This $398,984 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports research to quantify the biophysical, physiological, and phenological impacts of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on vegetation and their effects on future climate change. The research utilizes the Community Earth System Model to examine the direct impacts of CO2 fertilization and stomatal closure, as well as the indirect effects of a longer growing season, on...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to improve understanding of how forest structure and function influence "ecological climate" - the climate experienced by organisms within forest canopies. The $424,492 project, running from August 2024 to July 2028, will integrate data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) into advanced forest canopy models to evaluate how forest diversity...
This $126,270 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop new capabilities to monitor and understand forest carbon dynamics in the Earth system. The key products and services to be delivered include: Cross-platform and cross-region learning frameworks to enable fine-scale carbon dynamics monitoring at large geographic scales. High-fidelity fast approximations of theory-based carbon forecasting models using new meta-learning...
This $371,175 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The goal of this collaborative research project is to develop a functional model for predicting soil organic matter composition and cycling at the continental scale. Researchers from the University of Georgia Research Foundation will leverage existing data and new samples from the National Ecological Observatory...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $399,984 to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (UW-River Falls) seeks to study the cycling and transport of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in agricultural soils. The two-year project, titled "EMBRACE-EAR-GROWTH: Coupling In-Situ Probing and Modeling Moisture-Related Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling and Transport", aims to: Decipher redox-related soil C and N cycling, mobilization,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop a new continental-scale data tool that integrates a variety of ground-based, remote sensing, and modeling data to better understand the variability and predictability of the North American terrestrial carbon cycle. The $929,221 award to Trustees of Boston University, with a project period of August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will support the generation and analysis of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $1,121,416 to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on how the structure and function of forest ecosystems influence ecological climate and climate feedbacks. The key objectives are to: Evaluate how forest structure and function impact ecosystem fluxes across a latitudinal gradient using data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Integrate site-level...
This $337,455 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research to constrain the continental-scale terrestrial carbon cycle using data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The awardee, Cornell University, will develop refined continental-scale carbon profiles and flux products through a novel approach integrating NEON observations, satellite data, data-driven methods, and data-model integration techniques....
This $253,337 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research by the University of Maryland, College Park to develop new capabilities for monitoring and understanding forest carbon dynamics in the Earth system. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) cross-platform and cross-region learning frameworks to enable fine-scale carbon dynamics monitoring...
This $568,586 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology supports a collaborative research project to assess the impacts of dew formation on ecosystem carbon, energy, and water fluxes across a range of ecosystems. The project will provide the first comprehensive, large-scale evaluation of dew's effects on key ecosystem processes, and develop a new land surface model module to incorporate dew dynamics. The research will be conducted across...