Project Grant 2618996
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a 3-year, $600,000 Project Grant to the Field Museum of Natural History, a non-profit research institution in Chicago, IL, to investigate ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Synthesizing geochronologic age controls and precisely identifying the Permo-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Analyzing shifts...
- This federal Project Grant award of $143,674 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) will fund collaborative research to examine how terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The research team from the College of Charleston will collect and analyze fossil, geochemical, and environmental data from three sites in the western United States to document the patterns...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a collaborative research project to examine how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. The $234,197 award, with a project period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028, will fund paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $212,687 Project Grant to the Smithsonian Institution under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the recovery of terrestrial ecosystems following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction event. The grant will support extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of fossil collections and new field data from the Rocky Mountain region to reveal the patterns and timeline of how land-based life rebuilt after...
- 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...
- This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $174,000 to study mammals as indicators of ecological recovery following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support basic research exploring the relationship between topographic diversity and the reestablishment of mammal populations in the aftermath of the extinction. By strengthening understanding of the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $291,498 Project Grant to the University of Oregon under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to examine the ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/PG) boundary in the Rocky Mountain region. The research will involve extensive paleontological and geochemical analyses of existing fossil collections and new field data to reveal the variability in the timing and pattern of terrestrial ecosystem...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences awarded a Project Grant totaling $130,076 to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) effective July 1, 2025, with completion anticipated by June 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative focuses on modeling marine paleocommunity dynamics across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event (251 million years ago) to advance understanding of ancient...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $518,907 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, Boulder, to conduct collaborative research on how terrestrial ecosystems were rebuilt following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. This research, funded under NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will examine ecological and environmental changes that occurred on land across the K-Pg boundary in the...
- This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on July 15, 2025, supports a collaborative research initiative totaling $411,079 through June 30, 2030. The primary deliverable is a multi-scale, multi-proxy investigation examining how marine nutrient availability during the Tonian Period (1000-720 million years ago) may have driven eukaryotic diversification and ecosystem transformation. The...
This collaborative research Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $180,504 in funding to Western University of Health Sciences for a multidisciplinary paleontological and geochronologic study of ecosystem recovery following the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) approximately 251.9 million years ago. The award, effective February 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026, supports research investigating vertebrate survival and recovery patterns in South Africa's Karoo Basin to develop evolutionary models applicable to understanding modern biodiversity loss and future conservation outcomes. The research deliverables include the assembly of a stratigraphic database of fossil vertebrate occurrences, precise geochronologic age controls establishing the Permo-Triassic boundary position, analysis of ecomorphological and body size shifts within a high-resolution stratigraphic framework, and investigation of community structure influences on vertebrate diversity during the Early Triassic climate crisis. The project incorporates public outreach components through educational theater programming conducted in local South African languages, thereby integrating scientific knowledge dissemination with broader impacts consistent with NSF funding priorities for fundamental biological research addressing critical environmental change adaptation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $180.5k | 2/26/26 |