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NSF program OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships (820500): 61 awards, $17.6M to 43 organizations
61 NSF awards ($17.6M) under the program element OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships (820500) to 43 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- Program element code
- 820500
- Directorate
- Directorate for Geosciences
- Division
- GEO - Core Programs
Awards
61 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: It's the Little Things that Count: Episodic Contributions of Antarctic Circumpolar Current Fronts to Southern Ocean Carbon Sequestration | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $417,619 | November 1, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Jacquelyn M Veatch | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Understanding population-level genomic and evolutionary impacts of climate change in an anadromous fish species relying on natal homing | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $412,592 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Pavel V Dimens | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Impacts of endolithic microbial sulfur cycling on coral holobiont ecophysiology, biomineralization, and geochemistry | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $409,471 | February 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Molly A Moynihan | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Plastic Partnerships: Investigating life history strategies constraining phenotypic plasticity across coral holobiont partners | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $393,101 | December 1, 2025 | November 30, 2027 | Serena N Hackerott | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Towards Quantifying Calcium Carbonate Sediment Dissolution During Marine Diagenesis | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $376,504 | December 1, 2022 | November 30, 2025 | Mohammed Hashim | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Constraints on the role of sediment diagenesis in chemical mass balance and Eocene climate using high-resolution pore fluids from IODP Expedition 396 | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $374,395 | December 1, 2022 | November 30, 2025 | Vincent J Clementi | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Effects of dual anthropogenic stressors across life history in a reef-building coral | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $370,635 | December 1, 2025 | November 30, 2027 | Benjamin H Glass | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Investigating ontogenetic shifts in microbe-derived nutrition in reef building corals | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $370,100 | September 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Ariana S Huffmyer | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Scaling up herbivore holobiont physiology from genes to populations across a temperate upwelling gradient | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $362,057 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Nathan B Spindel | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Connections Between Tidal Flooding, Saltwater Intrusion, and Alkalinity Exports in Tidal Marsh Wetlands | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $351,926 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Xun N Cai | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Influence of Environmentally-Induced Changes on the Transport and Fate of Microplastics at a Regional Scale | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $346,823 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Laura K Sunberg | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Sex-specific Impacts of Climate Change on Gonochoric Corals | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $343,716 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Shelby E Gantt | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Constraining recycled components in the Pacific mantle using nitrogen and noble gas isotopes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $343,290 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Molly Anderson | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Diving into the chemical signatures and spatial variability of Caribbean coral reef health | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $343,157 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Brianna M Garcia | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Elucidating the Microbial Mechanism of Dimethylmercury Formation in the Ocean | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $341,396 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2027 | Hannah M Adams | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Investigating the Microbe-Metabolite Interactions that Govern Bacterial Growth Efficiency in Coral Reefs | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $341,191 | December 1, 2025 | November 30, 2027 | Wesley J Sparagon | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: A holobiont approach to rapid thermal evolution using an emerging copepod model system | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $339,172 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2026 | Victoria M Glynn | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Do Pelagic Subsidies Modulate Coral Survivorship in a Warming Ocean? | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $338,594 | October 15, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Connor Love | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Northern Hemisphere ocean and ice sheet variability throughout continuous mean-state changes in the climate system in the early Pleistocene | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $335,736 | December 1, 2025 | November 30, 2027 | Claire E Jasper | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Evaluating the impacts of climate-mediated shifts in prey quality on predator bioenergetics and productivity | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $335,147 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2027 | Kimberly Lato | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: How does the increasing prevalence of weedy species alter community interactions and coastal ecosystem functioning? | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $334,904 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Alexandra Bijak | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Reconstructing CO2 Levels for the Late Cretaceous through Paleocene using Sedimentary Compositions of Molecular and Isotopic Proxies | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $333,652 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Kelsey E Doiron | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Ecological Genomics of Adaptation in a Rocky Shore Predator-Prey Interaction | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $331,979 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2025 | Emily K Longman | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Windows into Cretaceous diatom paleobiology: Seasonal responses in laminated sediments and survivability and response to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $329,660 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jason J Coenen | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Climate change impacts on cycling of reactive oxygen species and interactions between phytoplankton and "helper" bacteria | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $329,635 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Sydney Plummer | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Unveiling the role of social behavior in pelagic biophysical interactions | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $329,446 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2026 | William K Oestreich | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Constraining the timing and magnitude of sea-level change in a warm world | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $322,497 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Kyle W Fouke | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Uncovering the drivers of marine metapopulation synchrony and resilience under climate change | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $319,323 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Vadim A Karatayev | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Exploring island-scale drivers of community stability in coral reef community dynamics | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $316,457 | November 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Griffin Srednick | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Quantifying the effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on costal ecosystems and atmospheric carbon dioxide | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $314,324 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Zachary A Quinlan | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: What drives mesopelagic biomass in the California Current | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $314,306 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Ilysa S Iglesias | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF Comparing the genomic bases of adaptation to seasonal and spatial temperature gradients in a widespread marine copepod | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $314,090 | December 1, 2022 | November 30, 2024 | Matthew Sasaki | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Using machine learning to investigate temporal dynamics of methane seep fauna at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Cabled Array | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $308,540 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Katharine T Bigham | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF Chemical Imaging for Molecular Detection and Classification of Microplastics and their Influence on Zebrafish | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $307,754 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Matthew P Confer | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF Beyond the light: ecological and evolutionary insights into RuBisCO from the dark ocean | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $303,609 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Alexander L Jaffe | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: A Parameterization of Tidal and Equatorial Internal Wave Turbulence | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $303,179 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Zachary Taebel | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Chemical composition and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter released by marine nitrifiers | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $300,785 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2026 | Lillian C Henderson | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Sink or swim: how have transitions between land and sea affected the evolution and ecology of plant-fungal associations? | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $300,753 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Cassandra L Ettinger | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Smoke on the water: the impacts of wildfire ash deposition on surface ocean biology | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $300,539 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2025 | Nicholas Baetge | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Quantifying the Role of Pressure Gradients in Nearshore Sediment Mobility and Transport Using Distributed Fiber-optic Sensing | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $298,491 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Hannah E Glover | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Investigating coral demographic processes to understand how local conditions interact with climate change to influence coral recovery trajectories | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $298,357 | December 1, 2022 | March 31, 2025 | Kelly E Speare | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Do dead shells make good homes? Assessing the Development, Stability, and Evolution of Shell Gravel Habitats Across Space and Time | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $296,303 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Broc S Kokesh | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: The genetic basis of disease resistance in the critically endangered black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $294,986 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Tyler B Wooldridge | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Isolation and Assessment of Synechococcus with Novel nitrate Assimilation Loss Phenotype | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $291,764 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Garrett C Sharpe | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PFR Understanding macroalgal community structure: a trait-based and phylogenetic approach | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $288,017 | December 1, 2022 | November 30, 2024 | Martine Wagstaff | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Biomediated corrosion of methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the deep ocean and its implications for carbon fluxes from methane seeps | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $286,876 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2025 | Kira Homola | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Do wildfires drive phytoplankton blooms in the California Current System? | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $284,037 | August 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Jordyn E Moscoso | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: A submicron scale investigation of foraminifera-bound organic matter: implications for preservation and the paleo-δ15N proxy | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $272,065 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Sandi M Smart | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: The Biogeochemical Importance of Marine Particles: Connecting Production and Export in the Northern Gulf of Alaska | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $250,811 | August 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Thomas B Kelly | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Constraints on sea-level change over four glacial cycles through uranium-series dating of submerged Bahamian cave deposits | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $235,906 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2024 | Peter M Chutcharavan | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Structural controls on fault slip behavior and deformation at the Queen Charlotte oceanic-continental transform | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $213,815 | January 1, 2023 | October 31, 2024 | Andrew C Gase | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Do diatoms use proton-pumping rhodopsins as an alternative energy source under high light | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $193,330 | December 1, 2023 | April 30, 2026 | Brittany N Zepernick | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Dynamics of low-inflow estuaries and their response to increasing aridification | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $168,570 | July 1, 2025 | July 31, 2027 | Robert M Sanchez | nsf.gov |
| Constraining nitrogen sources and recycling efficiency in hot subduction zones using fluid inclusions in mineral separates from mafic lavas | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2023 | $167,576 | April 1, 2023 | October 31, 2024 | Michael R Hudak | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Dynamics of low-inflow estuaries and their response to increasing aridification | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2024 | $106,347 | August 15, 2024 | September 30, 2025 | Robert M Sanchez | nsf.gov |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: Do diatoms use proton-pumping rhodopsins as an alternative energy source under high light | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $104,898 | January 15, 2026 | November 30, 2027 | Brittany N Zepernick | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Integrating high-throughput plankton imaging and DNA meta-barcoding to elucidate the prevalence and oceanographic determinants of diatom parasitism | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $80,597 | December 1, 2022 | December 31, 2023 | Dylan Catlett | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Structural controls on fault slip behavior and deformation at the Queen Charlotte oceanic-continental transform | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $68,595 | August 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Andrew C Gase | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Constraints on sea-level change over four glacial cycles through uranium-series dating of submerged Bahamian cave deposits | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $63,275 | April 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Peter M Chutcharavan | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Lighting up the ocean: resonant nanophotonic metasurfaces for autonomous in situ measurement of aquatic phycotoxins | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2022 | $46,978 | July 1, 2022 | September 30, 2022 | Halleh B Balch | nsf.gov |
| OCE-PRF: Drivers of phenotypic diversity and adaptation in asexually propagating coral populations | NSF | Division Of Ocean Sciences | 2024 | $24,818 | October 1, 2023 | October 31, 2025 | Karina Scavo | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 12 | $3,392,798 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 14 | $3,667,597 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 16 | $4,626,127 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 22 | $5,719,550 |
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 61 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 61 awards here |
| Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support | 23-525 | NSF | 47.050 | January 11, 2027 | $47.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 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 61 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 61 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.050 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 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 61 awards here |
| Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | 22-603 | NSF | 47.050 | March 1, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 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 61 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 61 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 61 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.050 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.050 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.050 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.050 as 61 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 61 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 61 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 61 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 61 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 61 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.