Project Grant 2505780
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $151,529 to researchers at the University of Minnesota to study the chemical nature of iron-organic carbon complexes derived from lignin, a primary precursor for soil organic carbon. The two-year project aims to develop targeted and non-targeted methods to detect and quantify lignin-derived ligands and their iron complexes using advanced analytical techniques...
- The Regents of the University of Minnesota were awarded a three-year, $299,017 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research exploring new roles for reactive oxygen species in mediating carbon fluxes at the terrestrial-aquatic interface. The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the integrated Earth system by expanding knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences processes....
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $562,895.00 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct collaborative research on the role of the "colloidal shunt" in mediating interactions between the ocean's iron and carbon cycles. The research aims to better characterize the mechanisms and linkages between dissolved organic carbon, iron-binding organic ligands, and the formation of particulate iron in the ocean....
- This Project Grant award of $270,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship titled "Grounded in Volatility: Using Volatile Organic Compounds to Illuminate Plant-Influenced Microbial Phenotypes in Desert Soils." The fellowship will support research and training aimed at advancing methods for measuring microbes in soil and revealing new ways that plant roots shape soil ecosystems. The research will...
- This Project Grant award for $382,137 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at the University of Minnesota to investigate the composition and iron oxidation state of the minerals lawsonite and epidote in subducted oceanic crust. The research aims to understand the controls on the conditions and fluid sources that influence mineral composition and iron chemistry in these hydrous minerals as oceanic plates subduct and transform at depth. Two...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $178,353 awarded to Concordia College Corporation will support research investigating the magnetic properties of iron oxide minerals and their phase conversions through cation doping. The award falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Undergraduate students will engage in the research work during...
- This $304,748 Project Grant awarded on May 15, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop a new biological input for agriculture that offers improved soil fertility, reduced reliance on chemical inputs, and enhanced crop resilience. The project will deploy microbial strain engineering methods to strengthen the native capacity of beneficial soil microbes for accelerating mineral rock weathering and...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,255,705 will support research at the University of Missouri System from August 2022 to July 2025 to advance understanding of autonomous leaf-specific iron deficiency responses in plants. Funded through the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the project aims to identify transcriptional complexes necessary to regulate iron homeostasis in leaves through time-series gene expression analysis, high-throughput DNA-protein and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $499,036 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to investigate the role of phosphorus in stabilizing soil organic matter. The project aims to describe the mechanisms by which organic and inorganic phosphorus control the adsorption and stabilization of mineral-associated organic matter through laboratory and field experiments, spectroscopic and microscopic analysis. The research...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program, awarded to the San Diego State University Research Foundation, will support research to investigate how microbial social interactions within soil communities influence ecosystem-level carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling. The $982,308 award, effective April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027, will combine molecular and computational approaches to study bacterial communication and division of labor...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the University of Minnesota to investigate how plant root exudates influence the stability and carbon fractionation of iron oxide-organic matter (Fe-OM) assemblages in soils and sediments. The $415,000 grant, awarded from September 2025 through August 2028, aims to: 1) quantify the distribution and fractionation of organic matter during Fe(II)-catalyzed iron oxide transformations, 2) identify which exudate model compounds and whole root exudates are most effective at promoting the release of Fe and OM from Fe-OM, and 3) develop open-source machine learning algorithms to predict how organic molecules interact with minerals in soil. The research findings are expected to elucidate mechanisms of organic matter stabilization and disruption, with potential applications for increasing soil carbon and supporting sustainable land use.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $415.0k | 8/26/25 |