CCNY biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval and her interdisciplinary team are recipients of an NSF convergent research grant.
City College of New York biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval co-heads an interdisciplinary team of scientists that won a National Science Foundation . Twenty-two other teams nationally are recipients of the NSF鈥檚 first grants to address societal challenges through scientific collaboration.
Carnaval鈥檚 collaborators include:
- Robert Anderson, biology (CCNY);
- Michael Hickerson, biology (CCNY);
- , biology (University of Minnesota);
- , electrical and computer engineering (University of Florida);
- and , biology (University of Florida).
Cavender-Bares, Figueiredo and Loiselle are Carnaval鈥檚 co-PIs. The group will receive $500,000 over five years for its project 鈥淩CN: Cross-Scale Processes Impacting Biodiversity.鈥
鈥淣SF has supported cross-disciplinary collaboration for decades,鈥 said NSF Director . 鈥淐onvergence is a deeper, more intentional approach to the integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise from multiple disciplines in order to address the most compelling scientific and societal challenges.鈥
Highlighting the importance of her team鈥檚 project, Carnaval pointed out that nearly 10 million species share the world with mankind. This diversity of living beings 鈥 Earth鈥檚 biodiversity 鈥 is both a legacy of how life evolved and is essential to mankind鈥檚 survival and well-being.
鈥淏iodiversity provides crucial services to the planet, to all of life, and to humans,鈥 said Carnaval. 鈥淏ecause it is so relevant to the health of our planet and to human societies, science has a crucial role to play in understanding how it is generated, maintained and lost.鈥
At City College, the NSF grant, Carnaval noted, will help leverage a Center of Biodiversity and Climate Change that she is establishing in the Division of Science.
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