Project Grant 2534963
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $766,278 to the University of Florida on August 1, 2026, through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research on long-term fire regime changes in the Hawaiian Islands. The project, which runs through July 31, 2029, will generate a 2,000-year fire history using sediment cores extracted from lakes and wetlands across five Hawaiian islands...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded a Project Grant of $364,804 to The Trustees of Princeton University (effective October 1, 2025, through December 31, 2026) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This collaborative research initiative integrates modern experimental and observational data with paleoecological records spanning 20,000 years to quantify how grazing herbivores and climate conditions jointly control...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Hawaii at Manoa received an $850,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This award supports fundamental research evaluating the functional impacts of ash deposition from terrestrial wildfires on tropical coral reef ecosystems and their associated microbial communities. The project will...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Oregon State University received a $709,775 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2029. The project delivers scientific research examining the effects of short-interval wildfires on interactions among plants, soils, and microbial communities in Pacific Northwest conifer forests. Through a combination of field...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded Columbia University $327,495 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a collaborative research initiative examining how natural environmental variability affects tree growth across the United States. The project, which commenced September 1, 2026, and runs through August 31, 2031, develops improved predictive models for forest productivity responses to short-term...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities awarded $646,945 to Trustees of Tufts College on February 15, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to advance post-wildfire property and infrastructure decontamination and economic recovery efforts. This collaborative research initiative addresses critical gaps in assessing contamination from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires by examining the fundamental processes governing...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Environmental Biology, awarded $834,057 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on August 1, 2026, for a three-year project concluding July 31, 2029. The project delivers research-based products and computational tools designed to advance understanding of forest insect resilience following megafire events. Primary deliverables...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $306,789 to the University of Nevada, Reno under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a collaborative research project titled "Fire and Water in the West: Trait-Based Demographic Dynamics of Forest Communities." The four-year project, which commenced July 1, 2025 and concludes June 30, 2029, delivers quantitative research outputs identifying adaptive traits...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences program) awarded Princeton University $1.75M on July 1, 2025, for a research project extending through April 30, 2030. This Project Grant supports integrated fire management research focused on evaluating how prescribed and managed fire can effectively conserve biodiversity and ecosystem function in Brazil's Cerrado savanna. The research interrogates the...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $270,278 to the University of Rhode Island will support research to better understand the long-term relationship between climate and fire activity in the eastern United States. The project aims to analyze sediment records spanning the Holocene (last ~12,000 years) to compare historical fire and climate patterns prior to significant human impacts. This empirical data will be used to quantify...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) awarded $184,910 to Columbia University on August 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project examining long-term fire regimes in the Hawaiian Islands. The three-year project (completion date: July 31, 2029) will generate 2,000 years of wildfire history records by analyzing sediment cores from lakes and wetlands across five Hawaiian Islands (Hawai'i, Maui, Moloka'i, O'ahu, and Kaua'i). Researchers will establish standardized, high-resolution charcoal accumulation records to enable comparative analysis of fire timing and frequency across sites. The project will produce multiple research products including paleoecological datasets measuring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon isotopic composition, pollen, and plant leaf wax biomarkers to identify vegetation types and assess ecosystem resilience. These wildfire records will be synthesized with paleoclimate data, archaeological timelines, volcanic eruption histories, and environmental gradients to test hypotheses regarding fire drivers. Deliverables include publicly available datasets for researchers and resource managers, training for postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate students, and expanded public outreach partnerships with the Hawai'i Wildfire Management Organization and Pacific Fire Exchange to inform science-based wildfire management and hazard mitigation strategies in Hawai'i and other Pacific Islands.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $184.9k | 7/9/26 |