Cooperative Agreement NA14OAR0110266

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $193,194 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a private non-profit research organization, to fund a postdoctoral fellowship focused on leveraging community structure data and machine learning techniques to improve microbial functional diversity modeling in the Arctic Ocean ecosystem. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Statistical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to comprehensively characterize the hidden diversity of Gloeobacteria, an enigmatic lineage of cyanobacteria critical for understanding the early evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. The $522,583 award to the University of California, Davis aims to: 1) isolate new Gloeobacteria cultures through targeted fieldwork and real-time sequencing, 2) characterize the genomic,...

This two-year, $181,499 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will fund research into the role of nutrient limitation and viral interactions on microbial community assembly in Antarctic cryoconite holes. Cryoconite holes are sediment-filled melt holes in glacial surfaces that can support active microbial life in Antarctica's otherwise frozen landscape. The principal investigators at Arizona State University will conduct nutrient addition experiments using...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $597,248 supports research into applying novel approaches to link microbial growth efficiency, function, and energy transfer in the ocean. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will further understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will conduct research from September 2023 to August 2026 to...

This two-year, $159,271 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs will support research into microstructure observations of vertical mixing and heat fluxes in the Arctic Ocean. Funded through the NSF's Polar Programs CFDA 47.078, which supports basic research in the polar regions, this award will analyze an existing dataset of 264 shipboard turbulence profiles collected on two Arctic Observing Network cruises. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $539,985 supports research into the stoichiometric trait distribution of the marine microbiome. Funded through the Geosciences program under the Division of Ocean Sciences, the award will quantify the relationship between environmental conditions and the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus ratios in marine microbes. Over three years, the researchers from Colorado State University will characterize the biomass elemental composition of 50 marine...

This $212,172 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs aims to improve understanding of how different phytoplankton species affect carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean. The researchers from the University of Washington will map phytoplankton community composition and characterize the physical environment to estimate how much carbon enters the ocean, is exported to the deep ocean, and the total amount of phytoplankton. By synthesizing modeled...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $393,692 project grant to The Marine Biological Laboratory under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to support the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (ArcticGRO) from June 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. ArcticGRO will investigate changes in water chemistry and discharge from the six largest Arctic rivers - the Yukon and Mackenzie in North America and Ob, Yenisey, Lena, and Kolyma in Siberia. Water samples...

The University of Oregon was awarded a $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to pursue the PURSUIT project. The project aims to uncover previously undiscovered bacterial and archaeal diversity in hot springs across the US Great Basin through culture-independent metagenomics of 40 geothermal sites. The University will recover novel prokaryotic genomes at whole resolution and taxonomically classify and functionally annotate recovered...

The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) received a $302,515 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs on October 1, 2021 to support research titled "Organic Matter Export, Processes, and Transformations Drive Carbon Cycling Patterns in the Arctic Ocean." The two-year award will fund LUMCON's work under the NSF Polar Programs, which aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the polar regions through basic research best...