The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $235,963 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" project. The University of California, Berkeley will deliver digitization of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,400 Project Grant to the California Academy of Sciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" project. The project will involve digitizing images and trait data of bee specimens housed in the California Academy...
The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $177,103 Project Grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" project. This project will deliver the digitization of images and traits...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $217,080 project grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" effort. The grant will fund the digitization of images and trait data to extend ongoing research on Anthophila, commonly known as bees, through September 2024. By digitizing existing...
The University of New Hampshire will receive $117,425 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" effort. The grant was awarded on September 15, 2021 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences. Through this funding, the University will digitize images and trait data of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $309,216 Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" project. The three-year project aims to advance biological sciences research through the digitization of images and trait data of bee specimens housed in natural...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Biodiversity Outreach Network's IDIGBEES Network initiative. Under the Biological Sciences CFDA 47.074 program, the awardee will digitize over 350,000 bee specimen records and 6,600 images from natural history collections. This comprehensive digitization effort aims to map bee species distributions, identify data gaps, document climate impacts on bees, and establish networks to utilize findings for research, education,...
Arizona State University was awarded a $171,235 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIGITIZATION TCN: EXTENDING ANTHOPHILA RESEARCH THROUGH IMAGE AND TRAIT DIGITIZATION (BIG-BEE)" project being conducted from September 2021 through August 2024 in Tempe, Arizona. The project aims to advance biological sciences...
This Project Grant award of $167,390 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support collaborative research to link broad-scale remote sensing with arthropod biodiversity assessment across a geological age gradient in the Hawaiian Islands. The goal is to integrate rapid assessment technologies at the landscape and island level to forecast changes in insect and spider populations tracked by their DNA. The research team will measure the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award of $396,938, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will support a collaborative research project to investigate the genetic basis of complex floral trait adaptation between bee- and hummingbird-pollinated plant species. The research team, led by the University of South Carolina, will use advanced genomics technologies to identify specific DNA differences that underlie the integrated floral...