Project Grant 2053416

This $121,325 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Rhode Island (URI) with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The project aims to evaluate the ecological and evolutionary effects of hurricanes on island ecosystems. Specifically, the researchers will analyze decades of data on lizards, spiders, insects, and plants across islands in the Bahamas to determine how...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $409,127 provides funding from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026 to support collaborative research on hurricane risk amplification and changing North Atlantic natural disasters. The award is made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the funding will support research examining hurricanes...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $100,000 to support the planning and development of a new shared-use, community-scale testbed for research on climate adaptation and disaster resilience. The testbed will serve as a cyber-physical environment representative of real-world community systems, enabling policy design, model integration, and theory development related to climate change impacts and natural hazards. The planning...

This $206,850 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support archaeological fieldwork and remote sensing research to study the relationship between island size and human population history. Led by Carleton College, the project will conduct systematic surveys and geomorophological studies of 30 uninhabited islands to investigate how island characteristics like size, environment, and location impacted patterns of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The grant will fund a collaborative planning workshop that convenes UVI and partner institutions, including the University of Hawai'i-Hilo, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, and University of Guam, to explore research enterprise solutions for academic institutions in insular or remote...

This $112,704 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research examining the effects of Hurricane Ian's nutrient and organic matter inputs on coastal waters in southwest Florida. Specifically, the grantee Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. will measure a suite of carbon and nutrient parameters and conduct carbon and nutrient cycling assessments at stations in Charlotte Harbor and the adjacent inner West...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $122,617 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Inc. (IAUPR) to convert the Mata de Platano Field Station's electrical network to a self-sustaining solar power system and install a rainwater collection system. This project aims to enhance the sustainability and resilience of this crucial biological research center in Puerto Rico's northern karst region. The upgrades will ensure...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $154,118 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida in September 2024. The research aims to investigate the role that land surface conditions played in maintaining the hurricane after landfall, particularly the "brown ocean effect" where wet soil contributes to storm intensity. The project will analyze...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $126,436 will fund research at Princeton University from September 2022 to August 2024 to assess climate and stochastic forcing of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity over the past millennium. The researchers will generate tropical cyclone datasets from multiple model simulations of the last 1,000 years and investigate relationships between past modeled tropical cyclone responses and climatic...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $153,920 Project Grant to the Wells Reserve At Laudholm Farm through the Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves program (CFDA 11.420). The grant will fund the installation of standby generators at two buildings and prepare a third building to accept a portable generator at the Wells Reserve in Wells, Maine. These infrastructure enhancements will allow the reserve's buildings to continue operating during power outages...