Ryan Kelly, Associate Professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, is among the 28 teams that received the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award for the FY 22 competition for his project entitled “Environmental DNA-based Monitoring of the Marine Environment.”

According to the press release: “By supporting teams whose members have diverse sets of expertise, the MURI program acknowledges that the complexities of modern science and engineering challenges often intersect more than one discipline and require creative and diverse approaches to tackle these problems.  This cross-fertilization of ideas can accelerate research progress to enable more rapid R&D breakthroughs and hasten the transition of basic research findings to practical application,” said Dr. Bindu Nair, Director, Basic Research Office, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E). “It is a program that signifies a legacy of scientific impact and remains a cornerstone of the DoD’s basic research portfolio.”

The funding proposal was one of nearly 340 that were received by the program, and will support Dr. Ryan Kelly’s project on eDNA over the next 5 years.