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The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Laura Schmitt Olabisi at Michigan State University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the relationships between smallholder livelihoods and agricultural biodiversity in the state of Michigan. The state of Michigan provides a unique opening for inquiry into these dynamic relationships. It is at once one of the most diversified agricultural industries in the country, a highly heterogeneous social and physical farming landscape, and home to some of the country’s leading agricultural research institutions, extension services, and field stations. Three important questions have been insufficiently explored in interdisciplinary scientific research: First, how do those involved in small scale farming conceive of and engage biological diversity? Second, how do these relationships vary within and across lines of social difference, particularly gender, class, and race? Third, how do these relationships shape agrobiodiversity conservation and livelihood outcomes and whose purposes do they serve as a result.<br/><br/>This research promises important contributions at multiple levels, from theory to practice. It advances the literature on the political ecology of agricultural development, which tends to take for granted the framing of subsistence and commercial agricultural systems as mutually exclusive paradigms, by unpacking how different actors negotiate these systems in relation to one another. Interdisciplinary scholarly work has highlighted a need for case studies and theoretically-rigorous analyses that directly relate particular geographies of agricultural practice to broad economic, political, and institutional change. The responses of small-scale commercially- and subsistence-oriented farmers to recent economic restructuring and volatility in the United States remain understudied, as does Michigan as an agricultural region. This research also studies the perspectives, practices, and decision-making processes of community organizers, agricultural scientists, and extension agents, thus responding directly to calls within geography for livelihood analyses of actors within development and political institutions. An innovative methodology centered on the triangulation of ethnographic observation with interviews and participatory modeling will illuminate how relationships between smallholders, agrobiodiversity, and development institutions have developed over time, providing critical insight into what interventions and policies might better support and sustainable and just agricultural future. The proposed research investigates the complex relationships between smallholder livelihoods and agricultural diversity using two distinct yet synergistic methodological approaches: 1) ethnographic study of farmers’ everyday lives, including their spaces of work and leisure; and 2) participatory modeling of farming system dynamics. The training and professional development proposed here will prepare the Fellowship Candidate for a lifelong career of advancing scientific understanding of complex social and agricultural systems, to serve underrepresented student groups and increase diversity in the interdisciplinary sciences, and to contribute to international environmental assessments and policy-making.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14148", "attributes": { "award_id": "2126500", "title": "OCE-PRF Unraveling Southern Hemisphere westerly wind variability through the last ~150 ky using Tasman Sea sediments", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 590, "first_name": "Elizabeth", "last_name": "Rom", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 280721, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30711, "first_name": "Jordan", "last_name": "Abell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds, commonly referred to as the “westerlies”, play a crucial role in regional and global climate. Modern observations suggest that these winds are moving towards Antarctica and becoming stronger in response to anthropogenic warming. Shifts in the position and intensity of these winds can potentially impact ocean circulation, the distribution of natural and anthropogenic aerosols, and the carbon cycle. As such, developing a better understanding of how the westerly winds change when conditions on Earth were different from today is critical to enhancing our constraints on their future variability. The research proposed here seeks to reconstruct the characteristics of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies during climate states both colder and warmer than today over the last 150,000 years. To accomplish this, PI Abell will develop records of dust fluxes, sea-surface temperatures, and Australian vegetation regimes utilizing marine sediments from several cores in the Tasman Sea. It is the combination of these independent proxies related to the westerly winds, along with sampling multiple cores that cover an ~10° north-south transect, that will allow for information on both the position and strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies to be ascertained. As an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, PI Abell will mentor high school and undergraduate students through several programs. One of these is the Southern Arizona Research, Science, and Engineering Foundation S.T.A.R Labs Program, where he will guide a local high school student through developing and executing a research project related to this proposed research. Additionally, PI Abell will work with a University of Arizona undergraduate student to prepare them for graduate school through the Ronald E. McNair Achievement Program. <br/><br/>The proposed project will focus on reconstructing the characteristics of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during various climate states over the last ~150 ky. PI Abell will utilize samples from three marine sediment cores spanning ~10° latitude in the Tasman Sea, along with four independent (organic and inorganic) geochemical methods, to investigate shifts in the position and intensity of the westerlies. Specifically, PI Abell will 1) produce constant flux proxy-derived dust flux records based on inorganic dust proxies, 2) use n-alkanes as a dust proxy to develop additional records of dust fluxes that are not influenced by volcanic inputs, 3) generate records of plant-wax carbon isotopes to gain information on C3/C4 vegetation boundaries, and in turn precipitation seasonality, in Australia, and 4) reconstruct shifts in the Subtropical and Tasman Fronts by utilizing the alkenone UK’37 SST proxy. Combined, information from these various proxies will allow for the reconstruction of both the position and intensity of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies during key climatic intervals such as the Holocene, the Last Glacial Maximum, and the last interglacial period. These datasets will be useful to the climate modeling community, as they will provide constraints on the natural variability of the westerlies to changes in potential driving mechanisms such as ice volume and atmospheric temperature gradients, thus aiding essential modeling of future changes in the westerly winds. Interpretations and conclusions drawn from this work will be brought to the public via non-technical settings such as public talks and presentations/activities at The Science Center at the Tucson Festival of Books.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14149", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120906", "title": "MCA: Modeling Surface Aerodynamic Temperature over Agricultural Fields", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 29875, "first_name": "Hendratta", "last_name": "Ali", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 293334, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30712, "first_name": "Jose", "last_name": "Chavez", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 323, "ror": "https://ror.org/03k1gpj17", "name": "Colorado State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>This project will study the heat transfer process, from agricultural fields into the atmosphere, to improve the estimation of crop water use rates (evapotranspiration, ET). The project will integrate three-dimensional (3D) crop height, crop density and orientation, weather data, wind angle of attack, and crop light reflectance and temperature images, from drones, in the heat flux modeling effort. Modeling heat fluxes accurately will promote the adoption of a land surface energy balance (EB) model to map ET and improve irrigation management. The 3D crop characterization and its dynamic interaction with the wind have not been incorporated in heat flux models yet. Current EB models use one-dimensional crop characteristics, often resulting in ET estimation inaccuracies, which limits the general applicability of EB models. Benefits from this study include the scientific characterization of Ag fields’ dynamic heat fluxes, enhancement of the research process, updating academic courses, training of students and dissemination of results through webinars, scientific papers, and conference presentations.<br/><br/>This project will integrate modern technology with knowledge from micro-meteorology, agronomy, remote sensing, and engineering to model a dynamic aerodynamic temperature. Two locations will be included, one in Colorado and another in Spain. The specific research objectives are to: a) characterize crop canopy directional (3D) structures and their effects on the zero-plane displacement height, roughness length for momentum transfer, friction velocity and surface aerodynamic resistance, as the wind (from a given angle of attack) interacts with the structure, under different surface and environmental conditions; b) develop a robust surface aerodynamic temperature model for agricultural applicability; and c) evaluate derived sensible and latent heat fluxes, to determine their accuracy, and advantages and improvements over existing one-dimensional models. Intellectual Merit: The novelty of this study is the incorporation of 3D crop characteristics into aerodynamic and temperature terms to model the surface aerodynamic temperature and accurately determine agricultural sensible heat fluxes. Broader Impacts: crop ET will be well determined, which will promote a global adoption of the EB algorithm to improve water management decision making and foster agricultural sustainability. Research results will be disseminated through scientific publications, conferences, webinars, and academic curricula.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14150", "attributes": { "award_id": "2127380", "title": "RUI: Processing ambiguity: From initial perception to race classification of multiracial faces in diverse observers", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Build and Broaden" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 25900, "first_name": "Enrique", "last_name": "Pumar", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 351755, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30714, "first_name": "Debbie", "last_name": "Ma", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30713, "first_name": "Justin", "last_name": "Kantner", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1041, "ror": "", "name": "The University Corporation, Northridge", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). <br/><br/>America’s multiracial population represents one of its fastest growing segments. In the 50 years following the legalization of interracial marriage in the US, multiracial individuals have grown to represent 6.9% of the American population, a figure poised to triple by 2060. By their very nature, multiracial people challenge conventional either-or thinking about race, offering important avenues for improving race relations. This research investigates basic cognitive and social psychological influences on multiracial face perception with these broader impacts in mind. Understanding how perceivers think about and racially categorize multiracial people also has consequences for both the physical and mental well-being of multiracial individuals themselves. As a result, it has become increasingly important to understand how multiracial people think about their racial identity and how they are perceived by others. Research has consistently found that people are generally unable to categorize multiracial people as multiracial. Understanding why and under what circumstances people fail to recognize others as multiracial forms the basis for the current research. <br/><br/>This project tests the hypothesis that the inability to identify multiracial people as multiracial is not universal but depends on the extent to which one’s past experiences foster a mental representation of multiracial others. It is predicted that people from areas with a relatively large multiracial population will be more attuned to multiracial faces than those with little prior exposure and will therefore be more likely to identify such faces as multiracial. This research also explores the elements of cognitive processing as they rapidly unfold during the perception of monoracial and multiracial faces. Using reaction time modeling and recordings of electrical brain activity with electroencephalography (EEG), the research aims to identify distinct stages of processing that occur between initially seeing a face and its eventual categorization. Unpacking these processing stages will allow an examination of how they differ when viewing a multiracial versus monoracial face, and how they may be differentially tuned by level of prior contact with multiracial people. Critically, the research fosters active student involvement by providing hands-on, technical training in scientific research methods and statistical procedures, professional development, and intensive mentorship of underrepresented students of color. These funds also allow for increased access to neuroscientific tools and training by traditionally underserved students, thereby diversifying the scientific pipeline for years to come.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14151", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120509", "title": "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Impacts of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Primate Microbiota", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Bio Anthro DDRI" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 3025, "first_name": "Rebecca", "last_name": "Ferrell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 18934, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30716, "first_name": "Rachel", "last_name": "Burten", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30715, "first_name": "Rachel B", "last_name": "Burten", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 200, "ror": "https://ror.org/0072zz521", "name": "University of Massachusetts Amherst", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). <br/><br/>The microbiome, communities of microbes that live on and within animals including humans, contributes to important host bodily functions and can be negatively impacted by disturbances in a host’s environment. In this dissertation research project, the investigator examines how anthropogenic disturbance alters the hair, oral, and gut microbiomes of three primate species living in the same region. The comparative nature of this research advances understanding about how host species-specific factors and body region-specific factors relate to microbiome diversity in the face of external disturbances. The project supports student training in STEM and public science outreach activities, and can inform primate conservation efforts for endangered species living in threatened areas. <br/><br/>Recent studies have shown that the vertebrate microbiome is modified by ecological conditions, and that reduced microbiome diversity is associated with host health issues. However, despite the compelling relationships between host health, environmental disturbance, and the microbiome, comparative primate studies including microbial communities throughout the host body are lacking due to the challenges of sampling wild primates. This project examines the relationship between microbiome diversity and landscape disturbance, hair cortisol concentration, body region, and host species. The researcher collects hair, oral, and gut microbiome samples as well as hair cortisol samples from three wild primate species in the same region. Diversity of microbiome samples is analyzed by sequencing the 16S rRNA bacterial gene, a highly conserved gene found in most bacteria and archaea that can be used to identify the taxa present within the microbial communities.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14152", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120691", "title": "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Unraveling the evolutionary mechanisms associated with miniaturization", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Bio Anthro DDRI" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 3025, "first_name": "Rebecca", "last_name": "Ferrell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 26927, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30718, "first_name": "Luca", "last_name": "Pozzi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30717, "first_name": "Anna", "last_name": "Penna", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 240, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at San Antonio", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>Extreme reductions in body size evolved multiple times within the primate tree-of-life, a process thought to provide evidence of convergent evolution. This doctoral dissertation research project compares whole-genomes of various species to examine the evolutionary processes and biological mechanisms explaining body size reduction in primates. The project leverages historical museum collections to generate novel whole genomes of primate species that fill important gaps in genomic databases. All data generated in this study will be made publicly available to provide additional research opportunities beyond the scope of this project. Outcomes of this research contribute to the understanding of primate genetic architecture, thus allowing a better contextualization of human genomic variation in an evolutionary framework. Moreover, this project extends bioinformatics training opportunities and accessibility of students from historically underrepresented groups.<br/> <br/>Convergent evolution provides compelling evidence that similar ecological circumstances can lead to similar evolutionary solutions. However, the role of natural selection in primate size reduction remains largely speculative, especially when it comes to understanding how adaptation occurs at the molecular level. It is not clear if all small-sized primates evolved such diminutive body size via changes in the same genetic mechanisms, or if changes in different combinations of genes and regulatory sequences could lead to similar outcomes. To address these standing questions, the investigators will compare whole-genome sequences of pairs of miniaturized and non-miniaturized species to access the degree of similarity at the molecular level and the pace of molecular evolution. This research specifically examines: (1) whether small-sized species share the same genetic underpinnings; (2) evidence of selection acting in protein-coding regions related to size reduction in primates. Results will inform a more general understanding of how bodily variation arises over evolutionary history.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14153", "attributes": { "award_id": "2138007", "title": "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Role of Material Culture in Developing Social Integration", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Archaeology DDRI" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 7884, "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Yellen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 23958, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30720, "first_name": "Caitlin", "last_name": "Davis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30719, "first_name": "Caitlin R", "last_name": "Davis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 452, "ror": "https://ror.org/03v76x132", "name": "Yale University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CT", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>This project explores the role of material objects in supporting social networks. Archaeological ceramics are uniquely positioned to offer insight on ancient peoples, reflecting both intentional and unintentional aesthetic, technical, and social choices. Building on a long-standing anthropological focus on prestige goods and exchange networks, a distinctive style of ceramic will be investigated. Integrating archaeological, art historical, and compositional data on this little understood social valuable, analysis of the production of these vessels and their movement through the landscape will demonstrate how material objects play a crucial role in the development of social relationships. In addition to contributing to gaps in existing compositional databases and assisting in the evaluation of methods for the chemical characterization of archaeological ceramics, the project will also provide students with the opportunity to gain laboratory skills related to archaeological science. <br/><br/>Emphasizing the material basis for social networks, this project evaluates hypotheses of open and restricted access to a technically complex ceramic decorative style. Was this style available to the general population or restricted to elite communities? Which potting communities had access to the technical artistry required to produce these vessels, and did every community produce them using the same technique? Who exchanged ceramics with whom? Answering these questions furthers understandings of how social networks are supported and maintained by economically and symbolically significant social valuables. This project will use bulk compositional data acquired using instrumental neutron activation analysis, surface compositional data acquired using portable x-ray fluorescence, microscopic analysis of surface treatment, and data on style and form to trace interaction between archaeological sites. Examining the production of and access to these socially significant objects will illuminate systems of pottery production on a regional scale and the ways in which human relationships are negotiated and constructed through material means on a broader level.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14154", "attributes": { "award_id": "2122112", "title": "RUI: Mechanisms Underlying the Development of Social Categorization", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "DS -Developmental Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 30344, "first_name": "Anna V.", "last_name": "Fisher", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 628630, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30721, "first_name": "Ryan", "last_name": "Lei", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2190, "ror": "https://ror.org/04fnrxr62", "name": "Haverford College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>Children divide the world into groups in various ways, including race and gender. The way children represent these groups in their minds often serves as the basis for negative outcomes such as stereotyping and biased behavior. However, the people children interact with do not belong to only one group; they are simultaneously part of multiple groups. This perspective is not often recognized, and even more rarely adopted in prior research. Recognizing and incorporating this perspective in research is important because it illuminates unique forms of bias faced by people who have multiple marginalized identities. This project will investigate how children integrate information about multiple groups and how the processes underlying that integration may differ across early childhood. Specifically, the project will examine how low-level perceptual cues (e.g., facial femininity) and higher-level conceptual knowledge (e.g., beliefs about the category) shape how children integrate information about multiple categories in their representations of others. Investigating these processes is critical in order to develop a framework for predicting at what ages different types of interventions to pre-empt bias might be most effective. <br/><br/>The project tests the hypothesis that perceptual cues (e.g., facial features) are more influential in shaping categorization processes for younger, preschool-aged children, but that conceptual knowledge about groups is more influential for older children. The project uses novel adaptations of social-cognitive methods used with adult samples for use with children. Children will be shown pictures of people’s faces that differ in gender and racial background and asked to make a gender categorization. This project will help spur theoretical innovations about how children parse the social world, as well as create pipelines for research dissemination and community involvement via partnerships with community-based institutions. The project will also provide training in social psychology and developmental science for a diverse group of undergraduate researchers.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14155", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103062", "title": "Collaborative Research: Quantitative Reconstructions of Last Millennium Hydroclimate and Temperature from the Tropical High Andes", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "GLOBAL CHANGE" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 30283, "first_name": "Alberto", "last_name": "Perez-Huerta", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 93064, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30722, "first_name": "Isla", "last_name": "Castaneda", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 200, "ror": "https://ror.org/0072zz521", "name": "University of Massachusetts Amherst", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/>Glaciated mountain ranges in the Earth’s tropical regions provide critical freshwater resources to local and downstream communities and support richly diverse ecosystems. Yet warming at high elevations (>12,000’) is expected to amplify in the future, with the disappearance of many glaciers projected by the mid-21st century. The Cordillera Vilcanota (Peru) is the second largest glacierized mountain range in the Andes, is home to world’s second-largest tropical ice cap, Quelccaya and is a principal source of the Amazon River. However, because instrumental records are sparse, variations in temperature and precipitation prior to the late 20th century are poorly constrained. This project will reconstruct patterns of temperature and moisture availability over the past several centuries using two closely-situated but distinct climate archives: lake/peat sediments and ice cores. Lake and peat sediments accumulate over time, preserving biological and chemical indicators of past temperature and precipitation. Project deliverables include climate reconstructions from well-instrumented Andean lakes and peats, which will imporve the utility of biomarker-based temperature proxies, and enhanced leaf wax and ice cory proxy system models. This project will also support efforts to broaden participation from underrepresented groups in STEM and to develop K-12 educational resources, including development of climate change education modules for high schools, and providing hands-on workshops, training and experiential learning opportunities.<br/><br/>Researchers will analyze sediments from sites in and around Lake Sibinacocha (16,043’) and use lake and ice models, calibrated using existing instrumental measurements, to compare these reconstructions to Quelccaya Ice Cap (QIC) ice cores. Results will provide validation and information on air temperature, lake temperature, and moisture changes as the high Andes transitioned from a cold period (the Little Ice Age) to the industrial period. Climate model simulations of the past 1,000 years will contextualize the extent to which these changes were driven by remote processes such as the South American Summer Monsoon and sea surface temperature variations in the tropical Pacific, putting current Andean climate change into a long-term historical context. Data will be generated to reconstruct precipitation δD (δDprecip) from leaf waxes, temperature from glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs), and runoff and precipitation/evaporation from lithologic, bulk geochemical, and paleoecological sensors. Temperature reconstructions will be compared from glacial and non-glacial lakes and peatlands, and air/lake temperature relationships will be quantified using an energy balance model. Proxy system models (PSM) will be used to evaluate the sensitivity of δ18Oprecip, δDprecip, and δDwetland reconstructions from ice cores and sediments to seasonal and mean annual climate variables. Forced responses vs. internal variability will be investigated with isotope-enabled Last Millennium simulations. Because δ18Oice and δDwax both track the stable isotopic composition of precipitation but with differing sensitivities to humidity, evaporation, and seasons of deposition/ablation, the project’s dual-PSM approach will allow multiproxy reconstructions of δ18Oprecip, δDprecip, and temperature while providing new constraints on local evaporative conditions.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14156", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120499", "title": "RCN-UBE Incubator: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences for Students Underrepresented in Biology", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "UBE - Undergraduate Biology Ed" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 30092, "first_name": "Joel", "last_name": "Abraham", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 75000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30723, "first_name": "Prabir", "last_name": "Mandal", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2423, "ror": "", "name": "Edward Waters College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The goal of this project is to establish multi-faceted course-based undergraduate research experiences in cellular genetics and socio-biology for students underrepresented in biology. Community colleges serve almost half of the undergraduates in the U.S., including many minority low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students, and many of these students are pursuing careers in biology. In this rapidly changing field, it is important that community college faculty have up-to-date teaching materials that reflect the most recent discoveries in biology and innovative data-analysis approaches. This network will bring appropriate teaching materials and offer professional development with the goal of incorporating cutting-edge biology research and high-impact teaching practices to improve student outcomes. Empowering community college faculty to increase student success will have a significant impact on the qualifications and diversity of the science and technology workforce. This project will take place at Edward Waters College, distinctively the state of Florida’s first independent institution of higher learning as well as Florida’s first institution established for the education of African Americans. <br/><br/>The wide-spread use of DNA sequence data to enhance biological understanding, brings unique challenges for biology educators. Skills from computer and data sciences have become core competencies for students even though many biology faculty completed formal training without the computational expertise needed to effectively engage in this field. This network will bring together members of OMICS ((proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics)) education networks, leveraging their combined expertise to identify and curate common analysis tools, associated curricular and assessment materials, and faculty training strategies to facilitate the adoption of OMICS instruction. By making existing resources accessible, the network will enable current faculty to guide undergraduate biology students participating in authentic research projects. Such work will enhance the ability of students to become productive members of the technological work-force, to succeed in post-graduation studies in biology and related disciplines, and to be better informed citizens and decision makers. The network will develop a consensus set of vetted resources and training materials to be disseminated to the education community through a single web portal for use in undergraduate classrooms. The network will also advance preparation of adjunct biology faculty and recruitment of future junior faculty, who might not otherwise have the opportunity to build relationships with tenured faculty around the country. <br/><br/>This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1384, "pages": 1442, "count": 14420 } } }