Project Grant 2624343
- Federal Grant Award Summary Montana State University received a $239,412 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. This EPSCOR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Research Fellows award provides fellowship support to an Associate Professor at MSU and training for a graduate student in collaboration with Dr. Romain Lavaud at...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Boise State University $299,667 on May 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support an EPSCOR Research Fellows project examining early warning signals of dryland ecosystem change. The fellowship supports an associate professor and post-doctoral scholar training at Boise State in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Rudgers at the University of New Mexico. The research integrates ecology, remote...
- Montana State University received a $189,528 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023. The award will support research investigating the effects of a dam malfunction and resulting drought on aquatic insect emergence in the Madison River in Montana. Specifically, the university will quantify salmonfly density, biomass,...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Montana State University $299,247 on December 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support an EPSCOR Research Fellows project investigating strongly interacting two-dimensional trion-polaritons for scalable on-chip quantum nonlinearities. The fellow, an assistant professor at Montana State University, will engineer light-matter interactions at the nanoscale to achieve strong interactions...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities provides $100,000 to Montana State University to support planning activities from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023. The planning efforts are being conducted under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) to analyze Montana's research capacity and infrastructure, develop a framework for an unspecified research topic of importance to the state, and identify workforce development...
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded Montana State University $636,000 on March 15, 2027, under the EPSCOR Graduate Fellowship Program to fund graduate research fellowships through February 28, 2030. The award supports graduate fellows pursuing research in chemistry, physics, and biology aligned with NSF's Biological Sciences and Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorates. Research topics include investigation of oxygen minimum zones...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded Montana State University $934,127 on July 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research on responses of butterfly and associated plant communities to aridification in mesic ecosystems of the western United States. The research will examine whether long-term changes in butterfly and plant species in montane meadows, marshes, and riparian ecosystems across the Greater Yellowstone...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded the University of Montana $349,289 on September 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to improve understanding of how natural variability in temperature and water availability affects tree growth across the United States. The project develops mechanistic predictors of tree growth responses to meteorological fluctuations on daily-to-seasonal timescales, scaling findings across forest types to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Montana State University $4.816 million on October 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support low-income, high-achieving undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in engineering and natural sciences. The project will provide scholarships of up to $15,000 for undergraduates and up to $20,000 for graduate students to 64 scholars across Montana State University and the University of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded Montana State University $760,513 on June 15, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research on positive species interactions in freshwater ecosystems. The project will quantify how abiotic context, functional traits, and spatio-temporal scale govern the strength and outcome of facilitation—positive biotic interactions in which one species modifies habitat to improve fitness...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded Montana State University $235,639 on September 1, 2027, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to support an EPSCOR Research Fellows project on vegetation phenology in grassland drought sensitivity. The award provides a fellowship to an assistant professor and training for a graduate student at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, conducting collaborative research with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The project develops earth system models to simulate how vegetation growth patterns and phenology respond to drought stress across Montana grasslands, with the goal of improving predictions of plant availability for livestock feed under drought conditions. Research activities include empirical analysis using remote sensing datasets and parameter optimization for earth system model simulations, with specific focus on testing the spring compensation hypothesis—the proposition that warmer spring temperatures during droughts enhance spring vegetation productivity and offset summer productivity losses. The work will advance understanding of vegetation phenology's role in driving variation in drought impacts across the Northern Great Plains. The award supports STEM workforce development in Montana through graduate student support and curriculum development in earth system modeling. The project runs through August 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $235.6k | 8/13/26 |