Microbial Observatories Awards 2003

Microbial Observatories Awards : 1999 | 2000 - 2001 | 2002

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 :	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

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

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

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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