Environmental Geoscience — Federal Grants

Improving selection tests for protein-coding genes

Louis-Marie Bobay · North Carolina State University

CAREER: Mechanism-Driven Machine Learning for Water and Wastewater Treatment

Kathryn Newhart · Oregon State University

REU Site: Unmanned Aerial Systems with Real-World Applications in Oklahoma

Wilson Merchan-Merchan · University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

Collaborative Research: Using AI-powered Non-lethal Sampling to Inform Evidence-based Forest Management Practices and Enhance Pollinator Conservation

Christine Fortuin · Mississippi State University

Collaborative Research: STAR: Insect Winners and Losers in a Variable World

Michael Belitz · University of Wisconsin-Madison

CAREER: Understanding Florida Sea-Breeze Convection Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

Yixin Wen · University of Florida

Collaborative Research: ARTS: A modern taxonomy for Cercospora (Mycosphaerales, Ascomycota) and a multiomics interactive data platform for hypothesis testing

Vinson Doyle · Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

Environmental Stability of Vesicle-Cloaked Virus Clusters and Health Implications

Danmeng Shuai · George Washington University

ERI: Exploratory Synthesis and characterization of Ce-based novel magnetic materials

Tej Nath Lamichhane · University of Central Oklahoma

CAREER: Advancing Recyclable Biopolymer Composite Materials and Entrepreneurial Education for Construction in Resource-Limited Environments

Xijun Shi · Texas State University - San Marcos

CAREER: Multi-scale Effects of Polymer Network Topology on Mechanical Properties

Junsoo Kim · Northwestern University at Chicago

CAREER: Towards Semantic-Centric Wireless Foundations for Swarm AI

Lan Zhang · Clemson University

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