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 :	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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