Project Grant F20AP11534

This federal Project Grant award of $251,552, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports collaborative research at Mississippi State University to identify unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids that carry red wolf "ghost" ancestry. The project aims to develop a non-invasive genetic tool to monitor and assess the ecological conditions that promote the persistence of this red wolf genetic variation...

This $118,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to The Trustees of Princeton University supports collaborative research to identify unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids to revive genomic variation in the endangered red wolf. The project aims to develop a non-invasive genetic tool to monitor and assess the ecological conditions that promote the persistence of red wolf "ghost" ancestry in coyote...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $207,612 to Michigan Technological University to conduct research on identifying unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids to revive genomic variation in the endangered red wolf. The project aims to develop non-invasive genetic tools to monitor the persistence of red wolf "ghost" ancestry in coyote populations, and use this...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA 16.560 National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program provides $232,857 to North Carolina State University to develop and evaluate an advanced DNA sequencing method for identifying the source species of leather evidence used in forensic wildlife casework. The project aims to create a custom hybridization panel to enrich and sequence highly fragmented mitochondrial...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $300,000 provides funding from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026 to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct research on techniques for minimally invasive genetic sampling and long-term cryogenic preservation of wildlife samples, with a focus on the American red fox and American pine marten in the Great Lakes region. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Collecting 15...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $511,998 to the University of California, Santa Cruz to investigate the effects of rapid population decline and past conservation management on brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations in the lower 48 states. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year project include: Developing new genetic tools to rapidly sequence and identify individual brown bears using...

This Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), provides $100,000 to the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation to complete the development of genomic-based technology to increase the speed and efficiency of selecting white pine blister rust resistant and climate adapted whitebark pine seed sources for conservation and restoration efforts across its natural range in the U.S....

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $414,000 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology. The fellowship will fund research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate evolutionary mechanisms that maintain genomic divergence and facilitate local adaptation in gray wolves. The fellow will analyze approximately 1,000 gray wolf genome sequences combined with environmental...

This community-based project combines Indigenous knowledge with genomic study of three salmon species on the Kenai Peninsula through the generation of long-read de novo genomes from salmon remains recovered from archaeological contexts. These will be compared to present-day salmon genomes from the same location to explore genomic architecture and evolutionary history over two thousand years. Tribal members, students, and post-doctoral fellows will collaborate in salmon genome analysis, while...

This three-year, $346,278 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research investigating Pleistocene carnivore ecology using fossil records from the McKittick asphalt seep and Rancho La Brea tar pits lagerstatte sites. The researchers will examine dietary patterns in dire wolves and coyotes through ecomorphology, tooth wear analysis, stable isotope analysis, and geochronology to determine food...