Project Grant N000142612078

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) will fund a $499,999 research project at Arizona State University (ASU) to explore the dynamics of knowledge development and utilization in the field of biodiversity conservation. The project will compare the conservation knowledge referenced in Endangered Species Act recovery plans and delisting determinations to determine whether the "best available...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $113,613 to Purdue University to study mechanisms behind participation in conservation programs. The research will examine how financial incentives, social and cultural factors, and individual personalities and values interact to shape willingness to accept payments for environmental conservation. Researchers will combine in-depth interviews with a large-scale...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000 to the University of Oklahoma to advance the foundational knowledge needed to support a unified wildfire warning system capable of delivering short-term, location-specific alerts. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Improve understanding of fire-atmosphere coupling to enhance short-term, highly localized fire prediction; 2) Examine how...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $939,752 to Washington State University to conduct a 5-year research project titled "INTBIO: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PHENOTYPES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTEGRATING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SENSORY STRESSORS ACROSS BIOLOGICAL SCALES." The research aims to (1) reveal whether noise and light pollution consistently select for similar avian phenotypes across six bird species,...

This $642,666 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will fund research into fire-biotic disturbance interactions and their sensitivity to climate change in the North American boreal biome. The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. will use computer simulations to better understand the impacts and threats of new pests, herbivores, and diseases in Alaskan boreal forests, and how these disturbances may interact with fire and climate to alter carbon storage. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research to investigate how prior disturbance events, such as storms and pests, affect the resistance of forest ecosystems to subsequent disturbances, like ice storms. The $153,106 award to the University of Connecticut will leverage existing field experiments and a recent ice storm in northern Michigan to evaluate how forest structure and productivity are impacted...

This two-year, $276,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds statistical modeling and simulation research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grantee will develop a unified theoretical, empirical and computational framework to predict how ecological and evolutionary dynamics propagate in response to perturbations across scales over time. Using agent-based simulations of random and experimentally perturbed eco-evolutionary systems, the grantee will characterize...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $297,513 to George Mason University to conduct collaborative research on how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, especially when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The project aims to clarify how some individuals embrace adaptation measures, such as flood-proofing homes...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $378,135 to fund research linking social-environmental health to the trophic and disease dynamics of urban carnivores. The grant supports a three-year collaborative research project ending September 2025 between the University of California, Berkeley and the State of California. The research aims to better understand how environmental health disparities in cities similarly affect urban carnivore...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $428,146 will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to study decision-making and collective action during post-fire recovery to inform rebuilding codes and processes. Specifically, the project will characterize how governmental organizations seek information and balance priorities to make rebuilding...