COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM 
PROJECTS AWARDED FUNDING IN 2008
Parameter optimization of habitat-driven spatial dynamics of Atlantic bluefin tuna with conventional and electronic tagging data.
Patrick Lehodey, CLS America
Inna Senina, CLS America
John Sibert, Pelagics Fisheries Research Program – University of Hawaii
Francois Royer, CLS America
Budget: $98,900
Technological Development and Adaptation of Small-Scale Satellite Tags to Characterize Long-Term Dispersal Patterns and Early Life History of Neonate Sea Turtles
Katherine Mansfield, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmostpheric Research, University of Miami
Jeanette Wyneken, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
Daniel Rittschof, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment
Budget: $69,240
Estimation of effective population size (Ne) in the heavily over-exploited north Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ).
Jan McDowell and John Graves
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary
Budget: $100,680
Can bottom-up effects influence energetic condition of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Maine ?
Jason Stockwell, Jeffrey Runge, Andrew Pershing and Graham Sherwood
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland , ME
Budget: $142,500
