← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
The American Museum Of Natural History
$26,900,184
Total funding
38
Grants
Funding over time
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$23,960,184 · 36
DOD$2,940,000 · 2
By mechanism
—$26,900,184 · 38
Investigators at The American Museum Of Natural History
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMNH, IN COLLABORATION WITH INFORMAL SCIENCE INSTITUTIONS ISI, NASA MISSION TEAMS AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS S$13,785,302
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
CONTINUATION OF NOVEL ANALYTICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO THE ORIGIN AND PREDICTION OF PATHOGENICITY$1,960,000
· FY2010 · Department of the Army
NOVEL ANALYTICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO THE ORIGIN AND PREDICTION OF PATHOGENICITY$980,000
· FY2009 · Department of the Army
PI: LISA GUGENHEIM/AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYNASA SCIENCE RESEARCH MENTORING PROGRAM (NASA SRMP)SUMMARY: THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIS$904,328
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
COLOMBIA IS THE SECOND MOST BIODIVERSE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. THE COLOMBIA BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATION NETWORK (BON) CONSISTS OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGERS CONSERVATION PRACTITIONERS AND SCIENTISTS WHO DEFINE PRIORITIES FOR MONITORING BIODIVERSITY AT RE$837,510
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EFFECTIVE POLICY RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN BIODIVERSITY ARE ONLY POSSIBLE WITH ADAPTABLE ANALYTIC TOOLS THAT LEVERAGE THE INFLUX OF DATA FROM BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATION SYSTEMS. SUCH ANALYTIC TOOLS MUST ALSO BE STREAMLINED AND READILY MASTERED BY RESEARCHERS MAKING SCIENTIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS. IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL CREATE SOFTWARE TO ASSESS BIODIVERSITY CHANGE INDICATORS BY BUILDING ON THE RECENTLY DEVELOPED SOFTWARE WALLACE AS A NEW GEO BON IN A BOX TOOL. WALLACE IS AN R-BASED APPLICATION WITH A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE THAT SUPPORTS SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING (SDM) IN A REPRODUCIBLE FLEXIBLE AND EXTENSIBLE PLATFORM TO FACILITATE A WIDE RANGE OF ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES. THESE MODELS CHARACTERIZE ENVIRONMENTAL SUITABILITY FOR SPECIES AND CAN BE USED TO ESTIMATE SPECIES GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS A GEO BON ESSENTIAL BIODIVERSITY VARIABLE (EBV). WALLACE HARNESSES BIODIVERSITY DATA FROM ONLINE DATABASES OR USER INPUT ASSEMBLES A VARIETY OF TOOLS FOR BUILDING AND EVALUATING MODELS AND OFFERS GUIDANCE FOR IMPORTANT CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES. CRITICALLY ITS MODULAR NATURE FACILITATES THE ADDITION OF NEW CUTTING-EDGE INNOVATIONS BY OTHER PROGRAMMERS AS WE PROPOSE HERE. TO EXPAND WALLACE AS A NEW BON IN A BOX WE WILL DEVELOP TWO NEW R PACKAGES TO BE INTEGRATED AS NEW MODULES FOR WALLACE S WORKFLOW TO FACILITATE BIODIVERSITY CHANGE INDICATOR CALCULATIONS FOR GEO BON ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING IN COLLABORATION WITH THE COLOMBIA BON AS A MODEL. THE FIRST PACKAGE WILL USE SINGLE SPECIES RANGE MAPS IN CONJUNCTION WITH REMOTELY SENSED (RS) PRODUCTS TO ESTIMATE THE SPECIES CURRENT RANGE. IT WILL HARNESS RS PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM NASA (AND OTHER) SATELLITES INCLUDING PERCENT FOREST COVER VEGETATION CLASSES AND NDVI WHICH CAN BE SPATIO-TEMPORALLY MATCHED WITH RECENT IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF SPECIES OCCURRENCE TO DETERMINE HABITAT TOLERANCES (E.G. TO LAND USE CHANGE). THE SECOND PACKAGE WILL ALLOW CALCULATION OF KEY INDICATORS INCLUDING SINGLE-SPECIES BIODIVERSITY CHANGE INDICATORS SUCH AS RANGE SIZE EXTENT OF OCCURRENCE PERCENT SUITABLE LAND COVER OR PROJECTED TRENDS UNDER FUTURE SCENARIOS AT MULTIPLE SPATIAL EXTENTS. CALCULATIONS WILL ALSO INCLUDE MULTI-SPECIES INDICATORS SUCH AS THE EBV TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY AND OTHERS NOT CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED THROUGH OTHER BON IN A BOX TOOLS WITH A FOCUS ON ONES MOST USEFUL AT REGIONAL SCALES. MODULE OUTPUTS FROM WALLACE WILL BE DESIGNED TO FEED DIRECTLY INTO OTHER BON IN A BOX TOOLS SUCH AS OUR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATOR INSTITUTO HUMBOLDT S BIOMODELOS. BIOMODELOS IS A WEB APPLICATION ENABLING EXPERT VALIDATION OF SPECIES RANGE ESTIMATES IN SUPPORT OF THE COLOMBIA BON. WE WILL ALSO DEVELOP TRAINING MATERIALS FOR WALLACE TARGETING CONSERVATION PRACTITIONERS THAT REFLECT BEST PRACTICES FOR USING SDM FOR BIODIVERSITY CHANGE INDICATOR CALCULATIONS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION DECISION-MAKING. OUR PROJECT RESULTS WILL ADDRESS CHALLENGES TO OVERCOMING THE GAP BETWEEN BEST MODELING PRACTICES AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION DECISION-MAKING AND WILL FACILITATE RESPONSIBLE REPORTING ON BIODIVERSITY BY NATIONAL BONS. VIA FOCUS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF OPEN-SOURCE USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE TO CONTRIBUTE TO BON IN A BOX OUR PROPOSAL WILL ADVANCE BROAD APPLICATION EXPLORATION VISUALIZATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF EBVS AND GENERATION OF EBV DATA. FURTHERMORE DEVELOPING A CONNECTION BETWEEN WALLACE AND BIOMODELOS ANOTHER BON IN A BOX TOOL WILL BE VALUABLE FOR FUTURE INTERFACING WITH EFFORTS AT IUCN BIEN (THE BOTANICAL INFORMATION AND ECOLOGY NETWORK) AND OTHER SIMILAR PROJECTS THAT USE SDM PREDICTIONS AS INPUTS. FINALLY ALTHOUGH WE WILL FOCUS DEVELOPMENT OF OUR BON IN A BOX WITH THE NEEDS OF THE COLOMBIA BON AND WITH NASA EARTH SCIENCE DATA WE WILL INCORPORATE FLEXIBILITY TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF DIVERSE USERS AT MULTIPLE SCALES FROM NATIONAL TO GLOBAL AND TO WORK WITH REMOTELY SENSED DATA FROM ANY SPACE AGENCY IN GEO$693,319
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
INTEGRATING REMOTELY SENSED DATA AND ECOLOGICAL MODELS TO ASSESS SPECIES EXTINCTION RISKS UNDER CLIMATE CHANGESUMMARY: CLIMATE CHANGE IS RARELY CONS$661,245
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS SUPPORT FOR A NEW SURVEY OF NEARBY STARS WITH UNIQUE INSTRUMENTATION THAT PROVIDES UNPRECEDENTED SENSITIVITY. THE INSTRUMENTATION$653,369
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSAL SUPPORTS COMPLETE, NON-DESTRUCTIVE, 3-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF WHOLE STARDUST SAMPLE TRACKS IN AEROGEL KEYSTONES USING LASER SCANNING CO$577,091
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
M DWARFS ARE THE MOST COMMON AND LONGEST-LIVED STARS IN THE GALAXY AND THEY HOST SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING PLANETARY SYSTEMS DISCOVERED SO FAR. THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE (TESS) AND THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST) ARE TARGETING$530,783
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
READ BETWEEN THE LINES: DETERMINING ATMOSPHERE AND BULK COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANETARY MASS OBJECTS USING SPECTRAL RETRIEVALS$513,931
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
METEORITIC CHONDRULES REPRESENT OVER 20% OF THE MASS OF THE MOST PRIMITIVE SOLAR SYSTEM ROCKS. THEIR FORMATION REQUIRES RAPID HEATING TO TEMPERATURES$513,305
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA-MUSEUM CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE: ONLINE AND BLENDED TEACHER PROFESSIONAL$489,999
· FY2010 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE SEEK TO UNDERSTAND THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND TO SIMULTANEOUSLY GAIN INSIGHTS INTO ASTEROIDS, WHICH ARE BOTH MISSIO$452,581
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE PROPOSE TO USE THREE NON DESTRUCTIVE 3 DIMENSIONAL 3D IMAGING AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO DISCOVER NEW COMET GRAINS, LEARN THEIR MINERAL IDENTITIES$389,909
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
LASER CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY AND X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS OF GRAINS IN AEROGEL: THIS PROPOSAL BUILDS ON OUR SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR$371,259
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SURVEYS FOR BROWN DWARF SCIENCE HAS BEEN NASA S WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE) MISSION WHICH UNVEILED$291,053
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
CHONDRITIC METEORITES CONTAIN OUR BEST RECORD OF THE PERIOD OF SOLAR SYSTEM HISTORY BETWEEN THE ACTIVE ACCRETION (INFALL) STAGE, AND THE COLLISIONAL$287,043
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
TURBULENCE IN PROTOPLANETARY GAS DISKS IS LIKELY DRIVEN BY MAGNETOROTATIONAL INSTABILITIES RESULTIN$214,000
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
BROWN DWARFS ARE SUBSTELLAR OBJECTS WHOSE PHYSICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC PROPERTIES BRIDGE GIANT PLANETS TO STARS. LIKE JUPITER BROWN DWARFS EXPERIENCE WEATHER PATTERNS DETECTED AS PHOTOMETRIC OR TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIC VARIABILITY DUE TO PHOTOSPHERIC INHOMOGENEITIES AND THEIR RAPID ROTATION. IN BROWN DWARFS COLDER THAN 1900K VARIABILITY IS CAUSED BY HETEROGENEOUS CLOUD COVERAGE IN THEIR ATMOSPHERES. PATCHINESS IN CLOUDS AND VARYING OPACITIES ALLOW LIGHT FROM DEEPER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE TO REACH THE SURFACE OF THE PHOTOSPHERE. UNDERSTANDING VARIABILITY AND THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF BROWN DWARF ATMOSPHERES IS A CRUCIAL STEP TOWARDS DETAILED CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES AND THEIR WEATHER SYSTEMS AS YOUNG BROWN DWARFS OVERLAP IN TEMPERATURES AND SURFACE GRAVITIES WITH GIANT EXOPLANETS. IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS JWST AND GROUND-BASED 30M TELESCOPES WILL ACHIEVE EXQUISITE DETAIL IN BROWN DWARF AND EXOPLANET OBSERVATIONS POSSIBLY EVEN TO BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR BIOSIGNATURES IN EXOPLANET SPECTRA. THEREFORE IT IS CRUCIAL AND TIMELY TO PURSUE DETAILED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES TO CHARACTERIZE LOW TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERES. VARIABILITY SURVEYS UNTIL NOW HAVE BEEN UNINFORMED AS THERE IS NO METHOD TO IDENTIFY VARIABLE BROWN DWARF CANDIDATES A PRIORI AND BOTH LIGHT CURVES AND TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY ARE RESOURCE-INTENSIVE OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES. WE PROPOSE A TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY CANDIDATE VARIABLE BROWN DWARFS FROM A SINGLE LOW-RESOLUTION NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM TO INFORM THESE SEARCHES. THE SPECTRAL SIGNATURES RESULTING FROM INHOMOGENEOUS CLOUD COVERAGE AND LEADING TO PHOTOMETRIC VARIABILITY ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE FROM BLENDEDLIGHT SPECTRAL BINARIES. ESSENTIALLY BOTH SPECTRA LOOK LIKE A BLEND OF TWO DIFFERENT TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERES. SPECTRAL BINARIES ARE SYSTEMS OF ULTRACOOL DWARFS OF DIFFERENT SUBTYPES WHOSE PROXIMITY IN ANGULAR SPACE YIELDS A SINGLE UNRESOLVED PECULIAR SPECTRUM. THE PATCHINESS IN CLOUD COVERAGE AND VARYING CLOUD OPACITIES ALLOW THE OBSERVER TO PEER DEEPER INTO HOTTER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE LEADING TO A SIMILAR BLENDED-LIGHT EFFECT ON THE SPECTRUM OF A SINGLE VARIABLE OBJECT. THE SPECTRAL BINARY TECHNIQUE IS ABLE TO IDENTIFY BLENDED ATMOSPHERES WHETHER THEY ORIGINATE FROM TWO BINARY COMPONENTS OR TWO CLOUD DECKS IN A SINGLE OBJECT. THEREFORE WE CAN OPTIMIZE THE TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY VARIABLE BROWN DWARFS ON THEIR OWN. WE PROPOSE A PILOT PROGRAM TO OPTIMIZE THE SPECTRAL BINARY TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY HIGH-PROBABILITY CANDIDATE PHOTOMETRICALLY VARIABLE BROWN DWARFS WITH A SINGLE LOW-RESOLUTION NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM FOLLOWING THESE STEPS: - GATHER ALL PUBLICLY AVAILABLE NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA OF ULTRACOOL DWARFS LATER THAN L3 INCLUDING YOUNG AND FIELD BROWN DWARFS - ANALYZE AND REFINE EXISTING SPECTRAL INDICES FOR REDUNDANCY WITH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS - DESIGN NEW SPECTRAL INDICES FOR VARIABILITY BY IDENTIFYING THE STATIC SIGNATURES OF VARIABILITY AND/OR CLOUDS FROM SPECTRA OF KNOWN VARIABLE BROWN DWARFS - VALIDATE TECHNIQUE AND DELIVER NEW HIGH-PROBABILITY CANDIDATES FROM ARCHIVAL NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRA OF FIELD AND YOUNG L- AND T-TYPE BROWN DWARFS - FUTURE FOLLOW-UP AFTER THIS PILOT PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGING TO CONFIRM BINARY SYSTEMS AND TESS LIGHT CURVES TO MEASURE VARIABILITY ON CANDIDATES THUS ENABLING FUTURE EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERE STUDIES. THIS PROPOSAL ALIGNS WITH TWO OF NASA'S STRATEGIC GOALS BOTH PHYSICS OF THE COSMOS AND EXOPLANET EXPLORATION. AS AN IMMEDIATE GOAL THE DESIGN OF THE TECHNIQUE WILL PROVIDE CANDIDATES FOR VARIABILITY SEARCHES PERMITTING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF ULTRACOOL ATMOSPHERES. WE WILL STUDY VARIABILITY SIGNATURES IN PARALLEL BETWEEN YOUNG AND FIELD BROWN DWARFS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF SURFACE GRAVITY IN SHAPING THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF ULTRACOOL ATMOSPHERES. SINCE YOUNG BROWN DWARFS ARE PROXIES TO DIRECTLY-IMAGED EXOPLANETS OUR ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES CAN BE DIRECTLY MAPPED TO EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES.$207,237
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration