The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $212,687 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the recovery of terrestrial ecosystems following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event. The grant will support extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field data from the Rocky Mountain region to reveal the patterns and timeline of how land-based life rebuilt after...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a collaborative research project to examine how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The $234,197 award, with a project period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028, will fund paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field...
This federal Project Grant award of $143,674 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will fund collaborative research to examine how terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The research team from the College of Charleston will collect and analyze fossil, geochemical, and environmental data from three sites in the western United States to document the patterns...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $518,907 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, to conduct collaborative research on how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. This research, funded under NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will examine ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the K-Pg boundary in the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $291,498 Project Grant to the University of Oregon under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to examine the ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/PG) boundary in the Rocky Mountain region. The research will involve extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of existing fossil collections and new field data to reveal the variability in the timing and pattern of terrestrial ecosystem...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $138,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2025. The fellowship supports research and training to investigate the biogeography and community assembly of North American Carboniferous ecosystems. Specifically, the fellow will analyze the fossil record using approaches including anatomy, geology, and ecology to determine how ancient land ecosystems responded to environmental and...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $174,000 to study mammals as indicators of ecological recovery following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support basic research exploring the relationship between topographic diversity and the reestablishment of mammal populations in the aftermath of the extinction. By strengthening understanding of the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award of $396,677 to the Field Museum of Natural History, a non-profit research organization in Chicago, will investigate the early history and evolution of tropical forests in South America during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 100-145 million years ago. The research will examine exceptionally well-preserved plant fossils from Colombia and Ecuador to reconstruct past vegetation composition and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $328,756 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) for a collaborative research project titled "BOCP-IMPLEMENTATION: TESTING EVOLUTIONARY MODELS OF BIOTIC SURVIVAL AND RECOVERY FROM THE PERMO-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION AND CLIMATE CRISIS." The 3-year project, running from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will investigate ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction...
This $457,737 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at the California Academy of Sciences to model marine paleocommunity dynamics across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, approximately 251 million years ago. The research aims to advance understanding of ecosystem functioning and energy flow by reconstructing ancient marine food webs and testing the uniformitarian assumptions underlying...