The University of California Santa Cruz will receive $154,536 under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will support research titled "Collaborative Research: Tradeoffs Between Phenology and Geography Constraints in Response to Climate Change Across Species Life Cycles" from September 2021 through August 2024. The research funded under this award seeks to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $206,971 to the University of California, Merced under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The four-year project grant will support collaborative research to harness adaptive genetic variation in drought resistance strategies to manage plant populations under climate change. Researchers will characterize how genetic variation acts through regulatory networks to adaptively tune organismal...
This $287,115 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research on continent-wide forest recruitment change and its interactions with climate, habitat, and consumers in North America. The University of California, Merced will conduct the research from September 2022 through August 2026. Key products include quantifying current trends in tree seed production, seedling establishment, and recruitment rates across climate and habitat...
This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to identify and re-engineer genes involved in environmental stress tolerance in plants. The goal is to cultivate higher-yielding, climate-resilient crop varieties that can sustainably meet the food demands of a growing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $182,136 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. The grant funds the CAREER: Advancing a Macrosystems Framework for Climate-Phenology Coupling Through Integrated Research and Education project. The project aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The three-year grant project, running from January 2022 through December 2025, will assess the impacts of climate change-induced water scarcity on California's irrigated agricultural sector and evaluate the effectiveness of various on-farm, public, and political...
The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) was awarded a $181,080 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal grant program. The grant will fund UCSC's project to decipher the role of the subantarctic South Pacific Ocean in Pleistocene climate evolution using sediment cores recovered from the JOIDES Resolution drilling expedition. UCSC will generate high-resolution climate proxy time series over the past two...
This $189,979 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research into continent-wide forest recruitment change and its interactions with climate, habitat, and consumers in North America. The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, will conduct the research from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2026. The research will quantify current trends and changes in forest regeneration...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, received a $199,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program. The grant aims to quantify the climate adaptation benefits of growing diverse crop mixtures compared to conventional monocropping through analysis of satellite data. The research intends to...
This $344,113 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The project, titled "Management Strategies for Mega-Disturbances: Building Climate-Resilient Rangelands Amidst Fire, Grazing, and Ecological Invasion in California," will investigate how increased fire frequency, grazing, and invasive species impact rangeland vegetation and soil health. The University of Arizona...