The Influence of Oceanographic and Biological Processes on the Distribution of Cetaceans on the West Florida Shelf
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Robert H Weisberg($1,979,511), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, West Florida Shelf, Array Recordings, Cetacean Distributions, Noise Levels, Remote Sensing, Ability, Biological, Cetaceans, DSG, Model, Oceanographic, Overcome, Recorder, Set, Vocalizations.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the impact of microbial interactions with geologic media on geophysical properties: Implications for assessing geomicrobiological processes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

1. Estella A Atekwana($113,908), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Organic Acids, Sediment Electrical, Biofilm, Development, Effect, Field, Focus, Formation, Geologic, Geophysical, Interactions, Investigate, Laboratory, Microbial, Permeability, Phase, Porosity, Potential, Processes, Properties, Reactor, Signatures, Surface.

Coral Reef Primary Production and Calcification: Quantitative Analysis of Sensitivity to Environmental Forcing using a Control Volume Approach
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Jeffrey R Koseff($512,019), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Control Volume, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Water Column, Acidification, CV, Carbon, Effects, Flow, Fluxes, Museum, Nations, Net, Ocean, Ph, Pis, Regime, Situ, Stanford, Surface.

Ecological Determinants of Hematodinium Epidemics in the American Blue Crab
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Mark J Butler($294,151), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Jeffrey D Shields($2,110,161), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Blue Crab, Blue Crabs, Delmarva Peninsula, Fishing Pressure, Life History, Population Structure, Adults, Affect, Annual, Coastal, Disease, Dynamics, Emergence, Environmental, Factors, Fisheries, Fishery, Hematodinium, Host, Infection, Infections, Local, Marine, Model, Outbreaks, Outreach, Parasite, Programs, Relation, Removing, Seasonal, Spread, Transmission.

Collaborative Research: Rainfall-driven Intertidal Zone Carbon Cycling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Miguel A Goni($214,760), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: South Carolina, Carbon, Minority, Natural, Organic, Sediments, Students.

The Development of a Next Generation Subseabed Pore Pressure Insrument for Marine Hydrogeology: The PUPPI-II
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Neal W Driscoll($239,267), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Lance And Ballast, Pore Pressure Instrument, Command Unit, Pressure Instrument, Bottom, Collaboration, Equilibrium, Fluid, Has, International, Marine, Pis, Programs, Resolution, Sediment, Stress.

Instrumentation for Determining Benthic Oxygen Exchange Rates by Eddy-Correlation with Coordinated Studies of the Oregon Shelf
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Clare E Reimers($625,120), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Benthic Oxygen Exchange, BOXER, Carbon, Depth, Eddy-correlation, Excellent, Flux, Has, Pis, Sediment, Shelf, Students, Training.

Collaborative Research: Phase Two Development of a Self-Contained Underwater Velocimetry Apparatus
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Sean P Colin($28,033), Roger Williams University, Bristol
2. John H Costello($122,161), Providence College, Providence
3. John Dabiri($71,826), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Instrumentation, Particle, Phase, Pis, SCUVA, Situ, Students, Undergraduate, Velocimetry.

Design of a New Wire Flying Vehicle for Deep Water Profiling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Christopher Roman($175,838), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Wing Foils, Wire Flying, Achieve, Benefit, Concept, Conjunction, Depth, Development, Mixing, Oceanographic, Package, Resolution, Tow, Towed, Vehicle, Water.

In-Situ Classification of Bloom-Forming Phytoplankton by Imaging Multivariate Optical Computing (IMOC)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Timothy J Shaw($514,498), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Fluorescence Excitation, Marine Phytoplankton, Phytoplankton Taxa, Analysis, Discriminant, IMOC, Ideal, Identification, Imaging, Method, Optical, Pis, Platforms, Program, Spectral.

In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) - Development and Testing of Operational System
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Robert K Cowen($488,930), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Digital Imaging, Image Analysis, Allow, Assess, Camera, Capabilities, Computer, Field, Florida, Horizontal, Oceanography, Operational, Process, Prototype, Quantifying, Relatively, Resolution, Sampling, Situ, Techniques, Technology, Tested, Towed, Vertical, Water, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Advanced Laser Fluorometer (ALF) for in vivo Characterization of Phytoplankton Pigments, Physiology and Community Structure
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

1. Alexander M Chekalyuk($462,283), Columbia University, New York
2. B. Gregory Mitchell($184,729), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: ALF, ALF-, California, Laser, NOAA, NSF, Phytoplankton, Program, Range, Technology, Tool.

Do sediment-dwelling species have large ranges along a continental slope?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David Thistle($605,261), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Adult Harpacticoid, Deep-sea Floor, Deep-sea Sediments, Dna-sequence Analysis, Harpacticoid Copepods, Basis, Deep-sea, Dna-sequence, Found, Human, Individuals, Morphology, Range, Ranges, Reported, Species, Species-rich, Stations, °.

Collaborative Research: Modeling Hyperthermophile Growth in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Sulfide Deposits and Diffuse Fluids
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James F Holden($258,716), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. David Butterfield($394,225), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hydrothermal Fluids, Student Training, Biosphere, Chemistry, Chemolithoautotrophic, Deep, Distribution, Environments, Extent, Gradients, Hyperthermophiles, Metabolic, Organisms, Reactions, Subseafloor, Subsurface, Vent.

SGER: Development of a method to measure feeding by copepods using qPCR
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tatiana Rynearson($120,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Dna Digestion Rates, Selected Prey Species, Clone Library, Group-specific Primers, Situ Consumption, Situ Feeding, Copepods, Developed, Development, Environment, Food, Group-specific, Gut, Ice, Knowledge, Measure, Method, Methods, Phytoplankton, Regions, Techniques.

Diversity and distribution of thermoacidophiles at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anna-Louise Reysenbach($398,713), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent, Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems, Vent Fluid Ph, Archaeal Lineage, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Deep-sea Vents, Vent Sites, Abundant, Activity, Applications, Discovery, Ecology, Has, Isolated, Molecular, Organism, Thermoacidophiles.

Collaborative Research: Aplysina Red Band Syndrome: Investigating the etiology, pathogenesis, and ecology of an emerging marine disease
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert W Thacker($236,005), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
2. Deborah J Gochfeld($231,103), University of Mississippi, University
3. Julie B Olson($222,404), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Host Populations, Marine Diseases, Marine Environment, Mcwane Center, ARBS, Alabama, Aplysina, Biochemical, Caribbean, Courses, Ecological, Education, Effects, Emerging, Enhance, Environmental, Examine, Graduate, Levels, Multidisciplinary, Pis, Prevalence, Public, Students, Undergraduate.

Connecting local, regional and global scales of gene flow in planktonic marine diatoms
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tatiana Rynearson($852,094), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Diatom Species, Global Scales, Local Scales, Population Genetics, Species Distributions, Assumptions, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Connected, Content, Diatoms, Differentiation, Dynamics, Education, Evolutionary, Examine, Existing, Field, Generate, Global-scale, HS, Long-term, Marine, OMP, Physiological, Planktonic, Populations, Potential, Processes, Program, Programs, Regional, Represent, Speciation, Student, Students, Teachers.

Chemically-mediated competition in the marine plankton
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julia Kubanek($482,842), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Allelopathic Compounds, Allelopathic Effects, Brevis Blooms, Karenia Brevis, Marine Plankton, Phd Student, Phytoplankton Species, Allelopathy, Brevetoxins, Chemical, Chemically-mediated, Co-occurring, Competitors, Consequences, Costatum, Ecological, Field, Found, Gulf, Harmful, Human, Interactions, Mechanisms, Mexico, Natural, Previous, Public, Red, Students, Training.

Collaborative Research: Rip Current Dynamics in a Complex Beach Environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James T Kirby($229,214), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Timothy P Stanton($776,925), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Cross And Alongshore, Straight And Parallel, Beach Planform, Field Experiment, Lagrangian Observations, Nearshore Mixing, Numerical Modeling, Rip Current, Rip Currents, Surf Zone, Beaches, Broader, Circulation, Complex, Comprehensive, Contours, Coupling, Cross-, Experiments, Flow, Has, Morphology, Planforms, Simple, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Iron storage in diatoms and N2 fixing cyanobacteria: mechanisms, regulation and biogeochemical significance
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Adam Kustka($317,467), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Benjamin S Twining($257,021), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Fe Storage, Lab Cultures, Marine Diatoms, N2 Fixing, Time Scales, Biogeochemical, Buffer, Cell, Cellular, Critical, Degradation, Ferritin, Ferritins, Generational, Genes, Has, Intracellular, Involved, Mechanism, NRAMP, Objectives, Photosynthetic, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Prevent, Protein, Proteins, Pseudonana, Quota, Regulation, Serve, Stored, Synthesis, Training, Trichodesmium, Tricornutum, Vacuoles.

Collaborative Research: Expression profiling and functional genomics of a pennate diatom: Mechanisms of iron acquisition, stress acclimation, and recovery
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Adam Kustka($265,474), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Andrew E Allen($600,000), J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., La Jolla
Key terms: Global Gene Expression, Fe Stress, Intracellular Metal, Primary Metabolite, Acclimation, Activity, Availability, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Capacity, Cell, Cellular, Defense, Diatom, Diatoms, Experiments, Factors, Fe-stress, Genes, Genome, Insights, Involved, Levels, Marine, Mechanisms, Microarray, Molecular, Monitoring, Particular, Pathways, Pennate, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Play, Preliminary, Processes, Profiles, Recovery, Regulating, School, Sequence, Suggest, Teacher, Time, Tricornutum.

Targeted environmental probing: Linking microorganisms with biogeochemical function at Fe- and Mn-rich, diffuse hydrothermal vents
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Suzanna L Brauer($127,408), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Carbon Fixation, Organisms Responsible, Bacteria, Broad, Hydrothermal, Methods, Microorganisms, Mn, Objective, Oxidation.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Factors Affecting the Nature and Strength of Indirect Effects: A Modeling and Empirical Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bernard T Luttbeg($186,999), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Geoffrey C Trussell($272,800), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Emergent Indirect Effects, Nature And Strength, Prey Behavior, Prey Foraging, Resource Levels, Shape Prey, Trophic Cascade, Trophic Cascades, Ecological, Ecology, Empirical, Experience, Factors, Functions, Importance, Individual, Influence, Interactions, Internship, Marine, Model, Models, Natural, Predation, Predict, Relative, Short-term, Students, Theory, Tmiis.

U. S. GLOBEC Coordinating Office at Rutgers University
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Enrique N Curchitser($978,861), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Globec Regional Programs, National Coordinating Office, Pan-regional Synthesis Phase, Successful Pan-regional Synthesis, Comparative Studies, Globec Program, National Office, Pan-regional Synthesis, Post-globec Programs, Steering Committee, Successful Pan-regional, Activities, Coordination, Efforts, Emphasis, Ensure, Final, Has, Integration, International, Planning, Post-globec, Responsibility, Responsible, SSC, Special.

SGER: Exploratory studies of marine microbes using nanoSIMS
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas G Capone($120,315), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Isotopic Composition, Approach, Cellular, Distribution, Has, Indicators, Intercellular, LLNL, Livermore, Marine, Metabolism, Metals, Nanosims, Post, Relevance, Time, Uptake.

SGER: Preserving a national resource- the biotic diversity in the University of Miami marine yeast collection
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Adele Tallman($99,806), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Basis, Collection, Collections, International, Investigations, Microbial, Molecular, Species, Strains, Unique, Yeasts.

SGER: A New Method for Trophic Reconstructions of Marine Fishes From d13C and d15N Analyses of Individual Amino Acids in Otoliths
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Simon R Thorrold($149,999), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Amino Acids, Marine Fishes, Analyses, Based, Fisheries, Information, Isotope, Isotopes, Life, Migratory, Organic, Otoliths, Quantity, Suitable, Technique, Was.

Experiments to Determine the Impacts of a High CO2 World on High Latitude, Temperate and Tropical Benthic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel C McCorkle($504,308), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Pco2 And Ocean, Atmospheric Co2, Coral Reef, Elevated Pco2, Ocean Acidification, Benthic, Calcifying, Ecosystems, Effects, Experimentation, Fauna, Florida, High-latitude, Increase, Marine, Regional, Students, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Scaling up from community to meta-ecosystem dynamics in the rocky intertidal - a comparative-experimental approach
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sally D Hacker($489,887), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Karina J Nielsen($188,511), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Nutrients And Light, Nutrients And Phytoplankton, Benthic-pelagic Coupling, Northern California, Rocky Intertidal, Sessile Invertebrates, Species Interactions, Benthic-pelagic, Climate, Conditions, Dominance, Dominant, Dynamics, Ecological, Ecosystem, Effect, Factors, Field, Lab, Low, Macroalgae, Marine, Menge, Meta-ecosystem, Model, Nielsens, Pis, Processes, Program, Quantify, SSU, SWT, Structure, Subsidies, Undergraduate, Upwelling.

Benthic Dinoflagellate Migration (BenDiM): Occurrence and Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel Kamykowski($560,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Bendim Niche, Dinoflagellate Physiology, Dinoflagellate Species, Euphotic Zone, Information Transfer, Nutrient Source, Studying Dinoflagellate, Applies, Behavior, Behavioral, Biochemistry, Biomass, COSEE, Capabilities, Continent, Cruise, DVM, Dinoflagellates, Education, Effort, Field, Laboratory, Light, Modeling, Motion, Nbottom, Occupy, Program, Representative, Surface, Vertical.

Collaborative SGER: Domoic Acid Toxins in the Oceanic Pacific in Iron Enrichment Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mary W Silver($53,378), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Hnlc Regions, Iron Enrichment, Iron Fertilization, Atmosphere, Blooms, Context, DA, Ecosystems, Effects, Experiments, Goa, Levels, Low, Measure, Nutrient, Oceanographic, Pseudo-nitzschia, SGER, Solution, Turdigula, Waters.

Micronekton of the Cariaco Basin: Adaptation to a Severe Oxygen Minimum
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph J Torres($371,050), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Cariaco Basin, Oxygen Minimum, Ability, Anaerobic, Codlet, Collaboration, Day, Enzyme, Fish, Metabolic, Presence, Severe, Species, Sulfide, Tissues, Venezuela, Waters.

Collaborative Research SGER: Domoic acid toxins in the oceanic north Pacific in iron enrichment studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sibel Bargu Ates($61,488), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Hnlc Regions, Iron Enrichment, Iron Fertilization, Atmosphere, Blooms, Context, DA, Ecosystems, Effects, Experiments, Goa, Levels, Low, Measure, Nutrient, Oceanographic, Pseudo-nitzschia, SGER, Solution, Turdigula, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Phytoplankton Community Dynamics and Physiological Status in the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre and Benguela Upwelling Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Giacomo R DiTullio($457,176), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Biogenic Sulfur Compounds, Diagnostic Nutrient Enrichment, Iron And Macronutrients, Nutrient Enrichment Experiments, South Atlantic Ocean, Status And Algal, Algal Class-specific, Benguela Upwelling, Climate Warming, Oligotrophic Gyres, Physiological Status, Assess, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Class-specific, DMS, Determining, Educational, Especially, Estimate, Fluxes, Global, In-situ, Levels, Low, Modelers, Models, Oceans, Populations, Primary, Productivity, Ratios, Region, Respect, Structure, Utilize.

Influence of continental margin iron on phytoplankton species composition and production in the northern Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tawnya D Peterson($374,989), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Iron And Light, Assemblage Structure, Carbon Assimilation, Cross-shelf Gradients, Northern Goa, Phytoplankton Distributions, Quasi-synoptic Sampling, Satellite Observations, Alaska, Biogeochemical, Biological, Brulands, CGOA, Characterize, Chemical, Coastal, Composition, Cross-shelf, Ecosystems, Eddy, Focus, GLOBEC, Graduate, Gulf, Influence, Inputs, Interactions, Mesoscale, Offshore, Parameterize, Physiology, Primary, Processes, Quasi-synoptic, Rates, Region, Species, Trace, Transport, Waters.

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Effects of Meso- and Basin-Scale Variability on Zooplankton Populations in the CCS Using Data-Assimilative, Physical/Ecosystem Models
Award Effective Date: 06/20/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Enrique N Curchitser($157,566), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Globec Nep Synthesis, CCS, Climate, Directly, Euphausiids, Features, Level, Nested, Products, Regime, Time, Zooplankton.

Population Connectivity (Oceanography Vol. 20, No. 3)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($57,638), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Marine Population Connectivity, Special Issue, Oceanography, TOS, Topic.

Effects of Trace Metal Limitation on Oxidative Stress in Zooxanthellae and Its Role in Coral Bleaching
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul F Long($680,016), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Antioxidant Defenses, Antioxidant Enzymes, Coral Bleaching, Culture Experiments, Metal Nutrition, Metal Quotas, Oxidative Stress, Reef Corals, Combined, Environmental, Failure, Fe, Findings, Global, Has, Increased, Increasing, Insights, Metals, Mn, Phytoplankton, Pure, ROS, Regions, Resistant, Sensitive, Severity, Species, Supply, Symbiodinium, Symbioses, Temperature, Thermal, Trace, Trend, Tropical, Zn, Zooxanthellae.

Microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in the hydrothermally altered sediments of Guaymas Basin
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher S Martens($696,451), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Carbon And Sulfur, Guaymas Basin, Microbial Populations, Organic Matter, Active, Anaerobic, Archaea, Bacteria, Geochemical, Graduate, Inorganic, Linkages, Marine, Model, Sediment, Sediments, Substrates, Subsurface, Teaching, Uncultured, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: CO2 control of oceanic nitrogen fixation and carbon flow through diazotrophs
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Hutchins($976,413), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Mark E Warner($305,962), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Margaret R Mulholland($401,572), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Marine N2 Fixation, N2 Fixation Rates, N2 Fixing Cyanobacteria, Nutrient And Carbon, Trichodesmium And Unicellular, Atmospheric Co2, Changing Pco2, Co2 Fixation, Elemental Ratios, Growth Rates, N2 Fixers, Ocean Productivity, Pco2 Levels, Unicellular N2, Availability, Biogeochemistry, Cellular, Climate, Diazotrophs, Diazotrophy, Examine, Findings, Future, Glacial, Global, Growth-limiting, Increased, Increases, Oceanic, Past, Potential, Ppm, Range, Temperature.

An ecophysiological analysis of marine facultatively lithotrophic bacteria
Award Effective Date: 04/30/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gary M King($334,316), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Facultative And Obligate, Obligate Lithotrophs, Rbcl Sequences, Activity, Bacterial, Carbon, Diversity, Ecology, FLM, Gulf, Hydrogen, Insights, Lithotrophic, Maine, Marine, Microbial, Molecular, Nshore, Structure, Tools.

RIDGE2000 Rapid Response Activity: Microbial Response to a Deep-Sea Volcanic Eruption at 9 deg. N on the East Pacific Rise
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stefan M Sievert($19,914), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vents, Cruise, Time.

Collaborative Research: US/EC Collaboration on Potential Climate Change Impacts on Algal Community Structure and Biogeochemistry During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Hutchins($97,908), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Algal.

Collaborative Research: Kelp forest interaction webs in the Aleutian Archipelago: patterns and mechanism of change following the collapse of an apex predator.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew S Edwards($108,768), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. James A Estes($338,468), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Brenda H Konar($316,164), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Forest Monitoring Sites, Kelp Forest Monitoring, Sea Otter Populations, Aleutian Archipelago, Deep Water, Fleshy Macroalgae, Kelp Forests, Sea Otters, Sea Urchins, Trophic Cascade, Vertebrate Predator, Abundance, Collapsed, Collected, Document, Ecosystem, Explore, Following, Growth, Has, Islands, Kelps, Marine, Obtained, Opportunity, Processes, Rapidly, Re-censusing, Refuge, Shallow, Spatial, Species, Structure, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Patterns of Larval Dispersal and Postsettlement Selection Shaping Connectivity of Oyster Populations Along an Ecotone
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John Scarpa($70,656), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
2. John Scarpa($848,013), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Pre And Post-settlement, Dispersal Vectors, Eastern Florida, Gene Flow, Hare Lab, Local Adaptation, Post-settlement Selection, African-american, Andor, Coastline, Compared, Connectivity, Constraints, Difficult, Diversity, Ecotone, Field, Focus, Genetic, Habitats, Handful, Has, Lagoons, Larval, Limit, Marine, Measured, Migrants, Minority, North, Oyster, Populations, Pre-, Recruitment, Relative, Spatial, Spatially, Species, Student, Survivorship, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Fluxes and their Impact on Ocean Biogeochemistry: An Integrated pre-and post-eruption Study at the EPR, 9-10 degrees N
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Katrina J Edwards($132,850), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Chris German($292,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sulfide And Fe-oxyhydroxide, Dissolved Fe, Hydrothermal Fluxes, Hydrothermally-sourced Fe, Particles Collected, Polymetallic Sulfide, Analyses, Analytical, Budgets, Chemical, Deep-ocean, Directly, Eruption, Fate, Hydrothermally-sourced, Investigate, Iron, Microbial, Ocean, Particular, Potential, Processes, Seafloor, Significantly, Techniques, Uptake, Vent-sites, Venting.

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: 03/19/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey Runge($62,737), 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: NWA Georges Bank: Effects of climate variability on Calanus dormancy patterns and population dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/19/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey Runge($182,013), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Dormancy And Physiological, Calanus Finmarchicus, Control Onset, Copepod Population, Dormancy Control, Environmental Conditions, Ibm Simulations, Marine Mammals, Northwest Atlantic, Physiological Rate, Population Dynamics, Spring Bloom, Surface Waters, Climate, Compared, Copepods, Critical, Emergence, Factors, Fish, Fisheries, Growth, Inter-regional, Larval, Model, Pacific, Prey, Regions, Run, Sets, Similar, Species, Student, Timing.

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa: Efffects of Climate Variability on Calanus Dormancy Patterns and Population Dynamics within the California Current
Award Effective Date: 03/19/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey Runge($132,915), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Temperature And Prey, Calanoid Species, Dormant Phase, Spring Bloom, Abundance, CC, Calanus, Climate, Compared, Critical, Local, Model, Period, Population, Surface.

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Flow on the Nature and Strength of Indirect Effects
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Delbert L Smee($216,070), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
2. Geoffrey C Trussell($222,985), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Dmiis And Tmiis, Hydrodynamic Forces Influence, Indirect Predator Effects, Nature And Strength, Predators And Prey, Chemoreceptive Abilities, Food Chain, Green Crab, Hydrodynamic Regime, Indirect Effects, Indirect Interactions, Strongly Influence, Trophic Cascades, Ability, Chemical, Cues, Ecology, Field, Nucella, Predator-prey, Resources, Risk, Signaling, Students, Trait-mediated, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Marine Phytoplankton Growth Rates and Phosphate Concentrations: Monod or Not
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul A LaRock($239,098), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Paul K Bienfang($218,814), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Accurately Measure, Boundary Layer, Growth Rate, Growth Rates, Literally Decades, Monod Equation, Assumed, Cell, Concentration, Concentrations, Course, Diffusion, Graduate, Growth-rate-limiting, Has, LSU, Laws, Nitrogen, Phosphate, Phosphorus, Phytoplankton, Rigorous, Text, Tracer, UH.

Collaborative Research: Temporal and spatial scales of variability in bivalve connectivity.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julia C Muccino($81,216), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Linda L Rasmussen($707,801), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Elemental Fingerprinting, Larval Connectivity, Mytilid Connectivity, Recruit Origins, Californianus, Collection, Consequences, Conservation, Demographic, Dispersal, Ecology, Galloprovincialis, Larvae, Management, Mussels, Mytilus, Population, Populations, Sites, Species, Times.

Collaborative Research: A Post-Genomic Approach to Synechococcus-grazer Interactions
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bianca M Brahamsha($478,412), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Suzanne L Strom($252,817), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Cell Surface Structures, Chemical Resistance Strategies, Aquatic Environments, Broader Impacts, Molecular Genetics, Potential Chemical, Availability, Available, Carbon, Common, Cyanobacteria, Cyanobacterial, Examine, Findings, Found, Genomes, Grazer, Grazers, Interactions, Microbes, Protist, Selection.

SGER: Population variation and environmental adaptation in all the genes of the purple sea urchin
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen R Palumbi($130,100), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Environmental Gradients, Future Climate, Marine Species, Affect, Approach, Broadly, Developed, Ecosystems, Gene, Genes, Genome, Has, Method, Organisms, Ranges, Temperate.

Collaborative Research: SGER: Are Meroplankton Transported Offshore by Upwelling, and Onshore by Downwelling?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. R. Kipp Shearman($12,864), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Alan L Shanks($41,354), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Upwelling And Downwelling, Larval Supply, Passive Particles, Water Mass, Barnacles, Characteristics, Distribution, Ecology, Larvae, Marine, Oceanographic, Oregon, Program.

SGER: Effects of the 2006-2007 El Nino on ecosystem functioning in the Galapagos Marine Reserve: Impact and Resistence
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jon D Witman($60,038), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Galapagos Marine Reserve, El Nino, Graduate Students, Local Marine, Biotic, Bottom, Challenge, Effects, Larvae, Ocean, Processes, Regional, SGER, Species, Subtidal, Upwelling.

The Adaptive Importance of Toxin-Resistant Phenotypes in Calanoid Copepods
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David E Avery($370,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Immediate And Urgent, Grazer Resistance, Phytoplankton Blooms, Resistant Phenotypes, Toxic Algae, Toxic Phytoplankton, Toxin-resistant Phenotypes, Adaptation, Copepod, Ecology, Educators, Evolution, Genetic, Grazers, Grazing, Hudsonica, Laboratory, Lead, National, Observed, Oceans, Toxin-resistant, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Testing hypotheses about diversity, gene flow, and effective population size in marine planktonic ciliates
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George B McManus($299,997), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Laura A Katz($299,987), Smith College, Northampton
Key terms: Ciliate Species, Classical Approaches, Gene Flow, Marine Ciliate, Planktonic Ciliates, Based, Clades, Diversity, Environmental, Graduate, Has, K-, Microscopy, Molecular, Morphological, Pis, Population, Resulting, Students, Techniques, Tradition, Traditional, Training.

Feeding responses of marine phagotrophic protists: cell biological mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Evelyn B Sherr($531,032), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Intracellular Signal Transduction, Signal Transduction Pathways, Biochemical Mechanisms, Cell Membranes, Feeding Behavior, Food Webs, Marine Protists, Phagotrophic Protists, Prey Ingestion, Protistan Feeding, Receptor Molecules, Approaches, Assemblages, Binding, Chemosensory, Compounds, Control, Experiments, Extent, Grazers, Involve, Ligand, Microbial, Selective, Selectivity, Situ, Specific, Student.

RUI: Ecology and Evolution of Range Limits in Intertidal Organisms
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick J Krug($325,209), California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc., Los Angeles
Key terms: Artificial Selection Experiments, Alderia Spp, Larval Supply, Range Limits, Salinity Tolerance, Sister Species, Adult, Biological, Biology, Climate, Current, Ecological, Ecology, Edge, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Evolutionary, Factors, Genetic, Has, Intertidal, Lab, Larvae, Marine, Molecular, Populations, Predicting, Quantified, Ranges, SF, School, Set, Students, Taxa, Temperature, Thresholds, Trade-offs, Undergraduate, Willowi.

RUI: Stability and structure of temperate and tropical marine sponge symbiont communities in response to climate change.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Dattelbaum($259,127), University of Richmond, Richmond
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Brbrthe Experiments, Ecological Consequences, Increased Ssts, Secondary Metabolites, Aspects, Associations, Gene, Host, Increases, Marine, Perform, Produce, Sponge, Sponges, Symbiont, Symbioses, Undergraduates, Vital.

Experimentally linking identification and function of marine bacteria
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jed A Fuhrman($331,500), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Marine Bacteria, Analysis, Approach, Artifacts, Biogeochemical, Collected, Cruises, Experimental, Field, Global, Has, Information, Metagenomic, Microbial, Minimize, Organism, Teaching, Techniques, USC, Various.

Paleogenetics of Pleistocene Deep-Water Corals from the Mediterranean Sea: The Rise and Fall of Coral Populations within the Basin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rhian G Waller($207,221), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Animal Populations, Deep-water Coral, Deep-water Corals, Genetic Connectivity, Mediterranean Sea, Ne Atlantic, Population Dynamics, Traditional Fisheries, Allow, Climate, Commercial, Decline, Deep-water, Discovered, Dispersal, Ecology, Information, Mounds, Outer, Pertusa, Pleistocene, Region, Species, Sub-fossil, Thriving, Time.

Bacteria-Mediated Coral Disease Resistance
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Farooq Azam($364,991), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Colonization And Proliferation, Antagonistic Interactions, Bacteria-bacteria Interactions, Coral Mucus, Coral Reef, Coral-associated Bacteria, Cultivable Bacteria, Disease Resistance, Eukaryotic Grazers, Growth Rates, Mucus Layer, Pathogen Colonization, School Students, Abundance, Affect, Altering, Assess, Bacteria-bacteria, Bacterial, Coral-associated, Corals, Dynamics, Ecology, Elevated, Infection, Influence, Integration, Microbial, Minority, Situ, Surface, Techniques, Temperature, Viruses.

Form, Function and Flow in the Plankton: Jet Propulsion and Filtration by Pelagic Tunicates
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Laurence P Madin($196,467), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ecological Roles, Fast Swimming, Filtering Mesh, Filtering Rates, Graduate Student, Salp Species, Slower Swimming, Swimming Forms, Swimming Salps, Undergraduate Students, Behavior, Characterized, Critical, Describe, Diversity, Examine, Feeding, Field, Flow, Gelatinous, Grazers, Information, Laboratory, Magazine, Mechanics, Methods, Morphology, Planktonic, Streamlined.

Collaborative Research+RUI: The Effects of Water Movement and Zooplankton Escape Behavior on Planktivory by Coral Reef Fishes in Different Microhabitats
Award Effective Date: 01/05/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher M Finelli($16,710), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Calanoid Copepods, Capture Success, Coral Reef, Feeding Volumes, Prey Capture, Speed Videography, Water Movement, Affects, Blennies, Choice, Conditions, Determined, Educational, Effects, Escape, Field, Fish, Highspeed, Hydrodynamic, Increasing, Laboratory, Live, Measured, Microhabitats, Observed, Predator, Rates, Species, Standard, Zones.

Collaborative Research: The Consequences of Phage-Bacteria Coevolution in Aquatic Environments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer B Martiny($10,174), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Cyanobacteria And Cyanophage, Cyanophage Undergo Coevolution, Synechococcus And Cyanophage, Marine Viruses, Population Biology, Consequences, Cyanophages, Diverse, Diversity, Examining, Experiments, Host, Interactions, Laboratory, Mortality, Natural, Time.

Collaborative Research:Fertilization in free spawners: interaction of gamete properties and hydrodynamic regime
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Florence I Thomas($160,034), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Fertilization And Polyspermy, Flow Regimes, Sea Urchin, Conditions, Experiments, Explore, Field, Gametes, Levels, Local, Low, Managers, Population, Process, Range, Reserves.

Ridge 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Linking Genetics and Mineralization of Iron-oxidizing Microbes at Midocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James A Yoder($139,510), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Iron Oxidation, Neutrophilic.

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence -- California
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Peter D Tuddenham($125,295), The College of Exploration, Sterling
2. Catherine Halversen($1,371,249), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Nigella M Hillgarth($1,132,460), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cosee Ca, Ocean Literacy, Bring, California, Collaborations, Education, Educational, Initiatives, National, Partners, Tools.

Collaborative Proposal: COSEE Center - Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - Networked Ocean World (COSEE-NOW)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. James A Yoder($1,057,986), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Christopher J Petrone($1,311,373), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Effective Education Practices, Ocean Observing, Public Awareness, Target Audiences, Technology Center, COSEE-NOW, Contribute, EPO, Enable, Increase, Institute, K-, Knowledge, Literacy, Marine, OOS, Partners, Pis, Products.

COSEE Coastal Trends
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Laura Murray($1,080,000), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Coastal Trend Modules, Coastal Ocean, Coastal Trends, Creative Partnerships, COSEE, Deliver, Education, Educational, Educators, End-user, Experience, Fellowship, Focus, Generate, Institutes, Integrate, Interactions, Literacy, National, Public, Student, VA.

The Pacific Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence -COSEE Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Kerry A Carlin-Morgan($2,610,079), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Cosee Pacific Partnerships, Development Opportunities, Marine Lab, Marine Laboratory, Marine Labs, Ocean Literacy, Activities, Center, Collaboration, Education, Educational, Faculty, Increase, Informal, Outreach, Students, Universitys, Volunteers, Western.

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Annette V deCharon($1,627,561), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Cosee Network, Disseminated Nationally, Gap Analysis, In-service Teacher, Inland Audiences, Reach Inland, Thematic Center, Activities, Bed, Beyond, Broaden, Concept, Content, Context, Course, Developed, Education, Educators, Evaluating, Evaluation, Focusing, Hampshire, Information, Knowledge, Maine, Models, OESS, Ocean, Oceans, Phenomena, Product, Products, Resources, Review, Rigorous, Rural, Solar, Teachers, Tools, Topics, Training, Workshops.

ITR: A Computational Framework for Observational Science: Data Assimilation Methods and their Application for Understanding North Atlantic Zooplankton Dynamics.
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Andrew Pershing($207,164), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Adjoint Model, Control Variables, Cost Function, North Atlantic, Zooplankton Populations, Algorithms, Assimilation, CTC, Conditions, Cornell, Description, Dynamics, Entire, Integrated, Interface, Investigate, Representing, Students, Survey.

RUI: Feedbacks among Benthic Fauna, Algae and Biogeochemical Cycling during Eutrophication of a Shallow Estuary
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Anna Christina Tyler($305,965), Rochester Institute of Tech, Rochester
Key terms: Diversity And Functional, Faunal Diversity, Macroalgal Growth, Nitrogen Loading, Shallow Estuaries, Benthic, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Designed, Ecosystems, Efforts, Estuarine, Eutrophication, Examine, Invertebrates, Ongoing, Overall, Processes, Sediment, WFH.

Collaborative Research: Controls on Alkenone Temperature Estimates in Subtropical and Subpolar Waters
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elisabeth L Sikes($323,749), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Brian N Popp($231,250), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Chatham Rise, Subpolar Waters, Accuracy, Environmental, Foraminiferal, Reconstructions, SST, STF, Subtropical, Surface, Training, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Tracing the Transformations of Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments using Natural C Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David J Burdige($122,229), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Tomoko Komada($409,178), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Organic Carbon, Pore Water, Benthic, Component, Cores, DOC, Marine, POC, Sediments, Students.

Collaborative research: Non-Local Bacterial Transport of Nitrate within Sediments Underlying Oxygen Deficient Zones: A new Twist in the N Cycle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel M Sigman($109,464), Princeton University, Princeton
2. William M Berelson($380,379), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Non-local Bacterial Transport, Nitrate Transport, Non-local Bacterial, Oxygen Deficient, San Pedro, Southern California, Basin, Budgets, Framework, Geochemical, Investigate, Losses, Oxidation, Princeton, Regional, SBB, Santa, Sediments.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Nitrogen Fixation and its Coupling with Denitrification in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian N Popp($308,509), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Fredrick G Prahl($458,969), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($232,560), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: California And Adjacent, Carbon And Nitrogen, Newly Fixed Nitrogen, N2 Fixation, Nitrogen Fixation, Specific Organisms, Surface Waters, Assess, Collaboration, Contribution, Denitrification, Denitrified, Directly, ETNP, Export, Gulf, Isotopic, N-fixing, NP, Objectives, Ocean, Pacific, Primary, Rate, Rates, Region, Regions, Responsible, Stratification, Summer, Tropical, Zone.

SGER: Human Contributions to Microbial Pollution in Hanalei Bay, Kauai
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alexandria Boehm($124,999), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Tropical Marine Waters, Hanalei Bay, Human Health, Microbial Pollutants, Microbial Pollution, Source Tracking, Tropical Waters, Water Quality, Emerging, Enterococci, Genetic, Has, Hawaii, Near, River, Sources, Tier, Tools.

GEOTRACES - Intercalibration Studies of Short-lived U/Th Series Isotopes and Marine Particles
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($237,071), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sampling And Analytical, Horizontal Transport, Particle Reactive, Time Scales, Woods Hole, =, Distribution, Distributions, Effort, Efforts, GEOTRACES, Intercalibration, Isotopes, Methods, Ocean, Oceanographic, Particulate, Ra, Remineralization, Th, Trace, World.

SGER: BMAA in the food web of South Florida coastal waters
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Deborah C Mash($125,000), University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables
Key terms: Coastal Marine Food, Food Chain, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Public Health, Anthropogenic, BMAA, Exposure, Future, Human, Pollution, Presence, Prevention.

SGER: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Coastal Waters and Public Health Implications
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lisa W Plano($100,001), University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aureus, Bathers, Combination, Establish, Genetic, Infection, Infections, Pathogenic, Presence, Recreational, Skin, Typing, Waters.

Purification and Calibration of Indicators for Measurement of Seawater pH
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert H Byrne($598,244), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Graduate Student, Minority Students, Ph Indicators, Ph Units, Purified Indicators, Undergraduate Students, Acidification, Allow, Education, Has, Impurities, Marine, Obtained, Principal, Purify, Reference, Spectrophotometric, Strong.

Sources of Iron to the Eastern Tropical Atlantic: Does the Continental Margin Supplement Saharan Dust?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($499,998), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eastern Tropical Atlantic, Tropical North Atlantic, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Atmospheric Dust, Cape Verde, Continent, Importance, Institute, Iron, Lateral, Mauritanian, Plan, Primary, Radium, Scientists, Sources, Subsurface, Surface, TENATSO, Transect.

SGER: Preliminary characterization of sodium channel toxins in Gambierdiscus spp. from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tracy A Villareal($75,898), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Paul K Bienfang($13,480), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ciguatoxins Produced, Public Health, Sodium Channel, Analytical, Biotransformation, Center, Ciguatera, Collaborative, Estimated, FDA, Factors, Fish, Foundation, Frequency, Future, Gambierdiscus, HAB, Human, Information, Laboratory, Pacific, Secondary, Species, Strains, Symptomology, Techniques, Toxicus, Toxin, Toxins, Via.

Patagonian Shelf Coccolithophores: Ecological Factors Regulating the Southern Hemisphere's Largest Recurring Coccolithophore Bloom
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Balch($495,729), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Coccolithophore Blooms, Coccolithophore Ecology, Dilution Experiments, Growth Rates, Ocean Acidification, Southern Ocean, Basic, Calcification, Calcite, Coccolithophores, Concentrations, Effects, Estimates, Examine, Grazing, Has, Hemisphere, Increase, Knowledge, Maine, Optical, PIC, PS, Particulate, Phytoplankton, Region, Sampling, Species, Students, Underway, Waters.

SGER: Fe limitation as a control on primary production in the Arabian Sea during the SW Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($47,963), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Arabian Sea, Carbon Fixation, Fe, Monsoon, Primary.

SGER: Exploration of Nitrite Isotopes and their Link to Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($52,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Collect, Deln, Delo, Nitrate, Nitrite, Oxygen.

Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Puget Sound Phytoplankton Populations: SGER Complement to the Pacific NW Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew E Allen($125,000), J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., La Jolla
Key terms: Summer And Fall, Estuarine Ecosystems, Puget Sound, Venter Institute, Activities, Alexandrium, Analyses, Coastal, Collected, Environmental, GOS, HAB, Habs, Human, Increase, JCVI, Metagenomic, Microbial, Ongoing, Particular, Population, Populations, Pseudo-nitzschia, Spp, Stressors, Typical, Washington.

RUI: The Production and Degradation of Acetone in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Warren J De Bruyn($275,472), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Acetone Concentrations, Atmospheric Chemistry, Determining Acetone, Hydroxyl Radicals, Southern California, Undergraduate Students, Air-sea, Biological, Chapman, Coastal, Estimating, Experience, Flux, Laboratories, Photochemical, Pis, Rates, Seawater, Surface, Troposphere.

SGER: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Dinoflagellate Dynamics, Toxin Formation, and Economic Impacts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Donald M Anderson($128,664), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Toxic Gambierdiscus Species, Ciguatera Exposure, Ciguatera Toxin, Economic Impacts, Gambierdiscus Toxicus, Health Effects, Human Health, Virgin Islands, Woods Hole, Assess, CFP, COHH, Centers, Consumption, Coral, Dynamics, Efforts, Expression, Fish, Gambiertoxins, Illness, Incidents, Initial, Initiate, Mechanisms, Range, Reef, Regions, Seafood, USVI.

Collaborative Research: Resistance of Peptide Degradaton Products in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Margaret R Mulholland($276,338), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Cindy Lee($285,864), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Graduate Student, Organic Matter, Stony Brook, Water Column, Biological, Chemical, Diagenesis, Distribution, Dominion, Importance, Marine, Mass, Mechanisms, Methods, Peptides, Plan, Rates, Refractory, Resistance, Undergraduate, York.

Design and Characterization of Cyanobacterial Bioreporters to measure Nutrient Availability in Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert M McKay($356,144), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
Key terms: Cyanobacterial Bioreporters, Fe Availability, Nutrient Availability, Nutrient Bioavailability, Approach, Aquatic, BGSU, Bioavailable, Construct, Development, Faculty, Feature, Has, LCCC, Lorain, Low, Luminescent, Marine, Ocean, Opportunity, P-responsive, Regions, Sea, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Chemical Characterization of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter using Efficient Isolation Coupled to Advanced Analytical Techniques
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth Mopper($472,320), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. E. Michael Perdue($253,866), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Oceanic And Global, Global Biogeochemical, Marine Dom, Advanced, Analytical, Characterize, Composition, Insights, Isolate, Isolated, Processes, ROED, Techniques, Transport, Unparalleled, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Dissolved Organic Matter Degradation in Filtering Shelf Sands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carol Arnosti($141,912), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Markus H Huettel($599,636), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Active Participation, Dom Degradation, Carbon, Development, Global, Light, Marine, Oceanic, Oxygen, Pore, Public, Quantification, Rates, Sediments, Shelf, Sink, Site, Students, Surface, Temperature, Velocity, Water.

Air-Sea Exchange and Boundary Layer Chemistry of Mercury over the Open Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert P Mason($593,901), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Boundary Layer, South Africa, Surface Seawater, Surface Waters, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Deposition, Hg, Hgii, Marine, Oxidation, Photochemical, Reduction, Student.

Mercury Species Cycling and Fluxes in the Oceanic Water Column
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carl Lamborg($424,548), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Biological Methylation, Marine Environment, Water Column, Cycle, Formation, Hg, Mercury, Mmhg.

Impact of Suboxia on Sinking Particles: Non-Redfield Diagenesis and its Potential Role in C fluxes and N Cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard G Keil($297,318), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arabian Sea, Nootka Sound, Organic Matter, Water Columns, Ballast, Conditions, Cruise, Degradation, Diagenesis, Dust, Efficient, Enhanced, Experiments, Fluxes, Incubations, Less, Mineral, Oxic, Settling, Suboxic, Training, Trap, Undergraduate.

Stoichiometry of Oceanic Remineralization by Non-Linear Global Optimization on an Improved Data Set
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jorge L Sarmiento($434,560), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Newly Developed, Remineralization Ratios, Water Column, Water Mass, Water Masses, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Containing, Cycles, Decades, Dissolved, Fractions, Global, Matter, Nutrients, Ocean, Oceanic, Oceanographic, Organic, Solve.

TOWARD AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF AIR-SEA EXCHANGE OF GASEOUS ORGANIC CARBON AND ITS ROLE IN OCEAN CARBON FLUXES
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rebecca M Dickhut($347,592), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Fluxes, Specific Organic Compounds, Air-sea Gas, Atmospheric Deposition, Atmospheric Inputs, Gas Deposition, Operationally Defined, Organic Carbon, Virginia Institute, Activity, Atlantic, Dry, Estimates, Has, Magnitude, Marine, OC, Ocean, Oceans, Ongoing, Outreach, Pool, Pools, Programs, Reactive, Recognized, Riverine, Source, VIMS, Volatile, Waters, Wet.

Collaborative Research: Anammox and Denitrification in the Oxygen Deficient Zone of the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Amal Jayakumar($384,803), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Allan H Devol($375,113), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Anammox And Denitrification, Arabian Sea, Ammonium, Collaboration, Conventional, Factors, Fluxes, Incubations, Molecular, Nitrite, ODZ, Ocean, Opportunities, Predict, Princeton, Respective, Suggest.

Primary Production Rates in the N. Atlantic for O2 Isotopes and O2/Ar
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($494,232), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ocean's Biological Pump, Spatial And Temporal, Annual Cycle, Atlantic Ocean, Dissolved Oxygen, Gross Primary, Ocean's Biological, Spring Bloom, Accurate, Collaboration, Examine, Forcing, Gas, Global, Mesoscale, Methods, Natural, Net, Oceans, Rate, Rates, Shifts, Subarctic, Surface, Time.

Collaborative Research: Trace Distributions, Chemical Fluxes, and Distributary Comparisons in the Mixing Zone of the Mississippi River
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alan M Shiller($253,088), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. James M Krest($133,377), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Kyeong Park($86,593), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Bottom Waters, Chemical Fluxes, Graduate Student, Mississippi River, South Alabama, South Florida, Southern Mississippi, Coastal, Distributions, Estuarine, Management, Mixing, Models, Nutrients, Outflow, Radium, Speciation, Students, Trace, Zone.

Comparison of Sample Collection, Preservation, and Analysis During GEOTRACES Intercalibration Cruises
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jingfeng Wu($116,504), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Geotraces Intercalibration Cruises, Geotraces Program, Sampler Comparison, Storage Procedures, Activities, Global, Investigate, June, Marine, May-june, Ocean, Oceanic, Proper, Sampling, Trace.

Quantifying the surface physical controls on CO2 transfer during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Drennan($436,757), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Air-sea Gas, Air-sea Interaction, Autonomous Platforms, Co2 Exchange, Gas Exchange, Gas Transfer, Southern Ocean, Ability, Aerosol, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Buoy, Climate, Controlling, Enhance, Etc, Experiment, Factors, Flux, Fluxes, Future, Global, Increase, Interface, Measure, Momentum, Oceanic, Plan, Predict, Processes, SOLAS, Ship, Sogasex, Surface, Uncertainty, Unique, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the use of Se/S in marine barite as a tracer of ocean nutrients
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Adina Paytan($130,588), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Water Column, Barite, Dominion, Laboratory, Marine, Minority, Nitrate, Nutrient, Processes, Proxy, Selenate, Selenatesulfate, Selenium, Ses, Upper, Varying.

2007 Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($32,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Gordon, Marine Chemistry, Conference, Docs, Field, Geochemistry, Graduate.

Collaborative Research: Southern Ocean Air-Sea CO2 Exchange
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Penny Vlahos($330,334), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Christopher J Zappa($370,970), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Co2 Flux, Global Ocean, Southern Ocean, Accurate, Atmospheric, Carbon, Climate, Columbia, Environmental, Exchange, Experience, Gas, Gasex-, Incorporated, K-, Oceanic, Regions, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigations of Coral Biomineralization: Understanding the Biomineralization Response to Ocean Acidification
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel C McCorkle($398,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Christopher Langdon($84,316), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbonate Ion Concentration, Coral Calcification, Seawater Carbonate, Aragonite, Broader, Calcifying, Century, Concentrations, Conditions, Continue, Corals, Crystal, Ecosystems, External, Implications, Laboratory, Levels, Mechanisms, Ocean, Pis, Saturation, Sensitivity.

Chromophoric DOM - A Photoactive Tracer of Biogeochemical Process.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Norman B Nelson($297,529), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Clivar-repeat Hydrography Program, Dissolved Organic Matter, Cdom Stocks, Characterize Cdom, Clivar-repeat Hydrography, Light Absorption, Ocean Cdom, Amino, Analyses, Assess, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Characterization, Chemical, Collected, Continue, DOM, Future, Global, Graduate, Modeling, Observations, Optical, Pool, Processes, Quality, Satellite, Situ, Sources, Students, UCSB, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Sampling Systems and Intercalibration
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert M Sherrell($405,833), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Gregory A Cutter($492,775), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Kenneth W Bruland($543,005), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Geotraces Program, Completing, Cycles, Development, Infrastructure, Initiative, Intercalibration, International, Involved, Isotopes, North, Ocean, Oceanographic, Principle, Processes, Sampling, Teis, Trace, Transects.

Collaborative Research: CarboMODE: Carbon Dioxide Dynamics in Mode Water of the North Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nicholas R Bates($415,440), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Scott C Doney($186,899), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic Ocean, Air-sea Co2, Co2 Dynamics, Edw Formation, Inorganic Carbon, Subtropical Gyre, Addressing, Air-sea, BBSR, CLIMODE, Carbomode, Collected, Content, Contribute, DIC, Dissolved, Does, Doney, Fate, Field, Flux, Jenkins, Modeling, Nutrient, Oceanic, Pco, Physics, Program, Properties, Raised, Region, Reservoir, Seawater, Subsurface, Undergraduate, Uptake, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Global Ocean Survey of Dissolved Iron and Aluminum and Aerosol Iron and Aluminum Solubility Supporting the CLIVAR Repeat Hydrography Project (2007-2009).
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Joseph A Resing($222,861), University of Washington, Seattle
2. William M Landing($401,711), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Christopher I Measures($611,635), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Graduate Student, Soluble Aerosol, Trace Metal, Analyzed, Cd, Collected, Coupled, Cu, Dissolved, Fe, Florida, Fraction, Hawaii, ICPMS, Impactor, Mn, Ni, Particulate, Pb, Total, Washington, Zn.

Measuring Diapycnal Mixing in the Upper Ocean therMocline using Noble Gas Supersaturation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven R Emerson($681,582), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Diapycnal Mixing Rates, Noble Gas Supersaturation, Biological Productivity, Euphotic Zone, Gas Tracers, Noble Gases, Subtropical Oceans, Ventilated Thermocline, Analytical, Circulation, Concentrations, Effect, Global, Measure, Method, Model, North, Nutrients, Pacific, Processes, Sections, Theoretical, Time.

Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling of Intact Membrane Lipids in the Upper Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin Van Mooy($531,934), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fatty Acids, Ipl Molecules, Minority Fellowship, Upper Ocean, Allow, Analysis, Approach, Biomass, Carbon, Classes, Cruises, Derived, Diversity, Functionally-defined, GC, HPLCMS, Has, Headgroups, Immense, Incubations, Information, Intact, Ipls, Living, North, Organic, Organisms, Plankton, Planktonic, Polar, Program, Rates, Sources, Specific, Structural, Student, Turnover, WHOI.

Methane Oxidation Rates by AMS: Use of low-level 14C-CH4 and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to Determine Rates of Water Column Aerobic and Anaerobic Methane Oxidation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William S Reeburgh($364,960), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Methane Oxidation Rates, AMS, Activity, Beach, C-CH, Carbon, Concentrations, Course, Cycle, Introduce, Involving, Levels, Low, Principal, Radiocarbon, Student, Tracer.

Enhancement of Capabilities for Molecular-Level Radiocarbon Studies of Water Column and Sedimentary Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy I Eglinton($392,956), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Compound Specific Radiocarbon, Dissolved And Particulate, Natural Abundance 14c, Particulate Organic Matter, Specific Radiocarbon Analysis, Abundance 14c, Molecular-level 14c, Organic Compounds, Applications, Approach, CF-AMS, CSRA, Capabilities, Developing, Existing, Graduate, Increasing, Instrumentation, Marine, Molecular-level, Ocean, PCGC, Pis, Range, Spectrometry, Students.

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Pb, Fe, Zn, and their Stable Isotope Ratios in the Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward A Boyle($676,516), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Atlantic Deep Water, Pb Isotope Ratios, Dust Fe, Graduate Student, North Atlantic, Progressive Biological, Tropical Atlantic, Zn Isotope, Assess, Deployments, Establish, Fractionation, Isotopes, Maximum, Ocean, Seawater, Spatial, Trace, Upper, Western.

Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Photochemistry and Photophysics: Testing the Charge Transfer Model
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rossana Del Vecchio($482,540), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Charge Transfer Model, Photochemical And Photophysical, O2 Concentration, Photochemical Reactions, Quantum Yields, Wavelength Dependence, Aquatic, CDOM, Donors, Emission, Field, HO, HS, Oxidation, Properties, Waters.

Atmospheric Aeorsol Deposition Rates and Chemistry in Western Atlantic Trade Winds: The Link to Transport and Depostion Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($1,207,745), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aerosols And Precipitation, Wet And Dry, Atmospheric Transport, Biogeochemical, Chemistry, Deposition, Dust, Iron, Marine, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Processes, Rates, Species.

Collaborative research: A Study of Wave-Enhanced Nutrient Uptake by Vegetated Canopies in Shallow Coastal Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2006; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Florence I Thomas($346,105), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
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.

Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2004; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gary K Ostrander($3,816,943), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Molecular Biological Methods, Broader Impacts, Human Health, Tropical Coastal, Water Quality, Bivalves, Center, Chronic, Ciguatoxin, Context, Culture, Determining, Development, Diseases, Expectation, Expression, HAB, Hawaii, Isolation, Knowledge, Marine, Microbial, Ocean, Organisms, PRCMB, Pacific, Pathogens, Pharmaceuticals, Presence, Relevance, Risks, School, Strategies, Strengths, Supported, Testing, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Decadal Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Niklas Schneider($221,682), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Arthur J Miller($208,738), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Circulation And Sst, Velocity And Upwelling, Atmospheric Climate, Koe Region, Koe Sst, Mesoscale Eddies, North Pacific, North Pacificnorth, Predictable Component, Sst Anomalies, Wind Stress, Atmosphere, Basin-scale, Coupled, Decadal, Downscaling, Downstream, Ecosystem, Fields, Fisheries, Gaps, Linked, Model, Ocean, Ocean-atmosphere, Predictability, Processes, Regional, Sea, Uncoupled.

CNH: Collaborative Research: Direct and Indirect Coupling of Fisheries Through Economic, Regulatory, Environmental, and Ecological Linkages
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Andrew Pershing($383,851), University of Maine, Orono
2. Graham D Sherwood($872,025), Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland
3. Lewis S Incze($111,998), University of Southern Maine, Portland
4. Guillermo E Herrera($129,747), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Natural And Human, Ecosystem Approach, Education Program, Groundfish Fisheries, Human Benefits, Human Linkages, Interactive Marine, Approaches, Arise, Complex, Complexity, Concepts, Coupled, Dynamic, Ecological, Examine, Existing, Explore, Fishery, Gulf, Herring, Increase, Information, Integrate, Interdisciplinary, Interrelated, Lobster, Maine, Management, Methodologies, Modeling, Models, Natural-human, Northeast, Processes, Productivity, Quantitative, Students, Subject, Sustainability, Theme, Themes.

REU: Ocean Sciences Meeting Support for OCE REU Student
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($142,836), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Oce-funded Reu, Reu Site, ASLO, Oce-funded, Program, Students, Undergraduates.

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Center for Great Lakes Studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($284,666), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Program, Public, REU, Students, Summer.

CAREER: From the Lab to the Ocean: Experimental modeling of Internal Tide Generation by Topography
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Thomas Peacock($543,926), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Hole Joint Program, Mit-woods Hole Joint, Theoretical And Numerical, Internal Tides, Internal Waves, Internal-wave Generation, Mit-woods Hole, Numerical Models, Bathymetry, Collaboration, Current, Deep-ocean, Educators, Experimental, Experiments, Has, Internal-wave, Investigation, Issues, Laboratory, Merit, Ocean, Ocean-going, Outstanding, Partnership, Prof, Students, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Ocean Sciences and Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. James F Price($548,462), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole, Program, Student, Students, Summer, WHOI.

REU SITE: Analyzing Global Databases
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Dallas H Abbott($328,604), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Program, Students, Summer.

CAREER: Multiphase Sediment Transport Modeling Framework
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu($178,116), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Coastal Sediment Transport, Nation's Coastal Resources, Small-scale Sediment Transport, Hazard Mitigation, Large-scale Coastal, Minority Students, Nation's Coastal, Natural Disasters, Predictive Tools, Small-scale Sediment, Coastalestuarine, Coastaloceanographic, Detailed, Discipline, Diversified, Education, Engineering, Existing, Flow, Fluid-particle, Force, Formulation, Framework, Human, Internship, LES, Large-scale, Modeling, Models, Multiphase, Nations, Particles, Processes, UF, Undergraduate, Vital.

CAREER: Modeling Ocean Particle Export Flux by Combining Particle Aggregation and Biogeochemical Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Adrian B Burd($603,174), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Biogeochemical Models, Rapidly Sinking, Sinking Particles, Surface Ocean, Water Column, Algorithms, Analysis, Carbon, Climate, Coagulation, Component, Developed, Development, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Flux, Global, Increasing, Integrated, Oceanographic, Parameterizations, Processes, Quantitative, Represent, Sets, Solving, Students, Teachers.

En-Gen: A Functional Genomics Approach to Organic Sulfur Cycling in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Mary Ann Moran($864,783), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Bacterioplankton Play, Field Studies, Functional Genomics, Bacterial, Biology, Critical, Cycling, DMSP, Discovery, Environmental, Georgia, Gulf, Marine, Mexico, Ocean, Regulation, Sulfur.

En-Gen: Proteomics Directed Environmental Genomics: Identifying in Situ Physiological Diversity of Cyanobacterial Nutrient Utilization in the South Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Gabrielle Rocap($596,524), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Prochlorococcus And Synechococcus, Marine Cyanobacteria, Proteomic Approaches, Actively, Course, Distributions, Driving, Environmental, Genes, Genomic, Niche, Nutrient, Stress, Structure, Suggest.

En-Gen: Genome-Enabled Environmental Functional Genomics and Expression Profiling of Diatoms in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Francois M Morel($1,046,219), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Environmental Conditions, Highly Expressed, Modern World, Approaches, Available, Basis, Cyanobacteria, Diatoms, Discover, Functional, Gene, Genes, Genomes, Genomics, Grow, Iron, Natural, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Rapidly, Stress, Students, Success, Summer, Worlds.

En-Gen: Gene expression and harmful algal bloom dynamics.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Deana L Erdner($995,426), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Genes Involved, Tamarense Blooms, Cellular, Cycle, Development, Dinoflagellate, Ecology, Expression, HAB, Habs, Health, Initiation, Molecular, Poisoning, Process, Regulated, Resources, Resting, Species, Specifically, Stages, Termination, Toxicity.

EN-GEN: Transcriptional and Proteomic Analyses of Multiple Environmental Stressors in Marine Diatoms (TP-AMES)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Mak A Saito($999,497), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Diatoms, Biology, Children, Co-limitation, Expression, Functional, Gaps, Gene, Genome, Genomics, Graduate, Iron, Limitation, Mentoring, Model, Molecular, Nutrient, Phosphorus, Phytoplankton, Primary, Profiling, Promote, Pseudonana.

MRI: Acquisition of Marine Geophysical Instrumentation Suite for Seafloor Mapping and Bottom Boundary Layer Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Paul T Gayes($535,770), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Undergraduate And Graduate, Current Profiler, Existing Instrumentation, Instrumentation Package, Acoustic, Bbl, Coastal, Demonstrate, Efforts, Geophysical, Integrated, Modeling, Sediment, Student.

Collaboration: Rainfall-driven Intertidal Zone Carbon Cycling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Raymond Torres($347,440), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: South Carolina, Carbon, Minority, Natural, Organic, Sediments, Students.

CAREER: Career Development Plan: Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Marine Habitats
Award Effective Date: 01/05/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christopher M Finelli($64,613), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Field Experience, Nutrient Plumes, Sedimentary Habitats, Burrow, Burrows, Chemical, Daily, Education, Effects, Flow, Ghost-shrimp, K-, LUMCON, Laboratory, Level, Nutrients, Processes, Program, Serve, Students, Teach, Themes, Water, Workshops.

Managing Digital Data Collections for the Earth & Ocean Sciences: Geoinformatics for Geochemistry and the Marine Geoscience Data System
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Suzanne Carbotte($500,210), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Marine Geosciences, Allows, Database, Disparate, Education, Efforts, Enhance, Management, Ocean, Staffing.

The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary: Deep-sea Benthic Foraminifera and the Cceanic Carbon Cycle
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Ellen Thomas($250,002), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Carbon Isotope, Accepted, Benthic, Collapse, Components, Composition, Deep-sea, Ecosystems, Extinction, Foraminifera, Global, Information, Investigate, Organisms, Productivity, Regional, Various.

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. John H Steele($313,765), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Academic, Fisheries, Has, ICES, Ocean.

Support for U.S. Scientific Parfticipation in PICES
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. George W Boehlert($180,771), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: North Pacific, Collaboration, Collaborations, Diverse, International, Marine, Ocean, PICES, Workshops.

SGER: Toward a Community Environment for Advanced Oceanic Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Alistair Adcroft($199,938), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Advanced Oceanic Modeling, Modeling Tools, Ocean Model, Ocean Modeling, Ocean Models, Bio-geochemical, Climate, Collaboration, Developers, Development, Environment, Essential, Examine, Forcing, Framework, Global, Initial, Interoperability, National, Parameterizations, Processes, Protocols, Prototype, Software, Techniques, Time.

SGER: Scaling a CFD Code for Ocean Processes to 1000s of Processors
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Kraig Winters($82,963), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics Code, Performance Analysis Tools, Effort, Has, Oceanography, Parallel, Primary, Processors, Run, Scalability.

Collaborative Research: ITR: Interactive Software Systems for Expert-Assisted Image Analysis and Classification of Aquatic Particles
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2003; Program: ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS

1. Allen R Hanson($1,434,905), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Automatically, Classification, Classify, Detritus, Expeditions, Features, Image, Images, Instruments, Marine, Particles, Phytoplankton.

MARS Operations and Maintenance
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Steve Etchemendy($1,462,983), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Cabled Observatory, Efficient Operation, Experiments, Facility, MARS, RCO, Testbed.

Ocean Circulation and Climate Impacts of Proglacial Lake Outbursts into the Northeastern Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Harlan P Johnson($613,552), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Freshwater Discharge, North Atlantic, Ocean Circulation, Climate, Flood, Floods, Pacific, Public, Via.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing ENSO with individual foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Athanasios Koutavas($108,235), CUNY College of Staten Island, Staten Island
2. Richard G Fairbanks($111,215), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Enso Variance, Glacial Maximum, Analyses, Core, Holocene, Individual, Isotope, Oxygen, Pis, Ruber.

Years 4-10 of a U.S. Science Support Program associated with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jeffrey Schuffert($42,794,315), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Instrument Development Program, Ancillary Activities, Ocean Drilling, Advisory, Continued, Discoveries, Expeditions, Funding, IODP, JOI, Mechanisms, Planning, Resources, Students, Thematic, Upcoming.

An investigation of patterns of deep-sea demersal fish metabolism and feeding rates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Jeffrey C Drazen($630,886), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deep Sea Fishes, Deep Sea Food, Sea Food Web, Deep-sea Benthic, Demersal Fishes, Energetic Demands, Energy Flow, Metabolic Rate, Metabolic Rates, Top Predators, Affect, Animals, Available, Declines, Deep-sea, Depth, Fisheries, Growth, Information, Light, Little, Model, Models, Play, Prey, Processes.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Processes and patterns in back arc basin hydrothermal vent communities
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. George W Luther($355,777), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Charles R Fisher($355,250), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Peter R Girguis($370,335), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Positive And Negative, Inter-specific Interactions, Manipulative Experiments, Realized Niche, Realized Niches, Biological, Correlated, Define, Ecological, FLEXE, Fauna, Fluid, GLOBE, Gradients, Graduate, Hydrothermal, Inter-specific, Lau, Primary, Ridge, Situ, Spatially, Species, Students, Tolerances, Vent, Vents.

Collaborative Research: Genesis of Primitive, High-Sr Lavas in the Western Aleutians
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: International Research Collab

1. Gene M Yogodzinski($230,176), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Jeffrey D Vervoort($18,389), Washington State University, Pullman
3. Peter B Kelemen($31,027), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Phenocrysts And Glass, Glass Inclusions, Carried, Collaboration, Compositions, Geochemical, Lavas, Processes, Pyroxene, Rock, Trace, Volcanic.

CMG POST-DOC: The Mathematics and Physics of Deep Spilling Flows and Boundary Currents in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Lawrence J Pratt($335,405), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Mathematical Tools, Acting, Advance, Boundary, Climate, Currents, Deep, Developed, Eigenvalues, Flow, Flows, Hydraulic, Models, Modes, Numerical, Ocean, Paths, Postdoctoral, Processes, Properties, Realizations, Western.

CMG Collaborative Research: Interactions of Phytoplankton with Dissipative Vortices
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Lisa J Fauci($471,430), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. Lee Karp-Boss($521,423), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Cells And Chains, Models And Experiments, Concentration Fields, Numerical Models, Turbulence Effects, Analog, COSEE-OS, Climate, Deformation, Determining, Devices, Diffusion, Dinoflagellates, Evolution, Favor, Flows, Fluid, Gradients, Grazers, Growth, Has, Individual, Interactions, Larger-scale, Low, Mechanisms, Near, Nutrient, Ocean, Organisms, Particles, Phenomena, Phytoplankton, Rotation, Turbulent, Variety, Vortex, Vortices, Vorticity.

MRI: Real Time Ocean Observations
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Eric P Bjorkstedt($211,410), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
Key terms: Ocean Observing, Acquisition, CUFES, Equipment, Instrumentation, Student, Underway, Vessel.

MRI: Acquisition of an Isotope-Ratio Mass Spectrometer Facility for East Georgia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William B Savidge($353,250), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Requested Instrumentation, Allow, Capabilities, Collaborations, HPLC, IRMS, Pis, Promote, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of Instuments to Facilitate Molecular-Level Studies in Earth and Ocean Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Lihini I Aluwihare($795,887), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fraction Collector, Mass Spectrometer, Membrane Lipid, Analytical, Capabilities, Efforts, Facility, Instrumentation, Marine, Outside, SIO, Students.

MRI: Development of a Refractive Gradiometer Probe for Oceanic Microstructure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Norman E Farr($753,905), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Index Sensor, Ocean Mixing, Development, Dissipation, Instrumentation, Potential, Salinity.

MRI: Development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for Benthic Research and Training
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Miguel Velez-Reyes($517,002), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Coral Reef, Puerto Rico, AUV, Benthic, Camera, Capabilities, Development, Graduate, Habitats, Opportunities, Outside, Range, Students, Undergraduate.

MARGINS FELLOWSHIP: The effect of frictional properties in subduction zones on earthquake triggerability
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($183,074), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Costa Rican, Subduction Zones, Earthquake, Fault, Potential, Stability, Strain, Triggering.

Exploring structural controls on great earthquake rupture and architecture of the Sumatra-Andaman convergent margin: A regional seismic reflection survey in collaboration with the
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Sean S Gulick($359,222), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Add-on, Deformation, German, Landward-vergent, Pis, Thrusting.

The submarine magmatic record of the transition from arc magmatism to continental rifting and seafloor spreading at the Gulf of California MARGINS focus site
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paterno R Castillo($392,444), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader, California, Continent, Cruise, Crust, Gulf, Has, History, Processes, Rift, Rock, Sampling, Transition, Volcanism.

RUI Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Fluid-Rock Interaction in Back-Arc Environments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter Saccocia($67,621), BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY, Bridgewater
2. Jeffrey S Seewald($179,873), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Back-arc Hydrothermal, Fluid Composition, Hydrothermal Fluids, Analytical, BSC, Back-arc, Compositions, Contribute, Course, Experiments, Investigation, Laboratory, Laboratory-based, Lau, MOR, Processes, RIDGE, Single, Students, Undergraduate, WHOI.

Oxygen Isotopes of Phosphate in Authigenic Carbonate-fluorapatite a Potential Recorder of Deep-water Oxygen Isotope Ratios and Temperatures A Proof of Concept Study
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Adina Paytan($20,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Authigenic Carbonate-fluorapatite, Carbonate-fluorapatite, Äo.

The He-Ne-Ar-H2O-CO2 Isotope and Abundance Systematics of the Central Indian Ridge: Constraints on Plume-Ridge Interaction and the Degassing History of the Reunion Hotspot
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David R Hilton($200,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Central Indian Ridge, Broader Impacts, Fracture Zones, Ridge Axis, Carried, Characteristics, Collaborators, Degassing, Detailed, Development, Evolution, Gases, Graduate, Hotspot, Interactions, International, Isotope, Lavas, Mantle, Melting, Scripps, UK, Volatile, Volatiles.

Pleistocene Sea Level Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Fairbanks($190,052), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Fossil Corals, Sea Level, Dating, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Monitoring inflation at Axial Seamount
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William W Chadwick($68,279), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Scott L Nooner($115,660), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magma Supply Rate, Axial Volcano, Beneath, Broader, Caldera, Eruption, Has, Inflation, Outreach, Pressure, Public, Seafloor, Volcanic.

Analysis of 9°50'N East Pacific Rise Seismicity: Insight into Hydrothermal and Magmatic Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maya Tolstoy($315,804), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Adequately, Anticipated, Continue, EPR, Eruption, Focused, Hydrothermal, January, Provided, Remains, Ridge, Site, South, °N.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Distribution of Hydrothermal Activity and its Geologic and Geophysical Controls at the Lau Integrated Studies Site
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph A Resing($218,379), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Edward T Baker($53,792), NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle
3. Fernando Martinez($410,387), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hydrothermal Activity, Hydrothermal Plumes, Hydrothermal Venting, Kilo Moana, Lau Iss, Magma Lens, Narrow Region, Ridge Axis, Ridge Crest, Spreading Centers, Thermal Structure, ABE, Alternative, Axial, Biological, Characteristics, Chemical, Controls, Correlated, Crust, Deposits, Distribution, Encompasses, Experiment, Faults, Flanking, Focus, Geologic, Gradients, Hydrocasts, Maprs, Models, Nature, Naxis, Near, Potential, Seafloor, Seismic, Selected, Sites, Sonar, Stable, Structures, Surrounding, Survey, Temperature, Transition, Underlying, Velocity, Vertical, Volume, Water.

Eruption Processes Associated with the 2005-06 Volcanic Episode at the East Pacific Rise ISS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Samuel A Soule($146,409), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Crestal Plateau, Epr Iss, Fissure Mound, Off-axis Fissure, Ridge Axis, AST, Biological, Current, Deployments, Deposits, East, Eruption, Fault, Fissures, Flow, Flows, Hydrothermal, Hypothesized, Lava, Mid-ocean, Mpixel, Off-axis, Portion, Previous, Processes, Seafloor, Seismic, Site, Size, Volcanic, Was.

Spatial and Temporal Ppatterns of Magmatism in the Oman Ophiolite: Constraints from High-Precision U-Pb Geochronology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Samuel A Bowring($180,396), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Oceanic Lithosphere, Age, Crust, Geochronology, Intrusive, Magmatism, Oman, Ophiolite, Precision, Processes, Radiogenic, Zircons.

MELTING, MELT MIGRATION, AND VOLCANISM AT CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. E M Parmentier($300,866), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Distinct Volcanic Centers, Convergent Margins, Fingering Instabilities, Numerical Model, Activities, Believed, Decompaction, Decompression, Dehydration, Developed, Flux, Graduate, Hot, Investigated, Localized, Magma, Mantle, Melt, Melting, Melts, Plate, Processes, Rises, Students, Undergraduate, Upper, Variable, Variety, Wedge.

Glacial water mass geometry in the South Atlantic: testing neodymium isotopes versus benthic carbon isotopes as paleo-water mass tracers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katharina Pahnke($337,678), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Water Mass Geometry, Benthic Carbon, Broader Impacts, Carbon Isotope, Carbon Isotopes, South Atlantic, Epsilon-nd, Glacial, Holocene, LGM, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: U-series constraints on the ages and petrogenesis of Lau Basin Lavas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Charles H Langmuir($217,697), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Kenneth Sims($76,444), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Age Constraints, Convergent Margin, Ocean Ridge, Ocean Ridges, Spreading Centers, Back-arc, Basin, Chemistry, Contents, Deep, Effects, Essential, Excesses, Fluid, Garnet, Introduction, Isotope, Isotopes, Lau, Mantle, Modules, Processes, Region, Set, Sims, Subduction, Temporal, Th, Time, Transport, U-series, Volcanic, Volcanism, Water.

New Seafloor Sampling Methods for Noble Gases: A Trial at Loihi Seamount
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark D Kurz($301,580), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Seafloor Volcanic Glasses, Atmospheric Contamination, Noble Gases, Submarine Glasses, Air, Air-free, Air-tight, Collected, Involves, Laboratory, Mantle, Newly, Processing, Sampler, Sampling.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Evolution of the Lau Basin-A Reappraisal
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fernando Martinez($198,948), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Eastern Lau Spreading, Lau Spreading Centers, Western Lau Basin, Broader Impacts, Mantle Wedge, Tectonic Rifting, Active, Arc, Back-arc, Bathymetry, Composition, Crust, Existing, Formation, Formed, Furthest, Gravity, Model, Models, North, Rock, Seafloor, Whereas.

Skew of Mantle Upwelling Beneath the EPR: A Reconsideration of Data and Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($265,252), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Formation And Evolution, Mantle Upwelling Beneath, Ridge Crest Segmentation, Volcanic And Hydrothermal, Active Ridges, Axial Depth, Hydrothermal Activity, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Oceanic Crust, Rise Axis, Transition Zone, Anomalies, Architecture, Assumed, Bathymetric, Debate, Deep, Delivery, Differentiation, EPR, Energy, Existing, Gravity, Magma, Magmatic, Melt, Mid-ocean, Models, Moho, Occurring, Origin, Petrologic, Processes, Program, Seafloor, Seismic, Skew, Symmetric.

Collaborative Research: Magnetic Ocean Crust: High-Fidelity Geomagnetic Field Recorder and Sensitive Indicator of Magmatic, Tectonic, and Alteration Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Emilio Herrero-Bervera($157,045), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Gary Acton($162,139), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Earth's Geomagnetic Field, Broader Impacts, Earth's Geomagnetic, Ocean Crust, Alteration, Characteristics, Determined, Electron, Iron, Magnetic, Methods, Microscopy, Mineral, Minerals, Properties, Seafloor.

Collaborative Research: Surveying and drilling the submerged reefs of the western Indian Ocean-applications to sea level history, monsoon history, and radiocarbon calibration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher D Charles($59,486), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Sea Level, Submerged Reef, Acquire, Age, Climate, Coral, Cruise, Deposited, Fossil, Ocean, Radiocarbon, Reefs, Seychelles, Surveying.

SGER: Sclerosponges: a key to understanding the influence of global warming on ocean thermocline and mixed layer variability..an example from the Caribbean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Clark E Sherman($69,523), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Near Surface, Aragonite, Depth, Geochemistry, ROV, Sclerosponges, Skeletons.

Inverse Modeling of the Glacial Atlantic: An Expanded Tracer Data Set
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Curry($250,814), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Glacial Maximum, Inverse Modeling, Atlantic, Circulation.

Ocean Circulation, Oxygen and Nutrient Cycles During the Last Glacial Period
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andreas Schmittner($383,935), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Oxygen And Nutrient, Nitrogen Isotope, Ocean Circulation, Biogeochemistry, Comparison, Cycling, Denitrification, Global, Led, Model, Pis, Primary, Productivity.

SGER: Verification of the Use of Sclerosponges for Paleoclimatic Research
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter K Swart($49,734), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atlantic, Error, Geochemical, High-resolution, Information, Past, SGER, Salinities, Salinity, Sclerosponges.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of pCO2 Changes Since the Pliocene Based on Alkenone Carbon Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ana C Ravelo($17,221), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Zhonghui Liu($99,203), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Carbon Isotopic Fractionation, Alkenones, Composition, Dc, Pco, Planktonic, Pliocene, Program, Reconstruct, Transition.

Evaluation of centennial-millennial eastern Indian Ocean climate variability & mechanisms during the Holocene: Surface & thermocline reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Delia Oppo($393,179), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eastern Indian Ocean, Surface And Thermocline, Eastern Indian, Holocene, IOD, Reconstructions, Time.

Seafloor Samples Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Curry($611,447), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Previously Acquired, Sea Floor, Access, Collection, Core, Extensive, International, Laboratory, Marine, Programs, Repository, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Multiple Sulfur Isotope Tracers of the Subsurface Biosphere in Oceanic Basement
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Shuhei Ono($128,320), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Del 34s, Microbial Activity, Oceanic Basement, Oceanic Crust, Upper Oceanic, Alteration, Analyses, Basaltic, Budget, Contents, Gabbros, Isotope, Rock, Se, Sulfide, Sulfur.

Glacial-Interglacial Carbon Reorganization and Carbonate Compensation in the Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas M Marchitto($259,947), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Carbonate Chemistry, Deep Ocean, Upper Ocean, Caco, Compensation, Cycle, Dissolution, EEP, Glacial, II, Oceans, Pacific, Resulting, Rises, Seafloor, Spikes, Student, Was.

Collaborative Research: Holocene/Deglacial Abrupt Climate Change and Variability of the Western Pacific Warm Pool from Multi-decadal to Century-scale Coral Climate Records
Award Effective Date: 06/07/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terrence M Quinn($63,239), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Thermal And Hydrologic, Fossil Corals, Abrupt, Climate, Determinations, Holocene, Proxy, Region, Tropical, WPWP.

SGER: Detailed Lava Surface Age Map and Pre-eruptive Magma Aging for the 2005-6 Volcanic Eruption at 9 46'-9 56'N EPR
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenna H Rubin($88,002), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Integrated Studies Site, Surface Age Map, Age Resolution, Lava Flow, Radioactive Disequilibrium, Radioactive Signature, Ridge2000 Program, Submarine Eruption, Ages, Analyses, Dating, Estimate, Expeditions, Heat, Hope, ISS, Initiate, Involved, Magma, Nearly, Po-pb, Prior, Rapid, Reservoir, Soon, Was.

Collaborative Research: 3D modeling of subduction in the Pacific
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter E van Keken($97,052), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Geoffrey A Abers($77,587), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Karen M Fischer($70,421), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: 3d Models, Subduction Zones, Allow, Along-strike, Approach, Edges, Effort, Flow, Geometry, Influence, Lateral, Near, Observations, Plate, Slab, Wedge.

Marine Geological Samples Laboratory: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven Carey($215,467), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Core And Dredge, Dredge Rock, Graduate School, Marine Geological, Mgsl Website, Activities, Collection, Cores, Demand, Existing, Facility, Faculty, GSO, Has, Repository, URI.

Continued Operation of the OSU/COAS Marine Geology Repository
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Nicklas G Pisias($539,299), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sediment Cores, Sediment Trap, Archive, Available, Nodules, Repository, Rock, Service.

SGER: Paleoceanographic Evidence for Changes in Ocean Circulation and the Ecological Effects of Iron Fertilization in the Northeast Pacific (0-20 ka)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven R Emerson($53,111), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Glacial Period, Glacial-interglacial Transition, Ne Pacific, North Pacific, Silicon Isotope, Age, Circulation, Core, Deep, Glacial-interglacial, Sediment, Water.

The Mw 9.3 Indonesian Earthquake and the Holocene Great Earthquake Record from the Northern Sumatran Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph S Stoner($807,370), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Has.

Stable Isotope Investigation of a Fossil Hydrothermal System in Oceanic Crust Formed at a Superfast Spreading Rate (ODP/IODP Hole 1256D)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey C Alt($253,756), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Bulk Rocks, Fluids, Isotope, Minerals, Reactions, Seawater, Section, Stable, Temperatures.

A Coral-based Reconstruction and Analysis of Subdecadal- to Multidecadal-scale Climate Variability in the Cuban Sector of the Tropical North Atlantic/Caribbean Sea
Award Effective Date: 04/04/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terrence M Quinn($126,169), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Atlantic, Climate, Coral, North, Past, Surface.

SGER: Changes in vent fluid chloride and volatile content as a result of the 2006 eruption at 9N, EPR
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marvin D Lilley($87,828), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Chemistry, Chloride, Collected, Concentrations, Cruise, Eruption, Gas, Hydrothermal, Initial, Instrument, June, November, Placed, Ridge, Vent.

Melt Segregation and Strain Localization in Response to Shear Deformation of Partially Molten Rocks, a Transition from Porous to Channelized Flow
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David L Kohlstedt($299,999), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Melt Segregation, Partially Molten, Analyses, Carried, Constant, Constraints, Deformation, Experiments, Laboratory, Localization, Mechanisms, Strain, Torsion.

Geodynamics and Melting at Ultra-slow and Oblique Spreading Centers
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Laurent Montesi($315,045), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Basalt And Peridotite, Magma Migration, Mantle Flow, Numerical Models, Peridotite Chemistry, Plate Tectonics, Ridge Segmentation, Slowest Mors, Ultraslow Ridges, Volcanic Centers, Abundant, Along-axis, Chemical, Compare, Compute, Crystallization, Depth, Environment, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geodynamics, Global, Importance, Intensity, Limited, Localized, Majority, Mechanics, Melt, Melting, Origins, Puzzling, SWIR, Toolkit, Volcanism.

Collecting Deep-sea Corals from off of Tasmania to Measure the History of Southern Ocean Radiocarbon Concentrations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jess F Adkins($220,205), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ability, Antarctic, Climate, Constrain, Corals, Cruise, Deep, Fossil, Global, Information, South, Southern, Tasmania, Vessel, Water.

New Insights into Ridge Processes in the Lau Basin Back Arc from Amplitude Variation with Offset Studies of Multichannel Seismic Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Graham Kent($124,337), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge Studies, Lau Back-arc, Lau Basin, Magma Chamber, Magma Chambers, Mid-ocean Ridge, Spreading Rate, Spreading Ridges, Volcanic Arc, Accretion, Axial, Back-arc, Center, Characterized, Crust, Eastern, Increasing, Influenced, Intermediate, Investigation, Link, MCS, Magmas, Mmyr, Pacific, Plate, Previous, Primary, Rates, Responsible, Rift, Strand, Structure, Subducting, Thickness, Trends, Variable, Volatiles.

Fundamental Investigation of Glacial/interglacial Deep-sea pH and Carbonate Saturation Effects on Paired Benthic Foraminiferal Trace Element and Stable Isotope Signatures
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher J Hintz($251,510), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Benthic Foraminiferal, Environmental Conditions, Chemistries, Deep-ocean, Deep-sea, Graduate, Past, Ph, Trace, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Depth Distribution of Anisotropic Fabric in the Oceanic Mantle
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Donald W Forsyth($344,078), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Azimuthal Anisotropy, Calstate Northridge, Fossil Component, Rayleigh Waves, Western Pacific, Age, Arrays, Asthenosphere, Brown, Communicate, Deforming, Direction, Earth, Enabling, Fabric, Function, Indicate, Lithosphere, Local, Measure, Measuring, Models, Occurring, Oceanic, Participants, Period, Plate, Plates, Prepare, Press, Propagation, Public, Schools, Seafloor, Seismic, Spreading, Students, Surface, Tectonic, Thickness, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Os, Nd and Hf isotopes in abyssal peridotites from Arctic Lena Trough: Continental lithospheric or asthenospheric mantle origin?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Todd B Housh($86,777), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Thomas J Lapen($152,928), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Nd And Hf, Graduate Student, Lena Trough, Analyzed, Asthenospheric, Continent, Isotopes, North, Os, Recruit, Rift, Rock.

Establishing a Long-Term Geodetic Network at the East Pacific Rise Ridge 2000 Integrated Studies Site
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Scott L Nooner($297,602), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magma Movement Beneath, Yearly Time Scales, Magma Lens, Melt Lens, Mid-ocean Ridges, Mush Zone, Ridge Crests, Boundaries, Collaboration, Crust, Deformation, Depend, Eruption, Geodetic, Long-term, Low, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Monitoring, Movements, Oceanic, Plan, Plate, Pressure, Processes, Relative, Seafloor, Surface, Tapped, Underlying, Upwelling, Volcanoes.

Hafnium Isotope Constraints on the Source Characteristics of Normal Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Vincent J Salters($289,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Generation, ICPMS, Ridge, Students.

Widespread Active Detachment Faulting and Core Complex Formation Near 13 Degrees 30'N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Deborah K Smith($130,463), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Core Complex, Core Complexes, Formation, Has, History, Ridge, Spreading.

The LDEO Deep-Sea Repository and the Curating and Maintenance of the Sediment Library & Dredge Collection
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James D Hays($241,459), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Core Photographs, Collection, Cores, Deep-sea, Describe, LDEO, Past, Repository, Upgrade.

Hydrologic and Geochemical Measurements During the Marnaut Project, Marmara Sea, Turkey
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David R Hilton($179,511), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Fluid Expulsion, Active, Additional, Chemistry, Collected, Earthquake, Fault, Fluids, French, Has, History, Hydrologic, International, Marmara, Monitoring, Seafloor, Tectonic, Time, Turkish, Unique.

The Upper Transition From Seismic To Aseismic Faulting on Subduction Megathrusts
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($389,991), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Generation And Seismic, Lithification And Consolidation, Subduction Plate Boundaries, Effective Stress, Seismic Hazard, Tsunami Generation, Conditions, Earthquakes, Elastic, Experiments, Fail, Fault, Fluid, Frictional, Permeability, Properties, Rupture, Sections, Students, Synthetic.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Structure and Evolution of Oceanic Crust along the Juan de Fuca Ridge and its Flanks
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Juan Pablo Canales($176,459), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Mladen Nedimovic($173,519), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Marine Seismic Reflection, Ridge And Tectonic, Directly Linked, Hydrothermal Alteration, Hydrothermal Circulation, Hydrothermal Convection, Hydrothermal Cooling, Magma Reservoirs, Mid-ocean Ridge, Ocean Crust, Oceanic Crust, Seismic Tomography, Seismic Velocity, Seismic Waves, Tectonic Plate, Affects, Benefit, Biological, Chemical, Deep-sea, Earth, Flank, Formation, Geological, Images, Lithosphere, Measuring, Mid-ocean, Monitoring, Objectives, Observations, Observatory, Oceans, Ongoing, Processes, Properties, Rock, Structure, Techniques.

Sources of Organic Compounds in Submarine Hot-Springs: An Experimental Investigation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Seewald($199,659), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hydrothermal Fluids, Abiotic, Carbon, Environments, Experiments, Isotopic, Organic, Origin, Pyrolysis, Reactions, Seawater, Undergraduate, Vent.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Tectonic and Sedimentary Evolution of the Newfoundland Margin in the Newfoundland-Iberia Rift
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brian E Tucholke($272,544), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Newfoundland-iberia Rift, Broad, Extension, Newfoundland-iberia, Post-rift, Remain, Shear, Spatial.

Analysis of Hydraulic Seismicity at the TAG Hydrothermal Mound
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Sohn($247,964), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Active Tag Mound, Massive Sulfide Deposit, Fluid Circulation, Fluid Flow, Mineral Deposit, Allow, Deep-sea, Deposits, Flow-induced, Geometry, Has, Hydrothermal, Knowing, Network, Pathways, Seismometers, Subsurface, Temperature.

MARGINS: Constraining the Process of Volatile Transfer from the Subducted Slab to the Surface using Phenocrysts of Recently Erupted Tephras from the Izu-Bonin-Marianas Arc
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Tobias P Fischer($75,095), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Arc, Has, Nitrogen, Volcanoes.

Deglacial Transport through the Florida Straits: Constraints on Atlantic Ocean Circulation during the Younger Dryas, Heinrich Event 1 and the Last Glacial Maximum
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz($391,955), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Abrupt Climate, Florida Straits, North Atlantic, Heinrich, Strength, Students.

Source to Sink Generation of Biogeochemical Stratigraphic Signals across the Waipaoa Margin, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Neal E Blair($499,997), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Margins Program, Organic Matter, Sediment Transport, Burial, Carbon, Sink, Source, Zealand.

Intermediate Water Corals as High-Resolution Climatic Archives from the California Margin
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Tessa M Hill($227,762), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Intermediate Water, Water Depth, Development, Proxy.

Culturing Deep-sea Benthic Foraminifera - Multi-temperature Proxy Calibration, and Substrate and Food Experiments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel C McCorkle($260,062), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep-sea Benthic Foraminifera, Deep-sea Benthic, Oxygen Isotopic, Calibrations, Chemistry, Climate, Composition, Conditions, Deep-water, Experiments, Paleoceanographic, Reconstructions, Temperature, Water.

Collaborative Research: Late Quaternary Framework of the Waipaoa Continental Margin: Quantifying Mass Fluxes and Event Stratigraphy for Integrated Source-to-Sink Studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven A Kuehl($148,834), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. Clark R Alexander($181,832), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Focus Site, Basin, Climatic, Cores, Input, Lead, Pis, Sediment, Shelf, Slope, Waipaoa.

Tectonic Gateways and Paleogene Southern Ocean Circulation: The Proto-Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Margaret L Delaney($250,219), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Atlantic Sector, Nd Isotope, Sediment Cores, Southern Ocean, Tasman Sea, ACC, Antarctic, Cenozoic, Cold, Eocene, Evolution, Gateway, Indian, Late, Latitude, Pacific, Scenario, Seawater, Sectors.

Post-Eruption Seismic Monitoring at 9N: Toward Capturing a Full Volcanic Cycle
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maya Tolstoy($99,981), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Axial Magma Chamber, Global Heat, Hydrothermal Cell, Hydrothermal Circulation, Mid-ocean Ridges, Seafloor Spreading, Build-up, Character, Chemistry, Deployment, Depth, Educational, Eruption, Fine, Has, Hypothesize, Leading, Microearthquake, Mid-ocean, Months, Outreach, Prior, Segmentation, Seismicity, Shape, Students, Time.

Collaborative Research: Modeling the chemistry, origin, and evolution of subduction zone fluids rising beneath the Mariana forearc
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael J Mottl($159,400), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Thomas M McCollom($163,707), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mariana Forearc, Basalt, Conditions, Fluids, Fluxes, Metamorphic, Modeling, Sediment, Subducting.

Collaborative Research: Tracking North Atlantic Water Column Structure and Circulation Through the Late Cretaceous Using Oxygen and Neodymium Isotopes in Fish Debris
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ellen E Martin($153,119), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Kenneth MacLeod($134,540), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Intermediate And Deep, Carbon Burial, Deep Water, Global Carbon, Late Cretaceous, North Atlantic, Ocean Anoxic, Organic Carbon, Circulation, Drilling, Epsilon-nd, Greenhouse, Suggest, Waters.

Mantle Structure Beneath Ultraslow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Dunn($174,341), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ultra-slow Spreading Ridges, Melt Distribution, Mid-ocean Ridges, Ridge Crest, Thermal Structure, Ultra-slow Spreading, Arctic, Beneath, Crust, Display, Global, Hydrothermal, Influence, Influences, Less, Mantle, Melting, Mid-ocean, Oceanic, Permanent, Process, Processes, Region, Rises, Seismic, Surface, Tested, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Iceland Flexure Zones: Analogs for Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Centers
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey A Karson($288,089), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Developed, Iceland, Lava.

Continuous Holocene Climate Records from Equatorial Pacific Islands
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julian P Sachs($356,021), University of Washington, Seattle
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.

Collaborative Research: Detailed Analysis of High-Resolution Morphological Data and Water-Column Hydrothermal Measurements along Earth's Fastest Spreading Center, EPR 27-32 S
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($91,229), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Analysis, Hydrothermal, Involves, Spreading.

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($101,682), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Juan De Fuca, Ridge Crest, Biological, Cruises, Navy, Pacific, Processes, Program, Seismic, Time.

Petrology of Southern Valu Fa Ridge Lavas
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Graham($155,206), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Subducted Ocean Crust, Valu Fa Ridge, Lau Basin, Mantle Source, Melting Region, Analyses, Analyzed, Arc, Carbon, Characteristics, Chemical, Components, Composition, Fluids, Formed, Geochemical, Integrated, International, Lavas, Magmas, Nsf-funded, Pacific, Processes, Provided, Ring-of-fire, Rock, Seafloor, Site, Southern, Subduction, Tonga, Volatiles, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Interannual Variability of Coastal Phytoplankton Blooms in the Gulf of Maine and Their Relationships to Local and Remote Forcings
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Robert C Beardsley($360,324), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Changsheng Chen($267,581), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. David W Townsend($102,361), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Coastal And Shelf, Coupled Biological-physical Model, Local And Remote, Scotian Shelf Water, Biological-physical Model, Coastal Ocean, Coupled Biological-physical, Large-scale Forcing, Local Forcing, Phytoplankton Blooms, Remote Forcing, Slope Water, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Experiments, Explore, Fluxes, Focus, Future, Gulf, Influence, Interannual, K-, Large-scale, Maine, Output, Processes, Public, Surface, Vertical, Web-based.

Biological characterization of the nitrogen-fixing Rhizosolenia-Richelia symbiosis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Tracy A Villareal($515,991), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Growth Rates, Associations, Biological, Biology, Conditions, Cyanobacteria, DDA, Ddas, Fixation, Has, Input, Mass, Models, Nbb-fixation, Nitrogen, Oceans, Phosphate, Potential, Program, Quantify, Rhizosolenia, Sedimentary, Sinking, Suggest, Temperature, Trichodesmium, Warming.

En-Gen: A functional genomic analysis of how a major calcifying phytoplankter responds to ocean acidification predicted for the end of the century
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jonathon H Stillman($1,184,748), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Air-sea Co2 Exchange, Carbonate Ion Concentration, Air-sea Co2, Carbonate Chemistry, Gene Expression, Broad, Calcifying, Century, Has, Huxleyi, Oceans, Organism, Pco, Physiological, Projected, Seawater, Students.

Evolution in deep-sea molluscs
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Ron J Etter($592,140), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Deep Sea, Population Structure, Species Diversity, Biodiversity, Deep-sea, Depth, Development, Evolutionary, Extinction, Has, Historical, Independent, Loci, Ocean, Populations, Program, Public, Represent, School, Students.

Effect of Temperature on Extracellular Polymeric Substance Production (EPS) by Diatoms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Daniel C Thornton($364,718), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Biological Carbon Pump, Diatoms Produce, Increasing Temperature, Natural Plankton, Active, Affecting, Aggregates, Aggregation, Alpha, Central, Climate, EPS, Ecology, Experiments, Extracellular, Global, Increase, Light, Limitation, Model, Ocean, Organic, Particulate, Partitioning, Physiology, Primary, Proportion, Students.

"Upgrading computational facilities for URI Seismology and Marine Geophysics"
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Yang Shen($67,335), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Finite-frequency Sensitivity Kernels, Finite-frequency Sensitivity, Anisotropy, Cluster, Computational, Continue, Enable, Facility, Geophysics, Graduate, Infrastructure, Propagation, Resources, Savage, Seismic, Structure, Students, Tomographic, URI.

MRI: Acquisition of a Primary Cluster for the SIO COMPAS Shared Computer Facility
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Bruce D Cornuelle($627,226), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Requested Instrumentation, Additionally, Center, Cluster, Efforts, Existing, Modeling, Ocean, Process-oriented, Servers.

Measuring Westward Recirculation in the Subpolar Gyre of the Southeastern Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Paula S Fratantoni($2,237,710), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continental Slope, Cyclonic Gyre, Meridional Overturning, Newly Discovered, Ocean Circulation, Southern Ocean, Westward Flow, ACC, Antarctic, Climate, Weak.

Sampling Facility for US GEOTRACES and Other Trace Element Biogeochemistry Programs
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Gregory A Cutter($535,792), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Instruments, Sampling, Special, Trace.

Collaborative Proposal: Development of a Prototype Multi-Sensor Ocean Floor Observatory on the MARS Cable
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Paul R McGill($427,860), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Barbara A Romanowicz($338,831), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Extension Cable, Mars Cable, Acquisition, Allow, Available, Based, Cables, Connection, Developed, Existing, Interfaces, MOBB, Observatory, Ocean, Pis, Power, Seafloor, Sensors, Software.

NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Leon M Cammen($135,000), NOAA, Silver Spring
Key terms: Fellowship Program, National Sea, Environmental, Marine, NSF, Office, Programs, Provided, Variety.

Labyrinthulomycete diversity and abundance
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Jackie L Collier($353,866), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: 18s Rdna, Food Webs, Molecular Genetic, School Students, Abundance, Diverse, Diversity, Efforts, Evidence, Function, Fungi, Gather, Importance, Labyrinthulomycete, Labyrinthulomycetes, Local, Marine, Nutrition, PCR, POM, Primers, Quantitative, SBU, Sense, Sequence, Sequencing, Thraustochytrids, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: A 3D Seismic Investigation of the Nankai Trough plate boundary system in the Kumano Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/17/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Harold J Tobin($213,669), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: 3-d Seismic Reflection, 3-d Seismic, 3d Seismic, Kumano Basin, Ocean Drilling, Seismogenic Zone, Geometry, History, Nankai, Properties, Thrust, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Velocity, Compaction, and Pore Pressure in Underthrust Sediments, Nankai Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/17/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Harold J Tobin($59,859), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Pore Pressure, Compaction, Nankai, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Drilling Data, Discovery, Global Visualization and Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. William B Ryan($51,254), Columbia University, New York
2. Cinzia Cervato($68,325), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Age, Allows, Approach, Developed, Drilling, Education, Geomapapp, Interface, Virtual, Visualization, Web.

Collaborative Research: Borehole Studies of ODP Site 1200, South Chamorro Seamount: A Window into Active Serpentinite Mud Volcanism
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Charles G Wheat($380,205), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Craig L Moyer($122,172), Western Washington University, Bellingham
3. Patricia Fryer($111,850), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
4. Jeffrey S Seewald($122,785), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Alteration, Constrain, Microbial, Potential.

Collaborative Proposal: Site Survey and Initial Characterization of North Pond: Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Seismic Profiles
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Katrina J Edwards($255,028), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Andreas P Teske($228,426), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Deep Subsurface, Dispersal Pathways, Iodp Cruise, Microbial Observatory, North Pond, Ridge Flank, Site Survey, Subsurface Microbial, Subsurface Microbiology, Activities, Activity, Basalt, Biogeochemical, Cells, Composition, Crust, Environment, Flow, Fluid, Focuses, Isolated, Marine, Metabolic, Preparation, Sediment, Sediments, Student, Vision.

Collaborative research: Large-scale, long-term, multi-directional, cross-hole experiments in the upper oceanic crust using a borehole observatory network
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Keir Becker($167,940), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Charles G Wheat($171,711), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Jordan F Clark($24,893), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
4. James P Cowen($67,790), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
5. Andrew T Fisher($190,653), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Formation Fluids, Oceanic Crust, Assessment, Deep, Experiments, Geochemical, Microbiological, Processes, Rebound, Shallow, Transport.

PetDB, The Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor Continued Operation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Sritharan Vinayagamoorthy($646,885), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ocean Floor, Access, Accessible, Development, Education, Geochemical, Geoinformatics, Has, Igneous, Maximize, Operation, Petdb, Petrological, Rock, Utility.

Collaborative Research: Numerical modeling of fluid flow and transport during out of sequence thrusting and underplating: Application to the NanTroSEIZE investigation area
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Elizabeth J Screaton($122,446), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Shemin Ge($94,337), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Plate Boundary Fault, Subduction Zone Modeling, Fluid Expulsion, Fluid Flow, Graduate Students, Kii Transect, Mega-splay Fault, Nankai Subduction, Pore Pressures, Seismogenic Zone, Software Package, Subduction Zones, ABAQUS, Ability, Accretionary, Deformation, Features, Future, Importance, MS, Meetings, Mega-splay, Nantroseize, Out-of-sequence, Phd, Porosity, Prism, Processes, Underplating.

Ultra High Resolution 3D Seismic Surveying of Active Hydrate Ridge Vents to Complement Proposed CORKing
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Matthew Hornbach($427,226), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Southern Hydrate Ridge, 3d Seismic, Free Gas, Install Corks, Small-scale Faults, Temporal Evolution, Vent Conduits, Beneath, Complement, Details, Development, Drilling, Enigmatic, Existing, GHSZ, Horizon, IODP, Interpreting, Investigate, Layers, Leg, Low-cost, Methane, Migrates, ODP, Potential, Resolution, Reveal, Routes, Seafloor, Sites, Siting, Small-scale, Spatial, Stratigraphic, Summit, Venting, Vents.

Hydrologic Monitoring at the Nantroseize OOST Zone: A Pilot Study
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Michael D Tryon($145,916), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Allow, Analysis, Deployed, Dive, Has, Instruments, Japanese, Nankai, Pis, Region, Seeps, Shinkai.

The Future of Marine Heat Flow: A Workshop to Define Scientific Goals and Experimental Needs for the 21st Century
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert N Harris($66,141), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Marine Heat Flow, Capability, Workshop.

REU Site for Oregon Marine Science: From Upper Estuaries to the Deep Sea
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert A Duncan($310,975), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Based, HMSC, Organizes, Presentations, Program, Student, Students.

Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and IODP Studies in the IBM Arc System; Hawaii - October 2007
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Geoffrey A Abers($129,667), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Focus, Future, IBM, MARGINS, Region, Workshop.

Development and Testing of Materials Methods for In-situ Incubations and Subsurface Microbial Observatories at North Pond
Award Effective Date: 03/16/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Katrina J Edwards($244,310), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Joan M Bernhard($244,310), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: FLEC, IODP, Microbes, Microbial.

Characterizing 3D fracture networks and modeling wave propagation beneath Southern Hydrate Ridge using data from the existing 3D seismic site survey
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Anne M Tréhu($89,334), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Depth, Gas, Prestack, Reflection, Seafloor, Seismic, Subsurface.

Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Studies in Central America; Costa Rica - July 2007
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Terry A Plank($136,953), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Costa Rica, Central, Five, Integrate, MARGINS, Program, Review, Synthesis, Synthesize, Workshop.

MARGINS Postdoctoral Fellowship: Deciphering the Role of Melt Segregation and Strain Partitioning in Rifting Continents
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Benjamin K Holtzman($210,846), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Partitioning And Effective, Effective Viscosity, Elastic Properties, Graduate Student, Melt Segregation, Strain Partitioning, California, Collaboration, Degree, Effects, Experiments, Gradients, Gulf, Kohlstedt, Model, Seismic, Takei, Univ.

A Site survey in support of IODP Drilling proposal 626-Full "Cenozoic Pacific Equatorial Age Transect: Following the Palaeo-Equator"
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Mitchell W Lyle($356,618), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Focuses, IODP, Pacific, Seismic.

JOI Proposal to Manage US Science Support Program - IODP
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey Schuffert($14,749,921), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Activities, Development, Drilling, Engagement, Enhance, Expeditions, IODP, JOI, Plan, Program, USSSP-IODP, Variety.

SGER: Development of New Method for Black Carbon Nano-Particles in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Peter R Edwards($73,480), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Marine Chemistry, Analytical, BC, Carbon, Component, Cycle, Global, Method, Nano-particles, Pis, Seawater.

Advanced Technology for In-situ Acoustic Sensing of Zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jules S Jaffe($456,533), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ability, Acoustic, Development, Generation, Ocean, Promise, Students, Technology, Theory.

SGER: Inexpensive Nitrate Nutrient Sensor Arrays
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Grant B Deane($55,860), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Boa Design, Commercially Available, Nitrate Sensor, Array, Autonomous, Enzyme, Fabricate, Facility, Has, Instrument, Instruments, Marine, Nutrients, Pis, Proven, Robust, SIO, Sensors, Sol-gel, Students, Technology, Testing.

Developing the Next Generation Marine Mammal Information Center for Integrated Ocean Observing: OBIS-SEAMAP 2.0
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Patrick N Halpin($1,690,258), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Ocean Observing, Continue, Developed, Information, Management, Marine, OBIS-SEAMAP, Pis, Program, Protected, Services, Species, Tools.

The HOT Profiler: A Battery-Powered/Inductively-Charged, Satellite-Linked Moored Profiling System for Long Time Series of Rapid Vertical Profiles of Density and Velocity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Timothy M McGinnis($1,637,138), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cabled, Communications, Days, Extended, Hours, Ocean, Power, Profiler, Profiles.

Development and Validation of an Underwater Optical Modem
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James C Preisig($1,326,103), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Communication, Deep, Installed, Mobile, Navigation, Network, Nodes, Optical.

Publication of Special Edition of "Limnology and Oceanography"
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Mark A Moline($80,000), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Autonomous And Lagrangian, Chemical And Biological, Alps Technologies, Continuous Presence, Lagrangian Platforms, Spatial Coverage, Advances, Applications, Applied, Combination, Sampling.

In situ voltammetry integrated with a cabled nearshore observatory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kimberly A Binsted($250,464), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kilo Nalu, Cabled, Chemical, Framework, Integration, Nearshore, Networks, Observatory, Observing, Ocean, Pis, Serve, Situ, Surface, Voltammetry.

Evaluation of optical fiber Distributed Temperature Sensors (DTS) as a tool to constrain heat and mass transport between sediments and the overlying water column
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Stephen T Lancaster($19,981), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heat And Mass, Overlying Water, Promising Technology, Calibrate, Constrain, DTS, Environment, Flow, Has, Hydrology, Marine, Observatory, Optical, Pis, Represent, Seafloor, Temperature.

Oceanographic Instrumentation R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($14,000), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, Instrumentation, Oceanographic, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2007
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. J. Marcus Willis($123,350), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. David C Fisichella($185,123), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Richard J Findley($475,788), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Access, Available, Satellite, Sea, Wecoma.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Benjamin M Jokinen($140,400), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Timothy W Deering($9,000), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Daniel C Guidry($58,612), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Acquire, Acquisition, Communication, RV, Sur.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Endeavor: 2007
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Mary Lynn Dickson($62,992), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Endeavor, Sensors, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Blue Heron 2007
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($39,419), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Acquisition, Instrumentation, Lakes, Orientation, Position, Shipboard, Vessel.

Acquisition of Gyro-stabilized BGM-3 Gravimeters for Academic Science and Implementation on UNOLS Vessels
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daniel J Fornari($578,663), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Academic, Available, Capability, Expand, Gravimeters, Gravity, Instruments, NAVOCEANO, Oceanographic, Opportunity, Ships, Supported, Units, Vessels.

ALOHA Cabled Observatory - Supplement
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Frederick K Duennebier($478,484), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Aloha Cabled Observatory, Fiber Optic, Ocean Observatories, Proof Module, Station Aloha, Telecommunications Cable, Telecommunications Cables, ACO, Collected, Completion, Continuous, Deployment, Experiment, Experiments, Hawaii, Infrastructure, Intended, Near, Observations, Oceanographic, Opportunity, Power, Provided, Shore, Speed, Testing, Via, Was.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2007-2008, R/V Marcus G. Langseth
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Albert Walsh($5,419,936), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Operations, Instrumentation, Langseth, Maintain, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Provided, RV, Services, Structures, Vessel.

Renewal of the Multidisciplinary Instrumentation in Support of Oceanography- MISO Facility A Community Instrumentation Facility for Deep-Sea Digital Imaging...
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daniel J Fornari($267,987), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Fiber Optic, Cable, Camera, Capability, Digital, Equipment, Facility, MISO, Towcam.

International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Animals" and to be held in Nyborg, Denmark from August 13-17, 2007
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Arthur N Popper($24,992), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Marine Environment, Anthropogenic, Assess, Available, International, Noise, Organisms, Potential, Provided, Regulatory, Sound, Topic, Various.

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

1. James G Sanders($148,500), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Skidaway.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2003-2005, R/V Alpha Helix
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2003; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Denis A Wiesenburg($439,946), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Rv Alpha Helix, UAF.

CAREER : A Research and Education Plan in Global Biogeochemical Cycles: Seawater Calcium Isotopes and Carbonate Deposition History
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Adina Paytan($684,419), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Delta 44ca, Barite, Carbonate, Cycles, Education, Fractionation, History, Modern, Seawater.

SGER: Short Wind Waves: Shape In Relation To Energy Flux And Wind Stress
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Walter H Munk($198,648), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Gravity Capillary Wave, Short Gravity Capillary, Satellite Observations, Sea Surface, Wind Speed, Wind Stress, Aimed, Characteristics, Contribute, Distribution, Non-gaussian, Ocean, Slope, Techniques, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Asymmetric circulation in wind-driven bays
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Clinton D Winant($255,938), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson($240,038), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: San Dieguito Lagoon, San Diego, Activities, Analytical, Basins, Bay, California, Circulation, Continue, Describe, Ecological, Enhance, Estuaries, Extended, Flow, Graduate, Lagoons, Mexico, Minority, Models, Observations, Original, Rotation, Season, Stratified, Summer, Tides, Time, Was, Water, Well-mixed, Wind-driven, Winter.

Variability in water mass formation and ventilation rates in the southwestern Pacific Ocean based on Repeat Hydrography CFC measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rolf E Sonnerup($623,931), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Repeat Hydrography Program, Australian Oceanographers, Intermediate Water, Ages, Antarctic, CFC, CFC-, Carbon, Cfcs, Circumpolar, Clivarcarbon, Cold, Collaboration, Continues, Dissolved, Hydrographic, Interpret, Measured, Sections, Utilized, Waters.

Rip Current Dynamics in a Complex Beach Environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ad Reniers($53,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Surface Velocity Field, Energetic Wave, Field Experiment, Numerical Modeling, Truc Vert, Beach, Complex, Computations, Conditions, Deployment, Dimensional, In-situ, Initial, Instruments, Near, Nearshore, Optimal, Optimize, Planform, Pressure, Rip, Sensors, Sources, Tidal, Zone.

Currents and transports of the Intra-Americas Sea and their seasonal to pentannual variability: Five years of ADCP measurements from the cruise liner Explorer of the Seas
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lisa Beal($313,637), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Intra-americas Sea, Analysis, Caribbean, Circulation, Collected, Explorer, Florida, Flow, Inflows, Intra-americas, Seas, Set, Time, Velocity, Yucatan.

The Low Frequency Variability of the South Atlantic Circulation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ricardo P Matano($497,979), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: South Atlantic Circulation, Broader Impacts, North Atlantic, Oceanic Circulation, Thermohaline Circulation, Global, Interpret, Low-frequency, Natural, Oceans, Reported.

Dispersion in the Surfzone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Falk Feddersen($845,916), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Breaking Waves, Dispersion Statistics, Environmental Factors, Numerical Models, Tracer Dispersion, Alongshore, Beach, California, Currents, Direction, Explore, Mean, Modeling, Nearshore, Ocean, Pollutant, Pollution, Principle, Surfzone, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Ocean Physics on the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raleigh R Hood($75,777), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Zuojun Yu($385,570), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Arabian Sea Omz, Oxygen Minimum, World's Oceans, Basin, Biological, Global, International, Nitrogen, Processes, Regions, Utilized, Worlds, Zone, Zones.

PSI and near-inertial oscillations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William R Young($451,092), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Internal Gravity Waves, Eddy Fluxes, Environmental Factors, Geostrophic Eddies, Inertial Frequency, Internal Wave, Near-inertial Peak, Ocean Mixing, Vertical Mode, Assessment, Effective, Energy, Estimates, Ninertial, Nonlinear, Oceanic, PSI, Rate, Rates, Required, Requires, Spatial, Spectrum, Supply, Temporal, Tides.

Collaborative Research: Analysis of the INSTANT Observations of the Indonesian Throughflow
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Janet Sprintall($271,449), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Raden D Susanto($720,061), Columbia University, New York
3. Amy Ffield($220,793), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Ocean And Climate, Instant Itf, Instant Program, Wide Range, Analysis, Array, Benefit, Component, Indian, Indonesia, Indonesian, International, LDEO, Long-term, Models, Monitoring, Pacific, Quantitative, Regional, Required, Satellite, Set, Situ, Students, Time.

The Mechanics and Acoustics of Bubbles Fragmenting in Sheared Flow.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Grant B Deane($517,962), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bubble Creation Rates, Upper Ocean, Acoustic, Bubbles, Experiment, Noise.

The Downwelling Limb of the Thermohaline Circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Claudia Cenedese($739,651), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Near Lateral Boundaries, Basin-scale Circulation, Broader Impacts, Downwelling Near, Downwelling Regions, Thermohaline Circulation, Basin-scale, Boundary, Explicitly, Influence, Laboratory, Model, Objectives, Previous, Represent, Spatial, Teaching, Theoretical, Training, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Rapid Gravitational Adjustment of Horizontal Shear: A Recipe for Energetic Mixing in the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alberto D Scotti($99,604), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Karl R Helfrich($535,911), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Circulation, Fluid Dynamics, Comprehensive, Estuarine, Evolution, Experiments, Flow, Flows, GFD, Has, Horizontal, Incorporated, Intense, Mixing, Models, Parameterizations, Presence, Processes, Program, Shear, Stratification, Strongly, Students, Summer, Transport, Vertical, WHOI.

SGER: Studying the Causes of Recent Drought and Monsoon Changes over East Asia Using NCAR and GFDL Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Aiguo Dai($30,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Decadal Rainfall, Drought Severity, East Asia, East Asian, East China, Ipcc Ar4, North China, Aerosols, Air, Atmospheric, Causing, Century, Decades, Extended, Fields, GFDL, Mechanisms, NCAR, Northern, Observed, Pacific, Precipitation, Processes, Region, SST, Simulations, Surface, Tropical, Underlying.

Internal Waves and Mixing above the South-West Indian Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert Pinkel($886,186), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Internal Waves, Turbulent Mixing, Barotropic, Elevated, Flow, Rough, SWIR, Tides.

Collaborative Research: Equilibration of Ocean Currents via Inertial Instability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rudolf C Kloosterziel($294,386), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. George F Carnevale($392,660), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Flow, Flows, Instability, Perturbations, Process, Region, Vortices.

Collaborative Research: New Diagnostics of Water-Mass Ventilation Estimated from Tracer Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William M Smethie($413,917), Columbia University, New York
2. Francois Primeau($270,312), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Anthropogenic Carbon, Ocean Communicates, Ventilation-rate Distribution, Ventilation-rate Distributions, Analysis, Atmosphere, Climate, Deconvolution, Deconvolutions, Errors, Estimate, Estimates, Global, Interior, Maximum-entropy, Method, Millennia, Model, Oceans, Parametric, Picture, Quantify, Radiocarbon, Surface, Time, Timescales, Tracer, Tracers, Transient, Tritium, Ventilation-rate.

Collaborative Research: Equatorial Internal Gravity Wave Shear, Strain, Instabilities and Mixing--A Moored Process Study
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Nash($487,404), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Michael C Gregg($1,181,771), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Equatorial Cold Tongue, Instabilities And Turbulence, Long-term Tao Mooring, Scalar Diffusion Rates, Surface Mixed Layer, Turbulent Scalar Diffusion, Diapycnal Mixing, Internal Waves, Long-term Tao, Model Prediction, Turbulence Parameterization, Turbulent Fluxes, Vertical Scales, Accurate, Air-sea, Base, Below, Climate, Developed, ENSO, Eastern, El, Experiment, Lead, Microstructure, Models, Observations, Pacific, Parameterizations, Parameterize, Physics, SST, Shear, Spaced, Temperature, Undercurrent, Unique.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Canyons in Boundary Mixing and Exchange with the Ocean Interior
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Erika McPhee-Shaw($211,549), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. James B Girton($618,876), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Continental Slope Canyons, Internal Wave Field, Coherent Internal, Mixed Boundary, Nepheloid Layers, Stratified Interior, Turbulent Mixing, Aid, Analysis, Bottom, Budgets, Collaboration, Energy, Exchange, Finescale, Fluid, Flux, Fluxes, Global, Ii, Internal-wave-driven, Microstructure, Monterey, Near, Ocean, Parameterizations, Profile, Program, Sediment, Sources, Stratification, Time, Topography, Water.

Collaborative Proposal: Diapycnal Mixing on the East Pacific Rise
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andreas Thurnherr($326,306), Columbia University, New York
2. Louis C St Laurent($234,879), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Dissipation Rates, Internal Wave, Mid-ocean Ridges, Mixing Parameterizations, Previous Studies, Rough Topography, Slow-spreading Ridges, Turbulent Mixing, Available, Based, Characterized, Contributes, Demonstrated, Driven, EPR, Energy, Enhance, Fast-spreading, Finestructure, Flow, Has, LADDER, Levels, Microstructure, Mid-ocean, Models, Near, Particular, Process, Processes, Program, Site, Sites, Slow-spreading, Strong, Suggest, Topographic, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Shelf-Basin Exchange South of Denmark Strait: Forcing, Dynamics, and Large-Scale Impact
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas Haine($386,845), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Robert S Pickart($1,379,970), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: East Greenlandirminger Current, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Nature And Dynamics, Northern Freshwater Sources, Arctic Water, Freshwater Sources, North Atlantic, Shelf-basin Exchange, Southern Greenland, Front, Future, Instability, Irminger, Meets, Mesoscale, Region, Sea, Shelf-basin, Shelf-break, Sub-polar, Subtropical-origin, Transport.

SGER: Measurements of the Velocity Field Associated with Interleaving
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Firing($117,330), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Horizontal Velocity Field, Equatorial Pacific, Readily Available, Vertical Resolution, ADCP, Examination, Features, Interleaving, Measuring, Ocean, Technique.

Collaborative Research: Role of Eddies in the Midlatitude Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Igor V Kamenkovich($114,202), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Eddy Fluxes, Analyzed, Circulation, Components, Eddies, Forces, Large-scale, Modeling, Models, Observational, Ocean, Parameterizations, Random, Systematically, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Studies of the Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current on the Atlantic Meridional Circulation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Igor V Kamenkovich($158,776), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Meridional Overturning Circulation, Naval Postgraduate School, Circumpolar Current, Atlantic, Climate.

Collaborative Research: DIMES, Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James R Ledwell($2,929,730), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. W. Brechner Owens($1,398,984), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Louis C St Laurent($2,641,753), Florida State University, Tallahassee
4. James B Girton($825,720), University of Washington, Seattle
5. Sarah T Gille($555,192), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
6. John M Toole($2,431,219), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Heat And Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Models, Density Layers, Diapycnal Mixing, Free-falling Profilers, Isopycnal Mixing, Overturning Circulation, Southern Ocean, ACC, Autonomous, DIMES, Deep, Dispersion, Drifting, Eddy, Floats, Free-falling, Instruments, Measure, Measured, Meridional, Near, Numerical, Plays, Processes, Released, Ridges, Surface, Surfaces, Time, Tracer, Water.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Estimates of Oceanic Turbulence and Temperature Structure from Seismic Reflection Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. W Steven Holbrook($403,799), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Raymond W Schmitt($275,986), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Structure And Dynamics, Kx Spectra, Low-frequency Acoustic, Ocean Structure, Oceanic Finestructure, Quantitative Information, Seismic Images, Seismic Oceanography, Seismic Reflection, Turbulence Dissipation, Advance, Control, Developing, Development, Distribution, Estimate, Field, Gleaned, Has, Horizontal, Imaged, Imaging, Internal, Limitations, Low-frequency, Method, Mixing, Niche, Numerous, Preliminary, Processes, Produced, Students, Technique, Techniques, Temperature, Tool, Uncertainties, Useful.

Collaborative Research: The Dynamics of Shoaling and Breaking Nonlinear Internal Waves and their Transport, Dispersion and Buoyancy and Momentum Balances
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alberto D Scotti($101,982), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. James Lerczak($1,164,375), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Nonlinear Internal Wave, Across-shore Transport, Coastal Ocean, Field Observations, Internal Waves, Across-shore, Bottom, Buoyancy, Circulation, Dispersion, Evolution, Fluxes, Generation, Influence, Momentum, Nliws, Numerical, Objective, Plankton, Quantify, Rates, Shipboard, Shoaling, Water.

SGER: Proposed Proof-of-Concept Measurements of Turbulent Buoyancy Flux Using the Mast
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Wayne R Geyer($66,002), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Turbulent Buoyancy Flux, Coastal, Estimates, Has, Mast, Mixing, Ocean, Ongoing.

Collaborative Research: Implementation of a Mentoring Program for Junior Women in Physical Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susan Lozier($191,260), Duke University, Durham
2. Victoria J Coles($129,041), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Junior Women, Diversity, Effort, Efforts, Engineering, Field, Has, Increasing, Mentoring, Oceanography, Population, Positions, Program, Retention, Success, Workforce.

SGER: Generation of Eddies by Oceanic Islands: A Laboratory Study
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David L Hebert($65,295), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Eddy Formation, Initial Evolution, Biological, Current, Cylinder, Dynamics, Eddies, Examine, Experiments, Fluid, Generation, Has, Influence, Island, Islands, Lee, Mesoscale, Near.

2007 Coastal Ocean Modeling GRC
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nancy R Gray($7,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Simulation, Environmental, Field, Human, Increase, Led, Marine, Population, Prediction, Processes, Public, Regions.

Particle Removal and Re-suspension in the near-Field of the Columbia River Plume
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander Horner-Devine($300,511), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Columbia Plume, Particle Size, Primary Productivity, River Plume, Contribute, Energetic, Entrainment, Field, Included, Particles, Plumes, Processes, Productive, RISE, Re-suspension, Region, Relative, Salmonids, Sediment, Shear, Spahn, Student, Suspended, Transport, Turbulence, Turbulent, Velocity.

The Panulirus Hydrographic Stations: Years 54-59
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anthony H Knap($572,333), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Bbsr Vessel Rv, Rv Atlantic Explorer, Vessel Rv Atlantic, Ocean Depth, Surface Temperature, Bermuda, Bi-weekly, Climate, Continue, Cruises, Day, Decadal, Extend, Has, Hydrostation, Past, Periods, Processes, Program, Resource, Sampling, Site, Station, Student, Time, Time-series, Training, Water.

Characterization of Turbulence in the Coastal Bottom Boundary Layer Based on a Large Database Obtained From PIV Measurements
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Katz($551,354), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Energy Cascading Process, Turbulent Energy Spectra, Coastal Ocean, Mean Current, Mean Flow, Proper Modeling, Reynolds Stresses, Wave Phase, Wave-induced Straining, Analysis, Baltimore, Circulation, Currents, Database, Decrease, Deployments, Direct, Direction, Dissipation, Effort, Elevation, Essential, Increasing, Interactions, Measure, Near, Objectives, Oceanic, Oceanography, PIV, Predictions, Previous, Profiles, Range, Required, Resulting, SGS, Sediment, Structure, Students, Time, Transport, Turbulence, Wave-induced, Waves.

Finite-Amplitude Upper-Ocean Baroclinic Instability
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Maria J Olascoaga($334,402), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Baroclinic Instability, Instability Saturation, Nonlinear Analysis, Parent Infinite-dimensional, Priori Bounds, Saturation Bounds, Accuracy, Allow, Approximation, Aspects, Carried, Configuration, Confined, Eddy, Effort, Hamiltonian, Infinite-dimensional, Layer, Model, Ocean, Performing, Processes, Rigorous, Simulations, Symmetries, Theory, Uppermost, Waves, Weakly.

NSF-OCE: Modeling and Assimilation of Internal Tides in Interaction with Subinertial Wind-Forced Flows in the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. P. Michael Kosro($492,614), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Internal Tides, Tides Contribute, Analysis, Assist, Biological, Broad, Coastal, Currents, Development, Environment, Methods, Mixing, Modeling, Motions, Observations, Oceanographers, Oregon, Processes, Programs, Shelf, Transports.

Collaborative Research: Wind, Waves, Rain and their Effects on Air-Water Gas and Momentum Exchanges
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David T Ho($384,745), Columbia University, New York
2. Fabrice Veron($311,429), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Ocean Surface, Surface Fluxes, Surface Waves, Wind Speed, Amounts, Atmosphere, Climate, Dissipation, Dynamic, Dynamics, Gas, Has, Induced, Laboratory, Mixing, Momentum, Rain, Rain-induced, Rainfall, Rates, Shear, Stress, Transfer, Turbulence.

Assessing the Oceanic Water Cycle with an Integrative Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter Winsor($791,282), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Water Cycle, Ocean Circulation Model, Oceanic Water Cycle, Global Ocean, Surface Flux, Upper Ocean, Ability, Absorb, Affect, Atlantic, Climate, Component, Enhance, Evaporation, Exchange, Forcing, Freshwater, Heat, Land, Largest, Mean, Mixing, Oceans, Past, Precipitation, Process, Rainfall, Regions, River, Salinity, Seasonal, Store, Temperature, Transport, Trends, Upper-ocean, Vapor.

Buoyancy Arrest: Time Dependent and Residual Flows
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth H Brink($582,018), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Boundary Layer Structure, Cross-isobath Ekman Transport, Time Dependent Flow, Buoyancy Arrest, Cross-isobath Ekman, Cross-isobath Transport, Interior Flow, Vertical Mixing, Affect, Critical, Density, Experiments, Flows, Generate, Gradients, Mean, Ocean, Oceanic, Processes, Residual, Tidal, Wide.

Transport by Intrusions Generated by Boundary Mixing
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Chris R Rehmann($493,365), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Boundary Mixing, Critical Reflection, Internal Waves, Lakeside Laboratory, Near Iowa, Activities, Bottom, Currents, Dye, Energy, Experiments, Field, Fluid, Forcing, Generated, Has, Interior, Intrusions, Larger, Limnology, Local, Mixed, Outreach, Pis, Size, Students, Topography, Turbulence, Water.

Experiments on the interaction of Large-Scale Oceanic Oirculation with Eddies, Jets and Internal Waves using Optical Altimetry
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter B Rhines($405,851), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bottom Topography, Climate Models, Global Warming, Internal Waves, Meridional Overturning, Optical Altimetry, Potential Vorticity, Atlantic, Atmosphere, Back-and-forth, Basic, Circulation, Circulations, Convection, Detailed, Dynamics, Eddy, Effect, Elevation, Experimental, Experiments, Explored, Field, Flow, Fronts, Interacting, Interaction, Jets, Lateral, Ocean, Oceans, PV, Resolution, Slowing, Strong, Subpolar, Surface, Turbulence.

SGER: Turbulence Properties in the Mixed Layer/Thermocline Transition Layer
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Louis C St Laurent($137,290), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Global Climate, Mixed Layer, Models, Ocean, Oceanic, Stratified, Transition, Turbulence, Upper, Upper-ocean.

Quantification of the Growth and Decay of Wind Driven Gravity-Capillary Waves
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Xin Zhang($345,793), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Short Ocean Waves, Short Wind Waves, Wave Growth Rate, Wind Wave Generation, Wind Wave Growth, Capillary Waves, Critical Layer, Inner Region, Ocean Wind, Parasitic Capillaries, Remote Sensing, Water Surface, Air-sea, Based, Central, Climate, Close, Demonstrated, Dissipation, Energy, Experimentally, Films, Forecasting, Global, Has, Initial, Layers, Observations, Oceans, Play, Spectrum, Stress, Theories, Viscous.

Internal Tides, Altimetry and the Subtropical Catastrophe: A Global Search for Loss of Low-Mode Internal Tide Energy at 28.9 degrees Latitude
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian D Dushaw($192,745), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Rise And Fall, Enhanced Dissipation, Internal Tides, Satellite-based Altimetry, Analyses, Circulation, Derive, Energy, Has, Near, Ocean, Propagate, Satellite-based, Tidal, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Establishment of a Climate Type-Section for the Tropical Atlantic from Cariaco Basin Sediments
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David E Black($168,414), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Cariaco Basin, Cores, Create, Marine, Pis, Produce.

Fluid mechanical and chemical cues in Thin Layers: Effects of scale and individual behavior
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: Physiol Mechs & Biomechanics

1. Donald Webster($529,677), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Combined Cues, Thin Layer, Thin Layers, Zooplankton Behavior, Zooplankton Behavioral, Collaboration, Copepod, Distribution, Enables, Environment, Feature, Features, Field, Fine-scale, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Model, Ocean, Oceanic, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Properties, Situ, Structure, Tech, Threshold.

Chapman Conference on Long Time-Series Observations in Coastal Ecosystems: Comparative Analyses of Photoplankton Dynamics on Regional to Global Scales; Croatia: October 8-12, 2007
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: REG ADRIATIC COOPRSRCH CSTLOCN

1. Brenda L Weaver($15,750), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Rudjer Boskovic, AGU, Coastal, Ecosystem, Marine, Phytoplankton.

Construction and operation of the Alaska Region Research Vessel Program Solicitation NSF 07-515
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Denis A Wiesenburg($0), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Execution Plan, Oversight Committee, Technical Engineers, AMS, ARRV, Acquisition, Acquisitions, Alaska, Approach, Completed, Completion, Construction, Contract, Delays, Design, Developed, Experience, Fisheries, Lack, Management, Marine, Milestones, NSF, Oceanographic, PEP, Phase, Regulatory, Required, Risk, Ship, Shipyard, UAF, Vessel, Was, Waters.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Pete E Zerr($163,423), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Timothy M Askew($117,244), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
3. Daniel S Schwartz($41,644), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Albert F Suchy($508,439), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Safety Equipment, Items, Oregon, Programs, Shipboard, Wecoma.

R/V CAPE HATTERAS Shipboard Scientific Equipment - 2007
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Bruce H Corliss($24,694), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Duke, Equipment, Hatteras, Item, Items, Moorings, Outreach, RV, Requested, Safety, Ship, Users, Vessel, Was.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Thomas S Althouse($132,756), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Safety Items, Inst, Requested, Requests, Scripps, Ship, Wire.

Estuarine air-Sea CO2 Fluxes: Evaluating the Impact of Climatological Drivers Spanning Multiple Temporal Scales using Ships-of-Opportunity and Remote Sensing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Michael Wetz($523,662), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Air-sea Co2 Fluxes, Estuarine Air-sea Co2, Air-sea Co2, Estuarine Air-sea, Monitoring Program, Biogeochemical, Climatological, Ecosystems, Environmental, Estuary, Field, Forcings, Has, Hurricane, NRE-PS, Neuse, North, Ongoing, Productive, Programs, Quantify, Regional, Resolution, Spatial-temporal, Students, Summer, Surface, Worldwide.

National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: nan

1. James E Eckman($1,015,000), Office of Naval Research, Arlington
Key terms: Cost Sharing, BAA, Entitled, FY, Interagency, Led, NOPP, National, Naval, Ocean, Oceanographic, Ongoing, Provided.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2007

The Influence of Oceanographic and Biological Processes on the Distribution of Cetaceans on the West Florida Shelf Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Investigating the impact of microbial interactions with geologic media on geophysical properties: Implications for assessing geomicrobiological processes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE-UF: BIOGEOSCIENCES

Coral Reef Primary Production and Calcification: Quantitative Analysis of Sensitivity to Environmental Forcing using a Control Volume Approach Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Ecological Determinants of Hematodinium Epidemics in the American Blue Crab Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Collaborative Research: Rainfall-driven Intertidal Zone Carbon Cycling Award Effective Date: 07/15/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

The Development of a Next Generation Subseabed Pore Pressure Insrument for Marine Hydrogeology: The PUPPI-II Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Instrumentation for Determining Benthic Oxygen Exchange Rates by Eddy-Correlation with Coordinated Studies of the Oregon Shelf Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Collaborative Research: Phase Two Development of a Self-Contained Underwater Velocimetry Apparatus Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Design of a New Wire Flying Vehicle for Deep Water Profiling Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

In-Situ Classification of Bloom-Forming Phytoplankton by Imaging Multivariate Optical Computing (IMOC) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) - Development and Testing of Operational System Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Collaborative Research: Advanced Laser Fluorometer (ALF) for in vivo Characterization of Phytoplankton Pigments, Physiology and Community Structure Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: BE: INSTRUM DEVELOP FOR ENV AC

Do sediment-dwelling species have large ranges along a continental slope? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Modeling Hyperthermophile Growth in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Sulfide Deposits and Diffuse Fluids Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Development of a method to measure feeding by copepods using qPCR Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Diversity and distribution of thermoacidophiles at deep-sea hydrothermal vents Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Aplysina Red Band Syndrome: Investigating the etiology, pathogenesis, and ecology of an emerging marine disease Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Connecting local, regional and global scales of gene flow in planktonic marine diatoms Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Chemically-mediated competition in the marine plankton Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Rip Current Dynamics in a Complex Beach Environment Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Iron storage in diatoms and N2 fixing cyanobacteria: mechanisms, regulation and biogeochemical significance Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Expression profiling and functional genomics of a pennate diatom: Mechanisms of iron acquisition, stress acclimation, and recovery Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Targeted environmental probing: Linking microorganisms with biogeochemical function at Fe- and Mn-rich, diffuse hydrothermal vents Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Factors Affecting the Nature and Strength of Indirect Effects: A Modeling and Empirical Approach Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U. S. GLOBEC Coordinating Office at Rutgers University Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Exploratory studies of marine microbes using nanoSIMS Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Preserving a national resource- the biotic diversity in the University of Miami marine yeast collection Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: A New Method for Trophic Reconstructions of Marine Fishes From d13C and d15N Analyses of Individual Amino Acids in Otoliths Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Experiments to Determine the Impacts of a High CO2 World on High Latitude, Temperate and Tropical Benthic Foraminifera Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Scaling up from community to meta-ecosystem dynamics in the rocky intertidal - a comparative-experimental approach Award Effective Date: 08/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Benthic Dinoflagellate Migration (BenDiM): Occurrence and Processes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative SGER: Domoic Acid Toxins in the Oceanic Pacific in Iron Enrichment Studies Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Micronekton of the Cariaco Basin: Adaptation to a Severe Oxygen Minimum Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research SGER: Domoic acid toxins in the oceanic north Pacific in iron enrichment studies Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Phytoplankton Community Dynamics and Physiological Status in the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre and Benguela Upwelling Systems Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Influence of continental margin iron on phytoplankton species composition and production in the northern Gulf of Alaska Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative: US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Effects of Meso- and Basin-Scale Variability on Zooplankton Populations in the CCS Using Data-Assimilative, Physical/Ecosystem Models Award Effective Date: 06/20/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Population Connectivity (Oceanography Vol. 20, No. 3) Award Effective Date: 06/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Trace Metal Limitation on Oxidative Stress in Zooxanthellae and Its Role in Coral Bleaching Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in the hydrothermally altered sediments of Guaymas Basin Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: CO2 control of oceanic nitrogen fixation and carbon flow through diazotrophs Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

An ecophysiological analysis of marine facultatively lithotrophic bacteria Award Effective Date: 04/30/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RIDGE2000 Rapid Response Activity: Microbial Response to a Deep-Sea Volcanic Eruption at 9 deg. N on the East Pacific Rise Award Effective Date: 04/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: US/EC Collaboration on Potential Climate Change Impacts on Algal Community Structure and Biogeochemistry During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Kelp forest interaction webs in the Aleutian Archipelago: patterns and mechanism of change following the collapse of an apex predator. Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Patterns of Larval Dispersal and Postsettlement Selection Shaping Connectivity of Oyster Populations Along an Ecotone Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Fluxes and their Impact on Ocean Biogeochemistry: An Integrated pre-and post-eruption Study at the EPR, 9-10 degrees N Award Effective Date: 04/01/2007; 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: 03/19/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

U.S.-GLOBEC: NWA Georges Bank: Effects of climate variability on Calanus dormancy patterns and population dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic Award Effective Date: 03/19/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US-GLOBEC NEP Phase IIIa: Efffects of Climate Variability on Calanus Dormancy Patterns and Population Dynamics within the California Current Award Effective Date: 03/19/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The Effects of Flow on the Nature and Strength of Indirect Effects Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Marine Phytoplankton Growth Rates and Phosphate Concentrations: Monod or Not Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Temporal and spatial scales of variability in bivalve connectivity. Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A Post-Genomic Approach to Synechococcus-grazer Interactions Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Population variation and environmental adaptation in all the genes of the purple sea urchin Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: SGER: Are Meroplankton Transported Offshore by Upwelling, and Onshore by Downwelling? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Effects of the 2006-2007 El Nino on ecosystem functioning in the Galapagos Marine Reserve: Impact and Resistence Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Adaptive Importance of Toxin-Resistant Phenotypes in Calanoid Copepods Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Testing hypotheses about diversity, gene flow, and effective population size in marine planktonic ciliates Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Feeding responses of marine phagotrophic protists: cell biological mechanisms Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Ecology and Evolution of Range Limits in Intertidal Organisms Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Stability and structure of temperate and tropical marine sponge symbiont communities in response to climate change. Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Experimentally linking identification and function of marine bacteria Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Paleogenetics of Pleistocene Deep-Water Corals from the Mediterranean Sea: The Rise and Fall of Coral Populations within the Basin Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Bacteria-Mediated Coral Disease Resistance Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Form, Function and Flow in the Plankton: Jet Propulsion and Filtration by Pelagic Tunicates Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research+RUI: The Effects of Water Movement and Zooplankton Escape Behavior on Planktivory by Coral Reef Fishes in Different Microhabitats Award Effective Date: 01/05/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The Consequences of Phage-Bacteria Coevolution in Aquatic Environments Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research:Fertilization in free spawners: interaction of gamete properties and hydrodynamic regime Award Effective Date: 08/31/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ridge 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Linking Genetics and Mineralization of Iron-oxidizing Microbes at Midocean Ridges Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence -- California Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Collaborative Proposal: COSEE Center - Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - Networked Ocean World (COSEE-NOW) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

COSEE Coastal Trends Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

The Pacific Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence -COSEE Pacific Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

ITR: A Computational Framework for Observational Science: Data Assimilation Methods and their Application for Understanding North Atlantic Zooplankton Dynamics. Award Effective Date: 02/15/2007; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

RUI: Feedbacks among Benthic Fauna, Algae and Biogeochemical Cycling during Eutrophication of a Shallow Estuary Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Controls on Alkenone Temperature Estimates in Subtropical and Subpolar Waters Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Tracing the Transformations of Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments using Natural C Isotopes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography