Grants

Public Grants

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2)

  • Name: Kota Ishikawa (OIST)
  • Amount: 200,000 JPY/month + 1,000,000 JPY/year
  • Period: April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2025
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: The effects of flow, turbulence, and prey density on planktivory by anchored garden eels and free, site-attached fish in coral reefs
  • Grant number: JP23KJ2133

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist 

  • Name: Heng Wu (OIST)
  • Amount: 2,500,000 JPY
  • Period: April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2025
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: Hydrodynamic effect on the production and fate of coral mucus
  • Grant number: 23K17033

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Summer Program)

  • Name: Noam Vogt Vincent (University of Oxford)
  • Amount: 534,000 JPY + travel expense
  • Period: June 9, 2022 – August 11, 2022
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: The effect of ocean island wakes on larval retention and dispersal around the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
  • Grant number: SP20102

Fusion Oriented Research for disruptive Science and Technology

  • Name: Yosuke Yamada (OIST)
  • Amount: 19,990,000 JPY (Direct: 13,993,000 JPY, 5,997,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2024
  • Funding agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • Title: Bacterial surface characteristics regulates carbon acquisition in seawater 
  • Grant number: JPMJFR2070

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Postdocs, Standard Program)

  • Name: Chiara Pisapia (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Amount: 200,000 JPY + 362,000 JPY/month + travel expense
  • Period: Nov 30, 2020 – Nov 29, 2021
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: The influence of internal waves on heat accumulation on Japanese coral reefs
  • Grant number: ID P20781
  • Note: Withdrawn due to COVID-19

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist

  • Name: Yosuke Yamada (OIST)
  • Amount: 4,160,000 JPY (Direct: 3,200,000 JPY, Indirect: 960,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2023
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: Bacterial surface roughness regulates nanoparticle scavenging in seawater 
  • Grant number: 20K19960

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist 

  • Name: Angela Ares (OIST)
  • Amount: 3,380,000 JPY (Direct: 2,600,000 JPY, Indirect: 780,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2023
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: Bio-monitoring of red soil pollution by DNA-based methods in Okinawa
  • Grant number: 20K19986

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Grant

  • Name: Yosuke Yamada (OIST)
  • Amount: 700,000 JPY 
  • Period: April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021 
  • Funding agency: Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • Title: Bacterial surface roughness in seawater
  • Grant number: Not available

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Strategic)

  • Name: Julia Dohner (University of California, San Diego)
  • Amount: 200,000 JPY/month + travel expense
  • Period: March 22, 2020 – June 25, 2020
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: Using d31C and Other Biogeochemical Measurements to Understand the Chemistry of Okinawa Reefs
  • Grant number: GR19004
  • Note: Withdrawn due to COVID-19

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist 

  • Name: Angela Ares (OIST)
  • Amount: 1,300,000 JPY (Direct: 1,000,000 JPY, Indirect: 300,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: Study of plankton community structure by environmental DNA metabarcoding under red soil pollution
  • Grant number: 18K18203

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC1)

  • Name: Po-Shun Chuang (OIST)
  • Amount: 200,000 JPY/month + 2,800,000 JPY (Direct: 2,800,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2018 – March 31, 2021
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: From polyps to colonies: applying polyp bail-out to study coral coloniality
  • Grant number: 18J20226

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC1)

  • Name: Margaret Mars Brisbin (OIST)
  • Amount: 200,000 JPY/month + 2,500,000 JPY (Direct: 2,500,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 26, 2017 – March 31, 2020
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: The Acantharea-Phaeocystis symbiosis: an investigation of eukaryotic photosymbiosis and its ecological role in oligotrophic surface water
  • Grant number: 17J02728

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2)

  • Name: Patricia Wepfer (OIST)
  • Amount: 200,000 JPY/month + 1,900,000 JPY (Direct: 1,900,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 26, 2017 – March 31, 2020
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Title: Connectivity and phylogeography of Galaxea (Scleractinia) in the Indo-Pacific
  • Grant number: 17J00366

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research A

  • Title: Acoustic monitoring of Okinawan coral reef ecosystems
  • PI: Tomonari Akamatsu (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science), Satoshi Mitarai (OIST), Lin Tzu Hao (JAMSTEC), Saki Harii (University of the Ryukyus), Frederic Sinniger (University of the Ryukyus)
  • Amount: 38,350,000 JPY (Direct: 29,500,000 JPY, Indirect: 8,850,000 JPY) 
  • Period: April 1, 2017 – March 31, 2020
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Grant number: 17H00799

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research B

  • Title: Coral population dynamics in the western Pacific Ocean
  • PI: Yuichi Nakajima (OIST), Satoshi Mitarai (OIST), Masako Nakamura (Tokai University), Kazuhiko Sakai (University of the Ryukyus)
  • Amount: 11,960,000 JPY (Direct: 9,200,000 JPY, Indirect: 2,760,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2020
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Grant number: 16H05621

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research C

  • Title: Coral population dynamics along the coast of Japan
  • PI: Masako Nakamura (Tokai University), Satoshi Mitarai (OIST), Yuichi Nakajima (OIST)
  • Amount: 4,940,000 JPY (Direct: 3,800,000 JPY, Indirect: 1,140,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2019
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Grant number: 16K07527

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research B 

  • Title: Quantifying dispersal from Okinawan fringing reefs
  • PI: Kazuhiko Sakai (University of the Ryukyus), Satoshi Mitarai (OIST), Masako Nakamura (Tokai University), Soyoka Mukai (Nagasaki University)
  • Amount: 17,420,000 JPY (Direct: 13,400,000 JPY, Indirect: 4,020,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2018
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship
  • Grant number: 15H04326

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B

  • Name: Yuichi Nakajima (OIST)
  • Amount: 4,420,000 JPY (Direct: 3,400,000 JPY, Indirect: 102,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2013 – March 21, 2017
  • Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Title: Multi-scale, conservation genetics of reef-building corals around the Nansei Islands
  • Grant number: 25840152

Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Program

  • Title: Development of high-frequency ocean radar system for coral reef monitoring
  • PI: Satoshi Fujii (University of the Ryukyus), Satoshi Mitarai (OIST)
  • Amount: 19,000,000 JPY
  • Period: August 1, 2012 – March 31, 2014
  • Funding agency: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
  • Grant number: 122311002

Private Grants

Onna Village Ecological Smart Resort Project

  • Title: Impacts of the pumice on the marine ecosystem
  • PI: Satoshi Mitarai (OIST)
  • Amount: 500,000 JPY
  • Period: November 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022
  • Funding agency: Donations from the public
  • Grant number: Not available

Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant

  • Name: Yosuke Yamada (OIST)
  • Amount: 960,000 JPY (Direct: 960,000 JPY)
  • Period: April 1, 2021 – February 10, 2022
  • Title: Quantitative analysis of particle aggregation in seawater 
  • Funding agency: Japan Science Society
  • Grant number: 2021-6014

Grant for conservation of the Nansei islands

  • Title: Multi-scale, conservation genetics of reef-building corals around the Nansei Islands
  • PI: Yuichi Nakajima (OIST), Satoshi Mitarai (OIST), Chuya Shinzato (OIST)
  • Amount: 2,950,000 JPY
  • Period: October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2015
  • Funding agency: Pro Natura Foundation
  • Grant number: Not available

Canon Foundation Grant: Pursuit of Dreams 

  • Title: Quantifying dispersal from hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific Ocean
  • PI: Satoshi Mitarai (OIST), Hiroaki Kitano (OIST), Igor Goryanin (OIST), Noriyuki Sato (OIST), Tadashi Maruyama (JAMSTEC), Yoshihiro Fujiwara (JAMSTEC), Yasuo Furushima (JAMSTEC), Hiromi Watanabe (JAMSTEC)
  • Amount: 38,000,000 JPY
  • Period: April 1, 2011 – March 31, 2014
  • Funding agency: Canon Foundation
  • Grant number: Not available