This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $300,000 to Rutgers, The State University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports the Biodiversity Forecasting Initiative (BIOFI) under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). BIOFI aims to advance the ability to forecast biodiversity and biosphere functioning globally through integrating various biodiversity data sources. The initiative enhances...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,999,549 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Arizona for the "CAMBIUM - Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation through Biodiversity Informatics Education and Mentoring" program. This 5-year project from September 2024 to August 2029 aims to train a new generation of scientists in biodiversity informatics to analyze, integrate, and utilize large-scale biodiversity data to address climate...
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 $198,141 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) seeks to enhance predictive understanding of global species distributions through the development of advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) models. The project aims to create a versatile foundation model that can be used by scientists, conservationists, and educators to better understand and protect the natural world. By training this model on a vast array of environmental...
This $226,008 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on the impact of climate change on functional biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this five-year award to the University of Arizona will use sedimentary records to model historical community structures and functions under climate change scenarios. Researchers will assess open water and benthic communities using geochemical, fossil, and genomic tools to...
This $793,094 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program will fund research at the University of Colorado to quantify how global environmental changes, such as drought and warming, impact biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The project aims to transform understanding of the causal mechanisms by which biodiversity responds to global change drivers and how those biodiversity changes then feed back to alter productivity and other ecosystem...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, aims to integrate rapid biodiversity assessment technologies at the landscape and island level to forecast changes in insect and spider populations in the Hawaiian Islands. The $975,393 award, effective from Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2027, will fund a collaborative research effort to couple high-throughput arthropod biodiversity sequencing with remote sensing imagery....
This $299,551 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Colorado State University to evaluate the impacts of plant biodiversity on the productivity of grasslands and forests across the United States. The project will use remote sensing technologies and field-based observations to characterize different facets of biodiversity and quantify their relationships with primary productivity. The research aims to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $167,390 in funding to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct collaborative research on linking remote sensing data with arthropod biodiversity analysis across an ecological gradient in the Hawaiian Islands. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Integrating rapid assessment technologies, such as satellite, helicopter,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $713,464 project grant to the University of Oregon from May 2021 through January 2025 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research examining how climate and competition interact to determine plant and animal species' phenology and coexistence. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing knowledge of major issues facing the...