This $420,286 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports a collaborative research project to investigate how the availability of marine nutrients may have fueled the expansion and ecological roles of eukaryotes (organisms with nuclei) during the Tonian period (1000-720 million years ago). The project integrates paleontological, geochemical, sedimentological, and stratigraphic data from early Tonian strata in North China...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support a collaborative, multi-institution research project to investigate the role of nutrient availability in the diversification and ecological rise of eukaryotes during the Tonian period (1000-720 million years ago). The total award amount is $606,871 and the project will run from July 2025 through June 2030. The research team, comprising seven principal investigators, one...
This $433,365.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program supports a collaborative research project to investigate how increased nutrient availability in Tonian-period oceans (1000-720 million years ago) may have driven the diversification and ecological rise of eukaryotic organisms. The research, led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, involves collecting and integrating paleontological, geochemical,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $411,079 to the University of California, Santa Barbara to conduct a collaborative multi-year research investigation on the diversification and ecological rise of eukaryotes during the Tonian period (1000-720 million years ago). The research team, which includes seven principal investigators, one postdoctoral fellow, five graduate students, and two undergraduate students, will...
This Project Grant award of $457,737 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research by the California Academy of Sciences to model marine paleocommunity dynamics across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event 251 million years ago. The research aims to challenge uniformitarian assumptions in reconstructing ancient ecosystem food webs and test whether post-extinction communities functioned differently from those during...
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...
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 $270,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship beginning in July 2025. The research will investigate the microbial ecology and environmental adaptations of a recently discovered multicellular choanoflagellate species, Barroeca monosierra, isolated from Mono Lake, California. The project aims to provide insights into how environmental forces may have shaped the early...
This $204,499 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program supports research to document and preserve the evolutionary and environmental history of silica-bearing freshwater protists (microscopic organisms). The objective is to synthesize extensive fossil data on these microbes in order to improve scientists' ability to model future impacts of environmental changes on Earth's ecosystems and better understand the evolutionary...
This Project Grant award of $285,980 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to examine the effects of early land plant evolution on the Earth system. The key products of this research include: Generating new high-resolution field-based geochemical and paleontological data from the Canadian Arctic to reconstruct ecological and environmental changes concurrent with the...