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An electronic newsletter from the Marine Biological Laboratory
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Gifts and Grants 01/01/2006 to 03/24/06
The Pfizer Foundation renewed its support for the workshop Living in the Microbial World in the amount of $52,912. The workshop will be held August 3 to 8, 2006.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute has provided $20,000 in support of the 2006 Science Journalism Program.
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has provided $10,000 in support of the 2006 Science Journalism Program.
The Department of Defense made the following awards:
- Year 2 $359,009 to Roger Hanlon, Alan Kuzirian, for Biological Approaches to Sensing Visual Scenes (subawarding institution - Battelle Columbus Operations)
- Additional Funding - Phase II, $241,318 to Roger Hanlon, for Soft Robot Manipulators and Manipulation (subawarding institution - Clemson University)
The Department of Energy made the following award: Year 2: $59,049 to Maureen Conte for Carbon Isotopic Studies of Assimilated and Ecosystem-Respired CO2 in the Southeastern Pine Forest (subawarding institution - University of Alabama)
NASA made the following awards:
- NEW AWARD, 2 Years - $200,267, YEAR 1 $99,966 to Linda Deegan, Chris Neill, David Kicklighter, for Quantifying and Scaling Land-Water Connections and River-Channel Biogeochemistry in Amazon River Networks
- NEW AWARD: $328,063 Two Years, YEAR 1 - $162,141 to Jerry Melillo, Paul Steudler, David Kicklighter, Chris Neill, for Land-Atmosphere Exchanges of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide Associated with Agricultural Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon
The National Institutes of Health made the following awards:
- Year 22: $340,555 to Stephen Hajduk, for Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Trypanosomes
- Year 2: $388,159 to Stephen Hajduk, for Mechanism of tRNA Import Into Trypanosome Mitochondria
- Year 2: $58,248 to Andrew McArthur, for Developmental Gene Regulation in Schistosoma mansoni (subawarding institution - Illinois State University),
- YEAR 24, $1,225,245 to Peter Smith, Mark Messerli, Emma Heart for BioCurrents Research Center
- Year 3: $522,227 to Mitchell Sogin, Andrew McArthur; Hilary Morrison, for Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes: A Protistan Emphasis
- Year 05: $223,548 to Jennifer Wernegreen for Molecular Evolutionary Consequences of Endosymbiosis
The National Science Foundation made the following awards:
- NEW AWARD, Two Years: $196,402 Total, Year 1: $107,632 to Maureen Conte for Collaborative Research: Controls on the Isotopic Composition of Fixed CO2 and Ecosystem-respired CO2 in Southeastern Pine Forests (subawarding institution - BBSR)
- Year 3: $60,207 to John E. Hobbie, Pamela Clapp Hinkle, Kenneth Foreman, Christopher Neill, for Science Journalism Program for the Arctic
- Year 2: $819,999 to John E. Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Gus Shaver, Edward Rastetter, for The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages
- NEW AWARD: $160,000 Three Years, YEAR 1 - $90,000 to William Beers, Scott Lindell, for Support of a Vessel for the Collection of Live Marine Organisms for Neurobiological Research and Education
- Year 5: $224,587 to Jerry Melillo, David Kicklighter, for BIOCOMPLEXITY: Feedbacks between Ecosystems and the Climate System (subawarding institution - MIT),
- NEW AWARD, Three Years - $270,538 Total, Year 1 $85,125 to Jerry Melillo, Bruce Peterson, David Kicklighter, for Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic System Carbon Cycle Research through Model-Data Fusion Studies Using Atmospheric Inversion and Process-Based Approaches
- Year 2: $98,869 to Jerry Melillo for Global Effects of Human and Terrestrial Interactions (subawarding institution - MIT)
- Year 2 - $300,000 to Gaius Shaver, Anne Giblin, Edward Rastetter for Loss and Retention of Nitrogen in an Arctic Landscape: Key Pathways and Process Regulation
- NEW AWARD, 4 Years - $90,000, $33,000 YEAR 1 to Joseph Vallino for Collaborative Research: Benthic Macroalgal Regulation of Carbon and Nitrogen Turnover in Land Margin Ecosystems
The Office of Naval Research made a new award for four years: $533,480 total, Year 1 - $147,990 to Roger Hanlon for Reflective Light Modulation by Cephalopods in Shallow Nearshore Habitats
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded YEAR 2: $71,524 to Steven Roberts, Roxanna Smolowitz, for Development of Genetic Markers to Assess Disease Resistance in the Eastern Oyster (subawarding institution - NRAC),
The U.S. Geological Survey awarded Year 4: $60,540 to Cathy Norton for USGS/MBL Cooperative Agreement
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