This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $297,277 to Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI), a non-profit organization, to characterize the long-term ecological legacy effects of colonial plantation agriculture on tropical soils in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Through a strategic sampling approach across former plantation estates, the research will evaluate how the intensity and duration of historical plantation agriculture influenced soil carbon storage and stability, with potential implications for forest successional trajectories and plant community composition. The findings aim to inform understanding of how past land use activities facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade may have affected present and future tropical forest carbon sequestration. The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.
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