The University of Montana was awarded a $793,118 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct collaborative research testing for nutrient limitation in alpine snow algae ecosystems. The research will be performed from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024 in Polson, Montana. The grant is being administered through the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic biological research to strengthen the nation's...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded Carroll College a $263,984 Project Grant to study the genetic composition and dynamics of snow algal communities in Glacier National Park and the Beartooth Mountains of Montana. The 5-year grant will support research aimed at characterizing the structure and function of snow algal communities, developing computational models to predict their response to environmental factors, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,586 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to conduct research on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of mutualisms for species range expansion from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. This award supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS AS A MODEL SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to study biological soil crusts as a model system for understanding impacts of climate change. The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote advancement in the biological sciences and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $283,627 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the University of Minnesota Duluth, to support research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The award will fund research from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2027 to develop and test an integrated framework for understanding how global changes are influencing plant traits in ways that...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to Willmar, Minnesota from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research to uncover the genomic basis of adaptation in Quercus alba, a model species for forest trees. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through basic research. This award will support progress in those goals by...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,100,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. The grant, titled "The Ecological and Evolutionary Effects of Combined Stresses in a Mutualism," will fund research to investigate how microbial mutualisms are impacted by multiple environmental stresses. The project will conduct over 3,900 growth experiments and 150 evolution experiments to develop tools for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $826,475 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support collaborative research titled "Microbial Necromass Decomposition: Moving from Predictions to Principles" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding over 3 years starting June 1, 2025 to investigate how an alpine plant species in the Rocky Mountains will respond and adapt to climate change. The research aims to understand how population responses to microclimate variation impact range shifts under climate change scenarios. The project will use field and greenhouse experiments, genetic analyses, and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded Dartmouth College $829,340 under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to study how changing snow conditions affect soil biogeochemistry. Specifically, the award will support research to understand how reductions in persistent winter snowpack due to climate change are increasing soil climate variability and redox fluctuations. The grantee will construct an in situ experiment manipulating winter...