Project Grant 2141115
- This $300,431 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), funds collaborative research investigating the relationship between crustal and surface processes and their impacts on faunal migration patterns in Western Anatolia. The research commenced September 1, 2025, and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2028. The project produces integrated scientific datasets and analyses combining structural geology,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $279,943 Project Grant to the University of Oregon to conduct collaborative research on the evolution of North American small mammal communities in response to landscape changes from the Oligocene to Miocene epochs (30 to 5 million years ago). The project aims to understand the relationship between vegetation and mammalian communities, with a focus on how small mammals respond to habitat changes over time. The research will integrate fieldwork to...
- The University of Florida received a three-year $185,386 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of mammals in the first seven million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. The research team will generate and integrate fossil mammal and climate proxy records across eastern Montana to provide a detailed view of continental ecosystem changes from the end-Cretaceous...
- This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $174,000 to study mammals as indicators of ecological recovery following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support basic research exploring the relationship between topographic diversity and the reestablishment of mammal populations in the aftermath of the extinction. By strengthening understanding of the...
- This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $200,000 in funding to Stony Brook University to investigate eco-evolutionary responses of small mammals to landscape and climate dynamics over the last 23 million years. The project, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030, will generate multi-proxy trait data from small-mammal fossil records across two geographically distinct...
- This $419,234 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to study the effects of climate change on mammalian functional diversity over long timescales. Key objectives include: Analyzing changes in mammal functional diversity, floral composition, and abiotic factors like temperature before, during, and after the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) climate event in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. This will elucidate the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $169,618 Project Grant to the University of Alabama, Office for Sponsored Programs Division, to conduct collaborative research on the rise of mammals following the K/Pg mass extinction event 66 million years ago. The funding will support a multidisciplinary team of geologists and paleontologists to generate and integrate critical records of fossil mammals and climate proxies across eastern Montana. The research aims to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to study the effects of climate change on mammalian functional diversity. The $205,877 award to the Stony Brook University Research Foundation will generate 3D datasets from micro-CT scans of mammalian fossils and develop new AI tools to rapidly analyze functional traits like dental topography and limb morphology. This will characterize changes in mammalian functional...
- 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 (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $202,138 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The grant funds a collaborative research project to examine the evolution of North American small mammal communities in response to landscape changes over the past 30 to 5 million years. The researchers will collect fossils and sediment samples from the U.S. Great Plains and Northwest to study how changes in habitat...
This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,056,000 supports research into the assembly and demise of an Eocene mammal fauna on the former island of Balkanatolia in modern-day Turkey. Under the award, the University of Kansas Center for Research will study newly discovered 44-million-year-old vertebrate fossil deposits to investigate factors influencing island assemblages across geological timescales in the region. The awardee will reconstruct phylogenetic relationships of Eocene mammals using Bayesian and maximum parsimony methods to facilitate evaluation of dispersal, vicariance, and in situ diversification as drivers of biotic assembly. Geochemical proxies will be used to reconstruct the evolving environment of Balkanatolia during the Eocene to gauge impacts on the insular mammal fauna's demise. Additional outcomes include collaboration opportunities for U.S., Turkish, and French faculty and students; two new museum exhibits; and Wikipedia entries on Turkish Eocene fossils in English and Turkish. This award supports the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to expand fundamental geoscience knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $528.0k | 6/14/22 |