LABB Funding History
Recent Grants and Contracts:
| Title | Dates | Sponsor | Amount |
| Aging in Weddell Seals: Proximate Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes in Adaptations to Breath-Hold Hunting in an Extreme Environment (1,2,3). | 09/05 - 08/09 | NSF | $537,418 (4) |
| Development and Calibration of Remote Infrared Thermography of Homeotherm Animals (1,2). | 09/05 - 08/08 | NSF | $505,858 (5) |
| Installation of a Remote Census and Photogrammetry Network: Validation and Assessment of Seasonal and Individual Steller Sea Lion Body Condition and Population Trends (1,2) | 06/01 - 05/06 | NMFS (*) | $1,056,000 (9) |
| Satellite-linked Life History Transmitters in Steller Sea Lions: Assessing the effects of health status, foraging ability, and environmental variability on juvenile survival and population trends (1,2) | 06/01 - 05/06 | NMFS (*) | $1,689,000 (10) |
| Development of a remote Satellite-Linked Data Acquisition and Photogrammetry Network (1) | 03/01 - 12/05 | NSF | $806,000 |
| Linking animal-borne data recorders to autonomous remote imaging systems: Implementing the RAT-Link (1) | 10/01 - 09/05 | NMFS | $281,000 |
| Validating the use of Life History Transmitters on juvenile Steller sea lions (1,2) | 08/04 - 07/05 | ASLC | $121,473 |
| Validating the use of Life History Transmitters on rehabilitated California sea lions (1) | 01/01 - 12/04 | PCCRC / UAF | $60,460 |
| Swimming cost manipulations during simulated foraging dives in captive Steller sea lions (1) | 05/01 - 12/02 | ASLC | $36,405 |
| Heat flux measurements on swimming, captive Steller sea lions: a feasibility study (1) | 06/01 - 12/02 | ASLC | $26,154 |
| An investigation into the possible relationship between killer whale predation and the continuing decline of the Steller sea lion (6) | 03/01 - 02/02 | PCCRC / UAF | $27,142 |
| Determining survival of juvenile Steller sea lions through implanted, Satellite-linked Life History Transmitters (the LHX Project) (1) | 10/99 - 09/01 | NPMRP / UAF | $300,000 |
| Hunting behavior and energetics of free-ranging Weddell seals (7) | 06/00 - 05/03 | NSF | $338,800 |
| Optimal foraging experiments on captive Steller sea lions (1) | 1/99 - 12/00 | NFWF | $44,000 |
| Remote assessment of body composition of Steller sea lions (1) | 1/99 - 12/00 | NFWF | $57,000 |
| Steller sea lion research in Alaska (8) | 04/98 - 09/99 | NMFS | $94,000 |
(1) M.Horning as PI
(2) with J.Mellish
(3) With J.Lawler
(4) including collaborative award of $88,0606 to J.Mellish at Alaska Sea Life
Center
(5) including subaward of $178,498 to J.Mellish at Alaska Sea Life Center
(6) with G.Worthy
(7) M.Horning co-PI, with R.Davis, T.Williams, L.Fuiman, I.Boyd
(8) contract
(9) including a $90,000 holdback for NMFS tasks
(10) including a $642,500 holdback for NMFS tasks
(*) with cost-sharing participation by the Texas Institute of
Oceanography not included in amount.
In addition, the LABB has received vital funding from the TAMUG Department of Marine Biology for equipment purchases to enhance the LABB facility, and we have received significant support for equipment purchase in the form cost-sharing on our largest projects from the Texas Institute of Oceanography. These projects are marked with an (*) in the above list.
Furthermore, we have benefitted from significant contributions obtained by LABB students in form of awards, grants, scholarships, fellowships and assistanships from a variety of sources:
Student funding:
Allyson Hindle: NSERC (Canada) Graduate Research Fellowship, Galveston Research and Graduate Studies Office GANT Assistantship.
Kate Willis: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, PADI Aware Foundation Grant, Galveston Research and Graduate Studies Office GANT Assistantship.
Leslie Cornick: Graduate fellowship from the Texas Institute of Oceanography.
Travel awards from the Erma Lee and Luke Mooney Graduate Student Travel Fund for L.Cornick, T.Apple, W.Schrader, K.Willis., A.Hindle.
Awards received by LABB students:
Kate Willis: William and Phyllis Evans Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Marine Sciences, Erma Lee and Luke Mooney Graduate Student Research Excellence Award.
Leslie Cornick: Erma Lee and Luke Mooney Graduate Student Research Excellence Award.
Jason Waite: 2nd place in the Fairfield Memorial Award for Innovative Research at the 2001 Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals.
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