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Objectives• Climate Change Research

• Prevention & Cure of Human Disease

• Microalgae Food & Fuel Production

Research Team• R. Bidigare, S. Brown, C. O’Kelly, H.

Trapido-Rosenthal , A. Messer, S. Rii, D. Elsey, S. Christensen, R. Barlow, L. Shinkoethe, J. Lyford & J. Nakaya

Climate Change Funding• National Science Foundation. "Center for Microbial Oceanography:

Research and Education (C-MORE)", 1 August 2006 - 31 July 2011. $ 18,960,000 (PI: D. M. Karl; Co-Researcher: R. R. Bidigare)

• National Science Foundation. "Collaborative Research: Hawaii Ocean Time-series: Biogeochemistry and Ecology Component", 1 August 2003 - 31 July 2008. $4,324,580 (PI: D. M. Karl; Co-PIs: R. R. Bidigare and J. E. Dore)

Oceans & Human Health Funding• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Foundation.

"Discovery of Pharmaceutical Lead Compounds from Marine Organisms (OHHI)", 1 September 2004 - 31 August 2008. $766,692 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PIs: T. K. Hemscheidt, and A. A. Yanagihara)

• National Institutes of Health/National Science Foundation. "Core Facility for Culture and Characterization of Marine Microbes (COHH)", 16 February 2004 - 31 December 2008. $1,032,524 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PIs: M. S. Rappé and S. L. Brown)

Hawaii: Staph Central

Thornna kahuna

Renewable Energy Funding• Department of Defense. "Renewable Bio-solar Hydrogen Production

from Robust Oxygenic Phototrophs", 16 May 2005 - 15 May 2010. $324,857 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PI: Susan L. Brown)

• HR BioPetroleum & Shell Oil Company. "Isolation and Characterization of Marine Microalgae for Optimal Production of Biomass and Lipid", 1 December 2007 - 20 November 2009. $1,970,000 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PIs: S. L. Brown, C. J. O’Kelly and H. Trapido-Rosenthal)

HRBP-Shell Joint Venture:

Cellana

Research Highlights• Bidigare, R. R., F. Chai, M. R. Landry, C. C. S. Hannides, S. Christensen, D. M. Karl, R. Lukas and Y. Chao.

2008. Subtropical ocean ecosystem structure changes forced by North Pacific climate variations. Geophys. Res. Letters (in review)

• Hiscock, M. R., V. P. Lance, A. M. Apprill, R. R. Bidigare, Z. I. Johnson, B. G. Mitchell, W. O. Smith Jr. and R. T. Barber. 2008. Photosynthetic maximum quantum yield increases are an essential component of Southern Ocean phytoplankton iron response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (in press)

• Benitez-Nelson, C. R., R. R. Bidigare, T. Dickey, M. R. Landry, C. L. Leonard, S. L. Brown, F. Nencioli, Y. M. Rii, K. Maiti, J. W. Becker, T. S. Bibby, W. Black, C. Carlson, F. Chen, V. S. Kuwahara, C. Mahaffey, P. M. McAndrew, P. D. Quay, M. S Rappé, K. E. Selph, M. E. Simmons and E. J. Yang. 2007. Mesoscale eddies drive increased silica export in the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Science 316: 1017-1021.

Hawaiian Eddy Dynamics

Research Highlights• Toledo, G., W. Green, R. A. Gonzalez, L. Christoffersen, M. Podar, H. W. Chang, T. Hemscheidt, H. Trapido-

Rosenthal, J. M. Short, R. R. Bidigare and E. J. Mathur. 2006. Case Study: High throughput cultivation for isolation of novel marine microorganisms. Oceanography 19: 120-125.

• Cox, P. A., S. A. Banack, S. J. Murch, U. Rasmussen, G. Tien, R. R. Bidigare, J. S. Metcalf, L. F. Morrison, G. A. Codd and B. Bergman. 2005. Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce -N-methylamino-L-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 5074-5078.

• Buesseler, K. O., C. H .Lamborg, P. W. Boyd, P. J. Lam, T. W. Trull, R. R. Bidigare, J. K.B. Bishop, K. L. Casciotti, F. Dehairs, M. Elskens, M. Honda, D. M. Karl, D. Siegel, M. W. Silver, D. K. Steinberg, J. Valdes, B. Van Mooy and S. Wilson. 2007. Revisiting carbon flux through the ocean’s twilight zone. Science 316: 567-570.

Carbon Flux Dynamics in the North Pacific Ocean

Future Directions• National Institutes of Health. "Assessment of BMAA Bio-magnification in

SE US Wetland Ecosystems and Potential Risks to Human Health", 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2010. $374,840 (PI: R. R. Bidigare; Co-PI: B. N. Popp) - Pending

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration. " Airborne Sensing of Ocean-productivity in Mesoscale Eddies (ASOME )", Co-PI Council: W. Emery, J. Maslanik, T.A. Moisan, G. Bland, M. Fladeland, M. Kahru, S. Brown, Z. Johnson, K. Richards, R. Bidigare & W. Dudley - NOI submitted