Project Grant 2608079
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a $350,000 Project Grant (CFDA 47.050, Geosciences Program) to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research investigating the life-history patterns, systematics, and biogeography of Patescibacteria and Chloroflexota—abundant yet understudied bacterial lineages residing in marine sediments. The primary...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Portland State University received a $683,778 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2031. The award funds fundamental research investigating marine microbial predator-prey interactions using a model system pairing the bacteriovore Salpingoeca rosetta (choanoflagellate) with the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of South Carolina received a $523,795 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on July 15, 2026, to conduct a five-year CAREER project investigating the role of marine fungi in ocean carbon cycling. The research deliverables include laboratory experiments and biochemical characterization of marine fungal glycoside hydrolase family 7 (GH7) enzymes,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology totaling $270,000 on October 1, 2025, through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship supports a three-year research project (through September 30, 2028) to characterize microeukaryotic responses to terrestrial influence in marine sediments along the Puerto Rico continental slope. The fellow will analyze microbial...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $244,683 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for collaborative research on Crocosphaera waterburyi, a novel nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial species from oligotrophic oceans. The award, issued July 1, 2026, and extending through June 30, 2029, will support basic research to characterize this organism's response to environmental...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Michigan State University received a $695,285 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded July 15, 2025, and scheduled for completion by May 31, 2028. This CAREER award supports fundamental research investigating microbial mineral oxidation mechanisms in temperate marine sediments, with a specific focus on characterizing extracellular electron transfer (EET) pathways used by...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $521,274 to Columbia University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for a two-year period (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2027) to support the U.S. GEOTRACES Project Office. The Project Office provides coordination and administrative support for U.S. research institutions participating in the GEOTRACES mission, which seeks to identify processes and quantify fluxes controlling the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $320,866 to J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. on August 1, 2026, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support collaborative research examining microbial composition and metabolite production associated with sinking particles in the California Current System. The research will be conducted through July 31, 2029, and leverages a multi-omics approach to characterize the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary This $347,628 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), commenced June 1, 2025, and extends through May 31, 2030. The award supports fundamental research conducted at Purdue University to elucidate the assembly, supramolecular organization, and functional mechanisms of bacterial microcompartments—specialized...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $516,832 to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego on August 1, 2026, for a collaborative research project examining microbial composition and metabolite production associated with sinking particles in the California Current System. Under this Project Grant (CFDA 47.050, Geosciences), the awardee will conduct an integrated multi-omics study...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded $753,971 to the University of Southern California under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on October 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for February 28, 2029. This CAREER award supports fundamental research investigating whether extraordinarily stable enzymes enable long-term survival of microbial communities in deep ocean sediments. The project combines field sampling in the Gulf of Alaska with laboratory experimentation, metagenomic sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis to test the hypothesis that enzyme stability is a critical driver of microbial persistence in subsurface environments where biomass turnover occurs on decadal to millennial timescales rather than hours or days. The research deliverables include metagenome-assembled genomes, computational predictions of enzyme stability, and characterization of how enzyme stability influences deep subsurface microbial community assembly. Beyond scientific outputs, the award supports workforce development through training of undergraduate and graduate students in research methodologies and mentoring of K-12 students participating in the East Tennessee Freedom Schools summer program in authentic scientific research. The findings are expected to advance fundamental understanding of ocean subsurface ecosystems and global biogeochemical cycling while generating transferable knowledge on enzyme structure and function with potential applications in food and pharmaceutical industries.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $754.0k | 12/5/25 |