NSF Org: |
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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Initial Amendment Date: | September 15, 2021 |
Latest Amendment Date: | August 30, 2023 |
Award Number: | 2118329 |
Award Instrument: | Cooperative Agreement |
Program Manager: |
Cheryl Eavey
ceavey@nsf.gov (703)292-7269 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr |
Start Date: | October 1, 2021 |
End Date: | September 30, 2026 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $15,000,000.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $16,000,000.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2022 = $5,009,251.00 FY 2023 = $4,144,755.00 |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
506 S WRIGHT ST URBANA IL US 61801-3620 (217)333-2187 |
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Primary Place of Performance: |
506 S. Wright Street Urbana IL US 61801-3620 |
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NSF Program(s): |
TRIPODS Transdisciplinary Rese, HDR-Harnessing the Data Revolu, Human Networks & Data Sci Infr, Methodology, Measuremt & Stats, Cross-Directorate Activities, Hydrologic Sciences, XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro, CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE, Info Integration & Informatics, CZO-Critical Zone Obsrvatories |
Primary Program Source: |
01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049, 47.070, 47.075 |
ABSTRACT
This project establishes the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE). In today?s interconnected world, disasters such as floods and droughts are rarely isolated events, and their cascading effects are often felt far beyond their locations of origin. I-GUIDE creates an integrative discovery environment that enables the harnessing of geospatial data for understanding interconnected interactions across diverse socioeconomic-environmental systems to enhance community resilience and environmental sustainability. I-GUIDE nurtures a diverse and inclusive geospatial discovery community across many disciplines by bridging disciplinary digital data divides with broader impacts amplified through a well-trained and diverse workforce and proactive engagement of minority and underrepresented groups. The project leverages existing collaborations with its diverse member and partner organizations, representing academic, governmental, and industrial institutions, thereby extending its reach across the U.S. and the globe. The influence of I-GUIDE?s new knowledge frontiers impact solutions to real-world problems and geospatial decisions, with significance ranging from the nation?s economic development to security. I-GUIDE builds upon relationships with the museum and informal science education communities as well as libraries and news media to raise public awareness about the contributions of the geospatial data revolution to society.
Globalization has intensified and extended the impacts of socioeconomic-environmental interactions across long distances, a process known as telecoupling. I-GUIDE?s integrative discovery environment is vital to transform innovative theories, concepts, methods, and tools focusing geospatial synthesis that drive novel capabilities for addressing scientific questions of how to harness geospatial data for multi-scale and telecoupling discoveries to enhance community resilience and environmental sustainability. Two substantive and convergent scientific problems are addressed: (1) Water security, to evaluate geospatial and socioeconomic impacts of hydroclimatic extremes that are related to environmental and infrastructure sustainability, and (2) Biodiversity and food security, to enhance basic understanding of biodiversity dynamics in the face of nearby and distant disasters, global changes, international trade, and dynamic land use transitions. Transformative geospatial understanding gained from solving these interrelated problems are translated into digital resources and tools made available online through an open I-GUIDE platform for a variety of educational and training activities to serve a broad and diverse audience. Through this platform, the next-generation workforce can acquire geospatial knowledge coupled with data-driven technological skills for decision-making and problem-solving experiences.
This project is part of the National Science Foundation's Big Idea activities in Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR). The award by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure is jointly supported by the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; the Division of Earth Sciences within the Directorate for Geosciences; the Division of Mathematical Sciences within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and by the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
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.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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