Project Grant 1744877

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $323,227 to the University of Houston System to investigate the genetic mechanisms that enable certain species of high latitude cod to adapt their kidney function and morphology to seasonally variable polar environments. The research aims to employ genomic techniques to discover how these fish species, which include the polar cod, Pacific cod, walleye pollock, and saffron cod, have adapted...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $593,028 Project Grant to the University of Houston System to support collaborative research on the evolutionary patterns and mechanisms of trait diversification in the Antarctic notothenioid fish radiation. Under the grant's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program, the University will leverage a comprehensive genomic dataset comprising over 250,000 protein-coding exons and conserved non-coding elements across 44...

This $455,199 National Science Foundation project grant through the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) will fund research at the University of California Santa Cruz to study genome evolution in polar fishes. The research will compare genomes of multiple polar and non-polar fish species to clarify how evolutionary rates vary in polar environments, identify general trends shaping adaptive trajectories of polar fishes, and determine how functional differences influence the evolution...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $1,346,558 to the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The funding will support the development of a modular software tool that enables researchers to better understand genetic diversity in plants and how it drives adaptation, particularly in the face of climate change. The project aims to create innovative...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA #47.078), provides $356,975 to support research examining the genomic mechanisms controlling the slow development of the Antarctic sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri. Over three years from September 2022 through August 2025, a team of researchers led by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will conduct laboratory experiments to identify the gene...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $598,206 to support a multi-day conference titled "Enhancing Arctic Science and Engineering (EASE) Workshop." The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host the workshop from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 to bring together participants from agencies, universities, non-profits, private sector, local officials, students, and Indigenous...

This $184,750 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support the Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Conference in 2022 and 2024. The Conference and associated planning workshop will bring together U.S. researchers from bio-, cryo-, geo- and atmospheric sciences conducting Antarctic research. Over a 2.5 day hybrid format, the Conference will facilitate collaboration and data sharing...

This $324,787 Postdoctoral Fellowship project grant was awarded on October 1, 2023 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078). The project aims to investigate the role of epigenetics in enabling gentoo penguins to adapt to the rapidly changing environment of the western Antarctic Peninsula, where the species is thriving while related...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) Project Grant award of $358,622 to the University of Illinois from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026 aims to characterize the evolution of proteins that integrate signals of warming, changing pH, and oxidation in the sensory systems of three species of Arctic and sub-Arctic fish. The research will provide insight into the sensitivity and responses of these fish to climate change through the generation and analysis of...