Project Grant 1442522

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program ($937,251) funds research into scaling climate connectivity and communities in streams. Led by Pennsylvania State University from March 2022 through December 2023, the grant supports a three-year field study across 10 regions in the southern, central, and western U.S. Researchers will collect streamflow and biological data to investigate differences between intermittent and perennial streams. The University...

This $2.9 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers will fund research from 2023 to 2027 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). Oregon State University will lead a collaborative effort to study the resilience of freshwater ecosystems under changing climate conditions. Researchers will test how biodiversity and individual variation among species affect an ecosystem's ability to withstand environmental changes. They will conduct...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $134,250 awarded on January 1, 2023 will fund research examining the roles of stochasticity and spatial context in the dynamics of functional diversity in stream ecosystems under global change. The research will be conducted through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) in collaboration between the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the University System of Maryland. The project aims to advance understanding of how community size...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $653,498 Project Grant to Montana State University to conduct collaborative research with the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) on how continued warming and increasing drought will influence stream ecosystems. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) investigate whether physiological adaptations to warming can compensate for reduced invertebrate carbon use efficiencies at high temperatures,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to quantify the contribution of wetlands and floodplains to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from streams and rivers. The $300,000 award to Yale University will fund a 3-year project that combines computer modeling and field measurements to determine the magnitude, frequency, and duration of water exchange between these aquatic habitats and adjacent rivers. The...

This $403,680 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to improve streamflow monitoring and forecasting methods. The University of Iowa will enhance protocols for continuously monitoring streamflows to more accurately capture effects of flood wave propagation and seasonal riparian vegetation changes. Researchers will integrate direct measurements with numerical models to enable real-time estimation and forecasting of streamflow...

The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Michigan Technological University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The grant supports research titled "Emergent Linkages among Dissolved Organic Matter Composition, Microbial Assemblages and Respiration in Streams" conducted in Houghton, Michigan. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), has awarded a $702,163 project grant to the University of Alabama. This 3-year collaborative research project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSFDEB-NERC: WARMING'S SILVER LINING? THERMAL COMPENSATION AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION MAY PROMOTE STREAM ECOSYSTEM STABILITY IN RESPONSE TO DROUGHT", aims to understand how continued warming and increasing drought will impact the composition and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $300,243 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from January 2023 through December 2025. The research aims to understand how stochasticity and spatial context impact the dynamics of functional diversity in freshwater ecosystems under global change. Specifically, the grantee will conduct...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $292,970 to Oregon State University to conduct collaborative research on global riverine solute regimes and synchrony frameworks. The goal is to better understand and predict changes in river chemistry at the global scale by analyzing publicly available water chemistry and flow data from over 450 rivers worldwide. The research team will use novel machine learning and data analysis...