ADVANCE Fellows Award: Egg Size Evolution of Free-Spawning Marine Invertebrates in Neogene Tropical America
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

1. Amy Moran($76,740), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Egg Size Evolution, Bivalves, CAI, Evolutionary, Family, Funding, Marine, Relative, Rise, Species.

The Influence of Environmental Change on Parasite Diffusion through Human, Invertebrate and Environmental Pathways
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Robert Spear($1,997,801), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Parasite Diffusion, Snail Hosts, Anthropogenic, Assess, Berkeley, China, Disease, Environmental, Human, Models, Modify, Parasites, Pathways, Pis, Serve, Transmission, Transport, Undergraduate, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Field and Modeling Studies in Support of Understanding Disease Resistance in Estuarine Populations and Response to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. David Bushek($1,235,104), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. John M Klinck($324,903), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Msx And Dermo, Disease Refugia, Genetic Structure, Host Population, Oyster Population, Population Dynamics, Affect, Climate, Commercially, Conditions, Diseases, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Fisheries, Genetics, Host-parasite, Lethal, Models, Populations, Processes, Species, Transmission.

Collaborative Research: Net Carbon Transport and Reaction in the bottom Boundary Layer of an Upwelling Margin
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Robert W Collier($1,893,778), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. David E Archer($160,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
3. David T Ho($387,413), Columbia University, New York
4. Allan H Devol($360,955), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Bottom Boundary Layer, Iron And Methane, Air-sea Gas, Ocean Interior, Water Column, Activities, Adult, Atmosphere, Carbon, Coastal, Field, Net, Oregon, Organic, Program, Rates, Reaches, Reaction, Students, Transport.

Collaborative Reserach: Mechanisms Controlling Upper Ocean Carbon Fluxes in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Paul D Quay($2,520,015), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Ricardo M Letelier($367,758), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Air-sea Co2 Flux, Hawaii And Seattle, Subtropical Subarctic Front, Air-sea Co2, Field Studies, Graduate Students, North Pacific, Subarctic Pacific, Annual, Biological, Carbon, Combined, Controlling, Degn, Eastern, Mechanisms, Observations, Ocean, Pco, Processes, Productivity, Region, Satellite, Surface, VOS, Washington.

Collaborative Research: Carbon Flux Through the Twilight Zone - New Tools to Measure Change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Ken O Buesseler($1,639,361), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. David A Siegel($199,410), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Michael W Lomas($188,759), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
4. Deborah K Steinberg($271,157), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Biological Pump, Carbon Cycle, Deep Sea, Graduate Students, Sediment Trap, Sinking Particles, Surface Ocean, Twilight Zone, Application, BATS, Climate, Development, Engineering, Exchange, Export, Flux, Has, Mesopelagic, Processes, Sequestration, Solubility, Space, Time, Undergraduate, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Autonomous Measurements of Carbon Fluxes in the North Atlantic Bloom
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Mary J Perry($1,612,126), University of Maine, Orono
2. Eric D'Asaro($3,505,760), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic, Analysis, Autonomous, Bloom, Carbon, Degn, Ecosystem, Floats, Gliders, Horizontal, Mixing, Nitrate, Oxygen, Patchiness, Pis, Platforms, Proxies, Rates, Sensors, Strategies, Uptake, Vertical, Water.

Collaborative Research: Autonomous pH and Alkalinity Sensors: in situ Testing and Carbon Cycle Research
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Burke Hales($133,638), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Christopher Langdon($107,181), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. Michael DeGrandpre($550,642), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Autonomous Sensors, Carbon Cycle, Coral Reef, Observational Methods, Puerto Rico, Alkalinity, Coastal, Deployment, Developed, Development, Ecosystem, Has, Marine, Ocean, Oregon, Pco, Ph.

The balance of selection on the growth trajectories of fishes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephan B Munch($449,343), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Size And Growth, Fitness Consequences, Genetic Basis, Growth Rates, Life History, Quantitative Genetic, Stony Brook, Costs, Diverse, Does, Estimated, Evidence, Fecundity, Field, Fish, Fishes, Harvest, Individuals, Maximum, Opportunities, Phd, Population, Processes, Program, Resolve, Selection, Species, Students.

Collaborative Research: A Comparison of the Mating System and Evolutionary Potential of Lemon Sharks, Negaprion Brevirostris (Poey), at Two Nursery Sites in the Western Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Samuel H Gruber($412,910), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Kevin A Feldheim($206,282), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Key terms: Bimini Biological Field, Biological Field Station, Breeding Biology, Evolutionary Dynamics, Fitness Traits, Lemon Sharks, Quantitative Genetics, Bahamas, Examine, Florida, Management, Marine, Marquesas, Natal, Populations, Students.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Biocomplexity and Environmental Change in a Vegetated Estuarine Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. J. Emmett Duffy($455,936), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. Sebastian J Schreiber($25,379), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Chesapeake Bay Eelgrass, Climate Warming, Dynamic Modeling, Food Web, Analyses, Biodiversity, Changing, Complementary, Ecology, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Eutrophication, Experimental, Field, Frontier, Global, Integration, Interactions, Levels, Long-term, Monitoring, Stressors, Trophic.

Collaborative Research: Thermal biology of hydrothermal vent paralvinellid worms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raymond W Lee($374,442), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Peter R Girguis($197,110), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Aquatic, Biochemical, Extreme, Mechanisms, Species, Temperature, Thermal, Vents.

Linkages Between Larvae and Recruitment of Coral Reef Fishes Along the Florida Keys Shelf: an Integrated Field and Modeling Analysis of Population Connectivity in a Complex System
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Vassiliki H Kourafalou($1,479,214), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ecological Population Connectivity, Larval Growth, Complex, Condition, Degree, Dimensional, Dispersal, Environments, Larvae, Marine, Model, Populations, Reef, Relative, Settlement, Sources, Survival, Survivorship.

Patterns and mechanisms relating seagrass genotypic diversity and ecosystem response to biotic and abiotic stress
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John J Stachowicz($244,403), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Diversity And Ecosystem, Genetic Diversity, Genotypic Diversity, Species Diversity, Assess, Available, Clonal, Consequences, Critical, Disturbance, Ecological, Eelgrass, Effect, Field, Functional, Individual, Interactions, Marina, Marine, Nutrient, Pis, Population, Primary, Processes, Quantify, Seagrass, Temperate, Zostera.

Collaborative Research: U.S. GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Links between climate and planktonic food webs
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Suzanne L Strom($186,340), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Russell R Hopcroft($318,820), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Michael J Dagg($116,193), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Food Web, Pink Salmon, Target Organisms, Alaska, Biological, Cell-dominated, Cgoa, Climate, Conditions, Consequences, Ecosystem, Environmental, GLOBEC, Has, Juvenile, Linkages, Mechanisms, Modes, Planktonic, Supporting, Synthesis.

Regulation of Dinoflagellate Bloom Dynamics by Vitamins and Micronutrients
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher J Gobler($524,992), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Amino Acid Content, Multiple Undergraduate Students, Dinoflagellate Species, Directly Examined, Marine Phytoplankton, Stony Brook, Vitamin B12, Annually, Bloom, Blooms, Composition, Comprehensive, Concurrently, Continue, Decades, Dinoflagellates, Dynamics, Education, Establish, Growth, Has, Investigation, Involve, Micronutrients, Ocean, Pis, Public, SUNY, School, Seminars, Techniques, Trace, Uptake, Vitamins, Zone.

Quantifying the role of Group I Crenarchaeota in the marine nitrogen cycle using cultures and environmental monitoring of ammonia oxidation, 16S rRNA genes and lipid biomarkers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Stahl($694,157), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Global Nitrogen, Marine Crenarchaea, Mesophilic Marine, Molecular Biology, Nitrogen Cycle, Ammonia-oxidation, Ammonia-oxidizing, Archaea, Culture, Denitrification, Discovery, Fixation, Organisms, Portion, Representative, Responsible.

Collaborative Research: Prediction of Medusan Predatory Roles Based on Quantitative Studies of Animal-Fluid Interactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John H Costello($249,650), Providence College, Providence
2. Sean P Colin($199,541), Roger Williams University, Bristol
3. John Dabiri($181,722), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Medusan Prey Selection, Selection And Ingestion, Underrepresented Undergraduate Students, Capture Surfaces, Ingestion Rates, Medusan Lineages, Medusan Predation, Activity, Animal, Application, Caltech, Cruising, DPIV, Design, Developed, Directly, Diversity, Flow, Fluid, Functional, Hydrodynamic, Interactions, Involve, Jetting, Marine, Mechanical, Medusae, Methods, Mode, Models, Opportunities, Participating, Planktonic, Programs, Propulsion, Quantitatively, Realistic, Rowing, Rowing-propelled, Swimming, Various.

Biogeographic Variation in an Intertidal Predator-Prey Interaction: Does Coastal Oceanography Alter the Adaptive Landscape?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D Sanford($482,168), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Coastal Upwelling, Drilling Behavior, Gene Flow, Genetic Basis, Local Adaptation, Marine Populations, Whelk-mussel Interaction, Abundance, Benthic, California, Californianus, Consequences, Dynamics, Ecological, Effects, Evolutionary, Fitness, Has, Highlights, Intertidal, Latitudinal, Mytilus, Nucella, Oceanographic, Oregon, Processes, Recruitment, Restricted, Sites, Spatial, Species, Whelk-mussel.

Predator-induced morphological defenses of marine zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Richard R Strathmann($243,279), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Marine Planktonic Animals, Crab Zoeas, Defensive Structures, Diverse Kinds, Freshwater Zooplankton, Graduate Student's, Induced Defenses, Marine Zooplankton, Predators Induce, Prior Exposure, Designed, Direct, FHL, Interactions, Morphological, Morphology, Mortality, Predator-induced, Prey, Prey-predator, Reports, Stimuli, Students, Tested, Trade-offs, Undergraduate, Veligers, Vulnerability.

RUI: Analyzing demographic variability of the intertidal sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus in the context of oceanographic changes using a unique time series data set
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael P Russell($674,238), Villanova University, Villanova
Key terms: Changing Ocean Conditions, Growth Allometry, Intertidal Species, Size Structure, Affect, Aspects, Assess, Available, Canada, Coast, Course, Demographic, Density, Effects, Estimates, Estimating, Field, Focus, Has, Historical, Individuals, Large-scale, Mexico, Model, Oceanographic, Particular, Populations, Processes, Rates, Recruitment, Reproduction, Respond, Sea, Secondary, Sites, Specific, Subsequent, Survival, Tidepools, Undergraduate, Urchins, Villanova.

Carbon Fixation Pathways in Marine Chemoautotrophic, Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: Implications for the Oceanic Carbon Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John B Waterbury($399,600), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Autotrophic Carbon Fixation, Oceanic Carbon Cycle, Calvin Cycle, Co2 Fixation, Current View, Fixation Pathway, Hydrothermal Vents, Bathypelagic, Carried, Crenarchaeota, Differences, Exist, Global, Has, Mesophilic, Metabolic, Microbes, Obtain, Organisms, Topic, Variety, Via, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Trophic Structure and Interactions of the Pelagic Nekton Associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ann C Bucklin($142,383), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. John K Horne($69,145), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Tracey Sutton($309,783), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Deep-sea Food Webs, Deep-sea Food, International Collaborations, Trophic Interactions, Activities, Analysis, Contributions, Deep-pelagic, Developed, Ecological, Graduate, Has, Investigation, Largest, MAR, Ocean, Oceanic, Opportunity, Quantitative, Ridge, Structure, Students, Top.

Cascading effects of predator diversity in a marine food web
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John F Bruno($349,927), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Composition And Diversity, Identity And Richness, Cascading Effects, Marine Ecosystems, Predator Composition, Predator Diversity, Predator Identity, Vertebrate Predators, Affect, Basic, Benthic, Biodiversity, Biological, Collaboration, Consequences, Does, Experiments, Has, Herbivore, Institute, Perform, Plant, Species, Top.

The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey: Monitoring the Plankton of the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter H Wiebe($799,997), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Marine Ecosystems, North Atlantic, Approach, Available, Biodiversity, Biological, CPR, Climate, Consortium, Continuation, Continue, Effects, Environmental, Expertise, Global, Has, International, Issues, Long-term, Maintain, Potential, Program, SAHFOS, Survey, Time, USA, Wide, World.

Biogeochemical roles of planktonic archaea
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jed A Fuhrman($257,392), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ammonia Oxidation, Archaea, Archaeal, Biogeochemical, Capable, Crenarchaeota, Examine, Field, Gene, Marine, Mixotrophic, Reaction, SPOT, Specifically, Teaching, Time.

The control of photosynthetic quantum yield of phytoplankton by light intensity and diapycnal nutrient flux
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert D Vaillancourt($698,258), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Maximum Value, Quantum Yield, Composition, Flux, Global, Light, Nutrients, Ocean, Photosynthesis, Physiology, Phytoplankton, Pigments, Primary, Productivity, Temporal.

Phosphorus Bioavailability and its Effect on the Role of Trichodesmium in Elemental Cycling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ricardo M Letelier($800,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Dissolved And Particulate, Dissolved Organic, Marine Ecosystem, Marine Environment, Organic Carbon, Physiological Adaptations, Biological, Bloom, Broader, Characterize, Educational, Environmental, Export, Extensive, HOT, Has, Increased, Model, NPSG, Nutrient, Objectives, Observation, Oceanic, Periods, Pools, Program, Quotas, Ratios, Regulation, Stoichiometric, Trichodesmium, Vast, Women.

Resolving the Impact of Climatic Processes on Ecosystems of the North Atlantic Basin and Shelf Seas: Integrating and Advancing Observation, Monitoring, and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter H Wiebe($99,990), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eu And North, Implementation Plan, North Atlantic, Assess, BASIN, Coordinated, Development, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Global, International, Marine, Observations, Potential, Prediction.

Collaborative Research: Resiliency of corals to changing saturation state: A field study.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher Langdon($331,574), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Richard E Dodge($19,968), Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale
Key terms: Carbonate Saturation, Florida Bay, Calcification, Changing, Coral, Corals, Extension, Influences, Natural, Pco, Pis.

SGER-Exploratory Testing of Intra-Crystalline Amino Acids as a Skeletal Record of Past Coral Bleaching Events
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Erica J Hendy($90,562), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Amino Acid, Coral Bleaching, Intra-crystalline Amino, Past Bleaching, Biomarker, Intra-crystalline.

U.S.-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Environmental influences on growth and survival of Southeast Alaska Coho Salmon in Contrast with Other NortheastPacific Regions
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicholas A Bond($70,918), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Milo D Adkison($173,703), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Harold P Batchelder($269,606), Oregon State University, Corvallis
4. Louis W Botsford($290,424), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Juvenile Coho Salmon, Abundance, Annual, Comparative, Conditions, GLOBEC, Indicator, Individual, Management, Model, Retrospective, SEAK, Spatial, Survival.

US-GLOBEC: NWA/Georges Bank - Marine Ecosystem Responses to Climate-Associated Remote Forcing from the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles H Greene($258,295), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Impacts Ecosystem, Labrador Sea, Marine Ecosystems, Northwest Atlantic, Remote Forcing, Ssgomgb Region, Bank, Biological, CSWS, Climate, Fisheries, Has, Mediated, NAO, Oceanographic, Processes, Upstream.

SGER: Micro-Spatial Scale Assessment of the Genetic Architecture of Coral Reefs
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen A Karl($99,197), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coral Reefs, Gis Format, Assess, Available, Has, Health, Individual, Marine, Micro-spatial, Persistence, Population, Species.

Collaborative Research: Toward Environmental Genomics: Can We Estimate Bacterial Diversity in the Ocean?
Award Effective Date: 05/10/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel L Distel($47,214), Ocean Genome Legacy, Ipswich
Key terms: Diversity Estimation, Ribotype Diversity, Approach, Approaches, Bacterial, Ecological, Environment, Estimates, Evolution, Explore, Genes, Genome, Genomes, Genomic, II, Lack, Methods, Microbial, Natural, Remains, Ribosomal, Sampling, Shaping, Total.

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Synthesis of Biophysical Observations at Multiple Trophic Levels Using Spatially Nested, Data-assimilating Models of the Coastal Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($28,400), Wild Salmon Center, Portland
2. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($186,722), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Andrew M Moore($355,145), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Albert J Hermann($433,322), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Delivered Online, Globec Program, Northeast Pacific, Pink Salmon, Adjoint, Aims, Alaska, Assimilation, Biological, CGOA, Circulation, Climate, Coastal, Development, Display, Eulerian, Field, Fields, Fisheries, Hindcasts, Indices, Model, Models, NPZ, Prey, Programs, Quantify, Retrospective, Synthesis, Techniques, Trophic, Zooplankton.

US GLOBEC NWA/Georges Bank: Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepods on Georges Bank: Local Dynamics and Large-scale Forcing
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David W Townsend($60,213), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Dominant Copepod Species, Local And Large-scale, Controlling Zooplankton, Georges Bank, Large-scale Forcing, Population Size, Slope Water, Abundance, Basin-scale, Biological-physical, Characteristic, Concurrent, Detailed, Examined, Existing, GLOBEC, Larval, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Ocean, Plankton, Populations, Processes, Program, Scenarios, Seasonal, Spatial, Specific.

U.S.-GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: A Synthesis of Climate-Forced Variability on Mesoscale Structure in the CGOA With Direct Comparisons to the CCS
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. P. Ted Strub($140,042), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. P. Ted Strub($214,800), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: California Current, Coastal Gulf, Nep Program, Alaska, Analyses, Basin-scale, CCS, CGOA, Climate, Compare, Comparing, Directly, Diverse, Ecosystem, Evident, Examining, GLOBEC, Linkages, Local, Management, Mesoscale, Monitoring, Multiple, Observations, Ocean, Sets, Shelf, Signals, Structure, Students, Time.

US-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank: Impacts of climate and basin-scale variability on the seeding and production of Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank region
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Dian J Gifford($41,682), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Finmarchicus Seeding, Georges Bank, Model Simulations, North Atlantic, Available, Basin-scale, Biological, Circulation, Ecosystem, Eddy-resolving, Fields, GLOBEC, High-nao, IBM, In-situ, Interannual, Large-scale, NAO, Ongoing, Region, Running, Via, Website.

US-GLOBEC-NWA/Georges Bank: Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepods
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward G Durbin($48,859), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Dominant Copepod Species, Local And Large-scale, Controlling Zooplankton, Georges Bank, Large-scale Forcing, Population Size, Slope Water, Abundance, Basin-scale, Biological-physical, Characteristic, Concurrent, Detailed, Examined, Existing, GLOBEC, Larval, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Ocean, Plankton, Populations, Processes, Program, Scenarios, Seasonal, Spatial, Specific.

SGER: Assessing Abundance and Diversity of RNA-containing Viruses in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Grieg F Steward($106,240), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Dna Genomes, Marine Viral, Relative Abundance, Viral Diversity, Abundant, Ecologically, Investigate, Methods, Plankton, RNA, Sea, Viruses.

Holocene Phylochronology and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Elizabeth A Hadly($235,319), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Northern Fur Seal, Ecological Shifts, Management Decisions, Northeast Pacific, Pacific Margin, Ancient, Anthropogenic, Archaeological, Available, Baseline, Behavior, Breeding, Coastal, Conservation, DNA, Declines, Ecology, Education, Environmental, Experienced, Genetic, Historic, Holocene, Local, Marine, Past, Population, Populations, Species, Time.

SGER: Quantifying the effect of upwelling and relaxation on otolith chemistry and fish growth
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Churchill B Grimes($53,732), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Microstructure And Chemistry, Upwelling And Relaxation, Otolith Microstructure, Water Mass, Year-class Strength, California, Exposure, Mechanism, Pelagic, Recruitment, Transport, Yclass.

U.S. GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank - Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepod Species on Georges Bank: Local Dynamics and Large-Scale Forcing
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles N Flagg($55,652), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Changsheng Chen($198,819), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. Jeffrey Runge($37,546), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Dominant Copepod Species, Local And Large-scale, Controlling Zooplankton, Georges Bank, Large-scale Forcing, Population Size, Slope Water, Abundance, Basin-scale, Biological-physical, Characteristic, Concurrent, Detailed, Examined, Existing, GLOBEC, Larval, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Ocean, Plankton, Populations, Processes, Program, Scenarios, Seasonal, Spatial, Specific.

Probing Korachaeal ecophysiology via statistical analysis of quantitative molecular and geochemical data: A RIDGE2000 postdoctoral proposal
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter R Girguis($128,778), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Distribution And Abundance, Hydrothermal Vent Chimneys, Collaborating Laboratories, Incubation Devices, Korarchaeote Phylotypes, Metabolic Capacities, Metabolic Capacity, Vent Habitat, Cordes, Deep-sea, Describes, Diversity, Endeavor, Geochemical, Gradients, Implanted, Inner, Korarchaeota, Libraries, Lies, Microbial, Potential, Quantitative, Relate, Situ, Statistical, Substrates, Temperature, Walls.

Collaborative Research: Systematics and Adaptation of the Thaliacea (Tunicata): A Genetic and Morphological Study
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ann C Bucklin($157,649), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Laurence P Madin($236,471), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Described Species, Based, Classification, Connecticut, Genetic, Global, Identification, Life, Molecular, Monophyletic, Morphological, Phylogeny, Thaliacea, Thaliacean, Tunicata, WHOI.

Synthesis of Local Demography and Regional Connectivity in a Marine Fish Metapopulation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Hixon($499,899), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Demographic Rates, Density Dependence, Exuma Sound, Habitat Structure, Larval Connectivity, Local Populations, Mechanisms Whereby, Physiological Condition, Population Dynamics, Predator Abundance, Reproductive Output, Assignment, Biology, Birth, Competitor, Conservation, Death, Ecological, Factors, Field, Graduate, Growth, Increases, Information, Knowledge, Larvae, Marine, Measure, Metapopulation, Metapopulations, Methods, Recruitment, Relative, Self-recruitment, Separated, Spatial, Spatially, Species, Students, Via.

RUI: Responses of Seals and Sea Lions to Increased Rockfish Density
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez($720,000), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Confidence And Skills, Students And Scientists, Courses Taught, Fish Density, Fish Populations, Harbor Seals, Prey Density, Puget Sound, Rockfish Density, Rockfish Populations, Sea Lions, Abundance, Behavior, Collaborating, Conducting, Conservation, Consumption, Database, Describe, Ecological, Engage, Estimates, Experience, Field, Food, Foraging, Future, Gain, Has, Individual, Integrated, Integration, Marine, Mpas, Observations, Plan, Predator, Predators, Sites, Teachers, Top, Topic.

SGER: Investigation of Potential Co-Introduction of Fucus serratus and Littorina littorea to North America in 1800s
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susan H Brawley($46,105), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Littorina Littorea, Marine Invasions, Pictou Harbor, Based, Britain, Broader, Co-introduced, Developed, Intertidal, Late, Lead, Mid-s, North, Produces, Serratus, Ships, Species, Time.

Context-dependency of competition, mutualism, and predator-defenses; and the diversity of tropical marine sponges
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Janie L Wulff($239,120), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Caribbean Coral Reefs, Common Sponge Species, Habitat Distribution, Seagrass Meadows, Sessile Animals, Transplant Experiments, Tropical Marine, Abiotic, Abundance, Competitors, Context-dependency, Diversity, Education, Experimental, Interactions, Maintaining, Mangroves, Play, Predators, Resistance, Sponges.

Collaborative Research: Are diatoms chemically or mechanically defended against protist grazers?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Suzanne L Strom($467,591), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Digestion And Growth, Diatom Defenses, Growth Rates, Mechanical Defenses, Protist Grazers, Aspects, Assess, Cell, Chemical, Copepods, Diatoms, Evolution, Fed, Frustule, Grazing, Hypothesized, Levels, Marine, Microzooplankton, Phytoplankton, Pressure, Primary, Protists, Puas, Sea, Students, Taxa, Undergraduate, Zooplankton.

Are diatoms chemically or mechanically defended against protist grazers?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fredrick G Prahl($145,501), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Digestion And Growth, Diatom Defenses, Growth Rates, Mechanical Defenses, Protist Grazers, Aspects, Assess, Cell, Chemical, Copepods, Diatoms, Evolution, Fed, Frustule, Grazing, Hypothesized, Levels, Marine, Microzooplankton, Phytoplankton, Pressure, Primary, Protists, Puas, Sea, Students, Taxa, Undergraduate, Zooplankton.

Influences of Nonrandom Biodiversity Change on Marine Ecosystem Functioning
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew E Bracken($512,219), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Bodega Marine Laboratory, Abiotic Stress, Ecosystem Functioning, Marine Ecosystem, Marine Ecosystems, Nonrandom Biodiversity, Nutrient Availability, Nutrient Cycling, Random Assemblages, Seaweed Diversity, Assess, BML, Biogeochemical, Consequences, Consumers, Ecosystem-level, Energy, Factors, Has, Herbivory, Influence, Influences, Intertidal, Local, Manipulations, Nitrogen, Nutrients, Primary, Processes, Program, Rates, Seaweeds, Species, Specific, Students.

Physiological ecology of intertidal development: linking embryo performance and adult reproductive ecology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert D Podolsky($322,692), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Adult Reproductive, Developmental Consequences, Developmental Performance, Ecological Conditions, Egg Masses, Environmental Conditions, Field Conditions, Fitness Consequences, Marine Development, Physiological Ecology, Reproductive Timing, Stress Protein, Adults, Bottleneck, Create, Distinct, Education, Embryo, Embryos, Especially, Exposure, FHL, Growth, Habitats, Highly, Information, Integrative, Intertidal, Lab, Life, Life-history, Mean, Natural, Participation, Physiology, Program, Represent, Reproduction, Sensitive, Species, Stages, Students, Survival, Temperature, UV, Unique, Variance.

An adaptive food web model for the epipelagic and mesopelagic
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward A Laws($306,394), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Food Web Model, Parameter Values, Time Constant, Characteristics, Chosen, Culturally, Curricula, Development, Equilibrium, Graduate, Hawaii, Incorporation, Kumu-ola, Less, Mathematics, Meaning, Mesopelagic, Microbial, Minorities, Minority, Modeling, Principal, Processes, Resiliency, Return, STEM, Specified, Steady, Students, Was.

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

1. Daniel L Distel($351,765), Ocean Genome Legacy, Ipswich
Key terms: Lignocellulose Digestion, Marine Wood, Nitrogen Fixation, Wood-boring Bivalves, Biochemical, Depend, Enzymes, Found, Host, Shipworms, Symbiont, Symbionts, Wood-boring, Xylotrophy.

Further Development of the Eddy Correlation Technique
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

1. Markus H Huettel($742,717), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Eddy Correlation Technique, Orion And Neon, O2 Sensor, Traditional Methods, Components, Development, Flux, Marine, Observatory, Permeable, Phase, Sediment, Sediments, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Productivity, Biogeochemical Transformations and Cross-margin Transport in an Eastern Boundary Buoyant Plume Region
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

1. David A Jay($431,423), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Columbia River, Highly Productive, Productive Shelf, River Plume, Nearby, Nutrients, Outside, Plumes, Processes, Rate, Rates, Upwelling, Winds.

SGER: Exploration of Three-Dimensional Structure in Sedimentary Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Cindy Lee($40,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: 3d Structure, Coastal Sediments, Drying Process, Intertidal Sediments, Mineral Surfaces, Organic Compounds, Organic Matter, Organic Molecules, Salt Marsh, Wet-dry Cycles, Carbon, Dehydration, Dried, Has, Hydrophilic, Hydrophobic, Importance, Investigate, Never-dried, Oceans, Polar, Polarity, Remineralization, Soil, Soils, Sorption, Three-dimensional, Wet-dry.

Collaborative Research (OSU, USC, UCR): Continental Shelf Diagenesis: The Importance of Fresh Continental Material Degradation and Seasonal Diagenesis to Coastal Iron Supply
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Silke Severmann($67,671), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. William M Berelson($200,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Delivery Rates, Oxidation-reduction Reactions, Southern California, Benthic, Coastal, Continent, Deposits, Diagenesis, Essential, Graduate, Has, Iron, OCE-, Oregon, Oxidation-reduction, Pacific, Sediments, Shelf, Signature, Source, Student, Undergraduate, Upwelling.

New Techniques for Simulating and Analyzing Biogeochemical Tracers in a Seasonally Varying Global Ocean Models
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francois Primeau($398,009), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Automatic Optimization Methods, Global Biogeochemistry Models, Ocean Biogeochemistry Models, Biological Uptake, Computational Costs, Fast Solver, Model Parameters, Seasonally Varying, California, Complexity, Newton-krylov, Pis, Training.

Preparation and Distribution of Consensus Reference Material for Marine DOC
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($381,848), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Marine Carbon Cycle, Crm Program, International Ocean, Marine Doc, Analyses, Common, Comparable, Consistent, Laboratories, Reference, Seawater, Standard.

Exploring the Linkages Between Trichodesmium spp. Physiology, Diversity and Iron Geochemistry in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($660,330), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fe Speciation, Current, Cyanobacteria, Diagnostic, Diazotroph, Diazotrophs, Feob, Fixation, Genes, Hawaii, Limitation, Limited, Mechanism, Models, Ocean, Pis, Pool, Regions, Trichodesmium, Uptake, Validation.

Collaborative Proposal: In Situ Quantification of Sponge N Cycling in Coastal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian N Popp($152,063), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Niels L Lindquist($646,685), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Coastal Environments, Net Fluxes, Nitrogen Cycling, Abundant, Affect, Benefit, Biogeochemical, DIN, Dissolved, Ecosystems, Established, Hawaii, Laboratory, North, Pumping, Quantify, School, Situ, Species, Sponge, Sponges, Students, Transformations, Water.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH (USC-UW): Evaluating Seawater Circulation Rates Through Permeable Sediments, Using Naturally Occurring Rn and Ra Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Russell E McDuff($155,899), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Douglas E Hammond($164,898), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Circulation Rates, Coastal Zone, Permeable Sediments, Pressure Gradients, Collaboration, Constrain, Driven, Flow, Fluid, Fluxes, Has, Input, OCE-, Radioisotopes, Seawater, Water, Waves.

Amino Acid Molecular-Level Stable Isotopic and Enantiomeric Ratios: A New Approach for Understanding Source and Transformation of Organic Nitrogen in the Sea.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Raphael M Kudela($429,099), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: 13c Aa, Molecular Level, Organic Nitrogen, Active, Biogeochemical, Cycling, DON, Deep, Experiments, Graduate, Has, Heterotrophic, Isotopic, Laboratory, Ocean, Oceans, PON, Represent, Set, Signatures, Sources, Tools, Transformations, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research:Transport and Divergence of CO2, O2 and Nutrients in the Atlantic Ocean, Continuation of WOCE-era Inversion with Comparison to Tracer Age Based Approaches
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Sabine Mecking($317,443), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Alison M Macdonald($376,916), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, Carbon Cycle, Flow Field, Global Ocean, Inverse Model, Ocean Carbon, Ocean Circulation, Surface Ocean, Age, Analysis, Atlantic, Based, CFC, CLIVAR, Compared, Divergence, Estimates, Export, Extended, Future, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Investigation, Mean, Models, Numerical, Observations, Oceanic, Participating, Portion, Program, Rates, Synthesis, Transport, Uptake, Variance.

Photodissolution of Sedimentary Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lawrence M Mayer($493,595), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Dissolved Organic, Optical Properties, Organic Matter, Particulate Organic, Carried, Importance, Particulates, Photodissolution, Reaction, Student.

Biogeochemical Flows of Nitrogen in a Tropical Upwelling System (A CARIACO Time Series Project)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Raymond Sambrotto($406,025), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cariaco Time, Export Flux, Isotopic Signature, Nitrogen Isotopic, Carbon, Collaboration, Cycle, Has, Observed, Ocean, Organic, Processes, Productivity, Seasonal, Summer, Surface, Transfer, Trophic, Upwelling, Variable, Venezuelan.

Collaborative Research: Global Estimates of Past and Future Uptake of Anthropogenic Carbon by the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Darryn W Waugh($242,941), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Timothy M Hall($389,969), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Perturbed Carbon Cycle, Anthropogenic Carbon, Carbon Uptake, Industrial Era, Johns Hopkins, Ocean Carbon, Oceanic Uptake, Analysis, Applied, Benefit, Cant, Changing, Circulation, Climate, Columbia, Distribution, Effects, Estimate, Estimates, Evolution, Future, Global, Has, Included, Interior, Method, OCE-, Observations, Past, Sea-surface, Surface, TTD, Teaching, Technique, Transport.

Collaborative Research: SAFe: Completing the Last Part
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth H Coale($33,612), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Kenneth W Bruland($20,503), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Available, Coastal, Collected, Homogeneity, Iron, OCE-, Program, Reference, Safe, Seawater, Stability, Surface, Trace.

Collaborative Proposal: Mineral Ballast and Organic Matter Compositions as Determinants of Particle Settling Velocities and Fluxes in the Sea (MedFlux)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Scott W Fowler($182,724), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Russell E McDuff($59,922), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Carbonate Minerals, Organic Carbon, Surface Ocean, Average, Ballast, Ballasting, Depth, Flux, Fluxes, Introduced, Medflux, OCE-, POC, Sampling.

The Quality Control of Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Measurements: Preparation, Certification, and Distribution of Reference Materials.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew G Dickson($477,357), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Oceanic Carbon Dioxide, Quality Control, Sea Water, Analytical, Future, International, Parameters, Program, Reference, Students, Total, Various, World.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Dynamics of Phosphorus in the Coastal Ocean: A Combined Observational, Experimental, and Ecosystem Modeling Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Sonya T Dyhrman($224,299), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kathleen C Ruttenberg($202,623), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Yvette H Spitz($288,005), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Coupled C-n-p, Molecular Weight, Bioavailability, C-N-P, Comprehensive, Distribution, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Effort, Global, Marine, Model, Oregon, P-based, Quantify, Water.

SGER: Refractory Organic Matter In Sediments Isolated From The Bay of Bengal
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Siddhartha Mitra($6,925), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Indian And Bangladeshi, Hydrolytic Pyrolysis, Organic Carbon, Sediments Discharged, BC, Bay, Bengal, Collaborations, Composition, Cruise, Ganges-brahmaputra, Information, Isolated, Labile, Refractory.

Proposal to Establish a US GEOTRACES Project Office
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert F Anderson($388,822), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Marine Biogeochemical Cycles, Geotraces Activities, Implementation Strategy, Marine Scientists, Policy Makers, Standing Committees, Various National, Broader, Communications, Contaminants, Efforts, Global, Has, Implications, International, Knowledge, Maintain, Ocean, Participating, Plan, Processes, Program, SCOR, SSC, Serve, Teis.

Collaborative Research: Iron-light Co-limitation in the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum of Stratified Oceanic Regimes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Zackary I Johnson($126,366), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Katherine Barbeau($346,593), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: California-san Diego, Skidaway Institute, Supplemental Funds, Based, California-san, Cell, Chlorophyll, Co-limitation, Cruises, DCM, Hawaii, Maxima, Oceanography, Phytoplankton, Plan, Structure.

Evaluation of Mixed Layer-Upper Thermocline Interaction and Geochemical Transport using 7Be
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David C Kadko($342,982), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Layer And Upper, Mixed Layer, Upper Thermocline, BATS, Course, Depth, Geochemical, Graduate, Input, Knowledge, Mixing, Nuclide, Nutrients, Ocean, Processes, Profiles, Seasonal, Surface, Time-series, Transport.

Assessing Coastal Benthic Denitrification using High Precision Water Column N2/Ar
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark A Altabet($424,101), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Benthic Denitrification, Geochemical Assessment, Mass Spectrometer, Water Column, Analysis, Biogenic, Biogeochemical, Capability, Coastal, Cycle, Determination, Gas, Has, IRMS, Island, LIS, Marine, Massachusetts, Nar, Precision, QMS, Ratio, Technology, Time, URI.

Dissolved Organic Phosphorus Cycling in the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kathleen C Ruttenberg($13,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Dissolved Organic, Organic Carbon, Organic Nitrogen, Organic Phosphorus, Particulate Organic, COAST, Coastal, Coupled, Cycling, DOC, DON, DOP, Distributions, Field, POP, Phytoplankton.

Collaborative Research: Investigations into the Temporal & Source-Dependent Chemical Compositions & Reactivity of Natural Dissolved Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Patrick G Hatcher($315,123), 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, OCE-, Ocean, Ohio, Quantitatively, Season, Source, Students.

Collaborative Research: Particulate Organic Carbon in the Upper Ocean Derived from Historical Bio-Optical Data and Satellite Observations of Ocean Color
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Malgorzata Stramska($102,963), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Bio-optical Relationships, Ocean Color, Poc Dynamics, Bio-optical, Carbon, Chlorophyll, Collected, Expected, Global, Historical, OCE-, Satellite, Sensors, Situ, Studying, Time, Unattended, Various.

Collaborative Research: Interactions Among Deposit-Feeding, Organic Matter Diagenesis andAnimal Nutrition
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tamara K Pease($120,086), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Deposit Feeding, Foraging Behavior, Om Diagenesis, Population Density, Sediment Mixing, Sedimentary Carbon, Sedimentary Organic, Acid, Added, Coupled, Individual, Rate, Robustus, Sediments.

The Oceans and Human Health, Oceanography, Vol 19, No 2
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($59,746), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Oceans And Human, Human Health, Oceanography Society, Special Issue, Special Issues, Benefits, Coastal, Covered, Describe, Global, Humans, Magazine, Membership, Paper, Papers, Particular, TOS, Topic, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Parameterization of Gas Flux at High Wind Speed
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Craig L McNeil($475,679), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Eric D'Asaro($1,596,869), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Gas Exchange, Gas Transfer, Surface Wave, Wind Speeds, Air-sea, Autonomous, Budgets, Component, Developed, Floats, Flux, Global, Measured, Parameterizations, Rate, Rates, Salinity, Sensors, Temperature, Uncertainties, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the use of Se/S in marine barite as a tracer of ocean nutrients
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Adina Paytan($130,588), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Gregory A Cutter($149,797), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Water Column, Barite, Dominion, Laboratory, Marine, Minority, Nitrate, Nutrient, Processes, Proxy, Selenate, Selenatesulfate, Selenium, Ses, Upper, Varying.

Collaborative research: Hydrogen isotopic studies of marine dissolved and particulate organic matter
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Arndt Schimmelmann($158,319), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Alex Sessions($336,080), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Acids And Carbohydrates, Pom And Dom, Amino Acids, Analytical Methods, Abyssal, Analyses, Biochemical, Biomolecules, Carbon, Composition, DH, Dn, Elemental, Fraction, Fractionations, Gt, HC, Hydrocarbons, Hydrogen, Isotopic, Lipids, Lt, Marine, Molecular, Organic, Sediments, Time, Typically, Undergraduate, Useful, Waters.

Collaborative research: A Study of Wave-Enhanced Nutrient Uptake by Vegetated Canopies in Shallow Coastal Systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Florence I Thomas($368,471), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Jeffrey R Koseff($212,557), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Chemical Exchange Rates, Flow Conditions, Flow Structure, Nutrient Uptake, Oscillatory Flow, Velocity Structure, Canopy, Effects, Entire, Increase, Natural, Outreach, Programs, Shallow, Students, Water.

Influence of interannual atmospheric forcing on North Pacific biogeochemical variability
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. LuAnne Thompson($385,725), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: North Pacific Carbon, Ocean Carbon Cycle, Pacific Carbon Cycle, Surface And Thermocline, Biogeochemical, Controlling, Distributions, Experiments, Forcing, Global, Interior, Model, Nutrients, Observations, Observed, Processes, Salinity, Sensitivity, Waters.

U.S. Global Repeat Hydrographic/CO2/Tracer Surveys: Deep Ocean DOM Distribution and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($770,950), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Repeat Hydrography Program, Carbon Cycle, Doc Concentrations, Ocean Sections, Water Masses, Component, Context, Cruises, Deep, Involved, Miami, Mixing, Observations, Processes, Students.

Collaborative Research: RUI - Dissolution kinetics of biogenic calcium carbonates in the upper water column of the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Victoria Fabry($448,665), California State University San Marcos Corporation, San Marcos
2. Andrew G Dickson($106,161), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Johan Schijf($173,903), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Fresh Biogenic Carbonates, Dissolution Rates, Water Column, Aragonite, Caco, Calcite, Canadian, Cell, Chemistry, Conditions, Depths, Experiments, Has, Laboratory, Pacific, Ph, Processes, Protective, Radioactive, Saturation, Situ, Upper.

A Source-to-Sink Study of Chemical Weathering in the Fly River System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew C Kurtz($193,829), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Suspended Sediments, Analysis, Flux, River, Soil, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Biomarkers at the Chemocline of the Cariaco Basin: Linking Organic Geochemistry and Microbial Ecology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Katherine H Freeman($38,447), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Cariaco Basin, Linking Biomarkers, Organic Geochemical, Skidaway Institute, Water Column, Analyses, Carbon, Chemoautotrophy, Chemocline, Closely, Has, Intact, Lipid, Lipids, Microbial, Oceanography, Processes, Sediments, Sources, Trap, Venezuela.

Collaborative Research: TH(IV) and PA(IV, V) Binding to Exopolymeric Acid and Polysaccharides in Marine Environments
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laodong Guo($178,301), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Laboratory And Field, Efficient Binding, Laboratory Studies, Organic Matter, Texas Aandm, APS, Approaches, Biomolecules, Controlled, Investigations, Molecular, OCE-, Ocean, Oceanographic, POC, Paivv, Particulate, Path, Phytoplankton, Produced, Ratios, Thiv.

Iron Isotope Systematics in Rivers and Estuaries: Processes Controlling the Fractionation between Continental Run-Off and the Oceans
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward R Sholkovitz($429,031), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fe Isotope Composition, Field And Laboratory, Dissolved Fe, Fe Isotopes, Fe Pools, Redox Reactions, Colloidal, Colloids, Connecticut, Estuary, Mullica, Ocean, Particulate, River, Rivers, Seasonal, Weathering.

Investigating Novel Halogenated Organic Compounds in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher M Reddy($426,322), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Stable Nitrogen, Approach, Compounds, Establishing, Found, Halogenated, Hocs, Industrial, Molecular-level, Natural, Origin, Source, Sources, Tracer.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Atmospheric Deposition on the Distribution and Speciation of Trace Elements in the Upper Ocean - Focus on Iron in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter N Sedwick($427,354), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Thomas M Church($399,437), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Edward R Sholkovitz($398,184), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Aerosol Fe Concentrations, Concentration And Speciation, Aerosol Sampler, Buoy-mounted Aerosol, Sargasso Sea, Surface Waters, Aeolian, Atmospheric, Autonomous, Bermuda, Buoy-mounted, Delaware, Dissolved, Input, Iron, Model, Nm, Ocean, Sampling, Solubility, Spring, Student, Summer.

Oceans and Human Health Public Health Workshop, January 2006
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ronald G Martin($25,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Coastal Public Health, Public Health Issues, Public Health Risks, Coastal Waters, Beach, Combination, Environmental, Human, Information, Managers, Marine, Observation, Observations, Ocean, Planning, Workshop.

Trace Element Analysis of Aerosol and Seawater Samples Collected on the A16N, P02, and P16S CLIVAR Cruises
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($325,229), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Aerosol Leach Solutions, Clivar Repeat Hydrography, Coupled Plasma Mass, Dissolved And Particulate, Inductively Coupled Plasma, Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Repeat Hydrography Cruise, Resolution Inductively Coupled, Total And Soluble, Biogeochemical Cycles, Coupled Oceanatmosphere, Ocean Basins, Particulate Fe, Soluble Aerosol, Trace Metals, Water Column, Acidified, Analyzed, Archived, Collected, Complete, Cruises, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Global, Iron, Lead, Models, PN, Processes, Seawater, Upcoming.

Investigating the Importance of the Coastal Zone as a Source of Methylmercury to the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert P Mason($272,590), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Dissolved And Solid, Coastal Zone, Hg Input, Hg Methylation, Hg Speciation, Solid Phase, Bacteria, Biogeochemistry, Budget, Chesapeake, Chhg, Concentration, Environment, Examined, Fe, Global, Has, Increased, Laboratory, Net, Ocean, Primary, Rate, Sediments, Shelf, Sites, Situ, Source, Sources.

Bacterial Manganese (II) Oxidation in the Guaymas Basin Hydrothermal Plume
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bradley M Tebo($185,289), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Mn Oxidation Rates, Genes Involved, Hydrothermal Plumes, Hydrothermal Vents, Natural Mn, Bacteria, Bacterial, Biomineralization, Designed, Function, GB, Isolated, Isolates, Mechanisms, Minerals, Mn-oxidizing, Mnii, Mniiiiv, Molecular, Organisms, Oxide, Oxides, Products, Range, Recently, Responsible, Rubisco, Waters, X-ray.

Stable Isotopes and Strontium in Western Pacific Sclerosponges: Calibration and Applications to Paleoceanography
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrea G Grottoli($137,746), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Seawater Temperature, Carbon, Climate, Depth, Models, Pacific, Proxy, Srca, Stable, Timescale.

Native Americans in Science, Engineering and Natural Resources
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Robert A Duncan($50,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Native Americans, Degrees, Engineering, Faculty, Increase, NAMSS, OSU, Program, Students.

REU Site at the Shannon Point Marine Center: Field and Laboratory Studies of Coastal Marine Processes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Stephen D Sulkin($361,122), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Coastal, Environment, Independent, Program, Receive, SPMC, Students, Washington.

REU Site: Coastal Marine Science Undergraduate Research Opportunities at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Rochelle D Seitz($561,591), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Final, Funding, Independent, Internship, Marine, NSF, Oceanography, Program, Site, Students, Summer, VIMS.

CAREER: Consequences of Short-Term Food Variability During the Development of Marine Invertebrate Larvae
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian T Hentschel($503,415), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Development And Growth, Capstone Course, High-school Biology, High-school Teachers, Larval Development, Life Cycles, Program Involving, Short-term Food, Undergraduate Students, Comprehensive, Crustaceans, Diverse, Effects, Experiments, Feeding, High-school, Invertebrate, Larvae, Mentoring, Metamorphosis, Model, Models, Perform, Performed, Plankton, Presentation, Programs, Recruitment, Semester, Short-term, Size, Theoretical, Timing, Undergraduates, Workshops.

REU Site: Geobiology - Marine Science at the Interface between the Life and Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Linda E Duguay($200,490), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Wrigley Institute, Independent, Program, Site, Students, Succeed, USC.

REU Site: Research Experiences in Open Ocean and Subtropical Marine Environments of Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Samantha de Putron($307,671), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: BBSR, Bermuda, Biological, Final, Independent, Program, REU, Site, Students, Total, Variety.

CAREER: Organic Matter Cycling in the Upper Ocean: Insights from time-series measurements of d15N and D14C in the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Lihini I Aluwihare($846,720), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: California Current, Dom Reservoir, Organic Matter, San Diego, School Students, Surface Waters, Carbon, Context, Course, Dissolved, Dynamics, Excursions, Fraction-specific, Isotopic, Larger, Marine, Mentor, Own, Phenomena, Placed, Potential, Size, Time, Time-series, Timescales.

CAREER: Fluxes and Structures in Double-Diffusive Convection
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Timour Radko($539,084), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Naval Postgraduate School, Mixed Layers, Thermohaline Staircases, Developing, Double-diffuse, Fluxes, Gradients, Magnitude, Microstructure, Mixing, Salt, Smooth, Students, Theory, Vertical.

CAREER: Sediment Dynamics on the Bengal Shelf and Fate of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Floodpulse
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2005; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Steven L Goodbred($465,895), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Inner Shelf, Sediment Load, Bangladeshi, Dispersal, SUNY, Students.

Collaborative Research: The carbon balance of Lake Superior: Modeling lake processes and understanding impacts on the regional carbon budget
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Ankur R Desai($900,714), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Noel R Urban($242,199), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Lake Superior Carbon, Regional Carbon Budget, Ameriflux Towers, Carbon Cycling, Co2 Fluxes, Coastal Carbon, Air-water, Knowledge, Lakes, Model, Models, North, Observations, Priorities, Terrestrial, Winter.

RUI: Dissolution Mortality of Juvenile Bivalves in Coastal Marine Deposits.
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Margaret A Palmer($419,898), Saint Joseph's College, Standish
Key terms: External Shell Dissolution, Mercenaria And Mya, Shell Dissolution Mortality, Carbonate Saturation, Carbonate Shells, Juvenile Bivalve, Juvenile Bivalves, Laboratory Experiments, Surface Sediments, Benthic, Biotic, Buffering, Coastal, Diagenetic, Effect, Field, Following, Function, Intertidal, Josephs, Juveniles, Maine, Processes, Recruitment, Scenarios, Site, Species, Students, Survivorship, Undersaturation, Water.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of Population Connectivity in Sea Stars
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Robert J Toonen($353,379), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Richard K Grosberg($429,853), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Gene Flow, Genetic Drift, Life Cycle, Population Genetic, Population Structure, Analysis, Australian, Bat, California, Conservation, Contribute, Contribution, Development, Differences, Dispersal, Diverse, Diversity, Evolution, Expected, Extinction, Fertilization, Has, Inbreeding, Knowledge, Larval, Limited, Local, Marine, Ocean, Oceans, Organisms, Potential, Protected, Reproductive, Speciation, Species, Stars, Status, Strong, Students, View.

Collaborative Research: Stepping Stones Across the Atlantic: Co-evolution and Dispersal of Deep-Water Corals and Their Associates on NW Atlantic Seamounts
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Scott C France($98,922), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
2. Rhian G Waller($216,625), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep-sea Seamounts, Life History, Co-evolutionary, Coral, Deep-sea, Dispersal, Environment, Evolutionary, Evolving, Fauna, Graduate, Habitats, Islands, Marine, Oceanic, Populations, Processes, Species.

Origin, pathway, and fate of Equatorial 13C Water in the Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ichiro Fukumori($486,210), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Water Mass, Circulation, Education, High-resolution, Origin, Pathway, Tracer, Versus.

Bacterial dormancy, bacterivory, and bacterioplankton diversity in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ramunas Stepanauskas($659,836), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bigelow Laboratory, Undergraduate Students, Bacterioplankton, Dormant, Education, Inactive, Majority, Microbial, Ocean, Physiologically, Pis, Station, Technology.

Collaborative research: ENSO-enhanced gene flow across the Eastern Pacific Barrier
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael E Hellberg($240,904), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Iliana Baums($262,671), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Central Pacific, Coral Reefs, Eastern Pacific, Genetic Analyses, Pacific Reef, Altered, Corals, Depend, Dispersal, ENSO, EPB, Generations, Information, Isolated, Loci, Migration, Population, Populations, Presently, Region, Species.

Millennial variations in Arabian Sea sediment proxies: the connection to North Atlantic climate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Franco Marcantonio($45,480), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Indian Ocean Monsoon, Arabian Sea, Stadialinterstadial Timescales, Export, Intensity, Pis, Proxies, Ratio, Reconstruct, Total.

The evolution of feeding tolerance for chemically-rich seaweeds among herbivore populations: a tropical-temperate contrast
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Erik E Sotka($316,557), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Juvenile Performance, Seaweed Defenses, Tropical Seaweeds, Assays, Chemical, Chemically-rich, Contrast, Evidence, Evolving, Experiments, Feeding, Herbivores, Mechanisms, Temperate, Tolerance.

Collaborative Research: Determining growth rates of specific bacterioplankton
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alison Buchan($318,112), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Marcelino Suzuki($262,802), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Expression Profiles, Gene Expression, Quantitative Pcr, Roseobacter Lineage, Abundant, Activity, Application, Bacterioplankton, Broader, Cellular, Curricula, Direct, Directly, Diversity, Education, Environmental, Environmentally, Focus, Genes, Graduate, Growth, Marine, Molecular, Monitored, Outreach, Parameters, Populations, Situ, Specific, Structure, Undergraduate.

Phylogeography of a Regional Fauna: Rocky Shores of the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Peter B Marko($495,545), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Long-term Persistence, Climate, Demographic, Genetic, Geographic, Latitudinal, Long-term, Organisms, Phylogeographic, Range, Reconstruct, Species, Students.

Collaborative Research: Observations of the Structure and Dynamics of Mid-Shelf Fronts
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. David Ullman($727,349), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Josh Kohut($143,393), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Shelf Water, Vertical Structure, Autonomous, Cross-shelf, Formation, Front, Fronts, Hydrographic, Mid-shelf, Observations, Obtain, SST, Salinity, Sections, Surface, Vehicle, Velocity.

Validation of alternating zonal jets detected in satellite altimetry using in situ observations
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nikolai Maximenko($170,147), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Sea Level, Time-varying Jets, Altimeter, Currents, OFES, Ocean, Satellite, Steady, Time-varying, Velocity.

LTER: Land/Ocean Interactions and the Dynamics of Kelp Forest Communities
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: ERE General

1. David A Siegel($6,058,895), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Giant Kelp Forests, Press And Pulse, Spatial And Temporal, Structure And Function, Abiotic Drivers, Land-sea Margin, Pulse Drivers, Santa Barbara, Sbc Lter, Coastal, Direct, Disturbance, Ecological, Ecosystems, Education, Effects, Experiments, Findings, Focus, Influence, Interdisciplinary, Land-sea, Long-term, Management, Ocean, Outreach, Processes, Programs, Public, Students, Supply, Training, Variety.

Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Project Office
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Scott C Doney($1,348,644), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Education And Outreach, National And International, Broader Audiences, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Ocean Carbon, Outreach Activities, Policy Makers, Ssc Activities, Steering Committee, Atmospheric, Climate, Effort, Facilitate, Meetings, OCB, Oceanographic, Office, Program, Programs, Public, Students, Underrepresented, WHOI, Workshops.

Unveiling the contributions and regulation of picoeukaryotic phytoplankton in oceanic environments.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Alexandra Z Worden($321,209), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbon Flux, Molecular Underpinnings, Primary Producers, Approach, Dynamics, Environmental, Eukaryotes, Expressional, Factors, Fate, Growth, Knowledge, Ocean, Physiological, Picocyanobacteria, Picoeukaryotes, Picophytoeukaryotes, Picophytoplankton, Poorly, Real-time, Sequences, Students.

Collaborative Research: Protistan Abundance, Diversity and Activity in the Deep-Sea and at Hydrothermal Vents
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Stephen C Cary($239,607), University of Delaware, Newark
2. David A Caron($400,034), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: 18s Rdna, Deep Ocean, Hydrothermal Vent, Hydrothermal Vents, Protistan Assemblages, Specific Taxa, Trophically Active, Abundance, Activities, Carbon, Characterize, Deep-sea, Directly, Diversity, Ecosystems, Education, Environments, Establish, Examined, Graduate, Identity, Information, Laboratory, Level, Pis, Program, Protists, Situ, Species, Student, Students, Teacher, Water.

HSD: Understanding Linkages Among Governance Factors of Linked Social and Ecological Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: HSD - AGENTS OF CHANGE

1. Pamela B Rubinoff($649,988), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Social And Ecological, Governance Factors, Linked Social, Marine Reserve, Marine Reserves, Arrangements, Caribbean, Competition, Critical, Disciplines, Enhance, Examine, HSD, Interdisciplinary, Management, Operate, Performance.

A Data Management System and Portal for Access to Ecological and Biogeochemical Ocean Data
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. David M Glover($3,829,352), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biogeochemical And Ecological, Available Via, Marine Biogeochemical, Quality Control, Collaborative, Establish, Facilitate, Information, International, Interoperability, Management, Metadata, National, Ocean, Office, Participating, Regardless, Tools, Web, Web-based.

Collaborative Research: Marine Metadata Initiative
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Karen I Stocks($397,153), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Philip S Bogden($242,747), Southeastern Universities Research Association, Washington
3. Matthew K Howard($200,204), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
4. John Graybeal($1,103,356), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
5. Albert J Plueddemann($354,195), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Metadata, Metadata Interoperability, Ocean Observations, Ability, Activities, Continued, Development, Directly, Effort, Included, Infrastructure, MMI, NSF, Observing, Oceanographic, Pis, Program, Towards, Users.

ITR/AP: Collaborative Research: Modular Ocean Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS

1. Andrew M Moore($119,167), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Information Technology, Assimilation, Forecasting, Has, Models, Modular, Ocean.

Collaborative Research: Numerical simulations of Small-Scale Stirring: Internal Waves, Diapycnal Mixing, and Horizontal Fine Structure
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Marie-Pascale G Lelong($254,426), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Miles A Sundermeyer($269,887), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Internal Waves, Lateral Dispersion, Account, Field, Has, Large-scale, Larger-scale, Mixed, Ocean, Parameterizations, Variety.

Operation SWAB: Monitoring of Ship, Van, and Laboratory 14C and 3H Contamination
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. James D Happell($618,446), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Contamination, Isotopes, Program, SWAB, Sampling, Vans, Vessels.

CMG Collaborative Research: A New Modeling Framework for Nonhydrostatic Simulations of Small-Scale Oceanic Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Jinqiao Duan($138,989), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
2. Traian Iliescu($147,861), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Tamay M Ozgokmen($134,850), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Paul F Fischer($78,190), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Circulation Models, Modeling Framework, Small-scale Oceanic, Vertical Mixing, Approaches, Challenging, Coastal, Current, Developed, Global, Investigations, Mathematical, Numerical, Physics, Processes, Small-scale, Stratified, Topics.

Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences: Numerical Studies of Sea Surface Wave Height Statistics with Application to Sea Level Sensing Using Satellite Altimetry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. None($550,000), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Mean Sea Level, Electromagnetic Scattering, Sea Surface, Algorithms, Altimeter, Applications, Evolution, Has, Numerical, Primary, Radar, Rough, Sensor.

CMG: Mathematical Methods for Ocean Circulation Theory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Petri J Pohjanpelto($183,102), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ocean Circulation, Difficult, Equations, Fluid, Mathematics, Solutions, Spatial, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: CMG--Application of Multi-Scale and Stochastic Methods to Mesoscale Eddy Parameterization Schemes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Peter R Kramer($318,391), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
2. Kendall S Smith($321,203), New York University, New York
Key terms: Approach, Circulation, Degrees, Fluid, Freedom, Models, Multiscale, Ocean, Represented, Turbulence.

Acquisition of Elemental Analysis Instrumentation for the Romberg Tiburon Center
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William P Cochlan($118,457), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Instruments Requested, Analyzer, Carbon, Determination, Diverse, Enhance, Facility, Faculty, Organic, RTC, Student.

Acquisition of a FT-ICR Mass Spectrometer for Structural Characterization of Natural Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($1,037,891), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Access, Broad, Elucidation, FT-ICR, Facility, Geochemistry, Ionization, Marine, Mass, Molecular, Organic, Provided, Students, WHOI.

Development of a new generation of diamond-coated thermometers to extend small-scale oceanic measurements of temperature
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Brian Ward($767,489), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Exchange, Air-sea Interaction, Boundary Layer, Ocean Mixing, Ocean Temperature, Temporal Resolution, Air-sea, Allow, Depths, Nor, Pis, Polysilicon, Profiler, Robust, Sensor, Spatial, Thermometer, Turbulence.

Development and Construction of Ocean Bottom Seismometers to Expand and Modernize the U.S. National Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Graham Kent($454,538), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Active Source, Capabilities, Capability, Deployments, Increase, Instruments, Marine, Normally, Seismometers, Shared-use, Undertake.

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation to Facilitate and Enhance Research Projects and Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry at TAMUG
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Peter H Santschi($90,202), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Requested Instrumentation, Chemistry, Instruments, Ionic, Organic, Substances.

Development of a Miniature Video and Data Recorder for Monitoring the Behavior and Multi-dimensional Movements of Marine Animals at Sea
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Randall W Davis($353,696), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Animals, Behavior, Has, Light, Mini-vdr, Previous, Public, Recorders, Students, Teachers, Video.

Collaborative research: Interdisciplinary approach to understand stable isotopic disequilibrium in benthic foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anthony E Rathburn($130,715), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
2. Joan M Bernhard($176,882), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Jonathan B Martin($129,004), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Carbon Isotopic Signatures, Foraminiferal Calcite, Ambient, Chemical, Conditions, Effects, Environments, Examine, Gradients.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Experimental Verification of Stable Isotope and Trace Metal Incorporation in Living Planktonic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ann Russell($436,050), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Living Planktonic Foraminifera, Shell Geochemistry, Calcification, Collected, Culture, Experiments, Field, Geochemical, Procedures, Proxies, Seawater, Shells, Students, Water.

SGER: Assessing the Extent and Volume of the 2006 Eruption of the East Pacific Rise
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Scott M White($23,002), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Lucky Strike Segment, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Seafloor Construction, Analysis, Field, French, Geochemical, Lava, Magnetic, Mid-atlantic, Web.

Sea Level Record of the Last Glacial Period 19,000 to 29,000 years BP
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Fairbanks($244,734), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Reef Complex, Sea Level, Water Depth, Collected, Coral, Corals, LGM, Lowstand, Represent, Sea-level.

Collaborative Research: Real-Time Volcanic Event Detection on Northeast Pacific Spreading Centers Using Military Hydrophone Arrays
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($33,261), Columbia University, New York
2. Robert P Dziak($398,547), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Ridge Crest, Biological, Cruises, Navy, Pacific, Processes, Program, Seismic, Time.

Constraints on the Hawaiian Swell and Plume-lithosphere Interaction from Kaua`i Mantle Xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael Bizimis($219,603), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Hawaiian Swell, Pacific Lithosphere, Directly, Garnet, Involve, Island, Kaua`i, Mantle, NHMFL, Nsf-funded, O`ahu, Ocean, Oceanic, Ongoing, Origin, Outreach, Peridotites, Plume, Pyroxenites, Undergraduate, Volcanism, Xenoliths.

A Next-Generation Integrated Data Management System for Ridge2000 and MARGINS
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Suzanne Carbotte($1,241,057), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Margins And Ridge, Focus Sites, Visualization Tools, Database, Databases, Development, Google, Interface, Involves, Metadata, Objects, Protocols, Retrieval, Search.

The role and response of the tropical Pacific thermocline in Plio-Pleistocene climate trends and obliquity cycles
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ana C Ravelo($316,987), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Steven A Hovan($107,928), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute, Indiana
Key terms: Global Climate Effects, Pliocene Warm Period, Ice Ages, Tropical Pacific, Composition, Conditions, El, Mean, Nino-like, Normal, SST, Sea, Stable, Student, Thermocline, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Proposal: Climate and Anthropogenic Control on Sediment Dispersal Along the Indus Continental Margin
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Beth Mullenbach($98,708), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Delta, Investigate, Pakistan, Pis, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: The role of water in the melting of oceanic mantle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Erik H Hauri($86,087), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Katherine A Kelley($246,017), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Normal Mid-ocean Ridge, Back-arc Basins, Mantle Melting, Mid-ocean Ridge, Normal Mid-ocean, Back-arc, Glasses, HO, Influence, Influenced, Lavas, Model, Process, Ridges, Subduction, Tested, Volatile, Water.

Collaborative Research: Climate and Anthropogenic Control on Sediment Dispersal Along the Indus Continental Margin
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Liviu Giosan($214,697), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Delta, Investigate, Pakistan, Pis, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Mapping magnetic anomalies in the Cretaceous "Quiet" Zone using a new airborne autonomous vehicle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven C Cande($455,343), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Dennis V Kent($72,007), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magnetic Anomalies, Magnetic Lines, Quiet Zone, Allow, Collected, Cretaceous, Field, KQZ, Ship.

Collaborative Research: Multiple Sulfur Isotope Tracers of the Subsurface Biosphere in Oceanic Basement
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Shuhei Ono($85,828), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Olivier Rouxel($199,270), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Jeffrey C Alt($172,419), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Del 34s, Microbial Activity, Oceanic Basement, Oceanic Crust, Upper Oceanic, Alteration, Analyses, Basaltic, Budget, Contents, Gabbros, Isotope, Rock, Se, Sulfide, Sulfur.

Reconstructing the role of CO2 in climate change throughout the Cenozoic Step 1: The mid-Pleiostocene transition
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Baerbel Hoenisch($196,581), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Surface Ocean, Atmospheric, Beyond, Estimate, Ka, Pco, Useful.

Testing the Hypothesis of Eastward Lake Agassiz Discharge at the Beginning of the Younger Dryas using Marine Seismic-Reflection Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven M Colman($321,700), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Thunder Bay, Deposits, Dryas, Eastward, Lake, Outflow, Outreach.

Collaborative Proposal: Anatomy of an Overlapping Spreading Center; Geochemical and Geological Study of the EPR 9deg 03'N OSC
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Karen L Von Damm($76,180), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Michael R Perfit($209,461), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Emily M Klein($291,236), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Melt Volume, Sio Visualization, Composition, Existing, Field, Geological, Involved, Marine, Pis, Program, Seismic, Sills, Students.

Collaborative Research: Anatomy of an Overlapping Spreading Center: Geochemical and Geological Study of the EPR 9 Degrees 30'N OSC
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenneth Sims($124,083), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Melt Volume, Sio Visualization, Composition, Existing, Field, Geological, Involved, Marine, Pis, Program, Seismic, Sills, Students.

Collaborative Research: Anatomy of an Overlapping Spreading Center; Geochemical and Geological Study of the EPR 9°03'N OSC
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Scott M White($130,400), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Melt Volume, Sio Visualization, Composition, Existing, Field, Geological, Involved, Marine, Pis, Program, Seismic, Sills, Students.

Investigation of Reykjanes Ridge Evolution Near Iceland
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fernando Martinez($373,394), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Abstract, Boundary, Iceland, Land, Mid-ocean, Ridges, Training, V-shaped.

Collaborative Research: Establishment of a Climate Type-Section for the Tropical Atlantic from Cariaco Basin Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert C Thunell($315,996), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. David E Black($56,138), University of Akron, Akron
3. David W Lea($321,073), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
4. Larry C Larry($285,555), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Cariaco Basin, Cores, Create, Marine, Pis, Produce, Serve.

Hyperpycnal River Plumes - An Opportunity to Study Their Transport and Deposition in a Controlled Dam-Removal Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Charles A Nittrouer($115,055), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Removal, Sediment, USGS.

Collaborative Research: Development and Support of the MB-System Software Package for Processing and Display of Swath Mapping Sonar Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Caress($155,133), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Dale Chayes($368,965), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Applied, Bathymetry, Development, Display, Formats, Software, Sonar, Swath, Visualization.

Collaborative Research: Origin of Crust and the Temporal and Spatial Scales of Mantle Melting at the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Frank C Ramos($112,427), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Peter J Michael($66,032), University of Tulsa, Tulsa
3. James B Gill($261,590), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Ocean Crust, Analytical, Composition, Geochemical, Heterogeneities, Hydrothermal, Impacts, Mantle, Melts, Ridge, Seafloor, Spreading, Students, U-series, Washington.

Late Eocene through Oligocene thermal and cryospheric evolution: Testing latitudinal SSTs and deepwater temperature vs. ice-volume changes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bridget Wade($277,658), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Climate Transition, Late Eocene, Climatic, Collected, Cooling, Deepwater, Global, Ice-volume, Increase, Latitudinal, Oligocene, Planet, Reconstruct, Ssts, Temperatures, Was.

Collaborative Research: High Latitude Temperature and Biological Responses to Plio-Pleistocene Global Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy D Herbert($298,685), Brown University, Providence
2. Kira T Lawrence($103,660), Lafayette College, Easton
Key terms: Northern Hemisphere, Biological, Climate, Glaciation, Hemispheres, Latitude, Latitudes, Ma, Ocean, Temperature, Time, Was.

Investigating the 3-D effects of mantle flow, melt production and melt transport in the Eastern Lau Spreading Center: Slab Dominated Flow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Donna K Blackman($112,838), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Spreading Center, Models, Program, RIDGE.

Complete Assessment of NGDC Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($124,844), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Apply Corrections, Underway Geophysical, Archived, Assess, Crossover, NGDC, Quality, Satellite.

Testing the Resolution of U-Series Age Constraints: An Application to Volcanic Construction at 9 degrees 50'N EPR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenneth Sims($188,181), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Lobate Lava Flows, Broader Impacts, Mid-ocean Ridge, Spreading Centers, U-series Dating, Construction, Crust, Emplacement, Eruption, Mid-ocean, Near, Stratigraphy, U-series, Volcanic.

Magmatic and Tectonic Controls on Crustal Construction at Lucky Strike a Slow-Spreading Segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel J Fornari($153,405), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Lucky Strike Segment, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Seafloor Construction, Analysis, Field, French, Geochemical, Lava, Magnetic, Mid-atlantic, Web.

Collaborative Research: Paired Neodymium Isotope and Radiocarbon Analyses in Deep-Sea Corals - Calibration of a Novel Ocean Ventilation Tracer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Laura Robinson($161,999), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Christina-Maria van de Flierdt($147,755), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Determining Past Ocean, Isotope And Radiocarbon, Ocean Ventilation Rates, Past Ocean Ventilation, Carbon Cycle, Deep Water, Deep-sea Corals, Nd Isotopic, Paired Neodymium, Water Masses, Atmosphere, Climate, Deep-sea, Fields, Fossil, Method, Modern, Paleoceanography, Potential, Time.

Acquisition of a Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer at Oregon State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Duncan($660,173), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Gas Mass Spectrometer, Noble Gas Mass, Pacific Northwest, Allow, Circulation, Dating, Development, Dynamics, Education, Enhance, Environment, Fields, Geochemistry, Laboratory, OSU, Programs, Purchase, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Challenger Deep and Trench-Related Processes; Reconnaissance Studies with WHOI's 11 km-Capability Hybrid-ROV
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy M Shank($25,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deepest Ocean Trench, Pacific Plate, Ecosystems, Fluid, Fluids, HROV, Mantle, Organisms, Reactions, Rock, Seafloor, Subduction, Worlds.

Collaborative Proposal: Challenger Deep and Trench-related Processes, Reconnaissance Studies with WHOI's 11km-Capability Hybrid-ROV
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Patricia Fryer($25,069), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deepest Ocean Trench, Pacific Plate, Ecosystems, Fluid, Fluids, HROV, Mantle, Organisms, Reactions, Rock, Seafloor, Subduction, Worlds.

Developing a High-Resolution Sea-Level Record to Measure the Magnitude and Timing of the Catastrophic 8.2 ka Freshwater Release - Implications for North Atlantic Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Torbjorn E Tornqvist($287,261), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: North Atlantic Ocean, Freshwater Release, Sea-level Rise, Amount, Estimate, Ka, Pis, Resolution, Sea-level, Timing.

Thermal-Mechanical Behavior of Oceanic Transform Faults
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($150,310), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oceanic Transform Faults, Brittle Weakening, Heat Transport, Hydrothermal Circulation, Behavior, Lithosphere, Models, Observations, Rheology, Shheating.

Collaborative Research: Testing models of magmatic and hydrothermal segmentation: A 3-D seismic tomography experiment at the Endeavour Ridge
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William S Wilcock($409,659), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($399,495), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Magmatic And Hydrothermal, Segmentation And Intensity, Crustal Magmatic, Endeavour Ridge, Hydrothermal Venting, Magma Supply, Ridge Crest, Axial, Axis, Beneath, Energy, Experiment, Image, Mantle, Processes, Seismic, Structure, Testing, Thermal.

SGER: High Resolution Lava Surface Dating and Mapping for a 2005-6 volcanic event in the 8-11 N EPR ISS
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenna H Rubin($37,516), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Cruise, ISS, Junejuly, NSF, RV.

Collaborative Research: Th-230 as a Sediment Focusing Indicator: Constraints from He-3 in Interplanetary Dust Particles
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Franco Marcantonio($136,381), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Franco Marcantonio($65,625), Tulane University, New Orleans
3. Jerry F McManus($211,214), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sediment Focusing, Sediment Redistribution, Ars, CFP, Cfps, Currents, Idps, Particles, Pis, Processes, Proxy, Th.

Collaborative Research: Holocene Shell Accumulation from the Southeast Brazilian Bight: Multi-Centennial Dynamics of Oceanographic, Environmental, and Ecological Changes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Darrell S Kaufman($50,219), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Michal J Kowalewski($219,290), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Christopher S Romanek($94,776), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Shelf-break And Coastal, Southeast Brazilian Bight, Coastal Upwelling, Shell Accumulation, South Atlantic, Frequency, Holocene, Processes, Western.

Collaborative Research: Alkenone-specific Hydrogen Isotopic Assessment of Surface Water Salinity During the Black Sea's Holocene Evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fredrick G Prahl($94,646), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Brian N Popp($80,485), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Black Sea, Hydrogen Isotopic, Isotopic Composition, Benefit, Biosynthesized, DH, Experiments, Hawaii, Oregon, Phytoplankton, Processes, Salinity, Species, Students, Surface, Undergraduate, Water.

Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Interglacial: Testing a New Approach to U-Series Coral Dating and Sea-Level Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($300,955), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dating And Sea, Sea Level Reconstruction, Coral Dating, Rapid Climate, Uth Dating, Ages, Approach, Corals, Fossil, Future, Interglacial, Mechanisms, Sampling, Sea-level, Suggest, U-series, Variable, Was.

Extending the High-Resolution Global Climate Record in Santa Barbara Basin: Evaluating Climate Change Potential
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher C Sorlien($132,326), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Piston Cores, Ka, Paleoceanographic, Resolution, Stratigraphic.

Collaborative Research: Pacific Ocean Gyre Exchange and Ventilation Processes: Proxy Development Using Deep-Sea Coral
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas P Guilderson($88,038), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Robert B Dunbar($275,425), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: North.

Continuous Holocene Climate Records from Equatorial Pacific Islands
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julian P Sachs($356,021), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Tropical Pacific Climate, Dh Ratios, El Nino, Equatorial Pacific, Hypersaline Lakes, Lipid Dh, Continuous, ENSO, Galapagos, Holocene, Hydrologic, Indicators, Isotopic, Kiribati, Laboratory, Palau, Produce, Students, Water.

Testing a Role of Vertical Mixing in Abrupt Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Olivier Marchal($337,455), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Density Contrast, Global Ocean, Vertical Mixing, Assumptions, Circulation, Climate, Comparing, Decreased, Depends, Diffusivity, Flux, MOC, Model, Models, Obtained, Paleoceanographic, Realistic, Set, Surface, Theory.

Investigating the Role of Ocean Circulation in Climate Change During the Last Ice Age Using 231Pa/230Th
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($501,902), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean, Circulation, MOC, Path, Water.

Exploration of Fossil DNA-Based Geobiologic Archives to Reconstruct Hydrologic Changes in the Black Sea during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy I Eglinton($528,951), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dna And Lipid, Black Sea, Lipid Biomarker, Sedimentary Archives, Water Column, Application, Assess, Biological, Holocene, Information, Marine, Microbial, Past, Stratigraphic, Structure, Surface.

Hydrocarbons in Hydrothermal Vent Fluids: Mineral Catalyzed Metastability of Reduced Carbon Compounds at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($373,913), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Mineral Surfaces, Ultramafic-hosted Hydrothermal, Analysis, Carbon, Catalysts, Chemistry, Dissolved, Experiments, Fluid, Fluids, Hydrocarbon, Organic, Reaction, Reactions, Reactor, Seafloor, Species, Students, Ultramafic-hosted, Undergraduate, Vent, Vents.

SGER: Measuring Black Smoker Flow Rates Using Image Correlation Velocimetry
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Russell E McDuff($33,895), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Black Smoker, Black Smokers, Algorithms, Development, Evidence, Flow, Look, Pis, Tidal, Video.

SGER: Deep Magmatic Plumbing of the Lower Crust and Uppermost Mantle at the East Pacific Rise at 9 50'N by 3D Multichannel Seismics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mladen Nedimovic($168,972), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: 3d Seismic, Mid-ocean Ridges, Rv Langseth, Seismic Survey, Cruise, EPR, Mid-ocean, Original, Technical.

Measurements of the Diurnal Warm Layer and Biologically-Induced Heating during the CIRENE Campaign
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brian Ward($351,677), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Air-sea Interaction, Atmospheric Convection, Indian Ocean, ASIP, Conditions, Has, Heat, Importance, Intraseasonal, Layer, MJO, Region, SST, Satellite, Temperature.

Experimental Studies of Trace Water in the Mantle
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul D Asimow($335,665), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Hydrous Peridotite, Mid-ocean Ridges, Applied, Below, Composition, Constraints, Determining, Mantle, Melting, Melts, Mid-ocean, Mineral, Pressure, Source, Temperature, Water, Zone.

Helium, Sr, Nd, and Pb Isotope Geochemistry of Intraplate Mafic Igneous Rocks in Eastern Pacific: Implications for the Origin of Linear Volcanic Chains
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paterno R Castillo($322,627), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: 3he4he Lavas Originate, Localized Intraplate Volcanoes, 3he4he Lavas, 3he4he Ratios, 3he4he Signature, Intraplate Lavas, Model Predicts, Perisphere Model, Plume Model, Analyses, Analytical, California, Hehe, Isotopic, Mantle, Models, Online.

Collaborative Research: Observation and Modeling of Inner Shelf Sediment Dynamics and Large-Scale Sorting: Cross-shelf or Alongshelf Transport?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. George Voulgaris($369,695), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Brad Murray($152,779), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Fine Sediment, Wave-generated Ripples, Bed, Bedforms, Coarse, Concentrations, Development, Domains, Energetic, Entrainment, Features, Field, Finer, Interactions, Investigate, Large-scale, Model, Observed, Origin, Preferentially, Processes, Produce, Seabed, Sorted, Tend, Transport, Turbulence, Wave-generated.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Further Quantitative Understanding of Clinoform Formation, Gulf of Papua
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Neal W Driscoll($114,008), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. John D Milliman($49,129), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Rudy L Slingerland($56,161), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Numerical Modeling, Analysis, Complete, Funding, Papua, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: The Influence of Magmatism on the Evolution of Continental Rifts
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($83,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Roger Buck($112,886), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Continent, Models, Paradox.

Collaborative Research: Organic Geochemical Investigation of the Rainbow Hydrothermal System, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Seewald($411,841), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Thomas M McCollom($146,714), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Hydrothermal Fluids, Organic Compounds, Rainbow Hydrothermal, Ultramafic Rocks, Woods Hole, Abiotic, Acids, Analyses, Chemical, Minerals, Oceanographic, Origin, Students, Submarine.

Collaborative Research: Submarine Fluid Recharge - The Role of Anhydrite and Reactive Transport Modeling of the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Margaret K Tivey($17,462), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Robert P Lowell($20,449), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Grant Garven($105,518), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Anhydrite Precipitation, Kinetic Effects, Mineral Precipitation, Numerical Computer, Reactive Transport, Recharge Zone, Circulation, Collaboration, Development, Evolution, Fluid, Geochemical, Heat, High-temperature, Hydrothermal, Involves, Microbial, Model, Modeling, Models, Porosity, Postdoc, Processes, Reactions, Rock, Simulate, Structure, Subsequent, Tasmania, Temperature, Varying.

MARGINS Post-doctoral fellowship - Jeremy Boyce: Exploring the Record of Magmatic Volatiles in a Volcanic Arc via H, C, F, S, and Cl in Apatite
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard L Hervig($207,970), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Apatite, Cl, Concentrations, Has, Ion, Measure, Mode, Particular, SIMS, Volatiles.

Integration of the Industry 2-D and 3-D Multichannel Seismic Data With Underway Geophysical Data to Investigate the Structure of the Northern Red Sea
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James R Cochran($214,896), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Northern Red Sea.

Examining Changes in Earthquake Triggering Behavior Across the Ocean-Continent Transition, Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($176,768), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Analysis, California, Earthquake, Gulf, Region.

Collaborative Research (UCR, OSU and ASU): Combined Fe-S Stable Isotopes in Modern Anoxic Environments and the Effect of Fe versus S Limitation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ariel D Anbar($38,422), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. James McManus($51,517), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Silke Severmann($213,334), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Fe Isotope, Isotope Compositions, Anoxic, Aqueous, Balance, Cycles, Does, Environments, Essential, Evolution, Influence, Information, Involved, Isotopic, Modern, Sediment, Speciation, Student, Sulfate, Time.

Unraveling the Sedimentary Phases of Barium using a Novel Continuous Leaching Technique
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gary P Klinkhammer($328,517), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Marine Sediments, Apply, Ba, Barite, Cycle, Pis, Technique.

N.E. Pacific 14C Reservoir Variability Using Synchronous Holocene Earthquake Datums
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Chris Goldfinger($491,655), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Radiocarbon, Reservoir.

NSF RIDGE 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Development of Raman spectroscopy for in situ quantification and speciation of hydrothermal Fe and Mn particulates and sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Chris German($129,500), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fe And Mn, Hydrothermal Fluid, Hydrothermal Vent, Laser Raman, Polymetallic Sulfides, Raman Spectroscopy, Situ Chemical, Chemosynthetic, Experiments, Global, Instrument, Laboratory, Oxyhydroxides, Public, Seafloor, Seawater, X-ray.

25 Million Years of Mantle Upwelling below the Mid Atlantic Ridge: The Vema Lithopsheric Section Revisited
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anna Cipriani($341,334), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Basaltic Glasses, Upper Mantle, Analyses, Basalts, Crust, Field, Geochemical, Geophysical, Isotopic, Lithosphere, Melting, Million, Peridotites, Processes, Pyroxenes, Seafloor, Trace, Units, York.

Where Have All the Earthquakes Gone?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. J. Casey Moore($208,463), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Careful Documentation, Kodiak Islands, Distribution, Has, Microscopy, Pseudotachylytes, Seismic, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: History of Pleistocene Circulation Modes in the North Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maureen E Raymo($225,470), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Jerry F McManus($432,476), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic, Circulation, Dc, Models.

Magmatic Water along the Central American Arc
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terry A Plank($157,299), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Costa Rican Volcanoes, Water Contents, Arc, Based, Clinopyroxenes, Development, HO, Involves, Pis, Set.

Geophysically Constrained Dynamic Models of Volcanotectonics: Integrating 3-D Seismic Tomography, Gravity, and Particle Dynamics Simulations of Hawaiian Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Colin A Zelt($279,282), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Hawaiian Volcanoes, Particle Dynamics, Available, Deformation, Density, Gravity, Inversion, Model, Models, Potential, Seismic, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Changes in Ocean Circulation, Productivity & Carbon Cycling during Heinrich Events
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julian P Sachs($96,301), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Julian P Sachs($47,474), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Robert F Anderson($291,346), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Equatorial Pacific Sediments, Deep Ocean, Deep Water, Dissolved Si, Opal Fluxes, Southern Ocean, Water Formation, Conditions, Deglaciation, Glacial, Heinrich, Occurred, Oceans, Predictions, Rates, Ratios, Relative, Stratification, Supply, Ventilation, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Continental Break-up, Ridge Segmentation and Subduction of the Woodlark Basin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew M Goodliffe($164,651), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Fernando Martinez($122,093), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Spreading Center, Basin, Pis, Segmentation, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: A SIMS and ICP-MS Calibration of Benthic Foraminiferal Elemental Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Curry($314,702), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Thomas M Marchitto($73,470), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Benthic Foraminifera, CU, Cores, Foraminiferal, Individuals, Mgca, SIMS.

Finite-Element Modeling of Depth-dependent Extension at Passive Rifted Margins: Examining the Cause and Timing of the Upper Plate Paradox
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Neal W Driscoll($156,782), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Depth-dependent Extension, Seafloor Spreading, Depth-dependent.

I-129 and halogen systematics in pore waters from gas hydrates and mud volcanoes: Nankai Trough and Costa Rica Margin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Udo Fehn($199,402), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Hydrates And Mud, Active Margins, Continental Margins, Gas Hydrates, Methane Trapped, Mud Volcanoes, Source Formations, Analyzed, Determined, Faculty, Fluids, Iodine, Japan, Japanese, Organic, Presence, Sediments, Sources.

Tectonism within the axial valley walls of an intermediate spreading center: south Cleft Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. C. David Chadwell($90,705), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cleft Segment, Marine Geodetic, Crust, Motion, Spreading.

Dynamics of Oceanic Triple Junctions, Hotspots, and Bathymetric Plateaus
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jennifer E Georgen($155,194), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Crustal Accretion, Igneous Provinces, Numerical Models, Triple Junctions, Melting, Plate.

SGER: A Novel Approach to Evaluate Hydrothermal Fluid Interaction with Injected Magma Dykes at Mid-Ocean Ridges Using Radium Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David C Kadko($110,986), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Thermal Ionization Mass, Hydrothermal Vent, Subseafloor Magmatic, Analytical, Fluid, Fluids, Miami, Ra, Time, Tracer, Try.

Sampling Basalts in the Quebrada-Discovery-Gofar Transform Fault System: Testing Models of Mantle Flow and Melt Transport
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Donald W Forsyth($613,739), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Spreading Centers, Beneath, Geochemical, Mantle, Melt, Mid-ocean.

Collaborative Research: 3D/4D Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Internal Structure of the Magmatic-Hydrothermal System at the East Pacific Rise RIDGE 2000 Integrated Study Site
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2003; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Juan Pablo Canales($462,652), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Map.

National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Melbourne G Briscoe($1,301,177), Office of Naval Research, Arlington
Key terms: Cost Sharing, BAA, Entitled, FY, Interagency, Led, NOPP, National, Ocean, Oceanographic, Ongoing, Partnership, Provided.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006-2008, R/Vs Atlantis, Knorr and Oceanus
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Barrie B Walden($5,566,649), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantis, Instrumentation, Knorr, Oceanographic, Oceanus, Services, Shared-use, Technical, UNOLS, Vessels, WHOI.

Knauss Sea Grant Fellows - M. Knuth, L. Zhang
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Ronald C Baird($90,000), NOAA, Silver Spring
Key terms: Fellowship Program, National Sea, Environmental, NSF, Office, Programs, Provided, Variety.

Ocean Studies Board Core Support
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($602,512), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Studies Board, Assists, Committee, Contribute, International, Issues, Maintaining, National, OSB, Policy.

Operation and Management of the LDEO Instrument Center of the National Ocean Seismometer Pool
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Maya Tolstoy($9,162,221), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Broadband Sensors, Availability, IIC, Instrument, Lamont-doherty, OBS, OBSIP, Observatory, Program, Testing.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Long-term Hydrologic Observatory Above the Seismogenic Zone Offshore the Kii Peninsula, Japan
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Demian M Saffer($512,458), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Elizabeth J Screaton($38,681), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Drilling Program, Plate Boundary, Pore Pressure, Seismogenic Zone, Critical, Faults, Formation, Long-term, Monitoring, Network, Observatory, Site, Strain.

Reconstructing Cenozoic Sea Ice History of the Central Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kathryn Moran($289,638), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: ACEX, Arctic, Climate, Construct, Cores, IRD, Imagery, Properties.

The Plutonic Foundation of a Slow-spreading Ridge Segment: The Kane Oceanic Core Complex (23 degrees 30'N, 45 degrees 20' W)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Henry J Dick($322,909), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Allow, Center, Complex, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Normal, Representing, Ridge, Rock, Segment, Southern, Volcanic.

InterRIDGE, Oceanography Vol. 20, No. 1
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($32,500), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Articles, Expertise, Fluid, Life.

Archiving and Advancing Core Curation and Database Management of ODP Legs 150X and 174AX cores: The Rutgers U.S. Atlantic Margin Core Repository
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Dennis V Kent($49,994), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 150x And 174ax, Ocean Drilling Program, Coastal Plain, Continental Drilling, Legs 150x, Nj Slope, Activities, Core, Cores, Curation, Curator, Delaware, Drilled, IODP, Jersey, Links, Management, ODP, Obtained, Onshore, Outreach, Provided, Repositories, Repository, Rutgers, Shelf.

Shallow Seismic Structure of the Ocean Crust and its Correlation with Seafloor Lithologies on the Kane Megamullion, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 23 degrees 20'-23 degrees 40' N
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Juan Pablo Canales($280,135), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Kane Megamullion, Crust, Drilling, Feature, Features, GIS, IODP, Oceanic, Potential, Structure, Student.

Collaborative Research: Geophysical, Geochemical and Geochronological Site Survey of the Ninetyeast Ridge - Testing Hotspot Hypotheses
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. William W Sager($415,485), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Ninetyeast Ridge, Site Survey, Bathymetry, Collect, Drilling, Hotspot, Involves, Magnetic, Pis, Seismic, Sites.

MARGINS Office Support
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Geoffrey A Abers($827,067), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Margins Program, Program Office.

Monitoring Sseismicity Associated With a Possible Asperity on the Cascadia Megathrust
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Anne M Tréhu($308,906), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Deformation, Deployments, Earthquakes, Experiments, Region, Ridge, Seismicity, Subduction, Usarray.

SGER - Hydrologic Monitoring of Leaking Coseismically Active Thrusts: A Pilot Study in the Nankai Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kevin M Brown($52,089), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Seismogenic Zone, Active, Direct, Earthquakes, Flow, Fluid, Has, Instrumentation, Instruments, Japanese, Long-term, Monitoring, OOST, Pis, Seeps, VLF.

Collaborative Research: Seismic measurements of magma flux, arc composition, and lower-plateserpentinization in the Central American subduction factory
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Daniel Lizarralde($314,542), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Costa Rican, Magma Flux, Active-source, Arc, Central, Composition, Crust, Degree, Detailed, Does, Downgoing, Extensive, Hydration, Program, Seismic, Ship.

Collaborative Proposal: Spatial and temporal scales of crustal accretion in slow spreading crust - IODP Site U1309
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey S Gee($70,514), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Barbara E John($135,415), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Hole U1309d, Atlantis, Constrain, Gabbro, Magnetic, Normal, Rock, Rotation, Temperature, UD, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: CoreWall - Integrated Environment for Interpretation of Geoscientific Data from Sediment and Crystalline Cores
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Luc Renambot($356,663), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
2. Sean M Higgins($104,827), Columbia University, New York
3. Christopher J Jenkins($40,909), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Emi Ito($330,542), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Core Description, Activities, Corewall, Field, Variety.

Collaborative Research: History and Timescale of Paleoceanographic Change in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Theodore C Moore($251,559), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Deborah J Thomas($51,180), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Arctic, Global, Interactions, Waters.

Links Between the Geomagnetic Field, Climate Change, and Orbital Cycles as Recorded in Quaternary Sediments From the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Gary Acton($200,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field, Climate, Core, Earth, Excursions, IODP, Intervals, Link, Magnetic, Orbital.

Installation of a Thermistor Array at ODP Site 642 to Document and Monitor Bottom Water Temperature Variations Through Time
Award Effective Date: 02/21/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert N Harris($164,336), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Bottom Water Temperature, Borehole, Has, IODP, Long-term.

IODP Microbiology Through Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Stephan C Schuster($254,883), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, DNA, Mb, Microbial, Produce, Sequencing, Site.

Establishing the Onset and History of Perennial Sea Ice in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Dennis A Darby($305,993), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Core Sections, Lomonosov Ridge, Sea Ice, Seasonal Ice, ACEX, Arctic, Climate, Cores, Critical, History, IODP, Ma, Ocean, Paleoclimate, Perennial, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: A three-dimensional, subseafloor, IODP observatory network in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, and initiation of large-scale, cross-hole experiments
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Hans W Jannasch($230,462), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Keir Becker($138,288), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. James P Cowen($66,201), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
4. Andrew T Fisher($536,199), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
5. Charles G Wheat($72,231), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Observatory Instrumentation, Component, Construction, Contributing, Design, Expedition, Flank, Phase.

The North West Shelf, Australia: The Next Step in a Global Approach to Understanding the Role of Eustasy in the Generation and Preservation of Stratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. James A Austin, Jr.($464,278), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Drilling, IODP, Industry, Margin, Processes, Set.

SST Smarter Sensing: Integrating payloads, Navigation, and Vehicles for Underwater Exploration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: OCEAN OBSERVATORY SCI & TECH

1. Richard Camilli($763,134), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Integrated Mass Spectrometer, Vehicle Navigation, AUV, Autonomous, Capabilities, Chemical, Data-driven, Development, Environmental, Increase, Integration, Ocean, Seeps, Sensing.

Tmicro-APEX, an Addition to APEX Floats to Measure Temperature Microstructure
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jack B Miller($689,864), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mixing Rates, Temperature Microstructure, Additional, Allow, Floats, Global, Observations, Ocean, Package, Pis, Processing, Ships.

A Moored Geodetic Seafloor Monitoring System (GEOCE)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Michael D Tryon($1,314,255), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bottom Pressure, Geodetic Seafloor, Seafloor Motion, Surface Buoy, Vertical Motion, Water Column, Calibration, Consists, Drift, GEOCE, GPS, Horizontal, Margins, Mooring, Oceanographic, Risk, Sub-centimeter, Via.

ROV-based System for Sampling Planktonic Thin Layers
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Timothy J Cowles($730,681), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Density Interval, Thin Layers, CTD, Control, Pis, Planktonic, Position, Pump, ROV, Relative, Sampling, Surface, Vehicle, Water.

GEOSS Science: Concepts to Impacts I Workshop to be held in Australia in January, 2007.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Albin J Gasiewski($10,000), Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway
Key terms: Assimilation, Complex, Coupled, Devices, Environmental, GEOSS, Means, Models, Optimally, Processes, Themes, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Development of the Automated Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyzer (AMICA) for Seawater DIC Analyses
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Nicholas R Bates($285,074), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Jonathan H Sharp($155,697), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Instrument Design, Quality Dic, Analyzer, Analyzing, Broad, Capability, International, Ocean, Range.

Advancing the Ocean Observatory Spar Buoy Design
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jonathan Berger($294,664), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Orion Program, Spar Buoy, Applications, Buoys, Deployment, Deployments, Design, Designs, Discus, Experience, Harsh, Installation, Methods, Ocean, Particular, Servicing, Site, Spars.

FLIP in ORION: Feasibility and Cost Study
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Mark A Zumberge($86,603), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Component, Spar Buoy, Capability, Development, Efforts, FLIP, Feasibility, Initial, ORION, Platform, Program.

An autonomous bottom-transecting instrument for making long time-series measurements of phytopigment fluorescence and acoustically detectable sediment structure to abyssal depths
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kenneth L Smith($43,500), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Fresh Phytodetritus, Rover Ii, Sea Floor, Structural Features, Biogeochemical, Capable, Imaging, Instrument, Oxygen, Sediment, Sediments, Time-series.

A micro-plankton detector for deployment in the marine environment
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Gerrit J van den Engh($948,185), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Detector, Flow, Instrument, Particles, Position.

Development of 'Eye-in-the-Sea' (EITS), an Unobtrusive Camera System using Far-Red Illumination for Remote in-Situ Observation
Award Effective Date: 09/23/2005; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Edith A Widder($671,828), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Activity, Camera, EITS, Eye-in-the-sea, Has, Node, Outreach, Promise, Public, Real-time, Seeks.

UH Oceanographic Instrumentation 2006
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Brian Taylor($95,266), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaii, Instrumentation, Vessel.

Impact of Irminger Rings on Deep Convection in the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Amy S Bower($1,568,657), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Irminger Rings, Labrador Sea, North Atlantic, Balance, Climate, Contribute, Cooled, Current, Eddies, Eddy, Floats, Heat, Interior, Mooring, Northern, Observations, Ocean, Region, Satellite, Situ, Warm, Water, Waters.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2006
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Russell E McDuff($54,813), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Barrie B Walden($134,733), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. J. Marcus Willis($30,343), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Allow, Network, Shipboard, Time.

Development of a Seafloor Piston Pressure Gauge for Vertical Marine Geodesy
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Glenn S Sasagawa($268,752), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Commercially Available, Gauge Drift, Piston Gauge, Pressure Gauge, Pressure Reference, Seafloor Pressure, Absolute, Accurately, Allow, Based, Bottom, Depths, Instrument, Long-term, Mass, Measure, Ocean, Sensors.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Endeavor: 2006
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Mary Lynn Dickson($41,757), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Endeavor, Ship.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Steven Rabalais($96,400), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Attitude Sensor, Rv Pelican, Access, Communications, Current, LUMCON, Satellite, UNOLS, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Blue Heron 2006
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($16,000), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Lakes.

Instrumentation 2005
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard J Findley($187,050), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Rv Seward Johnson, Acquisition, Communications, Miami, Oceanographic, Operated.

SGER: Repair and Upgrade of High Resolution ICP-MS Facility at the University of Southern Mississippi
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Alan M Shiller($34,046), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Hurricane Katrina, Natural Waters, Analysis, Damage, Existing, Facility, Power, Provided, Repair.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Wind-Driven Transport in Shelf-Productivity: Zooplankton Population Maintenance, Grazing, and Reproductive Response
Award Effective Date: 11/11/2005; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Stephen M Bollens($377,207), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Surveys And Drifters, Bodega Bay, Eastern Boundary, Mooring Array, Offshore Transport, Ship Surveys, Trophic Levels, Wind Forcing, Wind-driven Transport, Aspects, Biological, Circulation, Component, Emphasis, Examine, Fieldwork, Fluxes, Integrated, Involving, Nutrients, Paradox, Plankton, Primary, Processes, Productivity, Shelf, Shelves, Specifically, Water, Wind-driven, Zooplankton.

Working Group on the Effects of Sound on Fish and Turtles
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Arthur N Popper($40,000), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Fishes And Turtles, Marine Environment, Anthropogenic, Assess, Available, Information, Potential, Provided, Regulatory, Sound, Topic, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Long Core Sea Trials
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Gregory S Mountain($19,156), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. William B Curry($363,265), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Nicklas G Pisias($48,856), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carried, Core, Coring, Detailed, Has, Length, Margin, Piston, Sediment, Water, Weight.

Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Maureen Conte($978,318), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Climatic Forcing, Deep Fluxes, Deep Ocean, Atlantic, Bermuda, Biogeochemical, Biological, Climate, Continue, Evidence, Experiences, Fluctuations, Focus, Future, Has, Interactions, Interannual, Long-term, OFP, Opportunities, Provided, Scenarios, Time-series, Unique.

Calibration of the R/V Langseth Seismic Sources
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($1,002,009), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Rv Langseth, Source Characterization, Environmental, Hydrophones, Seismic, Sound, Sources, Various, Water.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/V Point Sur
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($315,000), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Qualified Users, MLML, Maintain, Programs, RV, Services, Sur, Technical.

SGER: Acoustical Fingerprinting of Shallow-water, Low-Power, Mid-Frequency Seismic Reflection Systems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Allen M Gontz($68,972), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: National Marine, Sound Sources, Stellwagen Bank, Noise, SBNMS, Sounds, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/V Pelican
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Steven Rabalais($75,013), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Rv Pelican.

Mitigation of Impacts of Ocean Sciences Research on Marine Mammals, 2006 - 2008
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Albert Walsh($2,600,910), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Environmental, Prepare.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Richard D Ricketts($61,445), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Lakes, Minnesota.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006-2008, R/V Endeavor
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Mary Lynn Dickson($765,286), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Rv Endeavor, Enables, Maintain, Oceanographic, Qualified, Services, Shared-use, Technical, URI, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/V Wecoma
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. J. Marcus Willis($2,136,325), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rv Wecoma, Specialized Services, Communications, Coring, Efficient, Enables, Facility, Fleet, Instrument, Instrumentation, Maintain, NORCOR, Nsf-funded, OSU, Oceanographic, Operated, Programs, Qualified, Scheduled, Shared-use, Technical, UNOLS, Vessel, Via.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006-2008, R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Bruce H Corliss($304,200), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, DUNCOC, Oceanographic.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/Vs Seward Johnson and Walton Smith
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Richard J Findley($989,867), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Owns And Operates, Rv Seward Johnson, Rv Walton Smith, Operates Rv, Oceanographic, RSMAS, SJ, Vessel, WS.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006-2008, RV Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Nicholas R Bates($866,750), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Rv Atlantic Explorer, BBSR.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/V Hugh R. Sharp
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Timothy W Deering($388,725), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Qualified Users, Rv Sharp, Delaware, Maintain, Programs, Services, Technical.

Collaborative Research: Near-surface Controls of Air-Sea CO2 Exchange: A Contribution to the UK-SOLAS "Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment"
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Ward($179,519), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Michael DeGrandpre($216,912), University of Montana, Missoula
3. William M Drennan($542,789), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Air-sea Interaction, Carbon Dioxide, Gas Exchange, Gas Transfer, International Solas, Solas Program, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, DOGEE, Deployed, Experiment, Flux, Fluxes, Future, Global, Increase, Interface, Ocean, Processes, Surface, Surfactant, UK, Uncertainty, Wind.

Flow Structures Under Natural Surface Waves
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jerome Smith($621,629), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Breaking, Flow, Interactions, Waves.

Variability of the Equatorial Undercurrent in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William E Johns($1,700,205), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Sea Surface Temperature, Eastern Atlantic, Equatorial Undercurrent, Tropical Atlantic, Basin, Climate, Current, Eastward, Has, Main, Mean, Near, Observations, Ocean, Oceans, Pacific, Region, Seasonal-to-interannual, Strong, Time, Upwelling, Zones.

Annual Absolute Velocity Structure Along AR7W in the Labrador Sea Since 1995
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel J Torres($448,028), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Absolute Velocity, Boundary Current, Labrador Sea, ADCP, ARW, Collected, Convection, Cruises, Fields, Heat, Hydrographic, LADCP, Lowered, Public, Region, Shipboard, Strength, Transect.

Collaborative Research: Understanding tidal Resonances in the Present-Day and Ice-Age Oceans
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Arbic($210,475), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Samar Khatiwala($200,432), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Basin Geometry, Forward Model, Ice-age Tides, Iceberg Discharges, Oceanic Circulation, Sea Level, Tidal Mixing, Dissipation, Forcing, Global, Has, Normal, Pis, Principal, Spatial.

Internal Tide and Waves on the Oregon Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Murray D Levine($401,069), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Cross-shelf Transport, Graduate Students, Internal Tide, Internal Wave, Nonlinear Internal, Numerical Model, Vertical Structure, Analysis, Biota, Circulation, Class, Coast, Coastal, Continent, Cross-shelf, Dissipation, Energy, Frequencies, Larvae, Mixing, Models, Momentum, Objectives, Observations, Ocean, Oregon, Packets, Potential, Processes, Propagates, Propagation, Sediment, Source, Summer.

Collaborative Research: Towards an Understanding of the Role of the Atlantic Theremohaline and Wind Driven Circuluation in Tropical Atlantic Variability (TAV)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rong Zhang($33,694), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Ramalingam Saravanan($396,598), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Coupled Climate Model, Atlantic Ocean, Circulation Model, Coupled Model, Global Climate, Model Coupled, Model Experiments, Ocean Circulation, Tropical Atlantic, Affect, Atmospheric, Comprehensive, Conjunction, Effect, Gain, Graduate, MOC, Modeling, Stcs.

Regional Studies of Internal Tides from Altimetry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gary D Egbert($378,607), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Internal Tide, Internal Tides, Low-mode Internal, Surface Tide, Altimetry, Analysis, Dissipation, Energy, Generation, Low-mode, Maps, Mesoscale, Mixing, Ocean, Processes, Sites.

Thermohaline Interleaving in Baroclinic Frontal Zones
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William D Smyth($597,528), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Linear And Nonlinear, Thermohaline Interleaving, Basin, Extend, Mixing, Models, Modes, Numerical, Ocean, Parameterizations, Range, Theoretical.

Vorticity Generation and Eddy Evolution in Island Wakes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James C McWilliams($286,910), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Biological, Eddies, Examine, Generate, Generated, Islands, Models, Ocean, Processes.

Wave-Driven Flows over Coral Reefs and their Effects on Lagoon-Ocean Exchange
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen G Monismith($673,716), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Circulation Model, Coral Reefs, Array, Code, Complex, Conditions, Cross-reef, Deployed, Dynamics, Exchange, Experiments, Field, Flows, Has, Hydrodynamics, Interdisciplinary, Involve, Lagoon, Marine, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observation, Observational, Oceanography, Outflow, Parallel, Pass, Similar, Source, Standpoint, Stanford, Stress, Students, Theory, Water, Wave, Wave-driven, Waves.

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Submesoscale Processes on Property Fluxes and Distributions in the Upper Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amit Tandon($177,110), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Intense Vertical, Upper Ocean, Atmosphere, Gases, Nutrients, Processes, Properties, Regions, Submesoscale, Supply, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team Renewal
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Hartmut Peters($337,238), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. William G Large($134,501), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. James F Price($104,640), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Arnold L Gordon($79,914), Columbia University, New York
5. Tal Ezer($87,536), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Gravity Current Entrainment, Circulation Models, Climate Modeling, Modeling Centers, Enhance, Ocean, Parameterizations, Process.

Collaborative Research: Interaction of Eddies with Mixed Layers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Leif N Thomas($60,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. William G Large($134,501), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. James C McWilliams($200,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
4. Amit Tandon($33,724), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
5. Raffaele Ferrari($337,559), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
6. Kevin Speer($59,811), Florida State University, Tallahassee
7. Geoffrey K Vallis($59,604), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Upper Ocean Physics, Climate Models, Eddy Transport, Numerical Models, Parameterization Scheme, Activities, Completing, Coupled, Field, Has, Implications, Layer, Parameterizations, Processes, Restratification, Sensitivity, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Studies of the Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current on the Atlantic Meridional Circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Timour Radko($271,835), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. Igor V Kamenkovich($190,644), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Meridional Overturning Circulation, Naval Postgraduate School, Circumpolar Current, Atlantic, Climate.

Efficient Solvers for and Simulation of Stratified Flows in High Aspect Ratio Oceanic Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tamay M Ozgokmen($405,964), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Numerical Models, Algorithm, Flow, Ocean, Processes, Simulations, Small-scale.

Modelling Wave-Driven Setup
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Britt Raubenheimer($220,164), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Laboratory Observations, Near-shore Circulation, Nonlinear Expressions, Wave Energy, Wave-driven Setup, Coastal, Examined, Linear, Model, Models, Nonlinearities, Nshore, Observed, Processes, Radiation, Sediment, Shoreline, Shown, Stress, Wave-driven.

Lagrangian Study of the Iceland-Faroe Front. Part II: Analysis and Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark D Prater($155,613), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Warm North Atlantic, Iceland-faroe Ridge, Norwegian Sea, Rafos Float, Warm Water, Analysis, Circulation, Continue, Dbar, Deployed, Downstream, Floats, IFF, IMR, Iceland-faroe, Intermediate, Mixing, Northern, Norway, Pathways, Shallow, Structure, Transport, URI, Waters.

The Surface Layer Contribution to the Indonesian Throughflow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Janet Sprintall($182,340), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Circulation, Climate, Component, Contribute, Ekman, Flow, Fluxes, Has, Implications, Indian, Indonesia, Indonesian, Influence, Pacific, Regions, Throughflow, Transport, Wind-driven.

Workshop Support of CLIVAR Ocean Mixing CPTs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ronald G Martin($60,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Annual, CPT, Coordinate, Workshops.

Branches, Bifurcations and Retroflections over the Tail of the Grand Banks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paula S Fratantoni($499,920), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Western Boundary, Western Boundary Current, Grand Banks, Gulf Stream, Labrador Current, North Atlantic, Bottleneck, Branches, Circulation, Critical, Currents, Description, Existing, Observations, Regional, Tail, Transport, Trough, Unknown.

SGER: A Winched Profiler for Upper Ocean Measurements in Multiple Oceanic Environments
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fiammetta Straneo($119,493), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Upper Ocean, Has, Profiler, Region, Sea-ice, Strait, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Does Topography Control Mesocale Dissipation?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William K Dewar($81,952), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Georgi Sutyrin($295,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Jeroen Molemaker($222,982), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Mechanical Energy Budget, Topographically Induced, Boundary, Dissipation, Eddy, Mesoscale, Model, Ocean, Parameterizations, Unbalanced.

Conserving quantities related to potential vorticity in numerical models.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Richard L Salmon($526,006), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmosphere And Ocean, Conserve Potential Enstrophy, Numerical Models, Potential Vorticity, Energy, Fluid, Limit.

Interpretation of Motionally Induced Electric Fields in Oceans of Complex Geometry
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas B Sanford($188,789), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Induced Electric Fields, Motionally Induced Electric, Cape Hatteras, Complex Environments, Em Observations, Geologic Structure, Time-varying Flow, Accurate, Allow, Analysis, Analytic, Anisotropies, Bottom, Conductance, Considered, Depends, Determined, Direction, Effects, Electrical, Error, Existing, Extend, Features, Gradients, Has, Information, Instruments, Interpret, Magnetic, Magnitude, Observational, Ocean, Oceanic, Oceanographic, Prediction, Processes, Seafloor, Simple, Solved, Time-varying, Topographic, Topography, Velocity, Vertical.

Destruction of Potential Vorticity By Winds at Separated Western Boundary Currents
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Leif N Thomas($284,150), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eddy Pv Fluxes, Separated Western Boundary, Surface Pv Fluxes, Western Boundary Currents, Frictional Pv, Numerical Experiments, Potential Vorticity, Circulation, Configuration, Gyres, Model, Preliminary, Processes, SWBC, Srgs, Suggest, Water, Winds.

Internal Wave Induced Sub-inertial Currents (IWISC)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas S Luther($288,876), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Internal Wave, Primitive Equation, Semi-diurnal Internal, Sub-inertial Motions, Wave Field, Abyssal, Analysis, Dynamics, Energy, Evidence, Explore, Flow, Frequency, Generation, IWISC, Interaction, Model, Numerical, Ocean, Oceans, Process, Semi-diurnal, Simulations, Sub-inertial.

Collaborative Research: The Influence of the Mediterranean Outflow Water on the Climatic Variability of the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric P Chassignet($661,898), Florida State University, Tallahassee
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.

SGER: Transient Shelf Response to the Hurricane Wilma's Impact
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander E Yankovsky($79,644), Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale
2. Alexander E Yankovsky($53,705), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Coastally Trapped Wave, Atmospheric Pressure, Barometric Pressure, Ctw Pulse, Model Runs, Sea Level, Storm Surge, Wind Forcing, Allowing, Alongshore, Amplitude, Applying, Coastline, Decay, Dispersion, Downstream, Evolution, Experiments, Florida, Friction, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Katrina, Landfall, Mississippi, Nonlinearity, Observations, Observed, Propagation, Realistic, Shelf, Speed, Structure, Time, Upstream.

Wave Energy Dissipation and the Distribution of Breaking Crests
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew T Jessup($501,544), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Breaking Crest Lengths, Energy Dissipation Rate, Ships And Marine, Small-scale And Microscale, Breaking Waves, Marine Structures, Simultaneously Measure, Turnover Rate, Wave Breaking, Capabilities, Distribution, Experiments, Formulation, Infrared, Participation, Phillips, Processes, Quantify, Safety, Students, Surface, Techniques, Undergraduates, Washington.

Lagrangian Mapping and Modeling of Thermohaline Intrusions in the Subtropical Front
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David P Winkel($1,659,667), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Lateral Fluxes, Length Scales, Subtropical Front, Commandable, Float, High-resolution, Intrusion, Intrusions, Lagrangian, Modeling, Models, Slopes, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Eddy-Dynamics and Impacts of Low-Frequency Variations in the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($450,392), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Niklas Schneider($382,619), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: California Current Coastal, Atmospheric Forcing, Coastal Upwelling, Eastern Boundary, Low Frequency, Mixing Pathways, Ocean Intrinsic, Synoptic Ocean, Tangent Linear, Activity, Analysis, Budget, CCS, Conditions, Diagnose, Distribution, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eddies, Eddy, GLOBEC, Georgia, Ii, Iii, Isolate, Iv, LTER, Models, Nested, North, Oceanic, Oceanography, Outreach, Pacific, Processes, Region, Regional, Remote, Resolution, Salinity, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Spreading, Entrainment, and Water Mass Modification in Near-Field River Plumes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert D Hetland($175,908), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Daniel G MacDonald($345,186), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Near-field River Plume, River Plume Dynamics, Supercritical Outflow Region, Water Mass Modification, Estuarine Outflow, Estuary Mouth, Far-field Plume, Near-field Plume, Near-field River, Outflow Properties, Overall Objective, Shelf Circulation, Supercritical Flow, Characteristics, Coastal, Context, Control, Dependence, Far-field, Local, Mixing, Nfield, Numerical, Processes, Salinity, Shear, Structure, Techniques, Turbulence.

Equatorial Macro Turbulence: Extending Mid-Latitude Macro Turbulence Studies to the Equatorial Region
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jurgen Theiss($195,037), Theiss Jurgen, La Jolla
Key terms: Coriolis Parameter, Equatorial Ocean, Geostrophic Turbulence, Pilot Program, Towards Larger, Cascade, Considered, Energy, Has, Hence, Jets, Large-scale, Length, Mid-latitudes, Observations, Relatively, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Mixing, Flow and Hydrography in the Rift Valley of the Lucky Strike Segment (37:20N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andreas Thurnherr($149,515), Columbia University, New York
2. Louis C St Laurent($169,999), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Lucky Strike Segment, Strong Tidal Velocities, Deep Basins, Low-frequency Flows, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Relative Contributions, Rift Valley, Rough Topography, Account, Along-valley, Available, Diapycnal, Effects, Field, Low-frequency, Microstructure, Mid-atlantic, Mixing, Near, Processes, Sills, Survey, Valleys, Velocity, Water.

Small-Scale Processes in the COASTal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James N Moum($426,511), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Bottom Boundary, Broad Range, Coastal Jet, Coastal Ocean, Small-scale Dynamics, Analysis, Circulation, Extensive, Flow, Flows, Internal, Mixing, Models, Oregon, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Physics, Set, Small-scale, Turbulence, Waves.

Iceland-Scotland Ridge Exchange Flow Seaglider Surveys
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter B Rhines($2,052,197), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Meridional Overturning Circulation, Seasonal And Interannual, Biological Productivity, Climate Models, Faroe-shetland Channel, Global Climate, Iceland-faroe Ridge, Iceland-scotland Ridge, Water Masses, Atlantic, Branches, Collect, Deep, Ecosystems, Faroe-shetland, Full-depth, Horizontal, Hydrography, Iceland-faroe, Iceland-scotland, Inflow, Observations, Ocean, Overflow, Profiles, Region, Resolution, Salinity, Seagliders, Sections, Sensitive, Shallow, Sites, Spatial, Strong, Temperature, Track, Transport, Transports, Vehicles, Velocity.

Net energy dissipation in the tropical ocean and ENSO dynamics: modeling and theoretical study.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexey Fedorov($383,506), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Energy Dissipation Rates, Net Energy Dissipation, Circulation Models, Coupled Gcms, Coupled Models, Diagnostic Tool, El Nino, Energy Balance, Modeling Capacities, Tropical Ocean, APE, Affect, Approach, Characteristics, Climate, Contribute, Control, Development, Dynamics, ENSO, Educational, Energetics, Explore, Investigate, Large-scale, Mechanisms, Motion, Nonlinear, Oceanic, Prediction, Properties, Simulation, Standard, Students, Theoretical, Undergraduate, Yale.

Intermediate-depth Eddies East of Mindanao: Causes and Consequences
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Firing($208,575), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Numerical Process Studies, Analysis, Center, Circulation, Consequences, Detailed, Eddies, Energy, Existing, Larger-scale, Models, Observations, Output, Processes, Regions, Specific.

Circulation and Exchange Across the Inner Shelf - The Importance of Surface Gravity Waves and Cross-shelf Wind Stress
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven J Lentz($1,315,886), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Primitive-equation Numerical Model, Cross-shelf Circulation, Inner Shelf, Primitive-equation Numerical, Studies Focusing, Turbulence Closure, Wave-driven Circulation, Coastal, Cross-shelf, Exchange, Existing, Forcing, MVCO, Mechanisms, Models, Movement, Nearshore, Observations, Processes, Profiles, Stratification, Stress, Surface, Surfzone, Wave-driven, Wind.

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

1. Sang-Ki Lee($498,479), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Air-sea Exchange, Air-sea Fluxes, Climate Models, Gulf Stream, Inadequately Represented, Mode Water, Mode Waters, Subtropical Mode, Water Mass, Air-sea, CLIMODE, Current, Directly, Dispersal, Dissipation, Eddies, Estimated, Estimates, Formation, Gyre, Ii, Interaction, Mixed, Observations, Ocean, Parameterizations, Poorly, Process, Processes, Program, Rate, Responsible, Students, Wintertime.

Collaborative Research: Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2003; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sonya A Legg($575,638), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Gravity Current Entrainment, Circulation Models, Climate Models, Gravity Currents, Process Studies, Enhance, Examined, Modeling, Ocean, Overflow, Parameterizations, Processes, Promote.

UNOLS and RV Inspection Support
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Douglas A White($375,247), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Nsf Ship Inspection, Ship Inspection Program, Ship Condition, Web Server, Database, SCF, UNOLS.

R/V Marcus G. Langseth- Shakedown and Science Testing
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. John B Diebold($951,156), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Multi-beam Seafloor Mapping, Multi-beam Seafloor, Seismic Survey, Capabilities, Conducting, Instrumentation, Langseth, MCS, Mission, Multiple, Navigation, Operation, Performance, Quality, RV, Testing, Vessel.

NSF Ship Inspection
Award Effective Date: 03/28/2006; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Jack Ringelberg($250,000), JMS NAVAL ARCHITECTS, LLC, Mystic
Key terms: Engineering, JMS, NSF, Operations, Services, Ship, UNOLS.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Steven Rabalais($333,376), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Thomas S Althouse($591,741), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Nancy N Rabalais($46,804), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment, 2006
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Albert Walsh($103,796), Columbia University, New York
2. Albert F Suchy($59,780), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Todd Chlaupek($14,100), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
4. Pete E Zerr($110,500), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment - 2006 Add On
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Albert F Suchy($210,800), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Equipment, Program, Purchase, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers, Winch.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Oceanographic Cable
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard P Trask($3,621,371), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Unols Wire Pool, Cable, Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Sites, Transceivers.

Ship's Scientific Support Equipment: R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Bruce H Corliss($8,246), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Equipment, Program, Retrieval, Satellite, Shipboard, Sites, Transceivers.

Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: STCs - 2006 CLASS

1. David L Martin($37,030,440), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Climate And Water, Descriptions And Analyses, Economic And Social, Global Elemental Cycles, Observation And Prediction, Coastal Margin, Coastal Margins, Enabling Technologies, Human Activities, Knowledge Transfer, Pnw Coastal, Social Importance, Annually, Approaches, Biological, Center, Challenges, Chemical, Complexity, Creating, Critical, Developing, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Education, Educational, Enable, Enormous, Environmental, Environments, Highly, Industry, Information, Infrastructure, Integrated, Integration, Intellectual, Leadership, Long-term, Management, Microbial, Modeling, Observations, Ocean-sciences, Opportunities, Particular, Play, Productive, Regional, Resources, STC, Students, Technological, Transformative.

Establishing the Scientific Capability of the Sentry Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for the National Deep Submergence Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT

1. Chris German($674,972), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence, AUV, Funding, Ocean, Seafloor, Sentry, Surveys, Tool, Upgrade, Vehicle, Yoerger.

An Online Registry for Unique Sample Identification in the Earth Sciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Sritharan Vinayagamoorthy($652,207), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Allows, Geological, Geoscience, IGSN, Integrate, Link, Registry, Sample-based, Sets, Unique.

Support for International Research Projects and Working Groups Through SCOR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Edward R Urban($1,508,000), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Activities, Coordination, Ecosystem, Global, International, Issues, National, Ocean, Oversight, Provided, SCOR, Sscs.

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Jonathan M Prince($2,116,531), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Unols Office, Director, Funding, Jonathon, Scheduling.

REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography (SURFO)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Robert A Pockalny($260,544), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Graduate School, GSO, Independent, Program, REU, Site, Students, Succeed.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Marine Biology at the Shoals Marine Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: nan

1. William E Bemis($243,421), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Ecology, Interactions, Program, REU, SML, Students, Topics.

Ship Operations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Daniel C Guidry($1,582,602), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Cooperative Agreement, Days, Gulf, Marine, Mexico, NSF, Pelican, Platform, Programs, Supported.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2006

ADVANCE Fellows Award: Egg Size Evolution of Free-Spawning Marine Invertebrates in Neogene Tropical America Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

The Influence of Environmental Change on Parasite Diffusion through Human, Invertebrate and Environmental Pathways Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Collaborative Research: Field and Modeling Studies in Support of Understanding Disease Resistance in Estuarine Populations and Response to Climate Change Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Collaborative Research: Net Carbon Transport and Reaction in the bottom Boundary Layer of an Upwelling Margin Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Reserach: Mechanisms Controlling Upper Ocean Carbon Fluxes in the North Pacific Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Carbon Flux Through the Twilight Zone - New Tools to Measure Change Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Autonomous Measurements of Carbon Fluxes in the North Atlantic Bloom Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Collaborative Research: Autonomous pH and Alkalinity Sensors: in situ Testing and Carbon Cycle Research Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

The balance of selection on the growth trajectories of fishes Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A Comparison of the Mating System and Evolutionary Potential of Lemon Sharks, Negaprion Brevirostris (Poey), at Two Nursery Sites in the Western Atlantic Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Biocomplexity and Environmental Change in a Vegetated Estuarine Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Thermal biology of hydrothermal vent paralvinellid worms Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Linkages Between Larvae and Recruitment of Coral Reef Fishes Along the Florida Keys Shelf: an Integrated Field and Modeling Analysis of Population Connectivity in a Complex System Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Patterns and mechanisms relating seagrass genotypic diversity and ecosystem response to biotic and abiotic stress Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: U.S. GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Links between climate and planktonic food webs Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Regulation of Dinoflagellate Bloom Dynamics by Vitamins and Micronutrients Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantifying the role of Group I Crenarchaeota in the marine nitrogen cycle using cultures and environmental monitoring of ammonia oxidation, 16S rRNA genes and lipid biomarkers Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Prediction of Medusan Predatory Roles Based on Quantitative Studies of Animal-Fluid Interactions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biogeographic Variation in an Intertidal Predator-Prey Interaction: Does Coastal Oceanography Alter the Adaptive Landscape? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Predator-induced morphological defenses of marine zooplankton Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Analyzing demographic variability of the intertidal sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus in the context of oceanographic changes using a unique time series data set Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Carbon Fixation Pathways in Marine Chemoautotrophic, Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: Implications for the Oceanic Carbon Cycle Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Trophic Structure and Interactions of the Pelagic Nekton Associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Cascading effects of predator diversity in a marine food web Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey: Monitoring the Plankton of the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biogeochemical roles of planktonic archaea Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The control of photosynthetic quantum yield of phytoplankton by light intensity and diapycnal nutrient flux Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Phosphorus Bioavailability and its Effect on the Role of Trichodesmium in Elemental Cycling Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Resolving the Impact of Climatic Processes on Ecosystems of the North Atlantic Basin and Shelf Seas: Integrating and Advancing Observation, Monitoring, and Prediction Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Resiliency of corals to changing saturation state: A field study. Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER-Exploratory Testing of Intra-Crystalline Amino Acids as a Skeletal Record of Past Coral Bleaching Events Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Environmental influences on growth and survival of Southeast Alaska Coho Salmon in Contrast with Other NortheastPacific Regions Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC: NWA/Georges Bank - Marine Ecosystem Responses to Climate-Associated Remote Forcing from the Labrador Sea Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Micro-Spatial Scale Assessment of the Genetic Architecture of Coral Reefs Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Toward Environmental Genomics: Can We Estimate Bacterial Diversity in the Ocean? Award Effective Date: 05/10/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: Synthesis of Biophysical Observations at Multiple Trophic Levels Using Spatially Nested, Data-assimilating Models of the Coastal Gulf of Alaska Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US GLOBEC NWA/Georges Bank: Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepods on Georges Bank: Local Dynamics and Large-scale Forcing Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC: NEP Phase IIIb-CGOA: A Synthesis of Climate-Forced Variability on Mesoscale Structure in the CGOA With Direct Comparisons to the CCS Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank: Impacts of climate and basin-scale variability on the seeding and production of Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank region Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC-NWA/Georges Bank: Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepods Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Assessing Abundance and Diversity of RNA-containing Viruses in Seawater Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Holocene Phylochronology and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Quantifying the effect of upwelling and relaxation on otolith chemistry and fish growth Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S. GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank - Processes Controlling Abundance of Dominant Copepod Species on Georges Bank: Local Dynamics and Large-Scale Forcing Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Probing Korachaeal ecophysiology via statistical analysis of quantitative molecular and geochemical data: A RIDGE2000 postdoctoral proposal Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Systematics and Adaptation of the Thaliacea (Tunicata): A Genetic and Morphological Study Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Synthesis of Local Demography and Regional Connectivity in a Marine Fish Metapopulation Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Responses of Seals and Sea Lions to Increased Rockfish Density Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Investigation of Potential Co-Introduction of Fucus serratus and Littorina littorea to North America in 1800s Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Context-dependency of competition, mutualism, and predator-defenses; and the diversity of tropical marine sponges Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Are diatoms chemically or mechanically defended against protist grazers? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Are diatoms chemically or mechanically defended against protist grazers? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Influences of Nonrandom Biodiversity Change on Marine Ecosystem Functioning Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Physiological ecology of intertidal development: linking embryo performance and adult reproductive ecology Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

An adaptive food web model for the epipelagic and mesopelagic Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Further Development of the Eddy Correlation Technique Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

Collaborative Research: Productivity, Biogeochemical Transformations and Cross-margin Transport in an Eastern Boundary Buoyant Plume Region Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES

SGER: Exploration of Three-Dimensional Structure in Sedimentary Organic Matter Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research (OSU, USC, UCR): Continental Shelf Diagenesis: The Importance of Fresh Continental Material Degradation and Seasonal Diagenesis to Coastal Iron Supply Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

New Techniques for Simulating and Analyzing Biogeochemical Tracers in a Seasonally Varying Global Ocean Models Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Preparation and Distribution of Consensus Reference Material for Marine DOC Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Exploring the Linkages Between Trichodesmium spp. Physiology, Diversity and Iron Geochemistry in the Ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Proposal: In Situ Quantification of Sponge N Cycling in Coastal Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH (USC-UW): Evaluating Seawater Circulation Rates Through Permeable Sediments, Using Naturally Occurring Rn and Ra Isotopes Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Amino Acid Molecular-Level Stable Isotopic and Enantiomeric Ratios: A New Approach for Understanding Source and Transformation of Organic Nitrogen in the Sea. Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research:Transport and Divergence of CO2, O2 and Nutrients in the Atlantic Ocean, Continuation of WOCE-era Inversion with Comparison to Tracer Age Based Approaches Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Photodissolution of Sedimentary Organic Matter Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Biogeochemical Flows of Nitrogen in a Tropical Upwelling System (A CARIACO Time Series Project) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Global Estimates of Past and Future Uptake of Anthropogenic Carbon by the Ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: SAFe: Completing the Last Part Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Proposal: Mineral Ballast and Organic Matter Compositions as Determinants of Particle Settling Velocities and Fluxes in the Sea (MedFlux) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

The Quality Control of Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Measurements: Preparation, Certification, and Distribution of Reference Materials. Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Dynamics of Phosphorus in the Coastal Ocean: A Combined Observational, Experimental, and Ecosystem Modeling Study Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: Refractory Organic Matter In Sediments Isolated From The Bay of Bengal Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Proposal to Establish a US GEOTRACES Project Office Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Iron-light Co-limitation in the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum of Stratified Oceanic Regimes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Evaluation of Mixed Layer-Upper Thermocline Interaction and Geochemical Transport using 7Be Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Assessing Coastal Benthic Denitrification using High Precision Water Column N2/Ar Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography