Project Grant 2051255

This Project Grant award of $499,522 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the Urban Biodiversity Futures Research Coordination Network (UBF RCN). The UBF RCN brings together scholars and practitioners to address the interlinked challenges of biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and social justice in urban areas. Key objectives include synthesizing knowledge, building a transdisciplinary research agenda, and training the next...

The Ecological Society of America Inc. was awarded a $499,700 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on November 1, 2021 to develop the RCN-UBE program through October 31, 2025. The award is part of 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 major challenges facing the country. Under this award, the Ecological...

This $351,499 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to quantify the ecological legacy of the Terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction on mammal communities in the Edward's Plateau region of Texas. The research team at the University of Nebraska will characterize changes in diet, morphology, and ecological interactions of extinct and surviving mammals over the past 20,000 years through stable isotope analysis, 2D/3D...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $798,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of New Mexico (UNM) for a 3-year research project entitled "The New Normal: The Continuing Influence of the Late Pleistocene Megafauna Extinction on the Structure and Function of Mammal Communities." The project aims to quantify the ecological legacy of the extinction of large mammals such as mammoths, llamas, and saber-toothed cats in the...

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 three-year, $643,366 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences will support research into understanding the spatial and temporal variation in community assembly processes through leveraging ecological modeling, functional ecology, and the fossil record of small mammals over the late Quaternary period (past 21,000 years). Specifically, the University of California, Merced will conduct a comprehensive re-assessment of existing small mammal fossil records,...

The University of Cincinnati will receive $185,556 over three years from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATIVE ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXTINCTION PROCESSES - A MULTI-PROXY CASE STUDY OF HISPANIOLAN SUBFOSSIL AND EXTANT RODENTS." The research aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in the...

The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $276,219 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATIVE ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXTINCTION PROCESSES - A MULTI-PROXY CASE STUDY OF HISPANIOLAN SUBFOSSIL AND EXTANT RODENTS" to be conducted from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Geosciences program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences...

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...

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...