Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: The Miami Foundation Inc
    amount: $640,000
    city: Miami, FL
    year: 2015

    To support continued development of the Dat platform for data management as well as targeted outreach to the natural and social science research community

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Max Ogden

    This grant continues support for the development of Dat, a software platform for the versioning and management of tabular datasets. Inspired by Git, the popular system for version control among distributed software developers, Dat supports the tracking of dataset versions not just at the file level, but at the individual cell level, cataloging cell-by-cell changes to the data. A 2014 grant from the Sloan Foundation has enabled lead developer Max Ogden to move the system from a sketch to a substantial prototype, to ensure that the platform was developed with scientific data in mind, and to launch pilot applications in the sciences using genomic and astronomical data. Funds from this grant will allow Ogden, partnering with Waldo Jaquith of the U.S. Open Data Institute, to move from the current working prototype to a full version 1.0 release. Additional funds support outreach and partnership-building with labs and academic research institutions.

    To support continued development of the Dat platform for data management as well as targeted outreach to the natural and social science research community

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $1,512,547
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2015

    To support continued development of the Jupyter platform for scientific computing and its developer community

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Fernando Perez

    This grant supports the continued development of the Jupyter Notebook, an open source platform for interactive computing that aims to bring the traditional research notebook into the digital age, enabling researchers to capture, log, and version their work from data collection through stages of cleaning, linking, and preparation all the way to analysis and publication. Grant funds will allow the project, led by physicists-turned-data-scientists Fernando Perez and Brian Granger, to hire a project manager and user interface designer, enhance coordination with the growing community of Juypter volunteer developers, and add new features to the platform, including simultaneous multi-user editing, interactive computing capabilities, and better integration with scholarly publishing systems.

    To support continued development of the Jupyter platform for scientific computing and its developer community

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  • grantee: Northern Arizona University
    amount: $239,775
    city: Flagstaff, AZ
    year: 2015

    To develop an interactive text that introduces readers to the core concepts and algorithms of bioinformatics in the context of their implementation and application to real-world problems

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator J. Caporaso

    Funds from this grant will help Greg Caporaso develop an interactive educational text, An Introduction to Applied Bioinformatics (IAB), that will introduce readers to the core concepts and algorithms of bioinformatics. Focusing on applications to real-world problems, the project will produce a set of interactive notebooks that will allow students to learn about the complex computational methods used in modern bioinformatics in an engaging, hands-on fashion using live code that can be altered, tweaked, executed, and adapted to their own research or data. The project represents an innovative experiment in how advances in information technology are opening new frontiers for high-quality education on computational methods.

    To develop an interactive text that introduces readers to the core concepts and algorithms of bioinformatics in the context of their implementation and application to real-world problems

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  • grantee: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    amount: $200,000
    city: Chapel Hill, NC
    year: 2015

    To conduct preliminary research on the impact of moisture in indoor chemistry

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Barbara Turpin

    Recent advances in instrumentation have transformed our ability to study chemical reactions and analyze the composition of chemicals in the air. These advances provide an excellent opportunity to expand our understanding of the chemistry of indoor environments. This grant funds a preliminary study by Barbara J. Turpin, a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, of the impact of moisture on indoor chemistry. Turpin and her team plan to take samples from the air of 10 to 20 occupied homes, treat the samples with indoor oxidants (reactants) such as OH or NO3 radicals, and then monitor the reaction products using a variety of techniques. The study builds on Turpin’s prior work demonstrating that aqueous organic chemistry alters the composition and effects of air pollution outdoors. Turpin expects to produce at least two peer-reviewed articles based on the study, and she and her team will present their findings at national and international meetings. In addition, Turpin will prepare a short report that outlines important research questions and obstacles to be overcome for indoor air chemistry.

    To conduct preliminary research on the impact of moisture in indoor chemistry

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  • grantee: Carnegie Institution of Washington
    amount: $1,250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To continue to lead the reservoirs and fluxes community of the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Erik Hauri

    Funds from this grant provide two years of continued support to the Reservoirs and Fluxes community of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO). Questions about quantities and movements of deep carbon are fundamental to the DCO. How much carbon do the core, mantle, and deeper crust contain? Where is it? What mechanisms move carbon within and across Earth’s layers, and what are the rates of these movements? Deep carbon’s movements are also consequential for humanity, as when deep carbon erupts to the surface through volcanoes, or seeps out of the seafloor as hydrocarbons, or belches out when tectonic plates slip across one another, contributing to tsunamis. Now numbering more than 110 members, the Reservoirs and Fluxes community has matured into a set of networks addressing these and other questions, including mysteries of carbon’s most precious form, diamonds. Over the next two years, this international scientific network will focus on making important discoveries across five areas: the degassing of deep carbon through volcanoes; the degassing of deep carbon through tectonic and other diffuse processes; the origin, age, and depth of diamonds and the mineral inclusions within them; the fluid dynamics of carbon transport in volcanoes, and the global circulation of carbon between Earth’s surface and core; and the chemical forms, mineral hosts, and reactions of carbons moving between reservoirs. Supported activities include the establishment of the first global network for direct measurement of Cox flux, production of a database on eruptions and volcanic gases, the construction of an international reference collection of diamonds for research, and the development of new geodynamic models of deep carbon circulation.

    To continue to lead the reservoirs and fluxes community of the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: Weill Cornell Medical College
    amount: $119,830
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support an international consortium of researchers studying the metagenomics of subways and mass transit systems

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Christopher Mason

    To support an international consortium of researchers studying the metagenomics of subways and mass transit systems

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $40,250
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support a workshop and initiate a process for discussion of key cybersecurity issues amongst thought leaders in government, industry, academia, and other sectors

    • Program
    • Investigator Nasir Memon

    To support a workshop and initiate a process for discussion of key cybersecurity issues amongst thought leaders in government, industry, academia, and other sectors

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  • grantee: Technology Affinity Group
    amount: $5,000
    city: Wayne, PA
    year: 2015

    For 2015 Membership Dues

    • Program
    • Investigator Lisa Pool

    For 2015 Membership Dues

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Boulder
    amount: $124,856
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2015

    To compile case studies of strategies and demand for stewardship of digital research data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Myron Gutmann

    To compile case studies of strategies and demand for stewardship of digital research data

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  • grantee: American Astronomical Society
    amount: $19,775
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To support a planning meeting on the integration of software repositories with the publication record

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Julie Steffen

    To support a planning meeting on the integration of software repositories with the publication record

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