The University of Hawaii at Manoa will test the marine biodiversity gradient of sponges in the tropical Pacific Ocean under a two-year, $959,716 National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences Project Grant award. The award period is from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. As part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to increase understanding of the integrated Earth system, the university will examine whether the well-known decline in...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to model coral reef adaptation and develop tools for coral reef conservation. The project aims to integrate three key mechanisms - larval connectivity, coral host genetics, and symbiotic algae dynamics - to predict how coral reefs may adapt to climate change. The research will construct mathematical models across multiple scales, from...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $892,290 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research characterizing mesophoric seaweeds in Hawaii from May 15, 2023 to April 30, 2026. Key products and services include collecting, identifying, and describing previously unknown mesophoric seaweed species from Hawaii to add to biodiversity data and herbarium...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, provides USD 270,000 in funding from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The grant supports a postdoctoral research fellowship to study the chemical, molecular, and cellular processes involved in the symbiotic relationship between cnidarians (such as corals) and their algal partners. The research aims to identify the mechanisms that lead to specificity in these partnerships,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program grant for $366,200 awarded to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division will support a collaborative research project titled "INTBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics". The project will use a multidisciplinary approach combining marine biology, molecular sciences,...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $370,100 awarded to the University of Rhode Island from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 will fund research investigating the impacts of ocean warming on the symbiotic nutritional exchange between microbes and reef-building corals during early life stages. As part of the Geosciences program under the CFDA 47.050, the awardee will characterize the development of the coral-algal symbiosis across life histories in Hawaiian and French...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $384,490 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports a collaborative research project focused on "Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics." The project aims to investigate the mechanisms behind coral bleaching events,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $442,152 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Arizona State University to integrate nanobiotechnology approaches to understand the role of nitro-oxidative stress in the coral-dinoflagellate symbiotic relationship. The 3-year research project aims to create a 3D bioengineered coral model to study the cellular responses of both coral cells and dinoflagellate algae under stress conditions that can lead to coral...
The University of Hawaii at Manoa will receive $748,827 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences' Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to illuminate the physiology, cellular characteristics, and ecogenomics of the first cultivated strain of the SAR86 lineage. This research aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in ocean sciences, as outlined under the NSF program. The University of Hawaii...
Oregon State University was awarded a $597,545 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic biological research to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise and increase understanding of major problems. Specifically, the three-year award beginning in August 2021 will fund collaborative research examining the cell biology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate...