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Gifts & Grants

Anderson-Rogers Foundation, Inc. awarded a grant of $20,000 in support of the Haiti Fish Pellet Project being conducted by Bill Mebane and his team in the Marine Resources Center.

An anonymous gift was received in the amount of $1,200,000 to provide an endowed fund that will support fellowships and scholarships at the MBL.

The Cox Foundation, Inc. made a contribution of $25,000 to the MBL Annual Fund.

The Department of Energy awarded $90,000 (current year funding) for “Effects of soil warming on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and their interactions in temperate forests: implications for land-atmosphere feedback,” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded:

$1,954,885 to support the project titled “Accelerating analysis of the biology of aging by the Encyclopedia of Life.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
$905,184 to support Avram Hershko’s project “Ubiquitin-mediated degradation of cell cycle regulatory proteins in aging.”

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $299,409 (current year funding) for “Nonlinear and threshold responses to environmental stresses inland-river networks at regional to continental scales,” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded:

$138,750 (current year funding) for “Microbial diversity and ecology research training program.”
$327,500 to support the Microbial Diversity course for the years 2007-2009.

Hermann Foundation, Inc. awarded $1,000,000 to establish the Hermann Foundation Research Development Fund. This fund will support junior faculty staff in the biological, biomedical, and environmental sciences at the MBL.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $4,000,000 to support of the MBL’s summer education programs and infrastructure. This amount provides funding for courses from 2008 through 2011.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded:

$3,999,994 to support the project “Encyclopedia of Life” – an on-line encyclopedia with a web page for every species.
$545,752 (current year funding) for the “Biodiversity Heritage Library,” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.

The Grass Foundation awarded $135,000 to support the Neurobiology course and $150,000 for the Neural Systems and Behavior course for the years 2008 – 2010.

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 $26,755 to support the participation of foreign nationals in the MBL neurobiology courses.

The National Institutes of Health awarded:

$306,069 (current year funding) for “Mechanisms and consequences of deleterious evolution in bacteria,” Jennifer Wernegreen, principal investigator.
$238,284 for “Biology of the inner ear- experimental and analytical approach,” Lenny Dawidowicz, principal investigator
$187,029 for “Cloning and analysis of centrosome-associated RNA,” Mark Alliegro, principal investigator.
$169,677 (current year funding) “Training in methods of computational neuroscience,” Lenny Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
$148,370 (current year funding) for “Training in professional development for neuroscience,” Joseph Martinez, principal investigator.
$141,341 (current year funding) for “Neuroinformatics,” Partha Mitra, principal investigator.
$92,380 (current year funding) “Molecular evolution of eukaryotes: a protistan emphasis,” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$52,434 (current year funding) for “Neural development and genetics of zebrafish,” Lenny Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
$46,633 (year 1 of 1) for “Integration of the software code for the MEL and GTHM models for simulating the dynamic interaction of biochemical and hydrologic process in terrestrial ecosystems,” Edward Rastetter, principal investigator.
$20,000 (current year funding) “Molecular mycology summer course,” Aaron Mitchell, principal investigator.

NASA awarded $5,712 (current year funding) for “Further tests on a modeling framework to detect and analyze changes in land-to-coastal fluxes,” Bruce Peterson, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded:

$510,000 (current year award) for “Collaborative research: influence of land use on watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry at the Amazon agricultural frontier,” Chris Neill, principal investigator.
$440,000 (current year funding) for “Microbial inventory research across diverse aquatic LTERs,” Linda Amaral Zettler, principal investigator.
$205,399 (current year funding) for “A biochemical, genetic and genomic investigation of the evolution and ecology of sexual reproduction,” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.
$143,000 (current year funding) for “Fertilization of salt marsh ecosystems: using molecular techniques to evaluate the effects of nitrogen enrichment on sediment microbial communities,” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
$119,192 (current year funding) for “IPY: improving the public’s understanding of polar research through hands-on fellowships for science journalists in the Arctic and Antarctic,” Chris Neill, principal investigator.
$102,468 (current year funding) for “Plum Island Ecosystems LTER,” Charles Hopkinson, principal investigator.
$94,000 for “The Arctic LTER project: regional variation in ecosystem processes and landscape linkages,” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
$90,481 (current year funding) for “Integrative studies of Wolbachia-eukaryotic interactions: genomes to communities and back,” Seth Bordenstein, principal investigator.
$87,103 (current year funding) for “OPUS: optimization of resource acquisition strategies and its effects on ecosystem function and community structure,” Edward Rastetter, principal investigator.
$85,815 (current year funding) for “LTER: PALMER ANTARCTICA LTER: climate change, ecosystem migration and teleconnections in an ice-dominated environment,” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
$6,000 (current year funding) for “Collaborative research: controls on the isotopic composition of fixed CO₂ and ecosystem-respired CO2 in southeastern pine forests,” Maureen Conte, principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded:

$170,966 (current year funding) for “Cageless, open-ocean ranching of black sea bass,” Scott Lindell, principal investigator.
$72,011 (current year funding) for “Application of the leaf wax-aerosol method to assess spatial and temporal patterns of carbon isotopic fractionation of atmospheric CO₂ by terrestrial photosynthesis,” Maureen Conte, principal investigator.
$38,200 (current year funding) for “Effects of salinity changes on the N dynamics in the upper regions of estuaries,” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.

The Nature Conservancy awarded $30,000 for “Herring Creek restoration project,” Chris Neill, principal investigator.

Nikon Instruments Inc. awarded $25,000 in support of the Nikon Fellowship for the summer of 2007.

PEW Charitable Trusts awarded $29,655 (current year funding) for “Genetic structure of the cod population at Stellwagen Bank,” Gabrielle Gerlach, principal investigator.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded $300,000 to support the development of the VAMPS prototype tool that will be instrumental in describing and comparing microbial communities.

The United States Department of Agriculture/UMASS awarded $66,574 for “Cross-breeding and field trials of disease-resistant eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica,” Scott Lindell, principal investigator.

Wellcome Trust renewed funding in the amount of $52,664 to support three students participating in the course “Biology of parasitism: modern approaches” for 2007 and 2008.