The University of Michigan was awarded a $314,399 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: BRIDGING THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF EAST AFRICAN ACACIAS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE: GENOMICS, ECOSYSTEM, AND DIVERSIFICATION." The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2024, will fund research under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074)....
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 (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...
This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 was granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.079). The primary goal of the project, titled "ACCELNET-IMPLEMENTATION PHASE 1: MICROBENET-NET: MULTI-INSTITUTE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON BELOWGROUND PLANT-MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS NETWORK OF NETWORKS", is to unite diverse research networks from around the world to integrate databases and tools,...
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...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $711,741 awarded on October 1, 2022 will fund research and education activities advancing understanding of climate-phenology coupling through 2026. Under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the University of Michigan will develop a macrosystems framework to quantify interactions between climate and phenology across scales. Researchers will analyze phenology data globally and from the National Ecological Observatory Network to...
This Project Grant award of $548,180.00, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, will fund a research coordination network focused on enhancing the integration of experimental and computational biology research. The primary activity will be an annual meeting that will bring together a broad cross-section of researchers to address critical methodological, training, collaboration, and standardization challenges facing the field....
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $207,000 to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 2021 through February 2024. The funding is awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the grant will support the fellow conducting basic research at the place of...
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 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,...