FACULTY SEED GRANTS
Each year, the Global Change Center, with funding from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute and the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) at Virginia Tech, accepts proposals from GCC faculty to support collaborative research that will lead to proposals submitted to extramural funding sources. We are seeking projects that link multiple faculty programs and take advantage of unique combinations of expertise at VT, have societal implications and/or a policy component, deal with emerging global change issues that have regional and global significance, and have high potential to eventually leverage external resources.
FUNDED SEED GRANT PROPOSALS | The Global Change Center
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2023 | Will Frugivores Enable Appalachian Plants to Track Climate Change?The distribution of suitable habitat for many plant species is predicted to change due to climate change, yet the ability of plants to reach newly available habitat is largely unknown because seed dispersal is rarely incorporated into these models.
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2023 | Transdisciplinary Research & Graduate Training in Environmental RestorationBuilding capacity and momentum for transdisciplinary research and graduate training in environmental restoration at Virginia Tech. | Joint funding with ISCE
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2023 | Rural Wastewater Surveillance and EpidemiologyAdvancing wastewater surveillance and epidemiology research in a rural region of southwest Virginia.
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2023 | Effects of Invasive Species on the SoundscapeAcoustic Invasions: Exploring the effects of invasive species on the soundscape of a changing world.
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2023 | Advancing Sustainable Water ManagementDetermine how the timing, frequency, amount, and type of water use data available to households impacts their water conservation. | Joint funding with ISCE
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2022 | Urbanization and Wildlife Consumption in the AmazonUsing stable isotope analyses to understand the relationship between urbanization and wildlife consumption in the Amazon. | Joint funding with ISCE
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2022 | Environmental Influences on Gene Expression and Behavior in Avian WildlifeEpigenetic mechanisms underlying neurobehavioral phenotypes in urban and rural song sparrows.
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2022 | Drought Indicators for Crop Insurance ReliefReassessing drought indicators used to issue automated relief payments in the US Crop Insurance Program. | Joint funding with ISCE
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2022 | An Agro-Economic Model for Precision Water and Nutrient Management PracticesIntegrated agro-economic modeling to assess farmer uptake of precision water and nutrient management in a changing climate. | Joint funding with ISCE
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2021 | Ecological Health of StreamsCoupling Social Science and Watershed Modeling to Improve Ecological Health of Streams in Agricultural Landscapes. | Joint funding with ISCE
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2021 | Bat Guano Accumulations as Ecosystem ArchivesAssessing the Potential of Bat Guano Accumulations as Ecosystem Archives in VA
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2021 | Aquifer Response to Sea-level RisePredictability of Virginia’s Coastal Aquifer Response to Sea-level Rise and Water Consumption for Hazard Assessment
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2020 | Soil Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDo altered soil moisture patterns restructure soil microbial communities and their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions?
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2020 | Plant-Microbe InteractionsUsing a global weed to disentangle environment and host effects on plant-microbe interactions across nested spatial scales
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2020 | Linking Physical Processes with Biotic ResponsesDeveloping a predictive model for in-stream embeddedness to link physical processes with biotic responses
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2020 | Global Shark PopulationsTaking the pulse of global shark populations
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2020 | Freshwater Salinization ImpactsSalty carbon: Testing the consequences of freshwater salinization on stream food web dynamics and ecosystem metabolism
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2019 | Harmful Algal BloomsToxic cyanobacteria and other bacteria in air above freshwater harmful algal blooms
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2019 | Red Tide ImpactsMeasuring, modeling, and forecasting red tide aerosol dispersion along the central Florida gulf coast to facilitate socio-economic adaptation | Joint funding with ISCE
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2019 | Soil ErosionInnovative particle tracking to quantify soil erosion and sediment transport processes under global change
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2018 | Species VulnerabilityScaling climate change vulnerability from individuals to species: how do assessment models compare?
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2018 | Mosquito DynamicsClimate change and the dynamics of mosquito populations in Virginia. | Joint Funding with ISCE
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2018 | Host-Microbiome InteractionsGlobal change and host-microbiome interactions
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2017 | Stream SalinityMicrobial diversity response to a coal-mining induced salinity gradient in Appalachian headwater streams with possible implications for leaf litter breakdown.
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