This list is intended to illustrate the range of activities funded under the PIRE program.


Award numbers in the table below link to NSF Award Abstracts. For additional information on the PIRE program, check the PIRE program webpage.

Award Num	PI Name	Title	Co-Funding Unit(s)	US Institutions (Awardee first)	Countries	Expected Total Awd
0968391	Brook, Edward	PIRE: International Collaboration and Education in Ice Core Science (ICE-ICS)	Polar Programs	Oregon St/ Columbia/ Dartmouth/ Desert Research Inst/ Penn St/ Scripps Inst at UCSD/ U Colorado/ U Washington	Denmark, France, Japan, Switzerland	$4,499,867
0968247	Dick, Richard	PIRE: Hydrologic Redistribution and Rhizosphere Biology of Resource Islands in Degraded Agroecosystems of the Sahel	Environmental Biology	Ohio St at Columbus & Wooster/ Central St U (OH)/ U Cal at Merced/ USDA-ARS at Oregon St	France, Senegal	$2,599,994
0967140	Fonseca, Irene	PIRE: Science at the Triple Point Between Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials Science	Mathematical Sciences	Carnegie-Mellon/ Cal Tech/ NYU/ U Minn	Belgium, Germany, Italy, UK	$4,999,900
1129076	Grossman, Robert	PIRE: Training and Workshops in Data Intensive Computing Using The Open Science Data Cloud	CyberInfrastructure/ Computer and Communication Foundations/ Astronomical Sciences/ Physics	U Illinois Chicago/ Florida Int'l U/ Johns Hopkins/ U Chicago	Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, UK	$3,499,745
0968421	Hedlund, Brian	PIRE: Toward a holistic and global understanding of hot spring ecosystems: A US-China based international collaboration	Earth Sciences/ Environmental Biology/ EPSCoR	U Nevada, Las Vegas/ Arizona St/ Miami OH/ Montana St/ U Georgia/ Northern Arizona U/ San Francisco St/ Stanford	China	$3,750,000
0968405	Kono, Junichiro	PIRE: U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research and Education on Terahertz Dynamics in Nanostructures	Electrical, Communications & Cyber Systems/ Materials Research	Rice U/ Southern Illinois U at Carbondale/ SUNY Buffalo/ Texas A&M/ U Florida/ U Tulsa	Japan	$3,999,999
0968369	Kroll, Judith	PIRE: Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience	Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences	Penn St/ Gallaudet U/ Yale	China, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, UK	$2,800,000
0966884	MacFadden, Bruce	PIRE: Ancient biodiversity and global change in the New World Tropics: A once-in-a-century opportunity along the Panama Canal	Earth Sciences/ Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings	U Florida/ Florida State/ New Mexico Museum of Natural History/ Smithsonian Tropical Res Inst	Panama	$3,800,001
0968296	McLaughlin, Maura	PIRE: An International Pulsar Timing Array for Gravitational Wave Detection	Astronomical Sciences	W Virginia U/ Bryn Mawr/ Cornell/ Franklin and Marshall/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr (MD)/ Nat'l Astronomy and Ionosphere Ctr (PR)/ Nat'l Radio Astronomy Observatory (VA)/ Naval Research Lab (DC)/ Oberlin/ U Texas at Brownsville/ U Vermont/ U Wisconsin Milwaukee	Australia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, UK	$6,548,073
0968313	Narayanan, Ranga	PIRE: Collaborations with France and Japan on Multiphase Fluid Science and Technologies	Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems	U Florida/ Florida St	France, Japan	$3,107,325
0968211	Neill, Christopher	PIRE: Land Use, Ecosystem Services and the Fate of Marginal Lands in a Globalized World	Environmental Biology/ EPSCoR	Brown/ Columbia / Marine Bio Lab (MA)	Kenya, Tanzania	$1,199,999
0968399	Scott, Susannah	PIRE: Advancing the US-China Partnership in Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces	Chemistry	U Calif Santa Barbara/ Argonne Nat'l Lab (IL)/ DOE Pacific Northwest National Lab (WA)/ Santa Barbara City Coll	China, Germany	$3,999,997
0968354	Steckler, Michael	PIRE: Life on a Tectonically-Active Delta: Convergence of Earth Science and Geohazard Research in Bangladesh with Education and Capacity Building	Earth Sciences	Columbia/ CUNY Queens College/ U Minnesota/ Vanderbilt U	Bangladesh, Germany, India, Italy	$4,499,996
0968226	Uemura, Yasutomo	PIRE: International consortium for probing novel superconductors with neutrons, muons, photons and STM	Materials Research	Columbia / DOE Nat'l Labs - Oak Ridge (TN) and Los Alamos (NM)/ U Tenn Knoxville	Canada, China, Japan UK	$1,999,987
0966472	Whitlock, Cathy	PIRE: Wildfire feedbacks and consequences of altered fire regimes in the face of climate and land-use change in Tasmania, New Zealand, and the western U.S.	Earth Sciences/ Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences/ Environmental Biology/Human Resource Development/ Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings	Montana State U/ U Colorado Boulder/ U Idaho/ USDA Missoula Fire Sci Lab	Australia, New Zealand	$3,850,000

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