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Gifts & Grants

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay awarded $132,311 (current year funding) for “Baywatchers - A Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Program for Buzzards Bay.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.

Dart Neuroscience, LLC awarded $1 Million for the Program in Learning and Memory.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation awarded $600,000 for “Impact of Biofuels on Global Climate Change.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The Department of Energy awarded

$249,355 (current year funding) for “Integrated Genome-Based Studies of Shewanella ecoPhysiology.” Margarethe Hauge Serres, principal investigator.
$139,901 (current year funding) for “Impacts of Climate Change on Biofuels Production.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The Ellison Foundation awarded

$488,266(current year funding) for “Accelerating Analysis of the Biology of Aging by the Encyclopedia of Life.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
$226,296 (current year funding) for “Ubiquitin-mediated degradation of cell cycle regulatory proteins in aging.” Avram Hershko, principal investigator.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded

$125,000 (current year funding) for “Dynamic Modeling of Emissions from Land-Use Activities.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
$32,441 (current year funding) for “Quantifying Climate Feedbacks from Abrupt Changes in High-Latitude Trace-Gas Emissions.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

Bruce Furie gave $25,000 for the Shinya and Sylvia Inoue Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging.

George Frederick Jewett Foundation awarded $150,000 in support of the Geosciences and Biodiversity Data Fund.

The Golden Family Foundation awarded a $200,000 endowment to the Science Journalism Program.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $138,750 to the Microbial Diversity & Ecology Research Training Program. Eliezar Dawidowicz, principal investigator.

The Grass Foundation awarded $30,000 to support the Zebrafish Development and Genetics fund.

The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation has awarded $350,000 in support of the Center for Molecular Evolution, MRC Operations, and for unrestricted use.

The Howard Huges Medical Institute awarded

$1,000,000 (current year funding) for the Graduate Science Education Program. Eliezar Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
$150,000 (current year funding) for “The Pre college Science Education Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions.” William Reznikoff, principal investigator.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded

$2,022,816 (current year funding) for “EOL Biodiversity Informatics.” David Patterson, principal investigator.
$371,533 (current year funding) for the “Biodiversity Heritage Library.” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.

Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation, Inc. awarded $100,000 for the Director’s Discretionary Fund.

The Massachusetts Water Resource Authority awarded $1,144 (current year funding) for “Harbor and Outfall Monitoring: Bethic Fluxes.” Anne E. Giblin, principal investigator.

NASA awarded

$208,692 (current year funding) for “Leaping to land- Physiology and phylogenetics of desert green algae.” Zoe Cardon, principal investigator.
$106,853 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$50,000 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$49,567 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

The National Institute of Health awarded

$1,007,578 (current year funding) for the BioCurrents Research Center. Peter Smith, principal investigator.
$366,036 (current year funding) for “Enhancing Organism Based Disease Knowledge via Name Based Taxonomic Intelligence.” Neil Sarkar, principal investigator.
$287,837 (current year funding) for “Mechanisms and Consequences of Deleterious Evolution in Bacteria.” Jennifer Wernegreen, principal investigator.
$167,381 (current year funding) for the Neurobiology Summer Course. Eliezar Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
$144,103 (current year funding) for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, principal investigator.
$140,698 (current year funding) for the Neuroinformatics course. Partha Mitra, principal investigator.
$134,381 (current year funding) for “Microbial community profiling of sewage contamination in the Great Lakes.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$31,560 (current year funding) for “Meiotic genes in sexual and asexual rotifers.” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.

The National Geographic Society awarded $28,180 for “Colorblind camouflage by cuttlefish during day and night.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded

$81,308 (current year funding) for “New Strategies for Mussel Farming in Southern New England.” Scott Lindell, principal investigator.
$53,753 (current year funding) for “Salt marsh dieback in Cape Cod: Possible mechanisms.” Ivan Valiela, principal investigator.
$29,204 (current year funding) for “Environmental Investigation and Assessment of the Hard Clam Parasite, QPX.” Roxanna Smolowitz, principal investigator.
$18,594 for “Developing Genetic Fingerprinting Techniques in Lobster Seeding Trials.” Gabriele Gerlach, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded

$940,000 (current year funding) for “Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
$820,000 (current year funding) for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John E. Hobbie, principal investigator.
$334,614 (current year funding) for “Canopy Structure and CO2 Exchange of Arctic Vegetation: Key Constraints on Change and Predictability of the Arctic System.” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
$248,000 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Interacting controls on ecosystem function: nutrient state and omnivory in salt marsh ecosystems.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
$200,000 (current year funding) for “Mobile Genetic Elements in Sexual and Ancient Asexual Taxa.” Irina Arkhipova, principal investigator.
$107,480 (current year funding) for “Genomics of Terrestrial Microbial Communities Associated with the Production and Consumption of Greenhouse Gases.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$28,538 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Spatial and Temporal Influences of Thermokarst Features on Surfaces Processes in Arctic Landscapes.” Edward Rastetter, principal investigator.
$109,915 (current year funding) for “AToL: Collaborative Research: - Reconstructing Eukaryotic Phylogeny through Multigene Analyses of Microbial Eukaryotes.” David Patterson, principal investigator.
$13,465 (current year funding) for “Harvard Forest LTER Program.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
$106,000 (current year funding) for “Supplemental Funding: The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John E. Hobbie, principal investigator.
$48,561 (current year funding) for “Supplemental Funding: Plum Island Ecosystems LTER.” Anne E. Giblin, principal investigator.
$40,847 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Microbial Observatory in the Cariaco Basin - Dynamics of protistan diversity across time, space and chemical gradients.” David Patterson, principal investigator.
$10,000 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Development of New Digital Library Applications Using the Literature of Entomology.” Neil Sarkar, principal investigator.

The Office of Naval Research awarded $43,821 (current year funding) for “Reflective Light Modulation by Cephalopods in Shallow Nearshore Habitats.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

The Packard Foundation awarded $51,445 (current year funding) for “Biofuels Production, Disruption of the Nitrogen Cycle and Other Ecological Effects.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The Pew Charitable Trusts awarded $13,465 (current year funding) for “Genetic Structure of the Cod Population at Stellwagen Bank.” Gabriele Gerlach, principal investigator.

Patricia K. Robertson gave $16,000 for Infrastructure, physical improvements of the Lillie building.

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded $16,000 (current year funding) for “Nutrient analyses for USGS project in Fire Island National Seashore.” Ivan Valiela, principal investigator.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals awarded

$200,000 (current year funding) for “Three-dimensional structure of human B-domainless Factor VIII Wyeth Research Agreement.” Bruce Furie, principal investigator.
$125,333 (current year funding) for “Three-dimensional structure of human B-domainless Factor VIII Wyeth Research Agreement.” Bruce Furie, principal investigator.