Current Projects
2023 – 2026 NSF (National Science Foundation) Program: Environmental Sustainability. AU Coral project. Assessing the potential of artificial upwelling (AU) to mitigate coral bleaching during heat waves. Grant no.: #2320629. PI: Y Sawall; post-doc: Chloe Carbonne. Value: US$ 663,000.
2022 – 2025 Heising-Simons Foundation International. ENCORE – Enhancing coral resilience. PIs: Y Sawall, Samantha de Putron (BIOS), Hollie Putnam (University of Rhode Island), Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley (Central Caribbean Marine Institute); post-doc: Brett Jameson. Value: US$1,240,000
2021 – 2024 NSF Program: Chemical Oceanography. Eddy Reef project. Collaborative Research: In Situ Investigations and Historical Analysis of Eddy Impacts on coastal carbon chemistry and coral calcification. Grant no.: #2123697, PI: Y Sawall, co-PIs: Damian Grundle (BIOS/ASU), Nathalie Goodkin (American Museum of Natural History). Value: US$ 721,000
2021 – 2023 NSF Program: Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research. Bermuda Marine Mesocosm Facility upgrade. Major improvements of the outdoor mesocosm facility at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Grant no.: 2129274, PI: Y Sawall, co-PI: Samantha de Putron (BIOS). Value: US$343,000.
Past Projects
2020 - 2021 BIOS Cawthorn Research Innovation Fund. Advancements in understanding in-situ organism metabolic rates via innovative incubation chambers and an oxygen isotope tracer approach. PI: Y Sawall; co-PI: Tim Noyes (BIOS); in collaboration with Prof. (Emeritus) Michael Bender (Princeton). Value: US$ 150,000.
2017 – 2019 DFG (German Research Foundation) funded Future Ocean Cluster of Excellence. AU Reef. Is artificial upwelling a solution to coral bleaching threat? PI: Yuming Feng (GEOMAR); Collaborators: Y Sawall, Mario Lebrato (GEOMAR). Value: € 140,000 (no overhead included)
2017 - 2019 BIOS Cawthorn Research Innovation Fund. Improving reef calcification measurements and exploring dynamics of reef functioning. PIs: Y Sawall, EJ Hochberg, N Bates. Value: US$ 150,000.
2016 – 2019 NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-2 (EVS-2) Project. Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL). PI: Eric Hochberg. Value: US$ 15,000,000 – Sawall was post-doc of the project