Project Grant 2535122
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded Point Blue Conservation Science $877,197 on September 1, 2026, under the Polar Programs assistance program (CFDA 47.078) to conduct collaborative research on Adélie penguin population dynamics across two Antarctic regions. The project deploys tracking tags on young penguins to reveal first-migration routes and survival rates, retrieves recording devices from adults to document molt timing, dive depth, and feeding frequency...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded Arizona State University $118,766 on September 1, 2026, under the Polar Programs assistance listing (CFDA 47.078) to fund a collaborative research project tracking Adélie penguin populations across two Antarctic regions with opposing population trajectories to identify behavioral and physiological factors enabling adaptation to environmental change. Research activities include deploying satellite tracking tags on fledgling...
- The University of California Santa Cruz will conduct collaborative research on common environmental drivers determining the occupation chronology of Adélie penguins and moss peatbanks on the Western Antarctic Peninsula under a $113,985 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs. This research supports the goals of the NSF Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) to strengthen understanding of polar regions through expanded fundamental knowledge. The grant will fund...
- 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 from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs supports collaborative research titled "COMMON ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS DETERMINE THE OCCUPATION CHRONOLOGY OF AD?LIE PENGUINS AND MOSS PEATBANKS ON THE WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA." With a total award amount of $283,540, the grant runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding of the polar regions by exploring how common environmental factors impact the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $128,716 Project Grant to Point Blue Conservation Science of Petaluma, California. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Predators to Plankton - Biophysical Controls in Antarctic Polynyas" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under the grant, Point Blue Conservation Science will conduct research to strengthen understanding of the polar regions as part of the NSF's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078)....
- Duke University was awarded a $117,935 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research to determine common environmental drivers that influence the occupation chronology of Adélie penguins and moss peatbanks on the Western Antarctic Peninsula. This research aims to strengthen fundamental scientific understanding of the polar regions by expanding...
- This $170,879 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports a research project titled "LINKING LOCAL OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS WITH CETACEAN OCCURRENCE NEAR THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS FROM 2014 TO 2016 USING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING." The project, conducted by the University of California San Diego's (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, aims to better understand how oceanographic variables...
- The University of California Santa Cruz will receive $121,510 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs. The grant will fund collaborative research titled "Climate, Changing Abundance and Species Interactions of Marine Birds and Mammals at South Georgia in Winter" from September 2021 through August 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding of the polar regions by expanding knowledge of climate impacts on marine species...
- This two-year, $465,684 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will support research exploring the role of bubble-net feeding cultural innovations in humpback whale populations in the Antarctic Peninsula region. The University of California Santa Cruz will leverage long-term data from the LTER study on the western Antarctic Peninsula, including from animal-borne tags, behavioral observations, biopsies, photo-identification, and drone footage. Researchers will model...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded the University of California, Berkeley $241,058 on September 1, 2026, under the Polar Programs assistance listing to conduct collaborative research on Adelie penguin population dynamics across two Antarctic regions. The research tracks penguin behavior and survival through small electronic tags deployed on juvenile penguins at departure from colonies, recording devices retrieved from adults to document molting and diving patterns during winter, and blood sampling to establish ancestral relationships and population mixing between colonies in the Ross Sea and Antarctic Peninsula regions. The project measures how environmental adaptations differ between a stable or growing Ross Sea population and a declining Peninsula population despite both facing warming climates, with findings intended to inform Antarctic wildlife conservation and management. Tracking and recording devices also collect oceanographic temperature and other data from the remote Southern Ocean during the season least accessible to conventional study. The work supports training of a doctoral student and field apprentice and continues decades-long monitoring efforts, with public outreach including live video updates and penguin colony information through penguinscience.com and social media. The period of performance runs through August 31, 2028, with work performed in Berkeley, California.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $241.1k | 8/11/26 |