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Dana E. Hunt

Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology
Marine Science and Conservation
135 Duke Marine Lab Rd, Beaufort, NC 28516

Selected Grants


Duke University Program in Environmental Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2029

NSF2026: EAGER Identifying microbes' population-level environmental responses using Bayesian modeling

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

CoPe: RCN: Building a Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time (C-CoAST)

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2024

Duke University Program in Environmental Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2029

NSF2026: EAGER Identifying microbes' population-level environmental responses using Bayesian modeling

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

CoPe: RCN: Building a Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time (C-CoAST)

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2024

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: microbes as sentinels of adaptive responses to multiple stressors

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2019

Multi-functional Plasmonics Nanoprobes for Cellular Sensing and Imaging

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2015 - 2019

OCE-RIG: Biological activity on particulate organic material in the coastal ocean

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2016

MRI-R-2: Acquisition of High-Speed Sorting Flow Cytometer for Multi-User Environmental Microbiology Research

EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2012

External Relationships


  • Tianjin University, China
  • University of Technology Sydney

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