Project Grant 2514541
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $109,748 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Wisconsin System for the "Collaborative Research: Sustained Resources: The Paleobiology Database 2.0" project. This 3-year project, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will undertake a comprehensive technological overhaul of the Paleobiology Database (PBDB), one of the most widely used fossil databases in the world. Key objectives...
- This $108,236 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a high-quality, expert-curated open data resource for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental data. The award will enhance Neotoma's systems to enable higher rates of data additions, streamlined data curation, and improved support for new communities studying biodiversity dynamics driven by environmental change. Key activities include...
- This $192,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the ongoing development and enhancement of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a leading open-access repository for paleontological and paleoenvironmental data. The primary objectives of this 3-year grant are to: 1) Improve systems and workflows to enable higher rates of data ingestion and streamlined curation, 2) Enhance metadata and interoperability to better support AI/ML...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $177,674 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA# 47.050) to enhance the discoverability and use of paleontological specimen data. The 2-year project aims to: (1) connect existing open science cyberinfrastructure resources to better integrate data from fossil and biological collections; (2) democratize access to digitized paleontological data for research; and (3) expand...
- This $493,248 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will enable the integration of ancient environmental DNA (aDNA) data into a linked open ecosystem of paleoecological and bioinformatic resources. The project will build the advanced data platforms and social infrastructure needed to support global-scale biodiversity research at unprecedented taxonomic resolution, coverage, and temporal extent. Key activities include...
- This $923,098 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to strengthen global biodiversity research by building informatics capacity for ancient environmental DNA (aDNA) analysis. The grant will enable the integration of aDNA data into an open data ecosystem and establish a governance framework and social infrastructure to ensure high-quality, interoperable aDNA data and analytics. Specifically, the project will extend...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $457,737 to the California Academy of Sciences to conduct collaborative research on modeling marine paleocommunity dynamics across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event. The project aims to reconstruct ancient marine ecosystem food webs and test uniformitarian assumptions underlying paleo-food web reconstruction. The research involves analyzing fossil specimens from museum...
- This $130,076 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant funds a collaborative research project to model marine paleocommunity dynamics across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event 251 million years ago. The project aims to reconstruct ancient ecosystem food webs and test uniformitarian assumptions about paleo-food web...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $282,421, with a period of performance from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, is funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The project aims to develop a modern chronostratigraphy and paleoenvironment reconstruction for the Naran Bulak and Gashato Formations in Mongolia, which contain an important fossil mammal record from the early Paleogene period (66-48 million years ago). The research will apply high-precision...
- 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, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will fund a collaborative research initiative to transform the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) into a more modern and flexible digital system, called PBDB 2.0. The $331,324 award, with a project period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will be used to: 1) overhaul the PBDB's data model, database, and application logic to integrate functions from the Integrative Paleobotany Portal (PBOT), streamline data entry, and improve technical sustainability; 2) create a more capable application programming interface; and 3) construct a new web application. These efforts aim to make the PBDB, one of the most prominent and widely used fossil databases, more useful for a broad community of researchers, educators, students, and the general public in the Earth and life sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $331.3k | 8/22/25 |