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Ocean Research Grant
Professor David Karl has been named the recipient of a $3.79 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue and expand research on the microbial inhabitants of the world’s oceans.
The grant supports Karl’s work to quantify solar energy capture and transduction, and to gain an improved understanding of essential bioelemental cycles and sequestration of atmospheric carbon. Funding will be utilized to develop methods and technology to routinely measure marine microbial community structure and function, to use Seaglider technology—small free-swimming vehicles that gather data from the ocean—to survey habitat variability and to design, construct and field test a mesocosm that can be used to conduct experiments in open ocean habitats.
“I am grateful to the Moore Foundation for their continued support of ocean research at UH,” says Karl. “I have some new ideas that I would like to pursue and the best support team in the world to make this happen. We are all very excited to be part of this important initiative.”