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Aronson, R.B. National Science Foundation Geology and Paleontology Program. Disturbance and the Reorganization of Caribbean Reef Communities: Unique Event or Repeated Pattern? Budget Supplement. Principal Investigator, 2001-2002, $15,000.

Graham, W.M. Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant. Rapid response sampling to a recent non-indigenous jellyfish bloom. 2000-2001, $15,000.

Graham, W.M. Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant and Gulf of Mexico Program. Developing a model ‘Dock-Watch’ program to track nuisance and invasive jellyfish blooms. 2000-2001, $60,001.

Graham, W.M. National Sea Grant College. Rapid response funding for ecological studies of the invasive jellyfish Phyllorhiza punctata. 2000-2001, $75,922 ($50,000 Sea Grant share).

Graham, W.M. NOAA/DOI. Deriving the origin and nature of the invasive jellyfish, Phyllorhiza punctata, through molecular studies of native and non-native populations. 2001-2002, $59,875.

Graham, W.M. Minerals Management Service. Cooperative Agreement: Study of oil and gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico as habitat for jellyfish polyps. 2001-2002, $106,443.

Heck, K. L. Jr. and J.F.Valentine. EPA (Gulf of Mexico Program). Effects of fragmentation on the structure and function of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico. 2001-2002, $53,596.

Kiene, R.P. EPA (Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies). Osmolytes and their role as antioxidants in the salt marsh macrophyte Spartina alterniflora. 2001-2002, $26,264.

Schoeder, W.W. and W. Nowlin. Texas Sea Grant College Program. Processes responsible for hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: A re-evaluation with new data and perspective. 2001-2004, $83,206

Valentine, John, F. and Anna M. Cinkovich. EPA (Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies). The influence of shallow water hydrodynamics on the importance of seagrass detritus in estuarine food webs. 2001-2002, $19,425.

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