Project Grant 1927282

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $415,682 to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation to conduct research on the effects of ocean warming on a coastal fish species. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify genetic variation in temperature response, 2) determine if local adaptation to temperature exists, and 3) assess whether evolutionary changes can occur quickly enough to impact population...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $210,322 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to conduct collaborative research on how local adaptation and climatic extremes will shape continental-scale changes in the distribution and abundance of two common tundra plant species under climate change. The award will fund long-term monitoring of wild populations of Silene acaulis...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers provides $258,490 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: INTEGRATING EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS AND POPULATION ECOLOGY TO DETECT CONTEMPORARY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS A SPECIES RANGE." The research aims to advance understanding of how bee populations are adapting to...

This $108,415 National Science Foundation project grant supports research entitled "Collaborative Research: Rapid: Genomic and Phenotypic Responses to Hurricane-Mediated Selection in an Invasive Lizard: Does Epistasis Constrain Evolution?" at the University of Rhode Island under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project will study evolutionary responses to extreme weather events like hurricanes in invasive brown anole lizard populations in Florida. Researchers will...

This $298,375 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports a collaborative research project focused on understanding how populations evolve in complex, changing environments. The primary awardee, Virginia Tech, will conduct both experimental and theoretical work to investigate the relationships between an individual's environmental preferences, developmental processes, and patterns of phenotypic plasticity. The researchers aim to develop a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $533,225 to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville will fund research to understand how behavioral responses allow some animals to cope with the growing challenges posed by extreme heat and rising temperatures. The research will focus on a cavity-nesting bird species thriving in hot, humid environments in the southeastern U.S. Experiments will: 1) identify causes and consequences of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $1,239,776 to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to conduct collaborative research on the role of gene copy number variation in determining detoxification capacity, individual fitness, and population dynamics of a vertebrate herbivore. The key objectives of this 4-year research project are to: 1) identify individual copy number variation in detoxification genes, 2)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $487,639 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct long-term monitoring and research on plant community dynamics in the Colorado alpine biome. The project aims to assemble a unique long-term dataset on population and community changes in response to rapid environmental changes, such as climate change, to advance ecological theory and forecasting. Key activities...

This $209,305 collaborative research Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and executed through San Diego State University Research Foundation, supports a multi-year investigation into coastal ecosystem resilience in response to intensifying heat waves. Running from April 2026 through March 2029, the project delivers scientific research outputs examining whether foundation species—specifically...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $412,592 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct research on the genomic and evolutionary impacts of climate change on an anadromous fish species. The project aims to use time series genetic data within an anadromous fish system to observe poleward range shifting at the subpopulation level for the American shad species. Over the 2-year award period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, the research will...