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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: 24 NSF awards ($21.3M), fiscal years 2021 to 2026
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, ME is funded under 24 NSF awards ($21.3M) in the NIH and NSF award files, read 2026-11-03. NIH fiscal years 2021 to 2025; NSF fiscal years 2022 to 2026.
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Awards
24 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-RISE RII: Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator | NSF | Office of Integrative Activities | 2024 | $5,879,266 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Michael W Lomas | nsf.gov |
| NSF Convergence Accelerator Real-World Chemical Sensing Applications: Innovative approach to monitor methane emissions from livestock using an advanced gravimetric microsensor | NSF | Technology Accelerators Section | 2025 | $3,999,184 | May 15, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Stephen Archer | nsf.gov |
| Equipment: Equipment: MRI: Track 2, Acquisition of a high-throughput workflow for environmental single cell genomics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $2,705,882 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Nicole J Poulton | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ORCC: Climate and adaptation deficits: Mechanisms of response to climate change by the endangered North Atlantic right whale | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $924,137 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Nicholas Record | nsf.gov |
| PurSUiT: Life-history patterns, systematics, and biogeography of widespread but cryptic Patescibacteria | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $746,577 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Melody R Lindsay | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study: Sustained Biogeochemical, Ecosystem and Ocean Change Observations and Linkages in the North Atlantic (Years 36-40) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $718,110 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Michael W Lomas | nsf.gov |
| ICBR: Capacity: Biological Collections: Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA) | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2025 | $686,095 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Michael W Lomas | nsf.gov |
| NSF Convergence Accelerator (L): Innovative approach to monitor methane emissions from livestock using an advanced gravimetric microsensor. | NSF | Innovation and Technology Ecosystems | 2024 | $649,975 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2024 | Stephen Archer | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Revealing RNA Virus and Host Population Dynamics Across Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $630,848 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Julia M Brown | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigating the relationship between size and the balance between carbon acquisition modes in mixotrophic protists | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $536,104 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Nicole J Poulton | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Revealing the changing trophic niches of large herbivorous fish on modern coral reefs using an interdisciplinary approach | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $523,017 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Douglas B Rasher | nsf.gov |
| ICBR: Capacity: Biological Collections: Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA) | NSF | Division of Biological Infrastructure | 2022 | $522,025 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Michael W Lomas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: The Colloidal Shunt as a Critical Nexus of the Ocean Iron and Carbon Cycles | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $499,806 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2028 | Benjamin S Twining | nsf.gov |
| REU Site: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - Undergraduate Research Experience in the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $479,609 | February 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | David M Fields | nsf.gov |
| Oil Photooxidation by Sunlight: Role of Reactive Species in the Transformation of Saturated and Aromatic Hydrocarbons | NSF | Division Of Chemistry | 2022 | $437,163 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Christoph Aeppli | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Nucleation of Complex Mixtures Emitted from Marine Planktonic Communities | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $304,365 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Stephen Archer | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Microencapsulation-based genomics of individual RNA viruses | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $299,524 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Ramunas Stepanauskas | nsf.gov |
| Equipment: MRI: Track 1: Acquisition of a Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope for Aquatic Microbial Research and Education | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $264,582 | October 15, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Michael W Lomas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A novel approach to study monomethylmercury in natural phytoplankton assemblages | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $158,036 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Michael W Lomas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: BLUES: Boundary Layer Under-ice Environmental Sensing | NSF | Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems | 2023 | $148,002 | October 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Alexander B Michaud | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: ANT LIA: Persist or Perish: Records of Microbial Survival and Long-term Persistence from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | NSF | Office of Polar Programs (OPP) | 2022 | $110,958 | August 15, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Alexander B Michaud | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RAPID: Time-sensitive opportunity to access 1.2 billion-year-old brines to quantify microbial hydrogen cycling in the deep subsurface | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $29,084 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2027 | Melody R Lindsay | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: Solving Darwins paradox: combining emerging technologies to quantify energy fluxes on coral reefs | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $21,212 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2024 | Douglas B Rasher | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Light in the Dark: Fiber Optic Sensing of Climate-Critical Carbon Cycle Components at Water/Ice-Air Interfaces | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $11,235 | September 1, 2023 | May 31, 2024 | Alexander B Michaud | nsf.gov |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 4 | $3,768,509 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 9 | $7,694,635 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 8 | $6,133,151 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 6 | $2,499,736 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 5 | $1,040,763 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.050 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.050 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support | 23-525 | NSF | 47.050 | January 11, 2027 | $47.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.050 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.050 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | 22-615 | NSF | 47.050 | February 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | 22-603 | NSF | 47.050 | March 1, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.050 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.050 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.050 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.050 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.050 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.050 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.050 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program | 25-549 | NSF | 47.050 | October 6, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF) | 22-639 | NSF | 47.050 | October 7, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | 14-579 | NSF | 47.050 | October 14, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
| Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core) | 26-516 | NSF | 47.050 | October 27, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 14 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.