Project Grant 2530202
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded $112,297 to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego on September 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study Early Eocene fossil plant assemblages from 12 sites across Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. The project will establish precise chronologies for the fossil sites, develop a comprehensive taxonomic dataset of fossil plants including leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded the University of Wyoming $343,318 on September 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study Early Eocene plant fossils from 12 sites across Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah spanning high elevation, mountain-proximal, basin interior, and paleofluvial settings. The project will establish precise chronologies for each site, develop a comprehensive taxonomic dataset of fossil plants including leaves, flowers, fruits,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $799,458 Project Grant to the University of Florida (UF) for the 3-year period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund collaborative research to integrate plant traits, phylogenies, and distributional data to forecast the risks and resilience of North American plant communities in response to climate and land use changes. The...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $396,676 project grant to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. The grant will fund research to investigate the early history of tropical forests and the rise of flowering plants during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 100-145 million years ago. The researchers will examine well-preserved Early Cretaceous plant fossils from Colombia and Ecuador to reconstruct past vegetation...
- The University of Florida received a three-year $185,386 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of mammals in the first seven million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. The research team will generate and integrate fossil mammal and climate proxy records across eastern Montana to provide a detailed view of continental ecosystem changes from the end-Cretaceous...
- This $599,996 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Baylor University on April 1, 2024. The project, titled "Cells to Ecosystems: Fossil Xylem is the Missing Link in Reconstructing Water Use by Plants, Forests, and Global Vegetation in Deep Time", aims to establish a database of plant stem traits from fossil xylem to understand how plant communities responded to major ancient climate change events. Key objectives include...
- 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...
- The Research Foundation of the City University of New York received a three-year, $114,348 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to support collaborative research on paleoenvironmental and paleoecological responses to climate change in the early Eocene climatic optimum. The grant falls under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and...
- The University of Florida was awarded a $128,542 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to explore the dynamic interaction between pyrogenic carbon and extracellular enzymes and its impacts on organic matter cycling in fire-impacted environments. The research is expected to strengthen fundamental scientific understanding of the integrated...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $518,907 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, to conduct collaborative research on how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. This research, funded under NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will examine ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the K-Pg boundary in the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded the University of Florida $267,995 on September 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study Early Eocene plant fossils across 12 sites in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah spanning high-elevation to basin-interior paleoenvironmental settings. The research team will establish refined chronologies for the sites, develop a comprehensive taxonomic dataset of fossil plants including leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and pollen, document insect feeding damage on host plants, and reconstruct ancient environmental conditions through sedimentology, floristics, and functional trait analysis. The project compares floristic composition, insect folivory damage, paleoecology, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions across sites to investigate the relative importance of environmental conditions, biotic interactions, dispersal, and chance in determining forest composition and ecology. The team will benchmark these Rocky Mountain Early Eocene assemblages against coeval floras from Eurasia and the Neotropics to address how Early Eocene warming affected intercontinental plant dispersal. Work is performed at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida through August 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $268.0k | 7/24/26 |