Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) has been awarded a $1,184,175 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine The Genetic Basis of Local Adaptation Across an Island Adaptive Radiation.  The project will combine gene expression, quantitative genetics, and evolutionary genomics analyses to uncover the major gene regions associated with adaptation of Hawaii's landscape-dominant, hypervariable tree species complex, Metrosideros, to drought and water-logging on two islands.  The project, which involves co-principal investigators from the USDA-Forest Service and New York University, also will provide information useful for the management of Hawaii's wet and mesic forests under climate change.