This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program provides $450,000 to Auburn University to conduct collaborative research on the impacts of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum (KTM) - a period of extreme global warming approximately 95 million years ago. The research aims to generate open-access databases on terrestrial biodiversity, ecosystem dynamics, and climate proxies during the KTM in order to understand the effects of rapid...
This Project Grant award of $500,656 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project between the University of Arkansas and partners to study the impacts of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, an extreme global warming event that occurred approximately 95 million years ago. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) generate comprehensive, open-access databases on the terrestrial biodiversity, habitat changes, and...
This Project Grant award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research project between North Carolina State University and partners to investigate the terrestrial biodiversity dynamics during the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum (KTM), an ancient global warming event. The project aims to generate open-access databases on temperature, precipitation, species diets, migration, plant communities, and landscape changes during...
The Colorado Museum of Natural History, doing business as the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, received a $1,282,009 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on how terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The research will involve extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of existing fossil collections and new field...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $518,907 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, to conduct collaborative research on how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. This research, funded under NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will examine ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the K-Pg boundary in the...
This federal Project Grant award of $143,674 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will fund collaborative research to examine how terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The research team from the College of Charleston will collect and analyze fossil, geochemical, and environmental data from three sites in the western United States to document the patterns...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $174,000 to study mammals as indicators of ecological recovery following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support basic research exploring the relationship between topographic diversity and the reestablishment of mammal populations in the aftermath of the extinction. By strengthening understanding of the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $212,687 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the recovery of terrestrial ecosystems following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event. The grant will support extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field data from the Rocky Mountain region to reveal the patterns and timeline of how land-based life rebuilt after...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a collaborative research project to examine how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The $234,197 award, with a project period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028, will fund paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $291,498 Project Grant to the University of Oregon under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to examine the ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/PG) boundary in the Rocky Mountain region. The research will involve extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of existing fossil collections and new field data to reveal the variability in the timing and pattern of terrestrial ecosystem...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.074) will support collaborative research by a team of earth and life scientists on the ecological impacts of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum (KTM), an extreme global warming event that occurred approximately 95 million years ago. The $300,663 award to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will fund the generation of comprehensive, open-access databases on terrestrial biodiversity, habitat, and environmental changes during the KTM, with a focus on sites in Mongolia and North America. The research aims to establish a refined chronology of ecosystem change, calculate the rate and duration of destabilization and recovery, and assess the impact of extreme warming on ecosystem resilience and functional biodiversity. The project will also support a cross-disciplinary postgraduate research exchange program and develop educational resources to increase STEM opportunities for youth. No sub-awards are planned for this grant.