Project Grant 2628989
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $444,727 will fund research to define the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales through integrated monitoring, stalagmite studies, and proxy system modeling. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support four key objectives from August 2022 to July 2025. First, the grantee will develop a process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers through cave monitoring. Second, they...
- The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering awarded the University of Connecticut $50,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.079) to support collaborative research on fire impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. The research investigates how wildfires affect soil carbon storage, subsurface carbon cycling, and plant and microbial communities by leveraging cave mineral deposits as archives of past fire...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Vanderbilt University received a $999,457 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2029. The award funds research to establish a framework for understanding wildfire propagation across multiple scales—from global weather patterns to individual building-level fire behavior in communities. The project will develop and validate the...
- This $178,567 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research defining the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales. The Ohio State University will conduct integrated monitoring of karst systems, develop stalagmite proxy records, and build a karst system model linking hydroclimate and fire proxies to environmental drivers. Researchers will analyze ten stalagmites defining latitudinal and coastal-Sierra Nevada transects...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $201,625 Project Grant to Bates College under the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to research the relationship between fire and climate in the Eastern United States. The project aims to better understand long-term fire-climate dynamics in the region and inform climate adaptation efforts related to wildfire risk. Key activities include developing and analyzing Holocene-era paleoclimate data to characterize regional fire patterns prior...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $270,278 to the University of Rhode Island will support research to better understand the long-term relationship between climate and fire activity in the eastern United States. The project aims to analyze sediment records spanning the Holocene (last ~12,000 years) to compare historical fire and climate patterns prior to significant human impacts. This empirical data will be used to quantify...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded The Trustees of Princeton University $924,171 on September 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop comprehensive fire activity maps and datasets spanning the last 22,000 years for improved fire modeling and management. Princeton will synthesize published paleofire literature into a multiproxy dataset covering fire activity since the last glacial maximum, produce definitive time series and maps of...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $627,539 will fund research to define the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales through integrated monitoring, stalagmite studies, and proxy system modeling. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support four key objectives from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. First, the researchers will develop a process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers through cave monitoring....
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $552,632 provides funding from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025 to support the research project "Defining the Paleoclimate-Fire Relationship in CA Across Temporal Scales Through Integrated Monitoring, Stalagmite Studies, and Proxy System Modeling." The award is made under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support basic research expanding understanding of the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the University of...
- This three-year, $473,885 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research defining the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales. The award supports four objectives: 1) Monitoring three karst systems to develop process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers; 2) Building a multi-proxy karst system model linking said proxies to environmental drivers; 3) Developing comparable proxy records from ten...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded Vanderbilt University $21,700 on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate fire impacts on terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling through cave archives. The research examines wildfire occurrence history and subsurface carbon effects using cave mineral deposits as paleoenvironmental records. The project conducts multi-year surface-to-cave monitoring at two sites: a northern Wyoming sagebrush steppe landscape managed with prescribed burns and a mixed conifer forest in northern California adjacent to recent wildfires including the 2025 Green Fire. Work includes radiocarbon dating to determine carbon age, analysis of organic carbon and fire biomarkers in stalagmites to reconstruct past fire activity, and assessment of carbon transport, transformation, and biogeochemistry in response to fire. The research generates fire history records extending beyond the instrumental period and quantifies subsurface transit times of mobile carbon species following fire disturbance. Results support refinement of carbon cycle models, improved estimates of fire impacts on terrestrial carbon export, and collaboration with public and private land managers overseeing fire-impacted landscapes to translate findings for local stakeholders. Performance occurs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a period of performance extending from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2030.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $21.7k | 7/17/26 |