Project Grant 2449647
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award, worth $505,181.00 and effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to provide a better understanding of how grasses, a major plant type covering 40% of the Earth's terrestrial biosphere, respond to drought at cellular, physiological, and ecosystem scales. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Elucidating the physiological responses of grasses to changes...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $301,618 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program to Kansas State University (KSU) to conduct collaborative research on elucidating grass-specific responses to soil and atmospheric drought. The research aims to provide a better understanding of grass physiological responses to drought from the cellular to ecosystem scales, given the global importance of grasses and the significant gaps in understanding their...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $468,683.00 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct collaborative research on the physiological, phenological, and phylogenetic characteristics of grasses. The research aims to develop better mechanistic models to predict how grass distributions will respond to changing environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns....
- This $841,120 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research by Colorado State University to investigate the physiology, phenology, and phylogeny of grass species. The research aims to develop improved mechanistic models for predicting how grass distributions may respond to changing environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures and precipitation patterns. Specifically, the project will use...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $305,824 to Oregon State University supports research to investigate how changes in land cover and climate are impacting water and carbon cycles in grasslands. The key activities include: Quantifying how woody encroachment alters soil water flow and groundwater dynamics in the Konza Prairie research site in Kansas. Measuring the impact of woody encroachment on carbon processes like respiration and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $190,197 collaborative research project grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The project, titled "Cracking the Code of Grass Distributions: Using Physiology, Phenology, and Phylogeny to Build Better Mechanistic Distribution Models," aims to provide critical information about plant traits and...
- This two-year, $188,177 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the development of new techniques for mapping and monitoring plant drought stress using repeat hyperspectral data. The University of California, Santa Barbara will link detailed measurements of plant drought stress, water use, and water sources to remotely sensed data on plant water content. This will identify areas of drought resilience and vulnerability during an...
- This $348,691 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research by the University of Houston System to uncover the mechanisms underlying how drought impacts plant-microbe interactions and influences plant community structure. The study will use metatranscriptomics, a new molecular tool, to analyze changes in active microbial communities and functions in the soil during drought conditions. This work aims to provide...
- This $706,641 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program supports collaborative research to investigate the role of plant-soil feedbacks in promoting the resilience of pinon woodlands in the western United States to severe drought conditions. The research involves field inoculations of pinon pine seedlings with beneficial soil microbes, laboratory assays, and greenhouse experiments to understand how plant-microbe...
- This $422,183 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research by Southern Oregon University to investigate how temperature and nutrition jointly affect the migratory grasshopper, a major rangeland pest in the United States. The project will combine fieldwork, lab experiments, and computer simulations to improve ecological forecasting and inform pest management strategies to support national food security. The research will...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $283,182 to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct collaborative research on how grasses respond to soil and atmospheric drought. The primary objectives are to elucidate grass physiological responses to drought from the cellular to ecosystem scales, enhance understanding of wild grasses' drought resilience, and identify relevant physiological responses for improving drought tolerance in crop grasses. The award also supports an immersive ecophysiology workshop (Phys-Fest) for graduate students in the urban environment of Philadelphia, providing training in ecophysiological research and professional development. This research aims to address significant gaps in knowledge about grass responses to drought, which is critical given grasses' dominant coverage of the terrestrial biosphere and their importance for food production.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $283.2k | 7/21/25 |