The National Science Foundation awarded a $699,989 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program.
The grant will support research to leverage spectroscopy and in situ soil sensing to predict key microbial functions influencing soil carbon sequestration. The interdisciplinary team will integrate field observations, soil spectral data, and lab analyses of soil carbon fractions, microbial activity and metabolites. This will quantify the ability of novel in situ soil sensing technologies to predict microbial functions driving soil carbon storage. The resulting data set will be made available to improve biogeochemical models of carbon sequestration. The research aims to establish parsimonious sets of spectral and microbial parameters to estimate functions across diverse ecosystems and transform understanding of dynamic soil processes. Broader impacts include experiential learning for high school students and game development opportunities in computer science.
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