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This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $447,911 to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to conduct research on nature-based solutions to improve water security in peri-urban areas. Over a 3-year period, the project will engage U.S. students in field work and training, in partnership with colleagues in South Africa, to explore how ecosystem-based approaches can provide sustainable, low-cost solutions to...

This $319,165 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to advance understanding of global paleoclimate through the expansion of African dendrochronology. The key products and services to be delivered include: Measuring radiocarbon, tree ring width, and quantitative wood anatomy from dominant tree species in Zambia to develop multi-century climate records Using these data to create a gridded reconstruction of past precipitation in the...

This Project Grant award of $449,811 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079) supports an international field school called ECOTROP that examines the impacts of past human settlements on tropical forest ecology in Gabon, Central Africa. The key products and services under this award include: Comparative research on soil chemistry, plant communities, and vertebrate/invertebrate biodiversity at former settlement sites...

This $695,079 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), aims to enhance the understanding of drought trends and soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks in the Congo rainforest. The research will investigate the counterintuitive relationship between decreasing precipitation and increasing thunderstorm activity, referred to as the "Congo Precipitation Paradox." The study, conducted by The Research Foundation for the State University...

This three-year, $400,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) CFDA #47.079 program will support international collaborations to develop expertise in solving water-related challenges. The University of California, Davis will partner with IHE Delft in the Netherlands to provide immersive experiences for three cohorts of U.S. graduate students in critical analysis of differing international approaches to water science,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $416,261 to Bryant University to engage U.S. undergraduate and graduate students in research on the long-term climate and environmental history of the Afromontane forests in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. The research aims to reconstruct the ecological resilience of these globally significant biodiversity hotspots, which are threatened by changing rainfall...

This $137,528.00 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program focuses on collaborative research to study the past, present, and future climate of the Lake Victoria basin in Africa. The research team at Baylor University will use a nested climate modeling approach, coupling the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with the Community Land Model (CLM), to investigate how changes in the size and climate of Lake Victoria impact weather patterns and...

This $677,476 five-year Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) aims to enhance sustainable conservation of the critically endangered African forest elephant. The grant will expand the capacity of the Sangha Tri-National Center for Bioacoustics Training and Analysis in the Republic of Congo to conduct passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) research and train a new generation of Central African...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program will support research by Dr. Rachel Keen at Oregon State University to study the impacts of woody plant encroachment on soil hydrological processes in savanna ecosystems. The $180,000 award, running from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027, will quantify changes in rooting distributions, soil structure, seasonal soil moisture, and groundwater recharge resulting from the spread of trees into historically...

This three-year, $289,052 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF OISE) will support collaborative research and an international research experience for students program focused on freshwater ecosystems in Guyana. Specifically, the grant funds will enable two cohorts of undergraduate students each summer for five weeks to gain hands-on research experience in Guyana's Mazaruni and Rupununi river basins. Working alongside U.S. and...