Project Grant 1457848

This Project Grant award of $525,000 from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports the creation of a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to facilitate coordinated research and monitoring in the world's largest marine protected area, the Ross Sea region in Antarctica. The RCN aims to establish an international, interdisciplinary network to support policy-relevant research and monitoring in the Ross Sea MPA. Key components include policy engagement, community partner...

This $648,664 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research effort to document the diversity of "cryptobenthic" coral reef fishes in the Indo-Pacific region. The project, titled "PURSUIT: The Final Frontier of Vertebrate Taxonomy: Documenting the Diversity of Cryptobenthic Coral Reef Fishes in the Indo-Pacific," will be conducted by researchers at the University of Washington from...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $524,000 will support the development of network-based models to evaluate functional biodiversity responses to climate change and species invasions in marine biological communities. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award reflects NSF's mission to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the scientific enterprise. Specifically, researchers at the University of California, Davis will leverage long-term...

This two-year, $215,035 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support novel target-enriched genomic approaches to assess gorgonian octocoral diversity on Indo-Pacific mesophotic coral reefs. The University of Hawaii at Manoa will apply genomic techniques developed by the National Museum of Natural History to analyze the PI's rare gorgonian collection from shallow and mesophotic reefs in the Indo-Pacific. This will facilitate...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $371,438 to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to study how different physical mechanisms of nutrient delivery influence the functional biodiversity of marine plankton communities in the Galapagos Archipelago. The project combines field and laboratory studies with modeling to evaluate how variations in nutrient...

The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $109,530 project grant to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii to support the "Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Bringing Asia to Digital Life: Mobilizing Underrepresented Asian Herbarium Collections in the US to Propel Biodiversity Discovery" effort. The grant period runs from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, the Bishop Museum will digitize underrepresented Asian plant...

This $201,047 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program, will support the University of Hawaii at Manoa in advancing the Pacific Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change Management Network (Pacific RISCC). The key activities and deliverables under this 1-year award include: Synthesizing and translating relevant science on climate change impacts to invasive species prevention and...

The University of Rhode Island's Research Office Division, doing business as URI - Research, has been awarded a $106,151 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund URI's "C-COAST: Changing the Culture of Our Occupations to Achieve Systemic Transformation" program, which aims to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility in the coastal and estuarine sciences. The C-COAST program will...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), a non-profit research center, was awarded a $419,799 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds a collaborative research project to investigate how different physical mechanisms of nutrient delivery to marine ecosystems influence the functional biodiversity of plankton communities in a changing ocean environment. The project...

This Project Grant award of $818,793 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project to resolve and predict dispersal patterns of marine larvae. The project aims to: Estimate mean parent-offspring distances for six reef fish species across three South Pacific archipelagos using isolation-by-distance population genetic models. Use these empirical dispersal estimates to constrain biophysical models of larval dispersal, testing...