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News Release 15-097

NSF and USAID announce latest round of awards to address global development challenges

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group walking through a grass field in Gabon

Researchers in Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, in Gabon. This team is part of the NSF-funded Central African Biodiversity Alliance, which is studying evolutionary process in the face of climate change. Through a new PEER award, the principal investigator on the Alliance will work with a scientist in nearby Cameroon to investigate how deforestation affects malarial transmission in birds.

Credit: the Central African Biodiversity Alliance


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satellite image of the Amu Darya River basin

The Amu Darya river basin, as seen from space. The Amu Darya is the largest river in Central Asia, and flows through Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. A PEER project will pair scientists from the region with Johns Hopkins University researchers to examine water resource management in the region.

Credit: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center


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satellite image of fire and deforestation in western Brazil

The deep green in this image shows intact Amazon forest--in western Brazil--marred by cleared areas, in tan. A new PEER project will research ways to build local capacity to monitor the changing forests of the southwestern Brazilian Amazon.

Credit: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory


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