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Gifts and Grants
The International Brain Research Organization, through the joint Society for Neuroscience and National Academy of Sciences IAC-USNC/IBRO committee, provided a grant in the amount of $37,955 to support the participation of foreign nationals in the MBL neurobiology courses.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided an additional grant of $500,000 for the Semester in Environmental Science program for undergraduate students from liberal arts colleges and universities.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation provided sponsorship in the amount of $40,000 for the MBL conference, “Unveiling the Ocean’s Hidden Majority: A Roadmap” to be held November 19 - 21, 2003, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Institute, Moss Landing, CA.
George Frederick Jewett Foundation has provided a grant of $150,000 to support the capital improvements to the MBL WHOI Library and for upgrading the air conditioning in Lillie Auditorium.
Pfizer Inc renewed their funding with a grant of $75,000 to support the Molecular Mycology Current Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis Course. This amount covers funding for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided a grant of $40,000 in support of an international workshop relating to the Census of Marine Life.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund has renewed its grant of $400,000 to support the Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches Course. This support is for the period 2003 to 2006.
The Grass Foundation awarded a grant to fund neuroscientists participating in the Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grant Program. The grant is $450,000 over three years beginning in summer 2003.
The Grass Foundation has renewed a grant for $45,000 to support the Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish Course for the years 2003 through 2005.
The Gruss Lipper Foundation provided a grant of $98,390 in support of the “Clam EST/Mini-Genome Project” to be undertaken at the MBL and at the American Technion Society.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority awarded $200,545 (over two years; subawarding institution: Batelle Ocean Sciences) for “Harbor and Outfall Monitoring III.” Anne Giblin is the principal investigator.
The National Marine Fisheries Service awarded $211,615 for “Library Collection, Facility and Services at Northeast Fisheries Service Center, Woods Hole.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
The Pfizer Foundation renewed a grant of $44,840 in support of the Living in the Microbial World, and Life and Living in Space Teacher Workshops in 2003.
The Society for Neuroscience, in collaboration with the International Brain Organization, awarded a grant of $40,000 to support the participation of foreign nationals in MBL Neurobiology Courses.
Japan Science and Technology Corp. awarded $212,184 (over two years; $86,800 first year) for “Joint Research Agreement.” Rudolof Odenbourg is the principal investigator.
The Nature Conservancy awarded $95,000 for “Hydrological Science to Support Biodiversity Conservation in Massachusetts.” Christopher Neill is the principal investigator.
DARPA awarded $33,984 for “Soft Robot Manipulators and Manipulation.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
The Department of Defense awarded $25,000 (subawarding institution: Anteon Corporation) for “Investigation of Marine Biological Applications on Hardened Materials.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
Department of Energy awarded $226,285 for “Development of Metabolic Pathway Database for the Metal Reducing Bacterium, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1.” Monica Riley is the principal investigator.
Environmental Protection Agency awards:
• $252,750 for “Regulation of Embryonic Neuronal Development by Chemical Mixtures from Brick, NJ.” Carol Reinisch is the principal investigator.
• $94,277 (subawarding institution: University of South Carolina) for “Coastal Wetland Indicators.” Charles Hopkinson is the principal investigator.
National Institutes of Health awarded the following grants:
• $1,569,375 for “Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Trypanosomes.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $810,000 (over five years; $162,000 first year) for “Neural Systems and Behavior.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $324,396 (over four years; $77,540 first year; subawarding institution: Boston Medical Center) for “Lipid modulation of b-cell calcium channels.” Stefan McDonough is the principal investigator.
• $252,945 for “3-D Image Restoration for Polarized Light Microscopy.” Rudolf Oldenbourg and Michael Shribak are the principal investigators.
• $228,927 for “Testing Molecular Evolutionary Consequences of Endosymbiosis.” Jennifer Wernegreen is the principal invstigator.
• $213,256 for “Frontiers in Reproduction Training Course and Symposium.” Asgerally Fazleabas is the principal investigator.
• $187,996 for the “Embryology Course.” Joel Rothman is the principal investigator.
• $156,494 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, Jr. is the principal investigator.
• $153,450 (subawarding institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) for “Membrane Proteins in Blood Coagulation.” Bruce Furie is the principal investigator.
• $129,000 for “Training in Methods in Computational Neuroscience.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $119,807 for the “Neuroinformatics Course.” Partha Mitra is the principal investigator.
• $91,201 (subawarding institution: Washington University) for “Neural Mechanisms of Vestibular Function.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $52,780 for the “Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish Course.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $45,750 for the “Physiology: Cellular and Molecular Biology Course.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
NIH-Small Business Innovation Research-SBIR (subawarding institution: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.) awarded $72,400 for “Real-Time PolScope Microscope for Live Cell Imaging.” Rudolf Oldenbourg is the principal investigator.
National Science Foundation awarded the following grants:
• $799,998 for “Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in the Environment of an Arctic Drainage Basin.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Anne Giblin, Linda Deegan, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $700,000 for “The Arctic LTER Project: The Future Characteristics of Arctic Communities, Ecosystems, and Landscapes.” John Hobbie, Gaius Shaver, Bruce Peterson are the principal investigators.
• $660,591 for “Trophic Cascades and Interacting Control Processes in a Detritus-based Aquatic Ecosystem.” Linda Deegan, Bruce Peterson, Joseph Vallino, Charles Hopkinson, and John Hobbie are the principal investigators.
• $600,000 (over three years; $209,729 first year) for “Nitrogen Movement from Uplands to Streams in Forested and Deforested Tropical Watersheds.” Christopher Neill and Paul Steudler are the principal investigators.
• $485,054 (over two years; $256,733 first year) for “Collaborative Project: Digital Educational Resources in Microbial Ecology, Evolution and Diversity \DERMEED1\).” David Patterson is the principal investigator.
• $389,759 for “Biogeochemical Tracers in Arctic Rivers: Linking the Pan-Arctic Watershed to the Arctic Ocean.” Bruce Peterson and Robert Holmes are the principal investigators.
• $365,472 for “Physiological and Molecular Diversity of Atmoshperic CH4 Oxidizers in Soil.” Paul Steudler is the principal investigator.
• $352,863 for “Turnover and Retention of Nitrogen in an Artic Watershed: Links to Organic Matter Accumulation and Response to Climate.” Gaius Shaver, Anne Giblin, and Edward Rastetter are the principal investigators.
• $240,000 for “Controlled Environment Facilities for Examination of the Effects of Climate Change and Human Land Use on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems.” Gaius Shaver, John Hobbie, Charles Hopkinson, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $212,422 (subawarding institution: MIT) for “BIOCOMPLEXITY: Feedback Between Ecosystems and the Climate System.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $186,508 for “Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdelloid Rotifers.” Matthew Meselson, David Mark Welch are the principal investigators.
• $153,814 for “Microsporidia and the Next Generation of Genome Scientists.” Mitch Sogin, Hilary Morrison, and Charles Vossbrinck are the principal investigators.
• $118,846 (subawarding institution: University of Tennessee) for “IRCEB: Nitrate Uptake and Retention in Streams: Mechanisms and Effects of Human Disturbances from Stream Reaches to Landscapes.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
• $110,237 (over three years; first year $34,733; subawarding institution: Columbia University) for “From Site to GCM Grid Box: Building Interactive Hierarchies of Data and Models to Assess Carbon Cycle and Climate Feedbacks Due to Agriculture and Forestry Practices in the Conterminous U.S. and China.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $101,872 for “Structure/Function Investigation of Gamma-Carboxyglutamic Acid-Containing Conotoxins.” Alan Rigby is the principal investigator.
• $90,558 for “LTER: Plum Island Sound Comparative Ecosystem Study (PISCES): Effects of Changing Land Cover, Climate and Sea Level on Estuarine Trophic Dynamics.” Charles Hopkinson, John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Anne Giblin, Linda Deegan, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $85,297 for “Coevolutionary Relationships in a New Marine Symbiosis.” Mary Saffo is the principal investigator.
• $82,925 (over five years; first year, $15,500; subawarding institution: University of Rochester) for “Integrative Studies of Wolbachia —Eukaryotic Interactions: Genomes to Communities and Back.” Jennifer Wernegreen and Seth Bordenstein are the principal investigators.
•$56,313 (subawarding institution: WHOI) for
“Effects of Varying Freshwater Discharge on Nitrogen Dynamics in the Oligohaline Regions of Estuaries.”
Anne Giblin is the principal investigator.
• $50,000 for “Support of a Charter Vessel for the Collection of Live Marine Organisims for Neurobiological Research.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $29,989 (subawarding Institution: Columbia University) for “BE/CBC:
Land Water Interactions at the Catchment Scale: Linking Biogeochemistry and Hydrology.” John Hobbie and Edward Rastetter are the principal investigators.
NOAA awarded the following grants:
• $280,195 (over two years; $140,466 first year) for “Delineation of Critical Inshore Spawning Grounds for Commercially Valuable Squid Fisheries on the East and West Coasts of the USA.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $40,000 for “Amplified Detection of Microbial Contamination for Planetary Protection at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.
NASA awarded the following grants:
• $4,757,963 (over five years; first year, $951,59) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitch Sogin, Jennifer Wernegreen, Linda Amaral Zettler, Hillary Morrison, Monica Riley, Norman Wainwright, and
David Patterson are the principal investigators.
• $395,520 for “Environmental Genomes and the Evolution of Complex Systems in Simple Organisms & Ecological Genomes.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $256,891 for “Center for Advanced Studies in Space Life Sciences at the Marine Biological Laboratory.”
Diana Jennings is the principal investigator.
• $147,000 for “Amplified Detection of Microbial Contamination for Planetary Protection.” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.
USDA awarded the following grants:
• $89,968 (over two years; first year $44,319 for “The Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Giant Danio (Danio aequipinnatus) as Models for Studying Determinant and Indeterminant Growth in Fish.” Peggy Biga and Rick Goetz are the principal investigators.
• $45,453 for “Isolation and Characterization of Factors Regulated During Larval Competence and Metamorphosis in the
Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradiansi.” Steven Roberts
and Rick Goetz are the principal investigators.
USGS awarded $402,700 (over five years; $80,540 first year) for “USGS/MBL Cooperative Agreement.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
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