PAST RECIPIENTS

2024–2025

Ji-Jhong Chen¹ and Scott Jones²
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Wyoming¹
Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate, Utah State University²
RFA-029: Biophysics-Based Rhizosphere-Water and -Carbon Management for Inhospitable Soils Using Engineered Lunar or Martian Regolith Simulant, SMD
Award: $99,962

2023–2024

• Austin Madson
  Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming
  Combining ICESat-2 Photons with High Resolution Multispectral Data for the Monitoring of Thermokarst Lake Dynamics in the North American Arctic
  Award: $99,938
• Zejian Zhou¹ and Hao Xu²
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wyoming¹
  Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno²
  Lyapunov-Assured Secure Decision-Making for Multiple UAVs Search and Rescue Human Missions
  Award: $100,000

2022–2023

• John Oakey¹ and Dan Levy²
  Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming¹
  Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming²
  On-Chip Tissue Models for Experimental Carcinogenesis Under Controlled Radiation Exposure
  Award: $99,436
• Thomas Boothby
  Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
  High-Performance Computing for Cryogenic Hydrogen Technologies
  Award: $99,999

2021–2023

Di Yang
Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming
A Meta-Learning Framework for Characterizing and Accessing Machine Learning Training Data for GLOBE Observer Mosquito and Land Cover Protocols
Award: $99,502

2020–2023

Pejman Tahmasebi
Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming
A Hybrid Machine Learning and Statistical Method for Environmental Feature Recognition
Award: $99,974