BiGCB Funding Partners

Informatics Engine for Understanding Biotic Response to Global Change

The W. M. Keck Foundation was established in 1954 in Los Angeles by William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Company. This Foundation is one of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations, with assets of more than $1 billion. Their Science and Engineering Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. For more information, visit www.wmkeck.org.

With the support of the W.M. Keck Foundation we will build an informatics infrastructure that will enable the integration of the wealth of data on campus and at our field stations necessary for developing the next generation of predictive models for global change biology, models that will incorporate biotic-climate and within-biota feedbacks.

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (September 2011)
$2,499,234

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance environmental conservation and cutting-edge scientific research around the world and improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit www.moore.org.

This Grant is in support of catalyzing the startup of the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology by supporting seven integrated research projects focused on global change forecasting for California ecosystems.

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Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Berkeley (November 2009)
$300,000

This seed funding supports the current BiGCB infrastructure and coordination, and enables continued collaboration and cross-fertilization of researchers across different disciplines at UC Berkeley.