NSF announces 2022 EPSCoR RII Track-1 Awardees

NSF has announced five 2022 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program Track-1 awards. The projects funded through the awards will support and further research partnerships with academic institutions, government agencies and industry to build out research infrastructure by supporting research-driven improvements to critical physical and cyber infrastructure.

The 2022 Track-1 awardees will work on initiatives that involve climate change, data science, fire science, low-temperature plasma science and engineering, and social equity and resilience. Each awardee will receive $20 million over a five-year period to support their endeavor.

The 2022 EPSCoR RII Track-1 awardees are listed below.

• ALABAMA: Future Technologies and Enabling Plasma Processes. Aims to develop new technologies using plasma – the most abundant form of matter in the observable universe – in hard and soft biomaterials, food safety and sterilization, and space weather prediction.
  
  
• HAWAI‘I: Change Hawai'i: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Island Resilience Will enhance fundamental knowledge of climate impacts in Hawai‘i and develop actionable models to support a resilient Hawai‘i through a multidisciplinary research effort combining climate science and data science. Hawai‘i EPSCoR News Release
  
  
• KANSAS: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity, or ARISE Will leverage precipitation and population density gradients in Kansas, with changing climate patterns and frequent extreme weather events, to advance resilience across urban-rural interfaces.
  
  
• NEVADA: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science Intends to increase the capacity of Nevada for wildland fire research, education and workforce development and to demonstrate this increased capacity through technology-enhanced fire science in the regionally important sagebrush ecosystem. Nevada EPSCoR News Release
  
  
• WYOMING: Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition and Cascading Challenges to Socio-Environmental Systems in America's Headwaters Aims to establish innovative capacity in Wyoming to address the ecological and socioeconomic consequences of climate-driven changes to water supply. The project will significantly augment capabilities to predict and communicate scenarios related to long-term and severe drought. Wyoming EPSCoR News Release