Project Grant 2126668
Award Date
9/1/21
Completion Date
8/31/23
Dollars Obligated
$298K
Federal Agency
Division of Ocean Sciences
Federal Grant Program
47.050
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Similar Awards
This three-year, $586,609 National Science Foundation project grant in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, to apply novel methods for understanding microbial growth efficiency, function, and energy transfer in the ocean. The research aims to identify ecological conditions and microbial taxa accounting for variance in microbial growth efficiency along light and nutrient gradients. It uses data...
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...
The University of California Santa Cruz will receive $849,702 through August 2024 from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to study microbial control of dissolved organic nitrogen in the ocean. Using new amino acid tracers, the University will conduct research on bacterial sources and cycling of refractory dissolved organic nitrogen. This project grant aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of the integrated...
This $599,986 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant will fund research to understand how the diverse metabolic activities of microbes associated with coral reef ecosystems mediate key biogeochemical processes and respond to environmental changes, such as the proliferation of macroalgae. The research will involve three main...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $279,809 to the University of California Irvine to quantify the relationship between environmental conditions and the particulate carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus ratios of marine microorganisms. Over the three-year period from February 2022 to January 2025, the researchers will characterize the distribution of biomass stoichiometric traits for...
This $406,274 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research examining submesoscale frontal dynamics and exchange processes in San Luis Obispo Bay, California. The University of California Santa Cruz will conduct high-resolution measurements of turbulent mixing using ship surveys, moorings, and hydrographic profiling to study how persistent thermal fronts are generated and dissipated downstream of...
This $439,396 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Duke University from September 2022 to August 2025 to develop a model microbial consortium for interrogating organic matter decomposition and carbon cycling in coastal systems under changing environmental conditions. Researchers will integrate field, laboratory, and modeling work to examine the functional roles and responses to temperature variation of diverse...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $314,306 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to investigate the oceanographic and ecological factors affecting the abundance and distribution of mesopelagic organisms in the California Current ecosystem. The project aims to develop improved acoustic classification methods, use models to examine oceanographic processes linked to changes in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $352,969 to Hofstra University will investigate the relationships between microbial plankton communities and coastal hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen) in Long Island Sound, New York. The project aims to quantify changes in the structure and functioning of bacterial, archaeal, and microbial eukaryotic communities across periods of hypoxia and normoxia. The research will combine field work,...
This $586,557 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a project period from September 15, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The key products or services to be delivered under this award include the development of two novel artificial intelligence (AI) models to analyze gene sequence data and elucidate the drivers of global biogeochemical cycles in deep sea...