Project Grant 2042028
- This $299,551 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Colorado State University to evaluate the impacts of plant biodiversity on the productivity of grasslands and forests across the United States. The project will use remote sensing technologies and field-based observations to characterize different facets of biodiversity and quantify their relationships with primary productivity. The research aims to...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $299,493 provides funding from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Colorado State University. The award aims to improve evidence-based teaching practices in undergraduate biology courses through the development and testing of "Reading to Reason in Science" interventions focusing on scientific argumentation and processes. At least 1,000 undergraduates across three...
- 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 four-year, $212,466 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research exploring boreal forest fire feedbacks through multiple timescales. Colorado State University will investigate paleohistory of short-interval fires using lake sediment cores, conduct fieldwork on fire resilience, and use high-performance modeling to estimate future fire behavior. The research aims to determine if current short-interval fires are creating novel...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $298,529 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to Colorado State University. The grant, titled "EAGER: Harnessing Citizen Science to Disentangle the Social and Ecological Drivers of Urban Biodiversity," aims to explore how socioeconomic factors affect biodiversity in cities. The research will analyze data from citizen science projects like eBird to identify and quantify biases related to socioeconomic status,...
- Colorado State University was awarded a three-year, $749,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research titled "TRANSITIONS: RATIONAL DESIGN OF VIRAL VECTORS." The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Under this...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Colorado State University was awarded $420,762 under the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), Division of Environmental Biology, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2029. This collaborative research project investigates the mechanisms driving woody plant encroachment into alpine tundra ecosystems by examining plant-mycorrhizal-soil interactions and their density-dependent feedback effects. The research integrates...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Colorado State University a $1,167,241 project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support the acquisition of an ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry system. The system will enable metaproteomics experiments to advance microbiome research. The three-year award period runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. As the prime awardee, Colorado State University will utilize the funding to procure an advanced...
- Colorado State University will provide research, education, and outreach services under a $622,699 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and aims to facilitate the prediction and validation of plant enzyme functions through three key activities. First, CSU will deposit published plant enzyme activities into public databases to support computational function...
- Colorado State University was awarded a $338,995 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the SBE-UKRI: Synthetic Genomics and Responsible Research and Innovation project from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The project aims to contribute to the scientific strength and welfare of the Nation through the promotion of basic research and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Colorado State University a $412,288 project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct intensive, interdisciplinary short courses on Bayesian inference for ecologists from December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2024. The grant will support workshops that promote progress in the biological sciences by strengthening participants' scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in the field through enhanced statistical training. As the awardee, Colorado State University will deliver the short courses to increase scientific expertise in Bayesian analysis, a technique particularly applicable to ecological research questions. The workshops will advance the Biological Sciences program's goals of bolstering the nation's biological research capacity.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/20/21 | ||
| Not listed | $412.3k | 4/2/21 |