Operation of a National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: AMS FACILITY

1. Karl F von Reden($8,605,776), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Operation And Maintenance, Accelerator Mass, Cooperative Agreement, Analyses, Annually, Carries, Collected, Continued, Five, Funding, Has, NOSAMS, NSF, Ocean, Operations, Preparation, Programs, Radiocarbon, WOCE, Was.

Collaborative Research: Oceanic Applications of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Laboratory Validation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANALYTICAL SEPARATIONS & MEAS.

1. Stanley M Angel($338,645), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Alan D Chave($333,353), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Double Pulse Libs, Abilities, Authors, Graduate, Information, Pressure, Proponents, Students, Technique.

High Northern Latitude Linkages between Atlantic Water, DSOW Formation and GIS Stability during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Thomas M Marchitto($399,402), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Freshwater Forcing, Nordic Seas, Atlantic, DSOW, Deep, Formation, Holocene, International, North, Water.

Characterizing the Formation, Nature, and Export of Weddell Sea Bottom Water using Noble Gases and Transient Tracers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. William J Jenkins($620,771), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oceanographically And Climatically, Climate Models, Global Climate, Water Mass, Weddell Sea, AABW, Antarctic, Combination, Cruise, Formation, Future, Glacial, Importance, Line, MOC, Noble, Pre-cursor, Processes, Sea-ice, Southern, Tracers, Traditional.

Collaborative Research: Linkage of Bacterial Pathogens to Human infectious Disease in an Estuary Subjected to Extreme Climatic Events
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Rachel T Noble($1,541,139), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. James D Bowen($372,788), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Key terms: Human Health Models, Pathogens And Human, Extreme Climatic, Human Disease, Particle Attachment, Pathogen Fate, Public Health, Approaches, Conditions, Continue, Controls, Environmental, Estuaries, Estuarine, Increase, Interdisciplinary, Links, Modeling, NRE, Native, Respond, Transport, Vectoring, Water, Yield.

Nonconsumptive predator effects in a pelagic community: an integrated laboratory, field and modeling approach
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Scott Peacor($505,067), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Lakes And Marine, Educational Outreach, Field Surveys, Invertebrate Predator, Laboratory Studies, Mesocosm Experiments, Predictive Models, Species Interactions, Zooplankton Prey, Affect, Approach, Based, Bythothrephes, Bythotrephes, COSEE, Component, Consequences, Density, Ecosystems, Educators, Effect, Effects, Examine, Factors, Fish, GLERL, Has, Induced, Influence, Invasive, Modeling, Nces, Parameters, Pelagic, Predation, Predators, Sea, Training.

Collaborative Research: Physiology and Biogeochemistry of Repeatedly Bleached and Recovering Caribbean Corals
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark E Warner($376,561), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Andrea G Grottoli($388,374), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Ecological And Physiological, Single And Repeated, Symbiodinium-type And Host-species, Caribbean Coral, Caribbean Corals, Coral Reefs, Coral Species, Repeated Bleaching, Algae, Biogeochemistry, Capacity, Designed, Efforts, Energy, Enhanced, Examined, Following, Future, Incorporate, Information, Long-term, Objectives, Overall, Particular, Physiology, Pis, Porites, Recovery, Resilient, Skeleton, Stress, Students, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: Grazing and Iron Controls of Diatom Blooms in the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sharon L Smith($479,438), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. JOAQUIM I GOES($139,819), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
3. Michael R Landry($516,686), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
4. James W Moffett($344,047), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Micro And Mesozooplankton, Arabian Sea, Iron Limitation, Monsoon Intensity, Oman Upwelling, Phytoplankton Growth, Sw Monsoon, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Central, Climate, Consistent, Control, Critical, Cycling, Delayed, Diatoms, Effects, Experiments, Export, Fe, Flux, Global, Grazers, Grazing, Micro-, Oxygen, Program, Rates, Region, Regulation, Top-down, Warming, Was, Zone.

SGER: Proof of concept on using spliced leader to study dinoflagellate gene expression in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John Gill($138,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Harmful Algal Blooms, Laboratory And Field, Carbon Fixation, Dinoflagellate-associated Oceanographic, Dinosl-based Technique, Concept, Dinoflagellate-associated, Dinoflagellates, Dinosl-based, Environment, Essential, Exhibit, Experiments, Furthermore, Future, Growth, Has, Microadriaticum, Mixed, Natural, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Potential, Processes, Proved, Sequence, Tool.

SGER: Quantification of Uncertainty in Argo Observation of Ocean Response to Hurricanes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James F Price($90,192), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Observational Network, Observation Sampling Experiment, Argo Array, Argo Observation, Argo Observations, Statistically Robust, Tropical Storms, Upper Ocean, Background, Based, Basin-to-global, Capability, Dataset, Float, Floats, Has, Hurricane, Model, Numerical, Oceanography, Perform, Profiles, Respect, Subsurface, Surface, Uncertainty, Uncontrolled, Unique, Virtual.

SGER: Southern and Coastal Extent of Picophytoplankton Populations in the South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lisa Moore($45,059), University of Southern Maine, Portland
Key terms: Ms Student, Picophytoplankton Populations, Prochlorococcus Populations, Analysis, Cruise, Deg, Distributions, Ecotypes, Extent, Genera, Genotypes, Marine, Shelf, Southern, Synechococcus, Waters.

SGER: Biomixing - a controversial mechanism influencing dynamics of marine ecosystems?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John Dabiri($75,373), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Individual Animals, Marine Lakes, Biomixing, DPIV, Developing, Explore, Female, GOTM, Jellyfish, Limited, Medusae, Mixing, Palau, Particle, Quantify, Resource, SCUVA, Size, Sized, Swarms, Technology, Tidal, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Structure, Function and Evolution of Authigenic, Methane-Derived Carbonate Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lisa A Levin($552,343), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Anthony E Rathburn($295,514), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
3. Victoria J Orphan($320,961), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Delta 13c Signatures, Protozoan And Metazoan, 13c Signatures, Authigenic Carbonate, Carbonate Ecosystems, Carbonate Substrates, Delta 13c, Distinct Ecosystem, Methane Release, Methane Seepage, Seep Carbonate, Seep Sediments, AOM, Active, Analyses, Assemblages, Assess, Deep-sea, Evolutionarily, Faunal, Faunas, Foraminiferan, Inactive, Isotopic, Margin, Microbial, Proxies, Reducing, Rock, Sites, Succession, Successional, Vents.

Collaborative Research: Regulation of Phytoplankton Dynamics in Mid-Atlantic Estuaries Subject to Climatic Perturbations.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Hans W Paerl($299,312), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Cb And Aps-nre, Hydrodynamic Biogeochemical Models, Observations And Modeling, Biogeochemical Models, Climatic Forcing, Climatic Perturbations, Drought-flood Cycles, Floral Composition, Long-term Trends, Phytoplankton Dynamics, Tropical Storms, Allowing, Analysis, Biomassproduction, Chl-a, Climate, Combination, Departures, Drought-flood, Ecosystems, Effects, Estuaries, Field, Focus, Has, Hurricanes, Long-term, Mechanistic, Monitoring, Nutrient, PP, Paradigm, Plankton, Processes, Quantifying.

Integrating field methods and numerical models to quantify the links between larval transport, connectivity, and population dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Elizabeth W North($750,989), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Pelagic Life Stages, Coupled Field-and-modeling, Crassostrea Virginica, Larval Transport, Numerical Modeling, Physical-biological Interactions, Population Dynamics, Significantly Enhance, Tools Developed, Advance, Bivalve, Conditions, Connectivity, Cutting-edge, Field-and-modeling, Fisheries, Habitat, Information, Investigate, Management, Organisms, Oyster, Oysters, Processes, Program, Quantitative, Recruitment, Restoration, Student.

SGER: Determining Equatorial Upwelling Rates with a Novel Geochemical Tracer Technique
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William E Johns($124,544), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Mixed Layer, Sensitive Indicator, Beryllium, Collected, Cruise, Equator, Ideal, Profiles, Region, Stations, Tracer, Upwelling.

Collaborative Research: Using thermocouple arrays to investigate temporal and spatial microbial colonization in actively forming hydrothermal vent deposits
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anna-Louise Reysenbach($108,384), Portland State University, Portland
2. Margaret K Tivey($171,117), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical Gradients, Microbial Colonization, Vent Deposits, Archaea, Bacteria, Deep-sea, Differences, Diversity, Hydrothermal, Microorganisms, Observed, Succession, Temporal, Thermal, Thermocouple.

The effects of temperature on ecological processes in a rocky intertidal community: a mechanistic approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Emily Carrington($542,658), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Organismal Body Temperature, Performance And Species, Ecological Consequences, Individual Performance, Species Interactions, Affects, Basic, Biophysical, Broader, Climate, Ecosystem, Effects, Environmental, FHL, Graduate, Has, Local, Marine, Model, Models, Opportunities, Physiological, Program, Public, Rocky, Structuring, Students, Undergraduate.

SGER: Reassessing the Role of Planktonic Amoeboid Protists in Estuarine Microbial Food Webs
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew R Juhl($64,039), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Heterotrophic Protist Carbon, Planktonic Heterotrophic Protist, Adequately Quantified, Food Web, Food Webs, Growth Rates, Highly Leveraged, Microbial Food, Planktonic Amebas, Planktonic Microbial, Planktonic Protists, Standing Stocks, Anderson, Bacteria, Contribution, Current, Environmental, Established, Estuaries, Estuarine, Estuary, Expertise, Flux, Fluxes, HRE, Has, Lower, Marine, Methodological, Naked, Portion, Quantify, SGER, Techniques, Time, Total, Transfer, Transform, Water-quality.

SGER: Giant Virus Regulation of Coccolithophorid Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William Wilson($69,523), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Giant Algal Viruses, Ocean Acidification, Patagonian Shelf, Act, Biogeochemical, Collected, Cruise, Interactions, Levels, Marine, Molecular, Phytoplankton, Public, Quantitative, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: GLOBEC Pan-Regional Synthesis: End-to-end Energy Budgets in US-GLOBEC Regions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James J Bisagni($155,185), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Eileen E Hofmann($273,468), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Dian J Gifford($208,931), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
4. Kenneth O Coyle($149,942), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
5. James J Ruzicka($154,864), Oregon State University, Corvallis
6. John H Steele($171,059), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
7. Andrew C Thomas($154,294), University of Maine, Orono
8. Cynthia T Tynan($157,707), H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos
9. Kendra L Daly($157,969), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Food Webs, Regional Models, Analyses, Climate, Compare, Diagnostics, Ecosystem, Fishing, GLOBEC, Management, Marine, Modeling, Regions, Top-down.

Collaborative Research: Climate Variability and Change in the U.S. GLOBEC Regions as Simulated by the IPCC Climate Models: Ecosystem Implications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael A Alexander($152,327), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Nicholas A Bond($34,177), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Enrique N Curchitser($83,389), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 20th Century Simulations, Large-scale Climate Forcing, 20th Century, Climate Models, Ecosystem Dynamics, Globec Program, Ipcc-ar4 Simulations, Large-scale Climate, Ocean Circulation, Statistical Downscaling, According, Connections, Control, External, Global, Has, IPCC-AR, Influence, Influenced, Links, Marine, Means, Natural, Nature, Output, Phase, Processes, Regional, Regions.

Collaborative Research: Global-Pan Regional Synthesis: End-to-end energy budgets for USGLOBEC regions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Suzanne L Strom($150,014), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Walker O Smith($151,092), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Food Webs, Regional Models, Analyses, Climate, Compare, Diagnostics, Ecosystem, Fishing, GLOBEC, Management, Marine, Modeling, Regions, Top-down.

Resolving Migratory Connectivity of Basking Sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) in the Western Atlantic Ocean: Integrating Novel Geochemical Tracers with Satellite Archival Tags
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Simon R Thorrold($856,772), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Dispersal And Migratory, North Atlantic Ocean, Archival Tags, Basking Sharks, Ecological Time, Fish Species, Migratory Connectivity, Nitrogen Isotopes, Analyzing, Biological, Conservation, Education, Electronic, Examine, Fisheries, Fishes, Lifetime, Migration, Migrations, Movement, Online, Pelagic, Phd, Populations, Specific, Student, Students, Summer, Tools, Unique, Vertebrae, Whyville, Worlds.

Fucoid inducible defenses: the causes and consequences of intraspecific variation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Geoffrey C Trussell($279,843), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Exhibit Inducible, Inducible Defenses, Lesson Plans, Outreach Program, Rocky Shore, Seaweed Inducible, Seaweed-herbivore Interactions, Broad, Considerable, Consumers, Dynamics, Ecology, Enhance, Geographic, Grazing, Gulf, Intertidal, Junior, Littorina, Maine, Play, Populations, Seaweed-herbivore, Seaweeds, Species, Structuring, Students, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Recruitment dynamics and population connectivity in Bahamian octocorals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Howard R Lasker($697,080), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
2. Laurent M Cherubin($95,977), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Conservation And Management, Benthic Species, Elisabethae Populations, Unique Opportunity, Analyses, Assessing, Bahamas, Based, Caribbean, Closed, Connectivity, Coral, Developed, Dispersal, Dynamics, Harvest, Harvested, Has, Larval, Marine, Methodologies, Model, Recruitment, Sources, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Climate Forcing of Calanus finmarchicus Populations of the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ann C Bucklin($74,423), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Julia C Levin($149,192), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Dennis J McGillicuddy($420,780), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mean Seasonal Cycle, Climatological Mean, Genetic Analysis, Molecular Population, North Atlantic, Population Centers, Adjoint, Approach, CPR, Census, Coml, Finmarchicus, Marine, Model, Modeling, Processes, Produce, Students.

Ecology of injury in marine sedimentary habitats: Effects of repeated injury on infaunal condition and sediment bioturbation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sara M Lindsay($381,823), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Interactive Concept Maps, Educational Activities, Graduate Students, Infaunal Populations, Injury Rates, Marine Infauna, Marine Sediments, Nutritional Condition, Ocean Literacy, Organic Matter, Rapid Regeneration, Repeated Injury, Water Column, Widely Distributed, Activity, Bioturbation, COSEE-OS, Ecological, Effect, Effects, Evaluation, Experiments, Feeders, Frequency, Has, Head-down, Individuals, Influence, Injured, Interactions, Maine, National, Nutrients, Organisms, Polychaetes, Recruitment, Species, Surveys, Tissue, Tube-dwelling.

The role of iron (Fe) in controlling in situ distributions and activities of marine synechococcus
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric A Webb($416,063), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Fe Limitation, Fe Stress, Marine Synechococcus, Niche Adaptations, Ability, Available, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Clade, Clades, Coastal, Defining, Distribution, Diversity, Field, Has, Ocean, Potential, Primary, Shown, Strains, Suggesting.

Collaborative Research: Comparative Analysis of Salmon and Cod Population Responses
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael Fogarty($208,207), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Louis W Botsford($267,466), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Salmon And Cod, Spawning Age Distributions, Development Rates, Growth Rate, Population Dynamic, Population Dynamics, Time Scales, Various Ages, Action, Aid, Analysis, Attention, Climate, Differences, Environmental, Expected, GLOBEC, Increasing, Mechanism, Populations, Resonance, Seldom, Sensitivity, Survival.

Collaborative Research: Life histories of species in the genus Calanus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans and responses to climate forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James J Pierson($208,181), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Andrew Pershing($278,168), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Globec Programs, Life History, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Climate, Collaboration, Europe, Food, Has, Interactions, Knowledge, Maine, Marine, Model, Species.

US GLOBEC Pan-Regional Synthesis--Comparative Ecology of Krill in Coastal and Oceanic Waters around the Pacific Rim
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William T Peterson($552,589), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: North Pacific Krill, California Current, Climate Impacts, Growth Rates, Krill Ecology, Krill Populations, Life History, Pacific Rim, Seasonal Cycles, Abundance, Alaska, Canada, Carried, China, Comparative, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Furthermore, GLOBEC, Gulf, Individuals, Interactions, Japan, Knowledge, Local, Multi-authored, Northern, Papers, Processes, Produced, Regional, Regions, Reports, Summarized, Survive, Synthesis.

Quantifying and Predicting Microscale Patchiness of Plankton
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter J Franks($365,580), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Graduate Student, Spatial Distribution, Turbulent Structures, Analyses, Biogeochemical, Chemical, Climate, Collected, Distributions, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Enhance, Environment, Gradients, Has, High-school, Images, Interactions, Marine, Plankton, Planktonic, Processes, Situ, Students, Teaching, Underlying, Underrepresented, Vertical, Zooplankton.

SGER: Nursery areas, natal origin, and natural elemental signatures: implications for connectivity and conservation of shark and ray populations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jessica A Miller($149,913), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Coupled Plasma Mass, Elemental And Isotopic, Inductively Coupled Plasma, Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Vertebral Chemical Composition, Water And Vertebral, Calcified Structures, Cartilaginous Vertebrae, Distinctive Elemental, Elemental Signatures, Life History, Natal Origin, Application, Applied, Based, Captive, Commonly, Connectivity, Contrasting, Dispersal, Elasmobranchs, Environmental, Extent, Fishes, Food, Habitat, Incorporated, Investigation, Juvenile, Markers, Matrix, Months, Nine, Nursery, Physiological, Population, Potential, Rays, Reworking, Salinity-temperature, Sharks, Spatial, Stability, Tank, Temporal, Time, Treatments.

Basin-scale distribution and activity of deep-sea protists in the North Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander B Bochdansky($540,256), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Deep Sea Protists, Deep Ocean, Eukaryotic Microbes, Pressure Effects, Sensitive Indicators, Sinking Particles, Abundance, Atmosphere, Bacteria, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Carbon, Chambers, Dissolved, Distribution, Dominion, Ecology, Enumerate, Input, Marine, Methods, Microbial, Microscopy, Newly, Oceanography, Organic, Organisms, Particulate, Processes, Realm, Situ, Surface, Taxonomic, Temperature, Time, Tool, Water.

Collaborative Research: Copepods in a Warming Climate: A Pan-Regional Model of Arctic and Northwest Atlantic Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert C Beardsley($416,610), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Changsheng Chen($226,754), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Dominant Copepod Species, Arctic Ocean, Environmental Conditions, Examine Effects, Global Warming, Pan-regional Domain, Population Growth, AO, Abundance, Affects, Atlantic, Biological, Biological-physical, Climate, Control, Developed, Distribution, Dynamics, Existing, Food, Future, GLOBEC, IBM, Interactions, Life, Marine, Model, Modeling, Models, NWA, Outreach, Pan-regional, Panregional, Plankton, Populations, Processes, Public, Regions, Resulting, Scenarios, Students, Transport.

Collaborative Research: GLOBEC Pan Regional Synthesis: The Effect of Varying Freshwater Inputs on Regional Ecosystems in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fei Chai($156,640), University of Maine, Orono
2. Enrique N Curchitser($204,001), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: North Atlantic Ocean, Northern North Atlantic, Calanus Finmarchicus, Freshwater Influx, Globec Program, Biological, Climate, Decades, Entire, Mechanisms, Observed, Pan-regional, Regional.

Collaborative Research: Trophic Structure and Interactions of the Pelagic Nekton Associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tracey Sutton($183,822), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Deep-sea Food Webs, Deep-sea Food, International Collaborations, Trophic Interactions, Activities, Analysis, Contributions, Deep-pelagic, Developed, Ecological, Graduate, Has, Investigation, Largest, MAR, Ocean, Oceanic, Opportunity, Quantitative, Ridge, Structure, Students, Top.

Bringing Out the Dead: Distribution and microbial decomposition of copepod carcasses in the marine environment
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kam W Tang($266,754), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Live And Dead, Livedead Copepod Composition, Vital Stain Method, Chesapeake Bay, Copepod Populations, Dead Zooplankton, Laboratory Experiments, Abundance, Allows, Application, Bacteria, Bacterial, Carcasses, Decomposition, Effort, Existing, Field, Global, International, Marine, Microbial, Mortality, Natural, Non-consumptive, Processes, Programs, Routine, Water, World.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Combining Flow Cytometry and Stable Isotope Techniques: A Method to Measure Phytoplankton- and Bacteria-specific Nitrogen and Carbon Uptake
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Deborah A Bronk($232,237), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. Michael W Lomas($252,779), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Uptake Rates, Bacteria, Bacteria-specific, Bacterial, Development, Field, Filters, Functional, Has, Marine, Method, Microbial, Phytoplankton, Phytoplankton-specific, Potential, Quantify, Techniques.

Composition of the plankton community and its contribution to particle flux in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susanne Neuer($645,869), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Downward Particle Flux, Atlantic Time-series, Carbon Export, Subtropical Gyres, Surface Ocean, BATS, Basin, Biological, Biomes, Contribution, Contributors, Dissolved, Diversity, Hypothesize, Mineral, Molecular, Opportunities, Overall, Phytoplankton, Pump, Regional, Taxonomic, Water.

Top-Down Regulation of Picophytoplankton in the Sargasso Sea: Application of a Reciprocal Transplant / Dilution Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Binder($382,861), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Primary Producers, Abundance, Broader, Carbon, Factors, Model, Oceanic, Picophytoplankton, Populations, Prochlorococcus, Regulation, Responsible, Subsurface, Synechococcus.

Pumping rates of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta on Caribbean reefs: size scaling, envionmental controls, and bleaching effects.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher M Finelli($193,617), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Caribbean Reefs, Coral Reefs, Filtration Rates, Pumping Rates, Sponge Pumping, Water Column, ADV, Affected, Assess, Biomass, Bleaching, Corals, Cruises, Diameter, Education, Environmental, Flow, Graduate, International, Measure, Muta, Opportunity, Organisms, Population, Principal, Size, Sponges, Students, Temporal, UNCW, Velocities.

Carbon and Nitrogen acquisition and cycling in heterotrophic and mixotrophic ciliates
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George B McManus($426,294), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic, Carbon, Ciliates, Cycling, DIC, DIN, Eukaryotic, Excretion, Experimental, Has, Measure, Microbes, Microbial, Nitrogen, Photosynthesis, Progress, Species.

Linking genetics and mineralization of iron-oxidizing microbes at midocean ridges
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Katrina J Edwards($39,953), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Iron Oxidation, Iron Oxyhydroxide, Broader, Deposits, Electron, Enzyme, Formation.

An Observing System for the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Ocean Heat Transport in the Subtropical North Atlantic: Extension of the RAPID-MOCHA Program
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Molly O Baringer($3,705,308), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Climate Model Predictions, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Observed Climate Fluctuations, Ocean Reanalysis Models, Heat Flux, Observed Moc, Regular Estimates, Time Scales, Trans-basin Hydrographic, Ability, Assess, Atlantic, Collaboration, Component, Document, Long-term, Maintain, March, Observing, Program, Sections, Spectrum, Trans-basin, UK.

Paleogenetics of Pleistocene Deep-Water Corals from the Mediterranean Sea: The Rise and Fall of Coral Populations within the Basin
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rhian G Waller($176,109), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
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.

Fe Acquisition by Trichodesmium: Role of the Associated Microbial Community
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Margo G Haygood($129,192), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Colloidal Iron, Natural Populations, Trichodesmium Colonies, Availability, Bacteria, Carried, Close, Cultivated, Growth, Marine, Siderophores, Strains, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Patterns of Larval Dispersal and Postsettlement Selection Shaping Connectivity of Oyster Populations Along an Ecotone
Award Effective Date: 08/13/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew P Hare($793,085), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithaca
Key terms: Pre And Post-settlement, Dispersal Vectors, Eastern Florida, Gene Flow, Local Adaptation, Post-settlement Selection, African-american, Andor, Coastline, Compared, Connectivity, Constraints, Difficult, Diversity, Ecotone, Field, Focus, Genetic, Habitats, Handful, Has, Lab, Lagoons, Larval, Limit, Marine, Measured, Migrants, Minority, North, Oyster, Populations, Pre-, Recruitment, Relative, Spatial, Spatially, Species, Student, Survivorship, Undergraduates.

CDI-Type I: A computational database for cyber-assisted discovery of oceanic mixing processes in multi-resolution, feature-driven simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: CDI TYPE I

1. Sutanu Sarkar($602,017), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Computational, Courses, Database, Dynamics, Flow, Structures, Time-dependent.

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - The National Central Coordinating Office
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Annette V deCharon($419,564), University of Maine, Orono
2. Gail A Scowcroft($1,540,960), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. William S Spitzer($150,653), New England Aquarium Corporation, Boston
Key terms: Cosee Network, National Website, Activities, CCO, Centers, Developing, Development, Education, Formed, Funding, NAC, Ocean, Office, Outreach, Overall, Partnerships, Students, UU.

Pacific Ocean Literacy for Youth, Publics, Professionals and Scientists (Polypps)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Kanesa D Seraphin($149,997), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Traditional Cultural Practices, Communicating Ocean, Cosee Ca, Ocean Literacy, Ocean-related Businesses, Activities, COSCOSIA, COSIA, Collaboration, Courses, Education, Educators, Engage, Graduate, Hawaii, Hawaiis, Informal, K-, Local, Museums, Network, Ocean-related, Organizations, Organize, POLYPPS, Pacific, Partners, Population, Public, Range, Students, Teaching, Training.

Center For Ocean Science Education Excellence - the Colorado Collaborative (CCC)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Lesley K Smith($149,960), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Allow Teachers, Cutting Edge, Inland Audiences, Intellectual Strengths, Los Angeles, School Districts, Summer Teacher, Teacher Institute, CCC, California, Classroom, Colorado, Deliver, Education, Geographic, Increase, Interact, Interactions, Ocean, Oceans, Organization, Outreach, Partnership, Program, Quality, Regional, Schools, Students, Teaching.

COSEE New Collaborations: Toward broader Ocean Learning Communities through field research learning.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Frederick Stahr($133,396), Ocean Inquiry Project, Seattle
Key terms: Local Business Leaders, Field Experiences, Informal Educators, Marine Environment, Ocean Scientists, Activities, Audiences, COSEE-OLC, Center, Citizens, Collaborating, Common, Connections, Conservation, Cruises, Developing, Directly, Diverse, Environmental, Facilitate, Interaction, Knowledge, Knowledgeable, OIP, Oceanographic, Organizations, Promote, Public, Range, Reach, Students, Two-way, Volunteer-based, Volunteers.

COSEE: Education Aquanauts Educator Enhancement Collaboration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($150,087), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Invasive Species, Lake Michigan, Activities, Aquatic, Awareness, COSEE, Collaboration, Ecosystem, Education, Educator, Educators, Environmental, Exciting, Global, Hands-on, Informal, Lakes, Middle, Ocean, Opportunities, Outreach, Own, Promote, Public, Resources, School, Teachers.

COSEE - New Collaborations: A Partnership to Assemble "An Introduction to Our Dynamic Ocean" Course
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Laura Murray($150,000), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Cosee Coastal Trends, Entry Level Secondary, Queen Anne's County, Anne's County, Cosee Network, Increasing Ocean, Queen Anne's, Secondary School, Annes, Center, Course, Exploration, Literacy, MD, Maryland, Model, Partnership, Pilot-tested, Public, QACPS, Real-time, Region, Students.

CAREER: Does predator intimidation help structure a pristine seagrass community through multiple indirect pathways?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Michael R Heithaus($725,191), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Bmii Initiated, Graduate Students, Indirect Effects, Influence Seagrass, Multiple Bmii, Seagrass Ecosystems, Shark Bay, Tiger Sharks, Trophic Levels, Amplification, Amplify, Attenuate, Attenuation, Development, Enhanced, Experiences, Experimental, Grazing, Herbivorous, Interactions, Long-term, Marine, Megagrazers, Microhabitats, Monitoring, Non-lethal, Predators, Previous, Pristine, Program, School, Seagrasses, Shifts, Species, Teacher, Turtles, Video.

CAREER: Assessing effects of ecosystem fragmentation using novel metrics of trophic structure as part of a broad educational outreach program
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Craig A Layman($803,449), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Aquatic Ecosystem Fragmentation, Stable Isotope-based Metrics, Ecosystem Function, Isotope-based Metrics, Stable Isotope-based, Tidal Creek, Application, Biodiversity, Core, Ecological, Ecosystems, Effects, Experiences, Food, Grassroots, Hands-on, Insights, Local, Opportunities, Population-, Public, Restoration, Students, Unique.

Symposium: Unknown Knowns and Known Unknowns, Chemical Oceanography in a Changing World
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William B Savidge($25,000), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Carbon Cycles, Carbon Cycling, Graduate Students, Marine Biogeochemistry, Ocean Carbon, Session Chairs, Special Issue, Aspects, Biogeochemical, Contribute, Discussions, Invited, Organized, Papers, Participants, Primary, Selected, Sessions, Speakers, Symposium, Topics.

Collaborative Research: The Cariaco Basin Oceanographic Time Series Program
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert C Thunell($916,995), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Charles N Flagg($1,253,615), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
3. Frank E Muller-Karger($296,177), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Oxic-anoxic Transition Zone, Water Column Chemistry, Atlantic Ocean, Cariaco Basin, Caribbean Sea, Lateral Transport, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Oxic-anoxic Transition, Particulate Flux, Time Scales, Affect, Amount, Bacteria, Biological, Bottom, Carbon, Chemical, Climate, Composition, Conditions, Continue, De, Decomposition, Dissolved, Effort, Facility, Geological, Has, International, Joint, Local, Matter, NSF, Near, Objective, Observations, Oceanographic, Particles, Plan, Processes, Productivity, Program, Regional, Sediment, Set, Sill, Sinking, Students, Supported, Surface, Tropical, Upwelling, Venezuelan, Ventilation, º.

ETBC: Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Role of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Oceanic Nd Budget
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen H Johannesson($356,552), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. David J Burdige($263,841), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Concentrations And Isotope, Paleoceanographic Nd Isotope, Submarine Groundwater Discharge, Graduate Student, Groundwater Nd, Isotope Ratios, Isotopic Composition, Nd Budget, Nd Concentrations, Nd Fluxes, Balance, Dominion, Model, Oceanic, Oceans, Tulane.

Application of a novel geochemical approach to the alkalinity anomaly method of estimating coral reef calcification rates: implications of ocean acidification
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher Langdon($564,656), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: 7be Activity, Calcification Rate, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Lab Studies, Residence Time, Atmospheric, Climate, Decline, Establish, Fall, Flux, Global, Input, Knowledge, Method, Ocean, Offshore, Radioisotope, Resulting, Saturation, Shown, Temporally, Via, Water, Waters.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES particulate intercalibration
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James K Bishop($507,479), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Phoebe J Lam($32,743), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biologically Variable, Gulf Stream, Ic Experiment, Particle Sampling, Particulate Matter, Particulate Sampling, Physically Dynamic, Reported Differences, Water Column, Berkeley, California, Designed, Documented, Filter, GEOTRACES, Has, Highly, Loss, MULVFS, Mclane, Participants, Priority, Program, Pumps, Resolution, Size, Upper, Was.

SGER: New and Improved Methods for Collecting Ocean Particulates for the GEOTRACES Community
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($41,340), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Trace Metal Clean, Capable, Distributions, Filters, GEOTRACES, Particle, Particles, Pumping, SGER, Sampling, Teis.

SGER: Science of Opportunity: A SGER proposal to develop methods for the quantitative measurement of calcification rates of planktonic foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Victoria Fabry($35,000), California State University San Marcos Corporation, San Marcos
Key terms: Calcification Rates, Catalina Island, Ocean Acidification, Planktonic Foraminifera, Budget, Caco, California, Carbonate, Davis, Developed, Experiments, Field, Graduate, Methods, Opportunity, Quantitative, Student, Students, Techniques, Wrigley.

GEOTRACES: Intercalibration for Aerosol Preservation and Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Adina Paytan($83,575), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Filter Types, Geotraces Cruises, Geotraces Program, International Geotraces, Santa Cruz, Tei Solubility, Accuracy, Aerosol, Aerosols, Analytical, Collected, Collection, Composition, Effect, FSU, Involved, Measuring, Methods, Ongoing, Protocols, Set, Simultaneously, Storage.

COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: HOW IMPORTANT IS "OLD" CARBON IN LAKE SUPERIOR? A RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Shannon L McCallister($183,190), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
2. Josef P Werne($477,428), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Bacterially-respired Co2, Lake Superior, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Aquatic, Bacterially-respired, Biogeochemical, DIC, DOC, Dissolved, Importance, Ocean, POC, Transformations.

Collaborative Research: The role of Ice in the response of Large Lakes to a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Katsumi Matsumoto($214,965), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Jay A Austin($611,000), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Winter Ice Cover, Carbon Cycle, Ice Formation, Lake Superior, Lake Temperatures, Summer Temperatures, Biogeochemical, Climate, Conditions, Contributing, Cycles, Determining, Following, Lakes, Long-term, Plays, Rates, Rise, Thermal, Trend.

Quorum-sensing and the Carbon Cycle: Identifying Cell-density Dependent Organic Carbon Degradation among Marine Bacteria in Sinking Particles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin Van Mooy($655,743), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Functional Gene Expression, Sinking Marine Particles, Ahl-based Qs, Ahl-regulated Genes, Cell-cell Signaling, Genomic Dna, Hydrolytic Enzymes, Organic Carbon, Quorum Sensing, Sinking Particles, Active, Ahl-based, Ahl-regulated, Ahls, Analyzing, Bacteria, Cell-cell, Cells, Has, Libraries, Molecules, Previously, Process.

The Solubility of Biogenic Calcite
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William R Martin($481,460), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Inorganically Precipitated Calcite, Biogenic Calcite, Calcite Solubility, Carbon, Dissolution, Experiments, Foraminifera, Has, Measure, Models, Oceans, Uptake.

OPERATION OF A COMMUNITY MARINE-ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLING FACILITY AT TUDOR HILL, BERMUDA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter N Sedwick($237,687), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Predict And Mitigate, Tower And Site, Tudor Hill Facility, Anticipated Future, Atmospheric Sampling, Continuous Meteorological, Freely Available, Marine Troposphere, Site Laboratories, Weekly Bulk-aerosol, Ability, Additional, Archived, BIOS, Bermuda, Bulk-aerosol, Collection, Continue, Education, Effects, Exchange, Expected, External, Fees, Field, Global, Information, Maintain, Maintenance, NSF, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Oceanic, Operate, Period, Processes, Program, Public, Topics, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Systematics of Zn Isotopes in the Oceans: Assessing the Roles of Surfaces and Speciation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laura Wasylenki($458,912), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Thomas Spiro($112,784), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arizona, Biogeochemical, Cycling, Fractionation, Ocean, Student, Zinc, Zn.

RUI: Photobiogeochemistry of resuspended sediments in coastal environments: Impacts on organic matter and trace metal cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ralph N Mead($582,468), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Resuspended Estuarine Sediments, Dissolved Organic, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Organic Nitrogen, Resuspended Sediments, Anthropogenic, Coastal, Cu, DOC, DON, Estuaries, Fluxes, Impacted, Metals, Mobilization, Pb, Photochemical, Processes, Produced, Release, School, Trace.

"Collaborative Research: Constraining the marine nitrogen cycle using a new approach to measuring nitrogen isotopes of chlorins"
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rainer Lohmann($106,568), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Ann Pearson($214,528), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Nitrogen Cycle, Rhode Island, Biogeochemistry, Critical, Global, Harvard, Student.

SGER: Collaborative Research: Exploring a Long-term Record of Plastic Pollution in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher M Reddy($39,981), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kara L Law($33,090), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
Key terms: Current And Future, Marine Environment, Organic Matter, Chemical, Context, Distribution, Effort, Has, North, Ocean, Oceanographic, Performed, Plastic, Plastics, Processes, SEA, Students, Trends, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Geochemistry and Proteomics to Assess Protein Sources and Their Fate in Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rodger Harvey($470,161), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. David R Goodlett($519,204), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Individual Proteins, Organic Nitrogen, Proteins Represent, Advances, Approaches, Bioinformatics, Complex, Degradation, Follow, Geochemical, Has, Identification, Interdisciplinary, Involved, Marine, Mechanisms, Preservation, Process, Products, Proteomics, Sources, Structures, Student, Training.

An Evaluation of Postdepositional Controls on the Preservation of DNA in Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy I Eglinton($592,093), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Graduate Student, Marine Sediments, Marine Settings, Phytoplankton Dna, Sedimentary Paleogenomics, Anoxic, Broadly, Conditions, Factors, Fate, Level, Lipid, Lipids, Microbial, Molecular, Past, Perform, Preservation, SSF, Students, Teachers, Website.

Collaborative Research: FeCycle I I- Natural variability in plankton iron quotas during an unamended Lagrangian experiment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven W Wilhelm($174,257), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. David A Hutchins($254,816), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Benjamin S Twining($181,090), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Fecycle Ii, Global Carbon, Southern California, Biogeochemistry, Courses, Cycling, Effort, Information, International, Micronutrient, Ocean, Outreach, Public, Quotas, Tennessee, Trace, Unique.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The role of marine Crenarchaeota in nitrification and links among biogeochemical processes in the eastern tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher A Francis($264,370), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Brian N Popp($299,844), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Goc And Etnp, Upper Water Column, Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea, Inorganic Carbon, Marine Crenarchaeota, Microbial Ecology, Nitrite Oxidation, Oxidation Rates, AOA, Active, Ammonia-oxidizing, Amoa, Archaeal, Biogeochemistry, Broader, Connections, Coupling, Critical, Depths, Fixation, Has, Nitrification, Nitrogen, OMZ, Ocean, Plays, Processes, Quantify, Removal, Stations, Students.

Testing methods for direct measurement of particle settling velocities and fluxes in the sea
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David E Black($157,619), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Particle Settling Rates, Settling Velocity, Water Column, Allow, Ball, Development, Fluxes, POM, Trap, Traps.

GEOTRACES: Intercalibration of Phosphate Oxygen Isotope Analyses and Sample Processing Techniques
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Albert S Colman($40,582), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Composition, Dissolved Phosphate, GEOTRACES, Intercalibration, Ocean, Set.

Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nutrient Availability and Requirements in Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francois M Morel($1,095,993), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Organic Sources, Acidification, Activities, Activity, Availability, Chemical, Decrease, Education, Effect, Effects, Efficiency, Enhance, Expected, Fe, Increase, Increases, Marine, Nutrients, Ocean, Ongoing, Organisms, Ph, Physiology, Phytoplankton, Specific, Surface, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: A GEOTRACES Intercalibration of Collection, Handling and Analysis Methods for Mercury Species in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chad R Hammerschmidt($50,050), Wright State University, Dayton
2. Robert P Mason($60,186), University of Connecticut, Storrs
3. Gary A Gill($63,577), Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland
4. Carl Lamborg($54,737), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Low Concentrations, Cruises, Cycling, Determination, Effort, Field, GEOTRACES, Hg, Intercalibration, Mmhg, Ocean, Species, Studying.

The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS): Year 21-25
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael W Lomas($5,257,101), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Ocean Carbon Cycle, Structure And Function, Bats Program, Bats Site, Surface Fluxes, Atlantic, BIOS, Biogeochemical, Broad, Climate, Components, Context, Continue, Dataset, Decadal, Ecosystem, Exchange, Export, Facilities, Forcing, Global, Has, Hydrostation, Laboratory, Models, Net, Oceanographic, Past, Planktonic, Productivity, Programs, Temporal, Time, Time-scales, Time-series, Training.

A sulfur hexafluoride section in the North Pacific Ocean: Application of a dual tracer approach
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Sabine Mecking($282,137), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Anthropogenic Co2 Uptake, Co2 Ventilation Rates, North Pacific Ocean, Chemical Tracers, Co2 Transit, Accurate, Acidification, Climate, Dual, Mixing, Oceanic, Student, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Intercalibrating Analytical Methods for Osmium Isotopes and Concentrations in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($44,530), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Mukul Sharma($45,627), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Gregory E Ravizza($27,902), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Analytical Protocols, Ocean Basins, Isotopic, Osmium, Tracer.

2008 Oceans and Human Health GRC-Sponsored Conference & Graduate Research Seminar
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Algal And Microbial, Epidemiology And Public, Genomics And Proteomics, Oceans And Human, Biological Oceanography, Human Health, Microbial Biology, Personal Contact, Public Health, Conference, Discipline, Economics, Funding, GRC, GRS, Interactions, Minority, OHH, Participants, Pharmacology, Students, Toxicology.

Collaborative Research: SGER - Rapid Resolution of Particle Sampling Issues for GEOTRACES
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Phoebe J Lam($24,646), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. James K Bishop($162,616), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Particle Sampling, Particulate Matter, Particulate Sampling, Bottles, Differences, Documented, Factor, IC, Issues, Loss, MULVFS, Phase, Program, Pumps, Relevance, Resolution.

Collaborative Research: Satellite Assessment of CO2 Distribution, Variability and Flux and Understanding of Control Mechanisms in a River Dominated Ocean Margin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kjell Gundersen($457,311), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. Wei-Jun Cai($300,017), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Co2 Fluxes, River Plume, Southern Mississippi, Air-sea, Carbon, Driven, Extreme, Georgia, Inputs, Metabolism, Rates, Spatial, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Mercury Biogeochemistry on the Continental Shelf and Slope
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chad R Hammerschmidt($238,469), Wright State University, Dayton
2. William F Fitzgerald($305,533), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Shelf And Slope, Vertical And Horizontal, Continental Shelf, Continental Shelfslope, Undergraduate Student, Water Column, Bacteria, Connecticut, Cruises, Graduate, Hg, Late, Mercury, Methylation, Mmhg, Sedimentary, Sediments, Source, Summer, Wright.

Occurrence and Photochemical Degradation of Estrogenic Steroids in Coastal Seawater
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Yuegang Zuo($268,414), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Densely Populated Cities, Microbial And Photochemical, Buzzards Bay, Coastal Environments, Estrogenic Compounds, Estrogenic Hormones, Estrogenic Steroids, Photochemical Degradation, Apply, Aquatic, Chemistry, Concentration, Concentrations, Contraceptive, Dartmouth, Dissolved, EE, Effluents, Field, Fish, Laboratory, Low, Marine, Massachusetts, Ngl, Seawater, Shown, Sources, Students, Synthetic, Wildlife, Wtps.

Collaborative Research: Macrofaunal community effects on benthic exchange fluxes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. George G Waldbusser($266,745), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Christof D Meile($158,576), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Reactive Transport Model, Benthic Infauna, Model Simulations, Sediment Biogeochemistry, Spatial Arrangement, Approach, Biogeochemical, Burrow, Burrows, Coastal, Critical, Cycling, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Effects, Experimental, Experiments, Findings, Flux, Fluxes, Framework, Information, Interaction, Interactions, Irrigation, Laboratory, Larger, Macrofaunal, Nutrient, Sampling, Scaling, Seafloor, Species, Water.

Collaborative Research: Processes, Feedbacks and Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Exchange in the Land-Coastal Ocean System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Abraham Lerman($189,232), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. Fred T Mackenzie($163,771), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Air-sea Co2 Exchange, Global Carbon Cycle, Past And Future, Air-sea Co2, Coastal Ocean, Industrial Age, Model Analysis, Organic Carbon, Pre-industrial Time, Surface Ocean, Atmosphere, Biological, Centuries, Domain, Environmental, Estimates, Issues, LGM, Land, Models, Near, Pre-industrial, Total.

Improved Observations and Understanding of northeast Pacific Coastal CO2 Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Burke Hales($292,423), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Air-sea Co2 Flux, Air-sea Co2, Carbon Cycling, Coastal Ocean, Latitude Regions, Northeast Pacific, Strong Sink, Bio-optical, Coverage, Development, Estimates, Fluxes, Observations, Opportunity, Oregon, Poor, Satellite, Source, Spatial, Student, Students, Targeted, Temporal.

Collaborative Research: Biological and physical controls on DMS production and emission during VOCALS
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Barry J Huebert($130,119), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Patricia A Matrai($320,000), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Biotic Feedbacks, Radiation Budget, Sulfate Aerosols, Affect, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Bigelow, Broader, CLAW, Climate, Clouds, DMS, Ecosystem, Emission, Exchange, Graduate, Hawaii, Marine, Pacific, SW, Source, VOCALS, Winds.

GEOTRACES: Intercalibration of Nitrate Isotope Analyses and Sample Preservation Techniques
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($178,124), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Geotraces Intercalibration, Intercalibration Effort, Nitrate Isotopes, Upcoming Geotraces, Analysis, Analytical, Calibration, Collection, Dn, Laboratories, Preservation, Program, Seawater, Spatial, World.

Validation of the B/Ca proxy for surface seawater pH and application to measure anthropogenic ocean acidification
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Baerbel Hoenisch($337,724), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, Affected, Atmospheric, Bca, Boron, Climate, Effects, Global, Has, Laboratory, Ph, Potential, Proxy, Quantified, Salinity, Seawater, Sediment, Temperature.

A Comprehensive Combined ICP-MS/XAFS Study of Transition Metal Sorption on a Natural Organic Substrate
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Johan Schijf($327,463), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Active Physiological, Distribution Coefficients, Inorganic Surfaces, Living Organisms, Metal Sorption, Organic Coatings, Organic Surfaces, Passive Chemical, Functional, Has, Lactuca, Metals, Solution, Transition, Variety, YREE.

Anammox, denitrification and nitrogen fixation in the Black Sea
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James T Staley($371,477), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Particulate Organic Carbon, Suboxic And Anaerobic, Anthropogenic Forcing, Black Sea, Nitrogen Cycling, ANAMMOX, Chemical, Cruises, Cycle, Distributions, Flux, Has, Importance, Microbial, Processes, Relative, Specific, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Parameterization of Gas Flux at High Wind Speed
Award Effective Date: 03/14/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Craig L McNeil($440,489), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Gas Exchange, Gas Transfer, Surface Wave, Wind Speeds, Air-sea, Autonomous, Budgets, Component, Developed, Floats, Flux, Global, Measured, Parameterizations, Rate, Rates, Salinity, Sensors, Temperature, Uncertainties, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Iron Binding Organic Ligands in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($94,466), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Daniel J Repeta($477,971), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Supported And Trained, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Iron Speciation, Iron-binding Ligands, Naturally Occurring, Southern California, Spectral Analysis, Complexes, Fe-ligand, Gt, Iron-binding, Marine, OCE-, Seawater, Strong, Student.

Collaborative Research: Temperature Dependent Magnesium Isotope Fractionation in Marine Carbonates
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Zhengrong Wang($77,106), Yale University, New Haven
2. Glenn A Gaetani($283,007), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mg Isotope Fractionation, Growth Rate, Temperature-dependent Fractionation, Vital Effects, Apply, Coral, Dependencies, Dmg, Reconstruct, Seawater, Temperature-dependent, Yale.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES: Intercalibration exercise for Radium Isotopes in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Henrietta Dulai($146,705), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Willard S Moore($64,253), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Mass Spectrometry, Radium Isotopes, South Carolina, Intercalibration, Station.

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Silver Concentrations and Lead Concentrations and Isotopic Compositions in the North Pacific Rim and Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Arthur Flegal($420,686), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycles, North Pacific, Anthropogenic, California, Has, Industrial, International, Lead, Metals, Natural, Perturbations, Silver.

GEOTRACES-Intercalibration studies of Contamination-Prone Trace Element Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward A Boyle($164,149), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Isotope Ratios, Analysis, Collected, Collection, Fe, GEOTRACES, Intercalibration, MITESS, Trace, Zn.

Early Detection of Ocean Acidification Effects on Marine Calcification and Deep-Sea Carbonate Dissolution
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard E Zeebe($368,597), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deep-sea Carbonate Dissolution, Fossil Fuel Neutralization, Anthropogenic Co2, Deep-sea Carbonate, Deep-sea Sediments, Marine Calcification, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Chemistry, Total Alkalinity, Caco, Critical, Decline, Effects, Field, Future, Global, Hawaii, Large-scale, Magnitude, Natural, Organisms, Rates, Seawater, Time.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Intercalibration of 230Th, 231Pa, 10Be, REE, Nd isotopes and selected man-made radionuclides
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Stephen B Moran($88,301), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Christina-Maria van de Flierdt($384,983), Columbia University, New York
3. Richard L Edwards($78,440), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Neodymium Isotopes, Intercalibration, Rare.

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Pelagibacter on DOM Composition Under Light and Dark Conditions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Stephen J Giovannoni($193,579), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($303,650), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Rossana Del Vecchio($205,914), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Analytical Framework, Bacterial Species, Dark Conditions, Graduate Students, Heterotrophic Bacterial, Spectral Alignment, Automated, Broader, Composition, Compounds, DOM, Development, Experiments, FTICR-MS, Growth, Has, Light, MS, Marine, Organic, Presence, Robust, Substrates, Ubique.

Collaborative Research: Participation in the GEOTRACES Intercalibration Cruise
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($70,857), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Christopher I Measures($80,564), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Florida, GEOTRACES, Hawaii, Postdoc, Sampling, Seawater.

A Coral Skeleton P/Ca Proxy for Surface Ocean Phosphate: Testing and calibration
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert M Sherrell($430,947), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Surface Water Phosphate, Time-series Surface Water, Skeletal Pca, Surface Ocean, Time-series Surface, Allow, Based, Concentrations, Coral, Corals, Gulf, Organic, Panama, Phosphorous, Preliminary, Proxy, Quantitatively, Rutgers, Seasonal, Upwelling.

GEOTRACES: Intercalibration for Aerosol Sampling and Analysis
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($225,120), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Abstract Oce-0752832, Surface Waters, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Collection, GEOTRACES, Metals, Rainwater, Sampling, Trace.

GEOTRACES: Speciation intercalibration of iron and copper in seawater
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($67,643), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Geotraces Intercalibration, Pacific Geotraces, Compared, Concentrations, Copper, Cruise, Cu, Fe, Feii, Iron, Metals, Organic, Redox, Seawater, Speciation.

Oxidant Generation during Fe(II) Oxidation in the Mixing Zone of Subterranean Estuaries: An Integrated laboratory and Field Study
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy J Shaw($498,749), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Hydrogen Peroxide, Hydroxyl Radical, South Carolina, Strong Oxidants, Carbonate, Coastal, Experimental, Feii, Formation, Function, Groundwater, Mixing, Oxygen, Rich, Seawater.

A Determination of Krypton and Xenon Solubilities in Seawater for Oceanic Air-Sea Exchange and Ventilation Studies
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William J Jenkins($344,411), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Gas Exchange Rates, Kr And Xe, Ne And Ar, Water Mass Formation, Air-sea Exchange, Air-sea Gas, Isotope Dilution, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Anthropogenic, Biogeochemical, Biological, Bubble, Cycles, Determinations, Diagnosing, Distributions, Errors, Has, Knowledge, Magnitude, Oxygen, Processes, Range, Recently, Seawater, Solubilities, Solubility, Temperature.

Connections between the Marine Biogeochemistry of Cobalt and Vitamin B12
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mak A Saito($472,935), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Grazing And Viral, Marine Primary Productivity, Degradation Products, Eukaryotic Phytoplankton, Marine Cyanobacteria, Marine Environment, Primary Productivity, Vitamin B12, Analytical, Bioavailability, Biogeochemistry, Chemical, Cobalt, Colimitation, Cycle, Experiments, Found, Influence, Ligands, Low, Means, Micronutrient, Micronutrients, Prochlorococcus, Public, Rates, Seawater, Source, Synechococcus.

Hydrogeologic Controls on Trace Metal and Nutrient Fluxes from Subterranean Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Matthew A Charette($770,655), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Cape Cod, Coastal Hydrogeology, Coastal Waters, Subterranean Estuaries, Aid, Americorps, Basis, Discharge, Expected, Flux, Fluxes, Global, Groundwater, Has, Importance, Involve, Mass, Nutrients, Ocean, Program, Quantify, Range, Sampling, School, Sites, Stes, Student, Students, Time, Trace, Training.

Molybdenum Isotope Geochemistry in Marine Sediments II: Experimental Determinations of Mo Isotope Fractionation Under Sulfidic Conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Zanna Chase($186,015), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mo Fractionation, Mo Isotope, Environments, Experiments, Isotopes, Marine, Potential, Quantifying, Reducing, Student.

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

1. Zanna Chase($299,151), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Delivery Rates, Oxidation-reduction Reactions, Southern California, Benthic, Coastal, Continent, Deposits, Diagenesis, Essential, Graduate, Has, Iron, OCE-, Oregon, Oxidation-reduction, Pacific, Sediments, Shelf, Signature, Source, Student, Undergraduate, Upwelling.

Operation of the CLIVAR & Carbon Hydrographic Data Office at UCSD/SIO
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2003; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Terry B Appelgate($1,743,596), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Advantage, Archive, CCHDO, Common, Content, Contributing, Documentation, File, Format, Formats, Future, Hydrographic, Import, Ocean, Office, Originators, Standard, Tracer, Users.

CAREER: Multiphase Sediment Transport Modeling Framework
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu($300,546), University of Delaware, Newark
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.

Workshop to Expand Opportunities for Engagement of Professional Societies in K-12 Ocean Science Education; Washington - August 2008
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Gisele Muller-Parker($39,523), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Education Representatives, K-12 Education, Collaboration, Focused, Ocean, Programs, Recommendations, Societies, Society, Workshop.

Interim National Leadership Team: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Gail A Scowcroft($163,133), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Cosee Network, Activities, Centers, Coordinating, Meetings, Ocean.

Education Outreach Panel Support
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($9,180), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Education Programs, Environmental Issues, Attention, Communicators, Conference, Discussion, Effective, Federal, Focused, Forum, Ocean, Oceanographic, Panelists, Public.

Research experiences in Eestuarine Science for Undergraduates at Mote Marine Laboratory: Developing a New Generation of Leaders in Ocean Sciences.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Barbara Kirkpatrick($182,623), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Mote, Oral, Program, REU, Summer.

CAREER: Airflow Separation Above Wind-Waves
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Fabrice Veron($583,671), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Air-sea Momentum, Airflow Separation, School Students, Separated Airflow, Air-sea, Appropriate, Atmosphere, Broader, Climate, Coupled, Effects, Field, Fields, Flux, Fluxes, Forecasts, Has, Hurricane, Integrated, Laboratory, Lead, Minority, Ocean, Oceans, Program, Public, Structure, Surface, Undergraduate, Velocity, Waves, Web.

REU site: Field Experience in South Texas coastal dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Edward J Buskey($282,417), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: South Texas Coast, Institute, Program, REU, Students, Summer, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Marine and Atmospheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Josephine Y Aller($358,873), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Program, Students, Summer.

Interagency Support for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Kathleen Meehan Coop($827,731), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Education And Outreach, National Ocean, Ocean Education, Regional Bowls, Academic, Additional, April, Basic, CORE, Competition, Continue, Contribute, Development, Educational, Educators, Expand, Field, Funding, Future, Interagency, Model, NOSB, Opportunities, Participating, Prepare, Program, Public, Schools, Students, Teachers, Technology.

Micro- and Nanofabric Protection of Organic Matter in Clay-rich Muds and Polychaete Fecal Pellets: Direct Visualization by TEM and Quantitative Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Patricia M Biesiot($219,971), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. Richard H Bennett($267,529), SEAPROBE, Inc., Picayune
Key terms: Nano And Microfabric, Techniques And Image, Clay Fabric, Electron Dense, Enzymatic Digestion, Image Analysis, Marine Sediment, Microfabric Signatures, Om Preservation, Organic Carbon, Tem Techniques, Advance, Based, Development, Direct, Evidence, Graduate, Local, Meetings, Models, Nano-, National, Organo-clay, Pores, Program, Protection, Quantitative, Realistic, Regional, Sediments, Visual, Visualization.

Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic Controls on Freshwater Beneath the Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Daniel Lizarralde($227,002), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Brandon Dugan($156,816), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
3. Mark A Person($115,388), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Aquifer, Aquifers, Coastal, Mechanisms, Modeling, Sediments, Water.

ETBC: Organic Geochemical Transformations and the Deep Biosphere -- Identifying the Food Sources for Microbes in Sedimentary Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Hilairy E Hartnett($1,528,590), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Temperatures And Pressures, Deep Biosphere, Elevated Temperatures, Organic Compounds, Organic Matter, Bound, Demonstrations, Explores, Focuses, Found, Geochemical, Hydrothermal, Im, Life, Microbes, Microbial, Models, Phase, Predict, Reactions, Realistic, Sediments, Site, Subsurface, Transformations.

MO: Collaborative Research: Transitions in the Surface Layer and the Role of Vertically Stratified Microbial Communities in the Carbon Cycle- An Oceanic Microbial Observatory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Craig A Carlson($803,765), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Stephen J Giovannoni($479,208), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Diagenetically Altered Organic, Ocean Carbon Cycle, Euphotic Zone, Genome Sequences, Mesopelagic Microbial, Organic Matter, Surface Layer, Upper Mesopelagic, Approaches, Bacterioplankton, Clades, Cultures, Culturing, Deep, Directly, Exported, Fractions, Genes, Growth, HTC, Mixing, Nutrient, Organisms, Populations, Processes, Region, Spatial, Specialized, Specific, Stratified, Students, Subcellular, Substrates, Temporal, Training.

Mass Exchange between Flexible Submerged Canopies and Adjacent Open Water
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Heidi M Nepf($400,482), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Flow And Wave, Flexible Canopies, Rigid Canopies, Unidirectional Flow, Wave Conditions, Contribute, Ecosystem, Exchange, Flux, Interaction, Mass, Meadow, Meadows, Models, Momentum, Nutrient, Porous, Processes, Seagrass, Submerged, Surrounding, Transport, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: N and Si Dynamics in the Glacial Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Rebecca S Robinson($288,300), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Carbon Pump, Co2 Concentrations, Nutrient Dynamics, Southern Ocean, Biological, Climate, Estimates, Existing, Glacial, Importance, Past, Primary, Program, Si, Students, Time, Waters.

Doliolid Blooms: What Are the Driving Variables? Investigations of Trophic Interactions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Deidre M Gibson($608,820), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Doliolid Blooms, Laboratory Studies, Trophic Interactions, Zooplankton Ecology, Aspects, Continent, Doliolids, Established, Field, Gut, Hampton, Has, Investigate, Limitation, Marine, Methods, Molecular, Pelagic, Processes, Savannah, Situ, Student, Students, Via.

Collaborative Proposal: Are abundant bacteria more active than rare bacteria in the Sargasso Sea?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Barbara J Campbell($445,461), University of Delaware, Newark
2. John F Heidelberg($337,367), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Commonly Expressed Genes, 16s Rrna, Marine Prokaryotic, Sargasso Sea, Abundant, Active, Activity, Actually, Alter, Artifacts, Bacteria, Bacterial, Brdu, Cells, Dissolved, Diverse, Energy, Environmental, Especially, Examine, Genomic, Hypothesize, Incorporation, Involved, Kirchman, Levels, Metabolic, Metabolisms, Metagenomic, Metatranscriptome, Micro-fish, Oceans, Processes, Pyrosequencing, Rare, Summer, Surface, Thymidine, Transcript, Visitors.

Predicting the effects of ocean warming on larval dispersal by measuring adaptive potential of corals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Iliana Baums($474,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Individuals And Populations, Acropora Palmata, Adaptive Trait, Global Warming, Reef-building Coral, Seawater Temperatures, Adaptation, Connectivity, Corals, Development, Dispersal, Estimates, Expected, Field, Florida, Gene, Larvae, Larval, Microarray, Predict, Public, Range, Reef-building, Species, Time.

Diversity and ecology of marine RNA viruses
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ENVIRONMENTAL GENOMICS

1. Alexander I Culley($498,325), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Dna Containing Viruses, Ka Imi Ike, Rna Containing Viruses, Food Web, Genomic Diversity, Marine Protists, Marine Rna, Nhpi Undergraduates, Rna Viruses, Viral Assemblages, Viral Diversity, Abundance, CMORE, Center, Coastal, Composition, Contribution, Decay, Dynamics, Ecology, Education, Established, Estimates, Gene, HIP, Lab, Microbial, Mortality, Oahu, Outreach, Persistent, Poorly, Post-doc, Program, Programs, Protistan, Range, Rates, Relative, Sea, Spatial, Student, Students, Subtropical, Summer, Surveys, Technology, Temporal, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Importance and Trophic Role of Noctiluca Blooms in the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. JOAQUIM I GOES($296,905), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Edward J Buskey($176,206), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Northern Arabian Sea, Carbon Cycling, Field Program, Miliaris Blooms, Public Radio, Bigelow, Concern, Emergence, Existing, Increased, India, Institute, Language, Monsoon, NEM, NIO, National, Oman, Oxygen, Particular, Students, Time, UT, Univ, Website, Zone.

REU Site: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - Undergraduate Research Experience in the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Richard A Wahle($258,685), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: BLOS, Bigelow, Funding, Ocean, Program, REU, Students.

Collaborative Research: Experiment on Internal Tide Scattering
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Glenn Carter($574,770), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Daniel Rudnick($579,480), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Scott E Worrilow($638,902), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Internal Tide Scattering, Diapycnal Mixing, Energy Transfer, Internal Tides, Model Predictions, Numerical Models, Topographic Scattering, Barotropic, Circulation, Climate, Disseminated, Downstream, Global, Low-mode, Meeting, Mid-ocean, Observations, Past, Public, Relevance, Ridge, Scattered, Seamount, Sites, Spatial, Steep, Students, Tall, Tidal, Time, Topography, Via, Waves.

MRI: Acquisition of ICPMS Instrumentation for Interdisciplinary Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael Bizimis($695,247), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Climate, Efforts, Geochemistry, Inclusion, Instrumentation, Ocean, Proxy, Students.

Deciphering planktonic predator-prey interactions: a mechanistic approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Susanne Menden-Deuer($600,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Planktonic Food Webs, Complex Biological, Factors Driving, Foraging Behaviors, Grazing Rates, Heterotrophic Protists, Population Distributions, Population Dynamics, Predator Population, Predicts Predator, Theoretical Framework, Approaches, Ecological, Ecology, Empirical, Established, Graduate, Independent, Integration, Laboratory, Lack, Macroscopic, Marine, Mechanistic, Microscopic, Minority, Mismatch, Model, Movements, Observation, Observations, Opportunity, Phytoplankton, Predators, Prey, Processes, Quantified, Theoretically-motivated, Undergraduate.

COSEE Alaska: People, Oceans and Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Paula Cullenberg($2,652,531), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Cosee Alaska, Cosee Network, Ocean Climate, Ocean Scientists, Traditional Knowledge, Activities, Broaden, Coastal, Education, Educational, Educators, Focus, Increase, Information, Nation, Outreach, Populations, Tools.

A comprehensive survey of endosymbiotic and free-living Symbiodinium diversity in the corals and reef environments of Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ruth D Gates($511,889), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Hawaii Epscor, Newly Developed, Academy, Capacity, Climate, Complete, Development, Disseminated, Diverse, Diversity, Ecosystem, Endosymbiotic, Environmental, Framework, Free-living, Global, HIMB, Has, Hawaiian, Interactions, International, Lab, Levels, Represent, Resolve, Scleractinian, Students, Symbiodinium, UH, Undergraduate.

Large-Scale Edge Waves Generated by Hurricane Landfall
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alexander E Yankovsky($239,244), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Edge Wave, Edge Waves, Wave Pulse, Coastal, Dissipation, Etc, Evolution, Flooding, Generation, Hurricane, Hurricane-induced, Induced, Landfall, Propagating, Propagation, Shelf, Spatial, Speed, Surge, Topographic, Was, Wilma.

Unveiling the contributions and regulation of picoeukaryotic phytoplankton in oceanic environments.
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: ERE General

1. Alexandra Z Worden($204,033), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Carbon Flux, Molecular Underpinnings, Primary Producers, Approach, Dynamics, Environmental, Eukaryotes, Expressional, Factors, Fate, Growth, Knowledge, Ocean, Physiological, Picocyanobacteria, Picoeukaryotes, Picophytoeukaryotes, Picophytoplankton, Poorly, Real-time, Sequences, Students.

SedDB, The Online Information System for Sediment Geochemistry Continued Operation and Development
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: GEOINFORMATICS

1. Kerstin A Lehnert($399,123), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Phase Ii, Access, Allows, Education, Holdings, Integrate, Procedures, Seddb, Unpublished, User-friendly, Users.

Proposal for a Planning Meeting to Organize an NSF Sponsored Workshop on Nanotechnology and Environmental Sensors
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Patricia A Maurice($8,126), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Arrays, Engineering, Sensor, Sensors, Workshop.

AGU Chapman Conference on Biogeophysics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Lee Slater($72,500), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Biogeophysics, Biology, Engineering, Field, Geophysics, Multidisciplinary, Sedimentology, Techniques.

Participation of Qualified Oceanographers from Developing Countries in International Scientific Meetings
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

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

Support for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Maria Hood($601,433), United Nations Educ Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris
Key terms: Activities, Consequences, Development, Ecosystems, Exchanges, IOC, International, Ocean, Planning.

Collaborative Research: LIDAR Studies of Lateral Dispersion in the Seasonal Pycnocline
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Eugene A Terray($706,790), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Miles A Sundermeyer($381,652), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Stirring And Mixing, Dye Patches, Flight Facility, Lateral Stirring, Numerical Models, Upper Ocean, Vertical Mixing, Airborne, Aircraft, Boat, Depth, Experiments, Field, LIDAR, Mapping, Processes, Releases, Resolution, Set, Stratified, Trying, Usually, Water.

COSEE National Network Evaluation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Mark St. John($312,047), Inverness Research, Inc., Inverness
Key terms: Cosee Network, Evaluation Plan, Improvement Infrastructure, Knowledge Base, Approach, Audiences, Capacity, Centers, Contribute, Contributions, Design, Direct, Doing, Education, Educational, Field, Investment, Multiple, National, Ocean, Opportunities, Refining.

Collaborative Research: Co-Evolution of Submillennial and Orbital Scale Climate and Ocean Behavior during the Last 700 kyrs: The Unique Santa Barbara Basin Record
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Richard J Behl($83,606), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
2. Tessa M Hill($495,175), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Santa Barbara, Ultra-high Resolution, Behavior, CSULB, Cores, Cycles, Incorporating, Interval, Ka, Previously, Processes, Sequences, Students, Time, Ultra-high, Undergraduate.

Linking Atmospheric and Ocean Circulation Variability to Abrupt Climate Change Over the Last 40 Kyr
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Matthew W Schmidt($317,103), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Large-scale Ocean Circulation, Temperature And Salinity, Abrupt Climate, Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Transitions, Glacial Cycle, Hydrologic Cycle, Large-scale Ocean, Largest Climate, North Atlantic, Texas Aandm, AMOC, Benthic, Cores, Florida, Foraminifera, Graduate, Past, Planktonic, Potential, Timing, Tropical, Undergraduates.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2008
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Pete E Zerr($569,262), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Todd Chlaupek($5,600), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Mooring Recovery Winch, Replacement Deck Crane, Nsf-funded Cruises, Rv Wecoma, A-frame, Days, Items, Nsf-funded, Oregon, Was.

Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of a continuous, high-resolution record of late Quaternary paleohydrology and paleoclimate of the Amazon basin
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Paul A Baker($368,300), Duke University, Durham
2. David J Hollander($237,200), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Amazon, Analyses, Climate, Continent, Cores, Coring, DH, Fan, High-resolution, North, Reconstruct, Resolution, SSS, SST, Sediment, South, Surface, Vegetation.

Field and Laboratory Program to Evaluate Atlantic Intermediate Circulation During the Past 25,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. William B Curry($599,442), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Ocean Circulation, Water Masses, AAIW, Atlantic, Climate, Cruise, Distribution, Graduate, NADW, Northward, Pis, Predict, Sediment, Undergraduate, Website.

RUI:Tropical - subtropical linkages during the Pliocene-Pleistocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Petra Dekens($230,808), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Odp Site, Tropical Atlantic, El, Planktonic, Subtropical, Temperatures, Thermocline.

Radiocarbon Ventilation Ages and Climate in the Northern Subtropical Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Lloyd D Keigwin($626,659), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Ice Age, Ocean Ventilation, Atlantic, Climate, Corer, Millennia, Past, Radiocarbon.

Coral-based reconstruction of dust emission and precipitation patterns from the Sahara-Sahel region
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($257,660), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Sahara And Sahel, Dust Flux, Atlantic, Corals, Proxy, Reconstruct.

Effects of ocean climate change on recruitment of kelp populations
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Chris Harley($580,758), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Field Studies, Kelp Taxa, Activities, Climate, Diversity, Dynamics, Ecological, Life, Nutrients, Ocean, Processes, Productivity, Students.

Collaborative Research: Investigations of the relationship between seismological and petrological constraints on upper-mantle temperature and composition
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Charles H Langmuir($151,435), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Colleen A Dalton($57,591), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Mantle Potential Temperature, Petrological And Seismological, Temperature And Composition, Velocity And Attenuation, Graduate Student, Mid-ocean Ridge, Petrological Analysis, Velocity Models, Beneath, Correlations, Datasets, Earth, Estimates, Global, Investigate, Mid-ocean, Observable, Petrology, Plates, Progress, Proper, Rock, Seismic, Sensitivity, Shwave, Tectonic, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: A Global Bridge From Eddy-Rich to Eddy-Less: Quantifying, Mapping, and Improving Treatment of Mesoscale Eddy Tracer Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Baylor Fox-Kemper($288,920), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. John M Dennis($70,017), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Eddy Stirring Tensor, Eddy Parameterizations, Extant Eddy, Mesoscale Eddy, Ocean Models, Challenge, Challenges, Coarse, Comparison, Diagnosis, Direct, Fine-resolution, Global, Globally, Improvement, Lead, Observations, Products, Required, Run, Simulation, Validated.

Collaborative Research: Internal waves impinging on near-critical slopes: multiscale numerical quantification of localized mixing and exchange with the interior
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Alberto D Scotti($207,710), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Sutanu Sarkar($254,944), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Amr And Les, Bottom Boundary, Bottom Mixing, Boundary Layer, Hot Spots, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Large-scale Models, Mixed Fluid, Near-critical Slopes, Sub-grid Model, Wave Field, Account, Analytical, Assessment, BBL, Characteristics, Coefficients, Component, Coupled, Dissipation, Energy, Evidence, Exchange, Global, Has, Incident, Interior, Laboratory, Large-scale, Layers, Local, Ncritical, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Processes, Properties, Rates, Reynolds, Simulations, Students, Sub-grid, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Fast Spin Up of Ocean General Circulation Models Using Newton-Krylov Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Samar Khatiwala($361,750), Columbia University, New York
2. Patrick Heimbach($108,231), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Computing Equilibrium Solutions, Obtain Equilibrium Solutions, Seasonally Forced Ogcms, Climate Model, Climate Models, Deep Ocean, Glacial Maximum, Applied, Approach, Circulation, Code, Developed, Driven, Equations, Estimates, Forcing, Matrix-free, Method, Methods, Nonlinear, Numerical, Objective, Periodically, Practical, Principal, Resolution, Simulations, Spin, Technique, Time-independent.

Collaborative Research: Estimating Ecosystem Model Uncertainties in Pan-Regional Syntheses and Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Domains of the North Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Thomas M Powell($177,993), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Ralph F Milliff($325,090), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
3. Christopher K Wikle($235,034), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
4. Jerome Fiechter($179,995), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Ecosystems, Variables And Parameters, Bhm Development, Coastal Ecosystem, Coastal Regions, Deterministic Model, Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Model, North Pacific, Ocean Modeling, Probabilistic Modeling, Approach, Climate, Comparisons, Distributions, Estimates, Focus, Models, NEMURO, Observations, Oceanography, Process, Quantitative, Regional, Synthesize, Uncertain, Uncertainties.

Interdisciplinary Research and Training at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Jean-Luc Thiffeault($817,574), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Summer Program, GFD, Graduate, Interdisciplinary, Participants, Particular, Theme, Training.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Eddies and Waves on the Westward Transport off Central California
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Curtis A Collins($76,380), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. Leonid M Ivanov($333,904), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Eddies And Waves, Naval Postgraduate School, Biological Productivity, Central California, Climate Applications, Oceanic Models, Westward Transport, Affect, Analysis, CCS, Correlation, Developed, Graduate, Heat, Independent, Interactions, Marine, Mesoscale, Monterey, Nowcast, Observations, ROMS, Salt, Time, WT.

Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences: Nonintegrable Hamiltonian Systems in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Francisco J Beron-Vera($763,266), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Harmful Algal Blooms, Fish Larvae, Global Warming, Industrial Applications, Intimately Linked, Transport Barriers, Circulation, Dynamical, Implications, Involving, KAM, Lcss, Manifolds, Ocean, Plankton, Potential, Stratosphere, Structure, Structures, Theory.

CAREER: MOTILITY OF MARINE BACTERIA: OBSERVING, MODELING, TEACHING AND PLAYING
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: MICROBIAL GENOME SEQUENCING

1. Roman Stocker($711,001), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Bacterial Foraging, Public Television, Ability, Access, Broad, Educational, Environment, Marine, Microfluidics, Microscale, Oceans, Predict, Processes, Quantify, Quantitative, Students, Swimming, Technique.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer and Laser Ablation System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Margaret L Delaney($566,787), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Hr Icp-ms, Laser Ablation, Efforts, Existing, ICP-MS, Instrumentation, Outlines, Replacement, User, Variety.

MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Quantify Environmental Conditions in Estuarine Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alberto M Mestas-Nunez($389,542), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Dynamics, Effects, Environmental, Instrumentation, Pis, Program, Stations, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of Side-scan Sonar, Seismic Reflection Profiling, and Differential Global Positioning Sys in Support of Coastal and Shallow Marine Research and Teaching Activities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michael S Fenster($181,525), Randolph-Macon College, Ashland
Key terms: Efforts, Geologic, Instrumentation, LTER, Sediment, Serve, Virginia.

MRI: Development of A System for Continuously Monitoring Fish Population and Behavior over Continental Shelf-Scales with Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (OAWRS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Nicholas C Makris($1,798,227), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Active Source, Broader Impacts, Marine Life, Source Array, Advance, Capabilities, Fisheries, Imaging, Instrumentation, Management, Portable, Time, Vessel.

MRI: Acquisition of an XRF Core Scanner - A Revolutionary Tool for Studying the Long-Term Behavior of Ocean Ecosystems and Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Richard D Norris($481,600), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Core, Instrument, Marine, Minnesota-duluth, Sediment, Writing.

MRI: Acquisition of a Coulter-Beckman Multisizer 3 Electronic Particle Analyzer and preparatory instruments for sedimentary research and education with undergrad students at IUP
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Steven A Hovan($63,841), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute, Indiana
Key terms: Education, Pis, Primary, Sediment, Track, Undergraduates.

SGER: Evaluation of Hydrothermal Fluid Crustal Residence Times in the Global Ridge System Using Radium Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David C Kadko($80,736), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Critical, Crust, Fluid, Fluids, Hydrothermal, Radium, Ridge, Time.

SGER: Seismic Waveform Inversion Study of the Layer 2A/2B Boundary in Young Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gail L Christeson($50,424), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Uppermost Oceanic Crust, Geologic Structure, Seismic Structure, Age, Decades, Has, Inversion, Layer, Process, Technique, Variety.

A Towed Electromagnetic Survey Across the Kane Megamullion: Mapping the Uppermost Gabbro/Serpentinite Contact
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert L Evans($186,591), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Electrical Conductivity, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Summer Student, Appropriate, Basis, Core, Experiment, Fault, Faults, Features, Gabbro, Geometry, Mantle, OCC, Paris, Peridotite, Pilot, Program, Runs, Seafloor, Serpentinite, Serpentinization, Strain, Students, Time, Uplift, WHOI.

SGER - Final Processing and Publication of Conductive Heat Flow Data from the Endeavour Hydrothermal Field, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harlan P Johnson($75,242), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Heat Flow, Thermal Blanket, Crust, Hydrothermal, Lau, Models, Objective, Pacific, Processes, Ridge.

MARGINS FELLOWSHIP: Fluidization of Very Thick Granular Layers in Ancient Thrust Faults
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Emily E Brodsky($202,649), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Fluidized Granular Layers, Brittle Regime, Behavior, Earthquakes, Factors, Fault, Faults, Female, Flow, Has, Mechanisms, Natural, Observations, Rate, Shown, Size, Strength.

SGER: A novel apparatus to investigate subsurface flow and microbial biomineralization in hydrothermal systems
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jennifer L Houghton($58,790), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Microbial Populations, Subsurface Environments, Affects, Apparatus, Biofilms, Flow, Fluid, Geochemical, Hydrothermal, Processes, Reactor, Spatial, Temporal, Time.

Collaborative Research: Numerical Modeling of the Main Endeavour Vent Field, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kayla C Lewis($134,800), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Robert P Lowell($172,265), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Hydrothermal Heat Output, Separation And Hydrothermal, Temperature And Salinity, Crustal Permeability, Heat Flow, Hydrothermal Circulation, Numerical Models, Phase Separation, Vent Field, Vent Temperature, Available, Constrained, Constraints, Controlled, Decline, Depth, Development, Dike, FISHES, Female, Fluid, Gradients, Insights, Interdisciplinary, Layer, MEF, Magmatic, Mid-ocean, Modeling, Northeast, Particular, Ridge, Single, Southwest, Student, Time, Two-phase.

Enhancement and Maintenance of the Marine Seismic Processing System SIOSEIS
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Henkart($35,864), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Marine Seismic Reflection, Intellectual Merit, Seismic Processing, Seismic Recorders, Algorithms, Available, Has, Images, Quickly, SIOSEIS, Sea, Software.

Global Controls on the Carbon Isotopic Composition of Carbonate Platforms: Unrelated to the Glocal Carbon Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter K Swart($307,895), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Bulk Carbonate, Carbonate Platforms, Adjacent, Burial, Carbonates, Cored, Extending, High-school, Ii, Input, Organic, Past, Phenomenon, Shallow, Sites, Äc.

Coll. Res: Advanced MCS processing of the SISMOMAR 3D data volume: Exploring linkages within the magmatically driven hydrothermal system of the Lucky Strike Volcano (MAR, 37deg N)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Graham Kent($273,860), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Juan Pablo Canales($110,261), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Multichannel Seismic, Ocean Bottom, Prestack Imaging, Analysis, Crust, Experiment, MCS, Magma, Marine, Melt-rich, Method, Mid-atlantic, Resolution, SOBE, Set, Structure.

Laboratory study: Sediment transport in wave-supported gravity currents
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alexander Horner-Devine($373,405), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Currents, Environments, Laboratory, Observations.

SGER: Developing Proxies and Age Models for Reconstructing Monsoon Evolution on Peninsular India and in the Northern Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy I Eglinton($74,999), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Analysis, Continent, Cores, Indian, Lead, Ma, Surface.

Earth's Climate History, Ice Sheets, and Sea Level Over Last Four Million Years
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. None($404,141), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Wiki Site, Climate, History, Less, Mid-pliocene, Optimum, Pliocene, Sea.

The global fracture zone and magnetic lineation data base project
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($187,646), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Fz And Magnetic, Magnetic Isochron Picks, Plate Tectonic Reconstructions, Fracture Zones, Fz Traces, Kinematic Models, Marine Geophysical, Collected, Database, Derive, Detailed, Developed, Global, Information, Infrastructure, Public, Relative, Stored, Users, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Reflection Data System for Marine Geosciences II
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas H Shipley($676,813), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Suzanne Carbotte($615,183), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Field And Processed, Digital Collections, Marine Seismic, Seismic Reflection, Academic, Access, Captured, Centers, Developed, Discovery, Distributed, Files, Legacy, Metadata, Modern, NSF, Past, Promoting, Range, Sharing, Ship, Tools, Wide.

Patagonia glaciation, geochemical tracers of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and iron fertilization of the glacial South Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert F Anderson($319,998), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Nd Isotope Composition, Biological Productivity, Fish Teeth, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, South Atlantic, Southern South, Authigenic, Carbon, Carried, Climate, Climate-related, Correlated, Evidence, Glacial, Iron, Isotopes, Measure, Neodymium, Past, Rapid, Sediments, Soil.

Collaborative Research: Probing mantle plumbing beneath Pacific ridges thriugh study of the Lamont and Vance Seamount chains
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Craig C Lundstrom($190,934), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Michael R Perfit($157,868), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Absolute Plate Motion, Plate Motion Directions, Si And Ca, Temperature Gradients Play, Broader Impacts, Seamount Chains, Aligned, Conduits, Dunite, Geochemical, Isotopes, Magma, Mantle, Melt, Ocean, Processes, Ridge, Students, Traits.

Collaborative Research: Radiocarbon content of the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean waters in the Holocene and late Quaternary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mea S Cook($259,992), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Elisabeth L Sikes($296,926), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Ocean Circulation, Addressing, Atmosphere, Criteria, Deep, Deglaciation, Depths, Gas, Global, Radiocarbon, Sediments, Time, Water, Waters, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Integrated Data Management for Hydrothermal Spring Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael J Mottl($152,879), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Kerstin A Lehnert($148,913), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Geochemistry Program, Global Geochemical, Hydrothermal Springs, Seafloor Hydrothermal, User Interface, Access, Database, Development, Geoinformatics, Geoscience, Information, Integrate, Integrated, Interactive, Legacy, MGDS, Managed, Management, Petdb, Set, Students, Tools, Vent, Ventdb.

Resistivity Probe Deployments at the Endeavour ISS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marvin D Lilley($109,683), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Chloride Concentration, Fluid Resistivity, Hydrothermal Fluids, Phase Separation, Temporal Nature, Capable, Controlled, Efforts, Endeavour, Fields, Has, Instrument, Instruments, Observed, Sensors, Temperature, Vent.

Collaborative Research: Development and Application of a Rayleigh-Based Approach to Coral Thermometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Zhengrong Wang($39,034), Yale University, New Haven
2. Glenn A Gaetani($362,049), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coral, Geochemical, RBGT, Temperature, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Temporal evolution of submarine Mauna Loa provides insights into the nature of the Hawaiian plume
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bradley S Singer($102,866), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. John M Rhodes($145,321), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Long-term Magmatic Evolution, Long-term Magmatic, Flanks, Hawaii, Lavas, Loa, Mauna, Plume, Volcano, Volcanoes.

High-Resolution Gravity, Tomography, and Seafloor Roughness
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David T Sandwell($166,505), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Marine Gravity, Gravity And Bathymetry, 1-minute Resolution, Bathymetry Grids, Gravity Field, Gravity Model, Minute Resolution, Altimeter, Available, Benefit, Constructed, Exploration, Has, Investigations, Ocean, Seafloor, Soundings.

Collaborative Research: An ultra-high resolution, multiproxy study of the past 2,000 years of climate change in Southern California.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ingrid L Hendy($284,095), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Arndt Schimmelmann($187,241), Indiana University, Bloomington
3. Dorothy K Pak($90,915), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Extreme Weather, Sea Surface, Southern California, Analyzed, Climate, Conditions, Cores, Paleoclimate, Regional, Resolution, Shifts, Students, Warming.

U/Pb Zircon dating of the Kane Oceanic Core Complex, MAR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael Cheadle($121,349), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Core Complex, Detachment Faults, Ages, Gabbros, Kane, Program, Seafloor, Upb, Zircon.

Collaborative Research: Crustal Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction-Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Douglas A Wiens($535,017), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Spahr C Webb($420,462), Columbia University, New York
3. Robert A Dunn($461,326), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
4. Donna K Blackman($150,909), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Eastern Lau Spreading, Lau Spreading Center, Ocean Bottom Seismographs, Experiment Consists, Seismographs Deployed, Active, Flow, Mantle, Melt, Passive, Region, Ridge, Structure.

Constraints on the Hawaiian Swell and Plume-lithosphere Interaction from Kaua`i Mantle Xenoliths
Award Effective Date: 08/06/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael Bizimis($123,136), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Hawaiian Swell, Pacific Lithosphere, Directly, Garnet, Involve, Island, Kaua`i, Mantle, NHMFL, Nsf-funded, O`ahu, Ocean, Oceanic, Ongoing, Origin, Outreach, Peridotites, Plume, Pyroxenites, Undergraduate, Volcanism, Xenoliths.

Accomplishment Based Renewal to OCE-0526905: The Geology and Tectonics of Ultraslow Spreading Ridges
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Henry J Dick($474,114), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge Spreading, Broader Impacts, Mid-ocean Ridge, Ocean Crust, Spreading Centers, Ultraslow Spreading, Basis, Beneath, Class, Geology, Identification, Lavas, Local, Magma, Public, Ridges, Rock, Seafloor.

Collaborative Research: Th-230 as a Sediment Focusing Indicator: constraints from He-3 in Interplanetary Dust Particles
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($91,171), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sediment Focusing, Sediment Redistribution, Ars, CFP, Cfps, Currents, Idps, Particles, Pis, Processes, Proxy, Th.

Effect of Redox and pH on the Reaction Kinetics of Anhydrite in a Coupled Chemical System: An Experimental Study with Implications for Modeling Vent Fluid Evolution at EPR 9-10 N
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kang Ding($299,261), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent Fluids, Kinetic And Thermodynamic, Subseafloor Reaction Zones, Geochemical Models, Mid-ocean Ridges, Reaction-transport Models, Acquisition, Anhydrite, Chemical, Conditions, Constrain, Derived, Development, Evolution, Mid-ocean, Reaction-transport, Reactor, Redox, Required, Training.

Geochemical Characterization of Lavas from the 2005-06 EPR Eruption at 9º 50' N: Implications for Magma Genesis, Evolution, and Transport along a Fast Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael R Perfit($255,389), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Chemical, EPR, Erupted, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Geologic, Has, High-precision, ISS, Integrated, Lava, Lavas, MOR, Magmatic, Opportunity, Outreach, Petrologic, RIDGE, Ridge, Site, Spatial, Temporal, Time.

Volatiles in Tonga Arc Magmas
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terry A Plank($94,324), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Lau Basin, Tonga Arc, Australian, Boston, Composition, Compositions, Comprehensive, Electron, Female, Graduate, HO, Magmas, Mantle, Melting, Slab, Subduction, Volatile, Volcanism.

Characterization of Subduction Zone Earthquake Rupture Parameters with Respect to Subduction Zone Complexity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Susan L Bilek($117,598), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Horst And Graben, Earthquake Rupture, Northern Japan, Rupture Characteristics, Stress Drops, Subducting Plate, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Central, Complexity, Coupling, Durations, Earthquakes, Focus, Graduate, Influencing, Inputs, Mexico, Parameters, Produce, Program, Range, Region, Regions, Sediment, Seismic, Silent, Similar, Slow, Tsunami.

Collaborative Research: Geomorphodynamic Modulation of Biogeochemical Fluxes and Basin Stratigraphy of the Fly River
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anthony K Aufdenkampe($81,006), Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale
2. Miguel A Goni($414,585), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. William E Dietrich($30,001), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
4. None($87,601), Seattle University, Seattle
Key terms: Fly River, Organic Matter, Carbon, Floodplains, Fluxes, Pis, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Seismic Imaging of New Transitional Crust in the Salton Trough Oblique Rift
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joann M Stock($472,564), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. John A Hole($932,235), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Continent, Earthscope, Effect, Experiment, Extension, Graduate, Involve, Lithosphere, MARGINS, Magmatism, Portioning, Sedimentation, Students.

Antarctic Intermediate Water Ventilation Through the Last Deglaciation Off Chile
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lloyd D Keigwin($309,055), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Southern Ocean, Atmospheric Co2, Baja California, Benthic Foraminifera, Fossil Benthic, Radiocarbon Content, Ago, Atmosphere, Carbon, Chilean, Climate, Cores, Deglacial, Deglaciation, Depth, Hypothesized, Observations, Range, Reflect, Water.

Geochemical Core Logging of Gulf of Papua Sediments for Source-to-Sink Studies
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Larry C Larry($118,718), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Cores, Initiative, Papua, Sources, Time, Useful, XRF.

Collaborative Research: Iceland Flexure Zones: Analogs for Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Centers
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert J Varga($90,233), Whitman College, Walla Walla
Key terms: Developed, Iceland, Lava.

The LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository and the Curating and Maintenance of the Sediment Library and Dredge Collection
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Ryan($515,019), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate, Collection, Core, Cores, Describe, LDEO, Past, Repository, Service.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical investigations of newly discovered back-arc spreading centers in the northeastern Lau Basin
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter J Michael($87,813), University of Tulsa, Tulsa
2. Charles H Langmuir($208,683), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Back-arc Volcanism, Broader Impacts, Lau Basin, Back-arc, Collaboration, Content, Distance, Nsf-funded, Subduction, Trench, Volcanic.

The Juan de Fuca Plate Laboratory: Comprehensive Investigation of Oceanic Ridge-Transform and Intraplate Seismicity from Regional Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John L Nabelek($412,571), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Transform Fault, Broader, Oceanic, Plate, Tectonic.

First Comprehensive Sampling of the Shona and Discovery Seamount Chains, South Atlantic - Plume Versus Shallow Sources
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Cornelia Class($322,974), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Shona And Discovery, Mantle Plumes, South Atlantic, Cape, Collaboration, Continent, Existence, Geophysical, Has, Integrated, International, Phenomena, Ridge, Seafloor.

Mantle Serpentinization and Subduction of Water: Constraints from Seismological studies of the Tonga Outer Rise
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Douglas A Wiens($195,596), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Labatts Experiment, Ocean Bottom, Oceanic Mantle, Outer Rise, Progressive Serpentinization, Seismic Velocity, Subduction Zones, Upper Mantle, Water Budget, Amount, Anomalies, Collected, Compressional, Constrain, Degree, Delay, Depth, Depths, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faulting, Fluid, Hydrated, Hydration, Image, Incoming, Plate, Techniques, Time, Tonga, Trench, Undergraduate, Uppermost, Wave.

Magmatic Water along the Central American Arc
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terry A Plank($47,792), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Costa Rican Volcanoes, Water Contents, Arc, Based, Clinopyroxenes, Development, HO, Involves, Pis, Set.

Collaborative Research: A multidisciplinary study of hotspot - ridge interaction in the Easter microplate - Salas y Gomez system
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard H Kingsley($95,011), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Crustal Thickness, Geodynamic Model, Geodynamic Modeling, Mantle Flow, Melt Chemistry, Upper Mantle, Allow, Applied, Approach, Available, BU, Basalts, Benchmark, Constrain, Coupled, Course, Developed, ESC, ESC-EMP, Earth, Easter, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geodynamics, Gomez, Graduate, Gravity, Hall, Hotspot, Interaction, Melting, Mid-ocean, Models, Multidisciplinary, Numerical, OCE-, Observational, Parameters, Portion, Ridge, Scenarios, Student.

Collaborative Research: Fossil Coral Records of ENSO and Tropical Pacific Climate Through the Late Holocene
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kim M Cobb($173,713), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Christopher D Charles($239,887), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fossil Coral, Modern Corals, Solar Radiation, Tropical Pacific, Ages, Behavior, Broader, Characterized, Climate, Composition, ENSO, El, Has, Islands, Skeletal.

Distributed Extension at the Galapagos Triple Junction, Eastern Equatorial Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel J Fornari($162,773), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Crack Interaction Model, Dietz Deep Rift, Galapagos Triple Junction, Rotating Galapagos Microplate, Triple Junction Region, Available Immediately, C-n Rift, Multibeam Bathymetry, Southern Triple, Transient Rifts, Triple Junctions, Applicable, C-N, Collected, Conditions, Cruise, Development, EPR, Evolution, Formation, Gaps, Has, Led, Lithosphere, Oceanic, Plate, Predicts, Program, Public, RRR, Stabilization, Stresses, Students, Survey, Symmetrical, Tectonic, Trace, WHOI.

Ocean Crust Alteration and the Deep Biosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Everett L Shock($283,877), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Deep Biosphere, Igneous Rocks, Oceanic Crust, Alteration, Energy, Exploration, Extent, Framework, Mechanisms, Metabolic, Microbes, Microbial, Presence, Seafloor, Subsurface, Supply.

Assessing the Fidelity of Foraminiferal Mg/Ca- d18O to Estimate Seawater d18Or: A Multispecies Calibration-Validation Study
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter DeMenocal($343,404), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Excess Mgca, Nw African, Component, Coretop, Doseawater, Foraminifera, Observed, Shell, Subtropical.

Phase Separation in the Aftermath of Subseafloor Magmatic Events: An Experimental Study of Processes of Acid-Generation, Aqueous Speciation, and Vapor-Phase Transport of Fe
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kang Ding($353,720), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: In-situ Chemical Sensors, Broader Impacts, In-situ Chemical, Allow, Brines, Determined, Development, Effects, Experiments, Fe, Generation, Geothermal, Hot, Mineral, Partitioning, Reactor, Transport, Vapor.

Collaborative Research: Submarine Fluid Recharge - The Role of Anhydrite and Reactive Transport Modeling of the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2007; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Grant Garven($28,023), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Anhydrite Precipitation, Kinetic Effects, Mineral Precipitation, Numerical Computer, Reactive Transport, Recharge Zone, Circulation, Collaboration, Development, Evolution, Fluid, Geochemical, Heat, High-temperature, Hydrothermal, Involves, Microbial, Model, Modeling, Models, Porosity, Postdoc, Processes, Reactions, Rock, Simulate, Structure, Subsequent, Tasmania, Temperature, Varying.

Collaborative Research: Turbulent fluxes and boundary layer structure due to near-shore internal tides
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jonathan D Nash($303,658), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Stephen G Monismith($758,568), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Eugene R Pawlak($404,581), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Tides And Surface, Boundary Layer, Internal Tides, Internal Waves, Mean Flow, Near Shore, Surface Waves, Environment, Field, Hawaii, Mixing, Particular, Rates, Set, Shelf, Students, Turbulence, Turbulent, Water.

Proposal from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Roger Revelle's Birth
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Anthony D. J Haymet($30,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Revelles, Symposium, Was.

Collaborative Research: Assessment of T-wave Processes and Hydroacoustic Monitoring Capabilities in the Lau Basin
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Robert P Dziak($754,579), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($330,031), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
3. James A Conder($95,617), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: AUH, Earthquake, Hydrophone, Obss, Pis, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Chemical, pressure, temperature, and flow constraints on hydrologic horizons in the Costa Rica Subduction zone, ODP Sites 1253 and 1255
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Charles G Wheat($170,093), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Miriam Kastner($227,418), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fluid Chemical Composition, Borehole Penetrated, Fluid Flow, Fluid Velocity, Odp Site, Active, Additional, Boreholes, Continuous, Décollement, Formation, Formations, Hydrologic, Plate, Pressure, Subduction, Technical, Temperature.

GEOSS Workshop XXIII: Science Modeling and Data Policy
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Albin J Gasiewski($10,000), Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway
Key terms: Geoss Workshop, Access, Benefits, Devices, Models, Observations, Processes, Themes.

Collaborative Research: In situ measurements of oxygen and nitrate with profiling floats deployed at ocean time-series stations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Kenneth S Johnson($596,400), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Stephen C Riser($932,305), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Net Autotrophic, Profiling Floats, Available, BATS, Deployed, Education, NCP, Observations, Ocean, Oxygen, Processes, Produces, Resolution, Sensors, Significantly, Site, Sites, Station, Time.

Hawaii Ocean Time-series: Study of Subtropical Gyre Physics and Climate Interactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Roger Lukas($772,175), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Continue, Dynamics, HOT, Layer, Ocean, Site.

Multicultural Initiative in the Marine Sciences: Undergraduate Participation (MIMSUP)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Brian L Bingham($1,049,278), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Course, Education, K-, MIMSUP, Marine, Outreach, Participants, Program, Quarter, Stipend, Students.

Line W: A Sustained Measurement Program Sampling the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current and Gulf Stream at 39oN
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Terrence M Joyce($5,802,095), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Deep Water, Deep Water Export, Deep Western Boundary, Dwbc And Gulf, Mechanisms And Rates, North Atlantic Deep, Upper Ocean Circulation, Western Boundary Current, Air-sea Exchange, Current Line, Gulf Stream, Inter-annual Signals, Lower Latitudes, Water Mass, Air-sea, Anomalies, Array, Available, Build, Equatorward, Explore, Flow, Focus, Global, Inter-annual, Observational, Observations, Oceanography, Products, Program, Programs, Properties, Regional, Returning, Sampling, South, Stratification, Sub-polar, Time, Tracer, Transport.

Ridge 2000 Office - 4 Year Rotation to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Daniel J Fornari($1,612,589), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Crust, Hydrothermal, Oceanic, Office, Program, RK, Ridge, Supported, Web.

Sustained Observations of Subseafloor Pressures at ODP Advanced CORKs at the Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Keir Becker($258,345), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Acorks, Fluid, Hole, Plate, Pressures, Site, Subseafloor.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A Multi-Proxy Search for the Deglacial Deep Sea Carbonate Preservation Maximum
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Figen A Mekik($84,029), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
Key terms: Activities, Deep, Deglacial, MFI, Preservation, Public, Undergraduate.

Geochronological and Geochemical Studies of Recently Dredged Basalt from the Ninetyeast Ridge: Testing the Hotspot Model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Malcolm S Pringle($524,959), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Analyses, Collected, Mantle, NER, Origins.

Oceanographic control and global distributions of subseafloor microbial life and activity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert A Pockalny($817,544), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Sedimentary Cell Abundance, Subseafloor Sedimentary Cell, Accurately Estimate, Global Distribution, Microbial Activity, Subseafloor Sediments, Subsurface Life, Abundances, Activities, Below, Distributions, Magnitude, Maintenance, Metabolic, Microbes, Oceanographic, Pacific, Principal, Rates, Required, Seafloor, Significantly, Sites, Strong.

Off-axis Sills of Guaymas Basin: Implications for Thermogenic-carbon Flux of a Sedimented Rift Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Samuel A Soule($297,194), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fluid And Gas, Guaymas Basin, Cruise, Features, IODP, Indicative, Methane, Off-axis, Participation, Past, Promotes, Sources, Sub-bottom, Thermogenic, Venting, Water.

SGER for US-Japan Shinkai 6500 and Hyperdolphin ROV studies of the Mariana Arc
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert J Stern($46,176), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Crust And Upper, Mariana Forearc Crust, Graduate Students, Main Objective, Submarine Volcanoes, Upper Mantle, Arc, Cruise, Cruises, Drilling, Exposed, Future, Guam, Pis.

Collaborative Research: Element Recycling from UHP Metasediments: Evidence and Consequences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Peter B Kelemen($160,590), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Melt Extraction, Volcanic Arcs, Dehydration, Global, Metasediments, Rock, Sedimentary, UHP, Via.

Marine Geoscience Leadership Initiative: A New Leadership Symposium for Early Career Researchers
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey Schuffert($177,868), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Involved, Leadership, Marine, Media, Planning, Policy, Public, Symposium.

MARGINS-SEIZE Workshop - The next decade of the Seismogenic Zone Experiment
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Geoffrey A Abers($99,977), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Costa Rica, Foreign Countries, Margins Program, Seize Initiative, Seize Meeting, Seize Program, Accomplishments, Advance, Canada, Decade, Developing, Drilling, Educational, Efforts, Excellent, Has, Hazards, Participants, Phase, Sites, Timely, Workshop.

Chronostratigraphy and Environmental Variability in Postglacial Carbonates of the Tahiti Coral Reef
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Steven P Lund($176,235), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Coral Reef, Framework, Tahiti.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Investigations of Fault Zone Mechanical Behavior and Fluid Overpressure (EOR for IODP NanTroSEIZE Expeditions 314, 315, and 316)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. William Likos($116,301), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
2. Elizabeth J Screaton($47,671), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Demian M Saffer($99,080), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Fault Strength, Pore Pressure, Behavior, Composition, Datasets, Drilling, Generate, Laboratory, Nantroseize, Properties.

Collaborative Research: A Test for Extending the High-Resolution Climate Record back to 1.2 Ma & Investigating the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in Santa Barbara Basin
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Richard J Behl($113,241), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Aims, Climate, Cores, Integrated, Paleoclimate.

Cenozoic crustal genesis in SW Pacific arcs and backarcs
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. James B Gill($345,035), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Ages, Arc, Collection, Continent, Crust, Fiji, Focuses, Geochemical, Igneous, Initiation, Kermadec-fiji-tonga, MARGINS, Mantle, Rock, Subduction.

Serpentinization Effects on Forearc Peridotite: Mineralogic, Textural, and Geophysical Study
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Patricia Fryer($354,685), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Forearc Mantle, Mariana Forearc, Analysis, Detailed, Education, Evolution, Examined, Field, MIR, Plate, Seismic, Serpentinization, Stress, Students, Subduction, Textural.

Archiving and Advancing Core Curation and Database Management of ODP Legs 150X and 174AX cores: The Rutgers U.S. Atlantic Margin Core Repository
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Dennis V Kent($160,643), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 150x And 174ax, Ocean Drilling Program, Core Repository, Legs 150x, Cores, Developed, Has, Outreach, Rutgers.

MARGINS Office Support
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Geoffrey A Abers($715,965), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Margins Program, Program Office.

SGER: Geophysical and Geochemical Studies of Plume-Ridge Interaction at the St. Paul-Amsterdam Plateau, Southeast Indian Ridge, PLURIEL Expedition
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kevin T Johnson($133,207), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Aboard.

Evaluation and Adaptation of an Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor for Seawater pH Applications
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Todd Martz($433,884), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Seawater Ph, Autonomous, Capable, Chemical, Development, Field, ISFET, Isfets, Long-term, MBARI, Monitoring, Moorings, Ocean, Oceanography, Operation, Pis, Sensor, Sensors, Successful, Time, Wide.

Development and Deployment of a Versatile In Situ Underwater Miniature PIV System (UWMPIV)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Qian Liao($372,358), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Air-water Interface, Dissipation Rate, Air-water, Avoid, Compact, Computer, Energy, Flow, Flows, Has, Laser, Light, Mm, Observations, Ocean, PIV, Pis, Public, Structures, Surface, Time, Turbulence, Turbulent, UWMPIV.

Collaborative Research: Acoustic Instrumentation for Imaging and Quantifying Hydrothermal Flow in NEPTUNE Canada Regional Cabled Observatory at Main Endeavour Field, JdFR
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Karen G Bemis($247,407), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Russell D Light($1,433,986), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Angular Translation, Cabled Observatory, Diffuse Flow, Hydrothermal Flow, Neptune Canada, Bandwidth, Enable, Installation, Instrumentation, Power, Processes, Public, RCO, Seafloor, Software, Sonar.

Collaborative Research: A Nanostructure Sensor for Measuring Dissolved Iron and Copper Concentrations in Coastal and Offshore Seawater
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. D. Whitney King($279,543), Colby College, Waterville
2. Mark L Wells($969,713), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Fe And Cu, Active Nanostructures, Analytical Void, Dissolved Fe, Wide Range, Concentrations, Detection, Has, Levels, Low, Marine, Metals, Pis, Platforms, Potential, Sensor, Serve, Students, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Diode Laser Cavity-Ringdown Spectrometer for Shipboard Measurements of the Stable Isotopes on Oceanic Methane
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. John D Kessler($267,560), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Kevin K Lehmann($173,856), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Ä2h-ch4 And Ä13c-ch4, Stable Isotopes, Achieved, CRDS, Cavity, Coupled, Developed, Has, Increased, Isotopic, Methane, Optical, Precision, Prototype, Sampling, Sensitivity, Ship-based, Sources, Spectroscopy, Standard, Äc-ch, Äh-ch.

Instrument development for geophysical monitoring at cabled seafloor observatories
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. William W Chadwick($205,374), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Axial Seamount, Instrument Package, Cable, Cabled, Geophysical, Instruments, Magma, Network, Potential, Similar, Site, Submarine, Volcanic.

MRI: Acquisition of equipment for microbial single cell genomics research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Hwan Su Yoon($574,045), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Single Cell Genomics, DNA, Enable, Existing, Facility, Instrumentation, Microbial, Overall, PCR, Pis.

Development and Testing of a Shielded Ocean-Bottom Seismometer to Reduce Seafloor Low-Frequency Noise
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Spahr C Webb($195,323), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Current Obs Observations, Love Waves, Noise Levels, Ocean Bottom, Seismic Observations, Land, Recording, Reducing, Resolution, Sensor, Shear, Shield, Sites, Structure.

DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF A MODULAR, AUTONOMOUS IN SITU UNDERWATER STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYZER
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Peter R Girguis($957,276), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Concentration And Isotope, Cabled Observatory, Icos Technology, Isotope Analyzer, Los Gatos, Mass Spectrometers, Analyzers, Carbon, Design, Existing, Extremely, Gaseous, Has, Inc, Instrument, Instruments, Isotopic, Methane, Pis, Situ, Terrestrial, Underwater.

Essential upgrades to resistivity instruments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Marvin D Lilley($371,024), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Chloride Concentration, Hydrothermal Fluids, Characterize, Development, In-situ, Instrument, Instruments, Pis, Sensor, Sensors, Student, Temperature.

Immunosensors for water column and 2-D sediment distributions of vitamin B-12 and target organic solutes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert C Aller($672,183), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Allow Rapid In-situ, Distribution And Transport, Flow Injection Immunosensor, Fluorescence Resonance Energy, Immunoaffinity Solid-phase Extraction, Injection Immunosensor Based, Overlying Water Methodology, Remote Control Technology, Resonance Energy Transfer, Seawater And Sediment, Sediment Pore Water, Steady And Time-resolved, Time-resolved Fluorescence Technologies, Ultra Trace B12, Vitamin B12 Distribution, 2-dimensional Vitamin, Board Ship, Bottom Deposits, Coastal Seawater, Elisa Methods, Immunoaffinity Solid-phase, In-situ Mapping, Optimized Based, Planar Immunosensor, Rapid In-situ, Request Funding, Solid-phase Extraction, Time-resolved Fluorescence, Chemical, Compounds, Cycling, Determination, Ecology, FRET, Growth, Has, Influence, Marine, Phytoplankton, Pis, Primary, Sediments, Significantly, Utilized.

An AUV Manipulator/Vision System for Autonomous Interventions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. David L Akin($481,185), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Autonomous Sampling, Manned Submersibles, Development, Integrated, Manipulator, Operators, ROV, Range, Remote, Robust, Sea, Space, Specimens, Targets, Tasks, Undersea, Underwater, Vehicle, Vehicles.

Collaborative Research: An autonomous indicator-based pH sensor for oceanographic research and monitoring
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Michael DeGrandpre($569,352), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Andrew G Dickson($113,209), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. James C Beck($297,957), Sunburst Sensors, LLC, Missoula
Key terms: Global Ocean, Inorganic Carbon, Sami-ph Sensor, Seawater Ph, Applications, Autonomous, Commercial, Developed, Funding, Instrument, Minimize, Monitoring, Pco, Quality, Sami-ph, Technology.

SGER: RTOSS System Recovery and ROV Survey at the Kick 'em Jenny Volcano Site
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Keith Vonderheydt($54,998), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ceased Operation, Real Time, Buoy, Deployment, Failure, Mooring, Pis, RTOSS, Successful, Telemetry, Was.

Collaborative research: Determination of Oceanic Copper and Zinc using Biosensor Technology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James W Moffett($27,741), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Cu Availability, Biomolecule, Biosensors, Fiber, Free, Optical, Permit, Students, Transducer.

Symposium on Multi-Disciplinary Sensors and Systems for Autonomous Observations of the Global Ocean (OceanSensors08), 31 March - 4 April 2008, Germany
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kendra L Daly($12,600), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Ocean Observatories, Oceansensors08 Symposium, Sensors, Technology.

Chemical Disequilibria in Diffuse Flow Hydrothermal Vents: An Experimental Study on H2-O2 Redox Equilibria in the presence of Fe-Oxides
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($198,667), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Aqueous Solutions, Flow-through Reactor, Allow, Capacity, Conditions, Development, Equilibria, Flow-through, Fluids, Haq, Has, High-school, Hydrothermal, Metals, Microbes, Potential, Real-time, Redox, Relative, Seafloor.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the RV Endeavor: 2008
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Mary Lynn Dickson($42,896), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Equipment And Instrumentation, Shared-use Equipment Pool, Rhode Island, Rv Endeavor, Shared-use Equipment, Enhance, Infrastructure, Requested, Ship.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Blue Heron 2008
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($15,316), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Underway Sea Surface, Item, Minnesota, Operated, Recommended, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Joseph D Malbrough($7,098), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Terry B Appelgate($182,424), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Terry B Appelgate($587,251), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
4. Daryl L Swensen($59,242), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rv Pelican, Instrumentation, Items, Recommended, Shared-use.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2008
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard J Findley($28,439), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. David C Fisichella($283,224), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Johnson And Rv, Rv Seward Johnson, Rv Walton Smith, Harbor Branch, Instrumentation, Items, Recommended, Shared-use, Vessels.

University of Hawaii Oceanographic Instrumentation CY2008
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Brian Taylor($26,937), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Brian Taylor($172,418), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Rv Kilo Moana, Hawaii, Instrumentation, Items, Recommended, Shared-use, Upgrade.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($14,512), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Backup, Carousel, Instrumentation, Items, Recommended, Sensors, Shared-use, Skidaway.

Oceanographic Instrumentation R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($31,600), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Box Core, Soutar Box, Cm, Duke, Has, Recommended, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2007
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. William S Wilcock($56,940), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Liquid Scintillation Counter, Attitude Reference, Contamination, Critical, Existing, Marine, Vessel.

Acquisition of a New Continuous-Flow Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer and Two Elemental Analyzers for Support of the University of Southern California Stable Isotope Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Lowell D Stott($321,095), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Analytical, Facility, Laboratory, Mass, Students.

Oceanographic Technicical Services 2006 - 2008, R/Vs Thompson and Barnes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. William S Wilcock($1,358,035), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Rv Thompson, Barnes, Instrumentation, Maintain, Sail, Services, Shared-use, Technician, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2006 - 2008, R/Vs Revelle, Melville, New Horizon and Sproul
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Terry B Appelgate($9,050,614), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fleet, Horizon, Instrumentation, Melville, Oceanographic, Operations, Revelle, SIO, Seismic, Services, Shared-use, Sproul, Technical, UNOLS, Vessels, Via.

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

1. Brian Taylor($2,401,029), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Rv Kilo Moana, Enables, Hawaii, Maintain, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Provided, Qualified, Services, Shared-use, Technical, UHM, Vessel.

Benthic foraminifera as tracers of marine biogeochemical cycles and circulation: resolving microhabitats in relation to biogenic fluxes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Paul W Loubere($147,718), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Benthic Foraminifera, Biogenic Fluxes, Foraminiferal, Geochemistry, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Collection and Analysis of Radiocarbon Samples on Repeat Hydrography Lines
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ann P McNichol($478,505), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Robert M Key($148,521), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Clivar Repeat, Deep Ocean, Ventilation Rates, Atlantic, Available, COBB, Combined, Cruises, Global, Models, PPC, Planned, RH, Radiocarbon, Sampling, Tracer.

Operation of the CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office at UCSD/SIO, 2009-2013
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Terry B Appelgate($2,236,351), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Clivar And Carbon, Content And Format, Ocean Carbon, Ocean Profile, Archive, Broad, CCHDO, CTD, Collected, Common, Contributing, Dissemination, Documentation, Education, File, Formats, Future, Global, Hydrography, Import, International, Long-term, Originators, Primary, Programs, Quality, Standard, Tracer, Users.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Role of Internal Wave Generation in Gravity Currents
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Nash($252,231), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Hartmut Peters($114,261), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Current, Igw Generation, Med Outflow, Atmospheric, Collaboration, Entrainment, Examine, Flows, Has, Igws, Internal, Momentum, Oceanic, Overflows, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Rainfall estimation accuracy and classification from deep underwater sound measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eyal E Amitai($97,288), Chapman University, Orange
2. Jeffrey A Nystuen($139,024), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Emmanouil N Anagnostou($146,996), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Global Water Cycle, Ionian Sea Rainfall, Raindrop Size Distributions, Sea Rainfall Experiment, Acoustic Signal, Ambient Sound, Marine Environment, Poseidon Buoy, Sound Budget, Underwater Acoustic, Ability, Aegean, Allow, Atlantic, Bubbles, Classification, Climate, Critical, Estimated, Etc, Gauge, Has, Human, ISREX, ITCZ, Measure, Measured, Monitor, Networks, Ocean, Operational, Pacific, Performance, Platforms, Processes, Radar, Sub-surface, Weather, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Stratified Turbulence in Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John H Trowbridge($613,349), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Malcolm E Scully($244,664), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Estuarine And Coastal, Spatial And Temporal, Dissipation Rates, Estuarine Dynamics, Numerical Simulations, Stratified Turbulence, Strong Stratification, Temporal Resolution, Turbulence Parameterizations, Turbulent Fluxes, MAST, Management, Mechanisms, Mixing, Models, Objectives, Regime.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Tidal Influences on Subtidal Estuary-Coast Exchange Using Observations and Numerical Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David Ullman($565,917), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Michael M Whitney($345,545), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Axial Density Gradient, Sheared Axial Tidal, Lateral Tidal, Tidal Currents, Tidal Cycles, Tidal Mechanisms, Water Quality, Additional, CTD, Circulation, Coastal, Connecticut, Correlations, Display, Estuarine, Exchange, Ferry, Flow, Graduate, Investigate, Investigated, Model, Momentum, Observations, Oceanography, Site, Stratification, Structure, Sub-tidal, Surveys, Turbulence, URI, Undergraduate, Velocity, Vertical.

Collaborative Proposal: Impact of secondary circulation and mixing of estuarine exchange flows.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ming Li($241,945), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Robert J Chant($578,946), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson($375,750), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Estuarine Exchange Flow, Estuarine Circulation, Interfacial Stress, James River, Lateral Advection, Momentum Balance, Secondary Circulation, Secondary Flows, Turbulent Flows, Critical, Dispersion, Effects, Estuary, Experiments, Field, LES, Modeling, Near, Numerical, Observations, Participation, ROMS, Students, Theory.

Large eddy simulation of turbulent wind over realistic seas with frequent wave breaking events
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tetsu Hara($259,587), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Air-sea Momentum Flux, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Air-sea Momentum, Breaking Waves, Effects, Inside, LES, Surface, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Export Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic: Phase Two
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy S Bower($461,653), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Susan Lozier($231,810), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Circulation Model, Export Pathway, Float Observations, Interior Pathway, Labrador Sea, Lsw Pathways, Newfoundland Basin, North Atlantic, Profiling Floats, Rafos Floats, AMOC, Analysis, Contribute, Current, DWBC, E-floats, Field, Generated, Importance, Ocean, Subpolar, Subtropical, Trajectories.

Collaborative Research: Critical Layers and Isopycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raffaele Ferrari($653,638), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Kevin Speer($219,669), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Models Unanimously Stress, Ocean Models Unanimously, Critical Levels, Eddy Mixing, Mixing Rates, Overturning Circulation, Shallower Level, Southern Ocean, Strongly Sensitive, Water Masses, ACC, Additional, Climate, Component, DIMES, Floats, Horizontal, Information, Suggest, Time, Tracer, Vertical.

Collaborative Research:GLOBEC Pan-regional Synthesis: Pacific Ocean Boundary Ecosystems: response to natural and anthropogenic climate forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William T Peterson($273,355), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Peter J Franks($108,851), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Russell E McDuff($166,895), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Andrew C Thomas($325,579), University of Maine, Orono
5. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($455,940), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Eastern And Western, Large-scale Climate Modes, Pacific Boundary Ecosystems, Climate Model, Ecosystem Dynamics, Large-scale Climate, Marine Ecosystems, Regional Ocean, Statistical Physical-biological, Transport Dynamics, Western Boundaries, Assessment, Coastal, Collaborators, Control, Current, Diagnose, Extent, Fisheries, Forcing, IPCC, International, Management, Modeling, Multiple, NPGO, Numerical, Observations, PDO, Physical-biological, Processes, Report, Students, Uncertainties, Upwelling.

Collaborative Research: The Oleander Project: Sustained observations between New York and Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. H. Thomas Rossby($1,133,743), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Charles N Flagg($388,439), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Gulf Stream, Upper-ocean Velocity, Continue, Current, Fields, Heat-fluxes, Jersey, Long-term, Oleander, Program, Sea, Students, Upper-ocean.

Collaborative Research: Oceanic Response to Atmospheric Forcing in the Kuroshio Extension
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jae Hun Park($202,572), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Luc Rainville($359,889), University of Washington, Seattle
3. John T Farrar($372,695), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atmospheric Forcing, Kess Array, Kuroshio Extension, Mesoscale Eddies, Mixed Layer, Mode Water, Near-inertial Waves, Strong Current, Affect, Air-sea, CLIVAR, Climate, Deployed, Focus, Generation, Has, Heat, KEO, Mixing, Models, Moored, Ninertial, Ocean, Oceanic, Particular, Processes, Propagate, Regions, Resolution, STMW, Subsurface, Surface, Wind, Winds.

Eddy Mean Flow Interactions in the Kuroshio Extension
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven R Jayne($61,181), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eddy-mean Flow Interactions, Eddy-mean Flow, Kuroshio Extension, Recirculation Gyres, Wbc Jets, Climate, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eddies, Eddy-driven, Global, Idealized, Importance, Insights, KE, KESS, Observations, Ocean, Processes, Strength, Structure, Transport.

Interactions between Long Ocean Waves and Muddy Sea Floor
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip L Liu($311,234), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Bottom Dissipative Mechanisms, Sea Bottom Dissipative, Analytical Solutions, Mud Flows, Numerical Models, Sea Floor, Wave Loadings, Wave Propagation, Activities, Boussinesq-type, Coastal, Courses, DNS, Developed, Engineering, Experimental, Field, Fluid, Investigate, Laboratory, Processes, Rheology, Sediment, Student, Techniques, Tools, Transient, Useful, Various.

Horizontal shear flows and lateral mixing in estuaries and the coastal ocean: Sediment transport in the shoal-channel estuary
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jessica R Lacy($675,694), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Estuarine And Coastal, Lateral Shear Instabilities, San Francisco Bay, Coastal Flows, Diffusion Coefficients, Establishing Exchange, Lateral Exchange, Lateral Mixing, Mechanisms Responsible, Resolution Models, Sediment Dynamics, Shoal-channel Estuary, Suspended Sediment, Varying Diffusion, Analysis, Bed, Component, Critical, Examination, Horizontal, Implications, LES, Management, Observations, Oriented, Processes, Restoration, Shoal-channel, Stratified, Tidal, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Exploring centennial changes in ocean circulation with SODA
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Benjamin S Giese($353,154), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. James A Carton($676,564), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Assimilation Scheme, Graduate Students, Intellectual Merit, Observation Sets, Ocean Climate, Reanalysis Experiments, Analysis, Atmospheric, Available, Centennial, Century, Decadal, Effort, Emphasis, Error, Examination, Explore, Forcing, Global, Half, Observations, Oceans, Period, Potential, Produce, Reanalyses, SODA, Structure, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Direct Estimation of Topographic Form Drag from Seafloor pressure Measurement
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D Skyllingstad($809,475), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Parker MacCready($332,637), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Coastal Circulation Models, Atmospheric Circulation, Mountain Drag, Mountain Ranges, Ocean Circulation, Oceanic Flows, Pressure Sensor, Seafloor Pressure, Total Drag, Bottom, Critical, Global, Has, Importance, Incorporated, Influence, Modeling, Numerical, Parameterizations, Provided, Recognized, Synoptic, Testing, Time, Topographic.

Agulhas rings pathways and the resulting MOC control
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Doron Nof($417,479), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Agulhas Rings, Florida Sheriffs, Long-shore Migration, Outreach Program, South Atlantic, Boys, Climate, Coastline, Critical, Dryas, Eddy, Generation, Girls, Has, Housed, Increase, Injection, Levels, Long-shore, MOC, Nonlinear, Numerical, Ocean, Potential, Processes, Salt, Slant, Slanting, Times, Underprivileged, Was.

Scale interactions in the equatorial ocean
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kelvin J Richards($528,268), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Equatorial Dynamics, Equatorial Flows, Equatorial Thermocline, Aspects, Basin, Climate, Considerable, Context, Coupled, Features, Findings, Instabilities, Interaction, Interactions, Interannual, Intriguing, Investigation, Meridional, Mixing, Models, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Overall, Potential, Structures, Student, Themselves, Vertical, Zonal.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Dynamics in Deep Valleys on the Seafloor With Numerical Experiments and Data Analysis
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Angelique C Haza($304,139), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Andreas Thurnherr($340,128), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Numerical Modeling, Ocean Models, Ridge-flank Canyons, Rough Topography, Spatial Distribution, Vertical Motion, Abyssal, Circulation, Circulations, Climate, Drag, Dynamics, Flows, Geometry, Implies, Large-scale, Mixing, Mors, Near, Particular, Phd, Processes, Regular, Resolution, Ridge-flank, Ridges, Sills, Towards, Upwelling.

Response of Pacific Subtropical-Tropical Thermocline Water Pathways and Transports to Global Warming and its Implications for ENSO
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Yiyong Luo($168,438), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Future Anthropogenic Forcing, Pathways And Transports, Subtropical-tropical Thermocline Water, Thermocline Water Pathways, Global Warming, Ocean Circulation, Subtropical-tropical Thermocline, Temporal Irregularity, Climate, Considerably, ENSO, Equator, Flows, Implications, Large-scale, Model, Observations, Pacific, SST, Stcs, Subtropics, Surface, Tropics.

An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Surfactants on the Generation of Droplets by Breaking Wind Waves
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James H Duncan($875,466), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Mechanically Generated Waves, Motion And Evaporation, Breaking Wave, Breaking Waves, Free Surface, Subsequent Motion, Wave Tank, Carried, Climate, Contribute, Distribution, Droplet, Droplets, Ejection, Experiments, Explore, Field, Fixed, Flow, Generation, Laboratory, Performed, Phenomena, Pressure, Processes, Set, Student, Students, Surfactant, Surfactants, Transfer, Water, Wind.

Topographic Rectification on the Continental Margin: Toward Detectability from Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth H Brink($464,062), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Realistic Parameter Range, Shelf And Slope, Mean Flow, Standing Wave, Topographic Rectification, Underlying Asymmetry, CTW, Direction, Generate, Generation, Has, Means, Mechanism, Models, Observations, Phase, Previously, Propagation, Sense, Set, Stress, Student, Twofold, Unambiguously.

From Rivers to the Ocean: The Dynamics of Freshwater Export from Hudson Strait
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven J Lentz($888,810), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Davis Strait, Global Climate, Hudson Strait, Interannual Timescales, Labrador Current, Northeastern North, Subpolar Regions, Arctic, Bay, Canadian, Coast, Collaboration, Contributor, Daily, Diverse, Downstream, Exploration, Export, Forcing, Fresh, Freshwater, Inflow, Influence, International, Inuit, Knowledge, Lectures, Moored, Polar, Processes, Regional, River, Sources, Transformation, Transport, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Vortex dynamics and interannual variability in the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Pedlosky($177,162), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Annalisa Bracco($202,802), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Jonathan M Lilly($197,352), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Boundary Current, Buoyancy Transport, Eddy Generation, Labrador Sea, AMOC, Analysis, Benefit, Convection, Deep, Eddy-driven, Experiments, Forcing, Graduate, Idealized, Instability, Large-scale, Local, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Supported.

Fresh water content and circulation variability in the North Atlantic: Are they related?
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julie C Deshayes($433,985), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Fw Content, Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Content And Circulation, Fw And Heat, Gyre And Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, North Atlantic Fw, Climatology Products, Coupled Model, Error Covariance, Model Simulations, Ocean Circulation, Recently Observed, Spatial Error, Amplitude, Applied, Climate, Consistently, Directly, Estimates, Fluctuations, Forcing, Global, Has, Measured, Mechanisms, Models, Natural, Observational, Property, Range, Reflect, Strength, Sub-polar, Substantial, Three-dimensional, Time, Times, Tools, Various.

South China Sea-Indonesian Seas Transport/Exchange (SITE)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raden D Susanto($816,137), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Circulation And Climate, Situ And Numerical, Global Ocean, Indonesian Throughflow, Numerical Model, Site Flow, China, Heat, International, Main, SCS, Strait.

Collaborative Proposal: Moored Observations of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation in and below the Mixed Layer during VOCALS
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher J Zappa($479,277), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Kinetic Energy Dissipation, Mixed-layer Near-inertial Kinetic, Near-inertial Internal Waves, Turbulent Kinetic Energy, Energy Balance, Mesoscale Eddies, Mixed Layer, Mixed-layer Near-inertial, Near-inertial Internal, Near-inertial Kinetic, Near-inertial Oscillations, Surface Forcing, Temperature Balance, Upper Ocean, Upper-ocean Dissipation, Allow, Amount, Annual, Broader, Environmental, Existing, Field, Global, Interaction, Lamont-doherty, Mooring, Ninertial, Observations, Observatorys, Period, Processes, Region, Relative, SST, Unique, Upper-ocean, VAMOS, VOCALS, Velocity, Vertical, Wind-forced.

Collaborative Research: Moored Observations of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation In and Below the Mixed Layer During VOCALS
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John T Farrar($454,736), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Kinetic Energy Dissipation, Mixed-layer Near-inertial Kinetic, Near-inertial Internal Waves, Turbulent Kinetic Energy, Energy Balance, Mesoscale Eddies, Mixed Layer, Mixed-layer Near-inertial, Near-inertial Internal, Near-inertial Kinetic, Near-inertial Oscillations, Surface Forcing, Temperature Balance, Upper Ocean, Upper-ocean Dissipation, Allow, Amount, Annual, Broader, Environmental, Existing, Field, Global, Interaction, Lamont-doherty, Mooring, Ninertial, Observations, Observatorys, Period, Processes, Region, Relative, SST, Unique, Upper-ocean, VAMOS, VOCALS, Velocity, Vertical, Wind-forced.

VOCALS: Mesoscale Ocean Dynamical Analysis with Synoptic Data Assimilation and Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Arthur J Miller($210,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mesoscale Ocean Eddies, Broader Impacts, Heat Fluxes, Sea-surface Temperature, Aerosols, Affect, Air-sea, Assimilation, Atmospheric, Biology, Boundary, Circulation, Climate, Clouds, Consequent, Control, Diagnose, Dynamics, ENSO, Feedbacks, Fields, Forcing, Has, Model, Modeling, Observational, Ocean-atmosphere, Predictability, Processes, Region, Regions, SEP, SST, Sea-surface, Sensitivities, Surveys, Training, Upwelling, VAMOS, VOCALS, Variables, Warming, Winds.

Collaborative Research: The Internal Tide and Mixing in Monterey and Ascension Canyons
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew H Alford($1,649,976), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Glenn Carter($409,209), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: M2 Energy Flux, Waves And Hydraulic, Hydraulic Jumps, Internal Tide, Lee Waves, Monterey Canyon, Assess, Canyons, Has, Intense, Mixing, Modeling, Models, Observations, Offshore, Processes, Regional, Shape, Source, Sources.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($237,500), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. James G Sanders($44,727), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
3. Timothy W Deering($1,057,200), University of Delaware, Newark
4. Timothy W Deering($319,800), University of Delaware, Newark
5. Timothy W Deering($349,800), University of Delaware, Newark
6. Stewart K Lamerdin($26,147), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Landing Marine Labs, Moss Landing Marine, Academic Fleet, Purchase Administered, San Jose, Firefighting, Items, MLML, RV, SUR.

Shipboard Sceintific Support Equipment - 2008
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Albert F Suchy($748,488), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Academic Fleet, Rv Atlantis, Rv Knorr, Woods Hole, Items, Van, Vessels.

R/V Cape Hatteras Shipboard Scientific Equipment - 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Bruce H Corliss($169,849), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Estuarine Processes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Transforming Undergrad Bio Ed

1. Jonathan G Kramer($698,241), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Estuarine, Field, Final, Laboratory, Marine, Modeling, Oral, Preparation, Presentation, Program, REU, Student, Students, Summer, UMCES.

Collaborative Research: Centennial Scale Records of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: nan

1. Peter K Swart($371,100), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Simon R Thorrold($150,020), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: AMO, Climate, Geochemical, Sclerosponge, Srca.

Origin and Economic Significance of Neoproterozoic Ophiolites in the Southern Eastern Desert, Egypt: US-Egypt Joint Science Program
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: nan

1. Robert J Stern($29,993), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Eastern Desert, Mineral Deposits, Economic, Egypt, Objective, Ophiolite, Ophiolites, Ophiolitic, Suture.

Long-term in situ chemical sensors for monitoring nutrients: phosphate sensor commercialization and ammonium sensor development
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: nan

1. J. Ronald V Zaneveld($1,781,468), Western Environmental Technology Laboratories, Inc., Philomath
Key terms: Harmful Algal Blooms, Nutrient Monitoring, Ocean Observing, Accurate, Detection, Development, Has, Long-term, Phosphate, Pis, Reliable, Sensor, Sensors, Situ, Stable, Technology, Water, Zone.

Eco-DAS: Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Paul F Kemp($621,307), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Oceanography And Limnology, East-west Center, Ecological Oceanography, Symposium Participants, Directions, Dissertations, East-west, Eco-dâs, Established, Facility, Fall, Funding, Future, Held, Increasing, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Near, Program, Success, Symposia, Volume.

REU Site: Research Internships in Ocean Sciences (RIOS)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Kenneth W Able($283,833), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Coastal, Ecosystems, LEO-, Mullica, Ocean, Orientation, Program, REU, Rutgers, Students, Summer, Technologies.

Ship Operations
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: nan

1. Nancy M Targett($6,796,755), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Stewart K Lamerdin($7,581,677), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Rv Hugh, Coastal, Days, Delaware, Mid-atlantic, People, Program, SHARP, Sea, Vessel.

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

1. Terry B Appelgate($2,573,282), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Ship Operations, Days, Depend, Educational, Effort, Experience, Funding, Future, Inquiries, Instruments, Methods, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Parameters, Plankton, Platform, Program, Programs, Scripps, Sea, Ships, Sproul, Students, Supported, Theme, Variables, Vessel, Volunteering, Volunteers, Workshop.

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

1. Terry B Appelgate($37,963,039), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: County Teachers, Intellectual Merit, Roger Revelle, San Diego, Students Ashore, Crew, Days, Deck, Depend, Equipment, Heavy, Interact, KESS, Kuroshio, Marine, Moorings, NSF, North, Ocean, Pacific, Port, Program, Programs, Public, Satellite, Scheduled, Scripps, Sea, Seagoing, Ship, Ships, Site, Vessel, Volunteering, Volunteers.

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

1. William Baxley($7,228,808), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Seward Johnson, Technical Merit, Active, Climate, Clouds, Cruises, Days, Media, NSF, Oceanographic, Overall, Programs, Public, Ship, Students, Submersible, TV, Zone.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2008

Operation of a National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: AMS FACILITY

Collaborative Research: Oceanic Applications of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Laboratory Validation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANALYTICAL SEPARATIONS & MEAS.

High Northern Latitude Linkages between Atlantic Water, DSOW Formation and GIS Stability during the Holocene Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Characterizing the Formation, Nature, and Export of Weddell Sea Bottom Water using Noble Gases and Transient Tracers Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: Linkage of Bacterial Pathogens to Human infectious Disease in an Estuary Subjected to Extreme Climatic Events Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Nonconsumptive predator effects in a pelagic community: an integrated laboratory, field and modeling approach Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Physiology and Biogeochemistry of Repeatedly Bleached and Recovering Caribbean Corals Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Grazing and Iron Controls of Diatom Blooms in the Arabian Sea Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Proof of concept on using spliced leader to study dinoflagellate gene expression in the ocean Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Quantification of Uncertainty in Argo Observation of Ocean Response to Hurricanes Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Southern and Coastal Extent of Picophytoplankton Populations in the South Pacific Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Biomixing - a controversial mechanism influencing dynamics of marine ecosystems? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Structure, Function and Evolution of Authigenic, Methane-Derived Carbonate Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Regulation of Phytoplankton Dynamics in Mid-Atlantic Estuaries Subject to Climatic Perturbations. Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Integrating field methods and numerical models to quantify the links between larval transport, connectivity, and population dynamics Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Determining Equatorial Upwelling Rates with a Novel Geochemical Tracer Technique Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Using thermocouple arrays to investigate temporal and spatial microbial colonization in actively forming hydrothermal vent deposits Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The effects of temperature on ecological processes in a rocky intertidal community: a mechanistic approach Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Reassessing the Role of Planktonic Amoeboid Protists in Estuarine Microbial Food Webs Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Giant Virus Regulation of Coccolithophorid Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: GLOBEC Pan-Regional Synthesis: End-to-end Energy Budgets in US-GLOBEC Regions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Climate Variability and Change in the U.S. GLOBEC Regions as Simulated by the IPCC Climate Models: Ecosystem Implications Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Global-Pan Regional Synthesis: End-to-end energy budgets for USGLOBEC regions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Resolving Migratory Connectivity of Basking Sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) in the Western Atlantic Ocean: Integrating Novel Geochemical Tracers with Satellite Archival Tags Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Fucoid inducible defenses: the causes and consequences of intraspecific variation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Recruitment dynamics and population connectivity in Bahamian octocorals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Climate Forcing of Calanus finmarchicus Populations of the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecology of injury in marine sedimentary habitats: Effects of repeated injury on infaunal condition and sediment bioturbation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The role of iron (Fe) in controlling in situ distributions and activities of marine synechococcus Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Comparative Analysis of Salmon and Cod Population Responses Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Life histories of species in the genus Calanus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans and responses to climate forcing Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

US GLOBEC Pan-Regional Synthesis--Comparative Ecology of Krill in Coastal and Oceanic Waters around the Pacific Rim Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantifying and Predicting Microscale Patchiness of Plankton Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SGER: Nursery areas, natal origin, and natural elemental signatures: implications for connectivity and conservation of shark and ray populations Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Basin-scale distribution and activity of deep-sea protists in the North Atlantic Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Copepods in a Warming Climate: A Pan-Regional Model of Arctic and Northwest Atlantic Systems Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: GLOBEC Pan Regional Synthesis: The Effect of Varying Freshwater Inputs on Regional Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Trophic Structure and Interactions of the Pelagic Nekton Associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Bringing Out the Dead: Distribution and microbial decomposition of copepod carcasses in the marine environment Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Combining Flow Cytometry and Stable Isotope Techniques: A Method to Measure Phytoplankton- and Bacteria-specific Nitrogen and Carbon Uptake Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Composition of the plankton community and its contribution to particle flux in the Sargasso Sea Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Top-Down Regulation of Picophytoplankton in the Sargasso Sea: Application of a Reciprocal Transplant / Dilution Approach Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Pumping rates of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta on Caribbean reefs: size scaling, envionmental controls, and bleaching effects. Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Carbon and Nitrogen acquisition and cycling in heterotrophic and mixotrophic ciliates Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Linking genetics and mineralization of iron-oxidizing microbes at midocean ridges Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

An Observing System for the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Ocean Heat Transport in the Subtropical North Atlantic: Extension of the RAPID-MOCHA Program Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; 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: 12/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Fe Acquisition by Trichodesmium: Role of the Associated Microbial Community Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Patterns of Larval Dispersal and Postsettlement Selection Shaping Connectivity of Oyster Populations Along an Ecotone Award Effective Date: 08/13/2007; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

CDI-Type I: A computational database for cyber-assisted discovery of oceanic mixing processes in multi-resolution, feature-driven simulations Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: CDI TYPE I

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - The National Central Coordinating Office Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Pacific Ocean Literacy for Youth, Publics, Professionals and Scientists (Polypps) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Center For Ocean Science Education Excellence - the Colorado Collaborative (CCC) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

COSEE New Collaborations: Toward broader Ocean Learning Communities through field research learning. Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

COSEE: Education Aquanauts Educator Enhancement Collaboration Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

COSEE - New Collaborations: A Partnership to Assemble "An Introduction to Our Dynamic Ocean" Course Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

CAREER: Does predator intimidation help structure a pristine seagrass community through multiple indirect pathways? Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

CAREER: Assessing effects of ecosystem fragmentation using novel metrics of trophic structure as part of a broad educational outreach program Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Symposium: Unknown Knowns and Known Unknowns, Chemical Oceanography in a Changing World Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: The Cariaco Basin Oceanographic Time Series Program Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

ETBC: Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Role of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Oceanic Nd Budget Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Application of a novel geochemical approach to the alkalinity anomaly method of estimating coral reef calcification rates: implications of ocean acidification Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES particulate intercalibration Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: New and Improved Methods for Collecting Ocean Particulates for the GEOTRACES Community Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: Science of Opportunity: A SGER proposal to develop methods for the quantitative measurement of calcification rates of planktonic foraminifera Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES: Intercalibration for Aerosol Preservation and Analysis Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: HOW IMPORTANT IS "OLD" CARBON IN LAKE SUPERIOR? A RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: The role of Ice in the response of Large Lakes to a Changing Climate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Quorum-sensing and the Carbon Cycle: Identifying Cell-density Dependent Organic Carbon Degradation among Marine Bacteria in Sinking Particles Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

The Solubility of Biogenic Calcite Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

OPERATION OF A COMMUNITY MARINE-ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLING FACILITY AT TUDOR HILL, BERMUDA Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Systematics of Zn Isotopes in the Oceans: Assessing the Roles of Surfaces and Speciation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

RUI: Photobiogeochemistry of resuspended sediments in coastal environments: Impacts on organic matter and trace metal cycling Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

"Collaborative Research: Constraining the marine nitrogen cycle using a new approach to measuring nitrogen isotopes of chlorins" Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

SGER: Collaborative Research: Exploring a Long-term Record of Plastic Pollution in the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Integrating Geochemistry and Proteomics to Assess Protein Sources and Their Fate in Marine Systems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

An Evaluation of Postdepositional Controls on the Preservation of DNA in Marine Sediments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: FeCycle I I- Natural variability in plankton iron quotas during an unamended Lagrangian experiment Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The role of marine Crenarchaeota in nitrification and links among biogeochemical processes in the eastern tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Chemical Oceanography