The Collaborative Opportunities for Research Engagement (CORE) Awards are granted to lead project principal investigators at partnering minority-serving institutions (MSIs) as seed funding to propel projects for a two-year time period. The projects vary but are all in line with NSF NCAR’s strategic priority of enabling capacity-building at MSIs.
CORE awards
Growing Collaborations: Indigenous Agriculture and Crop Modeling Development
Growing collaborations will build a conceptual framework for engaging Indigenous knowledges and climate change modeling, specifically in the context of Indigenous agriculture and the NCAR Crop model.
Impacts of Saharan Dust
Through this project, the team aims to further understand the impacts of Saharan Dust on climate and weather in the local land and marine environments in tropical Puerto Rico.
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Earth Systems Science
This project is developing a set of considerations for how Earth system science programs can implement data sovereignty principles in any efforts that involve collaborations with Indigenous communities or data collected on Indigenous lands or related to Indigenous resources.
Interactive Graphics and VR
The Interactive Graphics and Virtual Reality to Communicate Research on Clouds & Precipitation project aims to use interactive graphics and explore virtual reality as novel approaches for understanding, communicating, and engaging with data on clouds and precipitation, in partnership with the University of Arizona.
Land-Atmosphere Interactions
This project will utilize high-resolution observations of near-surface meteorological conditions to explore the impact of soil moisture control and associated land-atmosphere interactions on rapidly changing atmospheric conditions during both early morning transition (EMT) and early evening transition (EET) periods over a dryland ecosystem in west Texas.
Student Training in Atmospheric Research at Minority Serving Institutions
The STAR-MSI program is being developed in partnership with Jackson State University and seeks to analyze changes in landfalling tropical cyclone hazards due to climate change and how those climate impacts differ based on local environments.