Project Grant NA19NOS4820059

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 $127,149 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund facility improvements and research at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Inc. (CCMI) in the Cayman Islands. The award will leverage CCMI's 22-year record of coral reef research by establishing infrastructure for experiments on the physiological and molecular mechanisms driving coral reef resilience. Specifically, the funding will develop an outdoor mesocosm facility to...

The Coral Reef Research Foundation was awarded a $300,996 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The award, made on June 1, 2021 for a period of performance through May 31, 2022, will support the acquisition of a SMALL AERIAL BATHYMETRIC/TOPOGRAPHIC LIDAR SYSTEM FOR TROPICAL MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL RESEARCH. This system will allow the Foundation to conduct remote sensing research of coral...

The Coral Reef Research Foundation will receive $220,000 through a Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs to support efforts to diversify Palau's economy in an environmentally friendly manner through sustainable tourism, fisheries and agriculture. The funding will be provided from September 2022 through May 2025 under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation program, which aims to preserve cultural heritage overseas, show respect...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to investigate the movement of key elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus through coral reef fish communities in Belize. The $672,065 grant awarded on September 1, 2024 will fund research to uncover the origin and flow of these vital elements, as well as reveal relationships between benthic structural complexity and elemental fluxes across different spatial scales. The project...

This $331,500 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences' project to assess the potential of artificial upwelling to mitigate coral bleaching during heat waves. The project will substantially improve understanding of how artificial upwelling could be used to mitigate coral bleaching during periods of thermal stress by investigating the effects of different upwelling scenarios (varying depths and pulse...

This $1,042,960 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CFDA 11.482) supports a project between Arizona State University (ASU) and the Hawaii Department of Aquatic Resources. The project will conduct thermal tolerance experiments on different genotypes of the coral species Pocillopora meandrina from distinct sites in West Hawaii to assess local adaptation to past stress. The project partners will...

The Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs awarded The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc., doing business as CRF, a $999,431.95 Project Grant under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875) to support coral reef restoration efforts in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. This funding, awarded on September 11, 2024, will enable CRF to execute a comprehensive coral restoration project, including large-scale restoration activities,...

This $472,597 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on the photophysiology and bio-optics of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems in the Red Sea. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the research will employ an interdisciplinary approach including fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and advanced imaging to establish the light-harvesting properties of corals thriving at depths with extremely limited light availability. Specifically, the team will collect and...

This $689,238 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research on the energetic tradeoffs of coral-algal symbioses by the Trustees of Boston University. The project aims to examine how the facultative symbiosis between the coral Astrangia poculata and its algal symbiont Breviolum psygmophilum affects the energy allocation towards coral development, growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Key activities include: 1)...