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Locally, the Arctic hydrological cycle is an underlying control on ice sheet mass balance, ecosystems, and freshwater and radiative balances, and thereby influences feedbacks in global oceanic and atmospheric circulation. This project aims to develop a synthesis of past hydroclimate variability in the Arctic region during the Holocene with the goal to fill critical gaps in understanding of the mechanisms controlling Arctic moisture availability. Specifically, the researcher will 1) Contribute to curation of Arctic Holocene moisture-sensitive record database, 2) Apply mechanistic-based models to constrain the magnitude of precipitation changes inferred from past climate records, and 3) Synthesize moisture-sensitive records for comparison with a global Holocene climate reconstruction and climate model simulations. The data synthesis and data-model comparison will be used to test the following hypotheses:<br/>1. Arctic moisture-sensitive data demonstrate meridionally-coherent millennial-scale Holocene variability. Support for this hypothesis would suggest Arctic moisture availability was sensitive to large-scale meridional atmospheric transport patterns, whereas low spatial coherence among proxy records along lines of meridian could indicate local processes drove spatial variability. <br/>2. In the early- to mid-Holocene, a weakened and more meandering westerly jet reduced moisture transport to the North Atlantic region, while promoting strong moisture transport to eastern Beringia and other Arctic sectors. Reduced mid-latitude cyclone activity linked to a weakened westerly jet may have contributed to North American aridity in the early to mid-Holocene. In the Arctic, this mechanism would likely reduce cyclone activity in the eastern North Atlantic region, while enhancing moisture advection to Eurasia and the western Arctic. Alternatively, similar changes across all sectors may imply dynamic impacts were trivial in comparison to the thermodynamic impact of increased atmospheric moisture capacity in a warmer atmosphere. <br/><br/>The potential Broader Impacts include a greater understanding of long-term spatiotemporal variability of hydroclimate and moisture variability in the arctic region and their link to mid- to high-latitude atmospheric teleconnections. The project will produce a curated database of moisture sensitive records in the arctic region covering the Holocene which will be made publicly available. Other Broader Impacts include the development of educational materials in partnership with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (Northern Arizona University), creating a module for a workshop for k-12 and tribal college teachers in Northern Arizona on climate change and variability with social and human implications. The research and outreach activities will provide scientific and professional development for an early career scientist.<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": "14098", "attributes": { "award_id": "2052837", "title": "EAR-PF: Mid-Miocene climate, vegetation, and disturbance dynamics of the Pacific Northwest", "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": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "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": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30625, "first_name": "Christopher", "last_name": "Schiller", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2416, "ror": "", "name": "Schiller, Christopher M", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MT", "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). Dr. Christopher Schiller has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research, professional development, and outreach activities at the University of Washington and Boise State University under the mentorship of Drs. Caroline Stromberg and Mark D. Schmitz, respectively. Understanding the Earth system under climates warmer than today is a useful approach for understanding the consequences of future warming resulting from human-caused climate change. One such warm period in the Earth’s history is the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum (MMCO), approximately 17-14 million years ago, when global temperatures were 4-7°C warmer than the modern, pre-industrial period. Fossil plant assemblages from the MMCO have been used to understand how the climate and ecosystems of that time functioned on long (millions of years) timescales. However, the importance of climate and ecosystem processes that function on shorter (hundreds of thousands of years and shorter) timescales has not often been considered. New research has suggested that climate change on short timescales and large, frequent volcanic eruptions may have greatly affected MMCO ecosystems. Therefore, it becomes unclear if ecosystem changes seen in fossil plant assemblages are representative of long-term climate conditions or a response to short-term processes. This study of MMCO vegetation in the Pacific Northwest aims to understand the cause of ecosystem change seen in fossil plants. Fossil pollen assemblages will be studied to examine ecosystem change over short timescales and if climate, fire, or volcanic eruptions may have caused those changes. <br/> <br/>Specifically, this project will examine two mid-Miocene paleofloras in Oregon, the Succor Creek Flora and Mascall Flora, from which short-term (high-resolution) vegetation states will be reconstructed from pollen and contemporaneous ecological disturbances of several types will be constructed from charcoal (fire), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (fire), elemental geochemistry (landscape stability), and detailed lithological descriptions (landscape stability and volcanic eruptions). Short-term records will be compared with long-term (coarse-resolution) vegetation records, which will be produced from longer stratigraphic sections from the same floras and Miocene-length records produced from a concurrent project (EAR-1924390). Suites of U-Pb zircon dates from each flora will allow for a robust chronology for all vegetation-disturbance reconstructions and enable correlation with insolation solutions and marine climate records. This project will contribute a modern examination of the understudied field of pre-Quaternary palynology, an investigation of the response of vegetation to a past period of dramatic climate change and intense volcanism, and an application of multiple proxies to understand MMCO ecosystem function, and mentorship of undergraduate science students.<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": "14099", "attributes": { "award_id": "2052956", "title": "EAR-PF: Microplastics and Nanoplastics as Vectors for Inorganic Pollution: Examining the Effect of Environmental Systems Conditions on Degradation Pathway and Sorption Potential", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Geosciences (GEO)", "Postdoctoral Fellowships" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "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": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30626, "first_name": "Lauren", "last_name": "Pincus", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2417, "ror": "", "name": "Pincus, Lauren Nicole", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Dr. Lauren Pincus has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University under the mentorship of Dr. Satish Myneni of Princeton University and Dr. Peter Ryan of Middlebury College to investigate how microplastics and nanoplastics bind toxic contaminants as they degrade in the environment. Plastics are among the most widespread and persistent contaminants globally; however, large knowledge gaps remain in regards to our understanding of how plastics degrade in the environment and transport other pollutants that may be bound to their surface. It is particularly important to understand the chemistry of microplastics (100 nm - 5 mm) and nanoplastics (< 100 nm) due to their small size increasing their ability to be ingested by organisms, resulting in biomagnification of any bound toxic contaminants up the food chain. Dr. Pincus will investigate how commonly used plastics degrade in the environment through both field and laboratory experiments. She will then examine the ability of the aged microplastics/nanoplastics to attract contaminants of environmental and societal concern such as arsenic and lead. This study will focus on inorganic contaminants (e.g. toxic metals), as this is a less studied area than organic pollutants (e.g pesticides). The ultimate goal of this research is to develop a predictive understanding of how degraded microplastics/nanoplastics contribute to the spread of toxic pollutants like lead and arsenic. Ultimately, this knowledge can inform the design of future plastics that can degrade more safely in the environment without transporting toxic metals. The results of this research will be shared with the general public through a lecture series at local businesses, non-profits, and community colleges on plastics in the environment. Opportunities will also be provided for both undergraduates and high school students to participate in this research project, with an emphasis on working with and mentoring students from underrepresented (female, minority, low-income) backgrounds. <br/><br/>The ultimate goal of this research is to develop a predictive understanding of how microplastic (MP) and nanoplastic (NP) degradation affects environmental fate of inorganic contaminants. Specifically, this project aims to: 1. Determine how environmental conditions affect the degradation pathway of MPs and NPs, 2. Investigate differences in MP and NP sorption potential towards inorganic contaminants throughout the degradation process, 3. Identify key functional groups that control contaminant sorption by MPs and NPs, and 4. Elucidate the role of metal (hydr)oxide precipitates and biofilm formation on adsorption of inorganic contaminants by MPs and NPs. A combination of field and laboratory studies will be used in order to isolate key environmental factors driving MP/NP weathering mechanisms that increase their sorption capacity towards inorganic contaminants. Ultimately this knowledge will enable design of plastics capable of safely degrading in the environment without the unintended hazard of serving as vectors for pollutant transport.<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": "14103", "attributes": { "award_id": "2053086", "title": "EAR-PF: Morphological and ecological disparity of Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) at local, regional, and global scales", "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": 9801, "first_name": "Aisha", "last_name": "Morris", "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": 174000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30631, "first_name": "Judith", "last_name": "Sclafani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2418, "ror": "", "name": "Sclafani, Judith A", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "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). Dr. Judith Sclafani has been awarded an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research, professional development, and outreach activities at the University of California Davis under the mentorship of Dr. Sandra Carlson. Evaluating changing ecosystems during intervals of climate perturbation in Earth’s history can offer important clues to how ecosystems might respond to anthropogenic climate change. This project will focus on the recovery of shallow marine seafloor communities after the second largest mass extinction (~440 million years ago) and investigate whether the evolution of certain biological traits correlates with increased abundance and survivorship with ecological communities. Results of this work will be incorporated into high school Earth Science lessons developed in partnership with the bilingual teacher education program at UC Davis. Shallow marine ecosystems are important for maintaining ocean biodiversity and supporting the economic and cultural services derived from nearshore environments. This means that it is important to both better understand the complex ecological dynamics at play and disseminate information to increase the diversity of scientists addressing these problems.<br/><br/>The specific goal of this study is to focus on the order Spiriferida, which was dominant in the middle-late Paleozoic, to: 1) determine whether morphospace occupation is correlated with environmental affinity from global occurrences, and 2) quantify abundance along an environmental gradient from regional stratigraphy. This study will generate substantial new specimen and field-based data about Spiriferida from both continental/global and local/regional scales to examine if data, analyses, and results obtained at smaller scales can be meaningfully extrapolated to trends at larger spatial scales. Combining data from multiple spatial and taxonomic scales is necessary to address ecological hierarchical scaling in the fossil record and understand the fidelity between global Phanerozoic trends and local specimen and field-based data. Studies of the relationship between local sections and global hypotheses are needed to understand the macroecological and macroevolutionary processes responsible for ocean ecosystem structure, stability, and collapse.<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": "14110", "attributes": { "award_id": "2105136", "title": "Building a comprehensive theory of pragmatic language through large-scale experiments, computation, and neurodiversity", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "SPRF-Broadening Participation" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1351, "first_name": "Josie Welkom", "last_name": "Miranda", "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": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30644, "first_name": "Edward", "last_name": "Gibson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30642, "first_name": "Edward A", "last_name": "Gibson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 30643, "first_name": "Evelina", "last_name": "Fedorenko", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2419, "ror": "", "name": "Floyd, Samantha B", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CT", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. 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. Edward Gibson and Dr. Evelina Fedorenko, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist examining how non-literal language is understood by humans and machines. Much of human communication is not encoded directly in words: we may say ‘It’s getting late’ to politely indicate that we would like to leave, or call a ballerina a ‘swan’ to capture her grace. This kind of language is called pragmatics and often thought to comprise everything from humor, to white lies, metaphors, implicature, prosody, and more. Although there have been investigations into each of these phenomena individually, it is unknown whether they are supported by the same mechanisms, nor how they relate within the individual, which has implications for neurodivergent individuals facing challenges in communication. And, while current language models show impressive results, little research has explored what kinds of computations might support pragmatic language understanding, which is crucial for success in artificial intelligence. Across both behavioral and computational approaches, the current project will address these limitations by identifying clusters of related pragmatic inferences in humans and exploring how they are computed in models. <br/><br/>This project applies new methods to shed light on a unified framework for pragmatic language, with the goal of including neurodivergent individuals as researchers in the process. Large-scale individual-differences studies will develop a comprehensive battery of pragmatic language and expose relationships between abilities (e.g., does understanding white lies correlate best with understanding of irony?). Non-linguistic cognitive assessments will identify which clusters relate to social reasoning, literal language understanding, and executive abilities. By evaluating current language models on non-literal language interpretation, the project with also uncover the learnability, scope, and generalization of language models’ performance on pragmatic language, and will allow us to compare model activity to the clusters found in the human studies. By testing pragmatic language in humans and current computational models, this research will bring us closer to understanding the necessary input and computations for pragmatic language comprehension.<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": "14117", "attributes": { "award_id": "2138155", "title": "Discovery and Dynamical Classification of Accreting Compact Objects with the Zwicky Transient Facility", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "ASCEND - MPS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 27317, "first_name": "Andrea", "last_name": "Prestwich", "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": 300000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30663, "first_name": "Rebecca", "last_name": "Phillipson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2420, "ror": "", "name": "Phillipson, Rebecca A", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "WA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Rebecca Phillipson is awarded a Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to conduct a program of research and education at Washington University. Dr. Phillipson plans to take advantage of upcoming large scale optical studies, like the NSF’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. She has demonstrated recurrence analysis methods from nonlinear dynamics are capable of distinguishing between deterministic, stochastic, and chaotic signals in X-ray Binary Stars and Active Galactic Nuclei. Dr. Phillipson plans to broaden participation in the astrophysics field in several ways. She will mentor students participating in the Pre-Major in Astronomy program which gives opportunities for students from underrepresented groups to perform cutting edge research.<br/><br/>Phillipson’s preliminary work suggests that an ensemble study of stellar light curves, with the recurrence methods, paired with machine learning, will result in novel classifications of variable sources based on their dynamical variability. The numerical approaches open a new discovery space for detection of quasi-periodic variable objects. She will partner with the eScience Institute to develop an accessible website for the dissemination of the scientific results from her research program. A key feature of her data access plan is enabling visually impaired scientists to interact with the data by using sounds to facilitate feature detection and analysis. This approach, called sonification, uses existing software tools to map scientific data to acoustic sequences.<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": "14139", "attributes": { "award_id": "2104456", "title": "Archaeological Investigation of the Climatological, Political, and Demographic Drivers of Conflict", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "SPRF-Broadening Participation" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1351, "first_name": "Josie Welkom", "last_name": "Miranda", "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": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30692, "first_name": "Brian", "last_name": "Codding", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30691, "first_name": "Brian F", "last_name": "Codding", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2421, "ror": "", "name": "McCool, Weston", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. 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. Brian Codding at the University of Utah, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the environmental and social drivers of prehistoric conflict in the North American southwest. This project will help to develop an archaeological research program to evaluate the multivariate drivers of conflict. Developing formal quantitative models will allow archaeologists to engage with conflict research on a broad social science frontier. This research will develop and test general hypotheses that can explain variability in prehistoric conflict and produce a large high-resolution dataset that can be accessed by future researchers. Further, the project will contribute to southwestern archaeology by investigating conflict in a region that has been systematically understudied and improving data quality for the largest southwestern archaeological database. <br/><br/>Climate change, political instability, and demographic pressure are all factors responsible for promoting conflict in the modern world. It is less clear whether these phenomena drove violent behavior during human prehistory and the degree to which these variables promote conflict over centuries or millennia. This project will address these issues by (1) developing computational tools to measure variation in prehistoric conflict and storing the resulting data on a centralized online platform, (2) developing general models that bridge individual motivations with macro-scale patterns to evaluate the drivers of conflict, and (3) testing model predictions using an archaeological case study. This project will help to develop an archaeological research program to evaluate the multivariate drivers of intergroup violence. Developing formal quantitative models will allow archaeologists to engage with conflict research on a broad social science frontier. This project will train graduate and undergraduate students in the generation of large quantitative databases and the methods used to test research hypotheses. It will also train one postdoctoral fellow in spatial modeling, which will aid in his pursuit of a tenure-track position in scientific archaeology. This project will also work with the University of Utah Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program to recruit students who are underrepresented in STEM and train them in archaeological, osteological, and statistical methods, as well as introducing them to the prehistory of the project area. The project will work with the American Indian Resource Center to recruit American Indian students to work on the project. This is particularly important as the project area is adjacent to the Navajo Nation. Project results will be distributed to the public through interactive web applications hosted on the project web site and public presentations at the Natural History Museum of Utah, which is visited by over 45,000 K-12 students and educators annually, many of whom travel from rural, Tribal, and refugee 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": "14147", "attributes": { "award_id": "2105247", "title": "Interdisciplinary Study of Smallholder Farmers and Agrobiodiversity in Michigan", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1351, "first_name": "Josie Welkom", "last_name": "Miranda", "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": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30710, "first_name": "Laura", "last_name": "Schmitt-Olabisi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30709, "first_name": "Laura K", "last_name": "Schmitt-Olabisi", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2422, "ror": "", "name": "Mullaney, Emma G", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. 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": "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 } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14188", "attributes": { "award_id": "2103392", "title": "PostDoctoral Research Fellowship", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Workforce (MSPRF) MathSciPDFel" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2352, "first_name": "Stefaan De", "last_name": "Winter", "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": 150000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30761, "first_name": "Eric", "last_name": "Chen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2424, "ror": "", "name": "Chen, Eric", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is made as part of the FY 2021 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. <br/><br/>The title of the project for this fellowship to Eric Chen is \" Ricci flow and Yamabe flow on noncompact manifolds\". The host institution for the fellowship is University of California, Berkeley, and the sponsoring scientist is Richard Bamler.<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": 1405, "count": 14046 } } }