Project Grant 2305465
- The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $180,000 Project Grant to Zoe T. Kulik under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate the depositional history and paleobiological implications of a rare dicynodont bonebed in Tanzania. Kulik will characterize the bonebed's taphonomy using sedimentology, petrography, trace element analysis, and hard tissue histology to reconstruct the life history and preservation of dicynodonts. This includes assessing temporal and spatial...
- This $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports postdoctoral research examining taxon-specific responses to aridity gradients in small mammals over time and across space in the northwestern Great Basin of the United States. The awardee will analyze small mammal bones deposited in caves over the past 16,000 years to test hypotheses about species sensitivity to climate drying and whether ongoing changes in climate or land use pose a...
- Dr. Alliya Akhtar has been awarded a two-year, $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support Dr. Akhtar's research examining paleoclimatic influences on mammalian dietary ecology and trophic positioning in mainland Southeast Asia from the late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene periods. Specifically, the grant will fund three key research activities. First, Dr. Akhtar will explore the utility of...
- Northern Arizona University was awarded a three-year, $166,140 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences. The grant supports research titled "Collaborative Research: Comparative Taphonomy and Time-Averaging of Mollusk-Echinoid Assemblages Using High-Performance Radiocarbon Dating System" under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research...
- This three-year, $346,278 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research investigating Pleistocene carnivore ecology using fossil records from the McKittick asphalt seep and Rancho La Brea tar pits lagerstatte sites. The researchers will examine dietary patterns in dire wolves and coyotes through ecomorphology, tooth wear analysis, stable isotope analysis, and geochronology to determine food...
- This CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $200,000 in funding to Stony Brook University to investigate eco-evolutionary responses of small mammals to landscape and climate dynamics over the last 23 million years. The project, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2030, will generate multi-proxy trait data from small-mammal fossil records across two geographically distinct...
- Dr. Allison Karp has been awarded a $180,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research and educational outreach from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The grant will fund Dr. Karp's research at Yale University and Brown University to improve geochemical tools for analyzing past herbivore community dynamics. Specifically, the grant will support investigating herbivore biomarkers using samples from Kruger National Park in South...
- This $351,499 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to quantify the ecological legacy of the Terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction on mammal communities in the Edward's Plateau region of Texas. The research team at the University of Nebraska will characterize changes in diet, morphology, and ecological interactions of extinct and surviving mammals over the past 20,000 years through stable isotope analysis, 2D/3D...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $137,159 to support collaborative research investigating Pleistocene carnivore ecology and modern wolf populations. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to study dire wolf and coyote dietary patterns at the McKittick asphalt seep and Rancho La Brea tar pits fossil sites to determine food web relationships and compare...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $138,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2025. The fellowship supports research and training to investigate the biogeography and community assembly of North American Carboniferous ecosystems. Specifically, the fellow will analyze the fossil record using approaches including anatomy, geology, and ecology to determine how ancient land ecosystems responded to environmental and...
Dr. Rachel Laker was awarded a $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. The grant will fund Dr. Laker's postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the accumulation and morphology of taphonomic damage on caribou antlers across several millennia at the University of Cincinnati under the mentorship of Dr. Joshua Miller and at South Dakota School of Mines under the mentorship of Dr. Sarah Keenan. Through actualistic experiments and analysis of caribou remains using radiocarbon dating, Dr. Laker will work to better define the expression and variation of taphonomic alterations over timescales ranging from years to millennia. This research aims to enhance understanding of the links between time and taphonomic degradation of bone to generate tools for paleoecological comparisons.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $180.0k | 6/7/23 |