2019625↗

Name: 2019625: STC: Center for Learning the Earth With Artificial Intelligence and Physics (Leap)
Creator: SpendQuery

STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP)

Cooperative Agreement (B) · National Science Foundation · to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (UEI F4N1QNPB95M4) · data as of 2026-09-30

Obligated to date$24.50M8 actions

Period2022-11-08 → 2026-08-05first to last action

Passed on$3.79Mto 4 subrecipients

What it is

Program: Geosciences (Assistance Listing 47.050)
Where the work is: New York, NY · district NY-13
Topics: artificial_intelligence

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2023$10.00M

FY2024$4.75M

FY2025$4.75M

FY2026$5.00M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subrecipients: where the money went next

12 subawards totaling $3.79M (15.5% of what was obligated), as The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York reported them. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; smaller ones and unreported ones aren't here.

Subrecipient	Amount	Subawards	Where	First	Last
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York	$3.79M	9	CA, MN, NY	2023-11-20	2026-03-03
University of California, Irvine	$0	1	CA	2023-05-30	2023-05-30
Office of the Board of Regents	$0	1	MN	2023-05-30	2023-05-30
New York University	$0	1	NY	2023-05-30	2023-05-30

The largest single subawards

Date	To	Amount	For
2026-03-03	Teachers College Columbia University	$986.8K	COLLEAGUES FROM COLUMBIA ARE APPLYING FOR A NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) GRANT TO ESTABLISH THE CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP). THE GRANT SEEKS TO SUPPORT THE CENTER…
2026-03-03	Regents of the University of Minnesota	$557.8K	UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WILL DEVELOP PHYSICS GUIDED MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS TO MODEL COMPONENTS OF CLIMATE SYSTEMS THAT CAN MAKE USE OF THE PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS AND OTHER INFORMATION HIDDEN IN TRADITIONAL PHYSICS…
2024-10-29	New York University	$508.3K	"STATEMENT OF WORK: NSF STC - LEAP LAURE ZANNA, NYU/COURANT NYU (PI ZANNA TOGETHER WITH THE GRADUATE STUDENT) WILL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING: 1. COLLECT AIR-SEA DATASETS. THE DATA ARE TRUE, UNPROCESSED, COVARIANCES OF…

Every action

8 actions since 2022-11-08. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Amendment	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-08-05	008	Revision	$0	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -LEAP, THE CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS, SEEKS TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING (AI/ML) TO IMPROVE EARTH SYSTEM…
2026-08-05	007	Continuation	$5.00M	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -LEAP, THE CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS, SEEKS TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING (AI/ML) TO IMPROVE EARTH SYSTEM…
2025-08-25	006	Continuation	$4.75M	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EARTH SYSTEM MODELS (ESMS) PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NEED TO PLAN…
2025-04-01	005	Revision	$0	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EARTH SYSTEM MODELS (ESMS) PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NEED TO PLAN…
2024-07-25	004	Continuation	$4.75M	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EARTH SYSTEM MODELS (ESMS) PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NEED TO PLAN…
2023-09-15	003	Continuation	$5.00M	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EARTH SYSTEM MODELS (ESMS) PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NEED TO PLAN…
2023-02-23	002	Continuation	$2.00M	STC: CENTER FOR LEARNING THE EARTH WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHYSICS (LEAP) -PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EARTH SYSTEM MODELS (ESMS) PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NEED TO PLAN…

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-09-30). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗