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Recent Gifts and Grants

DARPA (DOD) awarded $135,936 (subawarding institution: Clemson University) for “Soft Robot Manipulators and Manipulation.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.

DOE awarded $147,275 (over three years; subawarding institution: Harvard University) for “Global Warming and Carbon Storage in Mid-Latitude Forest Ecosystems – NIGEC.” Jerry Melillo and Paul Steudler are the principal investigators.

National Marine Fisheries Service awarded $105,807.50 for “Library Collection, Facility and Services at Northeast Fisheries Service Center, Woods Hole.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.

NOAA awarded $36,807 (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.

USAF awarded $200,000 (over two years) for “Cephalopod Coloration and Sensory Mechanisms.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.

USDA awarded $280,000 (over two years) for “Isolation and Characterization of Differentially-Regulated Genes in Activated Rainbow Trout Macrophages.” Frederick Goetz is the principal investigator.

USGS awarded $60,540 (over two years) for “USGS/MBL Cooperative Agreement.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.

NASA awarded the following grants:

• $240,620 (over two years) for “Key Connections in Amazonian Stream Corridors.” Linda Deegan and Christopher Neill are the principal investigators.

• $88,225 (over four years) for “Amplified Detection of Microbial Contamination for Planetary Protection.” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.

• $49,999 (over three years; subawarding institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks) for “The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern America.” Jerry Melillo and David Kicklighter are the principal investigators.

National Institutes of Health awarded the following grants:

• $155,000 (over two years) for “PCBs Target p53 Family Expression in Embryos.” Carol Reinisch is the principal investigator.

• $77,500 (over two years) for “Origin of Virulence Factors in African Trypanosomes.” Andrew McArthur and Stephen Hajduk are the principal investigators.

National Science Foundation awarded the following grants:

• $879,102 (over three years) for “Resource Allocation and Allometry of Plant Growth in the Arctic: Key Constraints on Change and Predictability of the Arctic System.” Gaius Shaver is the principal investigator.

• $123,493 (over two years; subawarding institution: University of Michigan) for “Developing Process-level Understanding of Controls on Belowground Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Tundra Ecosystems.” Edward Rastetter is the principal investigator.

• $25,000 for “FSML: Planning Proposal for Plum Island Coastal Research Facility.” William Speck, Linda Deegan, and Charles Hopkinson are the principal investigators.