Project Grant 2516454
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program provides $681,897 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct collaborative research on assessing the ecoclimate sensitivity of North American biome-scale ecotones to environmental changes since the last ice age. The project will employ state-of-the-art open databases and Earth system models to map past biome distributions in North America and measure how far these biomes...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant, awarded on August 15, 2024 for $214,838, will support collaborative research to study how local adaptation and climatic extremes shape continental-scale changes in distribution and abundance under climate change. The project will use transplant experiments and long-term monitoring of two widespread tundra plant species across 29 populations in western North America. The research aims to develop...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding over 3 years starting June 1, 2025 to investigate how an alpine plant species in the Rocky Mountains will respond and adapt to climate change. The research aims to understand how population responses to microclimate variation impact range shifts under climate change scenarios. The project will use field and greenhouse experiments, genetic analyses, and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $2,275,000 Project Grant to New Mexico State University to study the shift from grasslands to shrublands in drylands of the Southwestern U.S. The research aims to advance understanding of this ecological change, including how weather, land management, and biotic interactions influence the transition, and how it impacts carbon and nutrient cycling, soil erosion, and human wellbeing. The project will also...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to improve understanding of how forest structure and function influence "ecological climate" - the climate experienced by organisms within forest canopies. The $424,492 project, running from August 2024 to July 2028, will integrate data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) into advanced forest canopy models to evaluate how forest diversity...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will investigate the long-term relationship between climate factors and changes in grassland-shrubland vegetation in New Mexico over the past 30,000 years. The $354,194 project will utilize geochemical data from ancient soils to study the impacts of temperature, evaporation, and other environmental variables on the shifting dominance of shrubs versus grasses. The research will provide a historical...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $233,888.00 to the Science Museum of Minnesota to conduct a long-term research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: LTREB: DYNAMICS OF EXTREME CLIMATE DISTURBANCE IN ARCTIC LAKES (DECADAL)." The project investigates how Arctic lake ecosystems rapidly transitioned to a dramatically different state following extreme weather events in West Greenland, with the goal of...
- This $159,804 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a collaborative research study to synthesize long-term, multi-site data on the demographic responses of two tundra plant species to environmental variation across western North America. The goal is to understand how climate-driven changes in survival, growth, and reproduction of these plant populations could impact their geographical ranges. The research team at the...
- This $2,945,234 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research integrating paleogenomics, ecology, and geology to predict organism-environment coupled evolution during rapid warming and ice sheet retreat. The Research Foundation for the State University of New York will receive funding from Feb 1, 2023 to Jan 31, 2027 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research will examine ecosystem responses to ice-age environmental change in Southeast Alaska, a region...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $912,952 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on the diversity, distribution, and resilience of North American plants. The primary objectives are to: 1) Assemble detailed historical and current data on trait diversity and endemism of North American plants to understand the long-term eco-evolutionary drivers of...
This Project Grant award of $457,275.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project led by Northern Arizona University (NAU) to assess the ecoclimate sensitivity of major North American biome-scale ecotones since the last ice age. The project aims to precisely map past biome distributions and quantify how far these biomes moved in response to changes in temperature and rainfall patterns as the ice sheets melted and ecosystems transformed. The research will analyze fossil pollen data and employ paleoclimate data assimilation models to reconstruct past land cover and environmental conditions across four key ecotones: the arctic treeline, northern temperate-to-cold-hardy tree transition, eastern Great Plains, and Great Plains warm-season to cool-season grass boundary. This information is directly relevant to land managers and policymakers seeking to understand and mitigate risks associated with current ecosystem changes. The project will also develop educational materials based on the data visualizations and insights to share with multiple student audiences through in-person and online venues. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $457.3k | 7/29/25 |