All Images
News Release 15-128
Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis program awards $1.5 million in new grants
Funding will lead to new understanding of subjects as large as the Amazon, as small as a mosquito
This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone numbers or other contact information may be out of date; please see current contact information at media contacts.
![aerial view of of river Amazon](/news/mmg/media/images/amazon_ciat_(2)_a323082f-fad6-494a-9fdf-f126b0298211_f.jpg)
OPUS awardees address topics ranging from the Amazon ecosystem, pictured here, to mosquitoes and disease.
Credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT/Wikimedia Commons
Download the high-resolution JPG version of the image. (3.2 MB)
Use your mouse to right-click (Mac users may need to Ctrl-click) the link above and choose the option that will save the file or target to your computer.
![map of the Amazon region in South America](/news/mmg/media/images/amazonrivermap.svg_ebd3867e-624b-4861-9c62-8733b53ea246_f.jpg)
Among nine new OPUS subjects this year is the biogeochemistry of the Amazon region.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Download the high-resolution SVG_B75EC325-79D8-401B-8A51-DBAE8349807A version of the image. (422.5 KB)
Use your mouse to right-click (Mac users may need to Ctrl-click) the link above and choose the option that will save the file or target to your computer.
![illustration showing a frog on a rock in water](/news/mmg/media/images/frog_stream2_87c75c00-b100-445d-9cf3-5f1403070591_f.jpg)
Ectotherms, or organisms without internal heat sources, such as frogs, are a 2015 OPUS topic.
Credit: NSF/Nicole Rager-Fuller
Download the high-resolution JPG version of the image. (151.8 KB)
Use your mouse to right-click (Mac users may need to Ctrl-click) the link above and choose the option that will save the file or target to your computer.
![The lemon pansy butterfly](/news/mmg/media/images/Junonia_lemonias_DSF_by_Kadavoor_f.jpg)
The lemon pansy butterfly, found in South Asia's open woods, is another example of an ectotherm.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Jeevan Jose
Download the high-resolution JPG version of the image. (858.7 KB)
Use your mouse to right-click (Mac users may need to Ctrl-click) the link above and choose the option that will save the file or target to your computer.
![lakes Paul and Peter surrounded by forested areas](/news/mmg/media/images/two_lakes1_f_3ead5501-2d5a-4e4c-b89b-995d2be47de6.jpg)
An OPUS tale of two lakes: Paul is smaller; Peter (site of lake experiments) is in the background.
Credit: Steve Carpenter
Download the high-resolution JPG version of the image. (201.8 KB)
Use your mouse to right-click (Mac users may need to Ctrl-click) the link above and choose the option that will save the file or target to your computer.
![largemouth bass young-of-year](/news/mmg/media/images/two_lakes2_f_82e8bce2-1bf8-4b5b-8f08-1757a983b066.jpg)
An explosion of largemouth bass young accelerated the manipulated lake's changes.
Credit: Tim Cline
Download the high-resolution JPG version of the image. (792.9 KB)
Use your mouse to right-click (Mac users may need to Ctrl-click) the link above and choose the option that will save the file or target to your computer.