← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Forest Service
Washington, DC
$10,471,284
Total funding
48
Grants
Funding over time
peak $2.7M · FY2009–24$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
USDA$10,458,988 · 47
NSF$12,296 · 1
By mechanism
—$10,471,284 · 48
Investigators at Forest Service
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).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
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Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
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All-Time
Most funded here, all years
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Largest grants
**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE IS FUNDAMENTAL. CLIMATE CHANGE HAS INTRODUCED DISRUPTIONS TO FOOD SYSTEMS THAT JEOPARDIZE FOOD SECURITY GLOBALLY. PROJECTED TRENDS INDICATE FURTHER DISRUPTION, AND EFFECTIVE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION IS URGENT. AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE BY SEQUESTERING CARBON AND REDUCING NET GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. ADOPTING BEST CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION PRACTICES CAN PROVIDE BENEFITS WHILE ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY. HOWEVER, IMPLEMENTING THESE ACTIONS PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES IN THE U.S. CARIBBEAN. AGRICULTURAL ADVISORS, TECHNICAL SERVICE PROVIDERS, FARMERS, FORESTER MANAGERS, AND RURAL COMMUNITIES NEED A FOUNDATION OF CLIMATE LITERACY AND ACTIONABLE INFORMATION TO EFFECTIVELY ADAPT TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND MITIGATE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. THEREFORE, THIS EXTENSION PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE HOW INCREASING CLIMATE LITERACY AND SHARING SECTOR-SPECIFIC ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION PRACTICES WILL FACILITATE CLIMATE-INFORMED DECISION-MAKING AND IMPROVE THE SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE, PRODUCTIVITY, AND ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS FROM THE SECTOR. THE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT INVOLVES THE USDA CARIBBEAN CLIMATE HUB, UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS EXTENSION, WINROCK INTERNATIONAL, AND THE CLIMATE SCIENCE ALLIANCE. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE WORKSHOPS, LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, ELECTRONIC AND PRINTED RESOURCES, TOOLS, AND TRAININGS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF CLIMATE SCIENCE BASICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS, AND TO SHARE SECTOR-SPECIFIC CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS FOR FARMERS, LAND MANAGERS, RURAL COMMUNITIES, AND THE ADVISORS THAT SUPPORT THEM.$1,500,000
· FY2022 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
HIGH-VALUE NANO-FIBRILLATED CELLULOSE POLYMER REINFORCEMENT AS A BIOFUEL CO-PRODUCT$788,058
· FY2012 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** THE INCREASINGLY COMMON OCCURRENCE OF FLASH DROUGHTS IN GRASSLANDS OF THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS (NORTHERN GRASSLANDS) CHALLENGES RANCHERS AND OTHER LAND MANAGERS WHO CONSTANTLY DECIDE WHEN AND WHERE THEIR LIVESTOCK WILL GRAZE. TO SUSTAIN LONG-TERM FORAGE PRODUCTION, RANGELAND MANAGERS ARE CAUTIONED NOT TO RESUME GRAZING ON DROUGHT-STRESSED AREAS TOO QUICKLY AFTER THE END OF A DROUGHT. TRANSLATING THIS GENERAL GUIDANCE INTO CONCRETE DECISION POINTS FOR A SPECIFIC GRASSLAND REQUIRES (1) UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESSES BEHIND DOMINANT PLANT SPECIES' AND PLANT COMMUNITIES' RECOVERY FROM DROUGHT, (2) INFORMATION ON HOW GRAZING AFTER A DROUGHT IMPACTS THESE PROCESSES, AND (3) A PRACTICAL, ROBUST INDICATOR OF GRASSLAND RECOVERY FOLLOWING DROUGHT. WE WILL ADDRESS THESE NEEDS FOR NORTHERN GRASSLANDS THROUGH A COMBINATION OF FIELD AND GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS THAT MEASURE PLANT SENSITIVITY TO, AND RECOVERY FROM, DROUGHT OCCURRING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GROWING SEASON AND UNDER DIFFERENT GRAZING CONDITIONS. WE AIM TO PROVIDE LAND MANAGERS INFORMATION THAT WILL HELP THEM MAKE DECISIONS THAT RESULT IN LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF THEIR OPERATIONS AND THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON WHICH THEY RELY. SUCH DECISIONS ARE MADE MORE CHALLENGING BY GROWING CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND THE FLASH DROUGHTS THIS PRODUCES. OUR RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE MECHANISTIC, SPECIES-SPECIFIC INFORMATION NEEDED TO PREDICT HOW NORTHERN MIXED-GRASS PRAIRIE WILL RESPOND TO NEW CLIMATE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THEREFORE, HOW RANGELAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES MAY SHIFT TO ADAPT TO THESE CIRCUMSTANCES TO MAINTAIN ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY.$649,833
· FY2023 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** LONGLEAF PINE (PINUS PALUSTRIS MILL.) WAS A DOMINANT TREE SPECIES THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US COASTAL PLAIN AND LOWER PIEDMONT FROM VIRGINIA TO TEXAS. NEARLY ALL LONGLEAF-DOMINATED STANDS HAVE BEEN LOST, WITH MANY CONVERTED INTO SHORT-ROTATION LOBLOLLY PINE (PINUS TAEDA L.) PLANTATIONS. HOWEVER, AS LAND MANAGERS CONSIDER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, INCLUDING WILDLIFE HABITAT, FIRE SUPPRESSION, BIODIVERSITY, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, AND WATER RESOURCES, LONGLEAF RESTORATION IS GAINING IN POPULARITY. ADDITIONALLY, TREE- AND STAND-LEVEL CHARACTERISTICS OF LONGLEAF STANDS MAY MAKE THEM MORE RESILIENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE THAN LOBLOLLY PLANTATIONS. BECAUSE THE GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE OF BOTH SPECIES INCLUDES SANDY, WELL-DRAINED SOILS TO LOAMY, FREQUENTLY-SATURATED SOILS, WE CURRENTLY LACK DATA AND EFFECTIVE MODELS TO PREDICT HOW LONGLEAF AND LOBLOLLY STANDS ACROSS THE REGION WILL RESPOND TO A CHANGING CLIMATE. BY USING A NETWORK OF EDDY COVARIANCE TOWERS THAT QUANTIFY SUB-DAILY ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE OF WATER AND CARBON DIOXIDE, WE CAN QUANTIFY THE SENSITIVITY OF FOREST WATER USE AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION TO SHORT- AND LONG-TERM CLIMATIC DRIVERS. WE WILL COMBINE THESE DATA FROM OUR SIX EXISTING SITES WITH PUBLISHED DATA FROM LEGACY SITES AND ESTABLISH TWO NEW SITES THAT FILL CRITICAL DATA GAPS IN STAND AGE/SOIL COMBINATIONS. THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO REFINE SEVERAL ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODELS THAT PREDICT WATER YIELD AND FOREST CARBON SEQUESTRATION BASED ON SITE-SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS AND CLIMATE DRIVERS. THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEX BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS AFFECTING THESE PINE ECOSYSTEMS AND PROVIDE TOOLS FOR LAND MANAGERS TO PREDICT HOW ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WILL RESPOND TO A CHANGING CLIMATE.$647,155
· FY2022 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** PLASTICS WASTE IS A GROWING PROBLEM FOR OUR SOCIETY, AND SINGLE-USE CONTAINERS ARE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO THE ACCUMULATION OF PLASTICS IN THE ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING OCEANS. MANY EXISTING PACKAGING PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY SINGLE-USE CONTAINERS, ARE MADE WITH UNSUSTAINABLE MATERIALS THAT DO NOT EASILY DEGRADE IN SOIL OR MARINE ENVIRONMENTS. WOOD-DERIVED PACKAGING MATERIALS MAY BE ABLE TO PLAY A ROLE IN REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF SINGLE-USE CONTAINERS. RECENT ADVANCES IN WOOD-BASED NANOTECHNOLOGY OFFER THE PROMISE OF NEW, ADVANCED PACKAGING MATERIALS THAT MAY BE ABLE TO MEET CONSUMER DEMANDS FOR PACKAGE PERFORMANCE AND BE SUSTAINABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN. WHEN WOOD IS BROKEN DOWN INTO SUB-MICROSCOPIC FIBERS THAT ARE ONLY SEVERAL NANOMETERS IN DIAMETER, THESE NANOFIBERS CAN HAVE INTERESTING PROPERTIES THAT ARE UNIQUE FROM COARSE WOOD FIBERS. ONE ADVANTAGE OF THESE CELLULOSE NANOMATERIALS IS THAT THEY CAN FORM DENSE FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE GOOD BARRIERS TO OXYGEN AND GREASE, WHICH MAKES THEM STRONG CANDIDATES FOR USE IN PACKAGING PRODUCTS. IN THIS WORK, WE ARE COATING PAPERS WITH CELLULOSE NANOMATERIALS AND EVALUATING THEIR BARRIER PERFORMANCE FOR PACKAGING APPLICATIONS. WE ARE ALSO USING ADVANCED TOOLS, SUCH AS LIGHT SCATTERING AND RHEOLOGY (HOW THE MATERIAL FLOWS), TO HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES GOOD BARRIER COATINGS. ADVANCEMENTS IN THIS RESEARCH AREA ARE LIKELY TO LEAD TO MORE SUSTAINABLE BARRIER PACKAGING PRODUCTS PRODUCED FROM WOOD AND OTHER PLANTS, THUS REDUCING THE NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PACKAGING PRODUCTS.$597,100
· FY2023 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
INTERACTIONS AMONG INVASIVE STRAWBERRY GUAVA, ITS BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT, AND ORIENTAL FRUIT FLY, A PEST OF HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURE$500,000
· FY2014 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
REGULATORY NETWORKS CONTROLLING HORMONE SIGNALING DURING WOODY GROWTH OF FOREST TREES$498,875
· FY2011 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** COMMUNITY FORESTS OCCUR ACROSS LAND OWNERSHIP TYPES, ARE GOVERNED AND MANAGED PRIMARILY BY COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND AIM TO PRODUCE LOCAL SOCIOECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS. HOWEVER, LITTLE IS KNOWN OF THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH THEY PRODUCE THESE BENEFITS IN THE U.S. OWING TO A PAUCITY OF RESEARCH, DESPITE THEIR GROWTH IN NUMBERS OVER THE PAST DECADE. WE WILL USE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS FROM ECONOMICS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES TO INVESTIGATE THE QUESTION: WHAT FACTORS AND CONDITIONS ENABLE COMMUNITY FORESTS IN THE U.S. TO ENHANCE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FORESTS WHILE PROMOTING RURAL PROSPERITY AND WELL-BEING? THE PROJECT HAS THREE OBJECTIVES: (1) INVENTORY, CHARACTERIZE, AND CLASSIFY COMMUNITY FORESTS IN THE U.S.; (2) UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMIC AND CONSERVATION BENEFITS AND COSTS OF COMMUNITY FORESTS, THEIR MERITS AND LIMITATIONS, AND THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AND CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO SUCCESS; AND (3) DISSEMINATE INSIGHTS ABOUT HOW COMMUNITY FORESTS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO FOREST CONSERVATION AND RURAL PROSPERITY. WE WILL ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES USING A MULTI-METHOD APPROACH THAT INCLUDES CONDUCTING A NATIONWIDE SURVEY ADMINISTERED TO COMMUNITY FOREST ADMINISTRATORS; COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES OF A SAMPLE OF COMMUNITY FORESTS; AND NUMEROUS KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES. THE PROPOSED PROJECT ADDRESSES THE GOALS OF AFRI'S AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES, RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY BY GENERATING INFORMATION TO INFORM DECISION MAKING, POLICY DESIGN, AND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION RELATED TO COMMUNITY FORESTS AS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO ENHANCING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOREST RESOURCES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN THE U.S., AND PROMOTING RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY IN FOREST COMMUNITIES.$497,288
· FY2021 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
VARIABLE THINNING USING HISTORICAL STAND STRUCTURE DATA TO CREATE FIRE-RESILIENT FORESTS AND ENHANCE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN A CHANGING CLIMAT$495,000
· FY2012 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
LANDSCAPE-SCALE THRESHOLDS OF EARLY SUCCESSIONAL HABITAT: RECONCILING BIODIVERSITY, PUBLIC PERCEPTION, AND TIMBER YIELD IN MANAGED FORESTS$485,000
· FY2012 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
FORESTS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES ARE CRITICAL PROVIDERS OF TIMBER, WOOD FIBER, WATER, BIODIVERSITY, AND OTHER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, AND SOCIETY AT LARGE. CLIMATE CHANGE, DISTURBANCES, AND MANAGEMENT HAVE INDUCED CHANGES IN FOREST CANOPY SPECIES COMPOSITION AND EXPANSION OF SUBCANOPY SHRUBS (I.E., RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM L.). THESE CHANGES HAVE MADE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FORESTS LESS RESILIENT TO DROUGHT AND HAVE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED PRODUCTIVITY, TIMBER QUALITY, WATER YIELD, AND UNDERSTORY BIODIVERSITY. FOREST LAND MANAGERS NEED NEW AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO ENSURE FOREST AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS ARE RESILIENT UNDER A CHANGING CLIMATE, AND TO ENHANCE FOREST WOOD PRODUCTION WHILE MAINTAINING OR ENHANCING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. THIS STUDY WILL CONTRIBUTE TO FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO DEVELOP MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE, QUALITY TIMBER PRODUCTION AND CLEAN, ABUNDANT WATER SUPPLIES IN BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE FORESTED AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. WE WILL TEST A NEW FOREST MANAGEMENT REGIME THAT WILL MANIPULATE SYSTEM DIVERSITY THROUGH THE REMOVAL OF RHODODENDRON AND USE OF REPEATED LOW-SEVERITY PRESCRIBED FIRE TO ENHANCE WATER SUPPLIES AND BIODIVERSITY WHILE MAINTAINING PRODUCTION AND ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE AT THE WATERSHED SCALE, THE SCALE RELEVANT TO LAND-USE MANAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING. OVER THE LONG TERM, THE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY COULD TRANSFORM HOW WE MANAGE FORESTS FOR MULTIPLE USES, AND HAS POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOREST ECOSYSTEM SERVICES BY INCREASING WATER YIELD AND HIGH-QUALITY TIMBER PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH INCREASING SYSTEM DIVERSITY.$465,772
· FY2017 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
CONSEQUENCES OF STAND AGE AND STRUCTURE ON FOREST WATER YIELD$459,000
· FY2012 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
THE DOUGLAS-FIR CLIMATE CHANGE TRANSCRIPTOME OBSERVATORY$454,545
· FY2010 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
SCOTCH BROOM ALTERS DOUGLAS-FIR COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND SOIL ECOLOGY: PREVENTION AND MITIGATION THROUGH ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES$450,000
· FY2013 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF YEASTS FOR IMPROVED XYLOSE AND CELLULOSE FERMENTATION$442,040
· FY2010 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
MULTI-SCALE EFFECTS OF LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ON UNGULATE BROWSING: TOWARDS A PREDICTIVE MEASURE OF IMPACT$428,000
· FY2012 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
NONNATIVE INVASIVE PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE AND SHELTERWOOD TREATMENTS VS. DIAMETER-LIMIT CUTTING ALONG A MOISTURE GRADIENT IN EASTERN FORESTS$399,540
· FY2009 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
EASM2 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WILDFIRES AND REGIONAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY - MECHANISMS, MODELING, AND PREDICTION$203,456
· FY2013 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
CARBON CYCLE RESEARCH, COORDINATION, AND OUTREACH THROUGH THE NATIONAL SOIL CARBON NETWORK$200,000
· FY2009 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
HIGH-VALUE NANO-FIBRILLATED CELLULOSE POLYMER REINFORCEMENT AS A BIOFUEL CO-PRODUCT$198,819
· FY2011 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture