This $900,114 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Biodiversity Forecasting Initiative (BIOFI) led by the University of Arizona from September 2022 through August 2025. The goal of BIOFI is to advance scientists' ability to forecast biodiversity and ecosystem functioning globally under changing environmental conditions. Key products and services include developing an open-source curriculum in biodiversity data science to train the next generation of scientists. The project also...
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 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers provided $138,000 in funding to integrate genetic and morphological concepts of diversity in ecological and environmental contexts. The award falls under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic research to advance understanding of major issues facing the nation. Specifically, the grant recipient will conduct postdoctoral research from January 2022 through...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey a $199,839 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research titled "EAGER: CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF SPECIES LOSS IN A CARIBBEAN VERTEBRATE COMMUNITY." The two-year grant, awarded August 1, 2021 and set to be completed by July 31, 2023, will support Rutgers University researchers in Newark, New Jersey as they investigate...
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 $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 of $975,393 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Berkeley. The project aims to integrate rapid assessment technologies at the landscape and island level to forecast changes in high-impact insect and spider populations in the Hawaiian Islands. It will couple high-throughput arthropod biodiversity sequencing with remote sensing imagery to examine...
This $122,630 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research on the impact of climate change on functional biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. The grantee, Indiana State University, will conduct a study using sedimentary records to track functional biodiversity lake-wide under different climate change scenarios. The project will assess open water and benthic community structures and functions through geochemical, fossil, and...
This $269,884 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the Collaborative Research: Biorets project. The project engages pairs of high school teachers from schools serving marginalized STEM student populations in authentic research experiences at three Long Term Ecological Research sites spanning Arctic, temperate forest, and coastal marine ecosystems. Over an 18-month period, teacher pairs will conduct field and lab research with...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), provides $859,653 to the University of Texas at Austin from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2028. The funding supports research to develop and test models of tropical and temperate forest structure and dynamics through analysis of data from the Smithsonian's Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) network. Investigators will leverage...