The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $602,541 Project Grant to Stanford University from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research testing the hypothesis that reduction of aerobic habitat was a common kill mechanism for major mass extinction events, as part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
The Trustees of Princeton University were awarded a $228,080 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant falls under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the September 1, 2021 award will fund a collaborative research project through August 31, 2026 to test the hypothesis that reduction of aerobic habitat...
Arizona State University was awarded a $496,592 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant will support the acquisition and upgrade of instrumentation for noble gas geochronology and thermochronology from June 15, 2021 to May 31, 2023. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which seeks to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, ASU will...
Syracuse University was awarded a $488,302 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant is part of NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the award, Syracuse University will conduct collaborative research to test the hypothesis that reduction of aerobic habitat was a common kill mechanism for major mass extinction events. The research aims to expand...
Arizona State University was awarded a $1,112,373 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2025. The award is being used to study the Role of Non-Phototrophs in the Growth and Fitness of Biological Soil Crust under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing knowledge and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $104,601 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) at the Geneseo campus. The grant, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2027, supports collaborative research to develop an integrated understanding of the Late Devonian Earth system, with a focus on ocean-climate-biosphere interactions during this critical period in Earth's history. Key objectives include: 1)...
The National Science Foundation awarded Arizona State University a $869,404 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) on September 1, 2021 for research titled "IMAGINE: Testing Multi-Level Controls on an Aridity Tolerance Phenotype Over Time Through Physio-Genomic Data Integration." The three-year award will support ASU's efforts to advance understanding of plant responses to drought conditions through integrated physiological and genomic data...
Arizona State University was awarded a $725,355 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. The grant supports research titled "CAREER: WOOD-EATING PROTISTS: AN EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION ENABLED BY GENE TRANSFER?" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $212,687 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the recovery of terrestrial ecosystems following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event. The grant will support extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field data from the Rocky Mountain region to reveal the patterns and timeline of how land-based life rebuilt after...
This $425,200 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Arizona State University from July 2022 through June 2024 towards understanding responses to climate change and invasion vulnerability in drylands of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The research will combine geospatial techniques such as species distribution modeling with a trait-based methodology to assess amphibian species' vulnerability to...