Microbial Observatories Awards : 1999 | 2000 - 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005

 

 

Fiscal Year 2005 Awards

Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes

Title

Principal Investigators

Institution

Total Award
($)

Total Duration (yrs)

 

 

 

 

 

MO: RUI:Cabo Rojo Salterns Microbial Observatory

Casillas-Martinez

Hernandez

 

Ramirez

Rios-Velazquez

 

 

Visscher

 

0455620

 

University of Puerto Rico, Humacao

University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

University of Connecticut

 

 

$1,293,132

 

 

5

 

MO: Photoheterotrophic Microbes of the Mid-Atlantic Bight

Kirchman

Cottrell

0453993

 

 

University of Delaware

 

$814,401

 

5

 

 

MO: The Alpine Microbial Observatory:  Changes in Microbial Diversity and Function Across Extreme Environmental Gradients

Schmidt

Guralnick

Martin

Neff

0455606

 

 

 

U of Colorado, Boulder

 

 

$1,750,000

 

 

5

RCN: Establishing a Seamount Biogeosciences Network (SBN)

Staudigel

Koppers

0443337

 

University of California-San Diego Scripps Institute of Oceanography

 

$495,214

 

5

CAREER: Targeted Environmental Genomics: Stable Isotope Probing of Non-cultivated Diazotrophs in Soil

Buckley

0447586

 

Cornell University State

 

$686,488

 

5

CAREER: Establishment of Hirudo medicinalis as a model for digestive-tract symbioses

Graf

0448052

 

University of Connecticut

 

$699,961

 

5

MIP: Microbial Novelty: Symbiotic Interaction between Microbes within the Oceanospirillales and a New Metazoan Genus

Goffredi

0454860

 

California Institute of Technology

 

$103,620

 

2

 

MIP: Collaborative Research: Bacterial Interactions and Processes that Regulate Biodiversity on Marine Organic Particles

 

Long

 

0453877

Texas A&M Research Foundation

 

$247,906

 

3

 

Rowley

 

0453843

University of Rhode Island

 

 

$249,920

 

3

 

MIP: Analysis of Endophytic Colonization by Klebsiella penumoniae 342 in Wheat

 

Triplett

 

0454030

 

 

University of Florida

 

$334,999

 

4

 

 

MIP: Collaborative Research: Physiology and Molecular Ecology of Thermophilic Nitrate-reducing Microorganisms at Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents

Vetriani

0456676

 

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

 

$308,294

 

3

Casciotti

0456689

 

Woods Hole Ocean Institute

$110,019

3

 

SGER: Collaborative Research: Metaproteomics: Linking Natural Microbial Community Structure and Function via Protein Identification

Chen

0537041

University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

$59,311

1

Hanson

0536982

University of Delaware

$20,682

1

 

 


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Fiscal Year 2004 Awards

Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes

Title

Principal Investigators

Institution

Total Award
($)

Total Duration (yrs)

MO:  Linking Microbial Diversity with Biogeochemical Studies throughout the Deep Greenland Ice Sheet

 

Brenchley

Miteva

Sowers

  

0347475

 

Pennsylvania State University

 

$845,254

5

MO:  A Genomics-enabled Microbial Observatory in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

DeLong

 

 

 

Richardson

   

0348001

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute

$1,202,493

5

MO:  Collaborative Research: Loihi Seamount as an Observatory for the Study of Neutrophilic Iron-Oxidizing Bacterial and the Microbial Iron Cycle

 

Edwards

0348425

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$399,995

5

Emerson 

0348330

American Type Culture Collection

$274,761

5

Moyer

0348734

Western Washington University

$275,472

5

Tebo Staudigel

0348668

University of California- San Diego Scripps Institution

$550,000

5

MO: Nyack Microbial Observatory Project

 

Gannon Stanford Holben Woessner

  

0348773

 

University of Montana

$1,250,000

5

MO:  Collaborative Research: Microbial Observatory in the Cariaco Basin Dynamics of Protistan Diversity Across Time, Space, and Chemical Gradients

Epstein

 

0348341

Northeastern University

$1,034,911

5

Sievert

Edgcomb

0348407

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$332,809

5

Taylor

 

0348442

SUNY Stony Brook

$132,882

5

MO: Kilauea Volcano Observatory for Carbon Monoxide-Oxidizing Bacteria

King

0348100

University of Maine

$885,995

5

MO: Metabolic Activity of Microorganisms in Alaskan Tundra and Permafrost

Panikov

 

Romanovsky

0348681

Stevens Institute of Technology

University of Alaska Fairbanks 

$209,818

2

(Proof of Concept)

MO: Structure and Function of Mycorrhizal Mat Communities at the H. J. Andrews LTER Microbial Observatory

Myrold Caldwell Bottomley Cromack Spatafora

0348689

Oregon State University

$920,285

5

RCN: Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park

Inskeep Young

 

 

 

 

0342269

Montana State University

$499,991

5 

CAREER: Integrating Bacterial Diversity into Environmental Change Research and Education

Hughes

 

 

0347324

Brown University

$754,581

 5

MIP: Collaborative Research: Examination of Diverse Anaerobic Methane Oxidizing Archaea and Associated Syntrophic Relationships using High Resolution Molecular and Isotopic Methods

House

0348492

Pennsylvania State University

$249,998

2.5

Orphan

0348596

California Institute of Technology

$250,000

2.4

MIP:  Collaborative Research: Microbial Communities at the Cariaco Redox Interface: Coupling of Sulfur, Carbon, and Metal Cycles 

Chistoserdov

 

0348045

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

$238,832

3

Taylor Scranton

0347811

SUNY Stony Brook

$260,869

3

MIP: Physiological Diversity of Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms in Diverse Hot Environments

Lovley

0348085

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

$497,688

3

MIP: Temperature Adaptation of Autotrophic Carbon Metabolism in Ecologically Diverse Hot Spring Synechococcus: An Integrative Study of Extreme Photosynthesis

Miller

 

0347627

University of Montana

$302,064

4

MIP: Bacterial Regulation of Organic Sulfur Cycling in the Ocean: A Genomic Approach

Moran Whitman

 

 

Kiene

 

0315200

University of Georgia-Research Foundation Inc

University of South Alabama

 

$481,109

4

MIP: Collaborative Research: Analysis of Protist Assemblage of the Coastal Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi

Moss

0348327

Auburn University

$281,018

3

Gast

0348060

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$112,430

3

Sullivan

0348117

University of Rhode Island

$45,477

3

Rogerson

0348229

Nova Southeastern University

$60,470

3

MIP: Collaborative Research: Molecular and Chemical Ecology of Freshwater Sponges: Impacts of Sponges Hosts on Symbiotic Microbial Communities

Olson

0343662

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa

$60,000

2

(Proof of Concept)

Thacker

0343098

University of Alabama Birmingham

$40,000

2

(Proof of Concept)

MIP: Diversity, Function. And Biogeochemical Consequences of Chemolithoautotrophic Archaea in Nevada Hot Springs

Zhang Romanek Wiegel

0348180

 

University of Georgia

$429,880

3

SGER: Design, Construction, and Testing of Prototype Instrument for Contamination-Free Sampling of Crucial Fluids from Deep-Sea Boreholes

Cowen

 

0434461

 

University of Hawaii

$199,782

2

SGER: Developing Metal-Tagged DNA Probes for High Resolution Imaging of Microbial Phylotype Distributions and Nanoscale Mineral/Microbe Associations in Environmental Samples

Haymond

Holden

 

0406999

University of California-Santa Barbara

$85,313

1

 

 

 

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Fiscal Year 2003 Awards

Microbial Observatories

Title

Principal Investigators

Institution

Total Award
($)

Total Duration (yrs)

MO:  Collaborative Research Linking Microbial Discovery to Biogeochemical Processes: An Oligotrophic Oceanic Microbial Observatory

 

Carlson

 

 

 

 

0237728

University of California-Santa Barbara

 

$592,198

5

Giovannoni

 

 

 

0237713

Oregon State University

 

$306,102

5

MO:  Collaborative Research: Kamchatka, a Geothermal Microbial Observatory

 

 

Wiegel

Crowe

Romanek

 

0238407

University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc

$748,070

4

Robb

 

0238337

University of Maryland - COMB

$160,000

4

Cady

0241001

Portland State University

$98,106

4

MO:  RUI: A Longitudinal and Molecular Diversity and Chemical Survey of Red Layer Microbial Communities in Yellowstone National Park

Boomer

 

0237167

Western Oregon University

 

$532,414

4

MO:  Eukaryotic Microbial Communities of the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve

 

  Lavrentyev

Duff

 

 

 

0239997

University of Akron

$220,574

3

MO:  Collaborative Research: Characterization of Novel Anaerobic Microorganisms from a Sulfide Spring

 

Krumholz

Brown

Dewers

Elshahed

Roe

 

0240683

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

$550,151

3

Sievert

 

0240653

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

$281,000

3

MO:  Collaborative Research: Microbial Diversity and Function in the Permanently Ice-Covered Lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

 

 

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Priscu

0237335

Montana State University

$348,184

5

Lanoil

0237434

University of California- Riverside

$247,362

5

Madigan

0237576

Southern Illinois University

$359,998

5

Giovannoni

 

0237689

Oregon State University

$100,000

3

MO:  The Galapagos Microbial Observatory: Analysis of Novel Archaeal and Bacterial Diversity Associated with Iguanas Across Environmental Gradients

Mackie

Cann

 

 

 

Wikelski

 

0238422

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Princeton University

$200,000

5

MO:  Diversity of Plant-Associated Diazotrophic Bacteria and Their Distributions Within Specific Vegetation Zones Along an Environmental Gradient

Lovell

Fletcher

0237854

University of South Carolina

$768,750

2

MO:  Microbial Diversity of Procaryotes in Marine Sponges of the Class Demospongiae

Hill

Chen

 

 

Fuqua

 

0238515

University of Maryland- COMB

Indiana University

$698,859

4

MO: Exploration of Eukaryotic Microbes in Sulfide-Enriched Sedimets at Redox Boundaries in the Black Sea 

Bernhard

 

 

Sievert

 

 

 

0237931

University of South Carolina

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

 

$14,945

1

MO: SGER: Microbial Observatories: Initiation of a Microbial Observatory for Anaerobic Electrophiles in Marine Sediments 

Zeikus

Urbance

 

0323966

Michigan State University

$100,000

 

MO:  SGER: Characterization of the Microbial Community of Hirudo medicinalis 

Graf

 

 

0334267

University of Connecticut

$100,000

 

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Fiscal Year 2002 Awards

Microbial Observatories

Title

Principal Investigators

Institution

Total Award
($)

Total Duration (yrs)

MO:  Collaborative Research: A Cold Microbial Observatory: Collaborative Research in an Alaskan Boreal Forest Soil

 

 

Handelsman

 

 

 

Ruess

 

 

 

0132085

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Alaska

$512,484

 

4

Metcalf

 

 

0132111

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

$55,166

4

Banfield

 

0132115

University of California-Berkeley

$200,934

4

MO:  Collaborative Research: Salt Plains Microbial Observatory

Henley

Miller

 0132097

Oklahoma State University

$601,807

4

Schneegurt

0131659

Wichita State University

$198,480

4

Buchheim

0132083

University of Tulsa

$254,860

4

MO:  RUI: Diversity of Halophilic Bacteria and Geochemical Signatures in a Tropical Solar Saltern

Casillas-Martinez

Chinapen

Hernandez

Visscher

0137336

University of Puerto Rico at Humacao

$556,432

3

MO:  Evolution and Diversity of Biochemical Pathways: A Methylotrophic Microbial Observatory

 

Lidstrom

Chistoserdova

 

 

0131957

University of Washington

$899,996

5

MO:  Linking Phylogeny and Biogeochemistry for the Discovery of Novel Chemolithotrophs Inhabiting Geothermal Gradients in Yellowstone National Park

McDermott

Geesey

Inskeep

 

0132022

Montana State University

$569,362

4

MO:  Microbial Nitrogen Transformations in Suboxic Environments

Murray

Staley

0132101

University of Washington

$634,761

3

MO:  Anhydrophilic, Halotolerant Microbial Mats of San Salvador Island, Bahamas

 

Paerl

Steppe

 

 

Decho

 

 

 

 

Pinckney

 

0132528

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of South Carolina

Texas A&M University

$853,720

5

MO:  RUI: Microbial Observatory at Soap Lake: Biogeochemistry, Microbial Diversity, and Productivity of Anaerobic Haloalkaliphilic Bacterial Communities

Pinkart

 

 

 

Peyton

 

 

 

Mormile

 

 

 

 

0132158

Central Washington University

Washington State University

University of Missouri-Rolla

 

$840,461

3

MO:  Linking Microbial Community Structure and Function in Contaminated Aquifers

 

Scow

Hristova

 

 

0137210

University of California-Davis

$200,160

2

MO:  Intra-annual Diversity and Dynamics of Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton

Wommack

 

 

Chen

 

 

 

 

Coats

 

 

 

 

0132070

University of Deleware

Center of Marine Biotechnology

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

 

$989,663

5

MO:  Anaerobic Bacteria and Methanogens in Northern Peatland Ecosystems

Yavitt

Zinder

 

0132049

Cornell University 

$837,558

4

MO:  Viruses from Yellowstone Thermal Acidic Environments

Young

Mogk

 

 

Roberto

 

 

 

 

 

Stedman

 

 

 

 

0132156

 

Montana State University

Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory

Portland State University

 

 

$569,362

4

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Fiscal Year 2000/2001 Awards

Microbial Observatories

Title

Principal Investigators

Institution

Total Award
($)

Total Duration (yrs)

MO:  Microbial Diversity in Lakes of the Hawaiian Archipelago

 

Alam

 

0084236

University of Hawaii

$206,873

3

MO:  Collaborative Research: Species Discovery and Population Dynamics of coccoid Algae in Itasca State Park, Minnesota

Fawley

Philips  

 

0084188

North Dakota State University Fargo

$400,000

3

Bailey

 

 

0084197

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

$60,195

3

MO:  RUI: Undergraduate Research in the Molecular Diversity of Hot Spring Bacteria

Boomer

 

 

 

0074452

Western Oregon University

 

$222,953

3

MO:  Discovery and Characterization of Uncultivated Bacteria, Archaea and Protista from the San Pedro Channel Time Series

 

Fuhrman

Caron

 

0084231

University of Southern California

$1,259,677

4

MO:  A Tropical Microbial Observatory: Collaborative Research on Microbial Diversity in Caterpillars

Goodman

Handelsman

Clardy

Simon

 

0084222

University of Wisconsin-Madison

$838,049

4

Reysenbach

Zettler

 

0084224

Portland State University

$638,702

 

4

MO:  Environmental Genomics and Microbial Observatories: Analysis of Genetic Variability, Gene Content, and Genomic Potential in Uncultivated Marine Picoplankton

Heidelberg

Eisen

 

 

DeLong

 

 

 

 

 

0084211

Institute for Genomic Research

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

$1,290,074

3

MO:  Observing Microbial Diversity and Horizontal Gene Transfer in a Shallow Contaminated Aquifer

Madsen

Ghiorse

 

0084175

Cornell University

$499,598

3

MO:  Prokaryotic Diversity of a Salt Marsh/Estuarine Complex at the University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapleo Island

 

Moran

Hodson

Whitman

 

0084164

University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc

$1,002,179

4

MO:  Microbial Biogeochemistry and Functional Diversity across the Forest-Tundra Ecotone in the Rocky Mountains

 

Schmidt

Martin

 

0084223

University of Colorado at Boulder

$1,000,000

4

MO:  A Microbial Observatory in the Duke Forest: Exploring Fungal Diversity in Response to Environmental Change

 

 

Vilgalys

 

 

0084207

Duke University

$411,854

3

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Fiscal Year 1999 Awards

Microbial Observatories

Title

Principal Investigators

Institution

Total Award
($)

Total Duration (yrs)

MO:  Analysis of a Eukaryotic Microbial Mat Community Across Environmental Gradients in a Thermal, Acidic Stream

 

Henson

Ferris

 

 

9977922

Montana State University

$860,454

5

MO:  Collaborative Research on Bacterioplankton Biology and Biogeochemistry at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Station: An Oceanic Microbial Observatory

 

Carlson

 

 

 

 

9977918

0296061

University of California- Santa Barbara

 

$298,318

3

Giovannoni

 

 

9977930

Oregon State University

$299,990

3

MO:  Salt Marsh Microbes and Microbial Processes: Sulfur and Nitrogen

Hobbie

Teske

Waterbury

Sogin

Stahl

 

 

9977897

Marine Biological Laboratory

$1,165,771

4

MO:  Collaborative Research: Microbial Observatory at an Alkaline, Hypersaline, Meromictic Lake (Mono Lake, California)

Hollibaugh
Joye

 

9977886

University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc

$737,651

5

Jellison

 

9977901

University of California Santa Barbara

$202,077

4

Zehr

9977892

University of California Santa Cruz

$248,164

5

MO:  Spatial Scales of Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity Among Streptomycetes in Native Soils

Kinkel
Samac

9977907

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

$989,992

4

MO:  Diversity of Nitrogen-Cycling Microorganisms at the H.J. Andrews LTER

 

Myrold

Bottomley

Cromak

9977933

Oregon State University

$561,431

3

MO:  A Microbial Observatory for the Northern Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research Site

Triplett
Graham
Kratz

Armstrong

Carpenter

9977903

University of Wisconsin-Madison

$1,174,501

5

MO:  Observing Patterns of Prokaryotic Diversity along Land use Gradients of the CAP LTER

 

Rainey

 

 

 

 

9977882

Louisiana State University & Agricultural and Mechanical College

$481,170

4

MO:  Linking Resource and Stress Gradients to Microbial Community Composition and Function through the Soil Profile of a California Annual Grassland at the Sedgwick Reserve

Schimel

Holden

9977874

University of California Santa Barbara

$778,672

4

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