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 | Tides Center, Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea
Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) | $710,262 | May 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $710,262 | May 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to connect regional scientists, journalists, decisionmakers, and their key constituents to one another and to ensure that the critical science needed for effective Area-Based Management is understood, valued, and applied in Massachusetts and New England. This purpose will be achieved through the activities of the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS). | | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dissolved organic matter and microbial diversity | $927,412 | May 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 37 mo. | $927,412 | May 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is to identify dissolved organic compounds produced by one group of marine microbes (photoautotrophs) and consumed by other groups of marine microbes (heterotrophs) to better understand the links between marine microbial diversity, metabolism and biogeochemical cycles. Dissolved organic compounds from controlled laboratory culture experiments will provide proof of concept and support for later environmental field sample compound identification with the ultimate goal of linking dissolved organic material composition to marine microbial metabolism and diversity in the environment. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,556,735 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will use this grant to develop in situ sorting and observational technologies of individual phytoplankton cells. Outputs include time-series deployments of the FlowCytobot and Imaging FlowCytobot instruments and enhancements to the technologies that automate their ability to identify, sort, and assess the physiological status of phytoplankton cells. These flow cytometry tools will provide a deeper understanding of the regulation of phytoplankton species composition and their photosynthetic productivity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $500,000 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
To cover the cost of 2 mass spectrometry instruments for the analysis of oceanic dissolved organic carbon. | | University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Biocomplexity Science and Fisheries Modeling | $3,600,000 | May 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,600,000 | May 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the University of Washington is to improve the scientific understanding of resilience and productivity in salmon ecosystems, and to apply this information to improved fisheries management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $4,126,379 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
The University of Washington will use this grant to establish an international program for the study of Pacific salmon biodiversity. The biodiversity program will develop new salmon genetics techniques and facilitate international coordination of genetics studies and data storage in an effort to establish pan-Pacific baselines for salmon stock identification. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,430,555 | Oct. 2005 |
Purpose
The University of Washington is using this grant to determine the long-term changes in sockeye salmon abundance across the North Pacific. Using a new technique to analyze information preserved in lake sediments, researchers can estimate populations of salmon going back millennia. Outcomes for this grant include synthesized analysis of long-term changes in sockeye salmon abundance across the North Pacific. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,365,017 | Feb. 2005 |
Purpose
University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences is using this grant to develop and implement new fishery management tools designed to provide sustainable harvests while maintaining healthy, intact ecosystems. Outcomes for this grant include improved scientific understanding of southwest Alaska's salmon ecosystems, and the utilization of new data insights to inform and improve fishery management in Alaska and elsewhere.
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Education for Nature: Building Capacity for Protected Area Management in the Andes-Amazon Region | $1,461,357 | May 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $1,461,357 | May 2008 |
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Purpose
This grant to WWF’s Education for Nature program will establish permanent training capacity for park guards in four Andean countries and improve the skills of the existing park guard force in three Andean countries. It will increase the institutional capacity for PA management in these countries by providing job placement assistance to former EFN fellowship recipients and graduate fellowships in disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields of study related to PA management at preselected universities | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $404,336 | Mar. 2008 |
Purpose
This project with the World Wildlife Fund will continue the collection of data on a number of important indicator species with large or complex habitat needs to advance the scientific justification for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $466,433 | Jan. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant serves to provide supplemental funding to complete the initial grant to World Wildlife Fund (to conserve the headwaters regions of the Southwest Amazon, while simultaneously investing in strategic scientific research and policy interventions), and to maintain the core project staff and local partners that are essential to a second-phase grant currently under development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $7,168,000 | Jan. 2007 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund will use this grant to support the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. Outcomes include 10-15 million hectares of new protected areas and strengthening the implementation of 6.3 million hectares of existing protected areas to the 50 million ha target of the ARPA program.. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,422,984 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's efforts to improve the framework for protecting Kamchatka's salmon in their marine environment by reforming salmon fishery policies, increasing local awareness of market-based sustainable salmon fisheries, creating the first Marine Fishery Protective Zone for critical salmon habitat, and strengthening antipoaching enforcement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $400,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,457,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Through its Education for Nature program, World Wildlife Fund is using this grant to provide academic and applied training to graduate students and protected-area personnel throughout South America. Outcomes include protected area management training for 615 park guards and 54 two-year scholarships to individuals from the Andes-Amazon region for masters and doctoral degrees at universities in the region or abroad. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $15,407,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This renewal grant supports Phase II of World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Headwaters Initiative. Outcomes include protection and management of 1.3 million hectares in the Itenez-Mamore Block (Bolivia) and 6.9 million hectares in the Southern Amazon Block (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), evaluation of Amazonia policy interventions, and expansion of science capacity for conservation of Amazon headwaters. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $849,415 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to improve ecoregional conservation by raising management standards and practices for large-scale programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,351,000 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to support the pilot phase of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative, a plan to maintain regional terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $15,581,000 | Aug. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant supports the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. In response to World Wildlife Fund's Forest for Life Campaign, the Brazilian government pledged to place 10% of its of biologically rich forest under conservation protection. ARPA was developed to help implement that commitment. Outcomes include creation, establishment, and management of 14 sustainable-use reserves covering nine million hectares in two large forested blocks. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,400,000 | Jun. 2002 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this bridge grant to create new protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas programme. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $300,000 | Mar. 2002 |
Purpose
World wildlife Fund used this grant to design a marine conservation network and develop a project management plan for large-scale conservation in three specified ecoregions: the southwest Amazon, Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef, and the Terai Arc of India/Nepal. | | Stanford University, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Computing Infrastructure for Pixel Array Detector at Molecular Observatory | $1,332,284 | May 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,332,284 | May 2008 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is the addition of compute and storage infrastructure to manage and analyze the large quantities of data produced by the breakthrough Pixel Array Detector (PAD) addition to the Molecular Observatory (Beam Line 12-2). The coupling of high speed storage and computing power to the advanced PAD will make possible new, real-time types of data collection strategies and experiment modifications, producing scientific results that would not otherwise be obtainable. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,991,076 | Jan. 2008 |
Purpose
The Stanford Linear Accelerator will use this grant to add a Pixel Array Detector (PAD) to the Molecular Observatory (Beam Line 12-2). The coupling of an advanced PAD detector with the state-of-the-art X-ray source properties of BL 12-2 will make possible new types of data collection strategies and will produce scientific results that would not otherwise be obtainable. | | Living Oceans Society
Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform in BC | $1,843,531 | May 2008 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,843,531 | May 2008 |
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Purpose
This grant will support efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments from the British Columbia Government and the BC aquaculture industry to halt expansion of open net cage salmon farming, mitigate negative impacts and make the transition to closed containment systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Living Oceans Society, as part of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, will fund research on the impacts of sea lice on wild salmon and the economic viability of closed containment production technology. This research will be carried out jointly with industry leader Marine Harvest Canada, consistent with the terms of their Framework for Dialogue. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $578,098 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Through this grant, Living Oceans Society is addressing the need for a formal, effective mechanism for stakeholder awareness and engagement in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. Living Oceans Society and partners are also working to understand the impacts of oil and gas exploration and development on British Columbia’s marine ecosystems. The outcomes of this Grant include a stakeholder engagement mechanism formalized in the PNCIMA process and regional stakeholder support and participation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the work of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR). CAAR seeks to reform salmon aquaculture production practices in order to protect wild salmon ecosystems. In January 2006, CAAR entered into a formal "Framework for Dialogue" with farmed salmon producer Marine Harvest This grant will provide CAAR with resources to implement the Framework agreement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,125,000 | Apr. 2005 |
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