The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $170,000 Project Grant to Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Inc. under the Unallied Management Projects program (CFDA 11.454). The two-year award running from September 2021 through August 2023 will support the organization's "DIVING CATCH 2: SAVING WHITE AND BLACK ABALONE THROUGH CONSERVATION AQUACULTURE" project. This project aims to provide economic, sociological, public policy, and other...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $873,836 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) on August 15, 2024. The grant will fund a 5-year research project to investigate rapid evolution in reef-building corals during marine heatwave events. The project aims to study how the mortality induced by these extreme climate events changes the genetic composition of coral populations. Using a combination of field experiments...
The California Academy of Sciences received a $223,661 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on December 1, 2021 to fund research through November 30, 2023. The grant supports the project "OCE-PRF: THE LANDSCAPE OF HYBRIDIZATION AND ADAPTATION ACROSS REEF DEPTH IN A CORAL COMMUNITY" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $415,682 to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation to conduct research on the effects of ocean warming on a coastal fish species. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify genetic variation in temperature response, 2) determine if local adaptation to temperature exists, and 3) assess whether evolutionary changes can occur quickly enough to impact population...
This $199,919 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research by Sociedad Ambiente Marino Inc. on the causes and impacts of a resurgent die-off of the long-spined black sea urchin (Diadema antillarum) in the Caribbean. Using multidisciplinary approaches including metagenomics, metabolomics, and demographic analyses at four sites in Puerto Rico, the grantee will investigate the microbial profiles and...
This $115,936 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports fundamental research on the evolutionary history and species delineations of coronuloid barnacles (arthropod crustaceans) that are epizoic with marine megafauna like sea turtles and whales. The key research objectives are to: 1) construct a phylogeny mapping the evolutionary chronology of barnacle attachment mechanisms (gluing, gripping, gouging); 2) compare global...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding to support a postdoctoral research fellowship investigating the genetic basis of heat tolerance in the ecologically important giant kelp species (Macrocystis pyrifera). The 3-year project aims to: (1) determine if warming events are associated with genetic signatures of population decline in giant kelp, (2) identify adaptive genetic variants that contribute...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $131,201 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to investigate and develop compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids (CSI-AA) to better understand the species-level ecology of planktonic foraminifera. The goal is to use CSI-AA from shell-bound organics to refine inferences about foraminifera's depth habitat, diet, and symbiosis in order to improve...
This three-year, $186,319 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems aims to advance conservation science and action for endangered native Hawaiian land flora and fauna. Funded under the Biological Sciences program, the grant supports research examining the feeding ecology and microbial preferences of Hawaiian land snails to improve captive rearing and habitat restoration efforts. Specifically, the project will study snail feeding...
This $704,076 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences (47.074) program will fund research at the University Corporation At Monterey Bay to advance understanding of speciation dynamics in the highly diverse rockfish genus Sebastes. Over five years from September 2022 through August 2027, the awardee will construct an updated phylogenetic framework for rockfishes using phylogenomic methods. They will also conduct whole genome sequencing to infer likely divergence...