Together with recent grants from the Danish Council for Independent Research (see project description here) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (see project description here) we will be able to fund 15+ PhD stipends and post doc fellows. We will soon start hiring new PhD students and post docs.
The Centre will continue to develop and apply the trait-based approach to describe and model life in the ocean. An additional and new focus area of the Centre is to use the insights and models developed during the first phase to examine how ecosystem functions can be derived from trait distributions. Examples of ecosystem functions under scrutiny are the magnitude and global distributions of carbon sequestration and fisheries.
You can see the 3 grant proposals here:
Centre for Ocean Life 2nd phase - description
Research Council project - description
Moore Foundation project - description