• $136,462 (subawarding institution: Battelle Columbus Operations) for “Biological Approaches to Sensing Visual Scenes.” The principal investigator is Roger Hanlon.
• $120,904 (subawarding institution: Clemson University) for “Soft Robot Manipulators and Manipulation.” The principal investigator is Roger Hanlon.

The Department of Energy awarded the following grants:

• $216,645 (over three years; subawarding institution: University of Georgia) for “Heterotrophic Soil Respiration in Warming Experiments: Using Microbial Indicators to Partition Contributions from Labile and Recalcitrant Soil Organic Carbon.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $254,909 for “Functional Analysis of Shewanella, a Cross Genome Comparison.” Monica Riley is the principal investigator.
• $225,000 (over five years) for “Investigations into the Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms as Part of Microbial Diversity.” The principal investigator is Thomas Schmidt.

Japan Science and Technology Agency awarded $130,052 for “Development of Observation Methods for Cellular Systems.” The principal investigator is Rudolf Oldenbourg.

NASA awarded the following grants:

• $97,023 for “The NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program.” Lynn Margulis is the principal investigator.
• $147,103 (subawarding institution: MIT) for “Testing Trace Gas Flux Models Using in-situ and Remotely Sensed Data.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $475,856 for “From Early Biosperic Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $74,142 for “Do Thermodynamic Goal Functions Describe Microbial Biogeochemical Dynamics?” Joseph Vallino is the principal investigator.
• $45,000 (subawarding institution: Carnegie Institution of Washington) for “Modular Assays for Solar System Exploration: An Advanced Liquid Sample Handling and Biotechnology Biomarker Detection Instrument.” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.

NASA/Ames awarded $144,676 for “Development of a Miniaturized Instrument for Planetary Protection (ASTID).” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.

National Parks Service (subawarding institution: UVM & State Agricultural College) awarded $56,079 for “Aquatic Biodiversity, Community Composition and Ecosystem Processes in Gates of the Arctic Park and Preserve and the Noatak National Preserve.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.

The National Institutes of Health awarded the following grants:

• $1,976,880 (over five years) for “Mechanism of tRNA Import Into Trypanosome Mitochondria.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $847,868 (over five years) for the Methods in Computational Neuroscience course. Eliezar A. Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $517,070 for “Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes: A Protistan Emphasis.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $493,533 for “Development of New Automated Polarized Light Microscope.” Rudolf Oldenbourg is the principal investigator.
• $348,750 for “Trypanosome Lysis by Human Haptoglobin Related Protein.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $238,500 for “Potential Targets for New Antischistosomal Agents.” Robert M. Greenberg is the principal investigator.
• $231,470 for “Logistical and Technical Support for NINDS at the Marine Biological Laboratory.” Thomas Reese is the principal investigator.
• $217,781 for the Frontiers in Reproduction Training Course and Symposium. Mario Ascoli is the principal investigator.
• $199,445 for the Embryology course. Joel Rothman is the principal investigator.
• $162,000 for the Neural Systems and Behavior course. Eliezar A. Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $158,979 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, Jr. is the principal investigator.
• $158,397 (over two years; subawarding institution: Illinois State University) for “Developmental Gene Regulation in Schistosoma mansoni.” Andrew McArthur is the principal investigator.
• $155,000 for “Role of Islet Structure and Function in Regulted Insulin Release.” Peter Smith is the principal investigator.
• $150,000 for “Interdisciplinary Training in Quantitative Cell Biology [Physiology].” Ronald Vale is the principal investigator.
• $148,503 for the Neurobiology course. Eliezar A. Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $127,102 for the Neuroinformatics course. Partha P. Mitra is the principal investigator.
• $55,994 for the Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish course. Eliezar A. Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $33,670 (subawarding institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison) for “Functional Genomics of Molluscan Schistosome Development.” Andrew McArthur is the principal investigator.
• $30,471 (subawarding institution: WHOI) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health—Parasite Project.” Linda Amaral Zettler is the principal investigator.

The National Library of Medicine awarded $297,833 for “Professional Services in Support of NLM’s Outreach Efforts to Encourage the Use of Computers and Information Science in Medicine.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the following grants:

• $111,509 for “Training Facility/Center for Recurring Training of Fisheries Observers.” David Potter is the principal investigator.
• $38,696 (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.
• $24,555 for “Career 2004: Integrated Training in Coastal Science and Management.” Linda Deegan is the principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded the following grants:

• $500,000 for “Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in the Environment of an Arctic Drainage Basin.” John Hobbie is the principal investigator.
• $450,000 (over three years) for “Collaborative Research: Connectivity of Reef Fish Population: Mechanisms and Consequences.” Gabriele Gerlach is the principal investigator.
• $278,662 for “Resource Allocation and Allometry of Plant Growth in the Arctic: Key Constraints on Change and Predictability of the Arctic System.” Gaius R. Shaver is the principal investigator.
• $273,253 for “Biogeochemical Tracers in Arctic Rivers: Linking the Pan-Arctic Watershed to the Arctic Ocean.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
• $270,538 for “Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic System Carbon Cycle Research through Model-Data Fusion Studies Using Atmoshperic Inversion and Process-Based Approaches.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $254,820 (over three years; subawarding institution: Georgia Institute of Technology) for “Synthesis and Scaling of Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Data on the North Slope and Coastal Zones of Alaska: A Basis for Studying Climate Change.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
• $200,000 (over four years; subawarding institution: MIT) for “Global Effects of Human and Terrestrial Interactions.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $195,000 (over three years) for “Transport and Biochemical Events Associated with Metabolic Regulation of the Squid Nerve Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger.” Luis Beaugé is the principal investigator.
• $161,013 (over two years; subawarding institution: Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.) for “Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea.” Maureen Conte is the principal investigator.
• $150,000 (over two years; subawarding institution: University of Alaska/Fairbanks) for “Arctic Biota Veg Projection.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $107,480 (subawarding institution: Harvard University) for “Harvard Forest LTER Program.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $90,460 for “Incorporating Genomics into the MBL Microbial Diversity Course.” Thomas Schmidt is the principal investigator.
• $58,002 for “Science Journalism Program for the Arctic.” John E. Hobbie is the principal investigator.
• $57,786 (subawarding institution: WHOI) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health—Pilot Project.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $47,012 for “Collaborative Research: Pheromones, Polyandry, and Female Reproductive Success in Cephalopods.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $34,539 (subawarding institution: WHOI) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Parasite Project.” Linda Amaral Zettler is the principal investigator.
• $29,006 for “Forecasting Needs and Procedures for NEON: Process-based Modeling.” John E. Hobbie is the principal investigator.

The United States Air Force (subawarding institution: Anteon Corporation) awarded $793,192 for “Cephalopod Coloration and Sensory Mechanisms.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.

The United States Department of Agriculture awarded the following grants:

• $195,868 (over three years; subawarding institution: University of Wisconsin) for “Production of Myostatin Gene Knockouts in Zebrafish and the Effects of Specific Myostatin Interacting Proteins.” Steven Roberts is the principal investigator.
• $154,805 (over two years; subawarding institution: University of Wisconsin) for “Effect of Temperature on the Infection of Hard Clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) by the Protistian Organism, Quahog Parasite Unknown.” Roxanna Smolowitz is the principal investigator.
• $128,486 (over two years; subawarding institution: University of Wisconsin) for “Development of Genetic Markers to Assess Disease Resistance in the Eastern Oyster.” Steven Roberts is the principal investigator.

The United States Geological Survey awarded $60,540 for “USGS/MBL Cooperative Agreement.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.