Cooperative Agreement L19AC00280

This $245,350 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program aims to study the effectiveness of using soil and microbial inoculants to improve the growth and survival of giant sequoia seedlings planted in severely burned groves in national parks and forests. The project has three key objectives: 1) Identify how wildfire alters soil conditions and microbial communities in sequoia groves, 2) Coordinate...

This $499,512 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) will support a research project at Utah State University (USU) to assess the efficacy of prescribed burning in mitigating carbon loss from poorly drained soils in response to severe wildfires. The project aims to: Compare vegetation characteristics and fuel loads between sites with and without prescribed burning using remote sensing and laser scanning; Quantify how...

University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) received a $750,000 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI program, CFDA 10.310) to conduct research on how prescribed fire affects soil carbon and soil microbes in Eastern U.S. forests. The goal is to understand if prescribed fire increases the stability of soil carbon, which could offset the carbon dioxide released during burning. UGA Research Foundation will...

This Project Grant award, totaling $202,001, was provided by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program to Northern Arizona University (NAU). The funding supports a collaborative research project to investigate plant-soil feedbacks and their role in promoting the resilience of pinon woodlands to severe drought in the western United States. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include field inoculations, laboratory...

This $649,597 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support research and partnership development efforts by the University of California, Merced. The goal is to enable the renewal of Indigenous fire stewardship practices and increase the safe, strategic use of cultural burning and prescribed fires to reduce wildfire risk. Specifically, the University will work with the...

This Project Grant award of $558,676.00 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support research at the University of Arizona to investigate the interactive effects of fire and plant invasion on soil microbiome functions and biogeochemistry. The research aims to better understand the relationship between weedy plants and wildfire, and design soil and plant seed inocula to promote post-fire recovery and soil carbon sequestration. The project will...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $225,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass). The grant will fund a 2-year research project to quantify soil microbial function and diversity in support of belowground ecosystem services within restored prairies and conventional cropland systems. Specifically, the project aims to: (1) measure carbon and...

Colorado State University was awarded a $571,256 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research examining the role of soil microbiome resilience in ecosystem recovery following severe wildfires. As part of its mission to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $198,970 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from December 2021 through November 2022. The grant supports research titled "RAPID: Interactive Effects of Wildfire and Severe Drought on Plants, Soil Microbes and C Storage in a Semi-arid Shrubland Ecosystem." The research will examine how wildfires and drought impact plants, soil microbes, and carbon storage in shrubland...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a five-year, $1.76 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a framework for understanding soil bacterial ecology in wildland fires. Funded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the grant will support research from 2021-2026 to promote progress in understanding how soil microbes interact with and are impacted by wildfires. Specifically, the university will analyze soil bacterial communities before,...