Project Grant 2206810
Award Date 3/15/23
Completion Date 2/29/28
Dollars Obligated $1.5M
Federal Agency
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Similar Awards
- This $202,001 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) to investigate plant-soil feedbacks and their role in the resilience of pinon woodlands to severe drought. The key objectives are to: Test the hypothesis that adding beneficial soil microbes can aid the recovery of pinon pine seedlings in areas impacted by experimental severe drought. DNA sequencing...
- Northern Arizona University will receive $632,366 over four years from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems to conduct research modeling organismal responses to changing ecological regimes via investigation of stress, growth and reproduction in the longest-lived mammal. This Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and enhance understanding of major...
- This $706,641 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program supports collaborative research to investigate the role of plant-soil feedbacks in promoting the resilience of pinon woodlands in the western United States to severe drought conditions. The research involves field inoculations of pinon pine seedlings with beneficial soil microbes, laboratory assays, and greenhouse experiments to understand how plant-microbe...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $2,999,552 to the University of Nevada, Reno to quantify the phytochemical landscape of indigenous communities through knowledge integration, interaction diversity genomics, and network dynamics from 2022-2026. Key products include the development of an accessible website compiling edited video interviews with Kichwa and Waorani elders on plant-animal networks and interspecies...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $2,275,000 Project Grant to New Mexico State University to study the shift from grasslands to shrublands in drylands of the Southwestern U.S. The research aims to advance understanding of this ecological change, including how weather, land management, and biotic interactions influence the transition, and how it impacts carbon and nutrient cycling, soil erosion, and human wellbeing. The project will also...
- This $692,182 Project Grant was awarded on July 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Wyoming (UW) to conduct research on the impact of drought and fire on western U.S. forests. The key objectives are to 1) quantify the adaptive traits of tree species in the west and publish the results in an open-access database, and 2) quantify the effects of these traits on tree demographic rates in response to changing drought and...
- This $223,991 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research examining seed-fungal interactions and their influence on tropical tree recruitment. Over a four-year period ending in February 2027, the University of Arizona will investigate how seed chemistry, environmental conditions, and genetic factors determine outcomes of seed-fungal relationships in tropical forests. Researchers will use metabolomics and assays to study seed...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,994 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to quantify plant mediation of ecosystem multifunction in response to fire and warming from August 1, 2022 to February 28, 2026. The University will examine how fire severity and experimental warming interact to shape plant traits, communities, and multiple ecosystem functions such as decomposition and productivity in ponderosa pine...
- 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...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074) provides $336,155 to Northern Arizona University to assemble a high-quality genome sequence for the pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) and analyze how its genome structure affects gene expression across environmental and genetic gradients. The three-year project will train the lead researcher in advanced genomic methods and leverage a collaboration with the University of Connecticut to...