GRANTS AND FUNDED PROJECTS

Daly Yahia, M.N. (Principal Investigator).  QUEX-CAS-NOC-22/23 Project. Whale Shark Monitoring – Al Shaheen Oil Field System. North Oil Company – Qatar University Research Agreement. 1,145,752.00 US $. (February 2022 – February 2025)
Daly Yahia, M.N. (Lead Principal Investigator). UREP28-105-1-017 project. “Seasonal Zooplankton Diversity, Distribution and Valorization along a coastal to offshore gradient in Qatar’s Pelagic Ecosystem”. Qatar University, $20,000.00. (January 2022, January 2023).
Daly Yahia, M.N. (Lead Principal Investigator). UREP24-082-1-016 project. “Distribution, diversity and biochemical characterization of marine planktonic Copepods of Qatar”. Qatar University, $15,000.00. (October 23, 2019 – October 23, 2020).  
Daly Yahia, M.N. (Lead Principal Investigator). UREP24-082-1-017 project. “Zooxanthellae culture and cryopreservation as a tool for Coral Reefs restoration from bleaching and diseases”. Qatar University, $20,000.00. (October 23, 2019 – October 23, 2020).  
Daly Yahia, M.N. (Undergraduate Thesis internal grant). “Diversity, distribution, risk assessment and characterization of some jellyfishes from Qatar coastal waters,” Qatar University, QAR 10,000.00. (August 25, 2019 – May 28, 2020).  
Daly Yahia, M.N. (Undergraduate Thesis internal grant). “Impact of urbanization and anthropization on the diversity and quantitative distribution of Microzooplankton along the eastern coast of Qatar: interactions between microzooplankton, with other plankton groups and environmental parameters,” Qatar University, QAR 10,000.00. (August 25, 2019 – May 28, 2020).  
Daly Yahia, M.N. (Undergraduate Thesis internal grant). “Effects of PAHs on the morphology, growth and photosynthetic activity of Zooxanthellae from Platygyra daedalea (Ellis and Solander, 1786) in Qatar Coral Reefs. Qatar University, QAR 10,000.00. (August 25, 2019 – May 28, 2020).   Founding Member and Co-Director between 2014 and 2018 of a Tunisian – French International Joint Laboratory (Laboratoire Mixte International sur les Contaminants Sud Méditerranéens). Acronym: LMI Cosys-Med. (Total Budget: 200.000 euros / Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte (FSB) Budget: 45.000 euros / source of funding IRD France.
Scientific coordinator of ENPI project entitled “Méthodologie Durables pour la Réhabilitation et la Valorisation du Littotal Côtier. MEDCOT (2013-2016). Ref: 2PS2.2.016. (Total Budget: 708.900 euros / Faculty FSB Budget: 150.000 euros / source of funding European Union).  
Scientific coordinator of an ENPI CBC-MED project entitled “Integrated monitoring of jellyfish outbreaks under anthropogenic and climatic impacts in the Mediterranean sea (coastal zones): trophic and socio-economic risks – MED-JELLYRISK (2012 – 2015), Ref: I-A/1.3/098. (Total Budget: 2.5 million euros / Faculty FSB Budget 600.000 euros / source of funding European Union).  
Scientific coordinator of a Tunisian – French bilateral project entitled “Impact of anthropization on diversity and functioning of the pelagic food web in the lagoon of Bizerte – Tunisia” Acronyme : JEAI ECOBIZ (2012 – 2014) (Total budget 50.000 euros / Faculty FSB Budget 35000 euros / source of funding: IRD France).