NIST awards millions in grants for new university marine biotech research facilities

Marine Biotechnology in North Carolina (MARBIONC)

University of North Carolina Wilmington (Wilmington, N.C.)
NIST Construction Grants Program: $14,980,000 (50 percent)
Total: $29,960,000

The planned new Marine Biotechnology in North Carolina (MARBIONC) facility at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Center for Marine Sciences will be a state-of-the-art, research-to-product building for MARBIONC, a marine biotechnology research program in support of economic development for North Carolina.

Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building

University of Miami (Miami, Fla.)
NIST Construction Grants Program: $15 million (32.3 percent)
Total: $43,764,000

The planned Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater (MTLSS) Research Building to be built at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will house state-of-the-art seawater laboratories and multidisciplinary research facilities dedicated to two major areas of coastal studies—the destructive power of hurricanes and the biology of coastal waters. The MTLSS also will include the 47,942 square-foot (4,454 square-meter) Marine Life Science Center (MLSC), a separately funded facility to support fundamental coastal biology research in areas such as coral reef biology, aquaculture, fisheries, biological oceanography and marine biomedical science.

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