Project Grant 2547017
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $766,278 to the University of Florida under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct a collaborative research project examining long-term fire regimes across the Hawaiian Islands. The three-year project, which commenced August 1, 2026 and concludes July 31, 2029, generates paleofire records spanning 2,000 years using sediment cores extracted from lakes and wetlands across...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $586,069 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) awarded January 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for December 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, FIRE-NET: PALEOFIRE-AFRICA, establishes data standards and infrastructure for long-term fire-ecosystem resilience by mobilizing paleofires (ancient fire) data onto the Neotoma...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Yale University received a $197,292 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, to support the Collaborative Research: Fire-Net: Paleofire-Africa initiative. The primary deliverable is the development and implementation of global data standards for paleofires (historical fire records) and the mobilization of African paleofire data onto the...
- 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 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 research project examines the effects of short-interval wildfires on plant-soil-microbial interactions in Pacific Northwest conifer forests, with the primary deliverable being scientific knowledge that predicts soil recovery...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Trustees of Tufts College received a $646,945 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on February 15, 2026, for collaborative research addressing post-fire property decontamination and economic recovery in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire zones. The project, slated for completion by January 31, 2029, will deliver three primary research products: fundamental scientific...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation awarded $1,360,564 through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Nevada, Reno to conduct collaborative research on wildfire fuel accumulation and fire regime modeling. Beginning January 1, 2026, and extending through December 31, 2028, this Project Grant supports fundamental research examining how flammable materials such as fallen leaves and dead wood accumulate over time and influence future fire activity across...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $989,332 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the collaborative research initiative "FIRE-MODEL: Advanced AI Framework to Improve Understanding and Prediction of Wildland Fire." Spanning from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, this award funds the development of innovative large-scale artificial...
- Federal Grant Award Summary American University received a $867,245 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) beginning January 1, 2026 and concluding December 31, 2028. The award supports collaborative research to develop an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) framework for improved detection and forecasting of wildland fires using multimodal geoscientific data. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded Princeton University a $364,804 Project Grant (CFDA 47.074—Biological Sciences) effective October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2026. This collaborative research initiative integrates contemporary experimental and observational data with paleoecological records spanning 20,000 years to elucidate the relative controls of herbivory and climate on fire activity across savanna ecosystems. The project synthesizes nine present-day herbivore exclusion experiments, spatially extensive remote sensing and ground-based monitoring networks, and five paleoecological archives from Eastern African lake systems (Chala, Tanganyika, Victoria, and Turkana) and terrestrial sites (Lukenya Hill) to test the hypothesis that grazer-mediated fire suppression varies significantly with environmental context. Deliverables include strengthened paleorecords reconstructing fire history and herbivory dynamics; new datasets characterizing fire-vegetation-herbivory interactions under contemporary conditions; and museum exhibits at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Natural History Museum of Utah that communicate fire's role in Earth systems dynamics across temporal scales. The project advances understanding of a previously underemphasized fire driver in global biogeochemical cycles while contributing to the STEM workforce through mentorship of undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral associates engaged in this interdisciplinary research effort.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $364.8k | 11/21/25 |