Project Grant 2448892
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $374,934 to the University of Texas at El Paso to expand access to and improve storage conditions for the university's biodiversity collections. The collections house over 82,000 plant specimens and 21,000 herpetology specimens representing regions like the Chihuahuan Desert and Central Africa. The funding will be used to replace deteriorating cabinets with new compact storage...
- This $482,583 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden to curate and digitize the Sherwin Carlquist collection and create an Extended Specimen Network. The collection, held at the Garden's herbarium and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas library, contains over 191,000 objects from Dr. Carlquist's 30-year botanical research career. The project will preserve these important collections,...
- This $159,490 National Science Foundation project grant through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the digitization and enrichment of United States herbarium data from tropical Africa. Over the three-year period from September 2022 to August 2026, Arizona State University will image and capture data from over 1.1 million herbarium specimens from 21 U.S. herbaria. Data records will be georeferenced and quality controlled to augment accessible digital data for the African...
- This $192,730 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the transfer of the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) herbarium collection containing approximately 35,000 plant specimens to the University of Tennessee - Knoxville (UTK). The project will integrate the ETSU specimens into the UTK's larger herbarium, the largest in Tennessee and third largest in the Southeast, enabling broader access and research use of...
- The University of Cincinnati received a $524,176 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure on September 15, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. Under the grant, the University will relocate and undertake critical upgrades to storage, curation, and digital access capabilities for the Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium. The Herbarium collection will be moved to a new facility and improvements will be made to ensure proper long-term...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $224,784 to secure and digitize the herbarium collection at the State University of New York at Oswego. Under the Biological Sciences program, which supports basic biological research, key products and services include curation and repair of the 50,000 plant specimen collection, cataloging all specimens, digitizing the collection using high-resolution photography, and sharing digitized...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will enable Brigham Young University to develop advanced cyberinfrastructure to digitize and integrate over 1 million dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) specimens from major natural history collections across the United States. The $269,479 initiative, called DI-ODE (Digital Integration of Odonata), will create a unified, publicly accessible digital platform that links...
- The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a $379,781 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to undertake the "DIGITIZATION TCN: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BRINGING ASIA TO DIGITAL LIFE: MOBILIZING UNDERREPRESENTED ASIAN HERBARIUM COLLECTIONS IN THE US TO PROPEL BIODIVERSITY DISCOVERY" project. The grant will support efforts to digitize underrepresented Asian plant collections housed at U.S. herbaria to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $265,043 Project Grant to the New York Botanical Garden under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to digitize and enrich United States herbarium data from tropical Africa. Through this funding, the awardee will image and capture data from over 1.1 million herbarium specimens held in 21 U.S. herbaria focused on tropical African seed plants. The data will be georeferenced, quality controlled, and aggregated into a dedicated...
- The New York Botanical Garden received a $629,237 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 15, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2025. Under the grant, the Botanical Garden will mobilize underrepresented Asian herbarium collections in the United States to advance biodiversity discovery. Specifically, the Garden will digitize herbarium specimens to make them more accessible online for research purposes. This work will help propel biodiversity studies by allowing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $397,600.00 to Brigham Young University (BYU) to enhance the storage, organization, and online availability of over 530,000 herbarium specimens in the BYU Herbarium. The funding will enable digital imaging and cataloging of 225,000 specimens not yet digitized, making the specimen data searchable and accessible online for land managers, agency personnel, and the public. The project will also train one graduate student and multiple undergraduate students in curatorial practices and utilizing specimen-based data, contributing to an exhibit highlighting species diversity. Additionally, the award will support the purchase of new camera equipment and installation of a compact storage system to preserve the existing specimen collection and accommodate future growth.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $397.6k | 7/31/25 |