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In the TX,LA Region
Selected Keywords: sustainability (53), climate change (36), energy (27), decarbonization (19), renewable energy (17), clean energy (14), climate (12)
| Type: NSF Engines Type-1 Proposal
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| 1) Title: NSF Engines: Type-1: Sustainable Offshore Future Energy (SO Future Energy) (Ref # 29) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to establish leadership in sustainable offshore renewable energy production in order to meet U.S energy needs. | ||
| Organization: University of New Orleans | Contact: Tarr, Matthew | Contact Link |
| Keywords: sustainability, entrepreneurship, workforce, ocean energy, wind energy | Locations: LA | |
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| 2) Title: NSF Engines: Type-1: Building Climate-Responsive Digital Ag Hubs in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi (Ref # 50) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to create a system to digitally connect farms to a blockchain- backed carbon tracking system and supply chain maps. This will ensure proper plans for climate risk scenarios which will translate to greater business. | ||
| Organization: Map-Collective Inc | Contact: Gupta, Tara | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate change, urban planning, regenerative architecture, remote work, climate-smart agriculture | Locations: AL,MS,LA | |
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| 3) Title: NSF Engines: Type 1: Sustainable Energy Corps (Ref # 128) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to employ an action-based, direct project approach to increasing assessment capabilities of emission points, engaging in partnerships with emission owners. | ||
| Organization: Pennsylvania State University | Contact: Alger, Monty | Contact Link |
| Keywords: sustainability, engagement, education, database | Locations: TX,LA | |
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| 4) Title: NSF Engines: Type 1: An HBCU-Connected Decentralized Innovation Engine (Ref # 136) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to decentralize the system of energy and environmental management in post-conflict/disaster. The engine will focus on including renewable energy, information technology & communication and keep up with innovations mitigating climate change (carbon capture, greenhouse gas emissions, reduction, etc.) | ||
| Organization: Southern University and A&M College | Contact: Stubblefield, Michael | Contact Link |
| Keywords: energy, hbcu, cybersecurity, decentralization, resiliency | Locations: LA,MS,AL,GA | |
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| 5) Title: NSF Engines: Type 1: Power Resilience Omnipresence through Technology Ecosystem and Collaborative Transfer-PROTECT, Texas (Ref # 149) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to develop a testbed/pilot effort that provides insights on how innovative technologies may impact the total supply chain of critical upstream infrastructures such as home/industry electricity, water, food, and manufacturing. | ||
| Organization: Texas A&M University | Contact: Kezunovic, Mladen | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate change, cybersecurity, data analytics, risk management, resilience | Locations: TX | |
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| 6) Title: NSF Engines: Type-1: Increasing Grain and Animal Production and Health in the Central United States: Exploiting the Rules of Life, Artificial Intelligence, Sensors, and Robotics (Ref # 260) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to provide a coordination hub for gain and animal production industries. | ||
| Organization: Oklahoma State University | Contact: Alderman, Phillip | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate, analytics, data, breeding, farming | Locations: OK,NE,KS,TX,IA,MN,IL,MO,SD,IN,ND,WI,ID,CO,MT | |
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| 7) Title: NSF Engines: Type-1: Building Decarbonation through Heat Pumps in Texas (Ref # 269) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to address the critical challenge of climate change through integrating artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with an understanding of human needs and behaviors to enable an efficient, human-centered, resilient, and socially justifiable design and operation of building heat pump systems that promote and support regional scale adoption of building decarbonization. | ||
| Organization: Texas A&M University | Contact: O’Neill, Zheng | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate change, energy justice, artificial intelligence, heat pumps, building decarbonization | Locations: TX | |
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| 8) Title: “Energy Transition using Hydrogen and Carbon Capture in the Gulf Coast” (Ref # 292) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes a focus on energy transition using hydrogen and carbon capture. | ||
| Organization: Alpine Polytech | Contact: Mendes, Neil | Contact Link |
| Keywords: decarbonization, energy diversity, academic innovation, gulf coast region, ccus, storage, utilization, carbon capture, hydrogen, energy transition | Locations: TX,LA,MS,AL | |
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| 9) Title: NSF Engines: Type 1: An Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem and Economic Development Engine for Transforming North Central Texas and Southern Oklahoma Logistics Industry (Ref # 307) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to focus on automation, electrification, and cyber technologies. It aims to develop an inclusive innovation ecosystem and economic development engine for transforming the logistics industry and enhancing societal and economic value. | ||
| Organization: University of North Texas | Contact: Pohlen, Terrance | Contact Link |
| Keywords: energy, automation, resilience, transportation, logistics | Locations: TX,OK | |
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| 10) Title: Louisiana’s Engine for Artificial-Intelligence Discoveries (LEAD) (Ref # 339) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to address the regional challenges in climate and health through use-inspired advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational modeling. | ||
| Organization: Tulane University | Contact: Foster, Kimberly | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate, health, computational modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence | Locations: LA | |
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| 11) Title: NSF Engines: Type-<1>: < Biocarbon-driven Water-Energy-Food-Climate innovation incubators that enhance rural economy, sustainability, and education in dairy farming areas> (Ref # 521) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to produce biochar from locally available waste material, provide hands-on training in the development and testing of innovative biochar products and serve as an incubator for the creation of businesses based on these products. The engine will design a model for rural innovation incubators that can be replicated in a diversity of dairy farming locations. | ||
| Organization: Tarleton State University | Contact: Kan, Eun Sung | Contact Link |
| Keywords: sustainability, greenhouse gas, biocarbon, water-energy-food-climate nexus, dairy farms | Locations: TX | |
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| 12) Title: NSF Engines: Type-1: South Texas Advanced Renewable Energy (STAR-E) Innovation Engine (Ref # 547) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to target renewable energy innovation by leveraging advanced materials, artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing technologies such as, additive manufacturing. | ||
| Organization: UTRGV | Contact: Li, Jianzhi | Contact Link |
| Keywords: renewable energy, smart technologies, workforce development, additive manufacturing, advanced material manufacturing | Locations: TX | |
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| 13) Title: Economical Geothermal Baseload Energy Demonstrated and Scaled in Texas (Ref # 110) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to work in the area of geothermal energy. The Engine seeks to leverage advances in the use of supercritical carbon dioxide, drilling technology and key materials to advance geothermal energy production. | ||
| Organization: Texas Association of Business | Contact: Grande, Rebecca | Contact Link |
| Keywords: energy, renewable, baseload, green, geothermal | Locations: TX | |
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| 14) Title: NSF Engines: Type 1: Southeastern Innovations for Sea Level Rise (SISLR) Coalition (Ref # 608) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to address sea level rise through transformational growth in blue industries that also improves diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and accessibility within communities. | ||
| Organization: Florida Sea Grant | Contact: Larkin, Sherry | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate change, diversity, poverty, economic security, flooding | Locations: FL,TX,LA,MS,AL,GA,SC,NC,VI,PR | |
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| 15) Title: NSF Engines: Type 1: Convergent Research and Entrepreneurship towards an AirTrac Transportation Ecosystem (CREATE) (The CREATE Engine in the Central U.S.) (Ref # 628) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to develop, prototype, test, and evaluate a new lightweight vehicle-guideway system for safety, sustainability, resiliency, and rider experience, to assess its impact on transportation equity, workforce development, economic competitiveness, and environmental adaptation. | ||
| Organization: The Curators of the University of Missouri (Rolla) | Contact: Chen, Genda | Contact Link |
| Keywords: renewable energy, high-performance materials, high-speed transportation, autonomous vehicles, advanced manufacturing | Locations: MO,OH,TX | |
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| Type: NSF Engines Type-2 Proposal
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| 16) Title: Manufacturing and workforce engines of aqueous battery development for clean, safe, and economic grid scale energy storage (Ref # 51) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes a plan to help the nation achieve its goal of 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 through development and commercialization of novel energy storage technologies. The technology applies abundant raw materials for battery device manufacturing to suppress US supply chain dependence upon critical materials from foreign countries. | ||
| Organization: Hunt Energy Enterprises | Contact: Kong, Fantai | Contact Link |
| Keywords: climate change, earth abundant materials, aqueous battery, national security, grid energy storage | Locations: TX | |
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| 17) Title: Sustainable Plant-based Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing at the Point-of-care, boasting renewable energy, lower costs, faster therapeutic/vaccine manufacturing solution (Ref # 219) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes the creation of a fast, scalable, and sustainable Point-of-Care biomanufacturing platform by combining plant-based biomanufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI), and data analytics, and designing an efficient renewable energy system. | ||
| Organization: iBio, Inc. | Contact: Berquist, Brian | Contact Link |
| Keywords: renewable energy, plant-based pharmaceuticals, biomanufacturing, data analytics, artificial intelligence | Locations: TX | |
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| 18) Title: NSF Engines: Type-2: Concept Outline Maritime Decarbonization Innovation Engine (Ref # 241) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes a decarbonized water-borne (maritime) transportation industry. | ||
| Organization: Blue Sky Maritime Coalition, Inc. | Contact: Cummins, David | Contact Link |
| Keywords: decarbonization, maritime, end-to-end value chain, equity, collaboration | Locations: FL,AL,MS,TX,OH,MO,IL,KY,TN,AR,WI,MN,ND,SD,NE,CO,WY,KS,NM,OK,IN,WV,GA | |
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| 19) Title: NSF Engines: Type-2: Regional Advancement Leveraging Innovations for Water and Energy Security Transformation (RALI-WEST) (Ref # 346) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to create novel solutions to clean and conserve water and decarbonize energy to improve quality of life, accelerate regional economic growth, and maximize resilience to climate change for drylands globally. | ||
| Organization: New Mexico State University and Sandia Laboratories | Contact: Begay, Sandra | Contact Link |
| Keywords: renewable energy, dryland ecosystems, rural and indigenous communities, resilience to climate change, water sustainability | Locations: NM,TX | |
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| 20) Title: NSF Engines: Type 2: ACT: Accelerating Net Zero Carbon Technology and Policies For Energy Transition, Texas (Ref # 407) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to become the clean-energy capital and a global supplier of technologies, materials, finance, and policy solutions to accelerate an energy transition that is just and inclusive. Specifically, the Engine will lead innovation in energy materials, carbon capture, utilization and storage, hydrogen production and storage, advanced manufacturing, digitalization and high-fidelity computation models, and relevant policies to promote market formation and depth aimed at de-risking entry and participation. | ||
| Organization: Houston Energy Transition Initiative | Contact: Tudor, Bobby | Contact Link |
| Keywords: sustainability, circular economy, carbon capture, environment, energy transition | Locations: TX | |
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| 21) Title: NSF Engines: Type 2: Engine for Louisiana Innovation and Transition of Energy (ELITE) (Ref # 457) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to transitions away from fossil energy and a decarbonized economy. | ||
| Organization: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University | Contact: Maas, Andrew | Contact Link |
| Keywords: decarbonization, equitable, sustainable innovation, co2 sequestration, energy transition | Locations: LA | |
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| 22) Title: NSF Engines: Type-2: The Texas Panhandle Innovation Engine: A National Epicenter for Securing Global Food Supply Through Technology, Entrepreneurial, and Workforce Innovation (Ref # 497) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to address the present and future challenges related to workforce & food safety, skills gaps, climate change, water & resource scarcity, and national security by focusing on enhancing resource efficiency, safety, security and climate resilience of the beef, dairy, fiber and forage production. | ||
| Organization: Innovation Outpost | Contact: McLees, Todd | Contact Link |
| Keywords: sustainability, automation, security, upskilling, food | Locations: TX | |
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| 23) Title: Energy Transition using Hydrogen and Carbon Capture in the Gulf Coast (Ref # 654) | ||
| Summary: The Engine proposes to combat climate change by transitioning to clean energy through the use of hydrogen and carbon capture. | ||
| Organization: Alpine Polytech | Contact: Mendes, Neil | Contact Link |
| Keywords: decarbonization, energy diversity, academic innovation, gulf coast region, ccus, storage, utilization, carbon capture, hydrogen, energy transition | Locations: TX,LA,MS,AL | |
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