Project Grant 2441720
- The University of Wyoming received a $180,120 two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to conduct research titled "Ecological Community Responses to Global Change: Predicting Effects on Community Dynamics and Ecosystem Stability." This grant will fund research from February 2021 through January 2023 exploring how global changes impact ecological community dynamics and ecosystem stability. As part of the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Wyoming (UW) totaling $749,924 from May 1, 2025 to October 31, 2028. The grant funds a project examining the socio-ecological system of climate, hydrology, fisheries ecology, and linked human systems such as outdoor recreation and tourism in the American Mountain West region. Specifically, the project aims to understand how rapidly changing climate impacts trout...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $249,111 to the University of Wyoming to investigate how extreme weather events and changes in forest species richness may interactively impact forest productivity. The Principal Investigator will study tree-ring structures, forest diseases, and forecasting models to assess these relationships across scales from individual tree cells to the North American continent....
- The University of Wyoming received a $266,972 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to develop and test an eco-evolutionary theory for range limits. Over a three-year period from February 2023 to January 2026, researchers will use computational models and laboratory experiments with flour beetles in artificial landscapes to systematically test how ecological and evolutionary...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,382 Project Grant under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Boise State University. The three-year grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will fund research to measure how climate change may disrupt the species interactions that shape local adaptation in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) populations. The project will integrate field and lab-based reciprocal transplant experiments, soil microbiome...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $716,280 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. The grant funds a collaborative research project to investigate the potential impacts of climate change on the interactions between parasitic botfly larvae and high-elevation deer mice populations. The research aims to develop predictive models for how novel host-parasite dynamics may evolve under shifting environmental...
- This $692,182 Project Grant was awarded on July 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Wyoming (UW) to conduct research on the impact of drought and fire on western U.S. forests. The key objectives are to 1) quantify the adaptive traits of tree species in the west and publish the results in an open-access database, and 2) quantify the effects of these traits on tree demographic rates in response to changing drought and...
- The University of Wyoming will receive $507,753 from the National Science Foundation under a three-year Project Grant award titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WINTRE-MIX: WINTER PRECIPITATION TYPE RESEARCH MULTI-SCALE EXPERIMENT." The funding supports basic research into integrated Earth system sciences through the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Specifically, the University will conduct research into winter precipitation types at multiple scales from September 2021 through...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) provides $1,066,913 to the University of Wyoming to study how different populations of mountain hummingbirds respond genetically, physiologically, and behaviorally to the environmental challenges of high-elevation living, including temperature extremes and oxygen scarcity. The research will integrate field and laboratory approaches to examine populations across a range of latitudes and elevations,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), has awarded a $702,163 project grant to the University of Alabama. This 3-year collaborative research project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSFDEB-NERC: WARMING'S SILVER LINING? THERMAL COMPENSATION AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION MAY PROMOTE STREAM ECOSYSTEM STABILITY IN RESPONSE TO DROUGHT", aims to understand how continued warming and increasing drought will impact the composition and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $718,324 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program to the University of Wyoming (UW) for the "IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING VERSUS SPECIES INTERACTIONS ON PERSISTENCE AND COEXISTENCE IN A WARMING WORLD" research project. This 5-year initiative, beginning September 1, 2025, aims to improve understanding of how different temperature regimes alter ecological interactions at multiple scales. The project will integrate research, education, and public engagement by creating a network of experimental sites across Colorado and Wyoming, engaging local K-12 students, undergraduates, recreators, and land managers. UW will monitor these sites as part of a new community ecology course, working to develop a predictive framework for how changing temperature regimes will impact species coexistence and richness patterns. The research will disentangle direct environmental effects from indirect effects of species interactions, both within current communities and in novel communities created by reshuffling and range expansion.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $718.3k | 8/5/25 |