Project Grant 2546549
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research examining how chemical interactions between coral reef organisms, including corals, macroalgae, and encrusting algae, contribute to the success and biodiversity of economically important coral reef ecosystems. The $1,309,859 award to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution aims to advance the understanding of contact-free, chemically-based interactions between benthic organisms on...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences Project Grant awarded $442,344 to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research under the NSF's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The research aims to evaluate the emergence of an anthropogenic signal in the tropical Indo-Pacific region by leveraging long-term, seasonal coral data, instrumental observations, and climate model...
- The University of the Virgin Islands received a $300,072 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award supports collaborative research investigating the parasite, host, and environmental drivers of Diadema scuticociliatosis in long-spined sea urchins (Diadema antillarum), a pathogenic ciliate infection that has caused mass mortality events in Caribbean...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $298,357 supports research investigating coral demographic processes and their interaction with climate change and local stressors to influence coral recovery trajectories. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will support analysis of time series coral size-frequency data across four Pacific regions to assess demographic rates following bleaching events and evaluate their importance in driving recovery dynamics....
- 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 Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $1.867 million on December 15, 2025, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to reconstruct environmental and ecological history of coral reefs using ancient DNA and paleoenvironmental approaches. Researchers will measure the chemistry of coral skeletons from massive corals in the Caribbean (Siderastrea siderea) and Great Barrier Reef (Porites lobata) to document...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $932,086 on December 15, 2025, to reconstruct the environmental and ecological history of Caribbean and Great Barrier Reef corals using paleoenvironmental and paleometagenomic approaches under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research will measure the chemical composition of coral skeletons from their earliest growth to the present day to establish a history of...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division a $199,959 grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study the impacts of a Crown of Thorns sea star outbreak and El Niño warming on coral reproduction, recruitment, and thermal tolerance in Mo'orea, French Polynesia. The project is examining the role of lagoon reef Pocillopora spp. coral in reef recovery following these natural disturbances, including quantifying reproduction, larval...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $252,096 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research quantifying energy fluxes on coral reefs from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The research will combine emerging technologies to examine how characteristics of small coral reef patches such as temperature, wave energy, architecture, and cryptic species assemblages shape reliance on different organisms to sustain larger reef fishes....
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $367,639 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The funding supports collaborative research to define the feeding behaviors and diets of herbivorous fishes on healthy coral reefs using a combination of field observations, traditional diet tracing methods, compound-specific isotopes, and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences awarded The University Corporation $751,910 on August 1, 2026, to investigate ecological mechanisms preventing coral population recovery in the US Virgin Islands under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research extends a 39-year coral reef monitoring time series and tests six integrated hypotheses within a hierarchical ecological framework to explain persistent low coral abundance on reefs. The project combines fieldwork at multiple long-term study sites within a marine protected area with advanced wavelet analyses to identify temporal dynamics in community structure. Specific investigations address whether reef communities have converged to a stable low-abundance state, spatial structuring of community dynamics, recruitment and settlement failures, and whether the loss of sea urchins and shifts in algal symbionts contribute to stalled recovery. The work will generate ecological understanding of contemporary reef dynamics while training students, supporting public outreach, and ensuring four decades of monitoring data are freely accessible. The University Corporation, a non-profit research administration entity for California State University Northridge, is the recipient. Performance occurs at the CSUN campus in Northridge, California from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $751.9k | 7/17/26 |