The National Science Foundation awarded a $315,082 project grant to Middlebury College on June 1, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2024. The grant falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in those fields as well as monitor science resources. Under this award, Middlebury College will work to transform theory and STEM education through reproductions and replications in geographical sciences. The...
This $398,374 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project examining factors that drive the regeneration of forests in developing regions that have been deforested. The research combines satellite imagery and ethnographic methods to analyze how rural-to-urban land sales and the priorities of urban landowners contribute to tree cover gain. The project will expand geographic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $362,234 to Middlebury College will support research on the socio-ecological feedbacks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Madagascar. The research will examine the relationship between ecosystem health, fisheries targets, and community engagement in MPA management and decision-making. The project aims to investigate how different levels of community participation, particularly the role of gender,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $206,812 Project Grant to Middlebury College for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GLACIAL DEEP PACIFIC CARBON STORAGE AND EFFECTS ON CACO3 PRESERVATION." The three-year award, effective June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024, will support basic research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through support of basic...
The University of Vermont received a three-year $152,092 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research between the University of Vermont and other institutions to investigate adaptive strategies in variable environments from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $459,742 Project Grant to Colby College under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research examining the consequences of species loss on food web persistence and functioning in the Gulf of Maine rocky intertidal ecosystem. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $107,400 project grant to support knowledge co-production for collaborative environmental management in Ithaca, NY from September 1, 2021 through November 30, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science investments. Funds will support efforts to contribute scientific findings and foster collaboration...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
The Trustees of Dartmouth College received a two-year, $101,572 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SPARC project to facilitate research, experimentation, and education in spatial archaeometry. As indicated in the program description, the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Trustees of Boston University a $575,862 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research to develop advanced statistical techniques and spatial machine learning methods for accurately predicting land values and conservation costs across large, heterogeneous geographic areas in the United States. The grantee will compare...