Argos JTA - Remote Satellite Communications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Stephen Auer($212,662), NOAA Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring
Key terms: Argos Transmitters, Administration, Animal, Buoys, Collected, Etc, Monitoring, Months, National, Platforms, Space, Surface, USA, Whales, World.

Collaborative Research: Identifying the Flow and Control of Pathogens from the Land to the Sea: Tracking Toxoplasma from Cats to Sea Otters
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Richard S Ostfeld($29,327), Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc., Millbrook
2. Patricia A Conrad($1,596,235), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Michael E Grigg($138,000), University of British Columbia, Vancouver
4. Paul R Crosbie($96,432), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Pet Product Retailers, Southern Sea Otter, Terrestrial And Aquatic, Threatened Southern Sea, Cat Owners, Control Strategies, Pathogen Pollution, Sea Otters, California, Coastal, Components, Death, Ecology, Environmental, Exposure, Findings, Gondii, Graduate, Infection, Inform, Interface, Land, Marine, Meetings, Model, Outreach, Permit, Population, Predict, Prevalence, Provided, Public, Risk, Schools, Simulation, Sites, Specific, Students, Unique, Water, Zones.

Workshop on Sensors for Environmental Observing Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Geoffrey M Holdridge($209,397), World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc., Lancaster
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Sensor Development, Environmental, Guidance, Sensors, Workshop.

The Effects of Animal-Sediment Interactions on Geochemical Processes Near the Sediment-Water Interface
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Robert C Aller($884,502), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Biogenic Structures, Biogeochemical Cycles, Microbial Activity, Planar Fluorosensors, Planar Optodes, Sediment Chemistry, Activities, Benthic, Conceptual, Continue, Designed, Developed, Development, Diagenesis, Distributions, Effect, Effects, Examine, Experimental, Images, Importance, Incorporated, International, Laboratory, Measure, Microenvironments, Models, Mucus, Natural, Processes, Program, Quantify, Rates, Reaction, Scaling, Sensor, Situ, Transport, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Deep-sea larvae as grazers in the midwater microbial loop
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William B Jaeckle($72,307), Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington
2. Richard B Emlet($1,028,887), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Deep-sea Larvae, Food Sources, Bathyal, Cyanobacteria, Deep-sea, Depths, Directly, Feeding, Larval, Microbial, Multidisciplinary, Organisms, Outreach, Potential, Undergraduate, Water.

Collaborative Research: Zooplankton in the Redoxcline of the Cariaco Basin: Impact on Biogeochemical Cycling
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kendra L Daly($339,204), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Karen F Wishner($616,141), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Suboxic And Anoxic, Cariaco Basin, Biogeochemical, Biological, Carbon, Climate, Composition, Has, History, Information, Marine, Ocean, Poorly, Processes, Program, Rates, Regions, Relation, Seasonal, Sediment, Site, Students, Time-series, Transformation, Venezuela, Vertical, Zooplankton.

U.S.-GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: US GLOBEC Northeast Pacific Coordinating and Synthesis Office
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Harold P Batchelder($496,816), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Nep Coordinating Office, Synthesis Phase, Activities, CCS, CGOA, Coordination, Developed, GLOBEC, Pis, Responsible.

Collaborative Research: Acquisition, Allocation, and Utilization of Carbon in Bleached and Recovering Corals
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrea G Grottoli($329,780), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
2. Tamara K Pease($337,879), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Energy Reserves, Fixed Carbon, Allocation, Bleaching, Coral, Corals, Host, Lipids, Mechanisms, Recover, Recovery, Relative, Stored, Students, Sustain, Training, Utilization, Utilizing.

Behaviorally mediated indirect species interactions in a subtropical seagrass community
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Fourqurean($567,701), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Shark Predation Risk, Indirect Effects, Tiger Sharks, Affect, BMII, Biomass, Critical, Dugong, Dugongs, Energy, Field, Foraging, Grazing, Habitat, Importance, Influence, Largest, Marine, Mediated, Nutrient, Populations, Predators, Prey, Public, Rates, Seagrass, Species, Structure, Structuring, Vertebrates.

U.S.-GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Habitat effects on feeding, condition, growth and survival of juvenile pink salmon in the northern Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Milo D Adkison($643,258), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Condition And Growth, Juvenile Pink Salmon, Water Column Stability, Favorable Habitats, Habitat Quality, Juvenile Salmon, Northern Goa, Oceanographic Conditions, Zooplankton Abundance, Characteristics, Climate, Cohort, Database, Depth, Estimates, Feeding, Indicators, Individuals, Larger, Marine, OSH, Overall, PWS, Survival, Synthesis.

U.S.-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank. Factors determining early-life-stage survival & recruitment variability in N. Atlantic cod: a comparison bewteen NW Atlantic & Norwegian Sea
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lawrence J Buckley($166,965), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Growth And Survival, Norwegian Sea, Adult, Advection, Affecting, Bank, Cod, Development, Dynamics, Factors, Fish, Ho, Implementation, Indices, Interactions, Larval, Models, Populations, Recruitment, Shelf, Stages, Water.

SGER: Construction and Deployment of a High Pressure Chemostat System for the Culture of Deep Sea Bacteria and Nanoplankton Protists
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander B Bochdansky($50,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Global Carbon Cycle, Pressure And Temperature, Deep Sea, Organic Matter, Bacteria, Collaboration, Grazing, Ocean, Organisms, Processes, Protists, Surface.

U.S.-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank: Effects of climate variability on Calanus dormancy patterns and population dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. ANDREW W LEISING($182,455), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Dormancy And Physiological, Calanus Finmarchicus, Control Onset, Copepod Population, Dormancy Control, Environmental Conditions, Ibm Simulations, Marine Mammals, Northwest Atlantic, Physiological Rate, Population Dynamics, Spring Bloom, Surface Waters, Climate, Compared, Copepods, Critical, Emergence, Factors, Fish, Fisheries, Growth, Inter-regional, Larval, Model, Pacific, Prey, Regions, Run, Sets, Similar, Species, Student, Timing.

SGER Katrina: Responses of fish and crabs to nearshore habitat degradation in Lake Pontchartrain caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sean Powers($89,993), University of South Alabama, Mobile
2. Mark C Benfield($88,084), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Contaminant And Nutrient, Invertebrate And Demersal, Katrina And Rita, Benthic Invertebrate, Demersal Fish, Flood Control, Flood Waters, Hurricanes Katrina, Lake Pontchartrain, Nearshore Benthic, Nutrient Levels, Southern Lake, Storm Surge, Activities, Category, Caused, Devastation, Directly, Disasters, Discharge, Document, Ecology, Ecosystem, Habitat, Jefferson, Landfall, Largest, Marine, Metropolitan, Orleans, Overwhelmed, Parish, Was.

Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Integrating Calcification, Photosynthesis & Symbiosis Flexibility into Species Survival Trajectories for Caribbean Reef Corals
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher Langdon($605,115), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Coral Reef, Caribbean, Climate, Corals, Effects, Experimental, Investigate, Pco, Reefs, Species, Training, Tropical.

Forays and Foraging by Marine Zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bruce W Frost($475,383), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Distribution And Foraging, Selection And Foraging, Depth Selection, Foraging Behavior, Planktonic Copepods, Population Dynamics, Surface Waters, Time Scales, Vertical Distribution, Water Column, Affect, Assess, Biological, Diel, Dispersal, Environmental, Excursions, Feeding, Fish, Forays, Individual, Marine, Observations, Ocean, Pacific, Particles, Partnership, Pelagic, Period, Physiological, Prey, Processes, Rate, Repeated, Significance, Stage, Vertically, Zooplankton.

Ecophysiology of Vacuolate Marine Sulfur Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas C Nelson($392,943), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Black Band Disease, Sulfur Bacteria, Vacuolate Beggiatoa, Fixation, Marine, Nitrate, Nitrate-accumulating, Nitrogen, Strain, Sulfide, VAF, Variety.

Dynamic Stability and Particle Transformations: Tracing Pathways of Production in Estuarine Turbidity Maxima
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Byron C Crump($2,500,000), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Chesapeake Bay, Dynamic Stability, Mechanisms Promoting, Particle Aggregation, Trophic Transfer, BITMAX, Biological, Copepods, Critical, Dynamics, ETM, Enhance, Estuaries, Estuarine, Etms, Field, Fish, Food, Knowledge, Microbial, Modeling, Nutritional, Processes, Program, Region, Secondary, Sediment, Stratification, Structure, Students, Turbidity, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Proposal: Cascadia Slope Circulation Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mary J Perry($212,974), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Seasonal And Interannual, California Current, Cascadia Slope, Continental Shelf, Autonomous, Climate, Coastal, Collected, Continue, Describe, Highly, Local, Months, Observations, Pacific, Region, Resolve, Seaglider, Seagliders, Sections, Structure, Sustained, Time, Transects, Washington.

Collaborative Research: Cascadia Slope Circulation Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig M Lee($953,362), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Seasonal And Interannual, California Current, Cascadia Slope, Continental Shelf, Autonomous, Climate, Coastal, Collected, Continue, Describe, Highly, Local, Months, Observations, Pacific, Region, Resolve, Seaglider, Seagliders, Sections, Structure, Sustained, Time, Transects, Washington.

Collaborative Research: Physiological limits to vertical migrations of the pelagic, jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas in the Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William F Gilly($267,226), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Brad A Seibel($303,956), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Laboratory Studies, Surface Waters, Active, Behaviors, Biochemical, Commercial, Daytime, Deg, Depths, Doing, Ecological, Fishery, Gigas, Habitat, Life, Mass, Mexico, Natural, Night, Open-ocean, Pelagic, Physiology, Predators, Public, Reveal, Squid, Stress, Students, Tagging, True, Vertical.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Harmful Ulvoid Macroalgal Blooms in Washington State
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kathryn L Van Alstyne($218,927), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Green Algal Blooms, Affect Co-occurring, Harmful Effects, Pacific Northwest, Toxins Produced, Ulvoid Algal, Ulvoid Blooms, Ability, Algae, Assistants, Co-occurring, Direct, Evidence, Experiments, Factors, Fish, Formation, Graduate, Information, Invertebrates, Light, Macroalgae, Marine, Meadows, Mechanisms, Preliminary, Regions, SPMC, Seagrasses, Sites, Species, Structure, Students, Suggest, Temperate, Usually.

Ridge 2000 Office - 3 Yr. Rotation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Donna K Blackman($2,255,782), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Office Efforts, Component, Education, Ridge, Upcoming.

Natural tags to Estimate the Value of Juvenile Nurseries
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cynthia M Jones($429,104), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Habitat-specific Survival, Natural Tag, Otolith Chemistry, Relative Survival, Seagrass Nursery, Adulthood, Establish, Estimating, Euphausid, Fish, Genetic, Habitat-specific, Habitats, Has, Life-history, Marine, Measure, Minority, Movement, ODU, Organism, Population, Populations, Provenance, Reliable, Resolution, Students, Tags, Technique, Undergraduate, Value.

RUI: Harmful Ulvoid Macroalgal Blooms in Washington State
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Timothy A Nelson($23,994), Seattle Pacific University, Seattle
Key terms: Green Algal Blooms, Affect Co-occurring, Harmful Effects, Pacific Northwest, Toxins Produced, Ulvoid Algal, Ulvoid Blooms, Ability, Algae, Assistants, Co-occurring, Direct, Evidence, Experiments, Factors, Fish, Formation, Graduate, Information, Invertebrates, Light, Macroalgae, Marine, Meadows, Mechanisms, Preliminary, Regions, SPMC, Seagrasses, Sites, Species, Structure, Students, Suggest, Temperate, Usually.

Collaborative Research: Regulation of the C4-C02 Concentrating Mechanisms in Marine Diatoms by C02, Light, and Nutrients
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kay D Bidle($434,860), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation, Biological Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Marine Diatoms, Acclimation, Based, Concentrations, Experiments, Focus, Light, Mechanism, Modulation, Pathway, Phytoplankton, Productivity, Regulation, Species.

Development of High Throughput Analysis of Plankton Communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ronald S Burton($525,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bead Array, Bead Arrays, Marine Microbial, Analysis, Assay, Attached, Beads, Developed, Diversity, Has, Molecular, Resolution, Taxa, Technologies, Technology, Throughput.

Fatty Acid and Sterol Metabolism in Planktonic Heterotrophic Protists: Essential Nutrient Upgrading and Transfer and their Ecological Implications in Pelagic Food Webs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fu-Lin E Chu($525,000), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Acids And Sterols, Algal Fatty Acid, De Novo Synthesis, Efa And Sterols, Essential Fatty Acids, Essential Nutrient Dynamics, Planktonic Food Web, Calanoid Copepods, Detailed Biochemical, Essential Nutrients, Heterotrophic Protists, Marine Planktonic, Nutrient Limitation, Algae, Andor, Cellular, Deficient, Dietary, Efas, Freshwater, Graduates, Growth, Interface, Investigate, Metabolism, Molecular, Nutritional, Precursors, Reproductive, Supply, Synthesize, Training, Transformation, Trophic, Undergraduates, Via, Zooplankton.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Autotrophic Microbes in the Subsurface at Hydrothermal Vents: Filamentous-Sulfur Producing Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Roger Summons($130,799), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Stefan M Sievert($817,914), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hydrothermal Fluid, Snowblower Vents, Stable Isotope, Arcobacter, Assess, Assessment, Biomarker, Biosphere, Carbon, Co-fixation, Deg, Diversity, Eruption, Field, Filamentous-s, Geobiology, Geochemical, Has, Implications, Integrated, Lipid, Microbes, Microbial, Observations, Pis, Sampling, Situ, Specific, Students, Subseafloor, Subsurface.

COLLABORATIVE: US-GLOBEC NEP PHASE IIIA-CCS: SCALE-DEPENDENT DYNAMICS OF TOP-TROPHIC PREDATORS AND PREY - TOWARD PREDICTING PREDATOR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cynthia T Tynan($393,885), H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos
Key terms: Cross-shelf And Along-shelf, Northern California Current, Spatial And Temporal, Mesoscale Forcing, Top Predators, Affecting, CCS, Carbon, Comparable, Construct, Density, Distribution, Distributions, Ecosystem, Estimate, Finer-scale, Fish, Flow, Levels, Marine, Model, Models, Plankton, Predictive, Prey, Relative, Structure, Upwelling.

SGER-Exploring the use of Quantum Dots to Detect the Physiology of Intact Phytoplankton Cells by Flow Cytometry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kjell Gundersen($98,935), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Flow Cytometry, Approach, Biological, Cell, Cells, DNA, Emerging, Established, Explore, Methods, Phytoplankton, Pis, Potential, Qdots, Technology.

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa: Efffects of Climate Variability on Calanus Dormancy Patterns and Population Dynamics within the California Current
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey Runge($156,199), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Temperature And Prey, Calanoid Species, Dormant Phase, Spring Bloom, Abundance, CC, Calanus, Climate, Compared, Critical, Local, Model, Period, Population, Surface.

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Coupled physical/biological dynamics in the Northern California Current System: A synthesis of seasonal and interannual mesoscale varia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Meng Zhou($187,004), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
2. Ricardo M Letelier($862,994), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Phytoplankton And Zooplankton, Larger Spatial, Spatial Domain, Time Scales, Zooplankton Abundance, Biological, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Forcing, GLOBEC, Indices, Link, Local, Mesoscale.

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Juvenile Salmon Habitat Utilization in the Northern California Current - Synthesis and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Greg H Rau($52,731), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Harold P Batchelder($209,415), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Chinook And Coho, California Current, Coho Salmon, Habitat Quality, Juvenile Chinook, Salmon Growth, Abundance, Biological, Characteristics, Knowledge, Metrics, Ocean, Resource, Salmonids, Stocks, Survival.

DOP Utilization in the Sargasso Sea: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Hydrolysis and Uptake
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael W Lomas($254,404), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Phosphorus, Hydrolysis And Assimilation, Resulting Organic Carbon, Temporal And Spatial, Biological Pump, Dop Hydrolysis, Dop Uptake, Oceanic Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Uptake, Quantify Temporal, Sargasso Sea, Uptake Rates, Amounts, Atmosphere, Concentrations, Deep, Export, Globally, Inorganic, Low, Primary, SRP, Taxa, Taxon-specific, Utilization.

Collaborative Research: DOP Utilization in the Sargasso Sea: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Uptake and Hydrolysis
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sonya T Dyhrman($324,206), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Phosphorus, Hydrolysis And Assimilation, Resulting Organic Carbon, Temporal And Spatial, Biological Pump, Dop Hydrolysis, Dop Uptake, Oceanic Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Uptake, Quantify Temporal, Sargasso Sea, Uptake Rates, Amounts, Atmosphere, Concentrations, Deep, Export, Globally, Inorganic, Low, Primary, SRP, Taxa, Taxon-specific, Utilization.

Collaborative Research: Dissolved Organic Phosphorus: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Hydrolysis and Uptake
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James W Ammerman($181,907), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Phosphorus, Hydrolysis And Assimilation, Resulting Organic Carbon, Temporal And Spatial, Biological Pump, Dop Hydrolysis, Dop Uptake, Oceanic Phytoplankton, Photosynthetic Uptake, Quantify Temporal, Sargasso Sea, Uptake Rates, Amounts, Atmosphere, Concentrations, Deep, Export, Globally, Inorganic, Low, Primary, SRP, Taxa, Taxon-specific, Utilization.

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Large-scale Influences on Mesoscale Structure in the CCS, A Synthesis of Climate-forced Variability in Coastal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew C Thomas($289,486), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Marine Populations, Basin-scale, CCS, Characterize, Circulation, Climate, Comparing, Datasets, Examine, GLOBEC, Linkages, Mesoscale, Observations, Ocean, Resource, Satellite, Servers, Structure.

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Effects of Meso- and Basin-scale Variability on Zooplankton Populations in the CCS using Data-Assimilative, Physical/Ecosystem Models
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas M Powell($184,425), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Dale B Haidvogel($259,630), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Enrique N Curchitser($182,974), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Globec Nep Synthesis, CCS, Climate, Directly, Euphausiids, Features, Level, Nested, Products, Regime, Time, Zooplankton.

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Changing Ocean Conditions in Northern California Current - Effects on Primary Production and Salmon
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patricia A Wheeler($669,998), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Chemical Ocean Conditions, Northern California Current, Survival And Climate, Affect Primary, Climate Indices, Coastal Upwelling, Salmon Survival, Situ Measures, Changing, Critical, Ecosystem, Future, Interannual, Interdisciplinary, Oceanographic, Pacific, Processes, Relate, Water.

Field Parameterization and Experimental Tests of the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John T Wootton($425,364), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Metacommunity Dynamics, Neutral Theory, Species Deletion, Aggregate, Approach, Assumptions, Consequences, Dataset, Differences, Ecology, Marine, Model, Species-abundance, Strong.

Collaborative Research: Disease Dynamics in Degraded Nurseries: A Viral Disease in Spiny Lobster
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Roland Cooper($445,214), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Jeffrey D Shields($139,939), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Nursery Habitat Structure, Poor Water Quality, Disease Dynamics, Disease Transmission, Florida Keys, Habitat Integrity, Host Behavior, Marine Ecosystems, Spiny Lobster, Aid, Alters, Biology, Coastal, Contact, Diseased, Diseases, Emergence, Emerging, Environmental, Experiments, Field, Increasing, Individuals, Infected, Infection, Infectivity, Juvenile, Laboratory, Lobsters, Local, Management, Managers, Model, Modeling, Molecular, NSF, Ontogenetic, Populations, Potential, Prevalence, Resistance, Social, Spread, Stressors, Susceptibility, Undergraduates, Underlying, Viral, Virus.

SGER: Improving the Dynamic Size Range of Measurement and Quantification of Marine Particulates
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alex W Herman($98,595), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Image Analysis, Nsf Mri, Conjunction, Cruise, Deployments, Educators, LOPC, On-going, Pis, Routine, Situ, Size, Water.

Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Functional Diversity: Dynamics of Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bongkeun Song($800,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Reductase And Transporter, Eukaryotic Phytoplankton, Gene Expression, Involve Undergraduates, Monterey Bay, Nitrate Reductase, Transporter Genes, Assays, Availability, Basis, Biology, Bloom, Cells, Chlorophytes, Diatom, Diatoms, Dominance, Ecotypes, Escape, Experiments, Field, Genetic, Has, Huxleyi, Incubation, Level, Nitrogen, Nutrient, PCR, Rapidly, Regulation, Relative, Species, Students, Time, Uptake, Upwelling, Usually.

Bacterial Population Structure: Evaluating Gene Flow in the Symbionts of Deep-Sea Mussels $Genus Bathymodiolus$
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Colleen Cavanaugh($337,753), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Deep Ocean Currents, Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents, Bacterial Endosymbionts, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Gene Flow, Gene Sequences, Geographic Structure, Population Structure, Vent Fields, Analyses, Biogeography, Dispersal, Distributed, Diversity, Ecology, Environments, Evolution, Genetic, Implications, Information, Lau, Life, Microbial, Mussels, Origin, Populations, Public, Respectively, Sites, Symbionts.

Bacterial production and community structure during the North Atlantic Spring Bloom [NASB 2005]
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew T Cottrell($302,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Atlantic Spring Bloom, Jgofs Field Experiment, North Atlantic Spring, Cytophaga-like Bacteria, Molecular Weight, Phytoplankton Biomass, Abundant, Bacterial, Climate, Cytophaga-like, DOM, Essential, Examine, Explore, Growth, Has, Height, Influence, Microbes, Microbial, Primary, Processes, SAR, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Behavioral and neural mechanisms for predator evasion in crustacean zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward J Buskey($286,943), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Daniel K Hartline($449,968), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Calanoid Copepods, Developmental Stages, Escape Performance, Life Stages, Predator-prey Interactions, Achieve, Adult, Adults, Approach, Behavior, Behavioral, Calanoids, Capabilities, Characterize, Correlate, Graduate, Issue, K-, Marine, Morphological, Muscle, Nauplius, Nervous, Neuromotor, Organisms, Physiological, Planktonic, Predation, Predator-prey, Public, Sensory, Students, Success, Training.

Collaborative Resarch: Development of Phytoplankton PCNA Antibodies for Use in Growth Studies: Emiliania huxleyi and Karlodinium micrum as Model Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Frank J Jochem($279,406), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Frank J Jochem($46,140), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Situ Growth Rate, Cell Cycle, Effective Antibodies, Flow Cytometric, Growth Rates, Growth Status, Pcna Antisera, Phytoplankton Pcna, Allow, Antibody, Applications, Assessing, Available, Based, Characterized, Estimating, Genes, Huxleyi, Immunofluorescence, Micrum, Model, Pis, Produced, Species, Students, Useful, Western.

SGER: Examining the Effects of Hurricane Ivan in Coastal Alabama and Northwestern Florida: A Positive Impact on Shallow Coastal Lagoons?
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Just Cebrian($40,249), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
Key terms: Benthic Plants, Coastal Lagoons, Coral Reefs, Ecological Attributes, Hurricane Ivan, Land-derived Nutrients, Positive Effect, Baseline, Ecology, Effects, Environments, Estuaries, Expect, Extensive, Growth, Hence, Hurricanes, Hypothesize, Increased, Land-derived, Levels, Limited, Morphology, Obtained, Organisms, Passage, Past, Pis, Pre-hurricane, Shear, Shelter, Sites, Storm, Uptake, View, Water.

SGER - Orientation of Coral Reef Fish Larvae in the Open Ocean with no Apparent Frame of Reference
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Claire Paris($43,478), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Reef Fish Larvae, Marine Protected, Orientation Behavior, Active, Approach, Cues, Currents, Detect, Direction, Dispersal, Has, Influence, Innovative, Larval, Ocean, Potential, Species, Stage, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Connectivity of Reef Fish Populations: Mechanisms and Consequences
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gabriele Gerlach($450,000), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Genetic Population Structure, Reef Odor Preference, Apogon Doederleini, Coral Reef, Genetic Analysis, Genetic Substructure, Hydrographic Dispersal, Hydrographic Model, Natal Reefs, Pelagic Stage, Reef Clusters, Reef Fish, Reef Fishes, Reef Populations, Temporal Stability, Assumed, Behavior, Behavioral, Biology, Capabilities, Connectivity, Conservation, Currents, Differences, Disperse, Larvae, Larval, Odors, Retention, Self-recruitment, Settlement, Species, Swimmers.

Viral Abundance, Production and Diversity During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom (NASB 2005)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven W Wilhelm($357,269), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Atlantic Spring Bloom, North Atlantic Spring, Field Experiment, Trophic Status, Viral Abundance, Virus Abundance, Aquatic, Climate, Collected, Conditions, Cyanophage, Diversity, Eukaryotic, Examine, Graduate, Information, Levels, NASB, Outreach, Pco, Phycodnaviridae, Phytoplankton, Quantitative, Supported, Temperature, Undergraduate, Viruses, Web.

Discerning the Ecological History of a Cyptogenic Marine Snail, Littorina Littorea
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Byers($76,205), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Ecological History, Founder Effects, Genetic Diversity, Trematode Parasites, Approach, Biogeographic, Dominant, Hosts, Inform, Intertidal, Introduced, Littorea, Native, North, Origin, Pis, Population, Powerful, Range, Reduction, Southwards, Species, Student, Undergraduates, Was.

Mechanical consequences of flexibility for benthic marine organisms
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian P Gaylord($214,500), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Nondimensional Parameters, Actual, Animals, Applied, Biomechanical, Coastal, Consequences, Disturbance, Dynamics, Field, Flexibility, Flexible, Flow, Force, Forces, Framework, Has, Implications, Individuals, Influences, Intellectual, Intertidal, Kelps, Macrocystis, Momentum, Mortality, Motion, Organism, Organisms, Passive, Plants, Quasi-static, Range, Rates, Realms, Shore, Species, Spectrum, Subtidal, Water, Wave, Waves.

Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System (COSEE-OESS)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Janet W Campbell($321,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Cosee Network, Disseminated Nationally, Gap Analysis, In-service Teacher, Inland Audiences, Reach Inland, Thematic Center, Activities, Bed, Beyond, Broaden, Concept, Content, Context, Course, Developed, Education, Educators, Evaluating, Evaluation, Focusing, Hampshire, Information, Knowledge, Maine, Models, OESS, Ocean, Oceans, Phenomena, Product, Products, Resources, Review, Rigorous, Rural, Solar, Teachers, Tools, Topics, Training, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Learning Communities - Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Veronique Robigou-Nelson($1,304,275), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Kathy Sider($1,002,858), Seattle Aquarium Society, Seattle
Key terms: Common Language, Activities, Additional, COSEE, COSEE-OLC, Catalytic, Citizens, Collaborations, Commitment, Creating, Economic, Education, Educational, Expertise, Foster, Maritime, Models, OLC-COSEE, Ocean, Oceanography, Oceans, Outreach, Partners, Public, Science-based, Stakeholders, Washingtons.

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Annette V deCharon($662,699), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Emmanuel S Boss($444,985), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Cosee Network, Disseminated Nationally, Gap Analysis, In-service Teacher, Inland Audiences, Reach Inland, Thematic Center, Activities, Bed, Beyond, Broaden, Concept, Content, Context, Course, Developed, Education, Educators, Evaluating, Evaluation, Focusing, Hampshire, Information, Knowledge, Maine, Models, OESS, Ocean, Oceans, Phenomena, Product, Products, Resources, Review, Rigorous, Rural, Solar, Teachers, Tools, Topics, Training, Workshops.

Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence SouthEast: Building on Success
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Lois L Spence($2,093,826), South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston
Key terms: South Atlantic Bight, Cosee Se, Middle School, Ocean Observing, South Carolina, Activities, Center, Coastal, Curriculum, Diversity, Education, Effort, Efforts, Expand, Funding, Georgia, Inventory, Marine, National, Network, Outreach, Partnerships, Program, Programs, Regional, SEACOOS, Teachers, Workshop, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Benthic Observatory and Technology Testbed On the Mid Shelf -- Understanding Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

1. George Voulgaris($354,692), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Robert T Short($126,892), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Ann Gargett($1,417,103), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Benthic Exchange, Array, BBL, Characterize, Existing, Forces, Forcing, Geochemical, Instrumentation, Interface, Measure, Observational, Observatory, Properties, Represent, Seabed, Sediments, Sensors, Technology.

Collaborative Research: A Real-Time and Rapid Response Observing System for the Study of Physical and Biological Controls on Muddy Seabed Deposition, Reworking and Resuspension
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

1. Lawrence P Sanford($389,127), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Steven A Kuehl($2,335,362), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Erodability And Suspended, Fine Sediment Transport, Physically Dominated Conditions, Suspended Particle Properties, Bed Erodability, Biological Activity, Biological Effects, Suspended Aggregates, Water Column, Benthic, Controls, Decrease, Deposition, Depth, Disturbance, Erosion, Evolution, Fundamentally, Gradients, Highlow, Increased, Mean, Muddy, Observing, Prediction, Rapid, Rating, Real-time, Seabed, Short, Spatial, Temporal, Time.

Collaborative Research: Benthic Boundary Layer Geochemistry and Physics at the Kilo Nalu Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

1. Timothy P Stanton($273,056), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. Margaret McManus($2,228,727), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Benthic Boundary Layer, Measure Porewater, Surface Wave, Water Column, Ability, Array, Biogeochemically, Conditions, Driven, Establish, Examine, Fluxes, Forcing, Oceanographic, Permeable, Pis, Range, Seafloors, Wide.

Superoxide radical reactions in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bettina M Voelker($434,479), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Superoxide Decay Rates, Rate Constants, Seawater Constituents, Allow, Catalytic, Concentrations, Direct, Iron, Marine, Redox, Student, Sunlit, Waters.

Study of Seasonal Radiocarbon Variability in the Eastern Tropical Pacific During Periods of Decadal and Interannual Climate Shifts
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellen R Druffel($512,850), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Eastern Tropical Pacific, Sub-antarctic Mode Water, Wintertime 14c Values, 14c Values, Climatic Periods, Coral Bands, Seasonal 14c, Significantly Lower, Sub-antarctic Mode, Winter-time 14c, Wintertime 14c, Climate, Colleagues, Developing, Galapagos, Grew, Ocean, PDO, Past, Phase, Was, Winter-time.

Radiocarbon as a Tool for Studying Organic Matter Diagenesis in Rapidly Accumulating, Continental Margin Sediments: Linking Bulk Organic Matter and Molecular Level Studies
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel C McCorkle($673,646), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continental Margin Sediments, Organic Matter Oxidation, Solute And Solid, Specific Organic Compounds, Geochemical Cycles, Solid Phase, Carbon, Combined, Composition, Development, Efforts, Eglinton, Examine, Geochemistry, Graduate, Inorganic, Marine, Models, Quantitative, Radiocarbon.

SGER:Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Mercury Biogeochemistry and Methylation in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert P Mason($91,564), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Hg Methylation Rates, Katrina And Rita, Hurricanes Katrina, Organic Carbon, Redox Conditions, Sediment Cores, Srb Activity, Atchafalaya, Availability, Biogeochemistry, Enhance, Enhanced, GOM, Gulf, Has, Hgii, Lead, Mehg, Mercury, Methylmercury, Mississippi, Pulse, Sediments, Storm, Water.

SGER: Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Mercury Biogeochemistry and Methylation in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David B Senn($86,193), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hg Methylation Rates, Katrina And Rita, Hurricanes Katrina, Organic Carbon, Redox Conditions, Sediment Cores, Srb Activity, Atchafalaya, Availability, Biogeochemistry, Enhance, Enhanced, GOM, Gulf, Has, Hgii, Lead, Measured, Mehg, Mercury, Methylmercury, Mississippi, OCE-, Pulse, Sediments, Storm, Water.

SGER: Seabed and Geochemical Deltaic Changes Induced by Hurricane Katrina
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. John P Walsh($150,683), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Radiochemical And Sedimentological, Following Hurricane, Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Margin, Mississippi River, Cores, Delta, Disturbance, Dynamics, Hurricanes, Mass, Nature, Observations, Opportunity, Redistribution, Sea, Sediments, Shelf, Students, Transport, Tulane.

SGER: Microbial Pathogens in Lake Pontchartrain as a Result of Hurricane Katrina Floodwaters
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rebecca J Gast($99,862), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oceans And Human, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Harmful Algal, Human Health, Hurricane Katrina, Lake Pontchartrain, Natural Disaster, Analyses, COHH, Center, Chemical, Collaboratively, Collected, Contaminants, Dynamics, Extent, Flooding, Floodwaters, Gulf, HAB, Hawaii, Information, Investigate, Louisiana, Mexico, Miami, Microbes, Microbial, NSF-NIEHS, Organisms, Orleans, Pathogenic, Pathogens, Presence, Primary, SGER, Sewage, Shortly, Species, Spread.

Collaborative Research: Determining the Air-Water CO2 Flux in Coastal Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher J Zappa($467,704), Columbia University, New York
2. Peter Raymond($204,061), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Air-water Co2 Exchange, Air-water Co2 Flux, Floating Dome Techniques, Generating Near Surface, Near Surface Turbulence, Air-water Co2, Gas Transfer, Gradient Flux, Relative Importance, River Estuary, Bathymetry, Carbon, Coastal, Controlling, Directly, Forcing, Ocean, Pollutants, Processes, Range, Stratification, Tidal, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Linking Arsenic Biogeochemistry, Phosphorus Limitation and Phytoplankton Dynamics in Oceanic Surface Waters
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gerhardt F Riedel($129,983), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Elizabeth L Mann($169,500), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Arsenite And Methyl, Phytoplankton And Bacteria, Cultured Isolates, Methyl Arsenic, Acquire, Arsenate, Asp, Autotrophic, Concentrations, Factor, Growth, Influence, Limitation, Limited, Low, Nutrient, Paradigms, Phosphate, Phosphorus, Rates, Species, Stress, Students, Waters.

Development of Bioluminescent Bacterial Bioreporters to Quantify the Bioavailability of Fe in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven W Wilhelm($466,095), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Heterotrophic Bacterial, Iron Availability, Iron Bioavailability, Marine Bacteria, Bioreporter, Bioreporters, Characterize, Conditions, Field, Natural, Organic, Productivity, Reporter, Tool, Validate.

Exploratory Study of Gas Ventilation by Tidal Fronts
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Burkard Baschek($38,213), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Entrainment And Subduction, Gas Exchange Mechanisms, Aerated Water, Air-sea Gas, Bubble Entrainment, Coastal Environment, Tidal Fronts, Assess, Bubbles, Budgets, Canada, Currents, Cycles, Depths, Dissolved, Estuary, Gases, Hydraulically, Hydrostatic, Model, Parameterization, Permit, Phenomena, Processes, Quantitative, Sill, Surface, Towed, Waves.

Hydroxyl Radicals in Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Penny Vlahos($330,146), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Radicals And Hydrogen, Rates And Steady-sate, Coastal Sediments, Formation Rates, Hydrogen Peroxide, Hydroxyl Radicals, Redox Conditions, Steady-sate Concentrations, Abiotic, Burial, Carried, Controlling, Formed, Has, OM, Oxygen, Plans, Reactions, School, Season, Species, Substantial, Teachers.

The Impact of Subtropical Mode Water on the Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir: Adding Nutrient Measurements to CLIMODE
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard T Barber($216,990), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir, Subtropical Mode Water, Carbon Sink, Formation Region, North Atlantic, Observational Program, Subtropical Gyre, Time Scales, Water Mass, Advection, Availability, Biological, CLIMODE, EDW, Furthermore, Nitrate, Nutrients, Ocean, Primary, Pump, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Investigations of Marine Organic Matter Diagenesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jay Brandes($28,825), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Marine Organic, Organic Matter, Analysis, Approach, Chemical, Chemistry, Collected, Structures, X-ray.

In-situ Rates of Gross Primary Production, Respiration, and Net Community Production in the Subtropical N. Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($476,051), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bottle Incubation Methods, Oxygen Isotope Method, Situ Gross Primary, Biological Pump, Bottle Incubations, Station Aloha, Compared, Dataset, Estimates, Has, Heterotrophy, Inherent, Layer, Measured, Miss, Monthly, Net, OIM, Oar, Ocean, Rates, Respiration, Techniques, Vitro.

Assessing the Driving Forces of Submarine Groundwater Discharge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Xiaolong Hu($455,283), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Fresh And Saline, Coastal Aquifers, Driving Forces, Saline Water, Development, Discharges, Dissolved, Drive, Flow, Fluid, Forcing, Groundwater, Long-term, Marine, Measured, Nutrients, Parameters, Processes, SGD, Sediments, Seepage, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: Examining Redox-Sensitive Phosphorus Speciation and Remineralization using X-ray and NMR Spectroscopic Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellery D Ingall($215,989), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($241,661), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Georgia Institute, Graduate Student, Local Middle, Oxygen Levels, South Carolina, Water Column, Concentrations, Limited, Marine, OCE-, Organic, Particulates, Phosphorus, Release, Remineralization, Sedimentary, Storage, Technology.

Collaborative Research: Transition Metal Isotope Fractionation during Adsorption to Authigenic Oxides
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laura Wasylenki($300,074), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Thomas G Spiro($150,003), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: State-of-the-art Analytical Geochemistry, State-of-the-art Analytical, Theoretical Chemistry, Adsorption, Assess, Authigenic, Cd, Chemical, Cr, Effects, Experiments, Fe, Focus, Fractionation, Isotope, Isotopic, Marine, Mo, Ocean, Oxides, Student, Tl.

Influence of Pre- and Post-depositional Processes on Sedimentary Organic Matter Composition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy I Eglinton($592,132), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Undergraduate Summer Students, Atmospheric Co2, Continental Margins, Marine Sediments, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Buried, Continue, Current, Examine, Expect, Fate, Findings, Lateral, OC, Oceans, Postdoctoral, Processes, Quantify, Redistribution, Sequestration, Transport.

Operation of a Marine Atmospheric Sampling Facility at Tudor Hill, Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter N Sedwick($129,249), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Predict And Mitigate, Tudor Hill Facility, Atmospheric Sampling, Atmospheric Transport, Additional, Anticipated, Atlantic, Atmosphere, Available, BBSR, Bbsrs, Bermuda, Collection, Core, Effects, Exchange, Expected, Fees, Has, Maintain, North, Observational, Ocean, Processes, Program, Programs, Public, Site, Tower, Undergraduate, Weekly.

Collaborative Research: Biomarkers in Diatom Frustules: Development and Application of a New Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis Method to Understand the Present and Past Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Anitra E Ingalls($427,165), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Molecular And Isotopic, Diatom Frustules, Isotopic Composition, Organic Matter, Organic Template, Sedimentary Frustules, Age, Analyzing, Biomarkers, CC, Conditions, Diatoms, Frustule-bound, Iron, Lead, Methods, NN, OCE-, Past, Ratio.

Further Test for Stable Carbon Isotopic Fractionation of Biomarkers during Diagenetic Processes and Examination of Possible Causes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ming-Yi Sun($448,700), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Carbon Isotopic Composition, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Fractionation, Isotopic Compositions, Molecular Isotopic, Plant-derived Biomarkers, Stable Carbon, Degradation, Diagenesis, Global, Has, Molecules, Plant-derived, Plants, Processes, Reaction, Sedimentary, Terrestrial.

Nd and Sr Isotope Tracers of Deep and Shallow Ocean Circulation around South Africa
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven L Goldstein($361,337), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Circulation Tracers, Nd Isotopes, Terrigenous Detritus, Water Column, Water Masses, Agulhas, Calibrate, Center, Chemical, Exchange, Isotopic, Leachates, Particulates, Refine, Seawater, Signal, Signature, South, Utility.

Dispersion, Cycling and Burial of Organic Carbon in a River-Dominated Margin: The Fly River/Gulf of Papua Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Miguel A Goni($72,988), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Oc Pools, Dispersal, Fly, Gop, Organic, Shelf.

The Isotope Exchange Hypothesis: Nitrification and the Oxygen Isotopic Signatures in Nitrate, Nitrite, and Nitrous Oxide
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. John B Waterbury($452,017), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Nitrite And Water, Oxygen Isotope Exchange, Oxygen Isotopic Signature, Molecular Biology, Nitrous Oxide, Oceanic Nitrogen, Student Training, Analysis, Bacteria, Catalyzed, Climate, Experiments, NO-, Nitrate, Nitrification, Primary, Processes, Sinks, Sources.

Stable Isotopes of Argon in Seawater: New Tracers of Deep Water Formation Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven R Emerson($199,710), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir, Subtropical Mode Water, Carbon Sink, Formation Region, North Atlantic, Observational Program, Subtropical Gyre, Time Scales, Water Mass, Advection, Availability, Biological, CLIMODE, EDW, Furthermore, Nitrate, Nutrients, Ocean, Primary, Pump, Vertical.

Mixing of Iron-Rich Coastal Waters with Nutrient-Rich HNLC Waters Leading to Enhanced Phytoplankton Biomass: a Focus on the Northwest Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth W Bruland($649,506), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Coastal Regions, Coastal Water, Particulate Iron, California, Conception, Dissolved, Distribution, Goa, Northwestern, Students, Waters.

Mechanisms of Dinitrogen Production in Coastal Permeable Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Matthew A Charette($599,895), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Permeable Marine Sediments, Coastal Waters, N2 Gas, Permeable Sediments, Advection, Anammox, Approach, Aquifer, Environment, Fixed, Groundwater, Groundwater-transported, Loads, Microbial, Near, Nitrogen, Pathway, Pathways, Process, Removal, Transformations, Transport.

A Modeling and Data Study of Dissolved Oxygen and pCFC Age Variability in the Thermocline of the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. LuAnne Thompson($499,428), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Apparent Oxygen Utilization, Increased Apparent Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Dissolved Oxygen, Pcfc Ages, Repeat Hydrography, Southern Ocean, Available, Biological, CFC, CLIVAR, Cfcs, Circulation, Collaboration, Contribute, Decreases, Effort, Forcing, GFDL, Hallberg, Model, Modeling, Observations, Observed, Pacific, Processes, Shown, Thermocline, Ventilation, Women.

Testing the New Oceanic Dimethylsulfide (DMS) Stress / Bloom Regime Hypothesis in a Global Coupled Ecosystem-Biogeochemistry Numerical Model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dierdre A Toole($425,979), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bloom Forced Regime, Dms-climate Feedback Mechanism, Stress Bloom Forced, Surface Dms Concentrations, Air-sea Dms, Conceptual Model, Dms-climate Feedback, Future Climate, Stress Forced, Ability, Air-sea, Assess, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Coupled, DMSP, Fluxes, Global, Modeling, Objectives, Ocean, Resulting, SOLAS, Simulations, Spatial, Strength, Sulfur.

Examining Marine Phosphate Sources and Sinks using Advanced Spectromicroscopy and NMR Techniques
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jay Brandes($202,539), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Jay Brandes($202,539), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Georgia Institute, Graduate Student, Local Middle, Oxygen Levels, South Carolina, Water Column, Concentrations, Limited, Marine, OCE-, Organic, Particulates, Phosphorus, Release, Remineralization, Sedimentary, Storage, Technology.

Seawater Proteomics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carlos E Del Castillo($499,655), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Dissolved Organic, Dissolved Proteins, Organic Matter, Organic Nitrogen, Analysis, Complexity, Component, DOM, Has, Marine, Mass, Modifications, Molecular, Ocean, Oceans, Pool, Processes, Sources, Techniques.

Acquisition of Additional Radio-Analytical Capabilities, TAMUG's Laboratory for Oceanographic & Environmental Research, Coastal Zone Laboratory & Coastal Geology Laborator
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kevin Yeager($20,388), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Coastal Marine Environments, Terrestrial And Coastal, Acquisition, Environmental, Funding, Laboratory, Regional, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Determining the Elemental Composition of Natural Plankton Cells in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific using Synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Stephen B Baines($466,312), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. David M Nelson($40,205), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Benjamin S Twining($70,305), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Cellular Iron, Elemental Stoichiometries, Iron Supply, Cells, Collected, EEP, Field, Gradients, Picoplankton, Pis, SXRF, Students, Technique.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Copper in the High Affinity Iron
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bethany D Jenkins($298,927), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Affinity Fe Uptake, Fe Uptake Proteins, Fe Stress, Pseudo-nitzschia Species, Pseudo-nitzschia Spp, Ability, Availability, Components, Cu, Diatoms, Effect, Eukaryotic, Field, Function, Functionality, HNLC, Induced, Iron, Laboratory, Molecular, Phytoplankton, Pseudo-nitzschia, Pseudonana, Student, Waters.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Copper in the High Affinity Iron Uptake systems of Eukaryotic Marine Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark L Wells($384,181), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Affinity Fe Uptake, Fe Uptake Proteins, Fe Stress, Pseudo-nitzschia Species, Pseudo-nitzschia Spp, Ability, Availability, Components, Cu, Diatoms, Effect, Eukaryotic, Field, Function, Functionality, HNLC, Induced, Iron, Laboratory, Molecular, Phytoplankton, Pseudo-nitzschia, Pseudonana, Student, Waters.

Experimental Determination of Temperature and Precipitation Rate Effects on Element Partitioning Between Aragonite and Seawater
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Glenn A Gaetani($345,817), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Aragonite And Seawater, Aragonitic Skeletons, Divalent Cations, Quantitative Basis, Accretions, Climate, Compositional, Contribute, Environmental, Exclusively, Experimental, Graduate, Grains, Individual, Interpreting, Mg, Model, Partitioning, Presence, Proxies, Range, SIMS, Sr, Student, Temperature.

Establishing a Baseline for Kinetic and Thermodynamic Origins of Vital Effects: The Interplay of Factors that Control Mg and Sr Signatures in Calcite
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Patricia M Dove($379,989), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Magnesium And Strontium, Paleoenvironmental Proxy Models, Affect Signatures, Activity, Approach, Biominerals, Calibrated, Carbonate, Chemical, Effects, Factors, Geosciences, Microenvironments, Organisms, Rooted, Students, Virginia, Vital.

Publication: Harmful Algal Blooms/Black Sea Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($70,000), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Hab And Black, Black Sea, Special Issue, Issues, Magazine, Marine, Membership, Ocean, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Publication, Published, TOS.

Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of Marine Sulfate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel P Schrag($300,682), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Delta 18o, Attention, Barite, Carbon, Cycles, Earth, Has, Interactions, Sulfate, Sulfur.

Linking Archaeal Membrane Lipids and Ecology in Great Lakes: Understanding the TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Josef P Werne($537,294), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Crenarchaeotal Membrane Lipids, Gdgt Membrane Lipids, Lake Surface Temperature, Broader Impacts, Lake Superior, Tex86 Paleotemperature, Water Column, Archaeal, Compounds, Depths, Derived, Diversity, Ecology, Gdgts, Index, Lakes, Link, Malawi, Matter, Mechanistic, Methods, Particulate, Reconstruction, SPM, Sediment, Sediments, Specific, Tool.

Effects of Photodegradation on the Composition, Optical Properties and Bioavailability of DOM in Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elizabeth C Minor($181,533), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rivers And Estuaries, Chemical Characteristics, Dissolved Organic, Dom Bioavailability, Estuarine Dom, Initial Dom, Mass Spectrometry, Microbial Availability, Optical Properties, Photochemical Alterations, Source Specificity, Terrestrial Dom, Attempt, Composition, Depend, Discharged, Distributions, FTIR, Fractions, Functional, MS, Molecular, Molecular-level, NMR, Photochemically, Processes, Pygcms, Rates, Respiration, Riverine, SEC, Shifts, Significantly, Size, Spectroscopy.

2005 SOLAS Summer School
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Wade McGillis($40,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Gas And Aerosol, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gases, Challenges, Field, International, Meet, SOLAS, School, Students, Threat, Verification.

2005 Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference, August 7-12, 2005 at the Tilton School in New Hampshire
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Gordon, Marine Chemistry, Changing, Conference, Docs, Graduate.

Collaborative Research: Investigations into the Temporal & Source-Dependent Chemical Compositions & Reactivity of Natural Dissolved Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Patrick G Hatcher($315,123), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
2. Robert F Dias($576,513), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Composition And Reactivity, Anthropogenic Compounds, Bulk Chemical, Model Compounds, Organic Matter, Analytical, Chemistry, DOM, Dominion, Interactions, Molecular, NMR, Natural, Ocean, Ohio, Quantitatively, Season, Source, Students.

Characterizing the Composition, Flux, and Temporal Variability of Terrigenous Sources to the Cariaco Basin: Relationship to Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. None($289,660), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Composition And Total, Chemical Composition, Total Flux, Aeolian, Fluvial, ITCZ, Inputs, Recovered, Terrigenous, Venezuela, Venezuelan.

Coordination and Data Management for Ocean Carbon Cycle Research
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Scott C Doney($463,175), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Advances And Future, Education And Outreach, Ocean Carbon Cycle, Future Opportunities, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Outreach Activities, Woods Hole, Advantage, CDMO, Component, Critical, Exchange, Field, Has, Individual, Interface, JGOFS, Management, Mid-, Modeling, One-day, Principal, Program, Programs, Students, Supported, Visit, WHOI, Workshop.

SGER: Massive Sediment Remobilization Off the Mississippi Delta in Response to Hurricane Ivan
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David R Corbett($32,221), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Hurricane Ivan, Mississippi Delta, Sediment Remobilization, Cores, Crossing, Direct, Disturbance, Dynamics, Export, Geophysical, Meteorological, Months, Nature, Opportunity, Principal, Sea, Sediments, Shelf, Storm.

Travel Support for US Participants in an International Workshop on the Nitrogen Cycle (SPOT-ON, Warnemuende, Germany, June-July 2005)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Joseph P Montoya($15,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Marine Nitrogen Cycle, Cover, Current, Fluxes, Has, NSF, Ocean, Provided, Time, Travel, Warnemunde, Workshop.

Workshop on Impacts of Increasing CO2 on Coral Reef Organisms and Other Marine Calcifiers
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard A Feely($34,904), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Concentrations, Increased Atmospheric Co2, Neritic And Pelagic, Calcifying Organisms, Co2 Forcing, Increased Co2, Marine Calcification, Affect, Calcifiers, Carbonate, Chemistry, Dissolution, Ecosystem, Effects, Evidence, Experiments, Experts, Field, Increasing, Information, Ocean, Pis, Rates, Website, Workshop.

Carbon Sequestration: Tracing the Source and Fate of Marine Biopolymers using Proteomics and Antibody Display Technology
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gerrit J van den Engh($599,299), Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Key terms: Composition And Reactivity, Phytoplankton And Cyanobacteria, Molecular Level, Ocean Chemistry, Proteins Released, Secretory Proteomes, Advance, Allow, Biosensors, Chemical, Dissolved, Dynamics, Knowledge, Marine, Monoclonal, Proteomics, Species, Techniques, Technology, Tracking.

Interactions of Cobalt and Iron with in situ Cyanobacterial Physiology in the South Atlantic and the Benguela Upwelling Region
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mak A Saito($553,462), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cobalt And Iron, Molecular Studies, Primary Productivity, South Atlantic, Trace Metals, Biogeochemistry, Environments, Has, Low, Oceanic, Phytoplankton, Students, Upwelling, Utilization.

Collaborative Research: Coupled Carbon and Phosphorus Cycling in Benthic Reef Communities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James L Falter($635,913), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Carbon And Nutrient, Control Volume, Coral Reefs, Dominant Biomass, Net Carbon, Nutrient Cycles, Phosphorus Assimilation, Benthic, CP, Composition, Ecosystems, Expertise, Field, Fluxes, Has, Hawaii, Knowledge, Prior, Ratio, Resulting, Stanford, Water.

Collaborative Research: Coupled Carbon and Phosphorus Cycling
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Stephen G Monismith($368,116), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Carbon And Nutrient, Control Volume, Coral Reefs, Dominant Biomass, Net Carbon, Nutrient Cycles, Phosphorus Assimilation, Benthic, CP, Composition, Ecosystems, Expertise, Field, Fluxes, Has, Hawaii, Knowledge, Prior, Ratio, Resulting, Stanford, Water.

Collaborative Research: Examination of the Potential Sources for the Mid-Water Silica Anomaly in the NE Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Harlan P Johnson($342,326), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Douglas E Hammond($96,093), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep-water Silica Anomaly, Bottom Water, Cascadia Basin, Deep-water Silica, Dissolved Silica, North Pacific, Source Regions, Circulation, Distribution, Existing, Field, Flux, Indicate, Inventory, OCE-, Observed, Program, Requires, Students, Substantial, UW.

Minor and Trace Element Cycling in Sinking Marine Particles
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($95,276), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dissolved, Ocean, Particle, Particles, Recovered, Sinking, Trace, Traps.

Global Atmospheric Nutrient Deposition and Ocean Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jefferson K Moore($499,001), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Natural And Anthropogenic, Air-sea Co2, Anthropogenic Aerosols, Biogeochemical Cycling, Nutrient Loading, Air-sea, Atmospheric, Carbon, Chemistry, Deposition, Estimate, Fe, Global, Iron, Links, Model, Nutrients, Ocean, Oceans, Phytoplankton, Si, Structure, Transport.

Microbially Mediated Cycling of Organohalides in Marine Sponges
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Young-Beom Ahn($610,163), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Bacterial Populations, Organohalide Compounds, Secondary Metabolites, Animal, Biomass, Cycling, Dehalogenating, Function, Halogenated, Rutgers, Species, Sponge, Sponges, Students, Undergraduate.

Organic-Mineral Interactions in Coastal Margin Sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard G Keil($499,950), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Biogenic Minerals, Lithogenic Minerals, Organic Matter, Total Om, Aggregates, Aggregation, Analyses, Association, Centuries, Continent, Cycling, Degradation, Diagenesis, Effects, Experiments, Longer-term, Lt, Margins, Marine, OET, Oxygen, Predominant, Rise, Sediment, Sediments, Short-term, Sorbed, Training, Undergraduate, Washington.

Paleo-Ocean Chemistry Based on Trace Element Records in Marine Sedimentary Opal: Implications for Aeolian Fluxes and the Effect of Fe on Biological Productivity
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher D Charles($416,070), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cosmic Ray-produced Radionuclides, Biogenic Opal, Cosmic Ray-produced, Ray-produced Radionuclides, Southern Ocean, Chemistry, Climate, Concentrations, Dissolved, Fe, Has, Included, Input, Marine, Paleoproductivity, Past, Phase, Pilot, Productivity, Proxy, Scripps, Sediment, Sedimentary, Ti, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Assessment of Groundwater Inputs into Coastal Waters of Hawaii via Natural Tracers and Aerial Imagery
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William C Burnett($206,362), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Paul G Lucey($277,383), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Submarine Groundwater Discharge, Kona Coast, Assess, Coastal, Florida, Fluxes, Hawaii, Methods, Phosphorus, Ra, Regional, SGD, Selected, Th, Total, Via, Water.

Times Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 11/28/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Maureen Conte($445,430), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Ocean Functioning, Upper Ocean, Atlantic, Bermuda, Biological, Climatic, Especially, Evidence, Fluctuations, Fluxes, Focus, Forcing, Has, Interactions, Long-term, OFP, Processes, Provided, Time-series, Unique.

Solitons and Wavepackets in the Ocean and Atmosphere and High-Order Numerical Algorithms
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John P Boyd($748,555), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Tropical Instability Waves, Baroclinic Vortices, Coherent Structures, Kelvin Waves, Legendre Polynomials, Rational Chebyshev, Spectral Methods, Spherical Harmonic, Algorithms, Analysis, Atmosphere, Basis, Bifurcation, Blending, Climate, Engine, Fourier, Fronts, Geophysical, Global, Gravity, Has, Ill-conditioned, Instead, Main, Modelling, Models, Nonlinear, Numerical, Ocean, Ordinary, Reconstruction, Regional, Roots, Shocks, Species, Topics, Weather.

CAREER: Nitrate Isotopes and Biogeochemistry: A Plan for Coupling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Daniel M Sigman($731,268), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Graduate Student Mentor, Principal Investigator's Laboratory, Graduate Students, Investigator's Laboratory, Ocean Circulation, Principal Investigator's, Senior Thesis, Activities, Appropriate, Biogeochemistry, Biologically, Cycle, Engage, Environment, Environmental, Expertise, Faculty, Field, Future, Isotope, Isotopes, Marine, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Princeton, Program, Stable, Summer, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

CAREER: On the Hydrodynamics of the Subtidal Exchange Between Estuaries and Their Adjacent Waters
Award Effective Date: 08/07/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson($99,951), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: School Students, Subtidal Exchange, Educational, Funding, Integrate, Programs.

CAREER : A Research and Education Plan in Global Biogeochemical Cycles: Seawater Calcium Isotopes and Carbonate Deposition History
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Adina Paytan($442,849), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Delta 44ca, Barite, Carbonate, Cycles, Education, Fractionation, History, Modern, Seawater.

REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Coastal Bays of New England
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Ivan Valiela($120,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Woods Hole, Biological, Independent, Interns, MBL, Program.

CAREER: Microbial Geochemistry of Natural Marine Gas Seeps - A Research and Education Plan
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. David L Valentine($651,473), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Gas Seep Environments, Microbial Methane Oxidation, Students And Teachers, Education Courses, Educational Goals, K-12 Students, Outreach Activities, Undergraduate Students, Achieved, Active, California, Campus, Educate, Environmental, Field, Flux, Graduate, Has, Incorporating, Integrated, Laboratory, Marine, Net, Ocean, Offshore, Potential, Primary, Program, Sediment, UCSB.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Coastal and Nearshore Marine Systems of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Kenneth L Heck($157,797), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
Key terms: Encouraged, Program, REU, Summer.

SGER: Tsunami! Virtual Teacher Workshop
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Peter D Tuddenham($55,000), The College of Exploration, Sterling
Key terms: Natural Disaster, Teacher Workshop, Asynchronously, Available, Educational, Educators, Experts, Has, Information, Ocean, Online, Students, Teachers, Three-week, Timely, Tsunami, Tsunamis, Workshops.

CAREER: Hydrothermal Vent Flow and Temperature Fluctuations: Exploring Long-Term Variability through an Integrated Research and Education Program
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Daniela Di Iorio($552,076), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: De Fuca Ridge, Endeavour Vent Field, Juan De Fuca, Main Endeavour Vent, Broader Impacts, Educational Component, Flow Tank, Fluid Flow, Graduate Students, Hydrothermal Flow, Hydrothermal Vent, Vent Dynamics, Vent Flow, Actively, Collaborations, Developed, Development, Engineering, Enhance, Extended, Focus, Industry, Instrument, Integrated, Long-term, Marine, Monitor, Months, Network, Observatory, Oceanography, Principal, SOSUS, School, Scintillation, Seismic, Stages, Teachers, Time, Undergraduate.

REU Site: University of Delaware Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. David L Kirchman($397,904), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Papers, Program, Students, Topics.

Research Experiences in Estuarine Science for Undergraduates at Mote Marine Laboratory: Developing a New Generation of Leaders in Ocean Sciences
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Barbara Kirkpatrick($228,755), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Reu Site, Applied, Funding, Program, Summer.

CAREER: Biologically-Mediated Molecular-Level Transformations of Marine Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 12/31/2004; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($337,323), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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.

Collaborative Research: Relating Microbial Biodiversity to Biological Oceanographic Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Jed A Fuhrman($553,151), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Victoria J Coles($100,266), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Biological Oceanographic, Microbial Diversity, Analysis, Biogeochemical, Composition, Molecular, Pacific, Pis, Processes, Program, Specific, Taxa, Teaching, West.

BE/GENEN Coral Reef Genomics: A Genome Wide Approach to the Study of Cnidarian Symbiosis
Award Effective Date: 08/19/2005; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Monica Medina($740,291), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Coral Reef, Analysis, BAC, Causing, Cellular, Coffroth, Common, Corals, Ecosystems, Educational, Elevated, Expression, Gene, Generated, Genes, Genome, Has, Interactions, Manohar, Marine, Molecular, Mutualistic, Outreach, Pis, Programs, Symbioses, Symbiosis, Szmant, Tang, Terry, Wide, Zooxanthellae.

Collaborative Research: Ecotypic Diversity and Adaptation of Prochlorococcus in the Stratified, HighTemperature Waters of the Western Pacific Warm Pool
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Erik Zinser($402,564), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Zackary I Johnson($396,630), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pacific Warm Pool, Western Pacific Warm, Clade Abundances, Clades, Depth, Distributions, Education, Environmental, Graduate, Hawaii, Light, National, Outreach, Pis, Populations, Presentations, Primary, Prochlorococcus, Stratified, Structure, Students, Surface, WPWP.

Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence: Central Gulf of Mexico (COSEE:CGOM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Robert D Brook($1,814,573), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Development Institutes, Informal Educators, COSEE-GOM, Center, Education, Marine, NSF, Ocean, Teachers, Variety, Workshop.

Collaborative Research and RUI: Assessing phosphorus-status in Prochlorococcus through kinetics and molecular approaches in chemostats and natural populations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Gabrielle Rocap($314,933), University of Southern Maine, Portland
2. Gabrielle Rocap($321,153), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Natural Populations, P-related Genes, Prochlorococcus Populations, Utilize Organic, Ability, Axenic, Carry, Competitive, Cultured, Differences, Examine, Experience, Expression, Field, Genotype-specific, HL, HLI, HLII, Isolates, Limitation, Marine, Molecular, Oceans, P-limitation, P-limited, P-related, Physiological, Region, Revealed, Students, Techniques, USM, Undergraduates.

Phylogeography of Indo-Pacific Reef Fishes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Brian W Bowen($510,089), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pacific And Indian, Coral Reefs, Gene Genealogies, Glacial Periods, Indian Oceans, Island Students, Marine Biology, Pacific Island, Reef Fish, Age, Barrier, Colonization, Core, Dispersal, Facility, Fauna, Genetic, Hawaii, Indo-pacific, Land, Local, Mpas, Opportunities, Speciation.

Undergraduate Research Experiences in Estuarine Processes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Ethics & Values of SET

1. Fredrika C Moser($285,000), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Laboratory, Maryland, Program, Site, Students.

Subsistence Choices, Mercury Bioaccumulation,and Ecosystem Change: A Long-term View from the Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: HSD - AGENTS OF CHANGE

1. Maribeth S Murray($124,904), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Human Subsistence Choices, Marine Food Web, Marine Ecosystem, Marine Resource, Marine Species, Marine Vertebrates, Mercury Bioaccumulation, Mercury Levels, Step Towards, Agents, Alaska, Alaskan, Approaches, Archaeological, Comparable, Conditions, Consumption, Datasets, Enable, Enhance, Environment, Faunal, Future, Generate, Global, Has, Health, Implications, Information, Initiatives, Interdisciplinary, Length, Long-term, Managing, Ocean, Past, Program, Risks, Student, Targeted, UAF, Uafs.

DRU Research Community Development Proposal: Workshop on Climate, Uncertainty, and Multilateral Management of Harvested Highly-Migratory Marine Fish Stocks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: HSD - DEC, RISK & UNCERTAINTY

1. Robert W McKelvey($114,091), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Highly Migratory Marine, Marine Fish Stocks, Productivity And Spatial, Fisheries Governance, Fishery Management, International Fisheries, Multilateral Management, Potential Value, Spatial Distribution, Approaches, Biological, Broadly, Collaborative, Competitive, Context, Contribute, Development, Effects, Effort, Efforts, Focused, Forecasts, Has, Information, Participation, Progress, Social, Species, Tuna, Uncertainty, Workshop.

SGER: Mobilization and Deposition of Organic Matter along the Louisiana Coast following Hurricane Katrina
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: HURRICANE KATRINA

1. Miguel A Goni($128,854), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sediment And Organic, Fine Sediments, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Lili, Louisiana Shelf, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Storm Track, Accumulation, Analyses, Atchafalaya, Baseline, Chemical, Coastal, Collected, Delta, Deposition, Effects, Findings, Impacted, Information, Isotopes, Larger, Mississippi, Mobilized, Offshore, Oregon, Region, Regions, River, Seabed, Storms, Terrigenous, Transport, Winds, Yield.

SGER: Identifying Sources of Fecal Contamination and the Prevalence of Human Pathogens in Water, Sediments, and Shellfish of Lake Pontchartrain in Response to Floodwater Pumping
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: HURRICANE KATRINA

1. Philip C Loh($148,821), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Human Health, Hurricane Katrina, Lake Pontchartrain, Natural Disaster, Total Microbial, Abundance, Assayed, Chemical, Contaminants, Contamination, Document, Extent, Flooding, Floodwaters, Following, Gulf, HAB, Hawaii, Information, Investigate, Mexico, Microbes, Molecular, NSF-NIEHS, Organisms, Orleans, Pathogens, SGER, Sediments, Selected, Sewage, Shortly, Spread, Water.

SGER: Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Lake Pontchartrain Ecosystem: Geochemistry, Microbiology, and Potential Human Health Effects
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: HURRICANE KATRINA

1. Aixin Hou($199,937), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Lake Pontchartrain Ecosystem, Discharged Floodwaters, Human Health, Hurricane Katrina, Natural Disaster, Particular Attention, Algal, Chemical, Concentrations, Contaminants, Extent, Flooding, Focus, Gulf, HAB, Influence, Information, Investigate, Issues, LSU, Mexico, Microbes, Organisms, Orleans, Potential, SGER, Sewage, Shortly, Spread, Vicinity.

SGER: Microbial and HAB Reconnaissance Measurements in Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity in Response to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: HURRICANE KATRINA

1. Helena M Solo-Gabriele($150,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Lsu And Uh, Oceans And Human, Hab Organisms, Human Health, Hurricane Katrina, Lake Pontchartrain, Natural Disaster, Pathogenic Microbes, Public Health, Analysis, Center, Chemical, Collected, Contaminants, Correlations, Distribution, Document, Extent, Flooding, Floodwaters, Funding, Gulf, Impacted, Indicators, Information, Investigate, Louisiana, Mexico, Miami, Microbial, NSF-NIEHS, Orleans, Pathogens, SGER, Sewage, Shortly, Spread, Widespread.

Participation of Qualified Oceanographers from Developing Countries in International Scientific Meetings
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward R Urban($225,000), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Developing Countries, Eastern Europe, Assistance, International, Knowledge, Marine, Meetings, Regional, Russia, SCOR, Travel.

International Ocean Research Conference Travel Support, June 6-10, 2005
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($15,000), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Abstracts, Collaboration, Conference, International, Oceanography, Program, Submitted.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Uncertainty Quantification in Geophysical State Estimation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Boyana Norris($723,625), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Patrick Heimbach($226,483), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Automatic Differentiation, Complex Models, Differentiation Algorithms, Geophysical Models, Internal Parameters, Model Uncertainties, Non-smooth Optimization, Optimization Algorithms, Uncertainty Quantification, AD, Advances, Computationally, Computing, Economics, Engineering, Estimation, Extremely, Insight, Mathematical, Meteorology, Non-smooth, Numerical, Produce, Sensitivities, Sets, Simulations, Tools, Wide.

Preserving the Legacy of MG&G Ocean Exploration: An Online Data Catalog and Library for the Global Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Suzanne Carbotte($1,617,195), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Expedition Information, Metadata Catalog, Bathymetry, Central, Future, Streamlined.

Ship Operations: R/V Knorr
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Albert F Suchy($51,272,550), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Whoi Web Site, Intellectual Merit, Agreement, Classroom, Country, Cruises, Endeavors, Experience, Formation, Funding, Has, Knorr, NSF, Oceanic, Oceans, Participants, Processes, Programs, Public, Required, Sea, Sea-going, Students.

Study of Biological Response to Regime Shifts and ENSO Events in the Peruvian Humboldt Current Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Gordon L Swartzman($349,191), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Distribution And Abundance, Zooplankton And Phytoplankton, Current Ecosystem, Phytoplankton Net, Biological, Del, Fish, HCE, IMARPE, Opportunity, Peru, Prey, Primary, Species, Temperature.

Determining the role of anthropogenic nutrients in supporting fisheries off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt: an approach using stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Scott W Nixon($256,187), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Apparent Increase, Delta Lagoons, Egyptian Coast, Arabic, Drainage, Fishery, Landings, Mediterranean, Nile, Nitrogen, Nutrients, Oceanography, Replacement, Secondary, Sewage, Shelf, Sources, Water, Waters.

Physiological and Stoichiometric Studies of Marine Diazotrophs
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Douglas G Capone($508,314), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Light And Nutrients, Coccoid Cyanobacteria, Model Organisms, N2 Fixation, Photosynthetic Parameters, Assumed, Biogeochemical, Controls, Cycle, Derived, Diazotrophic, Diazotrophs, Excess, Global, Growth, Has, Marine, Models, NP, Nitrogen, Ocean, Process, Ratio, Respect, Trichodesmium.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Estimation of Ocean Currents and Wave-Eddy Turbulence from Float Observations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Curtis A Collins($333,422), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. Leonid I Piterbarg($183,081), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Floats And Drifters, Continental Margin, Float Observations, North Atlantic, Ocean Waters, ARGO, Allow, Applied, Approach, CA, California, Carbon, Circulation, Contribute, Deep, Description, Developed, Dispersal, Estimating, Fields, Graduate, Lagrangian, Mathematical, Methods, Models, Monterey, Pacific, Path, Presentations, Public, Regions, Statistics, Subtropical, Techniques, Velocity.

CMG: Integrating Mathematical Models, Laboratory Experiments, and Ocean Observatory Data to Understand Phytoplankton Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Michael G Neubert($1,496,331), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Coastal Ocean, Population Growth, Biological, Collaboration, Conditions, Cultures, Developed, Education, Generate, Impediment, Innovative, Laboratory, Mathematical, Model, Models, Natural, Observatories, Overcome, Parameters, Phytoplankton, Predict, Public, Regulation, Respond, Space, Statistical, Technologies, Time.

Acquisition of Analytical Instrumentation for Integrated Paleoclimatic and Sedimentary Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Gregor P Eberli($613,200), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Sediment And Rock, Rock Cores, Sediment Cores, Analysis, Chemical, Contribute, Equipment, Existing, Instruments, Miami, Quantitative, Rapid, Sedimentary, Split, X-ray.

Acquisition of a Multi-user Seagoing Cell Sorting Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michael E Sieracki($552,207), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Cell Sorting Laboratory, Marine Microbial Ecology, Cell Sorter, Availability, Education, Facility, Flow, High-speed, Instrumentation, Training.

Acquisition of Instrumentation for Oregon State University: Mass Spectrometers for Ocean Change Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Gary P Klinkhammer($295,848), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Isotope Ratio Mass, Ratio Mass Spectrometer, Excellent, Facility, GS-IRMS, Has, Instrumentation, Oregon.

Hotspots and Global Absolute Plate Motions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($219,140), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Absolute Plate, Apm Models, Hotspot Motion, Moving Plumes, Plate Motion, Authors, Plates, Relative, Stationary, Technique, Volcanism.

Measurements of the Diurnal Warm Layer and Biologically-Induced Heating during the CIRENE Campaign
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brian Ward($387,847), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Interaction, Atmospheric Convection, Indian Ocean, ASIP, Conditions, Has, Heat, Importance, Intraseasonal, Layer, MJO, Region, SST, Satellite, Temperature.

Modeling Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Integrated Magma-Hydrothermal Processes and Temporal Variability
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert P Lowell($646,996), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Hydrothermal, Processes.

Enhancement and Maintenance of the Marine Seismic Processing System SIOSEIS
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Henkart($142,311), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Software Package, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Detailed Analysis of High-Resolution Morphological Data and Water-Column Hydrothermal Measurements along Earth's Fastest Spreading Center, EPR 27-32 S
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($122,646), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard N Hey($56,839), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Analysis, Hydrothermal, Involves, Spreading.

SGER: The Deuterium-Hydrogen Ratio in Alkenones as a Proxy for the Paleo-hydrological Cycle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Yongsong Huang($85,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Laboratory Cultures, Tropical Cores, DH, Isotopic, Proxy, Ratios.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Magmatic Processes at Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John M Sinton($344,103), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Chemical And Petrographic, Mid-ocean Ridge, Allow, Composition, Crust, Eruption, Galapagos, Icelandic, Lavas, Magmas, Mantle, Melting, Mid-ocean, Mineralogy, Minerals, Processes, Ridges, Rock, Sets, Spreading, Thickness.

Langmuir Circulation - Internal Wave Interactions: Data and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerome Smith($359,965), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: High-frequency Internal Waves, Doppler Sonar, High-frequency Internal, Langmuir Circulation, Mixed Layer, Surface Layer, Uppermost Pycnocline, Actively, Comparisons, Effects, Hence, Involves, Mechanism, Mixing, Models, Motions, Net, Nutrients, Overturns, Policy, Post-doc, Re-sampling, Resolution, Seen, Thermocline, Time.

A Low Power Underwater Optical Communication System for Seafloor Sensors
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maurice A Tivey($192,585), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Based, Communication, Instruments, Low, Optical.

MARGINS Source to Sink: Collaborative Research on Shoreline Progradation and Sediment Exchange Between the Coastal Plain and Inner Shelf, Waipaoa Sedimentary System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jesse E McNinch($522,731), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. John B Swenson($154,212), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Sedimentary.

Collaborative Research: Neotectonics across an active Oblique-Divergent Plate Margin, Southwestern Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul J Umhoefer($186,236), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. J Ramon Arrowsmith($164,152), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Timothy Dixon($81,647), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Graham Kent($264,348), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: California, Continent, Mapping, Margin, Partitioning, Time.

Controls on the Oxygenation of Southeast Pacific Intermediate Waters Over the Last ~50 ky
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Zanna Chase($437,589), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Antarctic Intermediate Water, Intermediate Water Oxygenation, Pacific Intermediate Water, South Pacific Intermediate, Carbon, Foraminifera, Forced, Sites, Tracers, Waters.

Volatiles in Tonga Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terry A Plank($256,956), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Lau Basin, Tonga Arc, Australian, Boston, Composition, Compositions, Comprehensive, Electron, Female, Graduate, HO, Magmas, Mantle, Melting, Slab, Subduction, Volatile, Volcanism.

Understanding Magma Genesis in Subduction Zones: New models for Reactive Hydrous Melting and Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marc W Spiegelman($102,644), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Computational And Theoretical, Fluid Transport, Volcanic Arcs, Geochemical, Magmatic, Model.

Noble Gas Studies of the Pacific Mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark D Kurz($412,982), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Heavy Noble Gases, Fernandino Volcano, Mantle Convection, Submarine Glasses, Ar, Galapagos, Hotspot, Mass, Models, Ne, Ratios, Undegassed, Xe.

Paleoventilation Studies of the North Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel C McCorkle($309,159), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Benthic Foraminifera, Bottom Water, Depth Range, Eastern Pacific, Laminated Sediments, North Pacific, Northwest Pacific, Accumulation, Content, Cores, Deglacial, Depths, Estimate, Estimates, Explanations, Flux, Formation, Imply, Intervals, Margin, Ocean, Organic, Productivity, Rate, Sea, Set, Stratification, Ventilation.

Quantification of Plate Motion Relative to the Hotspots
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Gordon($273,964), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Hotspot Tracks, Global, Hotspots, Models, Motions, Relative.

Shona and Discovery Seamount Chains, South Atlantic - geochemistry program
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Cornelia Class($54,783), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: South Atlantic, Cruise, Discovery, International, Ridge, Rise, Shona.

Collaborative Research: The Marine Os Isotope Record of Extreme Cenozoic Climates
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($194,072), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Gregory E Ravizza($194,759), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Marine Os Isotope, Seawater 187os188os Ratios, 187os188os Ratios, Broader Impacts, Chemical Weathering, Ice Volume, Seawater 187os188os, Weathering Rates, Woods Hole, Climate, Cooling, Drilling, Education, Global, Hawaii, Indicative, Osos, Public, Rising, Sediments, Student, Undergraduate, Warming.

Variability of Climate and Carbon Sycling in the Tropical Pacific During Periods of Abrupt Thermocline Shift
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ellen R Druffel($310,534), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Eastern Tropical Pacific, Annual, Atmosphere, Climate, Coral, Galapagos, Influence, Net, Ocean, Student, Surface, Was.

Origin, Evolution and Emplacement of the Oceanic Mantle Beneath an Ultraslow Spreading Center
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Henry J Dick($357,642), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Analyses.

Volcanic Growth Rates and Elemental Fluxes From Central America
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brent D Turrin($287,175), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Highly Incompatible, Volcanic Centers, Allow, Pis, Rates.

Processes Controlling Depositional Signals of Environmental Change in the Fly River Sediment Dispersal System: Mechanisms and Rates of Shelf Clinoform Development
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Charles A Nittrouer($100,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Guinea, Papua, Processes, Sedimentary.

Inverse Modeling of the Glacial Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Olivier Marchal($358,031), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Inverse Model, Nutrient Proxy, Atlantic, Benthic, Cdca, Circulation, Combination, Critical, Deep, Depth, Has, Legrand, Waters, Wunsch.

ABR: Detailed Mapping and Modeling of Submarine Lava Flows and Emplacement Processes: The East Pacific Rise 9 degrees 25'N to 9 degrees 55'N
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel J Fornari($474,938), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Alvin, Flow.

Deciphering Climate Archives: Establishing the Inorganic Basis of an Isotope Fractionation Phenomenon in Biogenic CaCO3
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard E Zeebe($242,962), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Carbonate Chemistry, Calcite, Climate, Co-fractionation, Crystals, Effect, Foraminifera, Fractionation, Isotopes, Organisms, Ph, Precise, Reconstructions, Seawater, Solutions, Stable, Students.

Collaborative Research: Molluscan Radiocarbon as a proxy for Upwelling in Holocene Peru
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gregory W Hodgins($205,013), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. C. Frederick T Andrus($153,058), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
3. Daniel H Sandweiss($182,389), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: El, Peruvian, Shell, Upwelling.

A High Resolution Record of Upwelling in the Tropical Atlantic: Atmospheric Forcings and Biogeochemical Consequences
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Miguel A Goni($313,967), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Wind-driven Coastal Upwelling, Carbon Export, Cariaco Basin, Terrigenous Biomarkers, Wind-driven Coastal, Analyses, Biogeochemical, Climatic, Compositions, Ecological, Holocene, Ocean, Proxies, Sediments, Students.

Collaborative Research: Cl-isotope systematics of back-arc spreading systems: Insights into geochemical cycling of volatile elements between crust, hydrosphere and mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Adam Kent($27,786), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Chlorine Stable Isotopes, Ion Mass Spectrometer, Secondary Ion Mass, Techniques And Protocols, Broader Impacts, Melt Inclusions, Volcanic Glasses, Volcanic Rocks, Accuracy, Analyses, Analytical, In-situ, Precision, WHOI.

Exploration of the Submarine Deposits and Morphology of Santorini Volcano, Greece
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Haraldur Sigurdsson($226,055), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Ballard, Caldera, Kolumbo, Processes, Santorini, Submarine, Volcanic, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Holocene Climate Variability and the Indonesian Throughflow in the Western Equatorial Pacific
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Braddock K Linsley($142,644), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Delia Oppo($320,018), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Yair Rosenthal($168,696), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Amplitude, Broader, Centennial, Climate, Consistent, Depth, Freshening, Freshwater, Generated, Graduate, Heat, Holocene, ITF, Link, Millennial, Pacific, Undergraduate, Western.

Collaborative Research: Melt Transport and Mechanical Properties in Partially Molten Peridotites
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($71,819), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. None($417,925), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Drained And Undrained, Partially Molten, Undrained Conditions, Experimental, Experiments, Loading, Mechanical, Melt, Migration, Pis, Pressure, Properties, Rock, Solid, Techniques.

Support of the Generic Mapping Tools
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($212,941), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: GMT.

Testing the Tropical Greenhouse Forcing Hypothesis Using a Halmahera Proxy SST Record
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Lea($304,003), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Climate Sensitivity, Greenhouse Forcing, Proxy Sst, Warm Pool, China, Core, Deglaciation, Developing, Development, Direct, Halmahera, Ice, MIS, Marine, Orbital, Oscillations, Pacific, Resolution, Site, Ssts, Temperature, Thousand, Timescales, Tropical.

Radiocarbon Profiles and Rapid Climate Change in the Deep North Atlantic: Deep Sea Corals from the Glacial to the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jess F Adkins($383,447), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Ice Core, Rapid Climate, Age, Atlantic, Circulation, Collection, Compared, Coral, Corals, Dates, Depth, Mass, Past, Profiles, Species, U-series.

Collaborative Research: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southern Ocean: Middle Bathyal Constraints from ODP Sites 689 (Atlantic Sector) and 738 (Indian Sector)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Stephen A Schellenberg($142,722), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. D C Kelly($104,556), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Southern Ocean, Carbonate, Methane, Onset, PETM, Paleocene-eocene, Pis, Sites.

Fossil Coral Radiocarbon Records of Equatorial Pacific Upwelling over the Last Millennium
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kim M Cobb($307,824), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Tropical Pacific Climate, Broader Impacts, Circulation Models, Female Faculty, Georgia Tech, Ocean Circulation, Vertical Mixing, Analyzed, Corals, ENSO, Fossil, Future, Millennium, NSF, Parameterizations, Predictions, Radiocarbon, Student, Temperature.

Evolution of the Kerguelen LIP: Insights from Crystal Stratigraphy & Crystal Size Distributions from Site 1137, Elan Bank
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Clive R Neal($162,625), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Crystal Size Distributions, Broader Impacts, Crustal Contamination, Crystal Populations, Crystal Stratigraphy, Notre Dame, Compositions, Crystals, Dynamics, Evolution, Extent, Geochemical, Graduate, Hispanic, Involves, Magma, Ocean, Parent, Plagioclase, Processes, School, Source, Students, Technique, Timing, Volcaniclastic.

SGER: LDEO Participation in R/V "Natsushima" Cruise to site of the Great Thrust Earthquake Which Triggered the Disastrous Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marie-Helene Cormier($75,053), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Earthquake, Northern.

Modeling Mantle Circulation, Temperatures and Melting Processes Beneath Back-Arc Spreading Centers
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher R Kincaid($350,391), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Oceans And Atmosphere, Earth's Interior, Laboratory Models, Mantle Flow, Numerical Models, Subduction Zones, Allow, Characterize, Chemical, Comparisons, Complex, Continent, Crust, Flows, Generated, Melt, Plate, Plates, Processes, Produced, Spreading, Stress, Temperatures.

Evaluating the Relationship Between Melt Inclusions and Host for high Anorthite Plagioclase: Prevalence and Significance of Trace element Diversity in MORB Plagioclase
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Roger L Nielsen($178,037), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Glass Inclusions, Host Glasses, Plagioclase Crystals, Crust, Equilibrium, Gradients, Heat, Mantle, Minerals, Ocean, Stage, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Chemical, isotopic and volatile constraints on the evolution of the Lau Basin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paterno R Castillo($394,106), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Aaron J Pietruszka($301,426), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Lau Basin, San Diego, Spreading Centers, Western Pacific, Analytical, Back-arc, California, Crust, Extent, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Has, Isotopes, Lavas, Mantle, Processes, Region, SDSU, Source, Spatial, Students, Training, UCSD, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: Modeling Sediment Delivery and Related Stratigraphy in a Tidal Dominated Delta: Fly River Papua, New Guinea
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Sergio Fagherazzi($69,330), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Scott D Peckham($92,791), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fly River, Delta, Model, Tidal.

Seismic Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Central and Northern Red Sea Focus Site
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew A Nyblade($104,314), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Crustal And Lithospheric, Red Sea, Broadband, Deployment, Pis, Saudi, Seismic, Seismicity, Stations.

Collaborative Research: Completion of the MORVEL global plate motion models
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Gordon($94,912), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Dennis C DeMets($89,937), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Averages Motion, MORVEL, Marine, Models, Plate.

Deep Water Circulation During the Middle to Late Miocene Carbonate Crash
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ellen E Martin($186,500), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: North Atlantic, Time Interval, Carbonate, Intervals, Miocene, Nd, Pacificsouthern.

RIDGE2000 Postdoc: Dynamics of Coupled Tectonic/Hydrothermal Systems at Mid-Ocean Ridges; a Damage Rheology Approach
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marc W Spiegelman($131,170), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Coupled, Crust, Deformation, Hydrothermal, Media, Models, Natural, Recently, Theory.

Testing the Shelf-Nutrient Hypothesis by Examining the Oceanic Phosphorus Cycle on Glacial Timescales
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gabriel M Filippelli($299,041), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Accumulation Rates, Time Scales, G-I, PAR.

Chlorine and Its Stable Isotope Budgets in Subduction Zones: Implications for Serpentinization and Cycling of Cl and Water
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Miriam Kastner($236,374), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Concentrations And Isotope, Cl Concentrations, Fluids, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: Climate Stability During a Time of Transition
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katharina Billups($152,909), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Pamela Martin($159,240), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Mid Pleistocene, Millennial-scale Climate, Amplitude, Investigate, Ma, Millennial-scale, Resolution, Students, Subtropical, Time.

SGER: Controls on Li/Ca Uptake in Planktic Foraminifera Determined by Live Culturing
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark Pagani($50,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Carbonate Ion Concentration, Culturing Experiments, Lica Ratio, Orbulina Universa, Biological, Calcareous, Carried, Climate, Controlled, Lithium, Ocean, Proxy, Seawater, Significantly, Time, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical Consequences of Melt Channeling: Exploring a New Class of Models for Geochemical Variability
Award Effective Date: 10/20/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter B Kelemen($22,254), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Chemical, Mantle, Melting, Models, Observations, Pis.

Collaborative Research: Primitive Magmatism and Crustal Genesis in an Island Arc
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter B Kelemen($101,536), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aleutian Arc, Continental Crust, Western Aleutians, Convergence, Gradient, Program, Rock, Sampling, Volcanic.

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($516,557), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cooling Rates, Odp Leg, Crust, Igneous, Lower, Ridge, Spreading.

Continued Operation of the OSU/COAS Marine Geology Repository
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2004; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Nicklas G Pisias($541,052), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Cores, Described, Expansion, Has, Period, Repository, Rock, Sediment, Storage.

Collaborative Research: NeTS-NOSS: Networking the Digital Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Networking Technology and Syst

1. Michael Neely($661,953), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. James C Preisig($326,070), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Milica Stojanovic($269,224), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Medium Access Control, Digital Ocean, Sensor Network, Sensor Networks, Underwater Acoustic, Bandwidth, Channel, Characteristics, Collaborating, Communications, Estimation, Feasible, Instruments, Layer, Limitations, Networking, Propagation, Quality, Remains, Sensors, Vehicles, Via.

International Capacity Building for the Protection and Sustainable Use of Oceans and Coasts
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($50,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Protection And Management, Capacity Building, Wider International, Coastal, Committee, Effective, Environments, Examine, Marine, Policy.

SGER: Development of a 3 rd Generation Surface Contact Heat Flux, Temperature and Sea State Measurement Instrument
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. James P Boyle($234,138), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Air-sea Heat, Field Experiments, Heat Exchange, Heat Flux, Multi-sensor Float, Accuracy, Air-sea, Characterize, Conditions, Design, Multi-sensor, Ocean, Satellite-based, Surface, Undergraduate, Wind.

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION DISTURBANCES ON EASTERN PACIFIC CORAL REEFS: PATTERNS AND MECHANISMS OF RECOVERY
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Peter W Glynn($1,349,859), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Eastern Pacific Coral, Coral Reef, Coral Reproduction, Costa Rica, Ecosystem Function, Genetic Structure, National Park, Biological, Colombia, Complexity, Countries, Disturbances, Documented, ENSO, Ecology, Ecuador, Effects, Efforts, Experiments, Field, Framework, Future, Galapagos, Global, Growth, Investigations, Long-term, Modeling, Panama, Populations, Potential, Processes, Recovery, Recruitment, Reefs, Relating, Shifts, Species, Symbiont, Trophic, Undergraduate, Warming.

Singlet Oxygen's Role in the Photochemical-Biochemical Degradation of Dissolved Organic Carbon
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. James B Cotner($615,188), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Lake Superior, Organic Matter, Singlet Oxygen, Amino, Aquatic, Bioavailability, Chemical, Collaboration, DOM, Degradation, Effects, Examined, Exposed, Global, K-, Lability, Link, Little, Microbial, Minnesota, Observed, Photochemical, Pis, Processes, Program, Reaction, Responsible, Sources, Students, Sunlight, Training, Undergraduate.

The R/V Alpha Helix Symbios Expedition, a Milestone in Coral Reef Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2004; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Christopher F D'Elia($20,936), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Expedition, Productivity.

Ocean Studies Board Core Support
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2003; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($686,089), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Studies Board, Assists, Committee, Contribute, International, Issues, Maintaining, National, OSB, Policy.

R/V Atlantis Operations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Albert F Suchy($51,231,984), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Whoi Web Site, Intellectual Merit, Agreement, Atlantis, Classroom, Continue, Cruises, Days, Endeavors, Has, NSF, Oceanographic, Oceans, Participants, Process, Programs, Public, Required, Sea, Sea-going, Ship, Students.

Collaborative Research: A 3D Seismic Investigation of the Nankai Trough plate boundary system in the Kumano Basin
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Harold J Tobin($199,427), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Gregory F Moore($3,268,958), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Demian M Saffer($156,572), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
4. Sean S Gulick($496,380), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: 3-d Seismic Reflection, 3-d Seismic, 3d Seismic, Kumano Basin, Ocean Drilling, Seismogenic Zone, Geometry, History, Nankai, Properties, Thrust, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Drilling Site Survey-Life in Subseafloor Sediments of the South Pacific Gyre
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Andreas P Teske($109,692), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Robert A Pockalny($396,773), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. None($31,265), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Deep Biosphere Objectives, South Pacific Gyre, IODP, Low, Sediment, Subseafloor.

SGER: Seismic Profiling of Rapidly Subsiding Reefs on Sabine Bank, Vanuatu: Preparing for a Future Opp'ty to Drill Ancient Reefs Representing Off-Peak and Lowstand Sea Levels ...
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. James A Austin, Jr.($48,646), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Sabine Bank, Images, Rare, Reef.

A Site survey in support of IODP Drilling proposal 626-Full "Cenozoic Pacific Equatorial Age Transect: Following the Palaeo-Equator"
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Annette M Olivarez Lyle($424,994), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Focuses, IODP, Pacific, Seismic.

Workshop: 3-D Seismic Reflection Imaging: A New Opportunity for Marine Geoscience Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. John C Mutter($99,932), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Workshop.

Collaborative Proposal: Characterizing Microbial Activity and Diversity in Hawaiian Basalt Aquifers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Martin R Fisk($150,347), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Michael S Rappe($177,455), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, Borehole, Hawaii, IODP, Microbes, Solution.

Motion of Pacific basin hotspots: Paleomagnetic investigation of the Late Cretaceous Southern Volcanics (Chatham Islands)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. John A Tarduno($175,188), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Late Cretaceous, Pacific Plate, Hotspot, Paleomagnetic, Rock.

An Isotopic Study of Lavas from the Louisville Seamount Chain
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. John J Mahoney($69,753), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Already-funded, IODP, LSC, Program, Rock.

Reconstructing Slab and Mantle Fluxes During th Eocene-Oligocene Evolution of the Izu-Bonin Volcanic Arc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Susanne M Straub($219,383), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Deep Sea Sediment, Izu Bonin-mariana Arc, Sea Sediment Cores, Bonin-mariana Arc, Geochemical Analyses, Izu Bonin-mariana, Lavas Erupted, Time Gap, Volcanic Arc, Chemical, Components, Eocene-oligocene, Evolution, Factors, Has, Isotopic, Mantle, Melt, Nsf-funded, ODP, Oligocene, Performed, Processes, Ratios, Slab, Subduction, Tephra, Volcanism.

A Pacific OBSIP Facility
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Graham Kent($16,301,005), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fleet, Scripps.

Operation of the Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the Marine Geosciences Community
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kenneth R Peal($12,581,528), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Optimized, Pool, Seismometers.

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($82,766), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Costa Rican, Magma Flux, Active-source, Arc, Central, Composition, Crust, Degree, Detailed, Does, Downgoing, Extensive, Hydration, Program, Seismic, Ship.

An Air-Sea Interaction Buoy for High Winds
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Neil Williams($949,988), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Air-sea Interaction, Southern Ocean, Air-sea, Buoy, Exchanges, Fluxes, Heat, Substantially, Wind.

In-Situ Chemical Sensors for Monitoring the Chemistry of Hydrothermal Vent Fluids at Mid-Ocean Ridges: Instrument Development and Field Applications
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kang Ding($466,733), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Solid-state Ph Sensor, Broader Impacts, Hydrothermal Vent, Low Temperature, Mid-ocean Ridges, Solid-state Ph, Andor, Chemistry, Development, Environments, Field, In-situ, Instrument, Long-term, Measured, Mid-ocean, Monitoring, Package, Sensors, Sites, Situ, Testing, Time, Vents, Waters.

SGER: High Resolution Seafloor Water Column Mapping With an AUV: ABE Surveys to Define Cable Route Selection and Science Node Access Routes on the Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Dana R Yoerger($236,469), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Neptune Cable, Volcanically Active, ABE, Board, Cables, Canadian, Complete, Cruise, Effort, Enable, Endeavour, Environment, Foundation, Jason, Laying, Mapping, Node, Nodes, Ocean, Pis, Primary, Ridge, Seafloor, Secondary, September, Site, Submarine, Target, UW, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Oceanic Applications of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Laboratory Validation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Alan D Chave($476,164), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Stanley M Angel($174,914), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Laser Induced Breakdown, Oceanic Applications, Chemical, Component, Decays, Development, Future, LIBS, Laboratory, Line, Non-invasive, Plasma, Preparation, Pressure, Range, Rapidly, Relatively, Situ, Summary, Technique.

A Fluorosensor Sediment Profile Imaging Incubation System (F-SPII) for Sediment Biogeochemistry and Diagenetic Process Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert C Aller($333,481), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Sediment Profile Imaging, Fluorosensor Sediment, Overlying Water, Process Studies, Sensor Foils, Solute Transport, Vertical Section, Allow, Allowing, Cm, Deposits, Diagenetic, Environments, Excitation, F-SPII, Fluorescence, Fluorescent, Incubation, Instrument, Optimize, Planar, Rates, Sensors, Surface, Technology, Zone.

A micro-plankton detector for deployment in the marine environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Monica V Orellana($315,255), Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Key terms: Detector, Flow, Instrument, Particles, Position.

Acoustic Communications for Seafloor Observatories
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Milica Stojanovic($752,111), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Acoustic Communications, Cabled Observatories, Raw Acoustic, Control, Cost, Developed, Instruments, Network, Node, Nodes, Observatory, Prototype, Receiver, Shore, Wireless.

Support for OCEAN.US
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Hugh R Johnson($200,000), 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.

An Oceanographic Buoy for Multidisciplinary Research in a Coastal Embayment Prone to Harmful Algal Blooms (2005)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Collin S Roesler($421,318), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Casco Bay Region, Oceanographic Sensing Buoy, Ancillary, Coastal, Extensive, Gulf, Habs, Instrumentation, Maine, Monitoring, Mooring, Pis, Potential, Real-time.

SGER: High Bandwidth Ocean Tele-presence: An iGrid Prototype
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Deborah S Kelley($180,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Deep Sea, Remote Environments, San Diego, Allow, Bandwidth, Complex, Cruise, Dynamics, Educators, Field, HDTV, Hydrothermal, Igrid, Imagery, Investigated, Land-based, Live, Ocean, Opportunities, Pis, Real-time, Seafloor, Signal, Stream, Streams, Students, Taking, Thompson, Time, Transmitted, UWTV, Utility, Via, Volcano.

A submersible imaging-in-flow instrument to monitor nano- and microplankton
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Heidi M Sosik($393,140), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Flow Cytometer, Size Range, Analysis, Cells, Development, Dinoflagellates, Flowcytobot, Instrument, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Software, Submersible, Testing, Version.

Development of a Mass Spectrometer for Deployment on Moorings and Cabled Observatories for Long term Unattended Observation of Low Molecular Weight Chemicals in the Water Column
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Richard Camilli($942,991), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Applications, Basic, Deployment, Development, Has, Instrument, Long-term, Monitor, Observatories, Ocean, TETHYS, WHOI.

Exploratory Research: Evaluation of Porous-Silicon Sensors for Marine Science Applications
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Glenn S Sasagawa($60,315), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Marine Applications, Porous Silicon, Psi Sensors, Chemical, Fabricated, Low, Methane, Nanostructures, Ocean, Oceans, Pis, Pressure.

Commercialization of Autonomous Sensor Systems for Quantifying pCO2 and Total Inorganic Carbon
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Michael DeGrandpre($953,706), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Autonomous, Chemical, Ocean, Pco, Pis, Sensor, Sensors.

Development of 'Eye-in-the-Sea' (EITS), an Unobtrusive Camera System using Far-Red Illumination for Remote in-Situ Observation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Edith A Widder($595,404), Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., Fort Pierce
Key terms: Activity, Camera, EITS, Eye-in-the-sea, Has, Node, Outreach, Promise, Public, Real-time, Seeks.

The Irminger Sea Boundary Current System and Interior Convection
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert S Pickart($918,139), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, Mode Water Formation, North Atlantic Subpolar, Western North Atlantic, Boundary Current, Irminger Sea, Overturning Circulation, Analysis, Arctic, Climate, Convection, Dynamics, Freshwater, Global, Interior, Leading, Ocean, Processes, Properties, Ramifications.

Collaborative Research: The Generation of Geo-Referenced Video Mosaics in Support of Submersible and ROV Operations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Yuri Rzhanov($156,920), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Stace E Beaulieu($210,394), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence Vehicle, Geo-referenced Video Mosaics, Epr Iss, Geo-referenced Video, Video Imagery, Approach, Developed, Dives, GIS, Marine, Mosaicking, Nreal-time, Past, Pis, Sampling, Software, Vent.

A Submerged Upper-Ocean Multidisciplinary Timeseries Profiler
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Uwe Send($1,297,719), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Sensor Package, Approach, Chosen, Conditions, Depth, Developed, Development, Existing, Infrastructure, Instruments, Moored, Mooring, Remote, Sensors, Surface, Timeseries, Underwater, Water, Winch.

SGER: In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System - ISIIS
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert K Cowen($47,211), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Digital Imaging, Advances, Allow, Camera, Computer, Distribution, Enable, Frontal, Horizontal, Ichthyoplankton, Images, Instrument, Natural, Onto, Plankton, Process, Processes, Real-time, Resolution, Sampling, Situ, Techniques, Towed, Undulating, Vertical, Water, Zooplankton.

Coastal Autonomous Profiling and Boundary Layer System (CAPABLE)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. John A Barth($1,192,094), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Suspended Particle Load, Acoustic Doppler, Chlorophyll Concentration, Profiling Platform, Shore Via, Water Column, Wet Labs, Xten Amp, Autonomous, Battery, Bottom, Boundary, CAPABLE, Capable, Coastal, Controller, Design, Inductive, Instrument, Measure, OSU, Ocean, Oceanographic, Phone, Power, Profiler, Radio, Region, SBB, SCULPIN, Sensor, Sensors, Sent, Temperature, Upper-ocean, Velocity, Winch.

SGER: Collaborative Research: Lagrangian Bio-Acoustic Drifters: A new Approach to Remote-Sensing of Zooplankton in the Global Ocean: Proof of Concept
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Meng Zhou($48,632), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
2. Mark E Huntley($150,109), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Global Drifter, Drifters, Frequencies, Has, Integrating, Lagrangian, Pis, Probe, Program, Range, Technology, Telemetry, Zooplankton.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Endeavor: 2005
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Mary Lynn Dickson($99,600), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Endeavor, Ship.

2005 Oceanographic Instrumentation for the RV Weatherbird II
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Nicholas R Bates($56,696), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Vessel.

A Deep-Sea ROV-based RockDrilling System for Jason2
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daniel J Fornari($213,444), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence Facility, National Deep Submergence, Remotely Operated, Allow, Conjunction, Costs, Deep-sea, Drill, Future, Jason, MBARI, ROV, WHOI.

Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Joseph F Ustach($37,483), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, Oceanographic, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2005
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Steve B Poulos($125,295), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Barrie B Walden($205,812), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hawaii, Instrumentation, Sampling.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy W Deering($75,000), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Douglas M Conlin($46,700), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Rv Cape Henlopen, Instrumentation, Network, Vessel.

National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Melbourne G Briscoe($1,081,500), Office of Naval Research, Arlington
Key terms: Cost Sharing, Led, Marine, NOPP, National, Ongoing, Partnership, Provided.

Request for Funding to Support Acquisition of Instrumentation for the WHOI Subsurface Moored Instrument Pool
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Barrie B Walden($343,485), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms:

Multidisciplinary Instrumentation in Support of Oceanography - MISO
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daniel J Fornari($64,772), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep-sea, Digital, Facility.

A Multi-chambered Suction Sampler for Multidisciplinary Research Using ROV Jason 2 and Alvin: Tasks 1, 2 and 3
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Dudley B Foster($133,844), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Array, Biological, Geological, Samplers.

The Revelle Hydrographic Doppler Sonar System: Transducer, Electronics, and Signal Processing Upgrades
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Robert Pinkel($425,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Doppler Processing Algorithms, Rv Revelle, Available, Design, Development, Effort, Expected, Implemented, Khz, Oceanography, Operated, Replace, Scripps, Sonar, Transducer, Vessel.

Marine Technician Mentoring and Internship Program in Partnership With the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Tami L Lunsford($115,336), Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
Key terms: Internship Program, Marine Technology, Monterey Peninsula, Academic, California, Component, Evaluations, Experience, Internships, MATE, NSF, Ships, Skills, Student, Training.

Collaborative Research: Interaction of Waves, Currents and Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George L Mellor($191,780), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Mark Donelan($550,401), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Surface Wave Models, Boundary Layer, Broader Impacts, Turbulent Flow, ASIST, Available, Climate, Components, Continue, Critical, Demonstrates, Dependent, Developed, Dynamics, Empirical, Estimates, Experiments, Facility, Has, Interaction, Interactions, Laboratory, Mean, Miami, Modeling, Momentum, Oceanographic, Processes, Tank, Three-dimensional, Transfer, Turbulence, Waves, Wind.

The Agulhas Current System: A Key Control of the Atlantic System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Doron Nof($202,637), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Agulhas Current Retroflection, Retroflection And Ring, Glacial Period, Ring Formation, ACS, Behavior, Dynamical, External, Influx, Internal, Low-frequency, Motivated, Processes, Rings, Strong, Theory, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Estimation and Assessment of Errors in High Frequency Radar Ocean Current Measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey D Paduan($48,723), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. John Vesecky($170,466), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Direction Finding Algorithms, Hf Radar-derived Current, Ocean Surface Currents, Circulation Models, Hf Radar-derived, Ocean Circulation, Radar-derived Current, Accurate, Analysis, Antenna, Assimilation, Based, Coastal, Comparisons, Continuous, Echoes, Error, Errors, Estimates, Forecasts, Nshore, Random, Range, Resolution, Situ, Systematic.

Quantifying the Oceanic Kinetic Energy Cascade with Altimeter Data and Ocean Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert B Scott($332,859), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Kinetic Energy Flux, Spectral Energy Fluxes, South Pacific, Spectral Flux, World Ocean, Altimeter, Altimetry, Cascade, Cascades, Climate, Depth, Examined, Extended, Frequencies, Future, Interpret, Measure, Measures, Mixing, Pilot, Spectrum, Surface, Technique, Universal, Was.

Mesoscale Variability and Processes in an eddy-resolving global POP simulation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julie L McClean($262,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Heat Transports, Eddy, Global, Model, Ocean, Properties, Rates.

Event-Scale to Interannual Variations in Shelf Water Properties and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John A Barth($983,386), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Wind-forcing And Bathymetry, Coastal Jet, Heceta Bank, Complex, Dynamics, Examine, Gliders, Govern, Line, Pis, Range, Sampling, Section, Sections, Simple, Time, Weather-band.

Collaborative Research: Inertially Unstable Currents and Internal Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rudolf C Kloosterziel($219,142), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. George F Carnevale($246,174), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Inertial Instability Plays, Controlling Factor, Inertially Unstable, Marginally Stable, Model Vortices, Ocean Models, Oceanic Flows, Vertical Shear, Anticyclonic, Criterion, Currents, Effects, Has, Less, Numerical, Parallel, Parameters, Richardson, Rossby, Sheared.

Experimental Study of Coherent Structures in Breaking Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Francis C Ting($214,628), South Dakota State University, Brookings
Key terms: Fluid Velocity Fields, Regular And Irregular, Wave Breaking Process, Breaking Wave, Breaking Waves, Coherent Structures, Flow Field, Flow Properties, Irregular Waves, Plunging Breakers, Residual Turbulence, Sediment Transport, Solitary Waves, Surf Zone, Wave-induced Currents, Beach, Coastal, Detailed, Eddies, Evolution, Experimental, Flume, Has, Horizontal, Instantaneous, Longitudinal, Measured, Models, PIV, Predominantly, Spilling, Vertical, Wave-induced.

Imaging Fine-scale Density Structure in the Ocean with Seismic Reflection Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anne M Tréhu($197,064), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Originally Acquired, Seismic Reflection, Beneath, Broad, California, Collected, Density, Eddies, Escarpment, Extensive, Hydrographic, Local, Mendocino, Objective, Observed, Ocean, Opportunity, Past, Processes, Seafloor, Spatial, Structure, Temporal.

Analytical and Numerical Studies of Deep Overflows and Related Circulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Karl R Helfrich($786,380), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Basin Flows, Basins, Channel, Deep, Dynamics, Graduate, Hydraulic, Hydraulics, Issues, Numerical, Overflows, Passages, Sill, Strait, Two-layer.

Numerical Investigations of Currents, Eddy Kinetic Energy, and Internal-waves in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer A MacKinnon($150,477), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissolved Greenhouse Gases, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Operational Climate Models, Zonally Unbounded Flow, Internal Waves, Southern Ocean, ACC, Accuracy, Breaking, Conceptual, Diabatic, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eddy, Experiments, Field, Freshwater, Global, Has, Heat, Internal-waves, Mixing, Modification, Nutrients, Plays, Previous, Propagating, Rate, Surface, Water.

Collaborative Research: Breaking Wave Effects on Wave Boundary Layer and Air-Sea Momentum Flux
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark Donelan($234,600), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Tetsu Hara($231,037), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Air-sea Flux Parameterizations, Air-sea Momentum Flux, Breaking Wave Crests, Breaking Wave Effects, Breaking Wave Statistics, Equilibrium Wave Spectrum, Surface Wave Spectrum, Wave Boundary Layer, Air-sea Momentum, Drag Coefficient, Momentum Flux, Airflow, Atmosphere, Based, Collaboration, Conditions, Coupled, Cyclone, Development, Existing, Experimental, Fluxes, Forcing, Forecast, Hurricane, Interaction, Laboratory, Model, Models, Observations, Ocean, Particular, Predict, Prediction, Range, Separation, Stress, Student, Tropical, Waves, Wind.

Collaborative Research: The Interaction of Anticyclonic Eddies with Deep Convection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan M Lilly($236,170), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
2. Fiammetta Straneo($571,785), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Anticyclonic Eddies, Deep Convection, Modeling, Net, Variety.

Laboratory Simulation of Field Measurements of the Bottom Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Don L Boyer($453,075), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Bottom Shear Stress, Bottom Boundary, Boundary Layer, Boundary Layers, Laboratory Simulations, Turbulent Bottom, Defining, Field, Flow, Flows, Ii, International, Isobath, Knowledge, Objective, Ocean, Oceanic, Parameters, Region, Relation, Reynolds, TBBL, TBML.

Measurements of Turbulence and Flow Structure in the Coastal Ocean using PIV
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Katz($339,889), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Dissipation Rate, Mean Current, Reynolds Stresses, Bottom, Circulation, Essential, Human, Obtain, Oceanic, PIV, Profiling, Range, Structure, Turbulence, Wave.

Ice-Ocean Interactions on the Okhotsk Sea Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. LuAnne Thompson($442,188), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sea Ice Model, Water Mass Formation, Dense Water, North Pacific, Ocean Model, Okhotsk Sea, CCSM, Circulation, Climate, Coastal, Global, Heat, Importance, Influence, Inter-annual, NPIW, Ocean-ice, Polynyas, Processes, Region, Regional, Sensitivity, Shelves, Tidal.

Collaborative Research: The Norrona Project: An International Collaboration for Sustained Studies of the Meridional Overturning Circulation Between Denmark, the Faroes and Iceland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles N Flagg($494,198), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. H. Thomas Rossby($509,167), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Deep Waters, Nordic Seas, Warm Water, Allows, Climate, Currents, Europe, Faroes, Ferry, Iceland, Northern, Principally, Program, Ridge, Sampling, Shetland, Transport, Vessel, Weekly.

Collaborative Research: The Interaction of Estuarine Circulation and Wind-Driven Shelf Circulation
Award Effective Date: 08/29/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jay A Austin($265,863), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Jay A Austin($265,863), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. James M Pringle($190,591), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Wind-driven Coastal, Adjacent, Body, Chesapeake, Estuaries, Estuary, Hydrographic, Idealized, Influences, Interaction, Models, Numerical, OCE-, Odus, Parameters, Realistic, Shelf, Structure, Students, Upwellingdownwelling, Wide, Wind-driven.

Collaborative Research: Dye Tracer and Modeling Investigations of Cross-Shelf Circulation during Coastal Upwelling
Award Effective Date: 08/29/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jay A Austin($18,535), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: BBL, Beneath, Dye, Expected, Inshore, Jet, Layer, Model, Movement, Offshore, RV, Region, Releases, Subduction, Surface, Upwelling, Water.

Collaborative Research: Asymmetric Circulation in Wind-Driven Bays
Award Effective Date: 08/07/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson($141,307), University of Florida, Gainesville
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.

World-wide Ocean Circulation: One View
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph L Reid($83,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ocean Basins, Atlantic, Hydrographic, Indian, Pacific.

Collaborative Research: The Influence of the Mediterranean Outflow Water on the Climatic Variability of the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric P Chassignet($158,342), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Susan Lozier($375,348), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Eastern North Atlantic, Mediterranean Overflow Waters, Spatial And Temporal, Global Ocean, Property Fields, Surface Waters, Water Mass, Additionally, Analyses, Basin, Convective, Deep, Dynamics, Establish, Has, Latitude, Mid-depth, Modeling, Past, Properties, Salinity, Source, Via.

A Parametric Study of the Link between Energy Dissipation and Bubble Creation in Laboratory Breaking Waves
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Grant B Deane($527,980), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Breaking Wave Crests, Bubble Size Distribution, Energies And Slopes, Breaking Waves, Bubble Creation, Energy Dissipation, Gas Transport, Wave Energies, Wave Energy, Analysis, Bubbles, Coastal, Does, Earlier, Estimated, Fragmentation, Hinze, Measured, Momentum, Obtained, Ocean, Oceanography, Optical, Packets, Plan, Processes, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Internal Tides and Inertial Oscillations: Analysis of Observations in the Gulf Stream South of New England
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jae Hun Park($174,251), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Tides And Inertial, Gulf Stream, Inertial Oscillations, Internal Tides, Near-inertial Oscillations, Synop Experiment, Currents, Dataset, Ninertial.

Seasonal-to-Interannual Modulation of Fine-Scale Thermohaline Structure
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel Rudnick($966,951), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Graduate Student, Web Site, Activities, Climate, Degrees, Deployed, Depth, Fine-scale, Glider, Gliders, HOT, Hawaii, Horizontal, Modulation, Observations, Repeated, Section, Sections, Structure, Thermocline, Upper.

Upper Ocean Processes under the Stratocumulus Cloud Deck in the Southeast Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Toshiaki Shinoda($261,780), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Stratocumulus Deck Region, Upper Ocean Heat, Heat Budget, Model Output, Based, Climate, Field, Flux, In-situ, OGCM, Observations, Particular, Performance, Processes, Satellite, Surface.

ALPS Implementation Conference
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mary J Perry($42,225), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Alps Technologies, Alps Workshop, Mobile Platforms, Access, Accessible, Autonomous, Broader, Capabilities, Conference, Diverse, Follow-on, Interdisciplinary, Lagrangian, Models, Ocean, Opportunities, Outlined, Plan, Potential, Report, Representing, Spring, Testing, Underwater.

Research in Linear and Nonlinear Baroclinic Waves and Ocean Circulation Theory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Pedlosky($1,015,060), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Breaking Wave Crests, Bubble Size Distribution, Energies And Slopes, Breaking Waves, Bubble Creation, Energy Dissipation, Gas Transport, Wave Energies, Wave Energy, Analysis, Bubbles, Coastal, Does, Earlier, Estimated, Fragmentation, Hinze, Measured, Momentum, Obtained, Ocean, Oceanography, Optical, Packets, Plan, Processes, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Instability and Turbulence in a Sheared, Diffusively Unstable Fluid
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William D Smyth($584,020), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Double Diffusive Instability, Diffusive Layering, Double Diffusion, Ocean Mixing, Salt Fingering, Climate, Fluxes, Heat, Large-scale, Processes, Regions, Shear, Theoretical.

Collaborative Research: Large Eddy Simulations of Estuarine Mixing
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Wayne R Geyer($153,458), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Ugo Piomelli($223,283), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
3. Ming Li($241,938), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Estuaries And Coastal, Estuarine And Coastal, Coastal Oceans, Les Model, Turbulent Mixing, Added, Advanced, Bathymetry, Channel, Equations, Estuary, Flows, Investigate, Oceanography, Pressure, Processes, Stratified, Techniques, Tidal, Turbulence, Varying.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Investigation of Finestructure and Internal Waves in the Norwegian Sea from Simultaneous Temperature and Acoustic Reflectance Measurements
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raymond W Schmitt($151,342), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. W Steven Holbrook($181,743), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Critical Continental Slopes, M2 Internal Tides, Internal Wave, Norwegian Sea, Oceanic Finestructure, Seismic Reflection, Acoustic, Boundaries, Detail, Field, Image, Imaged, Imaging, Low-frequency, Map, Quantitative, Sites, Spectra, Systematics, Temperature.

Influence of Estuarine Topography on Longitudinal Dispersion
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Lerczak($677,595), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dispersion Rate, Estuary Depending, Forcing Conditions, Hudson River, Analysis, Estuaries, Estuarine, Flux, Increasing, Longitudinal, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Model, Quality, Range, Salinity, Sets, Structure, Time.

Impact of Atmospheric 30-60 Day and Quasi-biweekly Oscillation on Tropical Indian Ocean Dynamics, Heat Transport, and Upper Ocean Heat Content
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter J Webster($261,713), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Intraseasonal Atmospheric Forcing, Tropical Indian Ocean, Atmospheric Isos, Ocean Model, Ocean Responds, Advancing, Causing, Climate, Education, Especially, Has, Heat, Importance, Interannual.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics Of Ocean Climate Changes in the Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Arthur J Miller($234,635), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($56,273), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Antonietta Capotondi($183,759), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Alaska Current, Alaskan Stream, Coastal Regions, Fish Populations, Mean Flows, Model Runs, Shelf-slope Boundary, Steller Sea, Wind Stresses, Analysis, Assimilation, Biological, Circulation, Climate, Complicated, Control, Cross-shelf, Driven, Ecosystem, Eddy, Eddy-resolving, Fisheries, Fluxes, Forcing, Fresh-water, Gulf, Interannual, Interdecadal, Interior, Mechanisms, Mesoscale, Models, Ocean, Oceanographic, Open-ocean, Processes, Productivity, Products, Rich, Seasonal, Shelf-slope, Waters.

Finestructure Profiling Floats in Support of Summer 2005 EDDIES Tracer Release Experiment
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James B Girton($170,242), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Salinity And Velocity, Em-apex Float, Internal Wave, Tracer Release, Upper Ocean, Allowing, Characterize, Chosen, Deployed, Diapycnal, Diffusivity, Drift, EDDIES, EM-APEX, Eddy, Experiment, Finescale, Floats, Mixing, Oceanographic, Parameterizations, Profiling, Shear, Strain, Temperature, Useful.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Horizontal Array Turbulence Study: An Investigation of Subfilter-Scale Fluxes in the Marine Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James B Edson($114,098), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Marine Surface Layer, Velocity And Temperature, Air-sea Interaction, Graduate Student, Horizontal Array, 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.

Mechanisms of Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic: The Thermohaline Circulation, Great Salinity Anomalies, and Gulf Stream Path
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rong Zhang($444,253), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Gulf Stream Path, Cyclonic Nrg, North Atlantic, North-south Shifts, Thermohaline Circulation, Climate, Decadal, Effect, GSA, Gsas, Increased, Interaction, Investigate, Lead, Models, Nature, North-south, Numerical, Ocean.

Ship Operations, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Richard D Ricketts($1,617,312), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Blue Heron, Cooperative Agreement, Days, Has, Lakes, NSF, Platform, Programs, Students, Supported.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: R/V Blue Heron 2005
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($10,949), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Equipment, Items, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

R/V Cape Hatteras Ship Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Joseph F Ustach($109,095), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Equipment, Items, Program, Radars, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2005
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Daniel S Schwartz($85,010), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Pete E Zerr($319,750), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Albert F Suchy($492,707), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Timothy M Askew($30,367), Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., Fort Pierce
Key terms: Russell Mcduff, Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers, Winch.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Todd Chlaupek($95,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Matthew J Hawkins($299,859), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Thomas S Althouse($191,088), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Equipment, Hahn, Ocean, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers, William.

Deep Submergence Operations - 2005 (Year 1 of 5)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT

1. Barrie B Walden($25,345,691), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence, Operating Days, Rv Atlantis, Assigned, NDSF, ROV.

SedDB: An Online Information System for Sediment Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($939,184), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Analysis, Focus, Pilot, Seddb.

Ocean Science and Technology Plan
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: nan

1. Susan J Roberts($621,123), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Expert Committee, Independent Review, Interagency Planning, Sandt Plan, Enhancing, Health, JSOST, NRC, Ocean, Phase, Phases, Promoting, Resources, Security, Vision.

CROSSTEX - Swash Zone Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: nan

1. Edwin A Cowen($739,998), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Fluid And Sediment, Numerical Models, Sediment Particle, Sediment Transport, Sheet Flow, Swash Zone, Wave Flume, CROSSTEX, Coastal, Cornell, Courses, Designed, Developed, Development, Directly, Experimental, FMS, Fields, Graduate, Imaging, Integrated, Mechanics, OSU, Oregon, Pis, Processes, Program, REU, Site, Soil, Students, Techniques, Two-phase, Undergraduate.

University of Hawaii Ship Operations 2005-2009
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Stanley Winslow($34,513,971), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kilo Moana, South Pacific, Compliance, Continue, Cruises, Days, Document, Dynamics, Education, Environmental, ISM, June, Marine, NSF, North, Ocean, Platform, Processes, Program, Programs, Public, Quality, SWATH, Safety, Sea, Ship, Student, UH, Vessel.

R/V Thomas G. Thompson Ship Operations 2005-2009
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Daniel S Schwartz($29,830,201), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Agreement, Days, Educational, Experience, Facilities, Grade, Marine, NSF, Oceanography, Outreach, Programs, Remains, Sea, Ship, Students, Thompson, Washington.

Ship Operations-R/V New Horizon
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Thomas S Althouse($11,349,284), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Mexican Waters, San Diego, California, Compositions, Conditions, Depend, Education, Exclusively, Found, Future, Horizon, Lipids, NSF, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Oceanographic, Organisms, Outreach, Particular, Port, Prahl, Programs, Public, Repeated, Requirement, Scheduled, Scripps, Sea, Seagoing, Ship, Ships, Site, Students, Vessel, Volunteering, Volunteers, Voyages.

R/V Clifford A. Barnes Ship Operations 2005-2009
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Daniel S Schwartz($1,423,735), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Living And Non-living, Non-living Resources, Continue, Educational, Essential, Facilities, Facility, Marine, NSF, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Oceanographic, Oceans, Outreach, Platform, Programs, Remains, Sea, Ship, Students, Washington.

Ship Operations-R/V Melville
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Thomas S Althouse($31,963,295), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Drilling Program, Intellectual Merit, Ocean Drilling, San Diego, Circulation, Climate, Coring, Crew, Eocene, Future, Heavy, IODP, Melville, NSF, Operations, Organisms, Parties, Periods, Port, Programs, Public, Scheduled, Scripps, Sea, Seagoing, Sediment, Ship, Ships, Students, Successfully, Technical, UNOLS, Vessel, Volunteering, Volunteers, Website.

R/V Oceanus Operations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Albert F Suchy($13,266,667), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Whoi Web Site, Intellectual Merit, Programs Supported, Classroom, Country, Cruise, Cruises, Days, Endeavors, Funding, Has, Legs, NSF, Ocean, Oceans, Oceanus, Operations, Participants, Process, Public, Required, Sea, Sea-going, Sources, Students, Transport.

COSEE Central Coordinating Office
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Frances L Larkin($1,471,701), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Central Coordinating Office, Broader Impacts, Activities, CCO, CORE, COSEE, Education, Enhance, Enormous, Evaluation, National, Network, OPE, Ocean, Potential, Program, Start, VIMS, Website.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2005

Argos JTA - Remote Satellite Communications Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Collaborative Research: Identifying the Flow and Control of Pathogens from the Land to the Sea: Tracking Toxoplasma from Cats to Sea Otters Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Workshop on Sensors for Environmental Observing Systems Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

The Effects of Animal-Sediment Interactions on Geochemical Processes Near the Sediment-Water Interface Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: Deep-sea larvae as grazers in the midwater microbial loop Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Zooplankton in the Redoxcline of the Cariaco Basin: Impact on Biogeochemical Cycling Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: US GLOBEC Northeast Pacific Coordinating and Synthesis Office Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Acquisition, Allocation, and Utilization of Carbon in Bleached and Recovering Corals Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Behaviorally mediated indirect species interactions in a subtropical seagrass community Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Habitat effects on feeding, condition, growth and survival of juvenile pink salmon in the northern Gulf of Alaska Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank. Factors determining early-life-stage survival & recruitment variability in N. Atlantic cod: a comparison bewteen NW Atlantic & Norwegian Sea Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Construction and Deployment of a High Pressure Chemostat System for the Culture of Deep Sea Bacteria and Nanoplankton Protists Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank: Effects of climate variability on Calanus dormancy patterns and population dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER Katrina: Responses of fish and crabs to nearshore habitat degradation in Lake Pontchartrain caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Integrating Calcification, Photosynthesis & Symbiosis Flexibility into Species Survival Trajectories for Caribbean Reef Corals Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Forays and Foraging by Marine Zooplankton Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecophysiology of Vacuolate Marine Sulfur Bacteria Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Dynamic Stability and Particle Transformations: Tracing Pathways of Production in Estuarine Turbidity Maxima Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: Cascadia Slope Circulation Study Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Cascadia Slope Circulation Study Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Physiological limits to vertical migrations of the pelagic, jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas in the Gulf of California Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Collaborative Research: Harmful Ulvoid Macroalgal Blooms in Washington State Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ridge 2000 Office - 3 Yr. Rotation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Natural tags to Estimate the Value of Juvenile Nurseries Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Harmful Ulvoid Macroalgal Blooms in Washington State Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Regulation of the C4-C02 Concentrating Mechanisms in Marine Diatoms by C02, Light, and Nutrients Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Development of High Throughput Analysis of Plankton Communities Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Fatty Acid and Sterol Metabolism in Planktonic Heterotrophic Protists: Essential Nutrient Upgrading and Transfer and their Ecological Implications in Pelagic Food Webs Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Autotrophic Microbes in the Subsurface at Hydrothermal Vents: Filamentous-Sulfur Producing Bacteria Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE: US-GLOBEC NEP PHASE IIIA-CCS: SCALE-DEPENDENT DYNAMICS OF TOP-TROPHIC PREDATORS AND PREY - TOWARD PREDICTING PREDATOR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER-Exploring the use of Quantum Dots to Detect the Physiology of Intact Phytoplankton Cells by Flow Cytometry Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa: Efffects of Climate Variability on Calanus Dormancy Patterns and Population Dynamics within the California Current Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Coupled physical/biological dynamics in the Northern California Current System: A synthesis of seasonal and interannual mesoscale varia Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Juvenile Salmon Habitat Utilization in the Northern California Current - Synthesis and Prediction Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

DOP Utilization in the Sargasso Sea: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Hydrolysis and Uptake Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: DOP Utilization in the Sargasso Sea: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Uptake and Hydrolysis Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Dissolved Organic Phosphorus: Quantifying Taxon-specific Rates of Hydrolysis and Uptake Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Large-scale Influences on Mesoscale Structure in the CCS, A Synthesis of Climate-forced Variability in Coastal Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Effects of Meso- and Basin-scale Variability on Zooplankton Populations in the CCS using Data-Assimilative, Physical/Ecosystem Models Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Changing Ocean Conditions in Northern California Current - Effects on Primary Production and Salmon Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Field Parameterization and Experimental Tests of the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Disease Dynamics in Degraded Nurseries: A Viral Disease in Spiny Lobster Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Improving the Dynamic Size Range of Measurement and Quantification of Marine Particulates Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Functional Diversity: Dynamics of Phytoplankton Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Bacterial Population Structure: Evaluating Gene Flow in the Symbionts of Deep-Sea Mussels \(Genus Bathymodiolus\) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Bacterial production and community structure during the North Atlantic Spring Bloom [NASB 2005] Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Behavioral and neural mechanisms for predator evasion in crustacean zooplankton Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Resarch: Development of Phytoplankton PCNA Antibodies for Use in Growth Studies: Emiliania huxleyi and Karlodinium micrum as Model Systems Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Examining the Effects of Hurricane Ivan in Coastal Alabama and Northwestern Florida: A Positive Impact on Shallow Coastal Lagoons? Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER - Orientation of Coral Reef Fish Larvae in the Open Ocean with no Apparent Frame of Reference Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Connectivity of Reef Fish Populations: Mechanisms and Consequences Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Viral Abundance, Production and Diversity During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom (NASB 2005) Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Discerning the Ecological History of a Cyptogenic Marine Snail, Littorina Littorea Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Mechanical consequences of flexibility for benthic marine organisms Award Effective Date: 11/01/2004; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System (COSEE-OESS) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Collaborative Research: Ocean Learning Communities - Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence SouthEast: Building on Success Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Collaborative Research: Benthic Observatory and Technology Testbed On the Mid Shelf -- Understanding Processes Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

Collaborative Research: A Real-Time and Rapid Response Observing System for the Study of Physical and Biological Controls on Muddy Seabed Deposition, Reworking and Resuspension Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

Collaborative Research: Benthic Boundary Layer Geochemistry and Physics at the Kilo Nalu Observatory Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

Superoxide radical reactions in the ocean Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Study of Seasonal Radiocarbon Variability in the Eastern Tropical Pacific During Periods of Decadal and Interannual Climate Shifts Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Radiocarbon as a Tool for Studying Organic Matter Diagenesis in Rapidly Accumulating, Continental Margin Sediments: Linking Bulk Organic Matter and Molecular Level Studies Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER:Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Mercury Biogeochemistry and Methylation in the Gulf of Mexico Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Mercury Biogeochemistry and Methylation in the Gulf of Mexico Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: Seabed and Geochemical Deltaic Changes Induced by Hurricane Katrina Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: Microbial Pathogens in Lake Pontchartrain as a Result of Hurricane Katrina Floodwaters Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Determining the Air-Water CO2 Flux in Coastal Systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Linking Arsenic Biogeochemistry, Phosphorus Limitation and Phytoplankton Dynamics in Oceanic Surface Waters Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Development of Bioluminescent Bacterial Bioreporters to Quantify the Bioavailability of Fe in Seawater Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Exploratory Study of Gas Ventilation by Tidal Fronts Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Hydroxyl Radicals in Marine Sediments Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

The Impact of Subtropical Mode Water on the Subsurface Nutrient Reservoir: Adding Nutrient Measurements to CLIMODE Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Investigations of Marine Organic Matter Diagenesis Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

In-situ Rates of Gross Primary Production, Respiration, and Net Community Production in the Subtropical N. Pacific Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Assessing the Driving Forces of Submarine Groundwater Discharge Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Examining Redox-Sensitive Phosphorus Speciation and Remineralization using X-ray and NMR Spectroscopic Methods Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Transition Metal Isotope Fractionation during Adsorption to Authigenic Oxides Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography