Project Grant 2556197
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $681,897 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will produce comprehensive land cover reconstructions spanning the last 21,000 years across North America by integrating fossil pollen datasets from the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $345,312 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded June 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2027. This collaborative research initiative will generate a data-intensive framework for understanding nitrogen-fixing plant-bacterial symbiosis across North American continental scales. The primary...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $566,575 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2028, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project will modernize the cyberinfrastructure of the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI), one of the nation's principal repositories for environmental and ecological research data. The deliverables include...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded University of Wisconsin-Madison a $970,143 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2030. This collaborative research initiative, conducted in partnership with the Savanna Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting agroforestry practices in the Midwest, will generate scientific knowledge and methodologies...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded $208,552 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2030. This collaborative research project will develop the Global Lake Metabolism Repository (GLAMR), a large-scale public data synthesis infrastructure consolidating ecosystem metabolism data from at least 300 globally distributed lakes, representing...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $619,353 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on December 1, 2025, with a completion date of November 30, 2028. The award funds research to elucidate mechanisms by which stress-adapted microbial communities enhance tree tolerance to environmental stressors including cold, heat, and drought. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded The Washington University a Project Grant totaling $1,115,181 (Award Date: July 1, 2025; Completion Date: June 30, 2028) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This award funds fundamental research investigating the molecular mechanisms by which plants utilize biomolecular condensates to sense environmental stimuli and reprogram their epigenomes in response to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $100,704 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison on September 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding how extreme climate and weather events affect insect populations across the contiguous United States. The research focuses on three ecologically and societally important insect groups—mosquitoes,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology totaling $270,000.00 (CFDA 47.074) to support research on plant carbon allocation strategies in African savanna ecosystems. Initiated on July 1, 2025, and concluding June 30, 2028, this project grant will deliver scientific research outputs examining how rainfall and herbivory influence tree resource allocation across species, with the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded $686,065 to Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. on July 15, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research examining the role of dihydrouridine (DHU), an RNA covalent modification, in plant stress tolerance. The three-year project, scheduled for completion on June 30, 2029, will deliver fundamental research outputs including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $422,039 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2026. This collaborative research initiative, titled "PhenoBase: Community, Infrastructure, and Data for Global-Scale Analyses of Plant Phenology," develops machine learning methods to extract phenological data—information about plant life-cycle events such as leaf growth, flowering, and fruiting—from digitized herbarium specimens and plant photographs. The project integrates these extracted data with existing phenological monitoring resources to create an open-access, global plant phenology database accessible to the research community. The primary deliverables include the PhenoBase database platform, harmonized and semantically integrated phenological datasets derived from herbarium collections and community science initiatives, and machine learning algorithms and protocols for automated phenological data extraction from visual specimens. Additionally, the award supports workforce development, providing training in programming and data science skills to one postdoctoral researcher and multiple graduate and undergraduate students. This infrastructure addresses a critical gap in ecosystem research by consolidating historically fragmented phenological data, enabling global-scale analyses essential for understanding ecosystem function, detecting ecosystem changes, and predicting impacts of climate and land-use changes on terrestrial ecosystems.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 1/26/26 | ||
| Not listed | $422.0k | 12/3/25 |