Project Grant 2508454
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $767,109 to the University of Southern California from September 2022 through August 2025. The grant supports research into the role of adaptive plasticity in coral response to climate change. Specifically, the university will investigate the mechanistic basis and ecological consequences of morphological plasticity in the foundational Caribbean coral Acropora cervicornis. Researchers will...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship to investigate the mechanisms underlying coral bleaching. The research aims to identify the genetic factors and host proteins that regulate the formation and breakdown of the symbiotic relationship between corals and photosynthetic algae, which is crucial for coral survival. The fellow will develop methods to isolate and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) is funding a $783,165 research project titled "The Role of Diel Thermal Variability on Coral Performance" at Boston University. The project aims to understand how differences in diel thermal variability (DTV) influence the plasticity of coral thermal physiology and molecular function, focusing on the coral species Siderastrea siderea across sites in Bocas del Toro, Panama. The key...
- 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...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2025. The $270,000 award will fund research and training of the fellow to study the chemical, molecular, and cellular processes involved in the formation of symbiotic relationships between cnidarians (e.g. corals) and algae. This research aims to better understand the mechanisms that lead to specificity in these...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, provides $240,000 in funding from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027 to support a postdoctoral research fellowship. The fellowship will investigate how interactions among individual coral reef fishes drive ecosystem-scale function in coral reef environments. The research will integrate field and laboratory studies to uncover the relationship between individual behavioral...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) will fund a $370,635 study to characterize the effects of heat, low oxygen, and their combination on a reef-building coral across life history stages. The lead researcher at Trustees of Boston University will conduct experiments in Bermuda to investigate how these dual anthropogenic stressors impact corals as adults and early in their life cycle. This research aims to expand...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $516,757 project grant to Trustees of Boston University to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HOW DO SELECTION, PLASTICITY, AND DISPERSAL INTERACT TO DETERMINE CORAL SUCCESS IN WARMER AND MORE VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTS?" from November 15, 2021 through October 31, 2024. This project grant funding will support research under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Northwestern University in the amount of $299,986 will fund a project focused on developing biophotonic technologies to increase the resilience of coral reefs to the impacts of climate change-induced ocean warming. The project aims to use optical imaging techniques to understand the role of gene expression and chromatin remodeling in coral thermal stress tolerance, with the goal of identifying strategies to...
- This Project Grant award of $343,716 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a postdoctoral research project at Trustees of Boston University to investigate sex-specific physiological differences in coral responses to climate change. The project aims to assess shifts in sex distributions and physiological trade-offs across marginal and non-marginal coral habitats by integrating field and mesocosm experiments with genomic tools. It will examine...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $393,101 to the University of Delaware (UDE) to conduct research investigating phenotypic plasticity and acclimation mechanisms within coral reef ecosystems. The project, titled "POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: OCE-PRF: PLASTIC PARTNERSHIPS: INVESTIGATING LIFE HISTORY STRATEGIES CONSTRAINING PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY ACROSS CORAL HOLOBIONT PARTNERS," will integrate physiological, molecular, and organismal fitness assessments of corals and their symbiotic partners across long-term thermal and photoacclimation experiments. This research aims to advance the understanding of how the flexibility of coral-algae-microbe relationships (the "holobiont") contributes to the capacity for corals to adapt to environmental stressors, which is critical for predicting reef resilience in a changing climate. The award period is from Dec 1, 2025 to Nov 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $393.1k | 7/31/25 |