINKED NOISE OVERSTIMULATION TO DECREASED VESTIBULAR NERVE ACTIVITY AND LOSS OF A SPECIALIZED CLASS OF IRREGULARLY FIRING VESTIBULAR AFFERENTS WHICH EXHIBIT ENHANCED SENSITIVITY TO ACCELERATION. IT IS LIKELY THAT THESE AFFERENTS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE INITIATING POSTURAL COMPENSATION FOR ABRUPT CHANGES IN HEAD OR BODY POSITION DUE TO THEIR PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR PROJECTION TO SECONDARY VESTIBULAR NEURONS THAT PROJECT TO THE SPINAL CORD. THEREFORE, THE EFFECTS OF NOISE MAY ACCELERATE DISABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH NATURAL AGING. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO CHARACTERIZE VESTIBULAR LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH NATURAL AGING AND HOW IT IS COMPOUNDED BY CUMULATIVE NOISE EXPOSURES THROUGHOUT ONE’S LIFE. THUS, WE WILL SYSTEMATICALLY INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF NOISE EXPOSURE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN ON OTOLITH AND CANAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION (AIM 1), SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS THE EXTENT OF IRREGULAR AFFERENT DAMAGE AND ITS FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES (AIM 2), AND ASSES CHANGES IN POSTURE, MOBILITY AND BALANCE WITH NOISE EXPOSURE (AIM 3). CHANGES IN SENSORY CELL SYNAPSES WILL BE CORRELATED WITH VESTIBULAR REFLEX IMPAIRMENT AND FALL RISK ASSOCIATED WITH POSTURAL INSTABILITY AND LOSS OF BALANCE. TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THESE CHANGES OCCUR OVER THE LIFETIME, WE WILL ASSESS ANATOMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHANGES IN EARLY-, MIDDLE-, AND LATE-ADULTHOOD. FURTHER, FUNCTIONAL EXPERIMENTS WILL BE DONE IN PARALLEL IN RATS AND HUMAN PARTICIPANTS FOR MAXIMAL TRANSLATION OF OUR RESULTS TO THE CLINIC. INDIVIDUALLY, BOTH ANIMAL AND RODENT STUDIES HAVE PROVEN INVALUABLE TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECTS OF NOISE EXPOSURE ON VESTIBULAR FUNCTION. HOWEVER, BOTH HAVE LIMITATIONS THAT CAN BE BEST ADDRESSED WITH A SET OF COMPLIMENTARY STUDIES IN THE TWO SYSTEMS. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A COMPREHENSIVE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH THAT STRIVES TO EVALUATE THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS IN INCREASED FALLS AND FALL RISK DUE TO A HISTORY OF NOISE EXPOSURE IN OLDER ADULTS. THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS TO POTENTIALLY FATAL FALLS UNDERSCORES THE NEED FOR A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH, THAT CAN EVENTUALLY RESULT IN IMPROVED TRAINING AND REHABILITATION METHODS TO BE USED WITH THIS POPULATION.

** AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** IDRA NEXTGEN EVALUATION

INTEGRATED, MULT-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE ADOLESCENT HEALTH.

DESEGREGATION ASSISTANCE CENTERS

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA)

BPC-AE: COMPUTING RESEARCH PATHWAYS AT SCALE (CRA-WP) -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION?S COMMITTEE ON WIDENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING RESEARCH (CRA-WP) WILL EXTEND ITS CRA-WP BPC ALLIANCE. THIS ALLIANCE AIMS TO MAINTAIN OUR NATION?S POSITION AS A GLOBAL FRONTRUNNER IN TECHNICAL INNOVATION, RESEARCH, AND DISCOVERY BY ADDRESSING THE CRITICAL NEED FOR EXPANDING THE COMPUTING WORKFORCE. THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO TAP INTO THE VAST, UNDERUTILIZED TALENT POOL WITHIN UNDERREPRESENTED DEMOGRAPHICS, THEREBY EXPANDING THE NATION?S TALENT BASE AND FOSTERING INNOVATION THROUGH DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES. BY SCALING EXISTING SUCCESSFUL MENTORING PROGRAMS, CRA-WP INTENDS TO INCREASE INTEREST AND PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING RESEARCH AMONG UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND EARLY AND MID-CAREER RESEARCHERS AND PROFESSORS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS. THE PROJECT?S SIGNIFICANCE LIES IN ITS POTENTIAL TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY AND INCLUSIVENESS OF COMPUTING RESEARCH, ULTIMATELY PROMOTING THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. THE PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON THREE MAIN GOALS. FIRST, WE WILL SCALE THE NEW (AND ALREADY SUCCESSFUL) UR2PHD PROGRAM NATIONWIDE ALONG WITH A RE-ENVISIONED DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (DREU) PROGRAM, FOCUSING ON STUDENTS EARLY IN THEIR COMPUTING CAREERS (YEARS 1 AND 2), INCLUDING STUDENTS AT MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS. SECOND, WE WILL SCALE THE REACH AND IMPACT OF OUR SUCCESSFUL LONG-RUNNING GRAD COHORTS PROGRAM BY PROVIDING ONLINE MINICOURSES THAT DEPARTMENTS CAN OFFER TO THEIR STUDENTS. THIRD, WE WILL PROVIDE SEVERAL PROGRAMS THAT FOCUS ON TRAINING THE TRAINER, THUS EXPANDING THE REACH OF OUR EFFORTS BEYOND PRIOR EFFORTS AND FOSTERING SYSTEMATIC CHANGES WITHIN DEPARTMENTS. THE PROJECT?S SCOPE INVOLVES NATIONWIDE IMPLEMENTATION, TARGETING OVER 1,600 STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS, AND COLLABORATION WITH OTHER NATIONAL BPC ALLIANCES TO MAXIMIZE REACH AND IMPACT. BY EMPLOYING RIGOROUS EVALUATION METHODS, INCLUDING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND PRE-TEST/POST-TEST FRAMEWORKS, THE PROJECT SEEKS TO VALIDATE AND REFINE BEST PRACTICES IN MENTORING, ULTIMATELY CONTRIBUTING TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY IN COMPUTING RESEARCH. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOR THE MUNITIONS DIRECTORATE (RW) 2014 PROGRAM.

VISITING RESEARCH EXCHANGE AND OUTREACH (VREO) PROGRAM

THIS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT IS FOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT AT THE NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

BPC-AE: AN EXTENSION TO WIDENING THE RESEARCH PIPELINE

"PROPOSAL FOR SUPPORT OF THE CHIEF SCIENTIST OF CONSTELLATION SYSTEMS"THE UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARC

AN ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATION RESEARCH DOCTORATE PROGRAMS

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

TURNAROUND SCHOOL LEADERS PROGRAM

TAS::57 3600::TAS AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOR THE PHILLIPS RESEARCH SITE (PRS) FY 2016 SUMMER PROGRAM

DEVELOPING EVIDENCE-BASED BEST PRACTICES FOR BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING EDUCATION

THE RECIPIENT SHALL PERFORM RESEARCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECIPIENT'SSTATEMENT OF WORK ENTITLED, "AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM PHILLIPS RESEARCH SITE(PRS)"

ADVANCING STEM KNOWLEDGE THROUGH SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF LARGE-SCALE DATA RESOURCES -THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AERA) GRANTS PROGRAM WILL BUILD RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC CAPACITY THAT WILL ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO STEM EDUCATION. THE GRANTS PROGRAM INCLUDES FOUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: 1) ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH DISSERTATION GRANTS AND SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS THAT SUPPORT FUNDAMENTAL STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH BASED ON SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS OF LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; 2) ENHANCE DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH BY CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS FROM GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH; 3) FOSTER A CULTURE OF OPEN SCIENCE AND DATA INNOVATION BY TRAINING SCHOLARS IN OPEN SCIENCE PRACTICES AND ADVANCED METHODS; AND 4) PROMOTE HIGH-QUALITY COMMUNICATION BY STRENGTHENING EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS CAPACITY TO DISSEMINATE THEIR RESEARCH THROUGH MULTIPLE FORMATS AND MEDIUMS. THE GRANTS PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE TRAINING AND FUNDING SUPPORT FOR ADVANCED DOCTORAL-LEVEL RESEARCHERS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS THROUGH DISSERTATION GRANTS AND SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS. GRANT PROJECTS WILL UTILIZE LARGE-SCALE DATASETS TO ADVANCE FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH. RESEARCHERS WILL COME FROM A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES, SUCH AS EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMICS, STATISTICS, DEMOGRAPHY, AND PSYCHOLOGY, WITH RESEARCHERS OFTEN WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES. TO ENHANCE DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH, OUTREACH EFFORTS WILL FOCUS ON RESEARCHERS AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND AT MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS. TRAINING AND CONFERENCES WILL BE OFFERED FOR GRANTEES THAT FOCUS ON STRENGTHENING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS RELATED TO ADVANCES IN QUANTITATIVE METHODS, OPEN SCIENCE PRACTICES, AND COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF FINDINGS. THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY NSF'S EDU CORE RESEARCH (ECR) PROGRAM. THE ECR PROGRAM EMPHASIZES FUNDAMENTAL STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH THAT GENERATES FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD. INVESTMENTS ARE MADE IN CRITICAL AREAS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL, BROAD AND ENDURING: STEM LEARNING AND STEM LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN STEM, AND STEM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

TRANSITION TO TEACHING PROGRAM - TRANSITION TO TEACHING PROGRAM -- STATEWIDE

SEVEN (7) ACTIONS CONVERTED FROM SAP TO CMM, THIS TOTALS THEM ALL. INTERGOVERNMENTAL PERSONNEL ACT (IPA) FOR WALTER F BROOKS; THE NASA ADVANCE SUPER

BPC-AE: WIDENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING RESEARCH VIA DEEPENING MENTORING PROGRAMS -THE COMPUTING AND TECH FIELDS HAVE NOT SEEN ADEQUATE PARTICIPATION FROM PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS FEMALE, BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN, HISPANIC/LATINO, NATIVE AMERICAN, HAWAIIAN, ALASKAN, ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER, AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES THE PROJECT OFFERS POTENTIAL BENEFITS TO EDUCATION, SOCIETY AND ESTABLISHING EVIDENCE FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS IN COMPUTING. THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION?S COMMITTEE ON WIDENING PARTICIPATION?S (CRA-WP) MENTORING PROGRAMS PROPOSED SUPPORT EDUCATION AND DIVERSITY OF THE COMPUTING WORKFORCE WHICH ULTIMATELY BENEFIT SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. OF THE COMPUTING PROFESSORIATE. THESE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AT ENCOURAGING DIVERSE UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE PAST. THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION'S COMMITTEE ON WIDENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING RESEARCH (CRA-WP) PLANS TO GROW ITS MENTORING PROGRAMS WITH THREE MAIN GOALS:1) MENTORING FOR RE-ENTRY INTO COMPUTING RESEARCH THROUGH NON-TRADITIONAL PATHWAYS; 2) ENCOURAGING, TRACKING, AND EVALUATING MENTORING PATHWAYS THROUGH THEIR PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE RETENTION; AND 3) GROWING A POOL OF LEADERS THROUGH MENTOR MENTORING TO IMPROVE THEIR SCALE AND REACH. ALUMNI TRACKING WILL ALSO HELP CHARACTERIZE MEDIUM AND LONG TERM IMPACTS ON UNDERREPRESENTATION. 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.

BPCNET: SCALING UP THE IMPACT OF NSF CISE BROADENING PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES

AFRL SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOR THE PHILLIPS RESEARCH SITE (PRS) FY 2014 SUMMER PROGRAM

ADVANCING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH THROUGH QUANTITIATIVE STUDIES OF EDUCATION POLICY AND PRACTICE

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS FOR PTSD IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

REPLACING INVASIVE CYSTOSCOPY WITH URINE TESTING FOR NON-MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER SURVEILLANCE - PROJECT SUMMARY THERE ARE ~800,000 BLADDER CANCER SURVIVORS IN THE US, MAKING IT THE FIFTH MOST PREVALENT CANCER. THIS STUDY FOCUSES ON THE LARGEST GROUP OF PATIENTS WITH BLADDER CANCER, THE 79% WITH NON-MUSCLE INVASIVE EARLY-STAGE CANCER. PER CURRENT GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS, THESE PATIENTS UNDERGO TRANSURETHRAL ENDOSCOPIC RESECTION FOLLOWED BY SURVEILLANCE CYSTOSCOPY EVERY 3 TO 6 MONTHS, MAKING CYSTOSCOPY COMMON WITH OVER A MILLION PROCEDURES PER YEAR. CYSTOSCOPY ENTAILS DIRECT INSPECTION OF THE BLADDER VIA A CYSTOSCOPE THAT IS INSERTED INTO A PATIENT'S URETHRA. IT CAN BE QUITE UNCOMFORTABLE AS IT IS PERFORMED IN NON-SEDATED PATIENTS. IN SPITE OF THIS BURDEN ON PATIENTS, HIGH-QUALITY DATA ON THE BENEFITS OF HIGH-INTENSITY SURVEILLANCE CYSTOSCOPY ARE LACKING. THE EXPERTS WRITING THE GUIDELINES RECOGNIZED THE UNCLEAR BENEFIT OF HIGH-INTENSITY SURVEILLANCE AND SPECIFICALLY STATED: “THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR STUDIES TO DETERMINE IF LESS STRINGENT FOLLOW-UP REGIMENS CAN BE EMPLOYED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTING ONCOLOGIC OUTCOMES IN THESE PATIENTS.” REPLACING CYSTOSCOPY WITH LESS INVASIVE URINE TESTING IS SUCH A LESS STRINGENT FOLLOW-UP REGIMEN. PRELIMINARY DATA SHOW THAT THE URINE TESTS XPERT BLADDER CANCER MONITOR (MRNA-BASED) AND BLADDER EPICHECK (DNA METHYLATION TEST) MAY REPLACE CYSTOSCOPY PROCEDURES, GIVEN THEIR HIGH SENSITIVITIES. HOWEVER, WITH A SPECIFICITY 0.76 AND 0.84, UP TO ONE OUT OF FOUR TESTS MAY BE FALSE POSITIVE, SO MANY PATIENTS STILL HAVE TO UNDERGO CYSTOSCOPY FOR POSITIVE TESTS. THUS, LONGITUDINAL COMPARATIVE DATA ARE NEEDED BEFORE THESE TESTS CAN BE CONSIDERED FOR ROUTINE CARE. SPECIFICALLY, WE NEED EVIDENCE THAT PROGRAMMATIC SURVEILLANCE WITH URINE TESTS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASES THE BURDEN OF SURVEILLANCE FOR PATIENTS AND HAS ACCEPTABLE ONCOLOGIC OUTCOMES IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS OF BLADDER CANCER SURVIVORS. HERE, WE WILL DEFINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH PATIENTS' BURDEN OF SURVEILLANCE CAN BE REDUCED WITH BLADDER CANCER URINE TESTS. WE PROPOSE A THREE-SITE RANDOMIZED PHASE 2 TRIAL INCLUDING 240 PATIENTS WITH EARLY-STAGE BLADDER CANCER. AFTER A NORMAL SURVEILLANCE CYSTOSCOPY AT STUDY ENTRY, PATIENTS WILL BE RANDOMIZED 1:1:1 TO PROGRAMMATIC SURVEILLANCE WITH THE XPERT BLADDER CANCER URINE TEST, THE BLADDER EPICHECK URINE TEST, OR STANDARD CYSTOSCOPY. WE WILL (1) DETERMINE WHETHER BURDEN OF SURVEILLANCE IS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED IN THE URINE TESTING ARMS VERSUS STANDARD CYSTOSCOPY, (2) COMPARE SHORT-TERM SAFETY OUTCOMES IN THE URINE TESTING ARMS VERSUS STANDARD CYSTOSCOPY AT 1 AND 2 YEARS, AND (3) ESTIMATE IMPORTANT FEASIBILITY DATA FOR A SUBSEQUENT LARGE NON-INFERIORITY COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS TRIAL. IN SUMMARY, WE WILL SYSTEMATICALLY STUDY WHETHER THE BURDEN OF SURVEILLANCE CYSTOSCOPY CAN BE IMPROVED AMONG BLADDER CANCER SURVIVORS BY REPLACING INVASIVE CYSTOSCOPY WITH URINE TESTING, ULTIMATELY IMPROVING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE. IF BLADDER CANCER URINE TESTS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE THE BURDEN OF SURVEILLANCE, OUR DATA WILL PROVIDE A STRONG JUSTIFICATION FOR A SUBSEQUENT COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS TRIAL OF PROGRAMMATIC SURVEILLANCE WITH URINE TESTING VERSUS STANDARD CYSTOSCOPY THAT IS LARGE ENOUGH TO BE POWERED FOR ONCOLOGIC OUTCOMES.

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH ASTROMATERIALS RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION (ARES)THE RECIPIENT SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FOLLOWING AGR

TEENAGE PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAM (TIER 1)

CSGRAD4US MENTORING PROGRAM - PHASE TWO -THIS AWARD IS FUNDED IN WHOLE OR IN PART UNDER THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021 (PUBLIC LAW 117-2). THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION?S COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION (CRA-E) AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION (CRA-WP) WILL COLLABORATIVELY IMPLEMENT A MENTORING PROGRAM FOR RECIPIENTS OF THE NSF CSGRAD4US GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS, WHICH SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS IN THE WORKFORCE RETURNING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR A PHD IN A CISE DISCIPLINE. A PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED PILOT PROGRAM WILL BE REVISED AND EXPANDED TO BETTER MEET PARTICIPANTS? NEEDS TO ADDRESS NEW ELIGIBILITY RULES ON THE EXPECTED CISE BACKGROUND AND TO MEET THE DIVERSE AND UNIQUE CHALLENGES A TRANSITION TO GRADUATE SCHOOL ENTAILS, AS EVIDENT FROM THE RESULTS OF THE PILOT. THE OVERALL GOALS OF THE CSGRAD4US MENTORING PROGRAM ARE (1) TO GUIDE RETURNING STUDENTS THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS TOWARDS A SUCCESSFUL CISE PHD ADMISSION AND SCHOOL SELECTION, AND (2) MENTOR THEM THROUGH THE TRANSITION TO PHD GRADUATE STUDY IN THE FIRST YEAR TOWARDS HIGH RETENTION. COMPARED TO THE PILOT, THE INDIVIDUAL COACHING COMPONENT OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE STRENGTHENED AND MENTORING WILL BE MORE INDIVIDUALIZED. TO BROADEN THE CSGRAD4US PROGRAM 'S REACH, THE PROJECT STAFF WILL PERFORM OUTREACH TO POTENTIAL APPLICANTS AND DEVELOP AND DISSEMINATE PUBLICITY MATERIALS. THE PROGRAM EVALUATION WILL SHED LIGHT ON THE RETENTION RATE OF STUDENTS TAKING THIS PATHWAY AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF THE PROGRAM ON DOMESTIC CS PHD PRODUCTION. THE RESULTING MENTORING PROGRAM MODEL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR MENTORS AND COACHES WILL INFORM OTHER EFFORTS AND CISE DEPARTMENTS ON WAYS TO INCREASE DOMESTIC PHD PRODUCTION. THE MENTORING NEEDS OF STUDENTS RETURNING FROM THE WORKFORCE ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL AS UNDERGRADUATES. KEY DIFFERENCES OF THIS GROUP INCLUDE THE LACK OF A NATURAL PEER GROUP, DIMINISHED ACCESS TO FACULTY WHO CAN PROVIDE GRADUATE APPLICATION GUIDANCE AS WELL AS PERSPECTIVE ON THEIR ACADEMIC STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, A LACK OF PAST RESEARCH EXPERIENCES, AND THE REALITY OF A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION AND THE RESULTING LIFE-STYLE ADJUSTMENTS DURING GRADUATE SCHOOL. THE CSGRAD4US MENTORING PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE NOT ONLY GENERAL GRADUATE APPLICATION ADVICE AND GUIDANCE, BUT ALSO AIM TO BUILD A COMMUNITY AND A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK AMONG AWARDEES. THESE GOALS ARE ACHIEVED THROUGH GROUP MENTORING SESSIONS, PANELS, AND INDIVIDUAL COACHING DURING THE APPLICATION AND DECISION MAKING PROCESS AND THE FIRST YEAR OF GRADUATE SCHOOL. THE PRESENTATIONS CREATED AS PART OF THIS MENTORING PROGRAM WILL BE USEFUL BEYOND THE PROGRAM. 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.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INVESTIGATION OF RESOURCES AND HAZARDS

HARNESSING OPPORTUNITIES TO SCREEN FOR ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA (HOSEA)

UNIVERSITY SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION- AFRL SCHOLARS AND FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

LPI RENEWAL PROPOSAL

THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THIS AGREEMENT IS TO FOSTER COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH BETWEEN USGS AND USRA FOR A RANGE OF RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED, TO EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING, EARTHQUAKE PHYSICS, AND SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS. MANY OF THESE PROJECTS WILL ALSO INVOLVE COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION WITH NASA. IN ADDITION, THIS AGREEMENT WILL SUPPORT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WITH MENTORING OF STUDENTS AND COLLABORATIONS WITH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS IN SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS, AS WELL AS DIVERSE RESEARCH WITH FACULTY IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON CONTENT OF RELEVANCE TO USGS.

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO SUPPORT THE PI'S ACTIVITIES AS CO-I OFTHE CHEMIN MINERALOGICAL INSTRUMENT THAT IS PART OF THE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY (MSL) ROVER

CONFERENCE: CRA SUMMIT ON AI UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA) WILL CONVENE LEADERS OF UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTING PROGRAMS FOR THE CRA SUMMIT ON UNDERGRADUATE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) EDUCATION. THE PACE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN AI IS OUTSTRIPPING THE ABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO KEEP UP WITH BOTH THE DEMAND FOR AI EDUCATION AND THE CHANGES REQUIRED TO ALL UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTING COURSES. THIS CREATES A GAP BETWEEN THE SKILLS DEMANDED BY INDUSTRY AND THOSE IMPARTED THROUGH EXISTING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, NECESSITATING A PARADIGM SHIFT IN COMPUTING COURSES, AN INCREASE IN ACCESS TO AI CURRICULA, AND A REEVALUATION OF EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES. EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR AI EDUCATION SHOULD ENSURE ALL COMPUTING STUDENTS LEARN AI AND ARE READY FOR AN AI WORLD. THE PURPOSE OF THE CRA SUMMIT ON AI UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IS TO GATHER LEADERS IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTING PROGRAMS TO SHARE EXPERTISE, KNOWLEDGE, AND BEST PRACTICES IN A DYNAMIC FORUM WHERE LEARNING CAN BE DISSEMINATED QUICKLY TO THE MANY INSTITUTIONS ENGAGED IN COMPUTING EDUCATION. THE GOAL OF THE CRA SUMMIT ON UNDERGRADUATE AI EDUCATION IS TO CREATE COMMUNITY AND ACTION TO MOBILIZE THE COUNTRY TO INCREASE CAPACITY IN AI EDUCATION AND DISCUSS HOW TO ADAPT UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTING PROGRAMS FOR THE AI ERA. IN SHARING BEST PRACTICES AND NEW FINDINGS, THE INFORMATION CAN QUICKLY DISSEMINATE AMONGST ATTENDEES, THEIR HOME INSTITUTIONS, AND BEYOND. IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING LANDSCAPE, THE CRA SUMMIT ON AI UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION MEETS THE NEEDS OF ROBUST DISCUSSION AND BROAD IMPACT THROUGH PARTICIPATION. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES AN ANALYSIS ON THE STATE OF UNDERGRADUATE AI EDUCATION. FURTHERMORE, BECAUSE THIS ANALYSIS WILL BE AUTOMATED, THIS PROJECT PROVIDES A WAY TO TRACK HOW U.S. INSTITUTIONS ARE ADAPTING TO FULFILL THIS NEW EDUCATION NEED. THE CRA CENTER FOR EVALUATING THE RESEARCH PIPELINE (CERP) IS ENGAGED TO CONDUCT A FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF THE CRA SUMMIT ON UNDERGRADUATE AI EDUCATION VIA A POST-SURVEY THAT COLLECTS QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DATA FROM ATTENDEES. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

NSF ENGINES DEVELOPMENT AWARD: UTILIZING SPACE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN CONDITION (OH) -THIS REGIONAL INNOVATION ENGINES DEVELOPMENT AWARD AIMS TO INTEGRATE THE STATE?S UNIQUE STRENGTHS IN SPACE, BIOLOGICAL, AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES TO IMPROVE LIFE ON OUR PLANET. THE PROPOSED GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (GWC) SCIENCE PARK ACCELERATOR & REGIONAL CATALYST ? OHIO (SPARC OHIO) ENGINE SEEKS TO POSITION OHIO AS THE GO-TO DESTINATION FOR THE PROJECTED $1T SPACE ECONOMY, REVITALIZING ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED REGIONS IN OHIO BY CREATING THOUSANDS OF JOBS, INSPIRING STUDENTS OF ALL AGES THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS, AND SECURING US LEADERSHIP IN THE EMERGING COMMERCIAL SPACE ECONOMY. IF SUCCESSFUL, THE EVENTUAL NSF ENGINE STEMMING OUT OF THIS PROJECT WILL LEVERAGE: 1) THE BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED FOR SPACE, IN-SPACE EXPERIMENTS AND MANUFACTURING, AND UNIQUE TERRESTRIAL FACILITIES TO CONDUCT USE-INSPIRED R&D THAT IS ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE TO PERFORM WITHOUT SPACE AS A CATALYST; 2) OHIO?S PREMIER SPACE-RELATED FACILITIES AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS, WHICH PROVIDE THE ENGINE?S FOUNDATION IN SPACE RESEARCH AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; 3) PROVEN COMMERCIALIZATION PRACTICES AND A ROBUST ACCELERATOR AND INVESTOR COMMUNITY; 4) A CONTINUUM OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS; AND 5) OHIO?S APPEAL AS A HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE DESTINATION, OFFERING ECONOMIC INCENTIVES AND A HIGH QUALITY OF LIVING THAT DRAW INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN OHIO. TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS MUST BE HIGHLY RELIABLE AND SUSTAINABLE IN A HARSH ENVIRONMENT. RESULTING INNOVATIONS INCLUDE HIGH-TEMPERATURE RESISTANT, LIGHTWEIGHT, LONG-LIFE, AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY PRODUCTS WITH ENORMOUS POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE LIFE ON EARTH. OPERATING IN SPACE OFFERS A UNIQUE RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT TO A BROAD RANGE OF SECTORS DUE TO MICROGRAVITY (WHICH PROVIDES WEIGHTLESSNESS), A NEAR-VACUUM STATE, AND HIGHER LEVELS OF RADIATION. A KEY ENABLER OF SPACE-BASED RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURING IS ACCESS TO LONG-TERM MICROGRAVITY. GRAVITY INFLUENCES EVERYTHING ON EARTH, FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE TO THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MATERIALS. THE MICRO-GRAVITY ENVIRONMENT ABOARD AN ORBITING SPACECRAFT ALLOWS SCIENTISTS TO CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS AND DEVELOP MANUFACTURING PROCESSES THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE ON EARTH. SPARC OHIO WILL LEVERAGE FACILITIES AND SERVICES THAT SUPPORT BOTH GROUND- AND SPACE-BASED RESEARCH TO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND THE EXISTING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, AND ACADEMIA THROUGHOUT OHIO. THE ENGINE WILL DEVELOP PATHWAYS TO CONNECT CRITICAL SPACE, BIOLOGICAL, AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE WITH REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS TO SOLVE USE-INSPIRED PROBLEMS. PROJECTED OUTCOMES INCLUDE RE-ESTABLISHING US COMPETITIVENESS IN SEMICONDUCTORS, IMPROVING CONSUMERS? LIVES THROUGH INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS, ADVANCING HEALTH AND WELLNESS, STRENGTHENING FOOD PRODUCTION AND SECURITY, AND PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. THIS DEVELOPMENT AWARD WILL ENABLE THE SPARC OHIO TO ENGAGE IN A REGIONAL, COLLABORATIVE PLANNING PROCESS TO PREPARE A FUTURE ENGINE TO MEET THESE GOALS. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

CSGRAD4US MENTORING PROGRAM

PIERRE AUGER PROJECT - OBSERVATORY'S OPERATING COSTS

U.S. IOOS COASTAL MODELING TESTBED: A SUPER-REGIONAL TESTBED TO IMPROVE MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES ON THE U.S. COASTS.

TO PERFORM RESEARCH, EDUCATION, & OUTREACH ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TECH. DEVELOPMENT IN AEROSPC

SEMICONDUCTOR AND MICROELECTRONICS PATHWAYS FOR LEARNING (SAM-PL) -THE SEMICONDUCTOR AND MICROELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES ARE CRUCIAL TO ENSURING TECHNOLOGICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS AND NATIONAL SECURITY, SERVING AS KEY ENABLERS FOR AND COMPONENTS OF FUTURE INDUSTRIES THAT WILL DEFINE THE UNITED STATES' PLACE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY. THESE INDUSTRIES MAKE THE MICROCHIPS THAT POWER NEARLY EVERY ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN LIFE, FROM SMARTPHONES AND LAPTOPS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND QUANTUM SENSING. KEEPING UP WITH THE GROWING DEMAND FOR POWERFUL MICROCHIPS REQUIRES A KNOWLEDGEABLE AND PLENTIFUL WORKFORCE THAT DESIGNS AND FABRICATES THEM. THERE IS NEED TO RAISE AWARENESS AND INCREASE PATHWAYS INTO THESE INDUSTRIES. STUDIES SHOW THAT LEARNING DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN IN TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS. IN FACT, PEOPLE SPEND CONSIDERABLE TIME ENGAGED IN LEARNING STEM OUTSIDE OF FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS, SUCH AS WATCHING FILMS, LISTENING TO PODCASTS, VISITING MUSEUMS, ETC. INFORMAL VENUES LIKE MUSEUMS, SCIENCE CENTERS, COMMUNITY CENTERS, LIBRARIES, AND PLANETARIUMS PROVIDE A WEALTH OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNERS OF ALL AGES. INFORMAL LEARNING IS DRIVEN BY CHOICE AND EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN DISCOVERIES. IT ALLOWS LEARNERS OF ALL AGES TO EXPLORE THEIR INTERESTS AND LEARN AT THEIR OWN PACE IN ENVIRONMENTS THAT ARE ENGAGING AND FUN. THESE SETTINGS LEND PARTICULARLY WELL TO STEM LEARNING AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, AS THEY ARE DRIVEN BY CHOICE AND HELP SPARK EXCITEMENT AND INTRINSIC MOTIVATION IN STEM TOPICS. THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA), IN COLLABORATION WITH KNOWINNOVATION, WILL HOST TWO IDEAS LAB WORKSHOPS WITH THE GOAL OF EXPANDING THE FUTURE SEMICONDUCTOR AND MICROELECTRONICS WORKFORCE THROUGH INNOVATIVE, ENGAGING, AND TRANSFORMATIVE INFORMAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT WILL BROADEN PATHWAYS INTO THESE FIELDS. THE IDEAS LAB IS AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY, AND HIGHLY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP THAT IS DESIGNED TO FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL AND TRANSFORMATIVE SOLUTIONS TO SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES. THE IDEAS LAB WILL ENCOURAGE MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION, INNOVATIVE THINKING, AND UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACHES BY BRINGING TOGETHER A MIXED GROUP OF EXPERTS, INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR AND MICROELECTRONICS RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND COMPUTER SCIENTISTS, EDUCATORS FROM ACROSS THE INFORMAL STEM EDUCATION FIELD, AND LEADERS FROM INDUSTRY. THIS GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WILL DESIGN ENGAGING, INNOVATIVE, AND TRANSFORMATIVE INFORMAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT WILL EXPAND PATHWAYS INTO THE SEMICONDUCTOR AND MICROELECTRONICS FIELDS, CONTRIBUTING TO THE STRENGTH OF THE FUTURE SEMICONDUCTOR AND MICROELECTRONICS WORKFORCE. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

BPC PIPELINE: FIVE YEAR EXTENSION

MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL LABORATORY AND IMAGING DATA TO PERSONALIZE THE PREDICTION OF SEVERE COMPLICATIONS IN VETERANS WITH CROHNS D

ASTEROID 2008 TC3 WAS TRACKED AND STUDIED FOR ~19 HOURS BEFORE IT IMPACTED IN SUDAN IN OCTOBER 2008. SEARCH CAMPAIGNS IN THE PREDICTED FALL AREA LED BY CO-IS SHADDAD AND JENNISKENS RECOVERED ~600 STONES (~0.2-400 G EACH) THAT WERE NAMED THE ALMAHATA SITTA (AHS) METEORITE. AHS IS THE FIRST METEORITE OBSERVED TO ORIGINATE FROM A SPECTRALLY CLASSIFIED ASTEROID AND PROVIDES AN UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY TO CORRELATE PROPERTIES OF A METEORITE WITH PROPERTIES OF THE ASTEROID FROM WHICH IT WAS DERIVED. 2008 TC3 WAS ALSO THE FIRST NEAR-EARTH OBJECT (NEO) DETECTED BEFORE IT IMPACTED EARTH WHICH MAKES IT UNIQUE FOR STUDIES IN PLANETARY DEFENSE. THE MAIN AHS COLLECTION IS CURATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM (UOK) BY CO-I SHADDAD DOCUMENTED WITH FIND COORDINATES FOR EACH STONE IN THE STREWN FIELD. STUDIES OF 85 OF THESE STONES (61 BY OUR TEAM UNDER A 1-YEAR PROOF-OF-CONCEPT GRANT FROM EMERGING WORLDS) HAVE SHOWN THAT AHS IS A REMARKABLE METEORITE. APPROXIMATELY 80% OF THE STONES ARE UREILITES (CARBON-RICH ULTRAMAFIC ACHONDRITES) WHILE ~20% ARE VARIOUS TYPES OF CHONDRITES SO AHS IS CLASSIFIED AS AN ANOMALOUS POLYMICT UREILITE. FAR FROM BEING A COHERENT MONOLITHOLOGIC ROCK IN SPACE ASTEROID 2008 TC3 WAS A LOOSELY AGGREGATED HETEROGENEOUS OBJECT THAT DISINTEGRATED IN THE ATMOSPHERE WITH ITS CLASTS LANDING ON EARTH AS INDIVIDUAL STONES. DETERMINING THE PHYSICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE OF THIS ASTEROID IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING ITS FORMATION THE PROVENANCE OF ITS COMPONENTS ITS ORBITAL AND COLLISIONAL HISTORY AND THE FATE OF RELATED ASTEROIDAL FRAGMENTS. IT IS ALSO OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE TO THE GOALS OF THE NEO PROGRAM AND MISSIONS TO ASTEROIDS. COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION OF THE UOK COLLECTION IS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE PHYSICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE OF 2008 TC3. OUR PROOF-OF-CONCEPT WORK SHOWED THAT AHS IS EXTREMELY HETEROGENEOUS AND REVEALED THE FIRST AHS STONES TO CONSIST OF BOTH UREILITIC AND CHONDRITIC MATERIALS. IT IS VIRTUALLY CERTAIN THAT THE REST OF THE COLLECTION HARBORS NEW MATERIALS. FURTHERMORE THE DOCUMENTATION OF FIND COORDINATES FOR EACH STONE ALLOWS DETERMINATION OF THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS IN THE ASTEROID. WE PROPOSE TO SELECT AND STUDY ~150 NEW STONES (IN 3 YEARS) FROM THE UOK COLLECTION. THE OBJECTIVES ARE: 1) TO DETERMINE THE FULL DIVERSITY AND PROPORTIONS OF ROCK TYPES AMONG AHS STONES; 2) TO DETERMINE THE PHYSICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE OF ASTEROID 2008 TC3 INCLUDING GRAIN SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION AND ROCK TYPE DISTRIBUTION; 3) TO CONSTRAIN THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF 2008 TC3 INCLUDING MECHANISM(S) AND TIMING OF FORMATION PROVENANCE OF CONSTITUENT MATERIALS COLLISIONAL EVENTS ORBITAL EVOLUTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF RELATED ASTEROIDS. TO ACCOMPLISH THESE WE WILL USE A BATTERY OF ANALYTICAL AND MODELING TECHNIQUES INCLUDING: FE-SEM EMPA AND FIB/TEM (MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY); BULK AND SIMS OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; VNIR MIR AND MICRO-FTIR REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; CR ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; AR-AR DATING; NOBLE GAS AND COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE ANALYSIS; LEAST-SQUARES MODELING OF THE 2008 TC3 REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM AND; PREDICTIVE MODELING OF REFLECTANCE SPECTRA OF RELATED ASTEROIDS. THE PROPOSED WORK IS A SERENDIPITOUS ASTEROID SAMPLE RETURN MISSION RELEVANT TO THE STRATEGIC SCIENCE GOAL OF EW TO EXPLORE AND OBSERVE THE OBJECTS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY FORMED AND EVOLVED. IT IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFORT UNITING METEORITE PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY WITH ASTEROID SPECTROSCOPY AND METEOR ASTRONOMY TO ADDRESS THE KEY QUESTION OF HOW A HETEROGENEOUS RUBBLE PILE-LIKE ASTEROID FORMED EVOLVED AND EVENTUALLY IMPACTED EARTH. RESULTS WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSIONS TO ASTEROIDS. THE WORK ADDRESSES PROCESSES OF ACCRETION COLLISIONAL MIXING OF INNER AND OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM MATERIALS AND REGOLITH FORMATION IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM BEFORE THE PLANETS WERE IN THEIR MODERN CONFIGURATION AND IS THUS RELEVANT TO EW.

RYUGU AND THE QUEST FOR UNALTERED CI-LIKE MATERIALS FROM THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM

US SUPPORT FOR CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND ENTREPREUNERSHIP IN A DEMOCRACY: REINFORCING THE ROLE OF YOUNG LEADERS

PROMOTING A DIVERSE COMPUTING WORKFORCE: USING NATIONAL SURVEY DATA TO UNDERSTAND PERSISTENCE ACROSS UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GROUPS

LOW COST, RAPID DEVELOPMENT INSTRUMENTATION FOR RADIO TELESCOPES

THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY OPERATING FUNDS REQUEST

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES NASA'S CRITICAL NEED TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY AND CONTINUITY OF ITS SPACE-BASED OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR WATER VAPOR AND OZONE BY CONTINUING THE TICOSONDE WATER VAPOR AND OZONE BALLOON SONDE LAUNCH PROGRAM WHICH WE STARTED IN COSTA RICA IN 2005. TICOSONDE CFH MEASUREMENTS ARE THE ONLY CONTINUOUS SERIES OF IN SITU WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS IN THE TROPICS WITH NEARLY 200 LATE VAPOR SOUNDINGS TO DATE AND TICOSONDE HAS CONTRIBUTED 500 PROFILES OF OZONE TO SHADOZ AS WELL. WE HAVE TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES IN THIS PROPOSAL. THE FIRST IS TO FULFILL NASA S CRITICAL NEED TO SUPPORT WATER VAPOR AND OZONE MONITORING IN THE TROPICS AND SECOND TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT WATER VAPOR AND OZONE BALLOON SONDE DATA FOR VALIDATION OF THE SAGE-III ISS OMPSLIMB AND OTHER SPACE-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF THESE TRACE SPECIES IN THE UTLS. AS A COMPLEMENTARY OBJECTIVE WE WILL CONDUCT NEEDED INTER-COMPARISONS BETWEEN FROST POINT HYGROMETER WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS AND THE NEW VAISALA RS-41 RADIOSONDE. TO ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES WE WILL UNDERTAKE THE FOLLOWING PRIMARY TASKS: REGULAR BALLOON SONDE PROFILING OF WATER VAPOR AND OZONE TO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE STRATOSPHERE. WE WILL MAKE TWICE-MONTHLY LAUNCHES IN COSTA RICA OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CONCENTRATION CELL (ECC) OZONESONDES AUGMENTED ONCE MONTHLY WITH WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS USING THE CRYOGENIC FROSTPOINT HYGROMETER (CFH). PROVIDE HIGH-RESOLUTION WATER VAPOR AND OZONE PROFILES FOR VALIDATION OF SAGE-III ISS AND OMPS-LIMB WITH COORDINATED BALLOON SONDE LAUNCHES. SUPPORT ONGOING ASSESSMENT AND VALIDATION OF SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS AT NOAA ESRL AND BY OTHER INVESTIGATORS. COMPARE UT/LS MEASUREMENTS OF WATER VAPOR FROM THE VAISALA RS-41 RADIOSONDE AGAINST CFH FROST POINT MEASUREMENTS DURING OUR MONTHLY WATER VAPOR/OZONE LAUNCHES. THE CONTINUED TICOSONDE OBSERVATIONS OF WATER VAPOR AND OZONE IN THE TROPICAL UT/LS PROPOSED HERE DIRECTLY ADDRESS NASA S NEED FOR MONITORING OF THESE TRACE SPECIES IN SUPPORT OF ITS SPACE-BASED PROGRAM TO OBSERVE ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION. COSTA RICA ALSO PROVIDES A UNIQUE SITE IN THE DEEP TROPICS FOR VALIDATING INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS SAGE-III ISS. AND IN THE EVENT OF A PREMATURE TERMINATION OF THE AURA MLS INSTRUMENT THE TICOSONDE DATA RECORD WILL BE A KEY BRIDGE TO SUCCESSOR SPACE-BASED WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS FOR THE TROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE.

ASTROPHYSICAL TESTS OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

THE PROPOSED RESEARCH'S OVERARCHING GOAL IS TO ASSESS THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND DEGREE OF ELECTRICITY ACCESS DEFICITS AND EXPLORE HOW FUTURE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO CLOSE THOSE DEFICITS AND MEET GROWING DEMAND WILL IMPACT EMISSIONS. IN PARTICULAR OUR PROJECT EXAMINES THREE RESEARCH QUESTIONS: (1) WHERE AND TO WHAT DEGREE ARE THERE GAPS IN ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY (AND ELECTRIFICATION) GLOBALLY AND HOW HAVE THESE GAPS CHANGED OVER THE PAST DECADE? (2) WHAT IS THE LATENT UNMET ELECTRICITY DEMAND IN AREAS WITHOUT ELECTRIFICATION OR WITH INTERMITTENT ELECTRICITY ACCESS? (3) HOW WILL ELECTRICITY DEMAND FOR LOW AND NO ACCESS AREAS EVOLVE GIVEN DIFFERENT SOCIOECONOMIC AND CLIMATE FUTURES? HOW WILL THE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY REQUIRED TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND SHAPE EMISSIONS AND IMPACT CLIMATE COMMITMENTS? THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS AN URGENTLY NEEDED ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S ELECTRICITY PROVISION AND SCENARIOS FOR ITS EXPANSION. AS THE BASIS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY WE RELY ON SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF NIGHTLIGHTS FROM THE NEW NASA BLACK MARBLE STANDARD PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM THE VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITE DAY/NIGHT BAND ONBOARD SUOMI-NPP AND NOAA-20. DAILY TIME-SERIES OF NIGHTTIME LIGHTS ARE THE INPUT FOR A DEEP LEARNING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK TO DETECT ANOMALIES ASSOCIATED WITH OUTAGES. NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY ARE THEN COMBINED WITH SPATIALIZED FORECASTS OF ELECTRICITY DEMAND TO 2050 TO ASSESS HOW ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND ASSOCIATED EMISSIONS WILL NEED TO GROW IN THE FUTURE TO MEET UNIVERSAL ELECTRICITY ACCESS TARGETS. THE SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF ELECTRICITY DEMAND AND THE ASSOCIATED ELECTRICITY SUPPLY IS A PRE-REQUISITE FOR LINKING TO PROXIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND TO DISTAL CHANGE PROPAGATED THROUGH GRID NETWORKS. IN ADDITION THE EMISSIONS SCENARIOS ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRICITY SUPPLY GROWTH WILL BE OF INTEREST TO IAM AND CARBON CYCLE SCIENTISTS SINCE CURRENT MODELS POORLY ACCOUNT FOR GAPS IN ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY.

NEARLY ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE OF VENUS' SURFACE COMES FROM ITS INTERACTIONS WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) RADIATION OF RADAR AND VISIBLE-TO- INFRARED WAVELENGTHS. BASALTIC LAVA ROCK COVERS MOST OF THE SURFACE OF VENUS AS SHOWN BY ITS LANDFORMS AND IN SITU CHEMICAL ANALYSES AND THE RESPONSES BASALTIC ROCK TO EM RADIATION DEPENDS CRITICALLY ON THE MINERALS (CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS) PRESENT (NOT ONLY THE BULK COMPOSITION). HOWEVER THE MINERALS ON VENUS' BASALTS WHICH INTERACT WITH EM RADIATION REFLECT CHEMICAL REACTIONS (I.E. WEATHERING) WITH VENUS' HOT CAUSTIC ATMOSPHERE. THUS TO INTERPRET EM DATA FROM VENUS ACCURATELY EVEN OLD DATA IT IS CRUCIAL TO KNOW WHICH MINERALS ARE PRODUCED AS VENUS BASALTS WEATHER AND HOW RAPIDLY THEY FORM. IN THIS PROGRAM WE WILL DETERMINE THE PROCESSES PRODUCTS AND RATES OF BASALT WEATHERING ON VENUS THROUGH LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS. WE WILL REACT BASALTIC GLASSES WITH MODEL VENUS ATMOSPHERES AT RELEVANT TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES. WE WILL ANALYZE THE WEATHERED BASALTS WITH NANO- AND MICRO-SCALE METHODS (INCLUDING VNIR REFLECTANCES) BECAUSE WE EXPECT LIMITED REACTION PROGRESS ON THE TIMESCALES OF OUR EXPERIMENTS. TO EXTRAPOLATE OUR LAB RESULTS TO REALISTIC TIME- AND LENGTH-SCALES WE WILL APPLY TESTED CHEMICAL-KINETIC AND PHYSICAL MODELS. TO ASSURE SUCCESS OUR RESEARCH TEAM INCLUDES EXPERTS IN VENUS WEATHERING BASALT GEOCHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY CHEMICAL DIFFUSION IN GLASSES AND ALL ANALYTICAL METHODS TO BE USED.

USE OF BILE ACID-BINDING RESINS TO DECREASE SYSTEMIC PERAND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCE (PFAS) LEVELS AND IMPROVE SERUM LIPID PROFILES IN VETERANS

ONE OF THE PRIMARY GOALS OF CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICY IS TO MODEL AND UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSE OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TO CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL CON

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CUE-M: LEVEL UP AI: DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO INCREASE CAPACITY AND INCLUSION IN AI EDUCATION -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA) AND NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI), ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM), INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS COMPUTER SOCIETY (IEEE-CS), AND SEVERAL BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING (BPC) ALLIANCES WILL CONVENE LEVEL UP AI TO BUILD CONSENSUS ON STRATEGIES TO INCREASE CAPACITY AND DIVERSITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) EDUCATION AND TO EXPAND AI CURRICULUM AND INFRASTRUCTURE. WITH THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR AI PROFESSIONALS, FACULTY, AND RESEARCHERS, THERE IS AN IMPERATIVE TO DEVELOP A SHARED VISION THAT INCLUDES EXPECTATIONS AND PLANS FOR AN EXPANDED AI CURRICULUM, THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO DELIVER A QUALITY AI EDUCATION EXPERIENCE, AND THE STRATEGIES, PRINCIPLES, AND RESOURCES THAT ARE REQUIRED TO ENSURE ACCESS AND INCLUSIVITY IN AI EDUCATION. LEVEL UP AI IS THE COMPUTING IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION EFFORT TO MOBILIZE THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY AND BUILD A CONSENSUS ON STRATEGIES TO INCREASE CAPACITY AND DIVERSITY IN AI EDUCATION. LEVEL UP AI BUILDS ON THE EXPERIENCES AND MODELS DEVELOPED BY THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR VISIONING AND CONSENSUS BUILDING ACROSS BROAD SEGMENTS OF THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY AROUND ISSUES OF EXCELLENCE, INCLUSION, ACCESS, AND DIVERSITY. THE PRODUCTS OF LEVEL UP AI WILL CONTRIBUTE TO PATHWAYS TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION IN AI AND PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN AI EDUCATION. LEVEL UP AI ADOPTS A 2-PHASE PROCESS: (1) A SERIES OF VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS TO GATHER MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES AROUND ISSUES OF INCREASED CAPACITY AND INCLUSION IN AI EDUCATION, FOLLOWED BY (2) IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS TO DEVELOP COMMUNITY, CONSENSUS, AND ACTION. THE OUTCOMES OF THE 2-DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS ARE TO CREATE COMMUNITY AND ACTION FOR A COMMON VISION TO MOBILIZE THE COUNTRY TO INCREASE BOTH CAPACITY AND INCLUSION IN AI EDUCATION. THE EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT INCLUDE (1) REPORTS THAT ARTICULATE THE VISION AND ITS SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS, (2) BEST PRACTICES FOR STRATEGIES TO INCREASE CAPACITY AND INCLUSIVITY IN AI EDUCATION, (3) INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND TYPES THAT ENSURE THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF AI EDUCATION, AND (4) PROCESSES AND METRICS FOR ASSESSING CAPACITY, QUALITY, AND INCLUSIVITY IN AI EDUCATION. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

EO14042 MODELING AND ANALYZING LOW RADIO FREQUENCY OBSERVATIONS FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE IN PURSUIT OF THE DARK AGES

VIRTUAL TRIPS TO EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

SPUR PROPOSES TO EXPAND DOUBLE UP FOOD BUCKS CALIFORNIA TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR MORE LOW-INCOME FAMILIES PARTICIPATING IN THE CALFRESH/SNAP PROGRAM IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA TO AFFORD FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. CALFRESH CUSTOMERS WILL RECEIVE DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR MATCHING COUPONS AT THE GROCERY STORE CASH REGISTER BASED ON THEIR PURCHASES OF CALIFORNIA GROWN FRESH PRODUCE, WHICH THEY CAN THEN SPEND ON ANY FRESH PRODUCE AT THEIR NEXT STORE VISIT. BUILDING ON THE SUCCESS OF OUR INITIAL PILOT, WE WILL DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF STORES PARTICIPATING IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY TO A TOTAL OF EIGHT - INCREASING OUR PRESENCE IN SAN JOSE AND GILROY - AND LAUNCH IN SAN FRANCISCO WITH UP TO FOUR STORES. DURING THIS TWO-YEAR EXPANSION WE AIM TO HAVE 8,000 CALFRESH FAMILIES EARN AND REDEEM MORE THAN $500,000 IN INCENTIVES.WITH THE SUPPORT OF NUMEROUS NON-PROFIT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PARTNERS IN BOTH COUNTIES, WE WILL EXECUTE A COMPREHENSIVE DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER OUTREACH EFFORT. THIS EXPANSION WILL ALLOW US TO TEST AND REFINE THE REPLICABILITY OF DELIVERING INCENTIVES VIA BOUNCE-BACK COUPONS GENERATED BY POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEMS AT NUMEROUS INDEPENDENT RETAILERS, RANGING IN SIZE FROM SMALL STORES TO SUPERMARKETS. INDEPENDENT EVALUATORS WILL PROVIDE BOTH A PROCESS EVALUATION AND SHORT-TERM OUTCOME EVALUATION TO INFORM SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS. THROUGH OUR EXPANSION AND WORKING WITH MORE RETAILERS IN MORE COMMUNITIES, WE WILL GAIN VALUABLE EXPERIENCE AND DATA THAT WILL BUILD MOMENTUM FOR SCALING INCENTIVES SO THAT THEY ARE AVAILABLE AT GROCERY STORES AND FARMERS' MARKETS ACROSS CALIFORNIA.

WORKSHOP SERIES ON BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING (BPC) PLANS FOR DEPARTMENTS

FORM NRESS300 VERSION 3.0 APR 09 PI NAME ORESTE REALE ORGANIZATION NAME UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION COLUMBIA NASA PROPOSAL NUMBER 17TASNPP170045 PROPOSAL TITLE USING AIRS AND CRIS DATA TO UNDERSTAND PROCESSES AFFECTING TROPICAL CYCLONE STRUCTURE IN A GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION AND FORECASTING FRAMEWORK. SECTION VII PROJECT SUMMARY A THREE-YEAR SUCCESSOR PROPOSAL PREVIOUS AWARD NNX14AK19G IS PRESENTED. THE UNDERLYING MOTIVATION IS TO IMPROVE THE ASSIMILATION OF AIRS AND CRIS RADIANCES IN A GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION AND FORECAST SYSTEM THE NASA GEOS5 AND ITS SUCCESSORS. THE FINAL GOAL IS A COMPREHENSIVE METHODOLOGY TO ADAPTIVELY ASSIMILATE CLOUD-CLEARED RADIANCES FROM ALL HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TROPICAL CYCLONE TC PROCESSES AND OUR PREDICTIVE ABILITY. PAST PUBLISHED WORK AUTHORED BY THIS TEAM HAS DEMONSTRATED THE USEFULNESS OF ASSIMILATING CLOUDCLEARED AIRSDERIVED INFORMATION. MORE RECENT WORK UNDER THE CURRENTLY FUNDED EFFORT HAS SHOWN THAT AIRS DATA MAY NEGATIVELY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH OTHER HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS BECAUSE OF SUBOPTIMAL SAMPLING AND CORRELATED ERRORS IN DATA ASSIMILATION DA ERRORS ARE ASSUMED TO BE UNCORRELATED. THE CURRENT APPROACH IN DA AIMED AT REDUCING BOTH COMPUTATIONAL COSTS AND THE EFFECTS OF ERROR CORRELATION RESORTS TO A DATA SUBSAMPLING ON REGULAR GRIDS CALLED THINNING THE SAMPLING RESULTING FROM THIS APPROACH IS SUBOPTIMAL BECAUSE IMPACTS FROM DIFFERENT DATA ARE DEPENDENT UPON THE METEOROLOGY. IT IS WELL UNDERSTOOD THAT MODEST IMPROVEMENTS IN FORECAST SKILL CAN BE ACHIEVED BY THE ADDITION OF OBSERVATIONS IN REGIONS WHERE THE OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK IS ALREADY DENSE INITIAL CONDITIONS ARE ACCURATELY KNOWN OR WHERE ERROR GROWTH IS SMALL. CONSEQUENTLY ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES BASED ON INGESTING MORE OBSERVATIONS IN AREAS WHERE OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS ARE LARGE OR WHERE FORECAST ERRORS GROW MOST RAPIDLY HAVE BEEN PROPOSED.UNFORTUNATELY STRATEGIES OF ADAPTIVE THINNING WHICH TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CORRELATION ERRORS IN DIFFERENT REGIONS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY COMPLEX AND HARD TO IMPLEMENT. THIS TEAM HAS BEEN DEVELOPING A SIMPLE TC-CENTERED ADAPTIVE THINNING STRATEGY FOR BOTH AIRS AND CRIS CLEAR-SKY RADIANCES DEMONSTRATING THAT INCREASED DATA COVERAGE AROUND TCS AND DECREASED DATA COVERAGE ELSEWHERE CAN IMPROVE BOTH GLOBAL FORECAST SKILL AND TC REPRESENTATION. MOREOVER THIS TEAM HAS WORKED EXTENSIVELY ON THE ASSIMILATION OF AIRS CLOUD-CLEARED RADIANCES DEMONSTRATING THAT THEY ARE A SUBSTANTIALLY SUPERIOR PRODUCT COMPARED TO CLEARSKY RADIANCES AS LONG AS THEY ARE MORE AGGRESSIVELY THINNED GLOBALLY. THE MAIN GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO PROVIDE A ROUTE TOWARDS THE OPERATIONAL USE OF AIRS AND CRIS CLOUDCLEARED RADIANCES TO IMPROVE THE GLOBAL ANALYSES AND FORECASTS WITH FOCUS ON TCS. IN PARTICULAR THE METHODOLOGY WILL CONSIST OF AN EXTENSIVE SUITE OF OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS OSES ASSIMILATING AIRS AND CRIS RADIANCES IN THE NASA GEOS5 AND ITS SUCCESSORS IN A VARIETY OF THINNING CONFIGURATIONS. IN ADDITION THE GMAO EXPERTISE IN APPLYING THE ADJOINT OF THE FORECAST AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM TO ASSESS OBSERVATION IMPACT WILL BENEFIT THE RESEARCH. WITH THIS TOOL THE AMOUNT BY WHICH EACH INDIVIDUAL OBSERVATION REDUCES OR INCREASES A DEFINED MEASURE OF FORECAST ERROR OVER A GIVEN AREA IS CALCULATED. THIS WILL PROVIDE AN ESTIMATE OF THE FRACTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF DIFFERENT SENSORS IN THE SAME THINNING CONFIGURATIONS. THE COMBINATION OF OSES AND ADJOINT MODELS TO ESTIMATE OBSERVATIONAL IMPACTS AND GUIDE EXPERIMENT DESIGN HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE AND WILL ALLOW THE DESIGN OF A COMPREHENSIVE THINNING STRATEGY FOR ALL HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS INCLUDING IASIFOCUSING ON CLOUDCLEARED RADIANCES. THIS PROPOSAL WILL ALSO BENEFIT THROUGH INTERACTION AND FEEDBACK WITH THE SCIENCE AND DATA PRODUCTION TEAMS THE OVERALL VALIDATION OF AIRS AND CRIS PRODUCTS. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE SCIENCE DATA ANALYSIS ELEMENT OF THE A.37 THE SCIENCE OF TERRA AQUA AND SUOMI NPP CALL AN

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP EVALUATE AND EMPLOY VALUE-ADDED NASA BLACK MARBLE PRODUCTS TO TRACK PREVIOUS ONGOING AND FUTURE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE-2019 (COVID-19).

SCAFFOLDING NSF CISE REU SITE EVALUATION THROUGH COMPARATIVE AND LONGITUDINAL TRACKING

REAL-WORLD EFFECTIVENESS OF LONG-ACTING INJECTABLE VERSUS ORAL NALTREXONE FOR CO-OCCURRING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND ALCOHOL USE DISORDER

THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ASSOCIATION (NASA) SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON STEM EDUCAT

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF A PREVIOUSLY FUNDED PROPOSAL TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF ASSIMILATING AIRS-DERIVED PRODUCTS IN THE GEOS-5 DATA ASSIMILATION AND

2784-1702 UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION EXPLORATORY TOPIC D PRE-TRAILS FOA-0002784 PROJECT TITLE: PHYSICS & MACHINE LEARNING BASED AVIATION CONTRAILS PREDICTION AND OBSERVATION SYSTEM THE PURPOSE OF THIS AWARD IS TO DEVELOP AN AVIATION CONTRAIL PREDICTION AND OBSERVATION SYSTEM THAT UTILIZES A PORTFOLIO OF SATELLITE DATA AND AN ENSEMBLE OF PHYSICS AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS, AND THAT IS WELL POSITIONED ON A PATHWAY FOR REAL-TIME USE BY AIRLINES TO MITIGATE THE CLIMATE EFFECTS OF CONTRAILS.

JOHANN SCHUMANN/UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ISWHM: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE AND SYSTEM HEALTH MANAGEMENT MODERN AIRCRAFT HEAVIL

THIS PROPOSAL IS FOCUSED ON THE USE OF AIRS-DERIVED PRODUCTS AS A TOOL TO BETTER UNDERSTAND PROCESSES AFFECTING INTENSITY FORECAST, PARTICULARLY THOS

SATURN S RECENT CRATER FLUX AS CONSTRAINED BY CASSINI VIMS BACKGROUND: THE CRATERING FLUX FOR THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM IS PARTIALLY CONSTRAINED BY GEOCHRONOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS OF RETURNED LUNAR SAMPLES AND MARTIAN METEORITES COMBINED WITH CRATERING STUDIES; HOWEVER THE FLUX FOR THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE SUCH CONSTRAINTS. AT PRESENT THE PRIMARY METHOD OF UNDERSTANDING THE CRATERING HISTORY OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM IS VIA DYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS AND CRATERING STUDIES. THE ICY NATURE OF THE SATURNIAN MOONS THOUGH PROVIDES AN AS-OF-YET UNEXPLORED MEANS TO DATE YOUNG CRATERS. AN IMPACT ONTO AN ICY MOON WILL MELT A SHALLOW QUASI-SPHERICAL REGION. CRYSTALLINE ICE FORMS FROM THE FLASH HEATING OF SURFACE ICE AND SUBSEQUENT COOLING OF THE EXPOSED MELT. OVER TIME BOMBARDMENT BY IONS DISRUPTS THE CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE PRODUCING AMORPHOUS ICE AT A KNOWN RATE ALLOWING FOR AN ESTIMATE OF FORMATION AGE. HERE WE PROPOSE TO USE VISIBLE AND INFRARED MAPPING SPECTROMETER (VIMS) DATA TO STUDY THE DISTRIBUTION OF ICE PHASES WITHIN AND SURROUNDING YOUNG CRATERS ON MIMAS TETHYS DIONE AND RHEA ALONG WITH CRATER COUNTS ON THESE CRATERS' FLOORS IN ORDER TO ESTIMATE THE RECENT CRATER FLUX EXPERIENCED BY THESE MOONS. SCIENCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: THE SCIENCE QUESTIONS WE PROPOSE ARE MOTIVATED BY RECENT SPACECRAFT DATA ANALYSIS AND ADVANCEMENTS IN SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF ICE. WE SEEK TO ANSWER: 1) WHAT IS THE DISTRIBUTION OF ICE PHASES WITHIN AND SURROUNDING YOUNG CRATERS ON MIMAS TETHYS DIONE AND RHEA? 2) WHAT IS THE PREDICTED FORMATION AGE FOR THE STUDIED CRATERS USING THE KNOWN TRANSITION TIME BETWEEN CRYSTALLINE AND AMORPHOUS ICE? 3) WHAT IS THE DEGRADATION STATE OF THE OBSERVED CRATERS AND DOES THIS SUPPORT THE INFERRED AGE FROM OUR VIMS STUDY? 4) HOW HAS THE CRATER FLUX CHANGED OVER THE PAST FEW GA AND DOES IT VARY BETWEEN THE STUDIED MOONS? 5) HOW RECENTLY WERE THE GEOLOGICALLY YOUNG TERRAINS OF THE MID-SIZED MOONS OF SATURN FORMED? SUMMARY OF METHODOLOGY: WE WILL USE THE 2 M SPECTRAL BAND ASYMMETRY TO DETERMINE THE FRACTION OF CRYSTALLINE TO AMORPHOUS ICE ON THE SURFACE. THE MAIN ADVANTAGE OF APPLYING THE 2 M TECHNIQUE DEVELOPED BY CO-I DALLE ORE IS THAT IT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE SPECTRUM RESOLUTION AND IS STABLE EVEN IN THE CASE OF FAIRLY NOISY DATA. WE WILL USE TOPOGRAPHIC DATA OF THE MID-SIZED MOONS TO DETERMINE THE SLOPE OF THE CRATER WALLS FOR EACH STUDIED CRATER AND USE CASSINI IMAGING SCIENCE SUBSYSTEM (ISS) GEOLOGIC CONTEXT IMAGERY TO INFER STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO ESTIMATE THE DEGRADATION STATE OF EACH CRATER WHICH WILL BE COMPARED WITH THE VIMS INFERRED CRATER AGE. ISS IMAGERY WILL ALSO BE USED TO CONDUCT CRATER STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FLOORS OF EVERY STUDIED CRATER IN ORDER TO QUANTIFY THE CRATER DENSITY ACCUMULATED AFTER FORMATION. VIA OUR FULLY THREE-DIMENSIONAL MONTE CARLO CRATERING MODEL WE WILL RELATE CRATER DENSITIES TO BOMBARDMENT MASSES. FINALLY GIVEN OUR DERIVED FORMATION AGES AND THE MEASURED CUMULATIVE BOMBARDMENT MASS EXPERIENCED WE WILL DEVELOP A CRATER FLUX FOR SATURN S MID-SIZED MOONS WHICH CAN INFORM DYNAMICAL MODELS OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM CRATERING HISTORY. RELEVANCE TO CDAP OBJECTIVES: THE PROPOSED WORK WOULD ENHANCE THE SCIENTIFIC RETURN OF THE CASSINI MISSION BY PRODUCING MAPS OF ICE PHASES WITHIN AND SURROUNDING CRATERS ON THE SATURNIAN MOONS USING CASSINI VIMS DATA. THE PROPOSED WORK WOULD MAKE USE OF PRODUCED HIGHER ORDER DATA PRODUCTS RESULTING FROM CASSINI ISS IN ORDER TO STUDY THE CRATERING HISTORY OF SATURN S MOONS. THE PROPOSED TASKS INCORPORATE BOTH DATA ANALYSIS AND NONDATA-ANALYSIS TASKS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO ANALYZE AND INTERPRET THE PROPOSED ANALYSIS. BY COMBINING SPECTROSCOPIC DATA THE OBSERVED CRATERING OF THE MID-SIZED MOONS ALONG WITH THEORY AND MODELING THE PROPOSED WORK WOULD HELP UNRAVEL THE RECENT CRATER FLUX OF THE SATURN SYSTEM AND SHED LIGHT ON THE DYNAMICAL HISTORY OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM.

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS WORK IS TO CREATE A GLOBALLY CONSISTENT DATASET OF LIGHTNING BY 1) LINKING THE GOES-R GEOSTATIONARY LIGHTNING MAPPER (GLM) RESEARCH AND USER COMMUNITIES WITH THE CORRESPONDING MTG LIGHTNING IMAGER (LI) COMMUNITIES 2) REFINING THE DETECTION EFFICIENCY AND FALSE ALARM RATES OF EACH GEOSTATIONARY INSTRUMENT 3) USING THE OVERLAPPING FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) REGION TO DETERMINE PARALLAX CORRECTIONS FOR THE EXTREME EDGE OF EACH INSTRUMENT S FOV 4) DETERMINING THE GLM AND LI ABSOLUTE AMPLITUDE CALIBRATIONS 5) LEVERAGING THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE PI WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLM ALGORITHMS CAL/VAL AND USER READINESS ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE THE SAME ACTIVITIES OF THE LI COMMUNITY 6) SUGGESTING CHANGES TO BOTH SYSTEM ALGORITHMS TO IMPROVE BOTH DETECTION EFFICIENCY AND FALSE ALARM RATES ALONG WITH IMPROVEMENTS TO THE VARIOUS PARALLAX ALGORITHMS AND 7) SUGGESTING IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEOSTATIONARY LIGHTNING DETECTOR HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LI AND GLM DATA PRODUCTS INCLUDING ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING AND CALIBRATION/VALIDATION. THE PRIMARY BENEFIT OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE THE CREATION OF A CONSISTENT NEARLY GLOBAL LIGHTNING DATASET. FURTHER BENEFITS TO THE U.S. EARTH SCIENCE COMMUNITY WILL BE EASIER ACCESS TO THE GROUND AND LEO BASED LIGHTNING DATASETS FROM THE EUROPEAN EARTH SCIENCE COMMUNITY. THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO LEAD TO IMPROVED ALGORITHMS FOR GLM TO PROVIDE A BETTER LIGHTNING DATASET FOR THE U.S. EARTH SCIENCE COMMUNITY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR BETTER LIGHTNING SYSTEMS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION U.S. SCIENCE COMMUNITY GEOSTATIONARY LIGHTNING SENSORS.

IMPROVING REMOTE SENSED DATA PRODUCTS USING BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF COMPUTER MODEL

CLIMATE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (SH) STRATOSPHERE, TROPOSPHERE, SURFACE, AND SOUTHERN OCEAN HAS UNDERGONE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN RECENT DECADES. T

MENTORING WOMEN FACULTY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

WE WILL INVESTIGATE VOLATILES (H, F, CL) IN THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST VIA CHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF ITS ROCKS' APATITE, THEIR NOMINALLY

IMPROVING THE SUCCESS OF UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS IN COMPUTER AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH WITH THE CRA-WP WOMEN AND URMD GRAD COHORT WORKSHOPS

STIPEND DISTRIBUTION TO WRIGHT SCHOLAR STUDENTS

THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A DYNAMIC DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO ENHANCE THE USGS SPATIALLY REFERENCED REGRESSION ON WATERSHED ATTRIBUTES (SPARROW) WATER QUALITY MODEL FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES THROUGH THE USE OF REMOTELY-SENSED DATA AND OTHER NASA LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM (LIS) PRODUCTS. SPARROW IS WIDELY USED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES FOR LONG TERM STEADY STATE WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS. HOWEVER USERS ARE INCREASINGLY ASKING FOR A DYNAMIC VERSION OF THE MODEL THAT CAN PROVIDE SEASONAL ESTIMATES OF NUTRIENTS AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENT TO RECEIVING WATERS. TIME VARYING SPARROW OUTPUTS WOULD AID WATER MANAGERS IN DECISION MAKING REGARDING ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN PROTECTING AQUATIC HABITATS PLANNING FOR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS AND RESTORATION OF DEGRADED HABITATS STREAM SEGMENTS OR LAKES. THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS AND LIS MODELING DATA MAKE THESE SOURCES IDEAL FOR THE PURPOSES OF DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF THE DYNAMIC SPARROW MODEL. THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS A JOINT EFFORT BETWEEN THE US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REMOTE SENSING SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS AT THE NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND MANAGERS AT THE MOBILE BAY NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAM THE TAMPA BAY ESTUARY PROGRAM THE SARASOTA BAY ESTUARY PROGRAM AND BOTH THE WEEKS BAY AND NORTH INLET WINYAH BAY NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVES (NERRS). REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS INCLUDING MODIS VEGETATION INDICES SMAP SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE AND OMI ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY ALONG WITH LIS DERIVED ET AND SOIL TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE PRODUCTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION. LANDSAT DATA WILL ALSO BE USED TO MAP LAND COVER/LAND USE IN THE STUDY AREAS AS WELL AS IDENTIFY DISTURBED AREAS THAT MIGHT BE SOURCES OF SEDIMENT AND INCREASED PHOSPHORUS LOADING THROUGH EXPOSURE OF THE BARE SOIL. THESE DATA AND OTHERS CONSTITUTE THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES IN A REGRESSION ANALYSIS WHOSE DEPENDENT VARIABLES ARE THE WATER QUALITY CONSTITUENTS TOTAL NITROGEN TOTAL PHOSPHORUS AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENT. SPARROW VARIABLES MUST EITHER BE DIRECT OBSERVATIONS OF PROCESSES AFFECTING NUTRIENT OR SEDIMENT GENERATION AND TRANSPORT OR INDIRECT PROXIES OF THESE PROCESSES. REMOTELY-SENSED VARIABLES SUCH AS VEGETATION INDICES AND ET CAN BE PROXIES FOR NUTRIENT UPTAKE BY VEGETATION MODIS LAI CAN INDICATE SOURCES OF PHOSPHORUS FROM VEGETATION SOIL MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE THAT ARE KNOWN TO CONTROL RATES OF DENITRIFICATION AND BARE SOIL AREAS SERVE AS SOURCES OF ENHANCED NUTRIENT AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION. THE SPATIAL RELATIONS AND TEMPORAL FREQUENCY OF ALL OF THESE FACTORS AND MORE CAN BE OBTAINED FROM NASA REMOTE SENSING AND LIS PRODUCTS AND CAN PROVIDE ADDED DIMENSIONS TO SPARROW IN TERMS OF THE TIMING OF PROCESSES ON THE LANDSCAPE AND THE RESULTANT NUTRIENT AND SEDIMENT LOADING TO THE RECEIVING WATERS. WATER MANAGERS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN US AND ELSEWHERE CONTINUALLY EXPRESS THEIR STRATEGIC NEEDS FOR THIS INFORMATION.

TEXAS AEROSPACE SCHOLARS

GLOBAL HIGH-RESOLUTION TOPOGRAPHY OF IO TIDAL HEATING OF IO WAS A MAJOR DISCOVERY AND IS ONE OF THE KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING HOW EUROPA S LIQUID WATER O

EUROPA AND GANYMEDE AFTER JUNOCAM CARTOGRAPHIC TOPOGRAPHIC AND CRATER DISTRIBUTION UPDATES AND CHANGE DETECTION

THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE (LPI) PROPOSES TO PLAN IMPLEMENT AND SUPPORT A THREE-DAY WORKSHOP AND ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES FOR THE NASA HEADQUARTERS HELIOPHYSICS DIVISION (HPD).

RCN: NAIRR PILOT EXPANSION: FA2: AI EDU: CREATING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR BUILDING RESOURCES AND ACCESS TO AI EDUCATION -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION WILL LEAD A RESEARCH COORDINATION NETWORK (RCN) TO BUILD AND SUSTAIN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE THAT FOSTERS COLLABORATION AND RESOURCE-SHARING AMONG FACULTY ENGAGED IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) EDUCATION NATIONWIDE. THE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE IS DEVELOPING A VISION AND STRATEGIES FOR HOW RESOURCES LIKE THOSE INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL AI RESEARCH RESOURCE (NAIRR) PILOT CAN BE ALLOCATED TO ENSURE THAT ALL INSTITUTIONS CAN PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE AND AUDIENCE-APPROPRIATE AI EDUCATION. THE RCN PARTICIPANTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT REQUIRED TO MAKE STATE-OF-THE-ART AI EDUCATION AVAILABLE TO ALL STUDENTS. IN COORDINATION WITH OTHER NSF-FUNDED PROJECTS, INCLUDING NSF LEVEL UP AI AND THE NAIRR PILOT EXPANSION CONFERENCES, THIS RCN IS DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS FROM ALL TYPES OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S. (E.G., RESEARCH-EMERGING INSTITUTIONS, COMMUNITY COLLEGES). THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS RCN IS TO DEVELOP AND DISTRIBUTE AI EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND BEST PRACTICES FOR UTILIZING EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING THE NAIRR PILOT, TO ENHANCE AI EDUCATION AT THE UNDERGRADUATE AND MASTER'S LEVELS. THROUGH REGULAR COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND ASYNCHRONOUS ENGAGEMENT, THE AI EDU RCN WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: WHAT RESOURCES CAN BE SHARED FOR AI EDUCATION AT THE UNDERGRADUATE AND MS LEVELS; WHAT RESOURCES ARE NEEDED TO PREPARE FACULTY TO INCLUDE THE NAIRR PILOT IN AI COURSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY; WHAT ARE THE STRATEGIES FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN THE NAIRR PILOT TO FACULTY TEACHING AI COURSES; AND WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES FOR INCREASING CAPACITY AND ACCESS TO AI EDUCATION RESOURCES. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY OPERATING FUNDS REQUEST

AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTERS

PIERRE AUGER PROJECT - OBSERVATORY'S OPERATING COSTS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INVESTIGATION OF RESOURCES AND HAZARDS

A GAMMA-RAY BURST POLARIMETER: AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE MIDSTAR-2 MISSION OF OPPORTUNITYTHE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSED WORK IS TO BUILD A GAMMA-RAY BURST (G

SCIENCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: THE SCIENCE QUESTIONS WE PROPOSE ARE MOTIVATED BY RECENT SPACECRAFT DATA ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS. WE SEEK TO ANSWER: 1) WHAT IS THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SUBSURFACE LIQUID WATER ENVIRONMENTS ON PRESENT-DAY MARS? 2) WHEN DO SUBSURFACE LIQUID WATER ENVIRONMENTS MEET THE CONDITIONS THAT PERMIT BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY SUCH AS METABOLISM AND REPLICATION? 3) HOW DO SUBSURFACE LIQUID WATER ENVIRONMENTS CHANGE WITH LOCAL-SCALE GEOLOGY SUCH AS TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS? 4) HOW MUCH WATER IS AVAILABLE FOR POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES?

4004: VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF AUTONOMY SOFTWARE

SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FACULTY COLLABORATIONS TO IMPROVE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE TEACHER PREPARATIONA

WALTER KIEFER/LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTEIMPROVED MODELS OF MAGMA PRODUCTION AND THE THERMAL EVOLUTION OF MARSMARS HAS BEEN VOLCANICALLY ACTIVE

MYMOON: THE PUB PORTAL TO LUNAR SCIENCE EXPLORATION THROUGH NEW MEDIA:\NOUR SCIENTIFIC EXPLOR

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: USING OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS TO STUDY HOW DUST GRAINS BETWEEN THE STARS ALIGN

AN IMPORTANT SCIENCE GOAL FOR NASA IS TO QUANTIFY THE TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE AND ECOSYSTEM FEEDBACKS WHICH REQUIRES ACCURATEESTIMATE OF PHOTOSYNTH

MAGMATISM IS ONE OF THE FEW GEOLOGIC PROCESSES TO PROVIDE MAJOR CHANGES AND ENERGY INFLUX TO THE MARTIAN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE PAST THE NOACHIAN. ERUPTION AND DEGASSING OF MAFIC MAGMAS CONTRIBUTE TO THE SURFACE VOLATILE SPECIES AS WELL AS NUTRIENTS AND ENERGY THAT ARE NEEDED FOR BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES. AMONG THE VOLATILE SPECIES SULFUR IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF ITS SEVERAL REDOX STATES WHICH CAN BE UTILIZED AS AN ENERGY SOURCE BY CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC MICROORGANISMS. ON EARTH FEW MAFIC MAGMAS INTRUDE SULFUR-RICH SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. ON MARS HOWEVER SOILS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO CONTAIN ABUNDANT S-SPECIES AND THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE FOR ANCIENT MAGMATISM. THUS INTRUSION OF MAGMAS INTO SULFUR-RICH SOILS AND ROCKS IS TO BE EXPECTED ON MARS. THIS MAY BE PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO THE PROPOSED LANDING SITES FOR THE NASA MARS 2020 AND FOR THE ESA EXOMARS MISSIONS AT MAWRTH VALLIS AND/OR JEZERO CRATER THAT HAVE A POTENTIAL VOLCANIC CAPPING UNIT DIRECTLY IN CONTACT WITH SULFATE-SEDIMENTS. IN THIS PROPOSAL WE WILL INVESTIGATE AN EARTH ANALOG IN THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU FOR SUCH A SCENARIO OF MAFIC MAGMA INTRUDING GYPSUM-BEARING SEDIMENTS. WE HAVE OBSERVED NUMEROUS DIKES WHICH INTRUDED SULFUR RICH SEDIMENTS AND ARE WELL EXPOSED THROUGHOUT OUR FIELD-SITE. THEREFORE WE PROPOSE TO DO A DETAILED IN-SITU INVESTIGATION OF THE IGNEOUS INTRUSION AND METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENTS USING INSTRUMENTS THAT MIMIC THOSE ON ACTIVE AND FUTURE MISSIONS.

POLYMICT UREILITES ARE BRECCIAS REPRESENTING REGOLITH DEVELOPED ON AND NEAR THE SURFACE OF A UREILITIC ASTEROID. THEY CONSIST MOSTLY OF CLASTS THAT ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAIN GROUP UREILITES. HOWEVER THEY ALSO CONTAIN SEVERAL OTHER TYPES OF CLASTS WHICH PROVIDE A WEALTH OF INFORMATION NOT AVAILABLE IN MAIN GROUP UREILITES AND CAN BE USED TO ADDRESS MAJOR UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS IN UREILITE HISTORY. THESE INCLUDE 1) FELDSPATHIC CLASTS THAT MAY REPRESENT CRUSTAL IGNEOUS ROCKS FROM THE UREILITE PARENT BODY; 2) CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE-LIKE (DARK) CLASTS THAT MAY REPRESENT UREILITE PRECURSOR MATERIALS; AND 3) FOREIGN CLASTS THAT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE UREILITE PARENT BODY EVOLVED. WE WILL STUDY THESE MINOR CLAST POPULATIONS WITH THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES: OBJECTIVE 1: TO DETERMINE THE PETROLOGIC AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ALL INDIGENOUS IGNEOUS LITHOLOGIES IN POLYMICT UREILITES AND DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF EACH LITHOLOGY TO MAIN GROUP UREILITES IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE IGNEOUS EVOLUTION OF THE UREILITE PARENT BODY. OBJECTIVE 2: TO CHARACTERIZE THE MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY OXYGEN AND CHROMIUM ISOTOPES AND AR-AR AGES OF CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITELIKE CLASTS IN POLYMICT UREILITES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY REPRESENT UREILITE PRECURSOR MATERIALS OR ARE FOREIGN. OBJECTIVE 3: TO CHARACTERIZE THE MINERALOGY PETROLOGY AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES OF ALL FOREIGN CLASTS IN POLYMICT UREILITES FOR COMPARISON WITH KNOWN METEORITE TYPES IN ORDER TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE SOLAR SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT(S) IN WHICH THE UREILITE PARENT BODY ACCRETED AND EVOLVED. THE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO TAP THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN POLYMICT UREILITES TO ADDRESS MAJOR QUESTIONS ABOUT UREILITE HISTORY. RESULTS WILL PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF THE EARLIEST SOLAR SYSTEM MATERIALS AND THE DIVERSITY OF DIFFERENTIATION PATHS AMONG SOLAR SYTEM BODIES. THE PROPOSED WORK BUILDS ON EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF THE PI AND COLLABORATORS IN STUDYING PRIMITIVE METEORITES THROUGH NASA-FUNDED RESEARCH PROGRAMS. IT FOCUSES ON MAJOR PROCESSES AFFECTING PLANETESIMALS IN THE FIRST FEW MILLION YEARS OF SOLAR SYSTEM HISTORY AND THEREFORE IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE GOAL OF THE EMERGING WORLDS PROGRAM TO UNDERSTAND "THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM (ROSES 2016 APPENDIX C.2).

THE PLANET VENUS DISPLAYS A PANOPLY OF STRIKING VOLCANO-TECTONIC STRUCTURES INCLUDING BROAD VOLCANIC EDIFICES AND RADIATING FRACTURE SYSTEMS. IN PREVIOUS NASA-SUPPORTED EFFORTS WE HAVE EXPLORED THE MECHANICS OF MAGMA TRANSPORT STORAGE AND EMPLACEMENT ON VENUS IN RELATION TO LITHOSPHERIC STRESS STATES FROM FLEXURAL LOADING. THIS WORK HAS YIELDED FUNDAMENTAL NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF VOLCANIC SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE FIRST SCENARIO FOR PRODUCING VENUS S RADIATING DIKE SYSTEMS FROM REALISTICALLY LOADED MAGMA CHAMBERS. HOWEVER OUR INVESTIGATIONS HAVE FOCUSED EXCLUSIVELY UPON RESERVOIRS LOCATED IN THE SUB-EDIFICE SUBSTRATE (THE LITHOSPHERE) AND HAVE REVEALED A CRITICAL OBSTACLE THAT INHIBITS OUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND VOLCANO-TECTONIC FEATURES ON VENUS. ELASTIC MODELS OF LARGE EDIFICES THAT INDUCE SUBSTANTIAL LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE REQUIRE FIRST-ORDER ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING THE EDIFICE STRESS STATE THAT IN COMBINATION WITH FLEXURAL LOADING STRESSES INHIBIT TRANSPORT OF MAGMA TO THE SURFACE AND CREATION OF THE TYPES OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL AND RADIAL TECTONIC STRUCTURES SEEN ON VOLCANOES ON VENUS. TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE EVOLUTION OF STRESSES WITHIN AND BENEATH AN EDIFICE AS IT GROWS WE NEED TO MOVE BEYOND THESE LIMITATIONS. TO THIS END WE PROPOSE AN ADVANCED PROGRAM OF FINITE ELEMENT NUMERICAL MODELING DESIGNED TO EXAMINE THE TIME-DEPENDENT STRESS AND DEFORMATION OF LITHOSPHERE SUBJECTED TO EXTRUSIVE AND INTRUSIVE MODES OF VOLCANIC LOADING. THE PROPOSED WORK COMPRISES TWO TASKS. IN THE FIRST TASK WE WILL CONSTRUCT FINITE ELEMENT MODELS OF VOLCANIC EDIFICES AND THEIR SUPPORTING LITHOSPHERES IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE TIME-DEPENDENT EMPLACEMENT OF PREDETERMINED VOLCANIC UNITS AT THE SURFACE (VIA IN-PROGRESS ADDITIONS TO FINITE ELEMENT MESHES) CONTROLS THE STRESS HISTORY WITHIN AND BENEATH THE EDIFICE. OF NECESSITY THIS PROCESS MUST INCORPORATE STRESS-MITIGATING EFFECTS SUCH AS FAULTING (VIA PLASTICITY) AND TIME-DEPENDENT DUCTILE FLOW (VIA VISCOELASTICITY). WHILE INITIAL MODELS WILL BE DEVELOPED WITHOUT ERUPTIBLE MAGMA RESERVOIRS REFLECTING THE BREVITY OF SUCH FEATURES WITHIN LONG-LIVED VOLCANIC SYSTEMS THE MECHANICAL AND THERMAL EFFECTS OF INTRUSIVE BODIES WILL BE INCORPORATED LATER VIA APPROPRIATE ADJUSTMENTS OF MODEL DOMAINS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AT SPECIFIC TIME STEPS SIMULATING TRANSITION FROM A STABLE THERMAL MUSH TO AN ERUPTIBLE MOSTLY LIQUID MAGMA. IN THE SECOND TASK WE WILL EVALUATE THE STRESS STATES GENERATED IN THE FIRST TASK AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR MAGMA STORAGE (CHAMBERS) ASCENT INTRUSION (SILLS AND DIKES) AND EXTRUSION (E.G. EDIFICE CONSTRUCTION) AND THERMAL STATE. STRESS FIELDS FROM TASK 1 AND MAGMA PROPERTIES (DENSITY VISCOSITY) WILL BE INPUTS TO EQUATIONS FOR MAGMA MOVEMENT VELOCITY IN DIKES AND SILLS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE MAGMA MOVEMENT PATHS WITHIN THE LITHOSPHERE AND THESE MAGMA PATHWAYS WILL IN TURN DICTATE WHERE (IF) MATERIAL ERUPTS AND HENCE THE SURFACE LOADING THAT OCCURS WHICH FEEDS BACK INTO THE STRESS STATE CONTROLLING SUBSEQUENT ERUPTIONS. IN THIS WAY WE WILL LET THE MAGMA DECIDE HOW GROWTH OF THE EDIFICE AND THEREBY THE STRESS HISTORY EVOLVES. WE WILL INTERPRET SPECIFIC MODELS FROM TASK 1 IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABILITY OF MAGMA PATHWAYS AND CHANGES IN INTRUSION GEOMETRY OR EDIFICE SHAPE. BY COMPARING THE RESULTS TO EXISTING VENUSIAN VOLCANO-TECTONIC FEATURES E.G. CONICAL AND FLAT-TOPPED VOLCANOES VARIOUS CORONAE WE CAN CONSTRAIN THE EFFECTS OF PARAMETERS SUCH AS LITHOSPHERE THICKNESS MAGMA SUPPLY RATE AND MAGMA SOURCE DIMENSIONS ON THE ERUPTIVE INTRUSIVE AND THERMAL HISTORIES OF THE RESULTING SYSTEMS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE HOST REGIONS OF VENUS. THE PROPOSED WORK IS RELEVANT TO SSW PROGRAM GOALS OF UNDERSTANDING PHENOMENA AFFECTING THE SURFACES AND INTERIORS OF PLANETS SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING CALLED-OUT RESEARCH AREAS IN INTERIOR STRUCTURE LITHOSPHERES VOLCANISM AND EVOLUTION AND MODIFICATION OF SURFACES.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INVESTIGATIONS OF EARTHQUAKES

GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF LARGE VOLCANOES ON VENUS: INSIGHTS FROM ADVANCED NUMERICAL MODELING OF LITHOSPHERIC RESPONSE TOVOLCANIC LOADING.PG&G 201

IN CONTRAST TO RAPID ARCTIC SEA ICE LOSS ANTARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT (SIE) HAS SHOWN A SMALL BUT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE SINCE THE LATE 1970S. THE EXPANSION OF ANTARCTIC SIE IN A WARMING CLIMATE HAS PUZZLED THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY. SIMULATION OF THE OBSERVED ANTARCTIC SEA ICE CHANGE REMAINS A MAJOR CLIMATE MODEL DEFICIENCY. WE PROPOSE TO ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ANTARCTIC SEA ICE CHANGE AND TO IMPROVE THE REPRESENTATION OF ANTARCTIC SEA ICE IN THE NASA GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM MODEL VERSION 5 (GEOS-5) USING COUPLED REPLAY SIMULATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PROPOSED WORK AND PREVIOUS MODELING STUDIES IS THAT WE WILL USE THE GEOS-5 REPLAY CAPABILITY. BY CONSTRAIN THE ATMOSPHERE TO NASA MODERN-ERA RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATION VERSION 2 (MERRA-2) THE COUPLED REPLAY SIMULATIONS WILL ENABLE US TO SEPARATE THE INFLUENCES OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC PROCESSES ON ANTARCTIC SEA ICE MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY. WE WILL QUANTIFY THE IMPACT OF BIASES IN ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE FORCING ON ANTARCTIC SEA ICE TRENDS IN GEOS-5 BY COMPARING FREE-RUNNING AND REPLAY SIMULATIONS. WE WILL ISOLATE THE EFFECTS OF OCEAN EDDY REPRESENTATION AND SURFACE FRESHWATER FORCING ON ANTARCTIC SEA ICE CHANGE AND TO QUANTIFY THE ATMOSPHERIC MODULATION ON THESE EFFECTS. WE WILL QUANTIFY AND IDENTIFY THE MECHANISMS THAT CONTROL MODEL S INTERNAL MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY OF ANTARCTIC SEA ICE. WE WILL CONDUCT SENSITIVITY SIMULATIONS TO IDENTIFY THE FEEDBACK OF ANTARCTIC SEA ICE CHANGE ON THE ATMOSPHERE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL REDUCE UNCERTAINTIES IN ANTARCTIC SEA ICE SIMULATION AND GUIDE THE IMPROVEMENTS OF SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ATMOSPHERE AND SOUTHERN OCEAN PROCESSES IN GEOS-5 AND THUS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE MAP PROGRAMMATIC PRIORITY. OUR RESEARCH WILL ADDRESS THE MAP RESEARCH THEME OF COUPLING IN THE EARTH SYSTEM BY IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COUPLINGS BETWEEN ANTARCTIC ATMOSPHERE SOUTHERN OCEAN AND SEA ICE.

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO UNDERSTAND THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS OF HOW ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS MOSTLY CHARACTERIZED BY VEGETATION CHANGES IN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS WITH DISTINCT ECO-CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ARE AFFECTED BY REGULATING CLIMATIC FACTORS AND OTHER ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES AND EXTREME EVENTS. ALTHOUGH THIS IS A WELL-STUDIED PROBLEM THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN THIS AREA HAS SIGNIFICANT ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE CLIMATE VARIABLES SUCH AS PRECIPITATION SOLAR RADIATION AND TEMPERATURE HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN STUDIED AS LIMITING FACTORS AFFECTING PLANT VEGETATION GROWTH. HOWEVER A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF UNKNOWN OR UNEXPECTED DRIVING FORCES ON VEGETATION ANOMALIES IS STILL MISSING IN THE CONTEXT OF ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE (E.G. PERSISTENT DROUGHT HEAT WAVES) AND HUMAN-INDUCED LOCAL EVENTS (E.G. FOREST FIRE IRRIGATION). SIMILARLY MOST PRIOR STUDIES HAVE BASED THEIR ANALYSES ON ASSUMPTIONS OF LINEARITY AND CERTAIN TYPES OF NONLINEARITY IN THE DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OBSERVED MODELED CLIMATE VARIABLES AND SATELLITE-DERIVED VEGETATION INDICES. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT SUCH ASSUMPTIONS MAY NOT HOLD TRUE IN PRACTICE WHEN SCALED OVER LARGE REGIONS THEREBY RENDERING THE NON-GENERALIZED MODELS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS POTENTIALLY MISCONSTRUED. IN THIS STUDY WE PROPOSE TO USE A REGRESSION TECHNIQUE CALLED SYMBOLIC REGRESSION FOR LEARNING THESE COMPLEX TIME SPACE RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR EVOLUTION OVER TIME. THIS GENETIC PROGRAMMING BASED LEARNING TECHNIQUE HAS DEMONSTRATED THE POTENTIAL OF DISCOVERING NEW DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES AMONG VARIABLES THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN. USING SYMBOLIC REGRESSION WE NOT ONLY EXPECT TO UNCOVER NEW RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WELL-STUDIED CLIMATE VARIABLES BUT ALSO IDENTIFY LATENT FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR VEGETATION ANOMALIES. WE WILL USE NASAS HIGH-END COMPUTING AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE NASA EARTH EXCHANGE FACILITY IN ORDER TO SCALE THIS EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION BASED REGRESSION TECHNIQUE TO BUILD GLOBAL PREDICTION FRAMEWORKS USING HIERARCHICAL AND ENSEMBLE APPROACHES. THE BENEFITS OF THIS WORK WILL BE IN IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND GENERALIZING THOSE UNDERSTANDINGS FROM REGIONAL TO GLOBAL SCALES. THE WORK WILL LEVERAGE THE RESULTS OF PREVIOUS NASA-FUNDED EFFORTS BOTH IN TERMS OF DATA SETS AND COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE. THE WORK WILL AIM TO ANSWER THREE SCIENCE QUESTIONS STARTING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND THEN MOVING TO A GLOBAL SCALE. THEY ARE: 1) WHAT IS THE MAGNITUDE AND EXTENT OF ECOSYSTEM EXPOSURE SENSITIVITY AND RESILIENCE TO THE 2005 AND 2010 AMAZON DROUGHTS 2) WHAT ARE THE HUMAN-INDUCED AND OTHER ATTRIBUTION FACTORS THAT CAUSE VEGETATION ANOMALIES IN CERTAIN GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS THAT CANNOT BE OTHERWISE EXPLAINED BY THE NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND 3) HOW DOES THE LEARNED DEPENDENCY OF VEGETATION ON THE CLIMATE VARIABLES AND OTHER EXOGENOUS FACTORS VARY ACROSS DIFFERENT ECO-CLIMATIC ZONES AND GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS ON A GLOBAL SCALE? THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP ALGORITHMS THAT WILL ANSWER THE THREE QUESTIONS LISTED ABOVE WITH THE HELP OF THE DOMAIN SCIENTISTS VALIDATION. THIS MODELING EXERCISE BASED ON SYMBOLIC REGRESSION IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND FOR EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS.THEREFORE ENTRY TRL OF THE PROJECT IS 2. ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF MILESTONES THE EXIT LEVEL TRL IS EXPECTED TO BE 4 WHERE THE CAPABILITIES HAVE BEEN VALIDATED AT A GLOBAL SCALE. THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM INCLUDES EXPERTISE IN LARGE-SCALE DATA MINING SYMBOLIC REGRESSION EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION AND EARTH SCIENCE TO MEET THE TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF THIS PROJECT.

THERMODYNAMIC EFFECTS FOR QUANTUM APPROXIMATE OPTIMIZATION

EAGER: DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA) WILL ESTABLISH DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (DREU-AI), A NATIONALLY COORDINATED PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH MENTORED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IS RAPIDLY BECOMING FOUNDATIONAL TO SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, ENGINEERING, HEALTHCARE, AND MANY SECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. CONTINUED PROGRESS IN AI DEPENDS NOT ONLY ON ADVANCES IN ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT ALSO ON DEVELOPING A WORKFORCE CAPABLE OF INTEGRATING MACHINE LEARNING, DATA SCIENCE, AND DOMAIN EXPERTISE TO ADDRESS COMPLEX REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS. HOWEVER, MANY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN AI, PARTICULARLY AT INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT ACTIVE AI RESEARCH GROUPS. BY PROVIDING STRUCTURED RESEARCH PLACEMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, THE PROGRAM AIMS TO STRENGTHEN PATHWAYS INTO AI RESEARCH AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SKILLED AND INNOVATIVE AI WORKFORCE. THE PROJECT FOCUSES ON THREE MAIN GOALS. FIRST, THE PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH FULL-TIME SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGH PLACEMENTS IN RESEARCH GROUPS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. STUDENTS WILL WORK WITH RESEARCH MENTORS ON PROJECTS SPANNING AREAS SUCH AS MACHINE LEARNING, TRUSTWORTHY AND INTERPRETABLE AI, AI FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, MULTIMODAL MODELING, AND AI SYSTEMS. SECOND, THE PROGRAM WILL CREATE A COORDINATED NATIONAL COHORT THROUGH SHARED RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS, MILESTONE CHECKPOINTS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING RESEARCH SKILLS AND PREPARING FOR GRADUATE STUDY. THIRD, THE PROGRAM WILL ESTABLISH A STRUCTURED MENTORING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK THAT SUPPORTS RESEARCH MENTORS, ALIGNS STUDENT RESEARCH MILESTONES ACROSS INSTITUTIONS, AND ENABLES SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF PROGRAM OUTCOMES. THE PROGRAM BUILDS ON THE PROVEN DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES MODEL DEVELOPED BY CRA. THROUGH CENTRALIZED COORDINATION, RIGOROUS MENTORING PRACTICES, AND NATIONAL RECRUITMENT, THE PROJECT WILL ENABLE INCREASED PARTICIPATION IN AI RESEARCH AND STRENGTHEN THE NATION?S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKFORCE. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

EAGER: DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE -THE COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA) WILL ESTABLISH DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE (DREU-QIS), A NATIONALLY COORDINATED PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN QUANTUM COMPUTING. QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE IS EMERGING AS A STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT AREA OF COMPUTING THAT IS EXPECTED TO TRANSFORM FIELDS SUCH AS MATERIALS DISCOVERY, OPTIMIZATION, AND SECURE COMMUNICATION. SUSTAINED NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THIS AREA REQUIRES A PIPELINE OF INNOVATORS WHO CAN DEVELOP QUANTUM ALGORITHMS AND THEIR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES. HOWEVER, MANY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN QUANTUM COMPUTING, PARTICULARLY AT INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT ACTIVE RESEARCH GROUPS IN QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE. BY PROVIDING STRUCTURED RESEARCH PLACEMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, THE PROGRAM AIMS TO STRENGTHEN PATHWAYS INTO QUANTUM COMPUTING RESEARCH AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SKILLED AND INNOVATIVE QUANTUM WORKFORCE. THE PROJECT FOCUSES ON THREE MAIN GOALS. FIRST, THE PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH FULL-TIME SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE THROUGH PLACEMENTS IN ACTIVE RESEARCH GROUPS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. SECOND, THE PROGRAM WILL CREATE A COORDINATED NATIONAL COHORT THROUGH SHARED RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS, MILESTONE CHECKPOINTS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING RESEARCH SKILLS AND PREPARING FOR GRADUATE STUDY. THIRD, THE PROGRAM WILL ESTABLISH A STRUCTURED MENTORING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK THAT SUPPORTS RESEARCH MENTORS, ALIGNS STUDENT RESEARCH MILESTONES ACROSS INSTITUTIONS, AND ENABLES SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF PROGRAM OUTCOMES. THE PROGRAM BUILDS ON THE PROVEN DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES MODEL DEVELOPED BY CRA. THROUGH CENTRALIZED COORDINATION, RIGOROUS MENTORING PRACTICES, AND NATIONAL RECRUITMENT, THE PROJECT WILL ENABLE INCREASED PARTICIPATION IN QUANTUM COMPUTING RESEARCH AND STRENGTHEN THE NATION?S QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE WORKFORCE. 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.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

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EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.

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ONE OF THE KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE VOYAGER AND CASSINI MISSIONS HAS BEEN TO UNDERSTAND THE EVOLUTION OF THE ICY SATELLITES OF SATURN, INCLUDING THEIR T

IN THIS WORK WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE ORIGINS OF SMALL CRATERS ON ICY SATELLITES TO UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT SMALL COMETS ARE RELATIVE TO SECONDARY CR

THE OMPS LIMB ONBOARD SUOMI-NPP COLLECTED ITS FIRST EARTH LIMB MEASUREMENT IN JANUARY 10 2012 AND CONTINUES TO PROVIDE DAILY GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS OF OZONE AND AEROSOL PROFILES FROM THE CLOUD TOP UP TO 60 AND 40 KM RESPECTIVELY. ALTHOUGH OMPS AEROSOL PROFILES DATA PRODUCT WAS NOT SELECTED THE LAST ROSES CALL THE OMPS OZONE SCIENCE TEAM CONTINUED PRODUCING AN AEROSOL PRODUCT THAT WAS MAINLY DESIGNED FOR CORRECTING THE RETRIEVED OZONE PROFILES AND LEVEL 1G RADIANCE DIAGNOSTICS. WE WILL PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN ALGORITHM TO RETRIEVE A HIGH QUALITY AEROSOL EXTINCTION PROFILES AND PARTICLE SIZE INFORMATION FROM SUOMI NPP OMPS LP MEASUREMENTS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH RESPONDS TO A SOLICITATION S REQUEST FOR DEVELOPING THE REFINED AND/OR ALTERNATIVE DATA PRODUCTS NEEDED TO ENSURE HIGH-QUALITY DATA RECORDS FOR EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS THAT ENABLE CONTINUITY WITH EOS DATA PRODUCTS SPECIFICALLY AEROSOL CONCENTRATION VERTICAL PROFILES. WE EXPECT THE PROPOSED RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING OMPS LP AEROSOL ALGORITHM BY IMPROVING THE AEROSOL EXTINCTION RETRIEVAL SCHEME AND THE AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION. WE ALSO PLAN TO FURTHER IMPROVE THE AEROSOL RETRIEVAL IN THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE/ LOWER STRATOSPHERE UT/LS REGION BY ADDING AN IMPROVED CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHM.

WE PROPOSE TO QUANTIFY THE STRATOSPHERIC IMPACT ON TROPOSPHERIC OZONE INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY AND TRENDS SINCE 1990 AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF STRATOSPHERIC AND ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON TROPOSPHERIC OZONE RADIATIVE FORCING AND ON REGIONAL AIR QUALITY. WE ARE RESPONDING TO AREA A OF ROSES-2016 ANNOUNCEMENT NNH16ZDA001N WHICH CALLS FOR STUDIES CONCERNING THE EVOLUTION OF TROPOSPHERIC OZONE AND THEIR IMPACTS ON CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY AND USE OF AURA DATA TO TRACK CHANGES IN STRATOSPHERIC AND TROPOSPHERIC COMPOSITION DETERMINE THE EXCHANGE OF TRACER GASES WITHIN THE TROPOSPHERE BETWEEN THE STRATOSPHERE AND TROPOSPHERE AND ESTIMATE THE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE AND UPPER TROPOSPHERE. WE PROPOSE TO CARRY ON AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS USING THE SUITE OF DATA DERIVED FROM AURA (TES AND MLS O3 MERRA-2 ASSIMILATION OF OMI/MLS THE COMBINED TES/MLS CO MLS H2O OMI NO2) OZONESONDE MEASUREMENTS AND A SERIES OF MODEL SIMULATIONS WITH THE GLOBAL MODELING INITIATIVE (GMI) STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE CHEMICAL MECHANISM AND MERRA-2 METEOROLOGY INCLUDING A STRATOSPHERIC OZONE TRACER. OUR ANALYSIS INCLUDES THE ENTIRE TROPOSPHERE WITH A FOCUS ON STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE (STE) EFFECTS ON UPPER TROPOSPHERIC AND NEAR SURFACE OZONE. WE SPECIFICALLY PROPOSE (A) TO QUANTIFY THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND VERTICAL EXTENT OF IMPACTS OF STE ON TROPOSPHERIC OZONE AND ASSOCIATED INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS AND TRENDS; (B) TO QUANTIFY OZONE RADIATIVE FORCING SINCE 1990 DUE TO STE CHANGES AND ITS RELATIVE IMPORTANCE TO RADIATIVE FORCING FROM ANTHROPOGENIC OZONE; (C) TO IDENTIFY GLOBAL HOTSPOTS OF DEEP STE EVENTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON REGIONAL AIR QUALITY. THIS PROJECT WILL GREATLY IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VERTICAL EXTENT OF STE IMPACTS ON INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS AND TRENDS OF TROPOSPHERIC OZONE AS WELL AS RESULTING VARIATIONS IN RADIATIVE FORCING OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM. THEREFORE THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THIS RESEARCH CAN BE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE EVOLUTION OF RADIATIVE FORCING FROM OZONE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE. IN ADDITION THE INSIGHTS GAINED FROM MODEL ANALYSIS WILL BENEFIT THE ONGOING ATMOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY MISSION (ATOM) WHICH SYSTEMATICALLY MEASURES VERTICAL PROFILES OF REACTIVE GASES AND AEROSOL MEASURE SPANNING THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ATLANTIC OCEAN ESPECIALLY IN AREAS CONSIDERED REMOTE AND CLEAN.

EO14042 CRUSTAL DEFORMATION TECTONISM AND CRYOVOLCANISM ON PLUTO: NEW CONSTRAINTS FROM INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF NEW HORIZONS DATA AND MECHANICAL MODELING.

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