This $224,827 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support collaborative research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to quantify how salinization impacts carbon processing across terrestrial-aquatic boundaries. The key objectives are to: 1) measure field relationships between soil and stream chemistry across a salinity gradient, 2) experimentally determine how soil salinization...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $113,613 to Purdue University to study mechanisms behind participation in conservation programs. The research will examine how financial incentives, social and cultural factors, and individual personalities and values interact to shape willingness to accept payments for environmental conservation. Researchers will combine in-depth interviews with a large-scale...
This $290,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to transform cultures of responsible research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting research on ethics expertise, self-efficacy, and research climates among STEM faculty at Virginia Tech. Based on this research, the project will develop educational interventions to empower...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $117,721 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to support the "Collaborative Research: Science with the People" project. This two-year grant, funded under the CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, will enable residents to analyze government health data to document and examine patterns of health and well-being in their...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to examine how engineering students' mental models of social-ecological systems shape their design decisions and the long-term impacts of their work. The $332,655 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027, will integrate cognitive and behavioral science,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) grant award of $121,154 to Northeastern University provides funding for a collaborative research project titled "Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science." The project aims to investigate the causes and mechanisms underlying the decline in public trust in science, with a focus on addressing both fact-level misinformation and broader trust-level threats...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support collaborative research that explores how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, especially when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The $148,477 project will map how these "belief networks" vary across different groups, and then design and implement...
This Project Grant award for $738,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a study examining how land management practices after government-funded property buyouts can integrate ecosystem services and community preferences to improve ecological and societal outcomes. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Conducting field research to document current land uses, estimate ecosystem...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $551,706 provides funding from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). North Carolina State University will conduct three related studies to develop and test evidence-based communication strategies for improving public perception of museum biological collections and research. A content analysis of prominent natural history museums' social media posts will examine how...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $297,513 to George Mason University to conduct collaborative research on how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, particularly when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The project aims to develop a new conceptual framework, methodological tools, and survey-based...