The University of Michigan was awarded a two-year, $349,312 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant aims to enhance capabilities for forecasting tree species population trajectories under changing environments through synthesis. Specifically, the University will conduct research to increase scientific understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,040,113 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2028. The grant will support research examining the drivers of variation in plant-animal defense mutualisms, specifically investigating ecological, micro-, and macro-evolutionary variation in mite domatia structures across North American tree communities, genera, and species. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded an $811,495 Project Grant to the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT RATES OF DIVERSIFICATION & CONTROLS ON DIVERSIFICATION RELATED TO THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPECIATION VS FATE OF INCIPIENT DIVERGENCES" under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The four-year award beginning...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $912,952 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on the diversity, distribution, and resilience of North American plants. The primary objectives are to: 1) Assemble detailed historical and current data on trait diversity and endemism of North American plants to understand the long-term eco-evolutionary drivers of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $613,589 Project Grant to the University of Michigan under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IIBR MULTIDISCIPLINARY: MSAIL (MICHIGAN SMALL ANIMAL INTEGRATED LOGGER): A MILLIGRAM-SCALE, MULTI-MODAL SENSOR AND ANALYTICS MONITORING PLATFORM." The three-year award, made on April 15, 2021 with a completion date of March 31, 2024, will support the development of a milligram-scale,...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $270,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support the project "Scalable Population Genetic and Phylogenetic Inference Using Large Samples of Microbial Data." The grant was awarded on April 1, 2021 with a completion date of March 31, 2024 under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant aims to advance understanding of major scientific problems by promoting progress in mathematical and...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the integration of organismal biology into the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) through a Research Coordination Network. The University of Michigan will coordinate this network from July 2021 through June 2026 to promote progress in the biological sciences through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation, as outlined in the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $420,761 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of Michigan on September 15, 2021. The grant supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BRINGING ASIA TO DIGITAL LIFE: MOBILIZING UNDERREPRESENTED ASIAN HERBARIUM COLLECTIONS IN THE US TO PROPEL BIODIVERSITY DISCOVERY" project through August 31, 2025. Under the award, the University of Michigan and sub-awardee University of Cincinnati will...
This two-year $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund an interdisciplinary study of smallholder farmers and agrobiodiversity in Michigan. Led by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the study will contribute to the scientific understanding of the resources invested in agriculture and food production. It will examine the social and economic factors influencing biodiversity conservation among...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $297,571 Project Grant under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Michigan State University. The award, which runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will fund collaborative research to investigate how the structural and functional diversity of forest canopies influences ecological climate and its impacts on plant and animal habitats. The project will leverage data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to...