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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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 | 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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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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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 | Soil ErosionInnovative particle tracking to quantify soil erosion and sediment transport processes under global change
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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 | Harmful Algal BloomsToxic cyanobacteria and other bacteria in air above freshwater harmful algal blooms
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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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2017 | Parasite SpilloverParasite spillover from invasive to native species
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2017 | Environment & Health OutcomesA synthetic population approach to modeling human health and the environment: A tool for adaptation planning | Joint funding with ISCE
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2017 | Birdfeeding DynamicsCoupled social and ecological dynamics of backyard bird feeding. | Joint funding by ISCE
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2016 | Virginia Water & HealthHow does current management of water quality align with ecological health and human well-being? A preliminary study of Virginia | Joint funding with ISCE
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2016 | Energy & WaterIntegrating an economic input-output model with watershed and energy models using a system-of-systems approach
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2016 | Biological InvasionsSpatio-temporal dynamics of fish reproductive mutualisms and linkages to the spread of invasives
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2016 | Avian Mutualism & HealthCharacterizing the Poison Ivy-Avian Mutualism
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2015 | Environmental Change & HealthHow does environmental landscape change shape community and ecological health in the Central Appalachian Coalfields?: A pilot study | Joint funding with ISCE
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2015 | Drinking WaterManaging human needs and ecosystem services in drinking water reservoirs confronted with global change
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2015 | Climate Mitigation & BiofuelsClimate mitigation from biofuels: Is loblolly or switchgrass more beneficial in the southeast?
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2015 | Carbon FluxesSurface-subsurface connectivity in karst landscapes: implications for terrestrial water and carbon fluxes