2521103
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
FEC: Good fire: Enhance spatial and temporal efficacy of prescribed fire and managed wildfire use.
This project will advance knowledge and create tools to support prescribed burns and managed wildfire use to address the wildfire crisis in the western U.S.
It will also help train the skilled workforce needed to mitigate wildfire impacts.
The project will close use-inspired research gaps on key wildfire mitigation strategies identified by decision-makers.
These include social barriers, economic effects on communities, impacts on water systems, and ecological outcomes.
A team from across Idaho, New Mexico, and Oklahoma will lead this work, with expertise in social science, economics, ecology, geoscience, engineering, computer science, and arts.
Boise State will lead the effort in partnership with the University of New Mexico, Navajo Technical University, Northwest Nazarene University, and University of Oklahoma.
Finally, this project will develop research, education, and outreach capacity at a range of institutions to support national goals in disaster resilience and artificial intelligence.
This project will investigate feedbacks between prescribed burns and wildfire use—collectively referred to as managed fires—and socio-environmental systems.
It will generate novel, use-inspired insights into multi-dimensional, multi-sector impacts of managed fires.
The research will integrate advanced statistical methods, machine learning, and ecosystem modeling with in-situ observations and mixed-methods approaches to assess watershed-scale hydrologic outcomes, optimize ecological benefits, quantify economic impacts, and identify social barriers to the adoption of managed fires.
Outcomes will include the identification and optimization of spatial and temporal opportunities for managed fires, along with the delivery of accessible, decision-support tools and information to key decision-makers.
The project will enhance research infrastructure in three EPSCoR states by developing a skilled workforce in wildfire mitigation.
Research activities will integrate education and outreach initiatives by supporting training in fire science and artificial intelligence and fostering partnerships with agency stakeholders.
This transdisciplinary approach will provide scalable solutions to reduce wildfire risks and strengthen societal and environmental resilience.
This project is supported by the EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program (FEC), which supports interjurisdictional teams of EPSCoR investigators to perform research in topics that align with NSF priorities, with the goals of driving discovery and building sustainable STEM capacity.
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.
Subawards are planned for this award.
This project will advance knowledge and create tools to support prescribed burns and managed wildfire use to address the wildfire crisis in the western U.S.
It will also help train the skilled workforce needed to mitigate wildfire impacts.
The project will close use-inspired research gaps on key wildfire mitigation strategies identified by decision-makers.
These include social barriers, economic effects on communities, impacts on water systems, and ecological outcomes.
A team from across Idaho, New Mexico, and Oklahoma will lead this work, with expertise in social science, economics, ecology, geoscience, engineering, computer science, and arts.
Boise State will lead the effort in partnership with the University of New Mexico, Navajo Technical University, Northwest Nazarene University, and University of Oklahoma.
Finally, this project will develop research, education, and outreach capacity at a range of institutions to support national goals in disaster resilience and artificial intelligence.
This project will investigate feedbacks between prescribed burns and wildfire use—collectively referred to as managed fires—and socio-environmental systems.
It will generate novel, use-inspired insights into multi-dimensional, multi-sector impacts of managed fires.
The research will integrate advanced statistical methods, machine learning, and ecosystem modeling with in-situ observations and mixed-methods approaches to assess watershed-scale hydrologic outcomes, optimize ecological benefits, quantify economic impacts, and identify social barriers to the adoption of managed fires.
Outcomes will include the identification and optimization of spatial and temporal opportunities for managed fires, along with the delivery of accessible, decision-support tools and information to key decision-makers.
The project will enhance research infrastructure in three EPSCoR states by developing a skilled workforce in wildfire mitigation.
Research activities will integrate education and outreach initiatives by supporting training in fire science and artificial intelligence and fostering partnerships with agency stakeholders.
This transdisciplinary approach will provide scalable solutions to reduce wildfire risks and strengthen societal and environmental resilience.
This project is supported by the EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program (FEC), which supports interjurisdictional teams of EPSCoR investigators to perform research in topics that align with NSF priorities, with the goals of driving discovery and building sustainable STEM capacity.
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.
Subawards are planned for this award.
Awardee
Funding Goals
THE GOAL OF THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY, "EPSCOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM: FOCUSED EPSCOR COLLABORATIONS (FEC)", IS IDENTIFIED IN THE LINK: HTTPS://WWW.NSF.GOV/PUBLICATIONS/PUB_SUMM.JSP?ODS_KEY=NSF24573
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Boise,
Idaho
83725-0001
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Boise State University was awarded
Enhancing Wildfire Mitigation Strategies in the Western U.S.
Project Grant 2521103
worth $3,999,959
from the NSF Office of Integrative Activities in September 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Boise Idaho United States.
The grant
has a duration of 4 years and
was awarded through assistance program 47.083 Integrative Activities.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program (FEC).
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/21/25
Period of Performance
9/1/25
Start Date
8/31/29
End Date
Funding Split
$4.0M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$4.0M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
2521103
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Public/State Controlled Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
490106 OFFICE OF INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES
Funding Office
490106 OFFICE OF INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES
Awardee UEI
HYWTVM5HNFM3
Awardee CAGE
0GMY3
Performance District
ID-02
Senators
James Risch
Michael Crapo
Michael Crapo
Modified: 8/21/25