The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $779,001 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) on May 1, 2024. The grant supports a 3-year research study examining the adaptive benefits of daylight availability and the photoperiodism of transhemispheric migratory birds. The research aims to determine if longer summer daylight at higher latitudes accelerates parental provisioning and offspring growth...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $199,926 to the University of South Carolina from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The funding supports research titled "EAGER: Testing for Genes Associated with Migratory Behavior in a Peripatetic Species" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The goal of the research is to test for genes associated with migratory behavior using a species known to travel...
This federal Project Grant award of $240,000 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2024. The research project will investigate the evolutionary genomics and population genomics of long-distance migration in shorebirds, an extreme biological adaptation to seasonality. The research aims to identify genome regions involved in migratory adaptation and evaluate the influence of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "The Morphological Drivers and Effects of Long-Distance Bird Migration" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems confronting the nation....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $645,270 to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) to conduct research aimed at informing full annual cycle conservation of migratory birds in the Appalachian Mountains region. The project will leverage emerging technologies like remote sensing, radar, and machine learning to map stopover habitat use and forest structure characteristics that...
This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $770,868 will support research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 examining how seasonal migration influences genetic migration in boreal forest bird species. Funded through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the University of Michigan will investigate the relationship between seasonal long-distance migration and genetic differentiation using genomic tools and migration tracking tags across 32 co-distributed bird species....
This $1.1 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research at Oregon Health & Science University from September 2022 through August 2026 to study the mechanisms of neuron excitability for vocalizations in songbirds. The researchers will focus on the electrical properties of cells in well-studied brain regions involved in fine motor skills for song production. They...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $856,412 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (the University) to conduct research exploring the feedback between the physiological performance and social foraging dynamics of wintering songbirds. The project aims to: (1) quantify the effects of physiological variation on social network stability in response to ambient temperature changes; (2) experimentally...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant, awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for $421,043, aims to advance the understanding of neural mechanisms that allow wild songbirds to adapt their behavior to urban environments. The research will leverage brain transcriptomics and gene manipulation tools to characterize differences in brain gene networks associated with behavioral adjustments in urban male song...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $802,385 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Massachusetts, through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, for a 4-year research project. The project aims to examine the feedback between the physiological performance and social foraging behavior of wintering songbird populations. The research will: (1) quantify the effects of physiological variation on social network stability; (2)...