Project Grant 2553902
- Federal 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) to digitize and integrate a large collection of mollusk specimens into the Eastern Seaboard Thematic Collections Network (TCN). Over the three-year performance period (June 1, 2026–May 31, 2029), AMNH will database approximately 40,000 uncatalogued mollusk lots...
- 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 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 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 $399,978 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) beginning May 15, 2026, with completion targeted for April 30, 2028. This award supports phylogenomic and biogeographic research on Tityus, the world's most speciose scorpion genus. The primary deliverables include a comprehensive, time-calibrated phylogenetic...
- 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...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded $932,855 to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on September 15, 2026, with a completion deadline of August 31, 2029. The project delivers modernized cryogenic storage infrastructure for the museum's zoological specimen collection by upgrading animal tissue sample preservation from conventional freezers...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $168,890 to Ohio University from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The funding will support curating, digitizing, and disseminating results from an extensive collection of late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from Madagascar housed at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Key deliverables include preparing, cataloging, and digitizing the 25,000-specimen collection to modern...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074) awarded $300,663 to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for a five-year collaborative research project spanning July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030. This US-South Africa partnership investigates terrestrial biodiversity dynamics during the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum (approximately 95 million years ago) to provide real-world paleoclimate data...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded $974,848 to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on August 1, 2026, with a completion date of July 31, 2029. This Project Grant supports the digitization and re-housing of a historically significant paleontological collection comprising approximately 350,000 invertebrate fossil specimens (organized into roughly 50,000 lots) donated to AMNH by Columbia University in 2022. The collection spans over half a billion years of Earth's history and includes trilobites, ammonites, and corals collected between the 1850s and 1970s, with specimens that contributed foundational understanding of continental drift and sea-level change. The primary products and services delivered include replacement of degraded specimen cabinetry, production of specimen photographs and associated data records, and public dissemination of digitized collection information through AMNH's online database and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The project will also generate workforce development through training of undergraduate interns and an early-career project assistant in taxonomy, digitization, and generative artificial intelligence applications. Complementary deliverables include public engagement through new web content. By unlocking broad accessibility to this collection for the first time in decades, the award creates expanded research opportunities for the biological sciences research community and supports STEM education initiatives.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $974.8k | 6/16/26 |