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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