Project Grant 2129628
- This two-year, $329,660 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research into Cretaceous-era diatom paleobiology and survivability through major environmental perturbations. Principal Investigator Dr. Coenen will study laminated sediments to better understand early Cretaceous climate variability and diatom taxonomy at Ocean Drilling Project Site 693. This includes evaluating whether modern ecological...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a three-year collaborative research project to investigate the Late Ordovician mass extinction event. The $310,891 grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support field investigations on Anticosti Island, Canada, as well as global phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of fossil organisms such as crinoids and trilobites. The research aims to document patterns of extinction, biogeographic change,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $398,892 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin for research entitled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WAS THERE A SHIFT TOWARD SMALL, NON-FOSSILIZING PLANKTON AFTER THE END OF THE CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION?" with a period of performance from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. This grant will support basic research under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the...
- This $351,499 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to quantify the ecological legacy of the Terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction on mammal communities in the Edward's Plateau region of Texas. The research team at the University of Nebraska will characterize changes in diet, morphology, and ecological interactions of extinct and surviving mammals over the past 20,000 years through stable isotope analysis, 2D/3D...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $174,000 Project Grant to researchers at Hamden, Connecticut to conduct an interdisciplinary experimental investigation of predator-driven evolution of shell structure at different scales during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. The grant is funded through the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Over the 24-month period from April 2022 through March...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program awarded a $274,958 project grant to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to investigate the first mass extinction event in the history of life - the Late Ordovician mass extinction. The research team will document patterns of extinction, biogeographic change, and morphological evolution across this mass extinction event at local and global scales by combining field-based geological research with global...
- This four-year, $527,667 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will fund collaborative research to evaluate evidence of extinction patterns and depositional conditions from a Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary outcrop section in Antarctica. Led by the University of Alabama, the research team will analyze sediment samples using detailed sedimentary structures, geochemistry, and microfossils to determine if the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was a single or double-phased...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a collaborative research project to examine how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The $234,197 award, with a project period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028, will fund paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field...
- This federal Project Grant award of $143,674 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will fund collaborative research to examine how terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The research team from the College of Charleston will collect and analyze fossil, geochemical, and environmental data from three sites in the western United States to document the patterns...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $291,498 Project Grant to the University of Oregon under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to examine the ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/PG) boundary in the Rocky Mountain region. The research will involve extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of existing fossil collections and new field data to reveal the variability in the timing and pattern of terrestrial ecosystem...
This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $296,242 will fund research into associations between climate shifts and ammonoid turnover across second-tier extinctions during the Early Late Cretaceous greenhouse period from April 2022 through March 2025. The funding supports collaborative research between the University of Nebraska and other institutions to investigate patterns of evolution and extinction in ammonoids, extinct shelled cephalopods related to modern squid and octopuses. Researchers will use Bayesian phylogenetic analyses and ecomorphospace analyses to examine the impacts of multiple episodes of cooling and warming between 90-100 million years ago on diversity dynamics and extinction risk within the ammonoid superfamily Acanthoceratidea. The project aims to identify key factors controlling extinction risk in cephalopods and provide a model for assessing other taxonomic groups during critical intervals of Earth system evolution. This work aligns with the NSF's Geosciences program goal of expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $296.2k | 2/15/22 |