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Field Museum Of Natural History

Chicago, IL

$38,499,164

Total funding

148

Grants

Funding over time

peak $4M · FY2005–25

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Funding mix

By agency

NSF$37,021,483 · 143

NASA$1,405,069 · 4

NIH$72,612 · 1

By mechanism

—$38,426,552 · 147

F32$72,612 · 1

Investigators at Field Museum Of Natural History

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Largest grants

Infrastructure improvements to support invertebrate research at The Field Museum$2,787,782

· FY2010 · O/D

Collaborative Research: AToL: Phylogeny on the Half-shell -- Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life$1,345,017

· FY2007 · BIO

ATOL: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Early Bird: A Collaborative Project to Resolve the Deep Nodes of Avian Phylogeny$900,695

· FY2002 · BIO

Collaborative research: Automated and community-driven synthesis of the tree of life$899,992

· FY2012 · BIO

Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts$871,998

· FY2014 · BIO

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Testing Evolutionary Models of Biotic Survival and Recovery from the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and Climate Crisis$871,220

· FY2024 · BIO

Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard$844,794

· FY2020 · BIO

PurSUiT: New Discoveries of Early Cretaceous Floras from Northwestern Gondwana Reveal a Cradle of Plant Diversity$793,353

· FY2025 · BIO

PEET: The Diplopoda: Systematics Research, Training and Tools$748,955

· FY2006 · BIO

PEET: Studies in the Lasiosphaeriaceae II: Monograph of Podospora and Phylogeny of the Lasiosphaeria/Sordariaceae Group (Fungi, Ascomycetes, Sordariales)$744,241

· FY2001 · BIO

PEET: Monography, Phylogeny, and Historical Biogeography of Austral Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)$719,831

· FY2001 · BIO

Dimensions: Identifying how the ecological and evolutionary interactions between host and symbiont shape holobiont biodiversity$605,057

· FY2015 · BIO

Collaborative Research: Southern Amazonian birds and their symbionts: Biodiversity and endemicity of parasites from the most diverse avifauna on Earth$569,290

· FY2011 · BIO

ATOL: Collaborative Research: The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Squamate Phylogeny Using Genomic and Morphological Approaches$553,414

· FY2004 · BIO

REFRACTORY MINERALS - ARCHIVES FROM THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM$515,863

· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

CSBR: Natural History Collections: Equipment for The Field Museum's Fossil Mammal Collection Range for the Accommodation of Nonmammalian Synapsids and the Turnbull Collection$499,998

· FY2012 · BIO

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE STARTING MATERIAL OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS AN ISSUE OF FUNDAMENTAL INTEREST IN PLANETARY SCIENCE. AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF PRESOLAR GRAINS (PSG) IN 1987 IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE FIRST TIME TO STUDY SOLID SAMPLES OF STARS IN THE LABORATORY. THIS PROVIDED A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON THE ORIGIN AND COMPOSITION OF THE MATERIAL FROM WHICH THE SOLAR SYSTEM FORMED. WE PROPOSE TO USE ATOM-PROBE TOMOGRAPHY (APT) TO STUDY THE COMPOSITIONS OF PRESOLAR NANOGRAINS THAT ARE TOO SMALL TO STUDY WITH NANOSIMS. THE GOAL IS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS OF THESE UNDERSTUDIED SAMPLES INFORMATION NOT OBTAINABLE OTHERWISE (TASK 1). WE ALSO PROPOSE TO EXTEND THE SMALL NUMBER OF KNOWN PRESOLAR EXPOSURE AGES OF LARGE PRESOLAR SIC GRAINS. OUR APPROACH IS TO USE HE AND NE AND LI ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH IMPROVED NUCLEAR RECOIL CORRECTIONS AND PRODUCTION RATES FOR COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES TO STUDY THE PRESOLAR CHRONOLOGY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM S STARTING MATERIAL (TASK 2). TASK 1: MUCH FRUITFUL EFFORT WAS DEVOTED TO THE ANALYSES OF PSG IN THE UM-SIZE RANGE TO DETERMINE STELLAR SOURCES AND TO GAIN UNPRECEDENTED INSIGHT INTO PROCESSES OPERATING WITHIN THOSE STARS. WHILE PSG IN THIS SIZE RANGE ARE READILY ACCESSIBLE TO ION PROBES THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENTATIVE OF SMALLER PSG. THE SMALLEST SIZE FRACTION OF PRESOLAR CR-RICH SPINELS WAS DISCOVERED TO CARRY THE LARGEST ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES. THE SMALL FRACTION OF PRESOLAR NANODIAMONDS HAS NOT YET BEEN QUANTIFIED. EVEN WITH THE LATEST GENERATION OF THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION ION PROBE THE NANOSIMS SAMPLES SMALLER THAN 50-100 NM ARE DIFFICULT TO ANALYZE DUE TO LIMITATIONS IN SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND SENSITIVITY. TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE WE DEVELOPED METHODS TO APPLY APT TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL SAMPLES. THE NEAR ATOMIC-RESOLUTION AND HIGH SENSITIVITY MAKES APT THE IDEAL TECHNIQUE TO ANALYZE THE ELEMENTAL AND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF SAMPLES THAT ARE TOO SMALL FOR THE NANOSIMS (<50 NM). WE SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED APT OF METEORITIC NANODIAMONDS A LUNAR DUST GRAIN AN IRON METEORITE AND QUANTIFIED INSTRUMENTAL BIAS. WE CAN NOW RELIABLY ANALYZE WITH APT SMALL SAMPLES INCL. PRESOLAR NANOGRAINS THE GOAL OF OUR PROPOSED INVESTIGATION (TASK 1). COMPARED TO NANOSIMS THE TOMOGRAPHIC APPROACH OF APT PROVIDES AN UNDILUTED SAMPLE ANALYSIS WITHOUT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNDERLYING SUBSTRATE OR SURROUNDING MATRIX. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS TASK IS TO PERFORM APT ON PRESOLAR NANO-OXIDES AND NANODIAMONDS TO OBTAIN ELEMENTAL AND ISOTOPE DATA TO PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO STELLAR ORIGINS FORMATION PROCESSES AND POSSIBLY ALTERATION IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. TASK 2: THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME SPAN BETWEEN THE FORMATION OF PSG AND THEIR INCORPORATION INTO FORMING PLANETESIMALS IS STILL LIMITED. WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MEASURED COSMOGENIC HE AND NE IN LARGE PRESOLAR SIC GRAINS APPLIED NUCLEAR RECOIL LOSS CORRECTIONS AND CALCULATED PRESOLAR COSMIC-RAY EXPOSURE AGES USING PRESOLAR PRODUCTION RATES OF COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES. SO FAR A TOTAL OF ONLY 40 PSG HAVE BEEN DATED. MOST GRAINS HAD PRESOLAR AGES<300 MA AND ONLY A FEW HAD HIGHER AGES UP TO ~2 GA. THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRODUCTION RATES IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IS ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL ELEMENTS IN THE CALCULATION OF PRESOLAR EXPOSURE AGES. SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION MORE REALISTIC PRODUCTION RATES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED. FOR THE FIRST TIME THESE RATES USE THE GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY SPECTRUM AS OBSERVED OUTSIDE THE HELIOSPHERE BY VOYAGER. WE PROPOSE TO MEASURE PRESOLAR COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES OF HE NE AND LI IN LARGE PRESOLAR SIC. WE WILL USE OUR NEW DATA TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE DOMINANCE OF YOUNG PRESOLAR AGES IS A CONSEQUENCE OF A STARBURST EVENT AND TO EXPLORE THE PRESOLAR CHRONOLOGY OF THE STARTING MATERIAL OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. WHILE OUR METHOD HAS LARGE UNCERTAINTIES COMPARED TO RADIOMETRIC CHRONOMETERS IT IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY METHOD THAT PROVIDES AGES OF PSG THE OLDEST MATERIAL AVAILABLE FOR STUDY IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.$499,518

· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

CNH: Collaborative Research: Coupled Natural Human Systems in the Chicago Wilderness: Evaluating the Biodiversity and Social Outcomes of Different Models of Restoration Planning$495,399

· FY2009 · BIO

Acquisition of LA-ICPMS and SEM-EDS for an Elemental Analysis Facility at The Field Museum$494,295

· FY2003 · SBE

Collaborative Research: RUI: The challenges of living small: functional tradeoffs in the vertebral bone structure of diminutive mammals$484,370

· FY2023 · BIO