This $429,172 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to provide a comprehensive, macroscale assessment of dew impacts on carbon, energy, and water fluxes across various ecosystems. The project will generate a new land surface model module to account for dew effects, enabling further research on dew's impacts on weather forecasting and microbiology. The grant will support the development of a new field-based study abroad program on climate and ecosystem resilience in Puerto Rico, providing research opportunities for up to 36 undergraduate students, primarily from a minority-serving institution. Additionally, the grant will fund the training of 3 PhD students and 8 high school students, as well as support an early career female faculty member as the principal investigator.
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