The University of Nevada, Reno will receive $396,542 over three years from the National Science Foundation under a Project Grant for research titled "INTBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH FOR PROJECTING INSECT RESPONSES TO A RAPIDLY CHANGING CLIMATE." The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic research to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant funds postdoctoral research at Utah State University in Logan, Utah to study the evolution of extended floral phenotypes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic research on major problems. This award will further those goals by...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of Wyoming to study the evolutionary effects of fish predation on zooplankton in high mountain lake ecosystems. The $307,371 award will be used to quantify differences in the elemental composition and nutrient cycling between zooplankton populations in lakes with and without introduced trout. The project aims to improve understanding of the impacts...
The University of Nebraska at Omaha received a two-year, $244,235 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MRA: CONFINES: CONTINENTAL-SCALE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF FINE PARTICLES IN RIVERINE MATERIAL FLUXES" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The Biological Sciences program...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS AS A MODEL SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to study biological soil crusts as a model system for understanding impacts of climate change. The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote advancement in the biological sciences and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,600 Project Grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the "MSA: Integrating Multi-Scale Remote Sensing and Mechanistic Modeling to Assess Riparian Ecosystem Dynamics and Feedbacks to Hydroclimate Variability" project. This project will utilize remote sensing and mechanistic modeling to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $141,389 Project Grant to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Division of Research & Innovation on May 15, 2021 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports collaborative research to quantify the response of stream ecosystems to punctuated cold-stress disturbances across a semi-arid to sub-humid gradient. The research aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $199,678 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced, a minority-serving and Hispanic-serving educational institution, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research project aims to quantify the response of oxic methane production to biogeochemical changes in aquatic ecosystems, using record Sierra Nevada snowmelt as a natural experiment. The researchers will determine the mechanisms...
The University of Nevada, Reno received a $198,219 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 15, 2021 to support the project "RAPID: THE ROLE OF DISTURBANCE IN CLIMATE-DRIVEN HYBRID ZONE DYNAMICS" through July 31, 2022. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of...
The University of New Mexico will receive $651,450 in funding from the National Science Foundation under a three-year Project Grant award to conduct research on conformations and dynamics of modular redox enzymes via site-specific 2D infrared spectroscopy. The NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the...