The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science received a three-year, $1,097,772 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research examining estuary plumes as drivers of inner continental shelf benthic community structure and function from March 2021 through February 2024. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of Earth's integrated system...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will quantify the temporal patterns and drivers of fish-mediated ecosystem functions, such as biomass production, nutrient cycling, and piscivory, across six European Large Marine Ecosystems over a 40-year period. The $393,925 award to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will integrate fish monitoring data, bioenergetics modeling, and statistical inference to map the spatiotemporal...
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore received a $323,985 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to operate a Research Experience for Undergraduates program in marine and estuarine science from March 2021 through February 2024. The grant supports the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding...
This $139,114 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the development of computational models to predict changes in biodiversity patterns over time at the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. Over the one-year period from May 2023 to April 2024, the awardee will synthesize decades of species distribution data and research to generate dynamic models incorporating factors like physiology and species interactions. A...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $524,000 will support the development of network-based models to evaluate functional biodiversity responses to climate change and species invasions in marine biological communities. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award reflects NSF's mission to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the scientific enterprise. Specifically, researchers at the University of California, Davis will leverage long-term...
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science will receive $498,844 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2026. The research aims to characterize amino acid nitrogen isotopes in phytoplankton and advance understanding of isotope patterns produced under varying physiological conditions. Researchers will examine whether different phytoplankton species and the same species...
This National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $515,158 to The University of Texas at San Antonio from October 2022 to September 2025. The award will support research to develop next-generation species distribution models that integrate organism-level bioenergetic budgets with community-level predator-prey interactions. Researchers will conduct laboratory experiments and field studies on fish populations in Southern Appalachian streams...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $1,275,000 to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia to conduct research on environmental drivers and ecosystem state changes in a coastal barrier landscape. The 6-year project, which began on June 1, 2025, uses long-term data to predict how coastlines will respond to environmental changes such as sea-level rise, warming temperatures, and changes in storm and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) focuses on understanding how changing environmental conditions, particularly rising ocean temperatures, will impact marine ecosystems and the availability of marine resources. The $738,152 award, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2030, supports an integrated approach that combines physiological assays, community-level experiments, and numerical modeling to forecast the effects of temperature on...
This $191,770 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), funds research at the University of California, Davis to develop a trait-based modeling framework for macroalgal communities. The researchers will measure key functional traits of at least 20 common macroalgae species in the Santa Barbara Channel to relate traits like mass-specific photosynthetic rate and blade properties to species' depth distributions. An...