The University of Montana was awarded a $145,456 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IRES TRACK II: RIVERS OF THE ANDES FIELD TRAINING" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will enable field training and research in South...
The University of Montana was awarded a $669,931 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "NNA RESEARCH: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FATE OF THE CARIBOU: FROM LOCAL KNOWLEDGE TO RANGE-WIDE DYNAMICS IN THE CHANGING ARCTIC." The three-year award beginning November 1, 2021 will support collaborative research to understand the dynamics and fate of caribou...
This $172,169.84 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) to the University of Montana's Research and Sponsored Programs division. The award will fund a 22-month project from August 2024 to May 2025 focused on multidisciplinary training on biodiversity and natural resource conservation from an indigenous perspective in India. The project aims to extend the Forest Service's efforts to...
The University of Florida was awarded a $299,746 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will fund the IRES: HUMAN-WILDLIFE FEEDBACKS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST CHINA project being conducted from November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. The project aims to enable U.S. leadership in global science by strengthening international...
The University of Montana was awarded a $1,979,823 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The five-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will fund a framework to reconcile competing disease transmission effects of competitors. Dr. Amy Kuenzi of Montana Technological University will assist as a sub-awardee, managing field assistants, collecting data, and performing laboratory assays...
This $237,568 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Geosciences REU Site program at Montana Technological University from December 2022 through November 2024. The program provides undergraduate students hands-on research experience in environmental science and engineering through a 10-week summer internship. Students participate in fieldwork to collect samples from sites impacted by mining and climate change. They then conduct laboratory analysis on the samples under faculty...
The University of New Hampshire will receive $299,807 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering's Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will fund the IRES TRACK 1: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCES TO TRACK ARCTIC LAKE SYSTEMS (ICE TALKS) project from July 2021 through June 2024. The project aims to enable international partnerships that advance scientific discovery...
The University of North Texas was awarded a $396,610 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the Office of International Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.079). The grant will fund the IRES TRACK II - CAPE HORN ASIS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE ECOLOGY AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE AMERICAS project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The project aims to enable U.S. leadership in global science by...
This four-year, $1.14 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into the cumulative effects of ecological and social stressors on integrated ranching-wildlife systems in the western United States. The University of Illinois is the primary awardee and will partner with Oregon State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Idaho, and The Ohio State University on the research. The project aims to better...
The University of Montana Western received a $185,415 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant supports the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RUI: HOW ENERGY ECONOMY AND MUSCLE PROPERTIES SHAPE FISH SWIMMING STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The one-year project period runs from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote...