ADVANCE Fellows Award - Seamount Ecology: From Information to Knowledge
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

1. Karen I Stocks($200,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: ADVANCE, Database, Seamounts, Species.

ADVANCE Fellows Award: A Self-Organization Model For Surf Zone Megaripples
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

1. Edith L Gallagher($160,086), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
Key terms: Beach, Nearshore, Sediment, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Processes on the Gakkel Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Henrietta N Edmonds($111,146), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Hanumant Singh($988,407), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep-sea Vent Fields, Arctic Ocean, Auv Component, Auv Surveys, Deep-sea Vent, Field Program, Future Missions, Gakkel Ridge, Geological Characteristics, Ice Pack, Maryland's Space, Mid-ocean Ridge, Nasa Astrobiology, Water Column, AMORE, Activities, Autonomous, Auvs, Biological, Bring, CTD, Camera, Combination, Control, DCS, Deployed, Deployment, Development, Digital, Ethernet, Europa, Expedition, Frame, Has, Hydrographically, Hydrothermal, Icebreaker, Imagery, Implications, Interface, Marylands, Nasas, Near, Photomosaics, Plumes, Principal, Processes, Provided, Public, Real-time, Return, Sampler, Sampling, Seafloor, Sensor, Software, Target, Targets, Towed, Transponder, Via, WHOI, Wireline.

Collaborative Research: North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Kelly K Falkner($310,407), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Airborne Hydrographic Surveys, Arctic Environment, Drifting Station, North Pole, Sea Ice, Infrastructure, Long-term, NPEO, Observations, Ocean, Reach.

Collaborative Research: North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Environmental Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Richard E Moritz($5,934,139), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Airborne Hydrographic Surveys, Arctic Environment, Drifting Station, North Pole, Sea Ice, Infrastructure, Long-term, NPEO, Observations, Ocean, Reach.

BE/CNH: Biocomplexity and Fisheries Sustainability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Lorenz Hauser($2,018,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Changing Environmental Conditions, Bristol Bay, Fish Populations, Life History, Salmon Abundance, Salmon Populations, Sockeye Salmon, Subsistence Fisheries, Ability, Alaska, Aspects, Biotic, Commercial, Competition, Complexity, Consider, Decide, Depend, Development, Diversity, Dynamics, Economic, Ecosystems, Effects, Extensive, Fishermen, Fishing, Five, Habitats, Harvest, Has, Human, Humans, Information, Lakes, Levels, Natural, Objective, Persist, Processes, Productivity, Recreational, Resilience, Sustainability, Sustainable.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the impact of microbial interactions with geologic media on geophysical properties: Implications for assessing geomicrobiological processes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Eliot A Atekwana($270,644), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla
2. Lee Slater($123,899), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Silvia Rossbach($129,267), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Organic Acids, Sediment Electrical, Biofilm, Development, Effect, Field, Focus, Formation, Geologic, Geophysical, Interactions, Investigate, Laboratory, Microbial, Permeability, Phase, Porosity, Potential, Processes, Properties, Reactor, Signatures, Surface.

The role of microbial Fe and Mn oxidation in submarine weathering of volcanic glass
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Alexis Templeton($499,203), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fe And Mn, Analytical Techniques, Basaltic Glass, Deep Ocean, Ocean Crust, Surface Chemistry, Volcanic Glass, Alteration, Bacteria, Basalts, Chemical, Components, Composition, Electron, Glasses, Investigations, Microbes, Microbial, Oxidation, Program, Range, Rates.

Collaborative Proposal: Anoxic Sediment Diagenesis at the Sulfate-Methane Interface: Does a Novel Microbial Syntrophy Result in Enhanced POC Remineralization?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. William M Berelson($164,938), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Victoria J Orphan($107,263), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Carbon Remineralization, Marine Sediments, California, Diagenesis, Methane, Microbial, Process, Rates, Students, Sulfate.

Molecular Mechanisms of Soluble Fe(III) Reduction by Metal-Reducing Members of the Genus Shewanella
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Martial Taillefert($416,250), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Synthesize And Excrete, Biogeochemical Cycling, Solid Fe, Soluble Fe, Bacteria, Compounds, Electron, Feiii, Feiii-reducing, Feiii-solubilizing, Genes, Information, Minerals, Reductases, Reduction, Shewanella, Situ, Solubilization, Subsequent.

Collaborative Research: Anoxic Sediment Diagenesis at the Sulfate-Methane Interface: Does a Novel Microbial Syntrophy Result in Enhanced POC Remineralization?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

1. Francis J Sansone($85,761), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Carbon Remineralization, Marine Sediments, California, Diagenesis, Methane, Microbial, Process, Rates, Students, Sulfate.

SIRG: Development of Sensor Networks for Aquatic Nanoparticle Characterization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Alexander Groisman($2,499,997), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Aquatic Environments, Aquatic Nanoparticles, Sensor Network, Situ Sensor, Wide Range, Applications, Characteristics, Characterization, Chemical, Development, Heterogeneous, Multiple, Ocean, Optical, Particles, Program, Properties, Techniques.

Development of Ship-Borne Atmosphere-Ocean Ozone Flux Measurements by the Eddy Correlation Technique
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Laurens N Ganzeveld($409,980), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ozone Deposition, Ozone Fluxes, Atmospheric, Biological, Models, Ocean, Organic, Surface.

COLLABORATIVE: Carbon System and CFCs in the Southeast Pacific Subantartic Mode Water / Antarctic Intermediate Water Formation Region
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Andrew G Dickson($249,948), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Carbon And Tracer, Deep Mixed Layers, Anthropogenic Co2, Formation Region, Intermediate Depths, Newly Formed, Samwaaiw Formation, Se Pacific, Upper Ocean, AAIW, CFC, Disequilibrium, Has, OCE-, Processes, Properties, Subantarctic, Thick, Water, Wintertime.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Redox Metalloproteins and Conformational Gating in Electron Transfer to Ferric Minerals
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Carrick M Eggleston($404,259), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Timothy S Magnuson($85,328), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Oxide Surfaces, Toxic Metals, Adsorbed, Bioremediation, Carried, Conditions, Electron, Environment, Examine, Function, Investigation, Metal-reducing, Mineral, Molecules, Protein, Proteins, Redox, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: Biocatalytic Filtration and Carbon Cycling in Permeable Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Carol Arnosti($82,313), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Organic Matter, Permeable Sands, Permeable Shelf, Shelf Sands, Shelf Sediment, Continent, Diagenetic, Existing, Fine-grained, Florida, Sediments, Transport, Water.

Collaborative research: Biocatalytical Filtration and Carbon Cycling in Permeable Shelf Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Markus H Huettel($399,413), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Organic Matter, Permeable Shelf, Shelf Sands, Shelf Sediment, Continent, Diagenetic, Existing, Fine-grained, Florida, Sediments, Transport, Water.

Investigation of Fe(II) Coordination and Oxidation by Marine Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. James W Moffett($257,908), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oxidation Kinetics, Redox Chemistry, Conditions, Fe, Feii, Ligands, Seawater.

Collaborative: Biology and Ecology of Newly Discovered Diazotrophs in the Open Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Matthew Church($539,655), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Carbon, Cyanobacteria, Distribution, Fixation, Has, Implications, Limited, Nitrogen, Oceans, Pis, Previously, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: Biology and Ecology of Newly Discovered Diazotrophs in the Open Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Joseph P Montoya($430,643), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Carbon, Cyanobacteria, Distribution, Fixation, Has, Implications, Limited, Nitrogen, Oceans, Pis, Previously, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: Oceanographic and Topographic Influences on Dispersal of Hydrothermal Vent Species
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andreas Thurnherr($345,713), Columbia University, New York
2. J. William Lavelle($2,341,865), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dispersal Distances, Eddy Diffusion, Maximal Dispersal, Ridge Crest, Achieved, Approaches, Dynamics, Effects, Efforts, Field, Flows, Graduate, Has, Integrated, Investigate, Larvae, Larval, Lateral, Mid-ocean, Model, NSF, Near, Oceanography, Past, Population, Populations, Probabilities, Program, Structure, Transport, Vent.

Physiological ecology of intertidal development: linking embryo performance and adult reproductive ecology
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert D Podolsky($341,544), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Adult Reproductive, Developmental Consequences, Developmental Performance, Ecological Conditions, Egg Masses, Environmental Conditions, Field Conditions, Fitness Consequences, Marine Development, Physiological Ecology, Reproductive Ecology, Reproductive Timing, Stress Protein, Adults, Bottleneck, Create, Distinct, Education, Embryo, Embryos, Especially, Exposure, FHL, Growth, Habitats, Highly, Information, Integrative, Intertidal, Lab, Life, Life-history, Mean, Natural, Participation, Physiology, Program, Represent, Reproduction, Sensitive, Species, Stages, Students, Survival, Temperature, UV, Unique, Variance.

Collaborative Research: Local adaptation across latitudes: microgeographic scales, gene flow, and correlates of countergradient growth variation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. None($104,336), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Gene Flow, Growth Rate, Local Adaptation, Marine Species, Molecular Genetic, Behavior, Conservation, Environmental, Evolution, Excellent, Experience, Extensive, Fishing, Geographic, Highly, Latitudinal, Opportunity, Physiological, Populations, Public, Rapidly, Silverside, Size-selective, Surveys, Traits.

Dynamics of cnidarian-algal symbioses
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mary Alice Coffroth($600,000), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Single Host Colonies, Environmental Conditions, Host Taxa, Host-symbiont Specificity, Symbiodinium Diversity, Algal, Based, Baseline, Characterize, Collection, Complement, Coral, Distribution, Diverse, Examine, Field, Host-symbiont, Hosts, Importance, Maintaining, Population, Populations, Processes, Range, Reef, Species, Students, Surveys, Symbionts, Symbioses, Symbiosis, Techniques, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: Larval Transport in a Coupled-Estuary-Shelf System: A Modeling Study
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles E Epifanio($31,956), University of Delaware, Newark
2. William C Boicourt($253,508), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Behavior And Environmental, Blue Crab Fishery, Larval Transport, Numerical Model, Organism Behavior, Teacher Fellow, Web Page, Advection, Circulation, Complex, Critical, Development, Effects, Estuarine, Examine, Exchange, Factors, Focused, Gain, Has, Interactions, Interactive, Larvae, Mixing, Modeling, Populations, Processes, Program, Recruitment, Systematically.

Collaborative Research: US/EC Collaboration on Potential Climate Change Impacts on Algal Community Structure and Biogeochemistry During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Hutchins($557,495), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Giacomo R DiTullio($442,095), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Algal.

Collaborative Research: CROSSTEX - Wave Breaking and Boundary Layer Processes and the Resulting Sediment Suspension in the Surf zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel T Cox($382,228), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Donald N Slinn($133,939), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Education And Outreach, Graduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Reu Students, Sediment Suspension, Sediment Transport, Water Column, Advances, CROSSTEX, Combined, Complexity, Experimental, Field, Flow, Instrumentation, K-, Mentors, Models, Nearshore, OSU, Particular, Programs, Site, Techniques, Turbulence, WRL, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Metazoan Life at Extreme Sulfide Concentrations:The Ecology and Evolution of Dorvilleidae at Methane Seeps
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Wiebke A Ziebis($199,746), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Lisa A Levin($328,871), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Kenneth M Halanych($159,870), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Dorvilleid Polychaetes, Absence, Assemblages, California, Concentrations, Evolutionary, Extreme, Has, History, Metazoan, Model, Ocean, Oxygen, Pis, Seeps, Sulfide.

Ecology of a Distinct Bdellovibrio Genotype in the Chesapeake Bay and other estuaries
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Silvia A Pineiro($399,647), Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Students And Teachers, Chesapeake Bay, Sub Estuaries, Bacteria, Bd, Distinct, Exclusive, Genotype, Genotypes, Has, Methods, Molecular, PCR, Particular, Previous, Techniques, Time, Underrepresented, Unique.

Small-scale flow variability inside branched coral colonies: Computations and experimental verification
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen G Monismith($439,441), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Mass Transfer, Morphological Plasticity, Comprehensive, Coral, Corals, Determining, Flow, Level, Light, Model, Testing.

Probing acclimation in Prochlorococcus ecotypes through analyses of global gene expression
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kevin R Arrigo($475,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Environmental Cues, Gene Expression, Prochlorococcus Strains, Acclimate, Acclimation, Adaptation, Adapted, Boundaries, Centers, Changing, Classroom, Conditions, Critical, Cultures, Cyclodyne, Developed, Explore, Features, Following, Furthermore, Growth, Has, Information, Levels, Light, Little, Low, Molecular, Nutrient, Observed, Oceans, Oligotrophic, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Primary, Processes, Public, Specific, Temperature, Temperatures.

SGER: Physical fractionation of marine microbes for efficient mining and description of microbial diversity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael S Rappe($106,091), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Complex Microbial, Allow, Analyses, Biomass, Populations.

The Ecology of Prochlorococcus: Toward a Model System for Microbial Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniele Veneziano($1,200,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Field Studies, Marine Microbial, Photosynthetic Cell, Prochlorococcus Ecotypes, Relative Abundance, Advance, Analysis, Book, Designed, Distribution, Distributions, Diverse, Diversity, Ecosystem, Environmental, Fitness, Forces, Genome, Gradients, Grazing, Growth, Has, Infect, Level, Light, Model, Mortality, Ocean, Oceans, Organism, Particular, Populations, Rates, Sea, Selective, Set, Shape, Temperature, Time, Viruses, World.

The hydrodynamics of benthic predation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Donald Webster($581,284), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aquatic Chemical Signaling, Field Experiments, Fluid Mechanics, Graduate Students, Predation Intensity, Prey Size, Analysis, Behavioral, Biological, Biology, Blue, Characteristics, Crab, Crabs, Density, Environmental, Exercises, Expected, Experience, Functions, Gastropod, Hard, Has, IGERT, Interaction, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Involved, Mechanisms, Mediate, NSF, Olfactory, Particular, Populations, Predators, Program, Quantify, Sensory, Species, Supported, Turbulence, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

An ecophysiological analysis of marine facultatively lithotrophic bacteria
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John Tolli($478,400), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Facultative And Obligate, Obligate Lithotrophs, Rbcl Sequences, Activity, Bacterial, Carbon, Diversity, Ecology, FLM, Gulf, Hydrogen, Insights, Lithotrophic, Maine, Marine, Microbial, Molecular, Nshore, Structure, Tools.

Probing acclimation responses in Prochlorococcus ecotypes through analyses of global gene expression
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Arthur R Grossman($550,000), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Environmental Cues, Gene Expression, Prochlorococcus Strains, Acclimate, Acclimation, Adaptation, Adapted, Boundaries, Centers, Changing, Classroom, Conditions, Critical, Cultures, Cyclodyne, Developed, Explore, Features, Following, Furthermore, Growth, Has, Information, Levels, Light, Little, Low, Molecular, Nutrient, Observed, Oceans, Oligotrophic, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Primary, Processes, Public, Specific, Temperature, Temperatures.

An adaptive food web model for the epipelagic and mesopelagic
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kelvin J Richards($312,596), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Food Web Model, Parameter Values, Time Constant, Characteristics, Chosen, Culturally, Curricula, Development, Equilibrium, Graduate, Hawaii, Incorporation, Kumu-ola, Less, Mathematics, Meaning, Mesopelagic, Microbial, Minorities, Minority, Modeling, Principal, Processes, Resiliency, Return, STEM, Specified, Steady, Students, Was.

Collaborative Research: Fertilization in free-spawners - interaction of gamete properties and hydrodynamic regime
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip O Yund($327,976), University of New England, Biddeford
2. Florence I Thomas($298,835), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Fertilization And Polyspermy, Flow Regimes, Sea Urchin, Conditions, Experiments, Explore, Field, Gametes, Levels, Local, Low, Managers, Population, Process, Range, Reserves.

Collaborative Research: Functional and genomic analysis of polysymbiosis in the wood-boring bivalve Lyrodus pedicellatus
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph P Montoya($210,446), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Daniel L Distel($351,765), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Lignocellulose Digestion, Marine Wood, Nitrogen Fixation, Wood-boring Bivalves, Biochemical, Depend, Enzymes, Found, Host, Shipworms, Symbiont, Symbionts, Wood-boring, Xylotrophy.

Satellite Tracking of Sperm Whales in the Gulf of California, Mexico: A Method to Study the Ecology of a Mesopelagic Predator
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nathalie Jaquet($44,186), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Behavior And Habitat, Diving Behavior, Jumbo Squid, Marine Predators, Satellite Telemetry, Seasonal Movements, Sperm Whales, Annually, Biomass, California, Cetaceans, Deep, Difficult, Distribution, Ecology, Ecosystem, Estimated, Feed, Food, Gulf, Importance, Information, Mesopelagic, Pis, Previous, Primary, Range, Requirements, Size, Species, Tagging, Techniques, Track, Tracking.

Workshop on the impact of basin-scale oceanographic and climate-related processes on the dynamics of plankton and fish populations in the North Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter H Wiebe($44,606), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Elucidating, Fish, GLOBEC, Integration, Managers, Ocean-basin, Oceanographic, Plan, Programs, Steps, Synthesis, Workshop, Zooplankton.

Larval Dispersal and Retention Among Sub-populations of Coral Reef Fishes: A Multi-Technique Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Simon R Thorrold($562,924), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Population Connectivity, Dispersal, Fish, Marine, Populations, Rates, Reef, Species.

Predation Mortality and Behavior of Fish Larvae: Seasonal Variation and Critical Survival Skills
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lee A Fuiman($480,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Critical Survival Skills, Larval Fish Behavior, Suspected Survival Skills, Management Plans, Natural Populations, Wild-caught Larvae, Adults, Analyses, Cohorts, Dynamics, Effort, Examine, Experiments, Growth, Habitat, Individual, Laboratory, Linkages, Mechanisms, Mortality, Objectives, Participants, People, Protocols, Public, Received, Recruitment, Season, Stocking, TPWD, Wild-caught.

Finding the Genes That Matter: Profiling Gene Expression in Strongylocentrotid Sea Urchins with Different Biogeographic and Temperature Distributions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gretchen E Hofmann($383,534), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Differential Gene Expression, Life History Stages, Differentially Sensitive, Dna Microarrays, Molecular Techniques, Sea Urchin, Sea Urchins, Acclimated, Adapted, Adults, Analyzed, Assess, Congeneric, Congeners, Distributions, Education, Educational, Embryos, Environment, Following, Genes, Genomic, Genomics, Lab, Macroarrays, Marine, Nature, Organisms, Profile, Purpuratus, REEF, Range, Respond, Screen, Species, Standard, Strategy, Strongylocentrotus, Students, Temperature, Temperature-dependent, Temperatures, Thermal, Thermotolerance, Training, Transcript.

SGER: Determining kin recognition in marine gastropods
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jan A Pechenik($54,994), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Close Relatives, Free-living Larvae, Kin Recognition, Direct, Free-living, Inbreeding, Mates, Species.

The effect of mesoscale eddy perturbations on microbial processes and community structure in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig A Carlson($342,038), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Eddy Induced Nutrient, Induced Nutrient Pumping, Spatial And Temporal, Broader Impacts, Heterotrophic Prokaryotes, Mesoscale Eddies, Oligotrophic Waters, Organic Matter, Outreach Programs, Subtropical Gyres, BATS, Biogeochemical, Bloom, Companion, Efficiency, Estimates, Export, Features, Indicate, Microbial, Parameters, Perturbation, Process, Processes, Produced, Prokaryotic, Rates, Relative, Resulting, Structure, Transport, UCSB, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: SOFeX: Mesoscale Iron fertilization Effects on Plankton Community Structure, Phytoplankton Growth and Zooplankton Grazing
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael R Landry($134,598), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Southern Ocean, Availability, Carbon, Fluorescence, Grazing, Growth, Iron, Mesozooplankton, Oceans, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Potential, Taxon-specific.

SGER: Exploratory research in the use of neutrally buoyant magnetic beads to track dispersal of planktonic organisms
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. None($23,147), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Coral Larvae, Florida Keys, Dispersal, Funding, Magnetic, Potential.

Trophic ecology of small hydromedusae: a new perspective on their function in coastal ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John H Costello($161,630), Providence College, Providence
2. Sean P Colin($218,488), Roger Williams University, Bristol
Key terms: Microplankton Standing Stocks, Underlying Feeding Mechanisms, Feeding Rates, Food Webs, Narragansett Bay, Prey Selection, Rhode Island, Trophic Link, Abundant, Activity, Affect, Body, Communicate, Diverse, Ecologists, Ecology, Evolutionary, Factors, Findings, Function, Gifford, Hydromedusae, Led, Medusae, Medusan, Metazoan, Omnivores, Participation, Phytoplankton, Planktonic, Predators, Public, Quantifying, Success, Sufficiently, Undergraduate, Zooplankton.

Biogeography and community structure in mussel beds at Pacific hydrothermal vents
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cindy L Van Dover($193,372), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Easter Microplate, Molecular Analyses, Mussel Beds, Vent Faunas, Analysis, Available, Back-arc, Basin, Biogeographic, Collected, Degree, Faunal, Graduate, Public, Seep, Sites, Standard, Structure, Students, Taxa, Vrijenhoek.

Collaborative Research: Trophic ecology of small hydromedusae: a new perspective on their function in coastal ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Dian J Gifford($480,343), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Microplankton Standing Stocks, Underlying Feeding Mechanisms, Feeding Rates, Food Webs, Narragansett Bay, Prey Selection, Rhode Island, Trophic Link, Abundant, Activity, Affect, Body, Communicate, Diverse, Ecologists, Ecology, Evolutionary, Factors, Findings, Function, Hydromedusae, Led, Medusae, Medusan, Metazoan, Omnivores, Participation, Phytoplankton, Planktonic, Predators, Public, Quantifying, Success, Sufficiently, Undergraduate, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Numerical Study of the Unsteady Feeding Currents in Calanoid Copepods
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. J. R Strickler($34,429), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. Houshuo Jiang($192,851), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Calanoid Copepods, Excess Weight, Feeding Current, Feeding Currents, Animals, Biological, CFD, Environments, Flow, Fluid, Food, Laboratory, Low, Marine, Observe, Ocean, Onoff, Paffenhofer, Simulations, Situ, Strategy, Structures, Temporal, Unsteady, WHOI, Water.

EU-US ECOHAB. EC-NSF Cooperative Activity in Environmental Res: Mating Incompatibility Among Toxic and Non-Toxic Populations of Alexandrium: Ecological and Practical Implications
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Deana L Erdner($729,093), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ballast Water Discharge, Minutum Species Complexes, Non-toxic Alexandrium Species, Tamarensis And Minutum, Bloom Control, Mitigation Strategy, Non-toxic Alexandrium, Non-toxic Strains, Cells, Cysts, Dispersal, EU, Education, Europe, Field, Habs, Has, Human-assisted, Introduced, Invasion, Laboratory, Latter, Mating, Natural, Noteworthy, Outbreaks, PSP, Potential, Rate, Serious, Tamarense, Via, World.

Collaborative Research: Tracking Larval Invertebrate Dispersal Trajectories Using Calcified Structures
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Danielle C Zacherl($232,778), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
2. Steven D Gaines($268,137), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Environmentally Induced Tags, Statoliths And Protoconchs, Dispersal Trajectories, Examine Exchange, Invertebrate Larvae, Larval Invertebrate, Marine Ecology, Marine Invertebrate, Natal Source, Potential Source, Advancement, Biologists, Composition, Dynamics, Ecologists, Faculty, Fish, Granting, Has, Minority, Ocean, Participation, Pelagic, Populations, Recapture, Recently, Recruit, Species, Tool.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Dynamics on Marine Snow Particles
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George A Jackson($92,409), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Kam W Tang($351,851), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Marine Snow Fluxes, Marine Snow Particles, Global Warming, Microbial Dynamics, Ocean Fertilization, Activities, Bacteria, Bacterial, Behavior, Carbon, Colonization, DREAMS, Describe, Developing, Education, Experiments, Interactions, Microbes, Models, Modify, Observations, Predicting, Training.

EU-US ECOHAB. EC-NSF Cooperative Activity in Environmental Research: In Situ Holographic Measurements of Particle Distributions and Small Scale Turbulence in Thin Layers
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edwin Malkiel($730,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Biophysical Interactions, Particles Larger, Population Dynamics, Thin Layers, Behavior, Biological, Biology, Concentration, Contamination, DSP, Detailed, Dinophysis, Distributions, Environment, Fisheries, Formation, France, HAB, Harmful, Hydrodynamic, Information, Ireland, Local, Maintenance, Mm, NNS, Nutrition, Obtain, Ocean, Physics, Processes, Rate, Shellfish, Species, Toxins, Turbulence, Velocity.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in intertidal seaweed communities
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John J Stachowicz($266,489), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Algal Species, Diversity Effect, Field Experiments, Functional Consequences, Rocky Intertidal, Abundance, Air, Allow, Assess, Biodiversity, Consumer, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Examine, Experimental, Explored, Growth, Has, Invertebrates, Lab, Level, Loss, Macroalgal, Management, Marine, Objective, Plots, Primary, Producer, Reproduction, Responsible, Seaweed, Students, Terrestrial, Water.

Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Seaweed Communities
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael H Graham($263,427), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Algal Species, Diversity Effect, Field Experiments, Functional Consequences, Rocky Intertidal, Abundance, Air, Allow, Assess, Biodiversity, Consumer, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Examine, Experimental, Explored, Growth, Has, Invertebrates, Lab, Level, Loss, Macroalgal, Management, Marine, Objective, Plots, Primary, Producer, Reproduction, Responsible, Seaweed, Students, Terrestrial, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Iron Bioavailability on Synechococcus diversity from a HNLC regime to the Costa Rica upwelling dome
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gabrielle Rocap($172,626), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Eric A Webb($276,523), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Costa Rica Upwelling, Rica Upwelling Dome, Cell Labeling, Fe Stress, Genetic Diversity, Marine Synechococcus, Trace Metal, Cells, Clades, Concentrations, Cycles, HNLC, Numerous, Oceanic, Oligotrophic, Organisms, Photosynthetic, Regimes, Replete, Students, Transect.

The Paleoecology of Pinnipeds on the Pacific Rim
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul L Koch($147,515), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Conservation Biologists, Ecological Shifts, Management Decisions, Marine Mammal, Ne Pacific, Pacific Margin, Population Declines, Weaning Age, Anthropogenic, Approach, Archaeological, Archaeologists, Behavior, Breeding, Coast, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmental, Growth, Information, Investigate, Islands, Isotopic, Migratory, Past, People, Pinniped, Pinnipeds, Prehistoric, Species, Students, Time, Was.

Biodiversity, Trophic Structure, and the Stability of Seagrass Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. J. Emmett Duffy($399,495), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Anthropogenic Eutrophication, Anthropogenic Perturbations, Ecosystem Structure, Food Webs, Food-web Structure, Laboratory Microbial, Marine Ecosystem, Seagrass Ecosystems, Unmanipulated Field, Beds, Biodiversity, Composition, Decline, Declining, Diversity, Dominance, Eelgrass, Effects, Experimental, Experimentally, Experiments, Food-web, Functioning, Global, Has, Importance, Interactions, Levels, Links, Predict, Stability, Stressors, Trophic, Widely, Worldwide.

Does mating success determine population growth rate at low abundance in marine copepods?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William J Kimmerer($568,921), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Local Population Density, Conditional Probability, Encounter Rate, Low Density, Mating Success, Population Dynamics, Population Growth, Sex Ratio, Successful Mating, Volume Search, Behavior, Behaviors, Components, Copepod, Copepods, Determinants, Determined, Examine, Experimental, Experiments, Feedback, Has, Increase, Model, Populations, Potential, Previous, Product, Resulting, Species, Subject, Various.

Historical Ecology of the California Sea Mussel and Purple Sea Urchin Inferred from Multiple Gene Genealogies
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Grant Pogson($369,144), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: California Sea Mussel, Evolutionary Effective Population, Fragmentation And Bottleneck, Multiple Independent Loci, Ne Pacific Region, Purple Sea Urchin, Species Evolutionary Effective, Gene Genealogies, Growth Histories, Marine Species, Marine Taxa, Coalescent, Coalescent-based, Demographic, Effects, Estimate, Exciting, Fossil, Genetic, Has, Historical, Infer, Inferring, Insights, Obtained, Pleistocene, Populations, Range, Students.

Collaborative Research: Determinants of male reproductive success in natural spawns
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip O Yund($162,812), University of New England, Biddeford
Key terms: Male Reproductive Success, Natural Spawns, Population Density, Botryllus, Colonial, Colonies, Effects, Fertilization, Field, Five, Function, Gametic, Information, Populations, Preliminary, Sperm, Timing.

Impacts of Eddies on Zooplankton Community Structure and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Open Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Deborah K Steinberg($285,000), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Andor Individual Level, Eddy Features Affect, Population Andor Individual, Vertical Migration Behavior, Biogeochemical Cycling, Body Condition, Eddies Affect, Vertical Flux, Activities, Biological, Chemical, Curriculum, Development, Distribution, Education, Existing, Mesoscale, Mesozooplankton, Ocean, Perturbation, Play, Public, Significantly, Structure, Trophic, Zooplankton.

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BROADENING PARTICIPATION

1. James T Morris($5,738,544), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Plum Island Sound, Short And Long-term, Organic Matter, Outreach Program, Pie Lter, Sea Level, Trophic Structure, Biogeochemistry, Biology, Centralized, Climate, Ecosystems, Education, Estuarine, Expand, Federal, Gulf, Has, Information, Land, Local, Maine, Network, Nutrient, Ocean, PIE-LTER, Period, Productivity, Site, Teachers, Watersheds.

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Center for Great Lakes Studies
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($238,896), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Program, Students.

Moored Mixing Measurements at the Equator
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

1. Jonathan D Nash($1,672,711), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Turbulent Heat Flux, El Nino, Process Experiments, Ship-borne Process, Time Scales, Turbulent Mixing, Affordable, Contribute, Deployed, Deploying, Device, Devices, Equator, Equatorial, Especially, Feedback, Internal, Measure, Moored, Mooring, Nina, Ocean, Period, Reliable, Revealed, Ship-borne, Short, Strong, Temperature, Tool, Turbulence, Vertical.

LTER: Nonlinear transitions in the California Current Coastal Pelagic Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Ralf Goericke($5,794,471), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Situ Food Web, California Current, Ecosystem Transitions, Lter Site, Pelagic Ecosystem, Calcofi, Climate, Coastal, Development, External, Field, Focus, Forcing, Frequency, Has, K-, Mechanisms, Models, Multi-decadal, Observations, Ocean, Partners, Primary, Process, Program, Region, Relatively, Students, Studies, Temporal, Time, Upwelling.

Collaborative Proposal: Effects of Mineral Ballast and Particle Sinking Velocity on Organic Carbon Export and Remineralization
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. J Kirk Cochran($250,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Bruce W Frost($100,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Organic Matter, Sea Floor, Assessing, Ballast, Ballasts, Carbon, Colleagues, Depth, Flux, Global, Laboratory, Marine, Mineral, Modeling, Ocean, POC, Particulate, Surface, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Carbon System and CFCs in the Southeast Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water/Antarctic Intermediate Water Formation Region
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rana A Fine($500,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbon And Tracer, Deep Mixed Layers, Anthropogenic Co2, Formation Region, Intermediate Depths, Newly Formed, Samwaaiw Formation, Se Pacific, Upper Ocean, AAIW, CFC, Disequilibrium, Has, OCE-, Processes, Properties, Subantarctic, Thick, Water, Wintertime.

DOM on U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic Survey: Line A16S
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($26,108), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean, Dissolved Organic, Carbon, Distribution, OCE-.

SGER: DOM on U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic Survey: Line P16S
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Craig A Carlson($25,901), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean, Dissolved Organic, Carbon, Distribution, OCE-.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Investigations of Heat and Gas Transfer at an Air-Water Interface
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William E Asher($667,973), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Christopher J Zappa($81,718), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Heat And Gas, Air-sea Fluxes, Air-sea Interaction, Air-water Heat, Gas Transfer, Global Climate, Graduate Student, Activity, Air-sea, Air-water, Detailed, Dissemination, Enhance, Hydrodynamics, Infrared, Minority, Participation, Program, Surface, Teaching, Techniques, Theory, Washington.

Collaborative Research: Defining the Structural Basis of the Optical Properties of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($150,201), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Rossana Del Vecchio($438,410), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Absorption And Emission, Field Studies, Lignin Phenol, Structural Information, Aquatic, Behavior, CDOM, Collected, Mass, Optical, Organic, Photochemical, Properties, Wavelength-selective.

Geochemical Transformations in Subterranean Estuaries: Reactions, Rates, and Fluxes to the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ann Mulligan($698,618), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biogeochemical Reactions, Coastal Aquifer, Geochemical Transformations, Redox Conditions, Subterranean Estuaries, Subterranean Estuary, Ba, Component, Cycling, Experiments, Field, Flow, Fluxes, Groundwater, Has, Laboratory, Mn, Processes, Ra, SGD, Sensitive, Sr, Surface.

Studies Related to Establishing a Valid Radiocarbon Ventilation Rate for the Glacial Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Wallace S Broecker($952,445), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ocean Ventilation Rates, Ocean Circulation, Ages, Aim, Carbonate, Climate, Dating, Deep, Dwelling, Glacial, Global, Investigate, Period, Phases, Precise, Presence, Radiocarbon, Reconstructing, Time.

Collaborative Research: Time-Series and Process Measurements of Dimethylsulfide Dynamics at BATS and in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nicholas R Bates($382,752), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Dierdre A Toole($625,130), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biosphere And Climate, Biosphere-climate Interactions, Dms Dynamics, Assess, Atmospheric, Biogenic, Biosphere-climate, Concentrations, Controlling, Critical, DMSO, DMSP, Factors, Feedback, Future, Gases, Long-term, Ocean, Pool, Set, Time-series, Turnover, Validation, Waters.

Advective Controls on Organic Carbon Export and Burial on the Northwest Atlantic Margin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy I Eglinton($705,026), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Organic Matter, Ability, Depositional, Establish, Global, OM, Particles, Processes, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Development of SF5CF3 for Ocean Tracer Experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David T Ho($308,295), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Santa Monica Basin, Tracer Release Experiments, Transient Tracer, Added, Detectable, Has, Laboratory, Mixing, Ocean, Particles, Promising, SF, SFCF, Sulfur, Tracers, Transport, Useful, Was, Water.

Volatile Polonium and Tellurium Species in the Marine Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Thomas E Hanson($600,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Polonium And Tellurium, Marine Environments, Volatile Species, Analytical, Biotic, Field, Generation, Identification, Methylation, Microbial, Natural, Processes, Products, Reactions, Stable, Students.

Collaborative Research: Development of SF5CF3 for Ocean Tracer Release Experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James R Ledwell($322,974), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Santa Monica Basin, Tracer Release Experiments, Transient Tracer, Added, Detectable, Has, Laboratory, Mixing, Ocean, Particles, Promising, SF, SFCF, Sulfur, Tracers, Transport, Useful, Was, Water.

Equipment Supplement for the Cariaco Ocean Time Series
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert C Thunell($35,551), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Cariaco Basin, Cariaco Time, Sediment Trap, Additional, Atlantic, Climate, Flux, Funding, Lateral, Oceanographic, Processes, Program, Shallow, Students, Surface, Venezuelan.

Iron in the Equatorial Undercurrent: Data and Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Murray($768,935), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Analytical And Modeling, Carbon Cycling, Equatorial Pacific, Equatorial Undercurrent, Measure Dissolved, Analyses, Approach, Biological, Central, Cruise, Distributions, Fe, Fluxes, France, Guinea, Has, International, Iron, Mn, Neodymium, Particulate, Region, Source, Zonal.

Coupling between Physical Processes, Biological Dynamics and Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes in the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter G Strutton($95,670), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Labrador Sea, Time Scales, Atmosphere, Benefit, Biological, Bloom, Carbon, Global, Ocean, Oceanography, Processes, Productivity, Region, Sink, Spring.

Stable Isotopes and Strontium in Western Pacific Sclerosponges: Calibration and Applications to Paleoceanography
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrea G Grottoli($195,249), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Key terms: Seawater Temperature, Carbon, Climate, Depth, Models, Pacific, Proxy, Srca, Stable, Timescale.

Collaborative Research: Electrodialysis/Reverse Osmosis - Development of an Improved Method to Concentrate Dissolved Organic Matter from Seawater
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter H Pfromm($213,119), Kansas State University, Manhattan
2. E. Michael Perdue($281,485), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fresh Waters, Inorganic Salts, Marine Dom, Saline Waters, Salt Concentrations, Chemical, Complex, Cycling, ED, Experiments, Fraction, Global, Little, Method, Natural, Organic, Pis, Process, Processing, Quantities, RO, Recover, Recovery, Removal, Seawater, Significantly, Size, Solutions, Techniques.

Marsh-Dominated Ocean Margins as a Source of CO2 to the Atmosphere and Open Oceans: A Field Study in the U.S. Southeastern Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Wei-Jun Cai($453,573), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Air-sea Co2, Co2 Flux, Continental Shelf, Dic Flux, Organic Carbon, Air-sea, Alk, Alongshore, Atmosphere, Cross-shelf, Determined, Dissolved, Estimated, Expected, Export, Fluxes, Global, Latitude, Model, Ocean, SAB, Seaward, Water.

Salinity Effects on Nitrogen Dynamics in Shallow, Coastal Sediments
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Wayne S Gardner($499,885), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Coastal Ecosystems, Molecular Biology, Advance, Chemical, Concentrations, DNRA, Denitrification, Environments, Fate, Importance, Isotopic, Mechanisms, Nitrate, Organic, Primary, Processes, Salinity, Sediment, Sediments, Students, Transformation, Transformations.

Collaborative Research: Using Geochemical Tracers to Characterize the Effects of Wintertime Episodic Nutrient Inputs on Biological Activity in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael W Lomas($113,855), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. William J Jenkins($246,956), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Convective Mixing, Nutrient Inputs, Sargasso Sea, Weather Fronts, Winter Mixing, Accumulation, Biological, Biomass, Deep, Enable, Enhanced, Export, FGT, Followed, Link, Period, Rapid.

Cycling of Vitamin B12 in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gordon T Taylor($331,692), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Marine Environment, Trace Metals, Vitamin B12, World Ocean, Analyses, Cycling, Determination, Growth, Has, Hindered, Importance, Information, Inorganic, Lack, Methane, Method, Organic, Phase, Phytoplankton, Regions, Species, Technique.

N2 Fixation in Marine Sponges: A New Nitrogen Source for Coastal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Niels L Lindquist($400,000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: D15n Sponges, D15n Values, N2 Fixation, Basic, Biogeochemical, Dn, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Environmental, Examine, Keys, Levels, Low, Marine, Microbial, N-fixing, Rates, Species.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Investigation of the Physiological Function of Alkenones in the Coccolithophorid Emiliania Huxleyi
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Fredrick G Prahl($317,663), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Batch Culture Experiments, Amino Acids, Continuous Darkness, Growth Temperature, Blooms, CCMP, Carbon, Cells, Cellular, Conditions, Ehux, Examined, Investigate, Lipids, Non-thermal, OCE-, Obtained, PULCA, Paleotemperature, Physiological, Prolonged, Strains, UK.

Y-90/Sr-90 and Th-234/U-238 Disequilibria: The Utility of Dual fast Process Chronometers as Tracers of Particle Dynamics in Shallow Coastal, Estuarine and Freshwater Systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James T Waples($500,005), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: 90sr And 234th238u, 234th238u Disequilibria, 90y 90sr, Aquatic, Daily, Dynamics, Half-life, Has, Intense, Lt, Measured, Measuring, Nearshore, Parent, Particle, Particle-reactive, Particles, Rates, Scavenging, Sediment, Simultaneously, Thu, Utility, Water.

The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis J McGillicuddy($3,897,820), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Alexandrium Population Biology, Genomics Facility Core, Oceans And Human, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Administrative Core, Broader Impacts, Coastal Ocean, Human Health, Human Pathogens, Agents, Biological, COHH, Center, Expected, Focus, Issues, Marine, Massachusetts, NSF-NIEHS, Pilot, Projects, Theme, WHOI.

Pacific Northwest Center for Oceans and Human Health
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elaine M Faustman($4,026,968), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Harmful Algal Blooms, Oceans And Human, Puget Sound Estuary, Coastal Environment, Domoic Acid, Facility Core, Human Health, Pacific Northwest, Affected, Affecting, Age, Center, Chemical, Chronic, Closures, Commonly, Define, Department, Developed, Effects, Examine, Exposure, Factors, Has, Multidisciplinary, Native, Occurred, Populations, Potential, Processes, Pseudo-nitzschia, Risk, Shellfish, Students, Time, Toxin, Washington, Waters.

Center for Subtropical and Tropical Oceans and Human Health Research in the Marine Sciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lora E Fleming($3,444,971), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Hab Functional Genomics, Harmful Algal Blooms, Oceans And Human, Subtropical And Tropical, Coastal Waters, Florida International, Human Health, Human Populations, Karenia Brevis, Microbial Indicators, Population Dynamics, Produce Toxins, Remote Sensing, Toxic Habs, Tropical Oceans, Biomedical, CSTORMS, Center, Centers, Characteristics, Collaboration, Conditions, Environment, Environmental, Environments, Exposed, Expression, Facilities, Field, Humans, Increasing, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Marine, Miami, Microbes, Oceanographic, Projects, Public, Recreational, Species.

Collaborative Research: Particulate Organic Carbon in the Upper Ocean Derived from Historical Bio-Optical Data and Satellite Observations of Ocean Color
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dariusz Stramski($177,302), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Malgorzata Stramska($171,569), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Bio-optical Relationships, Ocean Color, Poc Dynamics, Bio-optical, Carbon, Chlorophyll, Collected, Expected, Global, Historical, OCE-, Satellite, Sensors, Situ, Studying, Time, Unattended, Various.

Collaborative Research: TH(IV) and PA(IV, V) Binding to Exopolymeric Acid and Polysaccharides in Marine Environments
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laodong Guo($199,997), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. James L Pinckney($550,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Laboratory And Field, Efficient Binding, Laboratory Studies, Organic Matter, Texas Aandm, APS, Approaches, Biomolecules, Controlled, Investigations, Molecular, OCE-, Ocean, Oceanographic, POC, Paivv, Particulate, Path, Phytoplankton, Produced, Ratios, Thiv.

Bacterial Manganese (II) Oxidation in the Guaymas Basin Hydrothermal Plume
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bradley M Tebo($288,479), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mn Oxidation Rates, Genes Involved, Hydrothermal Plumes, Hydrothermal Vents, Natural Mn, Bacteria, Bacterial, Biomineralization, Designed, Function, GB, Isolated, Isolates, Mechanisms, Minerals, Mn-oxidizing, Mnii, Mniiiiv, Molecular, Organisms, Oxide, Oxides, Products, Range, Recently, Responsible, Rubisco, Waters, X-ray.

Development of a Rapid Method for Simultaneous Measurement of SF6 and CFCs in Water
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David T Ho($420,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aerosol Sampler, Atmospheric Deposition, Iron Deposition, Mineral Dust, BTM, Bermuda, Biological, Buoy, Buoy-mounted, Chemical, Concentrations, Deployment, Enhanced, Fe, Ocean, Oceanography, Primary, Productivity, Surface, Technologies, Time-series, Water.

"What Controls the Surface Ocean Iron Distribution? A Modeling Study".
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael J Follows($452,672), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ocean Iron Cycle, Biogeochemical Cycles, Biogeochemical Forcing, Numerical Models, Availability, Biogeochemistry, Circulation, Distribution, Examine, Increasing, Limiting, Processes, Sensitive, Surface.

Collaborative research: The Nitrifying of Lake Superior and Its Intersections with the P and Fe Cycles
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert M McKay($132,241), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
2. Robert M Sherrell($194,198), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Jacques C Finlay($381,931), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Lake Superior, Nitrogen Cycle, Absence, Ca, Concentration, Fe, Increase, Nitrate, OCE-, Plankton, Rate, Sources, Stable.

The Oceanography and Biochemistry of Cadmium
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francois M Morel($1,012,191), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Cd Enzymes, Enzyme Involved, Metal Center, Acquisition, Cadmium, Coccolithophores, Cycling, DNA, Diatoms, Evidence, Laboratory, Marine, Micronutrient, Natural, Oceanic, Organic, PCR, Phytoplankton, Processes, RNA, Sequences, Species, Substitutes, Utilization, Zn.

Cavitation-Induced Organic Matter Modifications in Marine Surface Waters.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Penny Vlahos($87,216), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Bubble Fields, Acoustic, Cavitation, Chemical, Conditions, Consideration, Direct, Energy, Levels, Marine, Natural, Ocean, Sonochemical, Sufficiently.

Future Applications of 234Th in Aquatic Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($78,520), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: 234th Speciation, Collection, Current, Export, Issues, Modeling, Oceanographic, Particle, Workshop.

Improved Accuracy and Precision of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen and Inorganic Nitrogen in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jonathan H Sharp($435,284), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Tdn And Din, Accurate Analytical, Dissolved Organic, Global Carbon, Ability, Analysis, Combined, DOC, DON, Fluxes, HTC, Has, International, Marine, Methods, Nitrogen, Past, Reference, Reliability, Stations, Time.

A Workshop to Set Priorities for the U.S. GEOTRACES Program
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert F Anderson($86,499), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Marine Biogeochemical Cycles, National And Regional, International Geotraces, International Planning, Planning Workshop, Regional Planning, Activities, Biological, Chemical, Committee, Convene, Efforts, Held, Implementation, Isotopes, Item, Nationalregional, Objectives, Ocean, Priorities, Priority, SCOR, Species, Specific, Trace, Various, Workshops.

2004 Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($14,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Chemists, Conference, Development, Disciplines, Environmental, Essential, Function, Gordon, Has, Industrial, Metalloenzymes, Metals, Molecular, Opportunities, Processes, Reactivity.

Collaborative Research (USC/Caltech): Evaluation of Opal Dissolution Kinetics and Factors That May Regulate Opal Accumulation in Margin Sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Berelson($420,588), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Suvasis Dixit($264,161), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Bsi Burial, Bsi Dissolution, Bsi Rain, Margin Environments, Algorithms, Based, Biogeochemical, California, Carbon, Cycle, Entire, Factors, Kinetics, Measure, OCE, Ocean, Regulate, Sediments, Si.

The Deployment of a Buoy-Mounted Aerosol Sampler on the Bermuda Testbed Mooring
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward R Sholkovitz($220,896), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Aerosol Sampler, Atmospheric Deposition, Iron Deposition, Mineral Dust, BTM, Bermuda, Biological, Buoy, Buoy-mounted, Chemical, Concentrations, Deployment, Enhanced, Fe, Ocean, Oceanography, Primary, Productivity, Surface, Technologies, Time-series, Water.

Collaborative Research: RUI -- Response of Nitrifying Bacteria to Fluctuating Hypoxia in Estuarine and Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James T Hollibaugh($226,640), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Bottom Water, Fixed Nitrogen, Nitrogen Removal, West Florida, Adapt, Aerobic, Anammox, Concentrations, Degree, Denitrification, Estuaries, Estuarine, Exposure, Extended, HS-, Hypoxia, Hypoxic, Investigate, Nitrification, Nitrifiers, Nitrifying, OCE-, Rates.

Collaborative Research: RUI--Effect of Diurnal and Weekly Water Column Hypoxia Events on Nitrification and Nitrogen Transformations in Estuarine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jane M Caffrey($450,405), University of West Florida, Pensacola
Key terms: Bottom Water, Fixed Nitrogen, Nitrogen Removal, West Florida, Adapt, Aerobic, Anammox, Concentrations, Degree, Denitrification, Estuaries, Estuarine, Exposure, Extended, HS-, Hypoxia, Hypoxic, Investigate, Nitrification, Nitrifiers, Nitrifying, OCE-, Rates.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Ecology of Nitrogen Cycling in the Oxygen Minimum Zone of the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Amal Jayakumar($396,220), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Allan H Devol($41,717), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Chemical Variables, Denitrification Rates, Denitrifying Activity, Denitrifying Bacteria, Gene Expression, Marine Nitrogen, Water Column, Bacterial, Copper, Culture, Demonstrated, Distribution, Factors, Indicator, Investigate, Nitrate, Nitrite, OCE-, OMZ, Oxygen, Potential, Regulate.

The Role of Protein as a Contributor to Organic Nitrogen in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rodger Harvey($384,376), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Amino Acids, Organic Nitrogen, Protein Structure, Allow, Carbon, Importance, Primary, Proteins, Sediments, Structural.

Investigating the Importance of the Coastal Zone as a Source of Methylmercury to the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Cynthia Gilmour($524,055), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Dissolved And Solid, Coastal Zone, Hg Input, Hg Methylation, Hg Speciation, Solid Phase, Bacteria, Biogeochemistry, Budget, Chesapeake, Chhg, Concentration, Environment, Examined, Fe, Global, Has, Increased, Laboratory, Net, Ocean, Primary, Rate, Sediments, Shelf, Sites, Situ, Source, Sources.

A Preliminary Investigation of Radionuclide Distribution, Transport and Behavior in the Savannah (Georgia) Estuary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2003; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ashanti Johnson($7,423), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Savannah Estuary, Cs, Sediments, Transport.

Exploratory Research on the Causes of Salinity Errors in the CCSM Coupled Climate Models with Focus on the Subpolar North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. LuAnne Thompson($99,694), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sea Surface Salinity, Sub-polar North Pacific, Ccsm Model, Coupled Climate, Fresh Water, Sub-polar North, Effort, Errors, Establish, Focus, Lead, NCAR, Ocean, Oceanography, SSS, Transport, Version.

BE/CNH: Linking Human and Biophysical Processes in Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Baja California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Laura I Gonzalez($1,616,474), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Complex Interactions, Small-scale Fisheries, Approaches, Biological, Biophysical, Development, Dynamics, Ecological, Environmental, Feedbacks, Field, Human, Integrated, Local, Management, Models, Oceanographic, Performance, Processes, Productivity, Program, Regional, Small-scale, Socioeconomic, Spatial, Temporal.

Expanding Links to Careers in Aquatic Sciences
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Benjamin E Cuker($649,431), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Graduate Students, Minority Students, ASLO, Aquatic, Attend, Faculty, Funding, Hampton, Has, Meeting, Participants, Participated, Program, Received, Universities.

CAREER: Sediment Dynamics on the Bengal Shelf and Fate of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Floodpulse
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Steven L Goodbred($236,355), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Inner Shelf, Sediment Load, Bangladeshi, Dispersal, SUNY, Students.

Ocean Sciences Meeting Support for OCE REU Students
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($121,493), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Oce-funded Reu, Reu Site, ASLO, Oce-funded, Program, Students, Undergraduates.

CAREER: Origins of high Indo-West Pacific marine biodiversity: the role of allopatric divergence in marine environments.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. None($649,179), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Malucca And Flores, Pelagic Larval Dispersal, Allopatric Divergence, Flores Seas, Marine Biodiversity, Marine Environments, Marine Scientists, Activities, Biology, Courses, Creation, Education, Educational, Efforts, Evolutionary, Experiences, Explicitly, Foundation, Genetic, Genetics, Has, IWP, Identifying, Increase, Isolated, Management, Molecular, Opportunities, Populations, Processes, Regional, Species, Techniques, Theory, Training, Undergraduate.

The Our Ocean World Radio Series and Educational Program
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Paul J Bartishevich($30,000), Finger Lakes Productions International, Ithaca
Key terms: Public Attention, Allow, Broadcasts, FLPI, Ocean, Oceans, Pilot, Radio.

CAREER: Langmuir Circulation--Internal Wave Interactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Gregory Chini($477,602), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Computational And Observational, Langmuir Circulation-internal Wave, Undergraduate And Graduate, Circulation-internal Wave, Graduate Students, Langmuir Circulation-internal, Mixed Layer, Theoretical Oceanography, Coupling, Development, Experiences, Foundation, Integrated, Models, Numerical, Observations, Oceanic, Principal, Program, Pycnocline, School, Simulations, Stability, Technical, Training, Vortices.

ADVANCE Fellow: Evaluating the Importance of Lateral Transport on Alkenone Temperature Reconstructions in the late Quaternary
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Elisabeth L Sikes($219,997), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Estimation And Multi-proxy, Lateral Transport, Paleotemperature Estimation, ADVANCE, Alkenones, Continued, Has, Recently, Sedimentary, Usefulness.

CAREER: The Role of Turbulence Structure in Broadcast Spawning: Exploring Physical-Biological Relationships Through an Integrated Research and Education Program
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. John P Crimaldi($675,454), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Benthic Invertebrates, Curriculum Development, Digital Library, Fluid Mechanics, Laboratory Experiments, Laser-induced Fluorescence, Numerical Simulations, Physical-biological Interactions, Physical-biological Relationships, Teaching Facilities, Teaching Flume, Approach, CD-ROM, Central, Coalescence, Concentrations, Contaminants, Courses, Dispersion, Education, Educational, Enhanced, Feature, Fertilization, Field, Flow, Gamete, Gametes, Has, Incorporated, Integrated, Intended, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Knowledge, Laser-induced, Local, Mixing, On-line, Performed, Physical-biological, Plan, Processes, Produce, Program, Stirring, Technique, Techniques, Tools, Turbulence, Turbulent, Undergraduate, Visual.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Josephine Y Aller($224,100), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Presentations, Program, Student, Students, Summer.

CAREER: Biologically-Mediated Molecular-Level Transformations of Marine Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($210,100), Barnard College, New York
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry, Organic Matter, Bacteria, Barnard, Burial, Carbon, Coastal, Cultures, Environmental, Fixation, Fractions, Has, Laboratory, Microbial, OM, Ocean, Oligotrophic, Phytoplankton, Prey, Protozoan, Remineralization, Transformations.

REU Site: Oceanography & Oceanographic Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Daniel C McCorkle($174,059), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole, Program, Student, Students, Summer, WHOI.

REU Site: Continental Shelf Research for Undergraduates
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. James W Ammerman($238,414), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Expenses, Funding, Program, Students, Summer, Travel, Undergraduates.

From Upper Estuaries to the Deep Sea: REU Site at the Hatfield Marine Science Center
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. George W Boehlert($186,852), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: HMSC, Organize, Presentations, Program, Student, Students.

Upper Ocean Density Structure and Flow in the Glacial Ocean: A Plan for Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz($230,415), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Educational, Funding, Ocean.

BE/GEN-EN Genomic Approaches to Understanding Variation in Marine Larval Recruitment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Donal T Manahan($1,887,740), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Adult Populations, Computer Simulations, Genetic Maps, Larval Fitness, Marine Animals, Marine Recruitment, Ocean Currents, Pacific Oyster, Population Modeling, Recruitment Success, Ecology, Endogenous, Environmental, Exogenous, Experimental, Factors, Food, Gene-expression, Genes, Genomic, Genomics, Has, Identifying, Infrastructure, Mathematical, Million, Physiological, Processes, Sources, Species, Subject, Tools.

Acquisition of an X-Band Satellite Data Groundstation for Regional Multidisciplinary Research, Training and Services in Maine
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Habtom W Ressom($330,000), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Acquisition, Capability, Coastal, Maine, NSF, Observation, Ocean, Programs, Real-time, UM, X-band.

Millennial variations in Arabian Sea sediment proxies: the connection to North Atlantic climate
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Franco Marcantonio($236,508), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Indian Ocean Monsoon, Arabian Sea, Stadialinterstadial Timescales, Export, Intensity, Pis, Proxies, Ratio, Reconstruct, Total.

Water: Challenges at the Intersection of Human and Natural Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: ERE General

1. David L Skole($72,711), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Complex, Processes, Processing.

HSD: Modeling the Synergistic Effects of Social and Ecological Change in the 19th-Century North American Cod Fishery
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: HSD - AGENTS OF CHANGE

1. Andrew A Rosenberg($500,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Mid 19th Century, 19th Century, Cod Fishing, Daily Catch, England Cod, Fishing Vessels, Hsd Awards, Marine Ecosystems, Mid 19th, Access, Affinities, Baseline, Behavior, Biological, Contribute, Correlate, Crew, Ecological, Environment, Familial, Fisheries, Fishermen, Fishery, GIS, Geographic, Historic, Historical, Homeport, Human, Interdisciplinary, Management, Modeling, Modern, Natural, Potential, Resource, Resources, Sea, Social, Stock, Synergistic, Time, Trends, Variables.

LTER: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS DEVELP

1. Peter J Edmunds($5,904,638), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Coral Reefs, French Polynesia, Hermatypic Corals, Pacific Island, Abiotic, Biological, Biotic, California, Conservation, Decades, Diversity, Dynamics, Ecological, Focused, Functional, Interdisciplinary, Issues, LTER, Long-term, Management, Mechanistic, Monitoring, Multiple, Processes, Program, Programs, Ranging, Short, Students, Thematic, Themes, Training.

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. John H Steele($222,448), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Academic, Fisheries, Has, ICES, Ocean.

Support for U.S. Scientific Participation in PICES
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Vera Alexander($172,838), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: North Pacific, Marine, Ocean.

Support to Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Arthur Paterson($412,660), NOAA, Silver Spring
Key terms: Development, IOC, International, Ocean.

ITR: Collaborative Research: Looking Ahead: Designing the Next Generation Cyber-infrastructure to Operate Interactive Ocean Observatories
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. John A Orcutt($2,272,885), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Monitoring And Control, Ocean Observatories, Ocean Observatory, Ocean Observing, Approaches, Based, Cyberinfrastructure, Developing, Grid, Implemented, Infrastructure, Instrument, Involves, LOOKING, Links, MARS, Management, Networks, ORION, Optiputer, Prototype, Real-time, Roadnet, Software, Streams, Technology, Tools, User, Variety, Visualization.

A Unique Strip of Seismicity on the Western Flank of the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge 13-14.5 degrees N
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: International Research Collab

1. Deborah K Smith($70,766), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marathon Fracture Zones, Tectonic History, Triple Junction, Atlantic, Fifteen, Region, Seismicity.

CMG: Theory and Modeling of Differential-Geometrical Structures in Ocean-Atmosphere Optics for Inversion of Satellite Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Robert J Frouin($386,033), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Color Remote Sensing, Manifold Valued Random, Ocean Color Remote, Varying Observation Geometry, Differential-geometrical Structures, Mathematical Methodology, Random Objects, Riemannian Manifolds, Top-of-atmosphere Reflectance, Accuracy, Accurate, Analytical, Field, Functions, Geophysical, Inverse, Inversion, Inverted, Maps, Models, Parameters, Regression, Resolution, Rigorous, Satellite, Tools, Top-of-atmosphere.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Stochastic Representation of Parameter Uncertainty within Model Predictions of Future Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Charles S Jackson($490,059), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Gabriel Huerta($210,661), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Climate Model Prediction, Climate Models, Multiple Vfsa, Parameter Space, Atmospheric, Combined, Developed, Differences, Efficient, Geophysical, MCMC, Methods, Objectives, Parameters, Perspective, Sampling, Sources, Stochastic, Uncertainties, Uncertainty.

CMG Collaborative Training: Modern Mathematical Methods in Physical Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Hendrik A Dijkstra($142,505), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Advanced Mathematical Techniques, Mathematical Methods, Summer School, Fields, Graduate, Iii, Mathematically, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Physics, Promote, Student, Students.

CMG: Nonintegrable Hamiltonian Systems in Ocean Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Francisco J Beron-Vera($963,976), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Geophysical Applications, Geophysically Motivated, Nonintegrable Hamiltonian, Pollutant Dispersal, Principal Application, Taylor-couette Flows, Tracer Patchiness, Trajectory Stability, Wave Propagation, Background, Collaboration, Concentration, Dynamics, Geoscientists, Has, Ii, Importance, Inhomogeneous, Investigated, Issues, Lagrangian, Latter, Lead, Level, Mathematical, Media, Mixing, Ocean, Practical, Relating, Statistics, Stochastic, Taylor-couette, Teaching, WPRIM.

Marine Microbial Imaging: Acquisition of Flow and Imaging Cytometers for the Analysis of Marine Particles at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Anthony H Knap($420,000), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Marine Environment, Sargasso Sea, Biology, Especially, Processes.

Development of Instrumentation for Continuous Field-Based Measurements of Atmospheric and Oceanic Ar/N2, O2/N2, and CO2/N2 ratios and related isotopic tracers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ralph F Keeling($644,151), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Mixing, Ability, Arn, Climate, Development, Heat, Isotope, Observations, Ocean, Oceanography, Precision, Ratio, Ratios, Sampling, Scripps, Tracers.

Acquisition of Light Stable Isotope Facility for Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Paul L Koch($637,099), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Acquisition, Analyses, Facility, UCSC.

Acquisition of a Field Laboratory for the Study of Subseafloor life
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David C Rowley($345,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Microbiological And Biogeochemical, Biogeochemical Sampling, Field Laboratory, On-site Analyses, Broader, Diverse, Environments, Life, Ocean, On-site, Properties, Sediments, Subseafloor, Subsurface, URI.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma- Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES) for Research and Educational Training at Queens College (CUNY), New York
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Stephen F Pekar($109,605), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Acquisition, Department, Education, Queens, Teaching.

Acquisition of a Core Scanner with X-Ray Fluorescence - Digital X-Radiography - Digital Photography Capabilities for Rapid High Resolution Core Analyses
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Liviu Giosan($435,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Acquisition, Atomic, Capabilities, Capability, Climate, Digital, Instrument, Rapid, Unique, WHOI.

Acquisition of Satellite Communications Systems to Provide Continuous Internet Connectivity for Oceanographic Research Vessels at Sea
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jonathan Berger($1,130,264), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Internet Connectivity, Academic, Acquisition, Capability, Communication, Communications, Inc, Oceanographic, Sea, Ship, Ships, Supported, UNOLS, Vessels.

Acquisition of Instrumentation to Enhance Research and Teaching of the Coastal Processes Research Group at East Carolina University
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John P Walsh($443,971), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Acquisition, Coastal, Counting, Education, Instrumentation, Instruments, Planned, Processes, Seismic, Students.

Collaborative Research: The Samoan Hotspot, Past and Present
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Stanley R Hart($194,661), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Hubertus Staudigel($187,355), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Pis, Province, Samoan, Volcanoes.

A Compliance Study of Partial Melt ini the Crust Beneath the EPR and the Relationship of Melt to Tectonics and Construction of the Crust
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Spahr C Webb($299,137), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Lower Crust, Melt, North, Segments.

Collaborative Research: Culturing Studies of Environmental Controls on Benthic Foraminiferal Shell Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel C McCorkle($208,622), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. G. Thomas Chandler($192,581), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
3. Joan M Bernhard($379,191), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Foraminiferal Shell Chemistry, Benthic Foraminiferal, Culturing Studies, Past Climate, Shell Composition, Carbonate, Concentrations, Culture, Dc, Designed, Experiments, Future, Influence, Predictions, Trace.

Marine Earth System History (MESH) Planning Office Activities
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lowell D Stott($480,549), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Development And Coordination, Workshops And Theoretical, Advance Mesh-related, Mesh Office, Steering Committee, Theoretical Institutes, Topical Workshops, Activities, Marine, Mesh-related.

Collaborative Research: Paleoventiltion of the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean in the Holocene and late Quaternary
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas P Guilderson($55,066), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Elisabeth L Sikes($188,714), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Glaciation And Deglaciation, Deep Water, Ages, Ash, Ashes, Cores, Foraminifera, Has, Layers, Marine, Past, Pis, Sediment, Subtropical, Surface, Zealand.

Cenozoic History of Lithium Isotopes in Seawater as Recorded in Foraminifera - A Feasibility Study
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Philip N Froelich($14,087), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Core Top, Planktic Foraminifers, ICP-MS, Species.

Testing Models of Magma Movement along the East Pacific Rise Using Combined Geoditic and Numerical Experiments
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marie-Helene Cormier($802,818), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magma Injection, Mid-ocean Ridges, Plate Boundaries, Plate Boundary, Pressure Sensor, Pressure Sensors, Carried, Detect, Dike, Field, Melt, Mid-ocean, Modeling, Models, Monitor, Nearly, Program, Seafloor, Segment, Site, Tools, Vertical.

Compliance in Laterally Varying Lithosphere: Axial Magma Chambers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ralph A Stephen($428,265), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Seafloor Compliance, Model, Seismic.

Mechanisms for Generating Syn-Rift, Fault Independent Subsidence: Constraints from the Exmouth Plateau and Cuvier Margin, Northwest Australia
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Garry D Karner($197,870), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Margins, Subsidence.

Melt Generation and Transport Beneath the Slow Spreading Kolbeinsey Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenneth Sims($305,618), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Kolbeinsey Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridge, Spreading Ridges, Axial, Collaboration, Compositions, Critical, Depth, Disequilibria, Iceland, Isotopic, Mid-ocean, Processes, Slow-spreading, Th, Trace-element, U-series, U-th.

Crossdip Processing of Swath 3D Seismic Reflection Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mladen Nedimovic($82,722), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Crossdip, Techniques.

Tracking Past Shifts of the Eastern Pacific ITCZ with Oxygen Isotopes and Magnesium Paleothermometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Athanasios Koutavas($162,575), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate, ENSO, ITCZ, Ky, Latitudinal, N-S, Stages, Surface.

Immersive Visualization at RIDGE 2000 Integrated Study Sites: Community Access and Construction of Virtual 3-D Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Deborah L Kilb($400,033), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Models.

Joint tomography using three-dimensional sensitivity of finite-frequency body and surface waves: Methods and application to the Iceland hotspot
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Yang Shen($329,530), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Methods, Regional, Seismic.

Effects of microbial versus inorganic processes on the geochemistry of sulfur during seawater alteration of oceanic lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey C Alt($157,512), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Crust Formed, Fast Spreading, Oceanic Crust, Net, Rates, Sulfur, Upper.

Origin of the 100-kyr Climate Cycle: Isolating Temperature and Ice Volume, 0-2Ma.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gary P Klinkhammer($745,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Climate Cycle, Ice Volume, Oxygen Isotope, Dominant, Estimates, Global, MPT, Mgca, Origin, Pacific, Past, Pis, Relative, Sites, Temperature, Time, Transition, Tropical.

Accurate Calibration of Multiple Paleoceanographic Proxies in Benthic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas M Marchitto($183,646), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Benthic Foraminifera, Geochemical Proxies, Accurate, Carbonate, Collected, Multiple, Parameters, Ph, Salinity, Seawater.

Collaborative Research into Indo-Asian Monsoon Variability: Data and Model Assessment of Northern- and Southern-Hemisphere Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven C Clemens($459,331), Brown University, Providence
2. John E Kutzbach($334,747), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Northern Hemisphere, Analyzing, Asian, Climate, Evolution, Forcing, Ice, Insolation, Interval, Large-scale, Ma, Monsoon, Orbital, Relative, Summer-monsoon, Timing.

Expansion & Collapse of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the Quaternary
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ingrid L Hendy($275,533), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Growth And Decay, Jumbo Piston Core, North Pacific, Odp Site, British, Climate, Continent, Glacial, History, Interpret, Ka, MD-, Route.

Hotspot-Ridge Interaction: Shaping the Geometry of Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Garrett T Apuzen-Ito($206,716), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hotspot-ridge Interactions, Hotspot-ridge, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Objective, Plume.

Collaborative Proposal: Re-Assessing Hotspot Models in the Pacific Basin with High Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Dating of Volcanic Activity in the Line Islands & Louisville Seamount Trail
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anthony Koppers($182,253), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ar40ar39 Dating, Age, Arar, Basalts, Fixed, Hotspot, Seamounts.

Collaborative Research: Re-Assessing Hotspot Models in the Pacific Basin With High Resolution 40Ar/39Ar Dating of Volcanic Activity in the Line Islands & Louisville Seamount Tr
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Duncan($62,513), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ar40ar39 Dating, Age, Arar, Basalts, Fixed, Hotspot, Seamounts.

Numerical modeling of two-phase flow in seafloor hydrothermal systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert P Lowell($238,961), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: 2-d Circulation, Hydrothermal, Modeling.

Hydrothermal Source Variability in the Lau Basin: Identifying Areas of Sulfur- and Acid- rich Venting from the Composition of Particulate Matter in Hydrothermal Plumes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph A Resing($47,078), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Lau Basin, Hydrothermal, Particulate.

Collaborative Research: Iceland Flexure Zones: Analogs for Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Centers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey A Karson($316,896), Duke University, Durham
2. Robert J Varga($109,463), College of Wooster, Wooster
Key terms: Developed, Iceland, Lava.

Building ocean crust: Quantitative analyses of submarine lava channel formation and laboratory simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Tracy P Gregg($47,894), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Submarine Lava Channels, Degrees, Detailed, EPR, East, Has, Images, Maps, Ridge.

Collaborative Research: Sediment Dynamics on the Actively Deforming Waipaoa Continental Slope: An Examination of a Dispersal System Sink
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John P Walsh($185,728), East Carolina University, Greenville
2. Clark R Alexander($497,484), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
3. John P Walsh($185,728), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Focus, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Resolution of the Stratigraphic Record for a High Input, Collision-Margin Shelf Basin: The MARGINS Waipaoa Focus Area
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lincoln F Pratson($214,292), Duke University, Durham
2. Steven A Kuehl($341,197), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Mud Deposit, Shelf Basin, Holocene, Sediment, Stratigraphic, Waipaoa.

MARGINS Post-doctoral Fellowship - Jennifer Garrison: Time-scales and mechanisms of differentiation of mafic parents to rhyodacite in Central America
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark K Reagan($163,017), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Ion Probe, Subduction Zone-related, Volcanic Complexes, Analyzed, Central, Eruption, Initiatives, Magmas, Nsf-funded, Rock, Time-scales, UCLA, Zone-related.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Comparing the Thermal Histories of Fast- and Slow-spreading Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter B Kelemen($162,820), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cooling Rates, Odp Leg, Crust, Igneous, Lower, Ridge, Spreading.

Collaborative Research: Variations of sediment input to magma genesis across the Kurile arc
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James B Gill($53,908), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Izu Arc, Basalts, ODP, Os, Pis, Subset.

A Seafloor Geodesy Experiment at the Discovery Transform Fault
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($238,666), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Aseismic Fault Slip, Seismic And Aseismic, Fault Slip, Discovery, Plate, Transform.

Collaborative Research: Integrated petrological, geophysical and numerical modeling constraints on crustal and mantle processes along the Galapagos spreading center
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($40,224), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Axial, Constrain, Continuation, Crust, Magma, Mantle, Petrologic, Seismic, Source.

SGER: Clay Microfabric Signatures Driving Organic Matter Preservation in Marine Sediment: Micro- to Nano-scale Properties and Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard H Bennett($75,000), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Clay Microfabric, Fine-grained Sediments, Marine Sediments, Aggregates, Applied, Basis, Chemical, Development, Experiments, Fine-grained, Natural, OM, Organic, Organo-clay, Pellets, Pilot, Preservation, TEM, Techniques.

Proxy Development: Bacteriohopanepolyols (BHP) and their fossil hydrocarbon counterparts as signatures of cyanobacterial productivity and nitrogen fixation in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Roger Summons($79,766), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Cyanobacteria, Marine, Pis, Sediments.

Metal-sulfide speciation and cluster formation at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Heileen Hsu-Kim($117,853), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Sulfide And Metal, Zns Cluster Formation, Cluster Structure, Hydrothermal Vents, Lau Basin, Sulfide Speciation, Vent Habitats, Zns Clusters, Aquatic, Biological, Concentrations, Degrees, Diffuse, Environments, Expected, Fe, Field, Flow, Focus, Laboratory, Measured, Mechanisms, Metal-sulfide, Metals, Objectives, Observations, Organisms, Reactivity, Ridge, Stability, Stable, Waters.

Late Holocene Sedimentary Archives of Tropical Cyclone Activity from the Northeastern Caribbean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey Donnelly($99,935), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Intense Hurricane, Northeastern Caribbean, Storm-induced Deposits, Climate, Coastal, Environments, Frequency, Resulting, Sedimentary, Sediments, Storms.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Temporal and Spatial Variations in Magma Generation and Slab Influence Across the Central American Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James A Walker($79,335), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Across-arc Transect, Partial Melting, Across-arc, Arar, Dating, Eventually, Fluid, Front, Guatemala, Processes, Rock, Timing, U-series, Volcanic.

Detecting Seasonal through Centennial Variability in Sea Surface Temperatures of the Subtropical North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Konrad A Hughen($332,433), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic, Climate, Colonies, Conditions, Corals, Decadal, Enable, Extend, Massive, Mid-latitude, Multicentury, NAO, Pis, SST, Sensitivity, Subtropical, Surface, Ylong.

Collaborative Research: Upper-Mantle Structure beneath the Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James B Gaherty($178,151), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Rifting Continental Lithosphere, Array, California, Experiment, Gulf, Initiative, Mantle, Means, OBS, Region, Seismic, Seismographs, Upper-mantle.

Geomagnetic excursions in the Brunhes and late Matuyama Chrons and correlation to paleointensity data
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James E Channell($128,875), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy, Magnetic Paleointensity, Atlantic, Site.

Collaborative Research: Holocene/Deglacial Abrupt Climate Change and Variability of the Western Pacific Warm Pool from Multi-decadal to Century-scale Coral Climate Records
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard L Edwards($78,325), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Terrence M Quinn($232,225), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Frederick W Taylor($289,444), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Thermal And Hydrologic, Fossil Corals, Abrupt, Climate, Determinations, Holocene, Proxy, Region, Tropical, WPWP.

Marine Geological Collections: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Stephen P Miller($80,353), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Geological Collections, Marine Geological, Duration, Oceanography, SIO, Scripps, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal System Response to Magma Supply and Crustal Thickness Gradients Along the Galapagos Spreading Center, 89.5-94W
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy M Shank($125,469), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Scott M White($77,583), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
3. Joseph A Resing($41,443), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Supply And Crustal, Crustal Thickness, Field Experiment, Hydrothermal Activity, Magma Supply, Plume Sampling, Ridge Crest, Distribution, GSC, Galapagos, Nature, Sonar, Surveys.

Evolution of ENSO during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Fairbanks($160,001), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: El Ninola Nina, Sea Surface, Tarawa Atoll, Tropical Pacific, Anomalies, Anomaly, Climate, ENSO, Past, Pis, Proxy, Temperature.

Assessing the effects of calcite saturation on the benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-temperature relationship using a homothermal depth transect in the Norwegian Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Yair Rosenthal($259,663), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Benthic Foraminiferal Mgca, Calcite Saturation, Low Temperatures, Norwegian Sea, Decrease, Depth, Down-core, Expect, Mackensen, Resolution, Spanning, Water.

Collaborative Research: Changing Holocene Environments of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (CHEETA)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas Wagner($327,137), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Peter DeMenocal($883,018), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate And Vegetation, Nw African Climate, Tropical Atlantic Ssts, Atlantic Climate, High-latitude Cooling, North Atlantic, Core, Cores, Define, High-latitude, Holocene, Pis, Reconstructed, Relative, Shifts, Timescales, Transect, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Holocene Seasonality and Inter-annual Variability Along the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul L Koch($189,806), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Stephen A Schellenberg($99,240), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
3. Noah Diffenbaugh($148,897), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Climatic And Oceanographic, Ne Pacific Margin, Pacific Margin, Climate, Dated, Growth, Holocene, Isotope, Minor, Model, Pis, Proxy, Shells, Temperature, Upwelling.

Collaborative Research: An Inverse Model Study of Abrupt Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Olivier Marchal($138,652), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Charles S Jackson($405,787), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Abrupt, Atlantic, Climate, Dois, Evolutions, Fh, Greenland, Ice, MOC, Model, Models, Pis, Theory.

SGER: Improving the Utility of Paleoproxies from Coccolith Chemistry: Calibration and Analytical Advances
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Heather M Stoll($46,850), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Ion Probe, Analysis, Coccolith, Coccolithophorid, Coccoliths, Determinations, Effect, Elemental, Growth, Indicator, Nutrient, Nutrient-stimulated, Plankton, SIMS, Sediment, Species, Srca, Technique.

Investigating Climate-Related Changes in Meridional Overturning Circulation during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($503,926), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Surface Hydrography, North Atlantic Surface, Atlantic Moc, Circulation, Climate, Climatic, Compared, Cores, Foraminifera, Future, Holocene, Ice, Intensity, Path, Pis, Potential, Rate, Scavenging.

A Polar Signal Dominating the Tropical Oceans, 1.2-1.8 Ma?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy D Herbert($293,606), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Correlation, Latitude, Pis, Proxies, SST, Tropical.

The LDEO Deep-Sea Repository and the Curating and Maintenance of the Sediment Library and Dredge Collection
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gerard C Bond($597,917), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Collection, Core, Cores, LDEO, Sediment, World.

Geochemical Controls on the Composition of Coexisting Vapors and Brines: A Novel Experimental Approach to Assess Aqueous Speciation in Subseafloor Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kang Ding($344,132), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Vapor And Brine, Vapors And Brines, Aqueous Species, Brine Phases, Buffers, Coexisting, Distribution, Experimental, Mineral, Speciation.

Collaborative Research: Origin, Timing, and Significance of Millennial-Scale Ice-Rafted Detritus (IRD) Events in the Southern Ocean during the last Ice Age
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael R Perfit($346,763), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Thomas P Guilderson($49,491), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Sharon L Kanfoush-Berkhoudt($43,787), Utica College, Utica
4. Robert F Anderson($160,621), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: South Atlantic Ird, Ice Cores, Antarctic, Origin, Pis, SA-IRD, Sediment.

Seafloor Samples Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Curry($404,917), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sea Floor, Access, Acquisition, Collection, Continue, Describe, Dredge, Lab, Laboratory, Repository, Technical.

Collaborative Research: Stratovolcano lateral collapses and collapse-generated tsunamis in island arc settings: the example of the North New Guinea Arc
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Neal W Driscoll($145,226), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Steven N Ward($702,628), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Tsunami Deposits, Coastal, Pis.

Collaborative Research: Partitioning of Water Between Mantle Minerals and Silicate Melts
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Erik H Hauri($142,961), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Glenn A Gaetani($228,830), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Upper Mantle Minerals, Experiments, Measured, Melt, Melting, Partitioning, Trace, Water.

Collaborative Research: Temporal Evolution of Mantle Water: Quantifying the Effects of Recycling Efficiently Dehydrated Lithosphere into the Deep Mantle
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard H Kingsley($163,285), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Jacqueline E Dixon($289,875), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Cl Concentrations, Mantle Plume, Basalts, Components, H-, Lithosphere, MORB, O-isotopes, Plumes, Water, Wet.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Analysis of Upper-Mantle Dynamics: Slow-Seafloor Spreading and Hotspot Interaction in the Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James B Gaherty($114,535), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Anisotropy, Atlantic, Iceland, Influence, Mantle, Melt, Nature, Sets, Upwelling.

Are Groundwater Inputs into River-Dominated Margins Important?
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William C Burnett($218,169), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Coastal Zone, Groundwater, International, Resource.

Marine Geological Samples Laboratory: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven Carey($186,734), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Core And Dredge, Dredge Rock, Graduate School, Marine Geological, Mgsl Website, Collection, Continued, Cores, Demand, Duration, Facility, Information, Public, Seafloor.

Seafloor Magmatic Construction - A LA ICPMS Based Study
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William P Meurer($196,660), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Ridge Near, Collected, Magmatic, Rock.

Paleolatitudes of the Pacific Plate in the Cretaceous: Comparative Paleomagnetic Investigation on ODP and DSDP Basaltic Cores
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Xixi Zhao($247,414), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Basalt Cores, Consistent, Pacific, Paleomagnetic.

Construction and evolution of slow spreading crust-Atlantis Bank, SWIR
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael Cheadle($247,078), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Atlantis Bank, Geophysical Modeling, Oceanic Core, Constrain, Crust, Faulting, Plate, Processes, Ridges, Spreading, Thermal, Thermochronometry, Timing, Zircon.

International Collaborative Research: Evolution of the Hawaiian Plume- Geochemical Studies of Hana Ridge, Haleakala, Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kevin T Johnson($210,404), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hana Ridge, Analyses, Collected, ICP-MS, JAMSTEC, Japanese, Spent, Technology, Time.

SGER Proposal- Evaluation of Fe-Mn Oxide Coatings as Ideal Archives of Deep Water Nd Isotopes on Cenozoic Time Scales
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ellen E Martin($48,620), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms:

Workshop for the Design of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan Lozier($79,201), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Mentoring Program, Design, Does, Family, Field, Graduate, Input, Nor, Ocean, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Population, Purpose, Retention, Structure, Students, Success, Women, Workshop.

Publications: Scientifically Speaking/Women in Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($46,875), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Scientifically Speaking, Oceanography, Presentations, Publication, Women.

The R/V Alpha Helix Symbios Expedition, a Milestone in Coral Reef Research
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Christopher F D'Elia($22,889), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Expedition, Productivity.

Collaborative Research: Determining the Limits to Life in Submarine Hydrothermal Systems: Active Sulfide Deposits as Natural Laboratories
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Deborah S Kelley($923,690), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Charles G Wheat($178,142), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Diffusely Venting, Environmental Parameters, Conditions, Growth, Hyperthermophiles, In-situ, Mature, Microbial, Sulfide, Temperature, Walls.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Velocity, Compaction, and Pore Pressure in Underthrust Sediments, Nankai Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Demian M Saffer($123,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Pore Pressure, Compaction, Nankai, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Measurements of Magma Flux, Arc Composition, and Lower-Plate Serpentinization in the Central American Subduction Factory
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Peter B Kelemen($5,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Michael Cheadle($1,464,350), University of Wyoming, Laramie
3. Daniel Lizarralde($225,797), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
4. Harm J Van Avendonk($363,314), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Costa Rican, Magma Flux, Active-source, Arc, Central, Composition, Crust, Degree, Detailed, Does, Downgoing, Extensive, Hydration, Program, Seismic, Ship.

The Bend in the Louisville Hotspot Chain: Comparison with the Hawaiian-Emperor Elbow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Anthony Koppers($428,996), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Hotspot Plume, Louisville Chain, Motion, Rock, Seafloor.

Origin of continental margin bedforms: slides or drift deposits, a rock magnetic approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Neal W Driscoll($141,553), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Continental Margin, AMS, Bedforms, Deposits, Has, Method, Origin, Resolve, Sediment, Slide.

SGER - Seismometers on CORKS: Design Plans
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Ralph A Stephen($87,261), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Design Requirements, Borehole, CORK, Conducting, Corks, Crust, IODP, Instrumentation, Potential, Program, Seiscorks, Seismic, Vsps.

SGER: Hydrogenase activity and microbial metabolism of the deep biosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Arthur J Spivack($139,204), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, Marine Sediments, Microbial Metabolic, Activity, Anoxic, Application, Conventional, IODP, Life, Program, Technique.

A New Borehole Magnetic Susceptibility Tool for High-Resolution Paleoclimate and Core-Log Integration Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Gregory J Myers($297,040), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ms Tool, Cores, Downhole, Holes, IODP, Program.

Installation of a Thermistor Array at ODP Site 642 to Document and Monitor Bottom Water Temperature Variations Through Time
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert N Harris($242,378), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Bottom Water Temperature, Borehole, Has, IODP, Long-term.

Origin and Emplacement of the Oceanic Core Complex at IODP Site 735
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Henry J Dick($160,159), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ocean Crust, Atlantis, Deep, Hole, Lower, Site.

Integrated fluid inclusion and petrological studies of the PACMANUS hydrothermal system - building upon the results of ODP Leg 193
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. David A Vanko($50,404), Towson University, Towson
Key terms: Fluid Inclusion, Mineral Chemistry, Oceanographic Cruise, Constrain, Drilling, PACMANUS, Thermal.

Linking Information Systems in Marine and Terestrial Geosciences: Sediment Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($34,603), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Information, Integrating, Marine, Terrestrial.

US and Japanese Collaborative Research: A Magnetotelluric (MT) Transect Across the Mariana Subduction Factory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert L Evans($1,070,111), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Back-arc, Electrical, Mantle, Mariana, Seafloor, Structure, Transect.

Mantle Inputs to the Subduction Factory: Assessing Scales of Spatial Variability along and across the IBM Convergent Margin
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert J Stern($449,818), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Infant Arc Crust, Bonin Islands, Collected, Cook, Cruise, MARGINS, Participation, West.

Collaborative Research: Establishing Quaternary Climate/Terrestrial/Oceanic Linkages in southern Alaska and IODP Site Survey
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Sean S Gulick($81,109), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Joseph S Stoner($63,553), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Joseph S Stoner($62,864), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Drill Sites, Marine Sediments, Site Survey, Additional, Alaska, Climate, Coring, IODP, Piston, Program, Resolution, Seismic, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Establishing a High-resolution Temporal Record of Quaternary Climate-Glacial-Ocean Linkages in Southern Alaska (and IODP Site Survey)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. John M Jaeger($66,207), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Bruce P Finney($46,945), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Ellen A Cowan($29,342), Appalachian State University, Boone
4. Ross D Powell($63,289), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Drill Sites, Marine Sediments, Site Survey, Additional, Alaska, Climate, Coring, IODP, Piston, Program, Resolution, Seismic, Tectonic.

Collaborative Research: Analysis and Development of a New Pressure Probe for the IODP
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Peter B Flemings($199,991), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Andrew J Whittle($374,969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Delivery Unit, Dual Pressure, Tapered Probe, Acquisition, DPTTP, Dissipation, Field, Land, ODP, Permeability, Tool.

Collaborative Research: The Hydrogeological Architecture of Basaltic Ocean Crust: CORK Experiments for the Initial IODP Expedition on the Flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Keir Becker($729,418), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Hans W Jannasch($304,920), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
3. Charles G Wheat($369,507), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Oceanic Crust, Borehole, Boreholes, CORK, Corks, Existing, Fluid, Hydrogeologic, IODP, Submersible, Visits.

SIRG: Underwater Optical Modem: The Last Hundred Meters
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: OCEAN OBSERVATORY SCI & TECH

1. James C Preisig($839,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Optical Modem Technology, Mobile Platforms, Ocean Observatories, Optical Communications, Bi-directional, Cable, Coverage, Deep, Development, Enabling, Hence, Link, Node, Operation, Range, Sensor, Sensors, Underwater, Vehicle, Wide, Wireless.

ITR: Collaborative Research: Looking Ahead: Designing the Next Generation Cyber-infrastructure to Operate Interactive Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: OCEAN OBSERVATORY SCI & TECH

1. Edward D Lazowska($1,749,940), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Monitoring And Control, Ocean Observatories, Ocean Observatory, Ocean Observing, Approaches, Based, Cyberinfrastructure, Developing, Grid, Implemented, Infrastructure, Instrument, Involves, LOOKING, Links, MARS, Management, Networks, ORION, Optiputer, Prototype, Real-time, Roadnet, Software, Streams, Technology, Tools, User, Variety, Visualization.

Proposal to Perform a Design Study for an Acoustically Tethered ROV (ATROV) for Ocean Science
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: OCEAN OBSERVATORY SCI & TECH

1. Daniel E Frye($199,889), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Acoustically Tethered Rov, ATROV, Perform.

SENSORS: Networked Oceanographic Sensor Array (NOSA) for Sensing the Chemical and Biological State of the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN OBSERVATORY SCI & TECH

1. Zbigniew Kolber($374,839), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Instrument Frame, Allow, Architecture, Configuration, Development, Instruments, Interface, Measure, NOSA, Object, Operate, Properties, Sensor, Sensors, Set, Software, Standardized, Variety, Well-defined.

"SST: An Autonomous Underwater Blue Laser System for Fine-Scale Distributions of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Lifetimes and Yields"
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Mark A Moline($620,171), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Blue Diode Laser, Vertical Distributions, Application, Complex, Environments, Fluorescence, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Power, Pulse, Regions, Resolution.

Continuous Profiling of Ocean Temperature Over Tens of Kilometers Using Optical Fiber Technology
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert Pinkel($198,191), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Arrays, Coastal, Deployed, Distributed, Has, Observatory, Ocean, Oil, Optical, Pier, Pis, Scripps, Sea, Technology, Temperature.

Support for OCEAN.US
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Hugh R Johnson($100,000), NOAA/ National Ocean Service, Silver Spring
Key terms: Integrated Ocean, National Ocean, Administration, Council, Department, Federal, IOOS, Interagency, MOA, NOPP, NORLC, NSF, Oceanus, Office, Program, Signed.

Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to Characterize Individual Marine Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Heidi M Sosik($150,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Flow Cytometer, LIBS, Plasma.

Collaborative Research: Determination of Oceanic Copper and Zinc using Biosensor Technology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Carol A Fierke($123,360), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Richard B Thompson($220,744), University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore
3. James W Moffett($279,792), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cu Availability, Biomolecule, Biosensors, Fiber, Free, Optical, Permit, Students, Transducer.

Acoustics in the Cetaceans' Environment: A Multimedia Educational Package
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Marc S Dantzker($999,996), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Creation, Lead, Marine, Outreach, People, Sea, Seas, Sound, Whales.

Prototyping Inexpensive, Large Scale Oceanographic Sensor Arrays.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Grant B Deane($95,014), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms:

Development of Analytical Protocols and Optimization of a Capillary Waveguide Biosensor for Marine Microbial Process Studies
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Josephine Y Aller($364,759), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Analytical Protocols, Graduate Students, Seafood Industry, Water Quality, Abundance, Aquaculture, Biosensor, Capillary, Coastal, DNA, Detection, Environments, Expression, Genes, Harmful, Has, Health, Human, Hybridization, Instrument, Interior, Management, Microbial, Mrna, Pathogens, Potential, Rrna, Target, Tube, Waters.

SENSORS: Autonomous Analyzers for Toxic Metals in the Marine Environment
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Zanna Chase($429,355), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Adapt, Analysis, Cadmium, Cd, Chemiluminescent, Copper, Cu, Detection, Digiscan, Fluorometric, Methods, Published, Sensors, Situ, Zinc, Zn.

Collaborative Research: Observing Integrating Ocean Variables
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Thomas B Sanford($1,040,409), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Douglas S Luther($143,137), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Autonomous, Fields, HEM, IES, Instrument, Pb, Sea, Water.

Collaborative Research: Oceanic Application of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Margaret K Tivey($75,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Stanley M Angel($75,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Deep Submergence Vehicle, Hydrothermal Vent, LIBS, Operation, Pressure.

Measuring The Behavior of Beaked Whales and Their Responses to Sound Using a Digital Recording Tag
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Peter L Tyack($747,368), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Anthropogenic Sound, Beaked Whales, Behavior, Effort, Environmental, Especially, Field, Parameters, Sonars.

Collaborative Research:Combining Video Plankton Recorder Imaging with Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy to identify plankton and seston
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Scott M Gallager($70,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Stanley M Angel($30,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Species Level, Combining, Features, LIBS, Plankton, Raman, VPR.

SGER: A Solar Powered Beacon for Autonomous Floats
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Eric D'Asaro($64,885), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Beacon, Floats, Solar.

Collaborative Research: A Simulation Environment to Enable Development of Adaptive Sampling Algorithms for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2004; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jay A Austin($14,876), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Daniel J Stilwell($49,498), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Adaptive Sampling Algorithms, Autonomous, Collected, Enable, Pis, Potential, Routes.

Development of a Bili-Microchip-Analyzer: Shipboard Determination of Phycobiliproteins in Ocean Water Samples
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2003; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James P Landers($168,258), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: CE-LIF, Capable, Detection, Facilitate, Laser, Micro-chip, Phycobiliproteins, Phytoplankton, Pigments, Seawater, Separating, Shipboard, Various.

Oceanographic - Fisheries Equipment Enhancement for the University of Washington's RV Centennial
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. A.O. Willows($119,432), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fisheries, Mid-water, Net, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Thomas J Weingartner($27,328), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. J. Marcus Willis($62,044), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Douglas M Conlin($94,380), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
4. Steven Rabalais($43,000), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
5. Woody C Sutherland($343,453), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Rv Alpha Helix.

Acquisition of High-Resolution Acoustic-Imaging Instruments for Sediment Research at the Large Lakes Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Steven M Colman($361,013), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Acquisition, Lake, Lakes, Limnological, Shared-use, Students, UMDLLO.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2004
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard J Findley($161,075), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Russell E McDuff($65,806), University of Washington, Seattle
3. John F Bash($45,336), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
4. Barrie B Walden($170,548), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Acoustic Current, Current Profiler, Instrumentation, Oceanographic, Operated, Orientation, RSMAS, RV, Resolution, Vessels.

MRI: Acquisition of a Laser Ablation High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Robert M Sherrell($471,264), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Wide Array, Acquisition, Rutgers.

Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($36,330), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, CTD, Oceanographic.

Oceanographic Instrumentation CY2004
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy W Deering($32,900), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Rv Cape Henlopen.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2004, University of Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Brian Taylor($394,888), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kilo Moana, Nutrient Analyzer, Acquisition, Expected, Hawaii, Vessel.

2005 Coastal Ocean Circulation Gordon Conference
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nancy R Gray($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Circulation, Conference, GRC, Gordon, Interdisciplinary, Oceanography.

Accelerated Dynamical Spin Up of Ocean General Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Samar Khatiwala($80,397), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Matrix Method, Ocean Models, Tracer Simulation, Circulation, Developed, Dynamical, Efficient, Equilibrium, GCM, Linear, Methods, Numerical, Particular, Spin, Tracers.

Nonlinear Internal Waves on the Inner Continental Shelf: Their Dynamics and Associated Cross-Shelf Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Lerczak($137,771), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Inner Shelf Momentum, Momentum And Buoyancy, Nonlinear Internal Waves, Buoyancy Budgets, Continental Shelf, Cross-shore Transport, Field Observations, Internal Wave, Sewage Outfalls, Amplitude, Coast, Coastal, Cross-shore, Fate, Fluxes, Importance, Mass, Model, Nutrients, Observed, Pollutants, Quantified, Regions, Shoaling, Upwelling.

Red Sea Outflow Experiment: Gulf of Aden Data Analysis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David M Fratantoni($450,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Red Sea Outflow, Aden, Analysis, Circulation, Collected, Cruises, Eddies, Gulf, Hydrographic, Maximum, Mechanisms, Mixing, Observations, Observed, REDSOX, RSOW, Subsurface.

Collaborative Research: Asymmetric Circulation in Wind-Driven Bays
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kraig Winters($445,248), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson($185,117), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Analytical Model, Coastal Basins, Rotation Affects, Wind-driven Circulation, Bay, California, Depth, Describe, Ecological, Estuaries, Exchange, Extend, Lagoons, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Strong, Wind-driven, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Adjustment of the ACC to Variability in Southern ocean Winds: A Modal Point of View
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. None($33,007), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Sarah T Gille($193,998), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Eastern Pacific, Near-inertial Wave, Upper Ocean, Wave Generation, Wave Theory, EPIC, EPWP, Forcing, Influence, Internal, Investigate, Linear, Low-latitude, Mixed-layer, Mixing, Model, Ninertial, Propagation, Properties, Quantify, Survey, Thermocline, Time, Turbulence, Turbulent, Waves.

Ocean Circulation Features Forced by Strong Topographically-Induced Wind Stress Curl
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Firing($152,130), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Global Environmental, Direction, Dynamical, Explore, Fisheries, Island, Model, Observations, Undergraduate, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Internal Waves across the Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew H Alford($940,463), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Kraig Winters($1,621,023), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Low-mode Internal Waves, Internal Tide, Large-scale Circulation, Long-range Propagation, Low-mode Internal, Turbulent Mixing, Upper-ocean Shear, Altimetric, Contribute, Density, Distribution, Dynamical, Energy, Flux, Global, Has, Hawaii, Input, Internal-wave, Large-scale, Long-range, Magnitude, Measure, Mesoscale, Modeling, Monitoring, Numerical, Observations, Processes, Propagating, Required, Simulations, Upper-ocean.

Detection of Estuarine Salinity Change Due to Sea-Level Rise
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raymond G Najjar($58,966), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Estuarine Salinity, Sea-level Rise, Temporal Resolution, Applied, Instrumental, Method, Models, Observations, Sea-level, Signal, Tidal.

Collaborative Research: Internal Waves and Mixing on the Near-Critical Oregon Continental Slope
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Nash($522,902), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Virginia Continental Slope, Deep Ocean, Energy Budget, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Low-mode Internal, Turbulent Dissipation, Contribute, Cross-isobath, Elevated, Energy-flux, Impinging, Low-mode, Mixing, Turbulence, Wavenumbers.

Collaborative Research: Internal Waves and Mixing on the Near-Critical Oregon Continental SlopeNear-Critical Oregon Continental Slope
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew H Alford($963,517), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Virginia Continental Slope, Deep Ocean, Energy Budget, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Low-mode Internal, Turbulent Dissipation, Contribute, Cross-isobath, Elevated, Energy-flux, Impinging, Low-mode, Mixing, Turbulence, Wavenumbers.

Collaborative Research: CLIMODE
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jack B Miller($899,714), University of Washington, Seattle
2. William K Dewar($734,812), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Bernadette M Sloyan($2,163,506), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Kathryn Kelly($750,338), University of Washington, Seattle
5. James B Edson($4,226,326), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
6. Terrence M Joyce($2,215,023), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
7. Eric D Skyllingstad($703,513), Oregon State University, Corvallis
8. Lynne D Talley($612,159), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
9. Raffaele Ferrari($1,372,503), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Air-sea Exchange, Air-sea Fluxes, Climate Models, Gulf Stream, Inadequately Represented, Mode Water, Mode Waters, Subtropical Mode, Water Mass, Air-sea, CLIMODE, Current, Directly, Dispersal, Dissipation, Eddies, Estimated, Estimates, Formation, Gyre, Ii, Interaction, Mixed, Observations, Ocean, Parameterizations, Poorly, Process, Processes, Program, Rate, Responsible, Students, Wintertime.

Near-inertial Wave Generation, Propagation and Mixing in the East Pacific Warm Pool
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael C Gregg($113,566), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Eastern Pacific, Near-inertial Wave, Upper Ocean, Wave Generation, Wave Theory, EPIC, EPWP, Forcing, Influence, Internal, Investigate, Linear, Low-latitude, Mixed-layer, Mixing, Model, Ninertial, Propagation, Properties, Quantify, Survey, Thermocline, Time, Turbulence, Turbulent, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Coastal Form Drag and Eddies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eugene R Pawlak($183,350), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Parker MacCready($396,084), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Numerical Models, Rough Topography, Tidal Energy, Coastal, Complex, Current, Dissipation, Drag, Eddies, Flow, Fluid, Has, Importance, Mechanisms, Ocean, Pis, Practical, Predicting, Region, Sound, Tilted, Waves.

IAPSO/SCOR Conference on Ocean Mixing
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward R Urban($25,000), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Ocean Mixing, Seafloor Topography, Circulation, Conference, Field, Findings, Information, Interactions, Mechanism, Models, Parameterization, Processes.

Interaction of Overflows and the Upper Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James F Price($221,278), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dense Water, Marginal Sea, Marginal Seas, Overlying Ocean, Upper Ocean, Carry, Currents, Deep, Does, Dynamics, Influence, Intense, Interaction, Mass, Overflow, Overflows, Remains, Seen, Sill, Simple.

A Study of Warm Core Ring - Shelf/Slope Interaction from the Oleander Project
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Dong-Ping Wang($340,438), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Shelf And Slope, Warm Core Rings, Gulf Stream, Mid-atlantic Bight, Ring-slope Interaction, Shelfslope Circulation, Shelfslope Currents, Analysis, Anticyclones, Complete, Cyclones, Dominate, Exchange, Generation, Has, Influence, Insights, Mechanisms, Mid-atlantic, Observations, Oleander, Period, Relation, Ring-slope, Satellite, Seasonal, Shelfbreak, Ship, Small-scale, Streamers, Training, Transects, Transit, Transport, Undergraduate, Water, York.

An Integrated View of Oceanography: Ocean Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric P Chassignet($20,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ocean Prediction, Wide Range, Applications, Assimilation, Availability, Benefit, Comprehensive, Efforts, Environment, Field, Information, Integrated, Knowledge, Lectures, Limitations, Modeling, Observations, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Oceans, Operational, Products, Societal, Via.

Analysis of the Vema Fracture Zone Exploratory Measurements [VEX] Datasets
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sabine Mecking($515,535), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Vema Fracture Zone, Field Phase, Moored Profilers, North Atlantic, Abyssal, Advance, Analysis, Component, Current, Deployed, Flow, Mixing, Program, Time, Total, VEX, VFZ, Water.

Internal Tide Studies at the Hawaiian Ridge
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Merrifield($490,749), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Internal Tide, Internal Tides, Tidal Energy, Tidal Scattering, Activity, Assess, Based, Circulation, Dissipation, Field, Generation, HOME, Has, Hawaii, Low-mode, Mixing, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Observed, Ocean, Process, Regions, Ridge, Seamount, Site, Structure, Surface, Topography, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Physical Mechanisms of (inter)Decadal Variability of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. None($65,899), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Michael A Spall($565,299), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean Circulation, North Atlantic Ocean, Wind And Buoyancy-driven, Boundary Currents, Graduate Students, Heat Transport, Low-viscosity Limit, Ocean Models, Accurate, Circulations, Climate, Decadal-to-interdecadal, Deep, Downwelling, Dynamics, Internal, Low-viscosity, Mechanisms, Methods, Numerical, Oceanic, Pis, Predictability, Regions, Surface, Wind-.

Collaborative Research: Role of Eddies in the Midlatitude Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Pedlosky($325,717), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Igor V Kamenkovich($362,452), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Eddy Fluxes, Analyzed, Circulation, Components, Eddies, Forces, Large-scale, Modeling, Models, Observational, Ocean, Parameterizations, Random, Systematically, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: CROSSTEX - An Experimental Study of Onshore Bar Movement
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller($528,711), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. James T Kirby($253,189), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Erosion And Accretion, Sediment Transport Models, Shoreward Bar Movement, Cross-shore Transport, Hydrodynamic Models, Predictive Models, Accretional, Bars, Base, Based, Coastal, Conditions, Cross-shore, Erosional, Evolution, Examine, Experiment, Experimental, Experiments, Extended, Field, Has, Longshore, Look, Migration, Morphology, Predicting, Processes, Program, Sand, Set, Sets, Skill, Storm, Wave.

A Salt Finger Tracer Release Experiment - Analysis
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James R Ledwell($702,711), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Heat And Salt, Numerical Models, Staircase Region, Tracer Patch, Expected, Field, Instability, Mixing, Vertical, Was.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Studies of Stirring by Small-scale Geostropic Motions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David L Hebert($273,769), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Analytical And Numerical, Global Ocean Circulation, Internal Wave Breaking, Internal Wave Forcing, Vortical Mode Stirring, Diapycnal Mixing, Geostrophic Adjustment, Internal Waves, Laboratory Experiments, Large-scale Internal, Lateral Dispersion, Lateral Stirring, Numerical Studies, Rotating Tank, Vortical Modes, Description, Effects, Energy, Explicitly, Large-scale, Predictions, Rhode, Stratified, Theoretical.

Collaborative Proposal: Laboratory Studies of Stirring by Small-Scale Geostrophic Motions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Miles A Sundermeyer($297,583), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Analytical And Numerical, Global Ocean Circulation, Internal Wave Breaking, Internal Wave Forcing, Vortical Mode Stirring, Diapycnal Mixing, Geostrophic Adjustment, Internal Waves, Laboratory Experiments, Large-scale Internal, Lateral Dispersion, Lateral Stirring, Numerical Studies, Rotating Tank, Vortical Modes, Description, Effects, Energy, Explicitly, Large-scale, Predictions, Rhode, Stratified, Theoretical.

Turbulence Closure for Energetic, low-Ri Stratified Shear Flows
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tamay M Ozgokmen($419,753), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: 3d Model, Core Layer, Numerical Models, Observed Turbulent, Shear Flows, Turbulence Closures, Turbulent Mixing, Climate, Demand, Embedded, Outflow, Peters, Step, Structure, Undergoes.

SGER: Measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert S Pickart($54,614), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: East Greenland Coastal, East Greenland Current, Greenland Coastal Current, North Atlantic, Branch, Freshwater, Inner, Structure, Subpolar.

Collaborative Research: Sediment Transport in Oscillating Turbulent Boundary Layers
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth T Kiger($324,357), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Alberto D Scotti($361,540), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Numerical And Experimental, Oscillatory Boundary Layer, Advanced Numerical, Fluid Phase, Applications, Coastal, Development, Evaluation, Experiments, Flows, Interdisciplinary, Mechanisms, Model, Motion, Particle, Particulate, Prediction, Process, Range, Sediment, Simulation, Techniques, Transport, Turbulent, Two-phase, Water.

Collaborative Research - SGER - Model Verification of Radiation of Barotropic Energy from the Gulf Stream
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter F Worcester($45,018), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Brian D Dushaw($25,118), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Douglas S Luther($15,013), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Circulation Models, Gulf Stream, Ocean Currents, Real Ocean, Barotropic, Energy, Improvements, Information, Modern, Oceans, Phenomenon, Radiation.

Collaborative Research: SODA: A Climate Reanalysis for the Oceans
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Benjamin S Giese($212,288), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. James A Carton($606,907), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ocean Reanalysis, Assimilation, Climate, Emphasis, Examination, Explore, Model, Oceans, Oscillation, Period, Sequential, Sets, Students, Time.

Multiple Steady States and Hysteresis off a Boundary Current Leaping across a Gap: Socian Shelf Water Crossover Events
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter C Cornillon($586,673), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Georges Bank, Scotian Shelf, Shelf-break Current, Ssw Crossovers, Allowing, Conditions, Dynamics, Hydrographic, Laboratory, Process, Program, Recently, Region, Shelf-break, Temperature, Theoretical.

Modeling the Impact of Icebergs on the Southern Ocean Freshwater Budget and Circulation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Miguel Morales Maqueda($183,792), New York University, New York
Key terms: Distribution Function, Southern Ocean, Computational, Estimates, Ice, Iceberg, Icebergs, Land, Model, Models, Size, Student.

Collaborative Research: Stochastic Transport Models for the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Arthur J Mariano($118,974), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Libe Washburn($459,874), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: In-situ Drifter Tracks, Coastal Circulation, Coastal Ocean, Coastal Regions, Hf Radar, In-situ Drifter, Trajectory Models, Transport Models, Based, Comparisons, Component, Connectivity, Developed, Eddy, Fields, Flow, Information, LSM, Lagrangian, Large-scale, Motions, Particle, Rkfs, Skill, Stochastic, Time, Trajectories, Velocity.

CFC Measurements along 26N and CFC and Carbon Measurements at the Western Boundary
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Frank J Millero($247,116), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Global Repeat Program, Anthropogenic Co2, Model Calibration, CFC, CFC-, Carbon, Climate, Contribute, Quality, Set, Societal, Transect, Ventilation, Water.

Modeling the Freshening and Cooling Event in the Subpolar North Atlantic Ocean and its Impact on Thermohaline Circulation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jiayan Yang($358,692), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cooling And Freshening, Faroe Bank Channel, Nordic Seas Overflow, North Atlantic Ocean, Subpolar North Atlantic, Fresh Water, Shelf Breaks, Aected, Circulation, Coupled, Decades, Entrainment, Interactions, Model, Models, NADW, Numerical, Responded, THC.

Collaborative Research: Gulf Stream Re-Analysis - Structure, Transport and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas S Luther($297,461), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Christopher Meinen($260,875), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Analysis Techniques, Gulf Stream, Gulf Stream's, Ies-gem Shears, Allow, Analyzed, Characteristics, Current, Empirical, Experiment, Has, IES-GEM, Independent, Information, Pressure, SYNOP, Streams, Structure, Temperature, Time.

Red Sea Outflow Experiment, Data Analysis and Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Hartmut Peters($261,580), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Red Sea Outflow, Sea Outflow Water, Aden, Analysis, Circulation, Completed, Descending, Direct, Entrainment, Estimates, Final, Focus, Gulf, Mixing, Objectives, Plume, Plumes, Processes, Properties, REDSOX, Stress, Synthesis.

Dynamics of a Buoyant Coastal Current Encountering Abrupt Changes in Coastline and Bathymetry
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Claudia Cenedese($491,027), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Buoyant Coastal Currents, Laboratory And Numerical, Numerical Models, Bottom, Channel.

SGER: Mixing in a Tidally Modulated Boundary Layer over Rough Topography
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sutanu Sarkar($60,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Bottom Topography, Boundary Layer, M2 Tidal, Rough Topography, Tidal Modulation, Current, Frequency, HOME, Interaction, Internal, Mixing, Model, Near, Nfield, Numerical, Observed, Oscillating, Region, Roughness, Slope, Small-scale, Stratified, Thick, Tide.

Oceanic Fronts, Subduction and Spin-up: Nonlinear Ekman Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter B Rhines($387,919), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Nonlinear Ekman Dynamics, Buoyancy Flux, Frontal Downwelling, Ocean Circulation, Upper Ocean, Contributes, Convection, Cooling, Currents, Dimensional, Eddies, Environment, Forcing, Fronts, Generation, High-resolution, Involves, Labrador, Layer, Modeling, Observational, Propagation, Regions, Sea, Sign, Simulations, Spin-up, Subpolar, Surfaces, Surveys, Theory, Transport, Vorticity, Wind, Wind-driven, Wind-forced, Winds.

Interdisciplinary Research at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip J Morrison($637,282), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Fields, GFD.

Collaborative Research: Cross-shelf Transport and Alongshelf Exchange Processes in Regions of Multiple Mesoscale Fronts
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2003; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Dana K Savidge($365,775), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Circulation And Density, Near Cape Hatteras, Density Fields, Hatteras Front, Proximate Fronts, Vertical Eddy, Cross-shelf, Efforts, Involvement, Planned, Region, Sensors, Shoreward, Surface, Transport.

Element Linkage and Growth-Competition Tradeoffs in Freshwater Zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2004; Program: POP & COMMUNITY ECOL PROG

1. Robert W Sterner($523,076), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Elemental Linkage Model, Growth Rate, Model Predicts, Application, Competitive, Experiments, Explore, Growth-competition, Organisms, Rates, Species, Tradeoff, Zooplankton.

A Phased Engineering Program to Build a New 6500-M Research Submersible for the U.S. Scientific Community: The New Alvin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: RHOV

1. Daniel J Fornari($35,986,694), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence, Dsv Alvin, Allow, Bottom, Capability, Design, HOV, Oceanographic, Processes, Seafloor, Technologies, Vehicle, WHOI.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Steven Rabalais($20,519), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Thomas D Smith($34,070), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Thomas S Althouse($103,159), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
4. Braxton L Tesh($103,696), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
5. William B Hahn($25,450), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Equipment, Program, Replacement, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Steven, Transceivers.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Cape Hatteras 2004
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Bruce H Corliss($16,531), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Bruce, Duke, Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

2004 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment R/V Weatherbird II
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Nicholas R Bates($80,597), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Equipment, Markey, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers, Winch.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment, R/V Blue Heron 2004
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($10,694), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Douglas, Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers, Winch.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2004
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2004; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Frederick J Jones($140,609), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Albert F Suchy($172,799), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Paul W Ljunggren($35,509), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Equipment, Fred, Program, Purchase, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

Load Handling Equipment for CHRV
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Matthew J Hawkins($876,083), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Equipment, Matthew, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers, Winch.

Sea Grant Knauss Fellows
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Ronald C Baird($124,500), NOAA, Silver Spring
Key terms: Fellowship Program, National Sea, Environmental, NSF, Office, Programs, Provided, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Horizontal Array Turbulence Study: An Investigation of Subfilter-Scale Fluxes in the Marine Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: nan

1. James B Edson($182,033), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. John C Wyngaard($345,339), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Horizontal Array Turbulence, Marine Surface Layer, Velocity And Temperature, Air-sea Interaction, Graduate Student, Martha's Vineyard, Sfs Variables, Surface Waves, Surface-layer Turbulence, ASIT, Air-sea, Atmospheric, Coupling, Field, Fluxes, LES, Marthas, OHATS, Observations, Particular, Surface-layer, Via.

REU Site Proposal: Aquatic Chemical Ecology (ACE) at GA Tech
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: nan

1. Frank E Loeffler($341,908), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Atlanta, Program, REU, Student, Students, Summer.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2004

ADVANCE Fellows Award - Seamount Ecology: From Information to Knowledge Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

ADVANCE Fellows Award: A Self-Organization Model For Surf Zone Megaripples Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Processes on the Gakkel Ridge Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Observatory Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

Collaborative Research: North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Environmental Observatory Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

BE/CNH: Biocomplexity and Fisheries Sustainability Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

Collaborative Research: Investigating the impact of microbial interactions with geologic media on geophysical properties: Implications for assessing geomicrobiological processes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

The role of microbial Fe and Mn oxidation in submarine weathering of volcanic glass Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Proposal: Anoxic Sediment Diagenesis at the Sulfate-Methane Interface: Does a Novel Microbial Syntrophy Result in Enhanced POC Remineralization? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Molecular Mechanisms of Soluble Fe(III) Reduction by Metal-Reducing Members of the Genus Shewanella Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Collaborative Research: Anoxic Sediment Diagenesis at the Sulfate-Methane Interface: Does a Novel Microbial Syntrophy Result in Enhanced POC Remineralization? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE-UF: CARBON CYCLE

SIRG: Development of Sensor Networks for Aquatic Nanoparticle Characterization Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Development of Ship-Borne Atmosphere-Ocean Ozone Flux Measurements by the Eddy Correlation Technique Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

COLLABORATIVE: Carbon System and CFCs in the Southeast Pacific Subantartic Mode Water / Antarctic Intermediate Water Formation Region Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Redox Metalloproteins and Conformational Gating in Electron Transfer to Ferric Minerals Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: Biocatalytic Filtration and Carbon Cycling in Permeable Sediments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative research: Biocatalytical Filtration and Carbon Cycling in Permeable Shelf Sediments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Investigation of Fe(II) Coordination and Oxidation by Marine Bacteria Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative: Biology and Ecology of Newly Discovered Diazotrophs in the Open Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: Biology and Ecology of Newly Discovered Diazotrophs in the Open Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: Oceanographic and Topographic Influences on Dispersal of Hydrothermal Vent Species Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Physiological ecology of intertidal development: linking embryo performance and adult reproductive ecology Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Local adaptation across latitudes: microgeographic scales, gene flow, and correlates of countergradient growth variation Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Dynamics of cnidarian-algal symbioses Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Larval Transport in a Coupled-Estuary-Shelf System: A Modeling Study Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: US/EC Collaboration on Potential Climate Change Impacts on Algal Community Structure and Biogeochemistry During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: CROSSTEX - Wave Breaking and Boundary Layer Processes and the Resulting Sediment Suspension in the Surf zone Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Metazoan Life at Extreme Sulfide Concentrations:The Ecology and Evolution of Dorvilleidae at Methane Seeps Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecology of a Distinct Bdellovibrio Genotype in the Chesapeake Bay and other estuaries Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Small-scale flow variability inside branched coral colonies: Computations and experimental verification Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Probing acclimation in Prochlorococcus ecotypes through analyses of global gene expression Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Physical fractionation of marine microbes for efficient mining and description of microbial diversity Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Ecology of Prochlorococcus: Toward a Model System for Microbial Oceanography Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The hydrodynamics of benthic predation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

An ecophysiological analysis of marine facultatively lithotrophic bacteria Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Probing acclimation responses in Prochlorococcus ecotypes through analyses of global gene expression Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

An adaptive food web model for the epipelagic and mesopelagic Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Fertilization in free-spawners - interaction of gamete properties and hydrodynamic regime Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Functional and genomic analysis of polysymbiosis in the wood-boring bivalve Lyrodus pedicellatus Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Satellite Tracking of Sperm Whales in the Gulf of California, Mexico: A Method to Study the Ecology of a Mesopelagic Predator Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Workshop on the impact of basin-scale oceanographic and climate-related processes on the dynamics of plankton and fish populations in the North Atlantic Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Larval Dispersal and Retention Among Sub-populations of Coral Reef Fishes: A Multi-Technique Approach Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Predation Mortality and Behavior of Fish Larvae: Seasonal Variation and Critical Survival Skills Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Finding the Genes That Matter: Profiling Gene Expression in Strongylocentrotid Sea Urchins with Different Biogeographic and Temperature Distributions Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Determining kin recognition in marine gastropods Award Effective Date: 07/15/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The effect of mesoscale eddy perturbations on microbial processes and community structure in the Sargasso Sea Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: SOFeX: Mesoscale Iron fertilization Effects on Plankton Community Structure, Phytoplankton Growth and Zooplankton Grazing Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Exploratory research in the use of neutrally buoyant magnetic beads to track dispersal of planktonic organisms Award Effective Date: 07/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Trophic ecology of small hydromedusae: a new perspective on their function in coastal ecosystems Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biogeography and community structure in mussel beds at Pacific hydrothermal vents Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Trophic ecology of small hydromedusae: a new perspective on their function in coastal ecosystems Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Numerical Study of the Unsteady Feeding Currents in Calanoid Copepods Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EU-US ECOHAB. EC-NSF Cooperative Activity in Environmental Res: Mating Incompatibility Among Toxic and Non-Toxic Populations of Alexandrium: Ecological and Practical Implications Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Tracking Larval Invertebrate Dispersal Trajectories Using Calcified Structures Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Microbial Dynamics on Marine Snow Particles Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EU-US ECOHAB. EC-NSF Cooperative Activity in Environmental Research: In Situ Holographic Measurements of Particle Distributions and Small Scale Turbulence in Thin Layers Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in intertidal seaweed communities Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Seaweed Communities Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Iron Bioavailability on Synechococcus diversity from a HNLC regime to the Costa Rica upwelling dome Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Paleoecology of Pinnipeds on the Pacific Rim Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biodiversity, Trophic Structure, and the Stability of Seagrass Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Does mating success determine population growth rate at low abundance in marine copepods? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Historical Ecology of the California Sea Mussel and Purple Sea Urchin Inferred from Multiple Gene Genealogies Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Determinants of male reproductive success in natural spawns Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Impacts of Eddies on Zooplankton Community Structure and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Open Ocean Award Effective Date: 02/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER Award Effective Date: 08/01/2004; Program: BROADENING PARTICIPATION

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Center for Great Lakes Studies Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Moored Mixing Measurements at the Equator Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

LTER: Nonlinear transitions in the California Current Coastal Pelagic Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

Collaborative Proposal: Effects of Mineral Ballast and Particle Sinking Velocity on Organic Carbon Export and Remineralization Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Carbon System and CFCs in the Southeast Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water/Antarctic Intermediate Water Formation Region Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

DOM on U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic Survey: Line A16S Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: DOM on U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic Survey: Line P16S Award Effective Date: 12/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Investigations of Heat and Gas Transfer at an Air-Water Interface Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Defining the Structural Basis of the Optical Properties of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Geochemical Transformations in Subterranean Estuaries: Reactions, Rates, and Fluxes to the Coastal Ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Studies Related to Establishing a Valid Radiocarbon Ventilation Rate for the Glacial Ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Time-Series and Process Measurements of Dimethylsulfide Dynamics at BATS and in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Advective Controls on Organic Carbon Export and Burial on the Northwest Atlantic Margin Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography