Cooperative Agreement G13AC00314

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $293,033 provides funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to examine how plant diversity impacts the resilience of forests to climate change. The award is made through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The project will analyze field data, forest inventories,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to improve understanding of how forest structure and function influence "ecological climate" - the climate experienced by organisms within forest canopies. The $424,492 project, running from August 2024 to July 2028, will integrate data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) into advanced forest canopy models to evaluate how forest diversity...

This Project Grant award of $1,121,416 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research by Colorado State University to investigate how the structural and functional diversity of forest ecosystems influences ecological climate and climate change. The project will use data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to evaluate how forest canopy structure and function impact local and regional climate patterns....

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) provides $201,037.95 to the University of Massachusetts to study strategies for restoring and managing climate-resilient Atlantic white cedar wetland forests in the Northeast. The project aims to integrate indigenous cultural stewardship practices with modern restoration techniques to cultivate seedlings, assess soil conditions, and evaluate natural...

This $211,743 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to reduce uncertainties in tree-ring records of wet extremes to aid interpretations of past climate and plan for future changes. The primary objectives are to: Use dendrometers to measure how tree growth responds to changes in precipitation frequency, intensity, and timing at sites in the AmeriFlux network. Reconstruct wet extremes of precipitation from previously collected tree-ring...

This is a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The $305,077 award to the University of Washington, with a subcontract to Portland State University, will fund a 2-year project titled "Assessing and Projecting Post-Fire Transitions and Reburn Dynamics in the Western Cascades." The project aims to develop new applied science for anticipating and understanding the capacity of forests in...

This $129,702 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research between the University of Miami and its sub-awardee to test for the acclimation of individual tropical rainforest trees to over four decades of climate change through a longitudinal study. The research aims to improve understanding of how Amazonian tree species have responded or not responded to climate change and the consequences for species performance and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers, under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), provides $503,000 to Rider University for research examining the interactive effects of climate warming and drought on tree seedling growth and physiology. The three-year award beginning in August 2022 will support experiments utilizing an ongoing climate change experiment in northern Minnesota, along with new common garden and laboratory...

This $185,346 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program will evaluate the effectiveness of climate-adaptive forest management strategies in sustaining habitat for priority bird species and maximizing carbon storage in Northeastern forests. The key activities include: Field-based assessments of forest-dependent bird responses to climate-adaptive silviculture practices on lands managed...

This three-year, $499,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Utah State University to reduce uncertainties about ecosystem acclimation to climate change. The university researchers will develop a theoretical framework to study lags in ecosystem adaptation across temporal and organizational scales. They will synthesize knowledge from paleoecology, long-term studies, experiments and models on processes like trait...