Cooperative Agreement NA17NOS4820088

This National Science Foundation project grant of $298,357 supports research investigating coral demographic processes and their interaction with climate change and local stressors to influence coral recovery trajectories. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support analysis of time series coral size-frequency data across four Pacific regions to assess demographic rates following bleaching events and evaluate their importance in driving recovery dynamics....

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CFDA 11.482) provides $725,891 to The Nature Conservancy to increase coral conservation and resilience knowledge in American Samoa, CNMI, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and USVI. The funding will support the development and implementation of capacity building and knowledge sharing activities to assist local resource managers in effectively managing coral reef...

This $373,070 Project Grant awarded on February 1, 2025 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CFDA 11.482) aims to enhance the regional capacity of Pacific U.S. coral reef jurisdictions (Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) to prepare for and respond to major coral reef disturbances. Over a four-year period, the project will focus on capacity-building, providing technical support,...

This $331,500 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences' project to assess the potential of artificial upwelling to mitigate coral bleaching during heat waves. The project will substantially improve understanding of how artificial upwelling could be used to mitigate coral bleaching during periods of thermal stress by investigating the effects of different upwelling scenarios (varying depths and pulse...

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Division of Coastal Resources Management (DCRM) received a $286,837 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875). This award, effective August 19, 2024 through September 30, 2028, will support the following key projects: Coordination and representation at the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $715,774 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is funding research to evaluate the resilience of tropical reef algal turf communities in the face of human impacts such as overfishing, nutrient pollution, and sedimentation. The 3-year project aims to: 1) conduct field experiments in Moorea, French Polynesia to assess the resistance and recovery of short algal turf communities when exposed...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $398,887 to Arizona State University to investigate the impacts of land use change on the decline and recovery of coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean. The project combines paleoecological and geospatial analysis techniques to link long-term changes in coastal land use to shifts in reef water quality and coral health over the past 40 years. A...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $244,831 to the University of Puerto Rico to conduct field observations and measurements at a large-scale coral reef restoration site in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. The purpose is to determine how changes in reef structure influence surface wave transformation processes, in order to evaluate the coastal protection effectiveness of the restoration efforts. The...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $340,411 Cooperative Agreement under the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CFDA 11.482) to the Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute (MOCMI) to partner with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Coral Resilience Lab on coral reef conservation efforts. The key products and services to be delivered through this funding include: Thermal tolerance testing, enhanced husbandry techniques, and selective propagation of thermally...

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) will receive $124,223 from the Department of the Interior Insular Affairs under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875) to support coral reef initiatives from July 25, 2022 through September 30, 2025. Specifically, the funding will enable the CNMI Office of the Governor to provide regional coordination and representation for coral reef management efforts as well as conduct citizen science...