Project Grant 2609774
- This Project Grant award of $130,222 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research project titled "The Albatross Re-Collection Project for a Century of Genomic Change in the Tropics." The project aims to compare historical and modern fish species, focusing on the blue sprat, to understand how they have adapted to challenges such as fishing and habitat loss over the past century. Key activities include assembling...
- This $394,557 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the "Collaborative Research: The Albatross Re-Collection Project for a Century of Genomic Change in the Tropics" at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The project will analyze historical fish samples collected by the research vessel Albatross over a century ago, and compare them to modern samples, to understand how coastal fish species like the...
- This $496,049 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant supports collaborative research to investigate how rapidly changing ocean conditions are impacting the world's most abundant vertebrates - lanternfishes and bristlemouths. This research aims to provide fundamental knowledge on how these crucial marine food web...
- This Project Grant award of $166,238 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) aims to harmonize long-term ecological data on seabird communities across three marine Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites representing temperate, subpolar, and polar marine ecosystems. The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), the awardee, will test how seabird populations and community structure are affected by local ocean conditions and food resource availability,...
- This $2,963,428 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop critical infrastructure and tools for interpreting genomic data. The project will create high-quality genome assembly workflows, comprehensive documentation, and interactive training materials to make these advanced genomic analysis capabilities accessible to a wide audience of biology researchers. This will enable downstream discoveries in areas such as...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) has awarded a Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the amount of $160,771 for the period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant will fund a research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: POLYMORPHISM, MATING CONFLICT, AND THE STRENGTH OF TOP-DOWN CONTROL IN TROPHIC CASCADES." The project will investigate how variation in male mating strategies in sailfin molly...
- This $1,274,370 federal Project Grant award was made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California, Berkeley. The funding supports a collaborative research project to investigate how rapidly changing ocean conditions are impacting lanternfish and bristlemouth - the most abundant vertebrates in the world's oceans. This research will provide fundamental knowledge on how these crucial marine food web organisms are...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 supports a postdoctoral research fellowship from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The project aims to integrate historical museum collections and avian conservation genomics to understand how bird species in California have responded to past environmental changes and forecast their vulnerability to future climate change. The research will develop a framework for incorporating...
- This $310,630 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences (CFDA 47.050 Geosciences) is funding a collaborative research project titled "ULTRA-DATA: Harmonizing At-Sea Seabird Surveys at Three Marine LTER Sites to Uncover Community Responses from the Subarctic to Antarctic". The project aims to harmonize long-term ecological data on ocean conditions, food resources, and seabird populations across three marine ecosystem sites representing...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program provides $240,000 in funding from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027 to conduct research on the evolutionary dynamics of recombination landscapes and adaptive trait architectures across varying degrees of gene flow. The key research objectives are to: (1) generate multiple linkage maps to examine recombination rate as an individual-level phenotype, (2) conduct a...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support the "Collaborative Research: The Albatross Re-Collection Project for a Century of Genomic Change in the Tropics". The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) is the awardee, with a total funding amount of $335,016.00 for the project period from Oct 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2027. The key objectives of this research project are to: 1) Assemble and annotate high-quality genomes to understand the genetic architecture of the blue sprat (Spratelloides delicatulus); 2) Resequence the genomes of approximately 1,000 individuals across historical (1907-1909) and modern samples to identify loci targeted by spatial and temporal selection; and 3) Measure morphology and growth to test the functional importance of genomic variation. This research leverages the unique archive of preserved fish specimens collected over a century ago by the research vessel Albatross, which are now stored at the Smithsonian Institution. The project will also support paid research internships for students with limited access to science careers and host workshops to build international exchange with the Philippines.
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