Projects & Grants

Funded research

Grants held as Principal Investigator or co-investigator, supporting the lab's work across Arctic microbial ecology, environmental-DNA monitoring, oil-spill response, and community-based science. See publications for outcomes.

Active

• Co-I
  Connecting Waters, Protecting Lands: Monitoring Partnerships for Communities and Conservation Outcomes in southern Hudson Bay and James BayDFO Ecosystems and Oceans Science (PI: Z.Z. Kuzyk)
  2025–2031 · $500,000
• Co-I
  Wa Ni Ska Tan Alliance of Hydro-Impacted CommunitiesSSHRC Partnership (PI: S. McLachlan)
  2025–2031 · $20,000
• Co-I
  kayask kiskethitamowinah: Learning from our pastSSHRC Insight (PI: S. McLachlan)
  2025–2030 · $400,000
• Co-I
  Indigenous CREATE: Mentoring and Training the Next Generation of Environmental Researchers Working in the Indigenous NorthNSERC CREATE (PI: S. McLachlan)
  2023–2029 · $1,650,000
• Co-I
  Green2IceEuropean Research Council Synergy (PI: D. Dahl-Jensen)
  2023–2029 · $73,000
• PI
  PrairieDNA: Prairies North Environmental DNA Monitoring NetworkGenome Canada
  2025–2027 · $380,000
• PI
  Ecology and Evolution of Arctic Marine Microbial CommunitiesNSERC Discovery Grant
  2022–2027 · $140,000
• PI
  Water Mass Tracking Using Microbial GenomicsDahl-Jensen CERC Program
  2024–2026 · $50,000

Completed

• Co-I
  Research Cruise into the Queen Elizabeth IslandsAmundsen Science (PI: D. Dahl-Jensen)
  2025 · $640,000
• Co-I
  Dynamics of freshwater and sea ice in the Queen Elizabeth IslandsNSERC STAC (PI: D. Dahl-Jensen)
  2025 · $240,000
• Co-PI
  GENICE II: Reimagining Monitored Natural Attenuation for Oil Spilled in Ice-covered WatersGenome Canada LSARP (Co-PI: G. Stern)
  2021–2025 · $6,000,000
• PI
  Microbial degradation of land-derived organic matter and oil in coastal Arctic watersPolar Knowledge Canada
  2023–2024 · $4,180
• PI
  Canada Research Chair in Arctic Marine Microbial Ecosystem ServicesNSERC
  2019–2024 · $600,000
• PI
  Arctic coastal community-based prediction of oil biodegradation potential using real-time DNA sequencing and machine learningNSERC NFRF-Exploration (Co-I: G. Stern)
  2020–2022 · $250,000
• PI
  Biospatial Mapping of Arctic Marine Microbial CommunitiesCompute Canada
  2020–2021 · 300 core-years
• PI
  Water is Life / Water is AliveNorth Pacific Research Board
  2019–2021 · $20,000
• PI
  Hot spots of activity in the cold ocean: Ecological characterization of size-fractionated microbial communitiesNorth Pacific Research Board
  2018–2020 · $175,000
• PI
  Advancing Machine Learning in Biological Oceanography Through Interdisciplinary CollaborationsNSF EPSCoR
  2018–2020 · $187,000
• Co-I
  Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing NetworkNational Ocean Partnership Program — NOAA, BOEM, Shell (PI: K. Iken)
  2015–2020 · $4,242,000
• PI
  The Chukchi Borderlands — Navigating the Hidden Microbial Network in Sea IceNOAA Ocean Exploration and Research
  2015–2018 · $150,000
• PI
  The Diversity, Seasonality, and Function of Parasitic Fungi in Arctic Sea IceNSF Arctic Natural Sciences (Co-I: R. Gradinger)
  2014–2018 · $550,000
• Co-PI
  Request for support of US participation in CBMP Expert NetworksNOAA / CIFAR (Co-PIs: R. Hopcroft, K. Iken)
  2015–2017 · $30,000
• PI
  Mapping the Uncharted Diversity of Arctic Marine MicrobesNOAA Ocean Exploration and Research (Co-I: S. Hardy)
  2014–2017 · $289,000
• PI
  Crude Oil Infiltration and Movement in First Year Sea Ice: Impacts on Ice-Associated Biota and Physical ConstraintsCoastal Marine Institute / BOEM (Co-Is: R. Gradinger, H. Eicken)
  2014–2017 · $596,000
• PI
  PhArcO: Pharmacopoeia of the Arctic OceanINBRE Bioinformatics Award (Co-I: A.-L. Ducluzeau)
  2015–2016 · $6,000
• PI
  Potential for quinone regulation of membrane fluidity in marine microbesGordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Co-I: A.-L. Ducluzeau)
  2014–2016 · $15,000
• Co-I
  Bringing Next-Generation Sequencing Technology to the University of AlaskaM.J. Murdock Charitable Trust (PI: M.B. Leigh)
  2014–2016 · $110,000
• Co-PI
  Seasonal Synergy Between Bacterial Osmoprotection and Algal Production in Sea IceNSF Arctic Natural Sciences (Co-PI: J. Deming)
  2012–2016 · $230,000
• PI
  Unraveling the genetic basis of an ancient geochemical biomarkerDOE Joint Genome Institute (Co-I: B. Wing)
  2011–2016 · In-kind sequencing