Project Grant 2622237
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $1,052,202 in Project Grant funding to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. (effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2030) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support collaborative research on lake ecosystem metabolism. The primary deliverable is the Global Lake Metabolism Repository (GLAMR), a large-scale public data repository that will synthesize daily...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Science Museum of Minnesota received a $459,803 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop comprehensive frameworks for understanding global riverine solute regimes and watershed-scale controls on river biogeochemical signals. The project will harmonize...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. received a $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031. This Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) renewal award supports continuation of the Baltimore Urban Watershed Studies, an ongoing research initiative that has generated more than 25 years of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $655,198 to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a collaborative research initiative titled "Islands in the Stream: The Critical Role of Bryospheres in Small Streams and River Networks" (Award Date: September 1, 2025; Completion Date: August 31, 2028). This project delivers fundamental ecological research examining the role of bryophytes—including...
- Federal Grant Award Summary This $606,871 Project Grant, awarded July 15, 2025, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports collaborative research examining how nutrient availability drove eukaryotic diversification during the Tonian Period (1000–720 million years ago). The research initiative brings together seven principal investigators, one postdoctoral fellow, five graduate students, and two...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Oregon State University received a $292,970 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences program) effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, titled "ULTRA-DATA: Developing Global Riverine Solute Regime and Synchrony Frameworks for Understanding Watershed-Scale Controls on River Biogeochemical Signals," delivers comprehensive data...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology is awarding $547,973 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (awarded August 1, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2030) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for collaborative research on lake ecosystem metabolism. The primary deliverable is the Global Lake Metabolism Repository (GLAMR), a large-scale public data repository that will synthesize daily ecosystem...
- This $396,079 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) aims to investigate how bacteria and biofilm growth in river sediments regulate the formation of low-oxygen microzones that produce the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) will perform sediment column experiments, microfluidic studies, and numerical simulations to characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics of these anoxic microzones and...
- The University of Cincinnati's Sponsored Research Services Division received a $367,829 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031. This research grant supports the development of a novel modeling framework that integrates remote sensing satellite data with deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques to generate detailed, daily estimates of total...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBETS) awarded Stony Brook University a $450,052 Project Grant effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The primary deliverable is fundamental and applied research investigating azolla, a fast-growing aquatic fern, as a soil amendment for carbon sequestration and long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide...
The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. received a $399,093 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences program) awarded September 1, 2026, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This STAR (Science, Technology, and Research) initiative develops a knowledge-guided machine learning (KGML) framework to quantify riverine nitrous oxide emissions at global scale. The project integrates a stochastic process-based model of nitrogen transformation kinetics with gradient boosting machine learning trained on observational data, delivering the most accurate, data-driven estimate of riverine nitrous oxide emissions to date. The institute compiled a comprehensive global database of approximately 10,000 nitrous oxide concentration records and 1,500 flux records from published datasets, unpublished field measurements across six continents, and National Ecological Observation Network time series. Beyond the core research deliverable, the project addresses workforce development and educational outreach objectives inherent to NSF's Biological Sciences program. The award supports training of American scientists at the intersection of biological science and data science—a high-demand field with significant economic value—and brings modern computational science curriculum into high school and community college classrooms across the Northeastern United States. These complementary outputs align with NSF's mission to strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise while advancing fundamental understanding of freshwater nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions.Project Grant Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $399.1k | 6/29/26 |