Project Grant 2535903
- This $1,360,564 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports a collaborative research project titled "FIRE-MODEL: Using Multitemporal Ecosystem Energetics to Understand Changes to Fuels and Future Fire Regimes." The project aims to examine and quantify the processes of fuel accumulation and decomposition in order to improve models for predicting future fire regimes across western North America. Key activities include...
- This $1,481,250 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support a collaborative research project at North Carolina State University (NC State) to investigate the impacts of rapid shifts between extreme wet and dry weather conditions on fuel loading and wildfire risk in the Southeast United States. The project will characterize these hydroclimatic events and their relationship to observed wildfires, conduct field experiments to...
- This $162,477 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into the long-term relationships between human fire management practices and environmental change in high-elevation ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. The key objectives are to: conduct archaeological surveys of subalpine ecosystems, interpret early Holocene subsistence patterns and changes in cultural burning practices, and investigate...
- This Project Grant award of $411,021.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project titled "FIRE-NET: GRASS FIRES: A CONVERGENT NETWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING FUELS AND FIRE RISK IN GRASSLANDS". The project aims to fill critical knowledge gaps around how grassland fuel structures vary across space and time, enabling improved assessment and mitigation of wildfire risk in grassland ecosystems. Key activities include...
- This $3,999,959 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support research at Boise State University to advance the use of prescribed fire and managed wildfires for wildfire mitigation in the western United States. The project will generate novel insights into the multi-dimensional socio-environmental impacts of managed fires, integrating advanced statistical methods, machine learning, and ecosystem modeling. It will...
- This federal Project Grant award for $335,911, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports collaborative research to investigate how interactions between wildfires and an emerging plant disease may lead to permanent shifts in coastal forests to shrublands in the western United States. The research team from the University of Georgia Research Foundation will: 1) quantify the sensitivity of forest-to-shrubland transitions to...
- Under a $1,179,479 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) is conducting research to understand the impact of fuel treatments on wildfire behavior and forest carbon storage. The key objectives are to: 1) Establish the importance of heterogeneous and multi-scale surface fuel attributes on fire characteristics like temperature, flame length, and...
- This federal Project Grant award of $48,896 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research network focused on understanding grassland wildfire risk in the Southern Great Plains region of the United States. The project aims to fill critical knowledge gaps around how grassland fuel structures vary across space and time, which is essential for effectively managing fire risk in these ecosystems. The key products and services...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $176,388 to Oregon State University (OSU) aims to quantify the production of pyrogenic carbon (charcoal) during wildfires in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest region and examine how this altered carbon affects soil carbon cycling during ecosystem regeneration. The study will leverage a unique dataset on the 2023 Lookout Fire in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest to (i)...
- This $692,182 Project Grant was awarded on July 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Wyoming (UW) to conduct research on the impact of drought and fire on western U.S. forests. The key objectives are to 1) quantify the adaptive traits of tree species in the west and publish the results in an open-access database, and 2) quantify the effects of these traits on tree demographic rates in response to changing drought and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program provides $156,663 to the University of Washington to investigate how fuel accumulation and fire activity are changing over time in Western North America. The key products and services delivered under this grant include: Examining, quantifying, and reducing uncertainty in models of the slow but steady process of fuel accumulation in ecosystems. This involves using long-term empirical datasets on litter decomposition to perform uncertainty analysis and multi-objective assessment of decomposition models. Using the improved fuel accumulation models to investigate how changes in fuel loads and flammability will influence rates of energy conversion at both slow and fast timescales across watersheds. This research will support improved predictions of future fire regimes. The project engages with land management partners to co-develop the model improvements and design relevant management scenarios to inform decision-making. The award period is from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $156.7k | 8/4/25 |