Grants and Contracts:

Binford, M.W. (PI) Intergovernmental Personnel Act Support for Program Officer Appointment to U.S. National Science Foundation. $422,343. 7/09/2017-7/09-2019.

Binford, M.W. Binford, M.W. (institutional PI) Collaborative Research: MSB-FRA: The future of US forest function under changing climate, disturbance, and forest management. National Science Foundation, Macrosystems and Early NEON Science Program. $417,148, 8/1/2017 – 7/31/2022. Awarded August 2017. Removed as PI while working at NSF. Reinstated as PI August 2019.

Binford, M.W. (institutional PI) Collaborative Research: Building forest management into Earth system modeling: Scaling from stand to continent. National Science Foundation, Macrosystems Biology Program; EF 1241860. $274,523. 1 April 2013 – 31 May 2016.

Southworth, J. (PI), G. Kiker, Y. Qiu, R. Munoz-Carpena, P.R. Waylen, M.W. Binford, E. Keys, B. Child (all Co-Is). Understanding and predicting the impact of climate variability and climate change on land use and land cover change via socio-economic institutions in Southern Africa. NASA Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Program. 1 May 2009 – 30 June 2012. $870,000.

Binford, M.W. (PI) and N. Pricope¹ (Co-I). Doctoral Dissertation Research: Using Remote Sensing to Create Indicators of Socio-Ecological System Resilience in Savannas of the Kavango-Zambezi Region of Southern Africa. National Science foundation BCS- 0824720. 15 Aug 2008 – 31 July 2010. $11,996.

Hayes, J.P., D.J. Levey, M. Monroe, M.W. Binford. R.D. Holt. Planning Grant for the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station. National Science Foundation. 1 September 2008 – 31 August 2009. 20,807 (collaborative grant with UF faculty from Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Zoology, and Forest Resources and Conservation)

Goldman, A. (PI), B. Child (co-I), M.W. Binford (co-I). Collaborative Research: Parks as Agents of Social and Environmental Change in Eastern and South Africa. Human and Social Dynamics Program, National Science Foundation. 1 September 2006 – 28 February 2013. $398,113.

Martin, T.A. (PI), G. Starr, W.P. Cropper, H.L. Gholz, and M.W. Binford (co-Is). Reducing carbon cycle uncertainties in pine forests in the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain. U.S. Department of Energy, National Institute of Climatic Change Research (NICCR). $374,999 for 3 years.

Keys, E., C.J. Matyas, D.M. Brommer, M.W. Binford, P.G. Dixon. Crop and Forest Losses Due to Hurricane Dean. National Science Foundation, Small Grants for Exploratory Research, 1 September 2007 – 31 August 2008. $9,000.

Binford, M.W. (PI), P.R. Waylen, J.W. Jones, and J.A. Southworth. Economic Growth, Social Inequality, and Environmental Change in Thailand and Cambodia. SES-HSD Agents of Change Program, National Science Foundation, 15 September 2004-15 February 2008, $217,349. Subcontract to A. Kolata and R. Townsend, University of Chicago, National Opinion Research Center.

Zarin, D., P.I. and 28 others, including M.W. Binford. Working Forests in the Tropics, National Science Foundation, IGERT program. $2,330,689, 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2007.

Goldman, A., M.W. Binford, C.A. Chapman, L.J. Chapman, J. Southworth. Collaborative Research: Consequences of Parks for Land Use, Livelihood Diversification, and Biodiversity in East Africa. Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation. 1 April  2004 – 30 March 2006. $166,200.

Binford, M.W., P.I.; J. Delahunty, co-I. Yew (Taxus baccata L.) population dynamics in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland: Cultural and climatological influences; 6,000 BP to present National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Grants. $10,000. 1 July 2001 – 31 December 2002.

van Holt, T. and M.W. Binford, P.I. Twenty years of land-cover and land-use change effects on nearshore marine resources in southern Chile. NASA Earth Systems Science Fellowship. January 2004 – December 2006, $24,000/yr, annually renewable.

Binford, M.W., P.I., Hydrological Aspects of Alternative Futures for the Context Region of the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. Subcontract to the Desert Research Institute SERDP Project. $69,161. Jan 2001 – September 2002.

Binford, M.W., P.I. Environmental Risk, Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, and Income-growth Inequities in Thailand, 1975-2000. UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Awards Program. $16,000. July 2001-June 2002.

Binford, M.W., P.I. From Tower to Region: Integration of Patch-Size NEE Using Experimental and Modeling Footprint Analysis. Subcontract to NIGEC award to Monique LeClerc, University of Georgia. $73,000. September 2000 – Sept 2003.

Binford, M.W., P.I., K. Conway, co-I. Human Use and Potential Conservation of River Turtles (Podocnemis sp.) in Eastern Lowland Bolivia. National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Grants. $10,000. 1 July 2000 – 31 June 2001.

Binford, M.W., P.I., H.L. Gholz, S.E. Smith, and G.Barnes (co-investigators). Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Land Ownership, and Carbon Storage Patterns in the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain Region of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Earth Science, Land Use/Land Cover Change Program. $350,000; 1 May 2000 – 31 December 2003.

Binford, M.W., P.I. Aerial Photograph Library Management and Database Services. St. Johns River Water Management District. June 1998 – January 2002. $91,855 (four contracts).

Binford, M.W., P.I., K. Conway, co-I. Human Use and Potential Conservation of River Turtles (Podocnemis sp.) in Eastern Lowland Bolivia. InterAmerican Foundation, $3,580. 1 May 2000 – 31 Aug 2000.

Binford, M.W., P.I. Geographic Information System as a Tool For Community Land Use Planning In Acre, Brazil. Inter-American Foundation (MALAS Student Fellowship for Karla Rocha). $3,915. June 1999-December 1999.

Binford, M.W. (PI). Contrasting Landscape Dynamics in the Guaporé River Basin, Bolivia and Brazil. UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Awards Program. $8,000, 1 April 1998 – 31 December 1998.

Binford, M.W., P.I. The University of Florida Laboratory for Advanced Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS Integration and Analysis to Regional and Global Environmental Assessments. Science Division of the Office of Mission to Planet Earth. $108,952 ($94,952 from NASA, $14,000 University of Florida Matching Funds). 1 October 1997 – 30 November 1999.

Binford, M.W., P.I.  Human-Climate Interactions in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, Office of Global Programs. $206,538. 1 May 1995 – 30 April 1999.

Steinitz, Carl, P.I., Michael W. Binford and Stephen Ervin, Co-Investigators. Alternative Future Roles for Camp Pendleton, California, in the Maintenance of Biodiversity. Environmental Protection Agency, $466,886. 1 August 1994 – 31 July 1997.

Foster, David, P.I. and Michael W. Binford, Co-Investigator. Regional Vegetation Response to Human Disturbance in Central New England. U.S. National Science Foundation, Ecology Program., $225,000, July 1994 – 30 June 1997.

M.W. Binford, P.I. Collaborative Research: Human-Environment Interactions in the Bolivian Altiplano: Climate, Limnology and Tiwanaku Agroecosystems.  U.S. National Science Foundation. $145,372. 1 August 1992-28 February 1995.

M.W. Binford, P.I. Survey of Lakes and Lake Sediments to be used for Studies in Urban Paleolimnology. Milton Fund Grant, Harvard University, $6000. January-December 1992.

M.W. Binford, P.I. The Impacts of Traditional and Modern Agriculture on Land-Inland Water Ecotones in the Central Andes. U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program, Department of State. $48,000.  2 October 1989 – 31 September 1990.

M.W. Binford. P.I.  Paleolimnological Studies of Tiwanaku Ecosystems. Subcontract to National Science Foundation grant BNS-8607541 to University of Illinois-Chicago, Department of Anthropology, Alan Kolata, P.I., The Technology and Organization of Agricultural Production in the Tiwanaku State, $7,652.74.  February 1987-December 1987.

M.W. Binford, P.I., Duncan Patten, Co-P.I. Travel Fellowships for Foreign Ecologists to Attend the 1986 ESA/INTECOL Meeting.  National Science Foundation. BSR-8608199, $25,000. July 1986-December 1986.

M.W. Binford. P.I. Paleoecological Investigation of Recent Lake Acidification:  Uncertainty Analysis of Pb-210 Dating Models. Part of Subcontract to T.L. Crisman and R.W. Bienert from Indiana University Contract (D. Whitehead and D. Charles, Co-P.I.’s). Electric Power Research Institute. $26,000. July 1985-December 1986.

8500548. W. Binford, P.I., and E.S. Deevey, co-P.I. National Science Foundation. Historical Factors in West Indian Ecology and Biogeography: Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environments in Haiti. BSR-8500548. $31,520.  April l985 – October l986.