Project Grant 2508151
Award Date
7/1/25
Completion Date
6/30/28
Dollars Obligated
$270K
Federal Agency
Division of Biological Infrastructure
Awardee
Not listed
Federal Grant Program
47.074
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Granger, IN 46530, USA
Similar Awards
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award provides $270,000 in funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on studying the complex interactions between plants, animals, and people in a forest ecosystem in Madagascar. The research aims to use genetic and statistical tools to map ecological networks and understand how changes in habitat may impact the health, economy, and natural resources. The 3-year fellowship will train the...
This $414,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds postdoctoral research fellowship activities from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment and phenotypes. Specifically, the fellow will conduct multiple experiments in defaunated and intact tropical forests in Ecuador to investigate how the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology focused on the evolution of masting as a mechanism for forest resilience under climate change. The 3-year fellowship will fund research to identify genetic variants associated with reproductive traits in two pine species, examine how these variants change over time and terrain in response to temperature gradients, and determine...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $207,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2026. The fellowship supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative research...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to integrate megafauna community reassembly with ecosystem carbon cycling. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goals to strengthen the Nation's biological research enterprise and increase scientific understanding, this fellowship funding will support the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $138,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2025. The fellowship supports research and training to investigate the biogeography and community assembly of North American Carboniferous ecosystems. Specifically, the fellow will analyze the fossil record using approaches including anatomy, geology, and ecology to determine how ancient land ecosystems responded to environmental and...
This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on examining how beneficial and antagonistic soil microbiota near dead trees influence the assembly and biodiversity of the next tree generation in northern temperate forests. The research aims to advance understanding of the role of soil microbial legacies as drivers of plant coexistence. The fellowship will involve a reciprocal...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship to study the dynamics of the marsh-forest ecotone in the Chesapeake Bay region. The key objectives are to: Employ remote sensing techniques to track the migration rates of the leading and lagging edges of the marsh-forest ecotone. Use vegetation monitoring to explore how plant communities respond to varying migration...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program will support research by Dr. Rachel Keen at Oregon State University to study the impacts of woody plant encroachment on soil hydrological processes in savanna ecosystems. The $180,000 award, running from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027, will quantify changes in rooting distributions, soil structure, seasonal soil moisture, and groundwater recharge resulting from the spread of trees into historically...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $148,000 Project Grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The fellowship will fund an early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley from October 2022 through September 2024 to investigate the spatial distribution and drivers of forest restoration reversals and successes. Specifically, the fellow will conduct biome- and property-scale geospatial analyses to...