MMI Awarded 3-Year Grant

NSF has awarded a 3-year grant to the Marine Metadata Interoperability project. The grant begins July 1, 2006, and includes funding for members of 7 institutions.

This is the second round of NSF funding for MMI. It follows a 1-year grant provided October 1, 2004. Other organizations have also provided grants and resources supporting MMI, including SURA (with very large in-kind support from ONR funds) and NOAA Coastal Services Center.

The Principal Investigators for this grant are:

• Philip S. Bogden, Southeastern Universities Research Association
• John Graybeal, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Principal Investigator)
• Matthew K. Howard, Texas A&M University
• Andrew R. Maffei, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Karen I. Stocks, University of California, San Diego