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 | Chabot Space & Science Center
Planning Grant: Chabot Climate Change Teacher Workshops | $310,000 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $310,000 | Jul. 2010 |
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Purpose
In support of the development of a comprehensive implementation plan to launch the Chabot Climate Change Teacher Workshops in the summer of 2011, which will provide training to teachers on the fundamental concepts of climate change to effectively instruct their 4th-6th grade students across Alameda County. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $850,000 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
This grant will support the development of a cost-effective, replicable model for scaling up the successful Techbridge program, which provides hands-on activities, role models and worksite visits, family outreach, and teacher training to serve girls across the San Francisco Bay Area. National research, robust assessment, and evaluation will be components of the program design and refinement to develop a scalable and sustainable model for expansion and durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $300,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center will support fabrication and installation of Bill Nye’s Climate Laboratory, an exhibition to increase climate change science literacy and engagement in approximately 175,000 youth, ages 8-14, over two years measured by 1) k knowledge of fundamentals of climate science and impact of human energy use; 2) knowledge of sustainable energy technologies; and 3) actions taken to support sustainable energy and reduce their climate impact. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $561,862 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center supports the Techbridge program partnership with the Girl Scouts of Northern California to develop, implement and scale up a two-year, out-of-school curriculum delivery pilot program ("Girls Go Techbridge") in the 10-county Bay Area region, resulting in 1) increased confidence, skills, and interest in science in 2,000-2,500 Bay Area middle school girls; and 2) an expansion of the pilot program to 3 additional Girl Scouts regional councils by the conclusion of this grant period. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,090,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Chabot Space and Science Center supports its Techbridge program. Outcomes include increased participation from girls in science, technology, and engineering. | | Vanderbilt University Medical Center
National Nursing Workforce Research | $676,100 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $676,100 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant supports a portfolio of national nursing workforce research using three national datasets, with the goal of developing improved empirical estimates of future national and regional Registered Nursing (RN) workforce needs. The research will provide new estimates of the factors that affect RN labor force participation and will update estimates of the future supply of RNs. The findings from this research will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals and disseminated nationally. | | Tides Canada Foundation
British Columbia Wild Salmon Conservation – Small Grants Fund | $832,910 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $832,910 | Jun. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant to Tides Canada Foundation will support an agile mechanism for timely small scale investments in grassroots activities aimed at protecting wild salmon in British Columbia. The intention is to capitalize on time-limited opportunities to advance identified strategic outcomes of the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $726,757 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to the Tides Canada Foundation’s British Columbia Marine Planning Fund supports development of a multi-sector Innovative Oceans Partnership in support of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $162,785 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant will support Tides Canada Foundation in redesigning and rebuilding its service delivery model to ensure robust and sustainable support to environmental philanthropy in British Columbia’s wild salmon and marine ecosystems. Specifically, it will help fund a comprehensive business planning initiative to guide future organizational development and growth. This planning will help ensure regional capacity to enhance the durability of the conservation outcomes for the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative and the Marine Conservation Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $395,910 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to Tides Canada Foundation will provide an agile mechanism for timely small scale investments in grassroots activities aimed at protecting wild salmon in British Columbia. The intention is to capitalize on time-limited opportunities to advance identified strategic outcomes of the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative. Areas of focus include habitat protection in the Taku and Skeena watersheds, as well as harvest and aquaculture reform. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $1,241,635 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Tides Canada Foundation to elevate and secure the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management process. Tides Canada will also facilitate marine conservation Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) coordination by partnering with the BC Marine Planning Network, a consortium of five ENGOs, to implement their joint strategic plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $655,000 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
Tides Canada will use this grant to make a strategic acquisition of a guide outfitter business operating in the Taku Watershed in order to advance overall ecosystem conservation and sustainable development goals in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $529,629 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The Tides Canada Foundation will use this grant to complete and implement a conservation financing deal for the protection of Great Bear Rainforest, and to launch two new organizations (known collectively as the Coast Opportunities Funds) that will manage conservation investments in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,212,150 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Tides Canada Foundation is using this grant to establish a Donor Advised Fund devoted to increasing and sustaining Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) capacity, strategic planning, and coordination for British Columbia’s Area-Based Management processes. The key outcome of this grant includes marine conservation ENGO capacity to effectively advance a science-based, stakeholder-driven Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $469,227 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
TWA will work with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation to build community support for ratifying a long-term conservation vision that will help secure the watershed’s valuable salmon resources. Additionally, TWA will conduct education and outreach to government officials and other important stakeholders in order to build support for protecting the Taku watershed from threats posed by the Tulsequah Chief mine and the associated road project. There are two primary outcomes for this project: 1) the Tulsequah Chief mine and associated road are mitigated to maintain salmon ecosystem integrity; and 2) a comprehensive Land Use plan for the Taku River Watershed is ratified. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $600,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
Based on the geographic and strategic priorities identified by the Foundation, Tides Canada will reach into key communities, and identify smaller organizations and individuals that are critical to the success of executing these priorities. This will increase local community support and conservation capacity to generate and sustain effective salmon protection in priority watersheds - Skeena, Stikine, and Taku. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $500,000 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
Tides Canada Foundation is using this grant to support organizational development, facilitation, and strategic coordination for ENGOs, First Nations, anglers, and commercial fisherman concerned with threats to wild salmon ecosystems in Skeena and Stikine watersheds in British Columbia. Outcomes for this grant include expansion of Stikine Conservation Network, development of Tahltan land use vision, and increased capacity of Tahltan and Iskut First Nations to assert a land use vision. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,481 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Tides Canada used this grant to complete the formation of the Rainforest Solutions Project and finalize land use planning processes in the Great Bear Rainforest, which encompasses critical habitat for conserving wild salmon in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $277,525 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Through this grant, the Tides Canada Foundation supports the Transboundary Watershed Alliance's efforts to preserve wild salmon and wild salmon ecosystems in British Columbia's Taku River watershed. Outcomes for this grant include increased Tlingit First Nation conservation profile and capacity to negotiate with other governments and the immobilization of the Tulsequah Chief mine and road development proposal. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $600,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant marks the Foundation's continued and increased support for Tides Canada's Donor Advised Fund. Outcomes for this grant include execution of 12 to 15 additional grants per year, supporting small-scale NGOs focused on salmon habitat protection. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $350,000 | May 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, Tides Canada facilitates grantmaking to local NGOs working to conserve wild salmon and protect pristine watersheds in British Columbia. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of a donor advised fund to support wild salmon conservation work. | | Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil
Pan-Amazonian Participatory Mapping and Zoning Seminar | $263,425 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $263,425 | Jun. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the convening and facilitation of a Pan-Amazonian seminar that will bring together civil society organizations, indigenous mapping technicians, and government policy-makers to present, discuss and systematize their methodologies of participatory mapping and zoning of indigenous territories in the Amazon Basin. This seminar proposes to develop a methodological synthesis of these varied experiences, disseminate the results in printed and electronic form and contribute to policy formulation regarding forest management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 51 mo. | $1,876,504 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
Through this grant, the Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB) will enable effective co-management of protected areas in the BR-319 Frontier Zone by creating and training local associations and management councils, and by restructuring two local NGOs. IEB will also secure its own financial stability through the development and implementation of a fund-raising strategy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $170,259 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant provides supplemental funding to complete the activities of current Grant #532 to the Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB), addressing the discrepancy between the original budget in local currency and the amount received in US Dollars due to exchange rate fluctuations. Funding will cover the costs of committed undergraduate and technical school small grants for research and study, and three professionalizing courses in the areas of Environmental Law, Economic Tools for Conservation, and Communication and the Environment. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,496,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Instituto Internacional de Educacao do Brasil is using this grant to improve planning, implementation, and management of on-the-ground conservation throughout Amazonia. Outcomes include publication of 54 theses and three books on the Andes-Amazon, 54 scholarships to Brazilian students (39 MS, 15 PhD) for domestic and international programs, 125 grants to undergraduates for fieldwork and technical training toward their BS degrees, and 60 professional development grants enabling 425 professionals to participate in courses on Environmental Law, Communications and Environment, and Economic Tools for Conservation. | | Chabot Space & Science Center
Techbridge: Scale-up and Pilot Grant | $850,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $850,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the development of a cost-effective, replicable model for scaling up the successful Techbridge program, which provides hands-on activities, role models and worksite visits, family outreach, and teacher training to serve girls across the San Francisco Bay Area. National research, robust assessment, and evaluation will be components of the program design and refinement to develop a scalable and sustainable model for expansion and durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $310,000 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the development of a comprehensive implementation plan to launch the Chabot Climate Change Teacher Workshops in the summer of 2011, which will provide training to teachers on the fundamental concepts of climate change to effectively instruct their 4th-6th grade students across Alameda County. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $300,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center will support fabrication and installation of Bill Nye’s Climate Laboratory, an exhibition to increase climate change science literacy and engagement in approximately 175,000 youth, ages 8-14, over two years measured by 1) k knowledge of fundamentals of climate science and impact of human energy use; 2) knowledge of sustainable energy technologies; and 3) actions taken to support sustainable energy and reduce their climate impact. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $561,862 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Chabot Space & Science Center supports the Techbridge program partnership with the Girl Scouts of Northern California to develop, implement and scale up a two-year, out-of-school curriculum delivery pilot program ("Girls Go Techbridge") in the 10-county Bay Area region, resulting in 1) increased confidence, skills, and interest in science in 2,000-2,500 Bay Area middle school girls; and 2) an expansion of the pilot program to 3 additional Girl Scouts regional councils by the conclusion of this grant period. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,090,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Chabot Space and Science Center supports its Techbridge program. Outcomes include increased participation from girls in science, technology, and engineering. | | University of California, San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine
Impact of Health Coaching in an Outpatient Clinic: A Randomized Controlled Trial | $1,429,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,429,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of a Randomized Controlled Trial to test the efficacy of a Primary Care Health Coaching intervention at the Mission Neighborhood Health Clinic (MNHC) in San Francisco, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and/or Hypertension. By implementing the Health Coaching intervention at the clinic, the project is anticipated to result in lower rates and/or mitigation of adverse events and complications that can result from these illnesses. The impact of the coaching program will be demonstrated through a Randomized Controlled Trial and cost-benefit analysis which will be disseminated through publication in a peer-reviewed journal and/or at a national meeting including a cost-benefit analysis | | Carnegie Institution of Washington
Advanced high resolution forest/carbon mapping in the Colombian Amazon with CAO-Lidar | $591,750 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $591,750 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant is in support of demonstrating field methods for forest and carbon monitoring in Colombia, by providing advanced guidelines and training for the integration of the various field, airborne, and space-based approaches to forest monitoring in accordance with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Tier 3 level. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $5,250,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Global Ecology will use this grant to develop and integrate a next generation spectrometer into the Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System (AToMS). This remote sensing system will have the ability to accurately identify the chemical, structural and taxonomic makeup of tropic forests at an unprecedented scale and level of detail. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,590,718 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Carnegie Institution for Science will increase the technical capacity to implement transparent, standardized monthly and annual satellite-based monitoring of forest disturbance and deforestation across the Andes Amazon region by providing training and basic equipment for the CLASLite system to both government agencies and the NGO community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Apr. 2007 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institute of Washington will use this grant to determine baseline forest conditions, selective logging as well as outright deforestation in Peru and enable Moore grantees and other organizations to monitor, map and report on these variables annually. The outcome is to ensure that forest monitoring by even the smallest NGO or government office in Peru can be done in a transparent and replicable way. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $4,263,239 | Nov. 2002 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institution is using this grant to establish the Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. | | Pacific Salmon Foundation
Skeena Watershed Monitoring Baseline Research 2 | $852,864 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $852,864 | May 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant supports enhancement of the scientific baseline information available to Skeena watershed stakeholders in developing recommendations for implementation of the harvest reform provisions in Canada’s new Wild Salmon Policy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $408,957 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports the full implementation in the Skeena watershed of the harvest reform provisions in Canada’s new Wild Salmon Policy. It will do this by enhancing scientific baseline information available to Skeena watershed stakeholders in developing recommendations to government agencies regarding wild salmon assessment, monitoring and management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $276,961 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the full implementation in the Skeena watershed of the harvest reform and habitat protection provisions of Canada’s new Wild Salmon Policy. It will do this by enhancing scientific baseline information available for assessment, monitoring and decision-making by the Skeena Watershed Congress multi-stakeholder process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $288,109 | Feb. 2008 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the Pacific Salmon Foundation is to develop an Independent Science Review Panel for the Skeena River fishery in British Columbia. The primary output of this project will be a report that describes the strengths and weaknesses of current fisheries practice and makes recommendations for fisheries reform. | | Watershed Watch
Wild Salmon Policy Implementation | $578,280 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $578,280 | May 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant is to support Watershed Watch Salmon Society in advancing the implementation of the Pacific Wild Salmon Policy in British Columbia, as well as in applying rigorous science and monitoring to the mitigation of fish farm impacts on wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Mar. 2007 |
Purpose
The grant will build upon Sierra Club BC's previous success of developing the Wild Salmon Policy (WSP) in B.C. Watershed Watch will work to fully implement WSP within the time-frame of this grant. | | Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Magnet Re-designation Program | $165,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $165,000 | May 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant will support Stanford Hospital & Clinics’ application for Magnet re-designation, leading to re-designation by December 31, 2011. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $75,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Stanford Hospital & Clinics ("Stanford Hospital") is to support the planning required to develop a patient surveillance system that can proactively identify patients at risk for significant clinical deterioration. The output of this grant will be a proposal, including timeline and budget, to implement and evaluate a patient surveillance system. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $75,000 | Jun. 2005 |
Purpose
Stanford Hospital and Clinics is using this grant to implement the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100K Lives Campaign, a national initiative to implement six scientifically-based clinical interventions that address leading sources of mortality and complications within hospitals. Outcomes include implementation of Campaign interventions, participation in a Regional Hospital Collaborative on Patient Safety, and communication of aggregate mortality data to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. | | Health Plan of San Mateo
Care Transitions Model Implementation Plan | $117,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $117,000 | May 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant is to support development of a plan for fully implementing the Care Transitions (CT) Model with Health Plan of San Mateo patients hospitalized at San Mateo Medical Center. The immediate goal of the grant is to double patient participation in the Care Transitions Model at SMMC, and the long-term goal is to reduce 30-day and 90-day readmission rates for Health Plan of San Mateo patients hospitalized at San Mateo Medical Center by at least 30%. | | Instituto Floresta Tropical
Forest Families II: Co-managing Community Forests | $1,471,414 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,471,414 | May 2010 |
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This grant supports a community forestry project in the settlement communities of Moju I and II in the State of Para, Brazil that will serve as a demonstration for forest-based co-management between communities, government, and the timber industry. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,122,947 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
With this grant the Instituto Floresta Tropical (IFT) will train key forest sector stakeholders in sustainable forest management practices, conduct extension events to promote these practices, and conduct applied research to develop locally adapted Reduced Impact Logging methods. As an outcome of this grant, the newly established Brazilian Forest Service, state government managers, industry employees, and community members will implement sustainable forest management in two Forestry Districts, in the Calha Norte and along the Transamazon Highway. This grant will also strengthen IFT as an institution, enabling it to play a stable and expanded role in the development of sustainable forest management in the Brazilian Amazon. | | Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Summer Courses Dedicated Sequencing Pipeline | $766,296 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $766,296 | May 2010 |
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This grant to Pennsylvania State University will create a dedicated "next generation" DNA sequencing pipeline for five microbial diversity summer courses supported by MMI. Students in those courses will learn to generate and interpret sequence data from advanced sequencing technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,008,000 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will be used by Pennsylvania State University (Penn State University) to support the "Save the Devil" breeding Project. The Tasmanian Devil is under threat of extinction due to an unusual highly infectious facial tumor. The goal of the grant is to generate a draft version of the Tasmanian Devil genome (DNA sequence. This information will be used by scientists and nature conservationists to tackle the cause, route and ultimate prevention of this devastating infectious cancer and to reestablish the Tasmanian Devil population. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $2,036,298 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Pennsylvania State University will be used to increase publicly-available marine microbial DNA sequence information through the creation of a dedicated "next generation" marine microbiology DNA sequencing resource. A pyrosequencing instrument, technical support and required reagents for 75 project runs will support a two-year "experimental sequencing" pipeline dedicated to MMI grantees. New knowledge and DNA sequence information from genomics and metagenomics projects will be deposited into CAMERA for public access. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $184,446 | May 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to Pennsylvania State University supports a metagenomics comparative study. Outcomes for this grant include preparation of small and large insert libraries and DNA sequence via chain termination and GS20 methods, and analysis of the data and comparison of the results between library and library-less DNA preparations.
| | Clark University, Clark Labs
Enabling GIS modeling tools for conservation and planning compatible with "Earth Engine" | $451,000 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $451,000 | May 2010 |
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This grant will support Clark Labs to develop a new cloud-computing system for the origination, planning, and evaluation of REDD projects from its Land Change Modeler software system. The new cloud-computing system will be publicly available in a geospatial database facility provided by Google’s Earth Engine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $617,457 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Clark University, jointly funded with Google.org, will provide the basis for the development of Early Warning Systems for ecosystems, food, and health security applications. Outcomes include the ability to describe and monitor short-term and interannual climate variability (the most significant element of uncertainty in ecosystems, food, and health security) given that over the past two decades, it has become evident that major modes of climate variability, known as teleconnections, can be used both to study these sources of uncertainty. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $644,395 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Clark University is using this grant to develop an early warning protocol and system that uses remotely sensed data to monitor and analyze biodiversity. Outcomes for this grant include creation of an early-warning system that employs satellite data to infer changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function available to the global environmental community. | | Wild Salmon Center
State of the Salmon | $690,875 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $690,875 | May 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant to State of the Salmon, a partnership between the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust, aims to facilitate the transfer of information, encourage the use of best management practices, and introduce better tools to managers and other stakeholders in salmon ecosystems throughout the Pacific Rim. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $6,840,589 | Mar. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support the conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $354,448 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
The Wild Salmon Center will use this grant to conduct the 2007 field season at the Kamchatka bio-stations. The research program in 2007 will include important work on monitoring protocols for the region’s salmon refuges. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $1,453,299 | May 2007 |
Purpose
This grant provides continuing support for State of the Salmon, a joint effort of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust. With this grant, State of the Salmon aims to advance salmon management by developing a set of Principles of Wild Salmon Conservation and introducing innovative techniques for managers to track biodiversity and abundance for long-term sustainability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $2,080,349 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will enable the Wild Salmon Center (WSC) to build upon their previous success in advancing wild salmon conservation through the creation of salmon refuges in Kamchatka, Russia. WSC will work to establish 5 new watershed-scale salmon refuges. These proposed protected areas will encompass over 5 million acres and safeguard rivers producing over 13 million fish annually. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $482,685 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This renewal grant to the Wild Salmon Center provides support to the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon, a joint effort of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust, is organized around four major components: Knowledge Systems, Status & Trends, Standards & Best Practices, and Consortium Development. Outcomes for this grant include web versions of the metadata inventory, 2006 Status & Trends, and Best Practices polyglot (in English, Russian & Japanese). Additional outcomes include the development and restructuring of the State of the Salmon consortium. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $535,000 | Aug. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant is helping to build the Wild Salmon Center's capacity for fundraising development and conservation program management. Outcomes for this grant include diversification of the funding base and increased institutional capacity to manage conservation programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $6,000,000 | Jan. 2004 |
Purpose
This renewal grant provides supplemental support for the Wild Salmon Center's science-based conservation program on the Kamchatka Peninsula, which is home to the world's most pristine, diverse, and productive salmon systems. Outcomes for this grant include creation and maintenance of protected areas, deepened salmon science, increased awareness of conservation, and a reduction in poaching. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,425,000 | Feb. 2003 |
Purpose
The Wild Salmon Center used this grant to establish new protected areas in Kamchatka, conduct scientific research and monitoring, and establish infrastructure for sustainable protection of salmon biodiversity in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,475,000 | Aug. 2001 |
Purpose
This grant helped the Wild Salmon Center to establish two salmon refuges and two monitoring and research biostations in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $75,000 | Jul. 2001 |
Purpose
The Wild Salmon Center used this grant to publish a Pacific Rim survey on the status of wild salmon and to co-sponsor a symposium and press conference to announce survey findings. | | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Expanding the Toolkit for Barcoding Land Plants | $137,632 | May 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 20 mo. | $137,632 | May 2010 |
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This grant to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh will support the development of new protocols to extend molecular genotyping of land plant species and to determine their evolutionary relationships. The methods will focus on the matK gene region and will create a set of robustly validated, publicly available standard methods for use by the global plant biology research community. | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DNA sequencing equipment for microbial analyses | $550,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $550,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will provide support for the acquisition of a next generation DNA sequencing platform to enable important advances in the field of marine microbial ecology. This grant is part of a multi-grant strategy to expand the diversity and capacity of DNA sequencing technologies available to marine microbial ecology researchers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 49 mo. | $4,705,729 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will support research in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Dr. Edward F. DeLong on the dynamics of the composition and gene expression patterns of planktonic microbial communities. Outcomes for this grant include a deeper understanding of how Bacterial and Archaeal populations change in space and time in natural and perturbed marine systems, how microbes communicate with each other in ocean environments, and how widely distributed genes of important ecological function impact marine biogeochemical cycles. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 49 mo. | $4,539,188 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will support research in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Dr. Sallie (Penny) W. Chisholm on the ecology of Prochlorococcus, a major group of primary producers in the upper ocean, and its mechanisms of evolution. Outcomes for this grant include a deeper understanding of ecological differentiation among various groups of Prochlorococcus and how they interact with co-occurring heterotrophic bacteria and infective viruses. Key physiological and times series data are expected to be generated and supplied to ecosystem models. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,500,000 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supports the work of Dr. Chisholm into the ecology and evolution of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Commonly called blue-green algae, cyanobacteria are among the largest and most important groups of bacteria alive today. Outcomes for this grant include explanation of the ecotype genomics and diversity of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, definition of Prochlorococcus ecotype growth factors, and examination of the relative fitnesses of mixed culture strains. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,350,000 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supports the research of Dr. DeLong into the genetic diversity of planktonic marine bacteria and archaea. Outcomes for this grant include characterization of the genomes and genomic variability of dominant planktonic bacteria and archaea, integration of biogeochemical and genomic evolutionary theories, creation of a metabolic and biogeochemical model of microbe communities, and the tracking of microbe populations by DNA. | | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Fisheries Innovation Fund | $1,145,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $1,145,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant will support the transition of U.S. fisheries to catch share programs by encouraging fishermen to pursue innovative management strategies through a competitive grant award process. | | Catholic Healthcare West, Sierra Nevada Memorial-Miners Hospital
"Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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Purpose
This grant will fund external Magnet readiness assessments for Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. The readiness assessments will assist Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital to develop a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and will provide crucial information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | Catholic Healthcare West, Woodland Healthcare
"Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant will fund external Magnet readiness assessments for Woodland Healthcare. The readiness assessments will assist Woodland Healthcare to develop a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and will provide crucial information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento
Greater Sacramento Journey to Excellence" Grant Program | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $20,000 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant will fund external Magnet readiness assessments for Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento. The readiness assessments will assist Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento to develop a baseline assessment on the state of nursing care and will provide crucial information for continuous improvement of nursing care in Greater Sacramento. | | Marine Biological Laboratory
MBL Microbial Diversity Summer Course | $549,278 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $549,278 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant to the Marine Biological Laboratory in support of the Microbial Diversity Summer Course is one of five coupled grants intended to train the next generation of microbial ecologists in non-traditional, immersive academic environments that emphasize cross-disciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge analytical techniques. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $277,500 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is intended to expand the pool of new international scholars specializing in microbial diversity and ecology through the support of the MBL Microbial Diversity Course. These researchers will be trained in the use of state-of-the art technologies to develop and carry out independent microbiology research investigations, consistent with the mid and long-term Initiative objective of interdisciplinary training of new scientists. Research investigations will result in publicly accessible publications and presentations of novel research findings at international microbiology conventions. | | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hopkins Microbiology Summer Course | $478,197 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $478,197 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant to Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in support of the Hopkins Microbiology Summer Course is one of five coupled grants that will train the next generation of microbial ecologists in non-traditional, immersive academic environments that emphasize cross-disciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge analytical techniques. | | University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
BIOS Summer Course | $392,501 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $392,501 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant to the University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology in support of the BIOS Summer Course is one of five coupled grants that will train the next generation of microbial ecologists in non-traditional, immersive academic environments that emphasize cross-disciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge analytical techniques. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,391,737 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant supports UC Santa Barbara's purchase of instruments and equipment for coral reef research and monitoring in Moorea (French Polynesia). The National Science Foundation recently designated Moorea as a Long-Term Ecological Research site. Outcomes for this grant include deployment of ecological research instrumentation on Moorea. | | University of Hawaii Foundation
Hawai’i Microbial Oceanography Summer Course | $453,578 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $453,578 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant to the University of Hawai’i Foundation in support of the Hawai’i Microbial Oceanography Summer Course is one of five coupled grants that will train the next generation of microbial ecologists in non-traditional, immersive academic environments that emphasize cross-disciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge analytical techniques. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,181,111 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Hawaii Foundation supports scientists at the University of Hawaii, Hilo to examine DNA sequence data from several endemic groups of plants and insects on Hawaii Island and neighboring islands to establish the parameters under which the DNA Barcoding method succeeds as a system of species identification for recently derived (young) species. The evolutionary age gradient of the Hawaiian Islands, anchored by the young and highly species-rich Hawaii Island, renders the archipelago an ideal location for testing the utility of DNA barcoding for species of a range of known ages. The project will focus on several well characterized, endemic groups of plants and insects that possess high species richness on Hawaii Island and representative species on older islands. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 49 mo. | $3,796,946 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Hawai’i Foundation will provide continued support for research in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Dr. David M. Karl. Objectives of this grant are to quantify solar energy capture and transduction, and to improve our understanding of essential bioelemental cycles and sequestration of atmospheric carbon by the microbially-mediated oceanic biological carbon pump. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $670,789 | Apr. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Hawaii Foundation supports the work of the Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii, to teach the culture, history, and scientific wisdom of Hawaii’s people and its connection to Western science, especially astronomy on Mauna Kea. It provides funds for 50% of K-12 students on the island of Hawaii to participate in school field trips to Imiloa. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,995,400 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Hawaii Foundation will provide support for some of the University’s most high priority equipment needs and the development of a new facility for ocean science. This facility, within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) will not only benefit the University of Hawaii but will provide the necessary research infrastructure for many visiting scientists. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $450,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
To cover the cost of 4 gliders to be used for remote monitoring of marine ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,850,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Hawaii's Department of Oceanography supports the research of Dr. Karl into the genetic diversity and physiological capacity of microbes in the ocean. Outcomes for this grant include construction of rDNA tools to track dynamic populations, descriptions of short-time population dynamics, definition of community composition factors, and a refined ocean ecosystem model. | | University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences
Geobiology Summer Course | $400,500 | Apr. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $400,500 | Apr. 2010 |
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This grant to the University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences in support of the Geobiology Summer Course is one of five coupled grants that will train the next generation of microbial ecologists in non-traditional, immersive academic environments that emphasize cross-disciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge analytical techniques. | | Earthworks
Bristol Bay Conservation - Private Sector and National Outreach | $567,246 | Mar. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $567,246 | Mar. 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant is to raise awareness within the international business community of the potential risks of the proposed Pebble Mine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $864,163 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Earthworks will educate and empower key retailers, shareholders, and other influential private sector players about the importance of protecting Bristol Bay’s valuable salmon resources. | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association
"What's at Stake" program of the Newshour | $125,000 | Mar. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $125,000 | Mar. 2010 |
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This grant to the PBS NewsHour supports the creation of a new science-based program entitled "What’s at Stake?" Through the development of both traditional broadcast and newer, web-based media content, this program informs and educates its audience with both in-depth journalism and short, timely reports on current breaking news in science and engineering. | | Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Evaluation of Transitional Care Model within Kaiser Northern California | $122,563 | Feb. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $122,563 | Feb. 2010 |
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The purpose of this grant to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals is to support the collection and analysis of six additional months of patient outcome data, as well as the pilot outcome data, to determine the effect of the Transitional Care Model (TCM) program on reducing hospital readmissions at Kaiser San Francisco, Kaiser Hayward/Fremont, and Kaiser Redwood City. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 52 mo. | $5,627,600 | Jul. 2009 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (KFH) is to accelerate a region-wide program to reduce sepsis mortality. The grant will ensure implementation of evidence-based best practices in early identification and treatment of patients with severe sepsis (i.e., overwhelming bloodstream infection) that have been shown to reduce sepsis mortality. Achievement of the aggressive goals for implementation of best practices that KFH has committed to will reduce sepsis mortality in the KFH San Francisco (SFBA) and Greater Sacramento (GS) hospitals and will help KFH identify how to sustain these reductions across the KFH SFBA and GS hospitals. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 57 mo. | $2,400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals is to identify, implement and sustain operational improvements in one San Francisco Bay Area and one Greater Sacramento hospital, with the goal of improving the work environment for medical-surgical registered nurses (RNs) and increasing the time RNs spend on patient care activities and in the patient room. This grant leverages and implements the findings of the "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend their Time?" research study co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $663,960 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports a multi-site study of the Transitional Care Models in three Kaiser hospitals through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Outcomes include improvement of patient outcomes for approximately 300 high-risk elderly patients and assessment of the improved discharge-planning model. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $176,875 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Kaiser Permanente is using this grant to study the influence of specific nursing workplace variables on acute-care delivery. The results of this three-phase, multi-center project will inform hospitals nationwide of physical and environmental workplace factors impacting the efficiency of nursing care. Outcomes include the study of acute-care workplace variables and the design of an optimal nursing unit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $70,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Under this grant, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, in collaboration with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, will explore the feasibility of creating an evidence-based nursing care management institute. Outcomes include creation of a plan for establishing an Evidence-Based Nursing Care Management Institute in the Bay Area.
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Transformation to Better, Safer Patient Care | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $3,591,000 | Jan. 2010 |
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This grant to Sutter Health will support improved nursing-related patient outcomes in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (SHSSR). Through the implementation of evidence-based practices, this grant will lead to reduction in severe sepsis and septic shock mortality of non-Do Not Resuscitate patients at the five SHSSR hospitals, reduction in the percent of patients at one hospital with significantly high or low levels of blood glucose levels while hospitalized (a documented cause of mortality and complications), and improved patient safety outcomes through nurse leadership development and the adoption of "Just Culture" principles. All outcomes are to be sustained through 2017. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 50 mo. | $2,180,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to Sutter Health Systems ("Sutter Health") is to support the continuation of the Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE) initiative, while strengthening its efforts to reduce severe sepsis mortality rates at five San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) Sutter affiliates. This grant will lead to three outcomes at each of the five SFBA Sutter affiliates: 1) significant reduction in the hospital-wide severe sepsis mortality rate, 2) achievement of an evidence-based target for an additional driver of mortality and/or complications, and 3) maintenance of the improvement gains realized on four Phase I PACE council initiatives through 2013. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $490,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Sutter Health is for the development of a comprehensive plan for transforming patient care in its Sacramento Sierra Region hospitals. The plan developed through this grant will provide a roadmap, with specific outcome improvement targets and change models, towards best-in-class inpatient care in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 33 mo. | $2,300,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
Sutter Health System is using this grant to implement and evaluate a Continuum of Care model for congestive heart failure patients in two Sutter Health affiliates in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Sutter Health will implement the Continuum of Care model in the Alta Bates and Summit campuses of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. By providing better coordinated and higher quality of care during and following hospitalization, the project is anticipated to result in improved patient outcomes and lower rates of hospital readmission for advanced heart failure patients. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 86 mo. | $6,171,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
Sutter Health Systems is using this grant to implement the Transforming Nursing Practice project, a comprehensive program to implement evidence-based practices at the bedside at each of the six Sutter Health acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the grant, Bay Area Sutter Health affiliates will undertake a multi-site initiative which will leverage individual hospital efforts to significantly improve clinical patient outcomes directly impacted by nursing care. | | Woods Hole Research Center
Supporting the adoption of low-emissions land use strategies in Brazil | $2,883,150 | Jan. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,883,150 | Jan. 2010 |
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This grant will support the national government of Brazil’s recent commitment within UN climate treaty negotiations to reduce emissions from land use. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $320,393 | Jun. 2009 |
Purpose
This project will provide the analysis and planning tools necessary for reducing deforestation and forest degradation and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the tri-national Madre de Dios, Acre, Pando region of the Andes-Amazon basin, currently under threat by the planned paving of the Interoceanica highway. The project will establish a consultation process with the stakeholders in the region who will both implement measures to reduce deforestation and receive compensation for carbon credits generated from this reduction. This work will assist directly in the development of information and plans by the states in this region so that they can understand their potential to reduce future deforestation and participate in any future reduction of carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation programs to provide monetary incentives to reward reductions in greenhouse gases emissions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $821,584 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will enable Woods Hole Research Center, acting as the organizer/secretariat of the Forum on Readiness for REDD, to convene two regional focused workshops on Readiness for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). This grant will improve the capacity of developing countries in Africa and Latin America to implement REDD frameworks, carry out activities to improve the in-country success of REDD, and foster collaboration on a South to South basis. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $2,629,436 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Woods Hole Research Center is to develop a pan-tropical baseline forest cover and associated above-ground biomass stocks data sets and maps derived from high-resolution, cloud-free radar imagery from the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS). Knowledge gained from this grant will support and promote the economic internalization of benefits from carbon contained in the biomass of standing tropical forests. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,007,879 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) will support the collection of fundamental data on forest dieback, carry out new experimental field studies of forest response to fire and develop novel numerical modeling representations of Amazon forest susceptibility to savannization processes and associated changes in climate, soil nutrients, carbon fluxes and hydrology. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,195,319 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) will enable the design and implementation of the ecological, economic, policy and institutional frameworks for the sustainable co-management of Lower Amazon floodplain ecosystems. The project will be executed in key Lower Amazonian municipalities by local communities and other stakeholders in collaboration with municipal, state and federal government agencies, enhancing the protection of natural resources and biodiversity while addressing the livelihood needs of resident populations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $500,000 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
Woods Hole Research Center is using this grant to achieve large-scale biodiversity conservation in three regions of the Amazon Basin: the forested portion of Mato Grosso in southeastern Brazil, the highway corridor across the Andes, and the Amazon floodplain. Outcomes include slowed deforestation on private lands in Mato Grosso, integration of science and widened participation with regional planning process for tri-national area of Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia; and analysis of the impacts of frontier expansion on Amazon aquatic system. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,317,800 | May 2003 |
Purpose
Woods Hole Research Center is using this grant to develop SimAmazonia—a science-based, integrated computer simulation model for the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include completion of SimAmazonia I (prototype), development, testing, and calibration of SimAmazonia II, training of SimAmazonia users, and dissemination of the model to conservation agencies in southern Amazonia. | | University of Georgia Research Foundation
Microbial community function along a tropical river-to-ocean continuum | $2,406,020 | Jan. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $2,406,020 | Jan. 2010 |
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This grant will provide support to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to develop a systems-level understanding of microbially mediated elemental cycles along the lower reach of the Amazon River and its marine plume. The Amazon River provides more nutrients to the ocean ecosystem than any other river; carbon sequestration stimulated by these nutrient inputs is globally significant. This integrative program will collect microbial community structure and function data along the river-to-ocean continuum and develop a novel model that incorporates these data with other biological, chemical and physical information. Models are ultimately expected to enable predictions of carbon sequestration as a function of the dynamic chemical composition of the Amazon River. |
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