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 | American Association for the Advancement of Science
Office of Science and Technology Policy Fellow | $111,826 | Jul. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $111,826 | Jul. 2010 |
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This grant to the American Association for the Advancement of Science is in support of placing a PhD-level science and technology policy fellow in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for one year. Funding will be used to manage fellowship activities in coordination with the grantee’s long-running Congressional and Executive Branch fellowship programs. | | Life Sciences Research Foundation
Biological sciences post-doctoral fellowships | $684,000 | Jun. 2010 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $684,000 | Jun. 2010 |
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This grant to the Life Sciences Research Foundation will support prestigious post-doctoral fellowships for four top researchers in biological science disciplines typically underfunded by other granting sources. The fellowships will last three years. | | 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.
| | 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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Purpose
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. | $5,350,000 | 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. | 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. | | 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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Purpose
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. | | 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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Purpose
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. | | 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. | | Missouri Botanical Garden
Interoperable network of digital repositories for a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library | $460,000 | Nov. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $460,000 | Nov. 2009 |
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This grant to the Missouri Botanical Garden supports the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s effort to develop a comprehensive and sustainable infrastructure for the world’s biodiversity literature. Through global coordination with regional partners, this project will guide the technical infrastructure implementation, align goals, ensure transparent communication, and support the establishment of a seamless Global Biodiversity Heritage Library with a distributed, interoperable network of digital repositories. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,096,655 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) will support the adoption of the Fedora Commons platform by the Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 of the world’s largest natural history digital libraries) and the TROPICOS (MBG’s institutional repository of botanical data). Outcomes include shared and open access to collective knowledge on biodiversity as well as new opportunities for easy adoption and use within biodiversity information management. | | California Institute of Technology
Institute for the Science of Energy | $1,000,000 | Nov. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,000,000 | Nov. 2009 |
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This grant will help fund the initial operation of the Resnick Institute for the Science of Energy (RISE), a newly endowed program at Caltech, with a strategic focus on energy science and technology. Foundation funds will support the postdoctoral and graduate student fellowships, communications programs, and facility development for the Institute during the initial year, when RISE endowment funds are not yet available. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $13,000,000 | Sep. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the California Institute of Technology Tectonics Observatory will support the second phase of the development of a multidisciplinary facility that combines state-of-the-art monitoring networks and innovative observations at key tectonics boundaries with modeling of tectonic forces over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The goal of understanding and, later, predicting the earth’s behavior near the intersection of key tectonic plates will provide strategic insights into a variety of destructive phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, and other geochemical and geophysical processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $7,500,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the California Institute of Technology provides $7.5 million of additional funds to complete the Design Development Phase (DDP) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) by March 2009. The TMT goal is to construct the first of the next-generation giant optical/infrared ground-based telescopes. This grant is paired with an identical award to the University of California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $11,260,000 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
To establish the Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis to accelerate the discovery of powerful new catalytic chemical reactions and novel chemical architectures. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $6,000,000 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
To develop the molecular basis for driving the photo-oxidation of water to enable fuel production directly from sunlight. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $6,500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of research in reliable generation, storage, and use of renewable energy with the establishment of the Center for Sustainable Energy Research (CSER). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,943,114 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of experimentation with large, diverse, and interconnected socio-economic systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 72 mo. | $12,020,300 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of Revolutionizing Detectors for Cosmology. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,998,512 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Much of human behavior, like those of other animals, is directed toward the ultimate goal of obtaining rewards, such as money or food, and avoiding punishment. This proposed research will lead to an understanding of the effects of reward at numerous levels of brain organization. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,611,266 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to establish the Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. Outcomes for this grant include creation of the Center and postdoctoral fellowships. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $7,979,578 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
With this grant, Caltech will create the Proteome Exploration Laboratory (CaPel). Research at CaPel is expected to generate new knowledge of how the proteins specified by a genome give rise to an organism. Outcomes for this grant include installation of equipment and maintenance of the Proteome Exploration Laboratory. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $5,631,000 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant allows Caltech to establish the Center for Cosmochemical and Geochemical Microanalysis. The Center will sustain a program of theoretical research aimed at attacking the problems posed by dark matter, dark energy, and the early universe. Outcomes for this grant include the addition of two senior scientists (cosmology theorists), establishment of a distinguished visiting scholars program and postdoctoral fellowships, and maintenance of the Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $8,799,000 | Sep. 2005 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to establish the Center for Cosmochemical and Geochemical Microanalysis. Outcomes for this grant include installation of two ion microprobes, development of novel geochemical instrumentation, and maintenance of the Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $17,537,100 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant establishes Caltech's center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, focusing on fundamental studies of molecular complexity, the development of the technology of ultrafast imaging, and its applications to real systems of physical, chemical, and biological function. Outcomes for this grant include creation and maintenance of the ultrafast imaging facility. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,000,000 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to support and expand its diversity programs. Outcomes for this grant include increased participation of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, recruitment of non-Caltech and Caltech undergraduate and graduate students every year, support for postdoctoral students and assessment of the diversity recruitment program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,510,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to Caltech partially funds construction costs for the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). Caltech, University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana Campaign, and University of Maryland are collaborating to build CARMA, which merges six 10-meter telescopes from Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory array with nine six-meter telescopes from the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array on one site at Cedar Flat near Bishop, California. The CARMA Association (made up of the four partner universities) will operate the new array. Outcomes for this grant include relocation of six ten-meter telescopes, completion of the observatory, upgraded telescope electronics, development and deployment of an array computing system, and establishment of the array infrastructure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $22,222,222 | Oct. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant provides core support for Caltech's institute-wide intellectual, educational, and outreach initiative called Information Science and Technology. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of (including staff and equipment) four Information Science and Technology centers: Biology, Physics, Social Science, and Math. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $13,254,000 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to build the Tectonics Observatory, which is part of a ten-year initiative aimed at revolutionizing earth sciences research. As part of this initiative, Caltech will utilize the latest technologies and multi-disciplinary research methods to study the tectonic plate boundaries. Outcomes for this grant include creation of a Tectonics Observatory infrastructure, increased pool of tectonics researchers, and improved tectonics data. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 72 mo. | $25,426,741 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant supports Caltech's Nanoscale Systems Initiative and the operation of the initiative's laboratories and facilities. Nanoscale systems technology involves the creation of tiny (less than 1/100th of the diameter of a human hair) systems that take advantage of the unique properties of matter at that scale. Outcomes for this grant include renovation and relocation of labs, recruitment of faculty, and the launch of the Nanoscale Systems Initiative's laboratories and facilities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $30,822,486 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
This administrative grant is part of the Foundation's $300 million commitment to Caltech. The outcome for this grant is reimbursement of all program-related indirect costs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 108 mo. | $14,206,289 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant allows scientists at Caltech to establish an observatory for structural molecular biology. The new observatory, called a beam line, will make use of the extremely bright X-rays produced by a newly installed advanced electron accelerator at Stanford's Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Outcomes for this grant include creation of a macromolecular crystallography facility for studying complicated biological systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $17,500,000 | Sep. 2003 |
Purpose
Caltech received this grant to initiate a detailed design study of the Thirty-Meter Telescope. This giant optical/infrared telescope is larger than any ground-based telescope in operation. Caltech and the University of California will collaborate with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy for the detailed design phase of the telescope. Outcomes for this grant include development of a preliminary design for the telescope. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $4,000,000 | Nov. 2002 |
Purpose
Caltech used this grant to establish a Cryoelectron Microscopy Laboratory and equip it with two cryoelectron microscopes capable of helping scientists "see" biological structures that are too small for conventional electron microscopy, and too large to be resolved by X-ray crystallography. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $27,745,260 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to create an imaging facility designed to give researchers an opportunity for deeper understanding of neural function through noninvasive studies. Using magnetic resonance imagers, neuroscientists can map, point-by-point (and in two or three dimensions) the neural process and mental function of living organisms. Outcomes for this grant include the creation of an imaging facility and deployment of MRIs (magnetic resonance imagers) for higher-brain research. | | University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Additional Telescope Time for the Nearby Supernova Catalog | $400,000 | Oct. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,000 | Oct. 2009 |
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This grant to UC Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory provides funds for nine additional months on the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter telescope to support the Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog project (#556) and to serve as a bridge to planned future efforts to study supernovae and other transient objects. The first goal of these grants is to "understand the nature of dark energy" which has been identified as one of the most important scientific endeavors of our era by the National Research Council. The second goal is to leverage the unique telescope, instrumentation, and analysis program developed for the supernova search by applying it to studies of other astrophysical transients, opening up new unexplored territory in astronomy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics is to undertake further detailed studies of stellar characteristics by interferometry to expand and enrich our knowledge and understanding of stellar processes. Using the Infrared Spatial Interferometer, the investigators have already discovered a class of non-spherical stars, as well as one star, Betelgeuse, which has shrunk over 15% in size during the past 15 years. These startling observations cannot be explained by current models so future studies will continue to advance the field of stellar evolution theory. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California’s Berkeley Space Science Laboratory provides funds for 12 additional months on the University of Hawaii’s 2.2 meter telescope to support the current Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog project (#556, #556.01) to "understand the nature of dark energy" via observations of Type Ia supernovae. In addition, the unique telescope, instrumentation, and analysis program developed for the Supernova Catalog will be leveraged to conduct pioneering surveys for transient astrophysical phenomena. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $2,377,000 | Aug. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory supports the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) and development of a catalog of nearby Type Ia supernovae, a special class of very bright exploding stars. The SNfactory is designed to discover hundreds of these nearby supernovae and collect a calibrated spectrum of each one. Outcomes include support of the Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog that will enable the development of tools critical for greater understanding of Type Ia supernovae as indicators of dark energy. | | Northern Illinois University, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
Remotely operated instrumentation system for subglacial environments | $1,300,000 | Sep. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 35 mo. | $1,300,000 | Sep. 2009 |
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This grant is in support of constructing, equipping, and testing a Sub-Ice Remotely Operated Vehicle and a Geochemical Instrumentation Package for Sub-Ice Exploration. These instruments will be used for biological, chemical, geological, and physical sampling, to study the southern margin of the Ross Ice Shelf near the grounding line and the marine-linked subglacial lakes beneath an unstable margin of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This research will yield an understanding of past, present, and future states of this geologically and climatically important region of the Earth. | | Carnegie Mellon University, Office of the Vice President for Research
eScience and Data Intensive Scalable Computing | $754,660 | Sep. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $754,660 | Sep. 2009 |
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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will use this grant to improve collaborations between domain and computer scientists with the development of new abstractions and methodologies within data-intensive scalable computing (DISC). Through demonstration projects in cosmology and in close cooperation with its institutional collaborator, University of Washington’s eScience Institute, CMU will design and build a prototype DISC system and an open-source software suite for management and processing of extremely large data. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,050,000 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Carnegie Mellon University will provide support for the University’s Energy Research Initiative. The funds will address the most pressing equipment needs and will provide support for a limited number of graduate researchers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,100,000 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Carnegie Mellon University will provide support for some of the University’s most pressing equipment needs that will not only benefit the general research infrastructure but will also enable groundbreaking cross-disciplinary research in cosmology, nanotechnology and biophysics. | | University of Washington, Office of the Provost
eScience and Data Intensive Scalable Computing | $741,358 | Sep. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $741,358 | Sep. 2009 |
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The University of Washington’s eScience Institute (UW) will use this grant to support efforts to increase awareness, knowledge, and practical usage of modern data intensive scalable computing and large scale data management techniques among domain scientists. Through demonstration projects in genomics and in close cooperation with its institutional collaborator, Carnegie Mellon University, UW will deploy state-of-the-art scalable data management technologies such as parallel relational databases, parallel data analysis frameworks, and cloud computing services to solve emerging data-intensive science problems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $826,657 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The University of Washington will use this grant to purchase cutting-edge deep-coverage DNA sequencing technology, test the capabilities of this new technology for the marine microbiology research community by performing diatom environmental genomics and transcriptomics experiments, and establish a scheme for community use of the resource. 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 | | 10 mo. | $155,873 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The University of Washington (UW) will use this grant to evaluate the need for and define the operational structure of a DNA sequencing resource to serve the marine microbiology research community. The proposed effort will determine whether an eventually financially independent and dedicated DNA sequencing resource at UW can practicably offer high quality DNA sequence data, timely access and diverse technology options to the marine microbiology research community to best meet burgeoning scientific demand. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,250,000 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
To aid in the establishment of the Center for Environmental Genomics. | | University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Mid-Infrared Interferometry of Stellar Objects | $200,000 | Aug. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Aug. 2009 |
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The purpose of this grant to the University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics is to undertake further detailed studies of stellar characteristics by interferometry to expand and enrich our knowledge and understanding of stellar processes. Using the Infrared Spatial Interferometer, the investigators have already discovered a class of non-spherical stars, as well as one star, Betelgeuse, which has shrunk over 15% in size during the past 15 years. These startling observations cannot be explained by current models so future studies will continue to advance the field of stellar evolution theory. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to UC Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory provides funds for nine additional months on the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter telescope to support the Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog project (#556) and to serve as a bridge to planned future efforts to study supernovae and other transient objects. The first goal of these grants is to "understand the nature of dark energy" which has been identified as one of the most important scientific endeavors of our era by the National Research Council. The second goal is to leverage the unique telescope, instrumentation, and analysis program developed for the supernova search by applying it to studies of other astrophysical transients, opening up new unexplored territory in astronomy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of California’s Berkeley Space Science Laboratory provides funds for 12 additional months on the University of Hawaii’s 2.2 meter telescope to support the current Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog project (#556, #556.01) to "understand the nature of dark energy" via observations of Type Ia supernovae. In addition, the unique telescope, instrumentation, and analysis program developed for the Supernova Catalog will be leveraged to conduct pioneering surveys for transient astrophysical phenomena. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $2,377,000 | Aug. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory supports the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) and development of a catalog of nearby Type Ia supernovae, a special class of very bright exploding stars. The SNfactory is designed to discover hundreds of these nearby supernovae and collect a calibrated spectrum of each one. Outcomes include support of the Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog that will enable the development of tools critical for greater understanding of Type Ia supernovae as indicators of dark energy. | | University of California, Los Angeles Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Modeling Seasonal Oxygen Minimum Zones | $538,838 | Aug. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 43 mo. | $538,838 | Aug. 2009 |
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This grant will provide support to the University of California, Los Angeles to develop open-source, evidence-based, predictive, ecosystem models of the physical and biological factors that contribute to the intensity, scale, and duration of seasonal oxygen minimum zones. These predictive models will also explore how seasonal low-oxygen environments are likely to respond to future environmental change and the possible consequences for microbially-mediated global biogeochemical cycles. | | Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Ocean Acidification/Marine Microbes Workshop | $50,469 | Jan. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $50,469 | Jan. 2009 |
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The Plymouth Marine Laboratory will use these funds to convene a workshop of preeminent scientific experts to discuss the effect of ocean acidification on the global services provided by marine microbes. The primary objective of the workshop is to develop a white paper that identifies research priorities aimed to advance the scientific understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on marine microbes. | | Carnegie Institution of Washington
Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System | $5,250,000 | Nov. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $5,250,000 | Nov. 2008 |
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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 | | 12 mo. | $591,750 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
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 | | 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. | | Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory
Developing and integrating novel X-ray optics and CMOS detectors to support next generation X-ray astronomy | $2,601,290 | Nov. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,601,290 | Nov. 2008 |
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The purpose of this grant to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is to acquire new knowledge about many astrophysical puzzles, including dark matter, dark energy, the origin and evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and black holes by (1) developing, designing, testing, and manufacturing adjustable grazing incidence optics and (2) developing a CMOS-based detector for the next generation of satellite-based X-ray telescopes. | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute
Marine Phage, Virus and Virome Sequencing Pipeline | $1,999,649 | Nov. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $1,999,649 | Nov. 2008 |
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This grant will provide support to the Broad Institute to sequence and perform basic characterizations of marine phage and virus genomes and the genomic content of environmental marine virus assemblages. The marine phage and virus ecology research community at large will benefit from this sequencing and annotation pipeline that is expected to result in public access to approximately 200 novel viral genome sequences, 50 unique viral metagenomes, and numerous detailed environmental measurements that characterize the habitats from which the viruses and metagenomes were collected. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $716,286 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
This is a development grant to the MIT Broad Institute for time and cost effective phage and viral sequencing technology, in preparation for a potential large-scale marine phage and virus sequencing project. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $366,688 | May 2006 |
Purpose
The Broad Institute will use this grant for the sequencing and automated assembly of 150 fosmids and 75 bacterial artificial chromosomes (outputs) to complement the Marine Microbiology Initiative’s metagenomics efforts. Several collaborators from the research community will submit environmental DNA samples from which, after passing quality control standards, clone libraries will be generated using the Broad Institute’s Genome Sequencing Platform. Raw sequence data will be submitted to an appropriate data repository, and sequence data will be assembled into contiguous DNA sequence strings and provided to the collaborators. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $152,671 | Feb. 2006 |
Purpose
With this grant, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute is developing methods for sequencing marine viruses. Outcomes for this grant include development, optimization, and validation of a specialized methodology for amplifying marine bacteriophage and viral genomes. | | University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Additional Telescope Time for Supernova Catalog | $400,000 | Oct. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,000 | Oct. 2008 |
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This grant to the University of California’s Berkeley Space Science Laboratory provides funds for 12 additional months on the University of Hawaii’s 2.2 meter telescope to support the current Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog project (#556, #556.01) to "understand the nature of dark energy" via observations of Type Ia supernovae. In addition, the unique telescope, instrumentation, and analysis program developed for the Supernova Catalog will be leveraged to conduct pioneering surveys for transient astrophysical phenomena. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to UC Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory provides funds for nine additional months on the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter telescope to support the Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog project (#556) and to serve as a bridge to planned future efforts to study supernovae and other transient objects. The first goal of these grants is to "understand the nature of dark energy" which has been identified as one of the most important scientific endeavors of our era by the National Research Council. The second goal is to leverage the unique telescope, instrumentation, and analysis program developed for the supernova search by applying it to studies of other astrophysical transients, opening up new unexplored territory in astronomy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics is to undertake further detailed studies of stellar characteristics by interferometry to expand and enrich our knowledge and understanding of stellar processes. Using the Infrared Spatial Interferometer, the investigators have already discovered a class of non-spherical stars, as well as one star, Betelgeuse, which has shrunk over 15% in size during the past 15 years. These startling observations cannot be explained by current models so future studies will continue to advance the field of stellar evolution theory. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $2,377,000 | Aug. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory supports the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) and development of a catalog of nearby Type Ia supernovae, a special class of very bright exploding stars. The SNfactory is designed to discover hundreds of these nearby supernovae and collect a calibrated spectrum of each one. Outcomes include support of the Legacy Nearby Supernova Catalog that will enable the development of tools critical for greater understanding of Type Ia supernovae as indicators of dark energy. | | California Institute of Technology
Tectonics Observatory | $13,000,000 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $13,000,000 | Sep. 2008 |
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This grant to the California Institute of Technology Tectonics Observatory will support the second phase of the development of a multidisciplinary facility that combines state-of-the-art monitoring networks and innovative observations at key tectonics boundaries with modeling of tectonic forces over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The goal of understanding and, later, predicting the earth’s behavior near the intersection of key tectonic plates will provide strategic insights into a variety of destructive phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, and other geochemical and geophysical processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,000,000 | Nov. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant will help fund the initial operation of the Resnick Institute for the Science of Energy (RISE), a newly endowed program at Caltech, with a strategic focus on energy science and technology. Foundation funds will support the postdoctoral and graduate student fellowships, communications programs, and facility development for the Institute during the initial year, when RISE endowment funds are not yet available. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $7,500,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the California Institute of Technology provides $7.5 million of additional funds to complete the Design Development Phase (DDP) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) by March 2009. The TMT goal is to construct the first of the next-generation giant optical/infrared ground-based telescopes. This grant is paired with an identical award to the University of California. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $11,260,000 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
To establish the Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis to accelerate the discovery of powerful new catalytic chemical reactions and novel chemical architectures. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $6,000,000 | Oct. 2006 |
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To develop the molecular basis for driving the photo-oxidation of water to enable fuel production directly from sunlight. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $6,500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
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In support of research in reliable generation, storage, and use of renewable energy with the establishment of the Center for Sustainable Energy Research (CSER). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,943,114 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of experimentation with large, diverse, and interconnected socio-economic systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 72 mo. | $12,020,300 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
In support of Revolutionizing Detectors for Cosmology. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,998,512 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Much of human behavior, like those of other animals, is directed toward the ultimate goal of obtaining rewards, such as money or food, and avoiding punishment. This proposed research will lead to an understanding of the effects of reward at numerous levels of brain organization. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,611,266 | Jun. 2006 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to establish the Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. Outcomes for this grant include creation of the Center and postdoctoral fellowships. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $7,979,578 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
With this grant, Caltech will create the Proteome Exploration Laboratory (CaPel). Research at CaPel is expected to generate new knowledge of how the proteins specified by a genome give rise to an organism. Outcomes for this grant include installation of equipment and maintenance of the Proteome Exploration Laboratory. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $5,631,000 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant allows Caltech to establish the Center for Cosmochemical and Geochemical Microanalysis. The Center will sustain a program of theoretical research aimed at attacking the problems posed by dark matter, dark energy, and the early universe. Outcomes for this grant include the addition of two senior scientists (cosmology theorists), establishment of a distinguished visiting scholars program and postdoctoral fellowships, and maintenance of the Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $8,799,000 | Sep. 2005 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to establish the Center for Cosmochemical and Geochemical Microanalysis. Outcomes for this grant include installation of two ion microprobes, development of novel geochemical instrumentation, and maintenance of the Center. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $17,537,100 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant establishes Caltech's center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, focusing on fundamental studies of molecular complexity, the development of the technology of ultrafast imaging, and its applications to real systems of physical, chemical, and biological function. Outcomes for this grant include creation and maintenance of the ultrafast imaging facility. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $5,000,000 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to support and expand its diversity programs. Outcomes for this grant include increased participation of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, recruitment of non-Caltech and Caltech undergraduate and graduate students every year, support for postdoctoral students and assessment of the diversity recruitment program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,510,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to Caltech partially funds construction costs for the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). Caltech, University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana Campaign, and University of Maryland are collaborating to build CARMA, which merges six 10-meter telescopes from Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory array with nine six-meter telescopes from the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array on one site at Cedar Flat near Bishop, California. The CARMA Association (made up of the four partner universities) will operate the new array. Outcomes for this grant include relocation of six ten-meter telescopes, completion of the observatory, upgraded telescope electronics, development and deployment of an array computing system, and establishment of the array infrastructure. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $22,222,222 | Oct. 2004 |
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This grant provides core support for Caltech's institute-wide intellectual, educational, and outreach initiative called Information Science and Technology. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of (including staff and equipment) four Information Science and Technology centers: Biology, Physics, Social Science, and Math. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $13,254,000 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
Caltech is using this grant to build the Tectonics Observatory, which is part of a ten-year initiative aimed at revolutionizing earth sciences research. As part of this initiative, Caltech will utilize the latest technologies and multi-disciplinary research methods to study the tectonic plate boundaries. Outcomes for this grant include creation of a Tectonics Observatory infrastructure, increased pool of tectonics researchers, and improved tectonics data. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 72 mo. | $25,426,741 | May 2004 |
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This grant supports Caltech's Nanoscale Systems Initiative and the operation of the initiative's laboratories and facilities. Nanoscale systems technology involves the creation of tiny (less than 1/100th of the diameter of a human hair) systems that take advantage of the unique properties of matter at that scale. Outcomes for this grant include renovation and relocation of labs, recruitment of faculty, and the launch of the Nanoscale Systems Initiative's laboratories and facilities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $30,822,486 | Feb. 2004 |
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This administrative grant is part of the Foundation's $300 million commitment to Caltech. The outcome for this grant is reimbursement of all program-related indirect costs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 108 mo. | $14,206,289 | Nov. 2003 |
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This grant allows scientists at Caltech to establish an observatory for structural molecular biology. The new observatory, called a beam line, will make use of the extremely bright X-rays produced by a newly installed advanced electron accelerator at Stanford's Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Outcomes for this grant include creation of a macromolecular crystallography facility for studying complicated biological systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $17,500,000 | Sep. 2003 |
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Caltech received this grant to initiate a detailed design study of the Thirty-Meter Telescope. This giant optical/infrared telescope is larger than any ground-based telescope in operation. Caltech and the University of California will collaborate with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy for the detailed design phase of the telescope. Outcomes for this grant include development of a preliminary design for the telescope. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $4,000,000 | Nov. 2002 |
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Caltech used this grant to establish a Cryoelectron Microscopy Laboratory and equip it with two cryoelectron microscopes capable of helping scientists "see" biological structures that are too small for conventional electron microscopy, and too large to be resolved by X-ray crystallography. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $27,745,260 | Apr. 2002 |
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Caltech is using this grant to create an imaging facility designed to give researchers an opportunity for deeper understanding of neural function through noninvasive studies. Using magnetic resonance imagers, neuroscientists can map, point-by-point (and in two or three dimensions) the neural process and mental function of living organisms. Outcomes for this grant include the creation of an imaging facility and deployment of MRIs (magnetic resonance imagers) for higher-brain research. | | Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Two-year time-series study of seasonal coastal hypoxia | $5,000,306 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $5,000,306 | Sep. 2008 |
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This grant will provide support to Oregon State University to characterize the microbial responses to two distinct seasonal oxygen minimum zone environments and to establish the geological history of oxygenation at each site. The proposed effort aims to describe the chemical and physical nature of seasonal oxygen minimum zones off the coasts of central Chile and Oregon, to identify similarities and differences between their pelagic microbial assemblages and biogeochemical processes, and to determine the long-term variability of oxygenation in these regions. Conclusions will be synthesized in an inter-disciplinary manner across the fields of marine microbial ecology, physical oceanography, biogeochemistry and paleoceanography. | | Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology
Lab of Stephen J. Giovannoni, Ph.D. | $3,115,070 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 49 mo. | $3,115,070 | Sep. 2008 |
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This grant will provide support to Oregon State University for research in the laboratory of Investigator Dr. Stephen J. Giovannoni on the dynamics of a key group of marine planktonic microorganisms that require external sources of carbon for food and energy. This abundant, ecologically important group of bacteria will be studied with respect to its composition, gene and protein expression patterns, genome content, and nutritional requirements. Outcomes for this grant include a deeper understanding of how populations of these bacteria change in space and time in natural marine systems, how they have evolved to cope with low nutrient levels, and how this ubiquitous and numerically predominant group impacts marine biogeochemical cycles. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,237,000 | Nov. 2004 |
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This grant to the Oregon State University supports research conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Giovannoni—a recognized expert on the cultivation of marine microbes from the natural ocean environment. Dr. Giovannoni and his team successfully cultured SAR 11, an elusive bacterial group now called Pelagibacter ubique, which are some of the smallest (billions fit into a teaspoon) and most abundant organisms on Earth. Outcomes for this grant include improved marine microbe lab culture success and the description of Pelagibacter nutrient limiting factors and proteomics. | | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory
Zero Noise Detector for the Thirty Meter Telescope | $2,839,191 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $2,839,191 | Sep. 2008 |
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This grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL) supports the design and building of the next generation imaging detectors for near- and mid-IR wavelength telescopes to enable new astronomical discoveries about the origin, evolution, and future of the Universe. The detectors will have zero read noise capability, which effectively quadruples the collecting power of large telescopes such as the Thirty Meter Telescope. In addition, the zero read noise technique can be adapted to, and advance, a wide range of image detection applications including medicine, oceanography, and meteorology. | | University of Georgia Foundation
Lab of Mary Ann Moran, Ph.D. | $3,131,704 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 49 mo. | $3,131,704 | Sep. 2008 |
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This grant to the University of Georgia Foundation will support research in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Dr. Mary Ann Moran on the genetic underpinnings of bacterial sulfur and carbon cycling in the coastal ocean. Objectives are to understand the role of marine bacteria in sustaining productivity of the coastal ocean and the formation and flux of climatically active gases containing sulfur and carbon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $2,668,000 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Georgia Foundation supports the research of Dr. Mary Ann Moran, a leading expert on oceanic sulfur cycles. Outcomes for this grant include deepened understanding of the global sulfur cycle and exploration of the taxonomic and functional dynamics of marine microbial communities, and the ecosystem-scale implications of microbial interactions. | | University of Washington, School of Oceanography
Lab of E. Virginia Armbrust, Ph.D. | $4,010,449 | Sep. 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 49 mo. | $4,010,449 | Sep. 2008 |
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This grant to the University of Washington will support research in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Dr. E. Virginia Armbrust to understand how marine diatoms respond and adapt to environmental change. Objectives are to investigate the role of the environment in maintaining diatom diversity and, in turn, the role of diatoms in maintaining marine ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $117,450 | Feb. 2006 |
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