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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
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OPUS awardees address topics ranging from the Amazon ecosystem, pictured here, to mosquitoes and disease.
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Among nine new OPUS subjects this year is the biogeochemistry of the Amazon region.
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Ectotherms, or organisms without internal heat sources, such as frogs, are a 2015 OPUS topic.
Credit: NSF/Nicole Rager-Fuller
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The lemon pansy butterfly, found in South Asia's open woods, is another example of an ectotherm.
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An OPUS tale of two lakes: Paul is smaller; Peter (site of lake experiments) is in the background.
Credit: Steve Carpenter
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An explosion of largemouth bass young accelerated the manipulated lake's changes.
Credit: Tim Cline
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