Project Grant 2532241
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The American Museum of Natural History received a $358,801 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2030. The award funds DI-ODE (Digital Integration of Odonata), a collaborative research infrastructure initiative designed to digitize and integrate over one million dragonfly and damselfly...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) received a $433,567 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) beginning June 1, 2026, with completion targeted for May 31, 2029. The award funds the digitization and integration of AMNH's Eastern Seaboard mollusk collection—one of the seven largest mollusk collections in the United States—into the Eastern Seaboard...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Foundation received a $1,317,921 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. The award funds the acquisition of modern cabinetry infrastructure for the museum's ornithology collection, pest mitigation through cryofumigation treatment, and taxonomic resequencing of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The American Museum of Natural History received a $143,055 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop a modern chronostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental framework for Mongolia's Naran Bulak and Gashato Formations through the application of high-precision geochronological dating...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The American Museum of Natural History received a $454,476 NSF (National Science Foundation) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Postdoctoral Fellowship award, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2027, to investigate the evolutionary origins of tympanic hearing in Permian-era vertebrates. This research project will employ biomechanical modeling, phylogenetic analysis, and paleoecological approaches to determine whether the independent evolution of tympanic hearing...
- Summary The American Museum of Natural History received a $492,116 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074) awarded June 15, 2025, with completion targeted for May 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop a comprehensive genomic-architecture-aware phylogeny of all parrot species to advance understanding of gene flow between species and its impact on evolutionary tree reconstruction....
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The American Museum of Natural History received a $499,970 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The primary deliverable is scientific research investigating water concentrations in Earth's deep mantle regions, specifically the mantle transition zone (410-660 km depth) and lower mantle (660-2,900 km...
- The American Museum of Natural History was awarded a $598,311 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site award from May 15, 2023 through April 30, 2026. Through this funding, the Museum will provide research training and experiences to 36 undergraduate students over three summers, with 12 students participating each year from 2023 through 2025. The 10-week program, called...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The American Museum of Natural History received a $1,053,769 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to investigate the role of serendipity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning within informal museum settings. The award, obligated on September 15, 2025, with completion expected by August 31, 2027, supports...
- This $912,106 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports the rehousing and expansion of the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) globally significant type and rare bird specimen collection in New York City. The grant will fund: 1) replacing century-old cabinetry with 54 new compactor cabinets; 2) adding 3,037 additional rare bird specimens, a 36% increase; 3) imaging the non-passerine primary-type collection...
The American Museum of Natural History received a $399,978 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074) awarded on May 15, 2026, with a completion date of April 30, 2028. This award supports phylogenomics and biogeography research on Tityus, the world's most speciose scorpion genus found throughout the Neotropics. The project will deliver a comprehensive, time-calibrated phylogenetic tree for Tityus by sequencing ultraconserved elements (UCEs) from all major lineages across their geographic range and assembling corresponding morphological datasets to reconstruct the genus's evolutionary history and diversity patterns. The primary deliverables include a revised taxonomic classification framework for Tityus species, enhanced identification tools for public health officials and specialists, and enhanced understanding of scorpion evolution and diversification in Neotropical ecosystems. The research addresses critical gaps in knowledge regarding medically important species, as Tityus comprises over 10% of the world's scorpion species and accounts for half of all dangerous human scorpion envenomations. The project will also generate workforce development benefits through trainee expertise in genomic and morphological data collection and analysis, as well as public outreach efforts to enhance knowledge of scorpion medical importance and ecological roles in terrestrial ecosystems.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $400.0k | 5/6/26 |