Collaborative Research: Sustained Observations of the North Pole Environment to Characterize Ongoing Arctic Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Miles G McPhee($71,460), McPhee Research Company, Naches
Key terms: Aerial Hydrographic Surveys, Dissolved Oxygen, North Pole, AON, Annual, Arctic, Buoys, Environmental, Ice, NPEO, Variety, Water.

Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in the Meridional Overturning Circulation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Michael A Spall($1,375,634), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. H. Thomas Rossby($374,630), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Basin Mode Water, Greenland Sea Water, Lofoten Basin Mode, Mode Water Formation, Nordic Seas Transformation, Salty Atlantic Waters, Seas Transformation Pathway, Surface Buoyancy Loss, Intellectual Merit, Labrador Sea, AMOC, Branch, Central, Collaboration, Convective, Deep, Direct, Diverse, Dynamics, Has, Importance, Inflow, Intermediate, International, Limited, Pathways, Process, Product, Regions, Warm.

Processes controlling cross shelf exchange in the Amundsen/Bellingshausen Seas
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Michael Dinniman($564,937), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Amundsen And Bellingshausen, Cross Shelf Transport, Basal Melt, Bellingshausen Seas, Ice Sheet, Ice Shelf, Ice Shelves, Losing Volume, Oceanic Water, Sea Level, Shelf Break, ACC, Antarctic, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CDW, Circumpolar, Climate, Dynamic, Effect, Exchange, Forcing, Importance, Indexes, Intrusion, Melting, Model, Models, Movement, Ocean-ice, Onto, Processes, Rate, Represent, Simulations, WAIS, Warm, West.

Air-Sea Exchange in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Sarah T Gille($384,211), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Air-sea Flux Products, Existing Flux Products, Heat And Freshwater, Mixed-layer Heat Budget, Numerical Weather Prediction, Upper Ocean Heat, Water Mass Transformation, Air-sea Flux, Air-sea Fluxes, Air-sea Heat, Flux Estimates, Freshwater Fluxes, Heat Fluxes, Mixed-layer Heat, Southern Ocean, Balance, Ekman, Interannual, Northward, Processes, Properties, Satellite, Small-scale, Surface, Time-averaged.

Stream Ecosystem "Harshness" and Microbial Endemism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Diane M McKnight($495,308), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Conditions, Diatom, Found, Genomic, Microbial, Streams, Structure, Students, Techniques.

Support for the U.S. GEOTRACES Project Office
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Robert F Anderson($738,580), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Geotraces Web Site, International Geotraces Program, Marine Biogeochemical Cycles, Meetings And Workshops, Chemical Oceanography, Geotraces Meetings, Activities, Activity, Benefits, Coordinated, Funding, Has, Information, Isotopes, Maintaining, Office, Operation, Past, Programs, Serves, Supporting, Teis.

Construction and operation of the Alaska Region Research Vessel: Phase III - Shipyard Construction Costs
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: ARRV - CONSTRUCTION

1. Daniel Oliver($148,070,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Seasonal Sea Ice, Alaska Region, Arctic Region, ARRV, Access, Anticipated, Bering, Biological, Capabilities, Changing, Climate, Commerce, Construction, Continuing, Designed, EEZ, Enable, Entire, Fairbanks, Gulf, Has, Highly, Importance, Marine, National, Ocean, Platform, Satellite, Service, Ship, Summer, Total, Varied, Vessel, Was, Waters.

2010 Marine Microbe Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nancy R Gray($15,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Students And Postdocs, Marine Microbes, Microbial Ecologists, Biogeochemical, Biosphere, Conference, Directly, Ecology, Ecosystem, Expenses, Field, GRC, Highly, Investigations, Meeting, Processes, Speakers.

Larval Dispersal and Retention Among Sub-populations of Coral Reef Fishes: A Multi-Technique Approach
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Simon R Thorrold($789,995), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coral Reef Fishes, Coral Triangle, Dispersal Distances, Kimbe Bay, Population Connectivity, Design, Efforts, Examining, Exchange, Guinea, Knowledge, Larvae, Management, Marine, Networks, Ntmrs, Organisms, Papua, Populations, Protected, Rates, Reefs, Species, Unknown.

Biological and Physical Determinants of Euphausiid Aggregation, Behavior, and Interaction with Higher Predators at an Abrupt Topographical Feature in the Gulf of Maine
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gareth L Lawson($649,727), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Active Aggregative Behaviors, Disseminated Via, Euphausiid Aggregations, Flow Field, Food Availability, Acoustic, Biological, Combination, Conditions, Distribution, Euphausiids, Georges, Herring, Levels, Maine, Ocean, Pelagic, Plasticity, Predation, Sensors, Shelf, Species, Surveys, Vertical, Zooplankton.

RAPID: El Nino and the controls of marine virus diversity
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer B Martiny($122,118), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Cyanophage Diversity, El Niño, Marine Virus, Southern California, Virus Diversity, Composition, Cyanophages, Disentangle, Environmental, Factors, Investigate, Isolates, SST, Temperature, Temporal.

Spatial Subsidy and Trophic Connectivity between Nearshore Macrophyte Production and Subtidal Food Webs
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles A Simenstad($893,463), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: San Juan Archipelago, Spatial And Temporal, Subtidal Food Webs, Deep Subtidal, Organic Matter, Temporal Scales, Adjacent, Biomass, Broad, Climate, Coastal, Consumers, Critical, Ecological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Exported, Fish, Fisheries, Importance, Input, Insight, Linkages, Macroalgae, Macroalgal, Magnitude, Marine, Nearshore, Phytoplankton, Primary, Processes, Program, Regional, Relative, Shallow, Significance, Source, Sources, Subsidies, Washington, Waters.

RAPID: Phase Shift to Algal Dominated Mesophotic Reef Communities in Response to Lionfish Invasion
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marc Slattery($242,922), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Mesophotic Coral Reefs, Shallow Water Counterparts, Broader Impacts, Lionfish Invasion, Mesophotic Reef, Mesophotic Reefs, Reef Taxa, Shallow Reefs, Anthropogenic, Approach, Bahamas, Basin, Caribbean, Cover, Decline, Depths, Ecology, Effect, Effects, Has, Regional, Suggest, Unique.

Quantification of Trichodesmium spp. vertical and horizontal abundance patterns and nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sonya T Dyhrman($1,321,055), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Actively Fixing Nitrogen, Deep Populations, Global Nitrogen, Nitrogen Fixation, Numerical Model, Optical Methods, Trichodesmium Spp, Vertical Distribution, Abundance, Abundant, Atlantic, Context, Depth, Difficult, Estimates, Observations, Organism, Profile, Survey, VPR, Waters.

RIDGE: Tipping Points in the Evolution of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems: Habitat Generation, Organic Transformation, and Rock Alteration
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Everett L Shock($521,875), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent, Organic Compounds, Organic Transformations, Calculations, Compositional, Environments, Evolution, Fluid, Focus, Microbial, Mineral, Temperature, Theoretical, Thermodynamic, Tipping.

The Development of Microbial Associations in Major Reef Building Corals of the Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael S Rappe($428,916), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: North Pacific Ocean, Reef Building Corals, South Pacific Ocean, Coral Species, Coral-microbial Associations, French Polynesia, Jannaschia Lineage, Postdoctoral Scholar, Roseobacter Clade, Application, Bacteria, Biology, Coral-microbial, Cycle, Development, Developmental, Evidence, Fluorescence, Focused, Hawaii, Information, Interactions, Meandrina, Methodology, Microorganisms, Molecular, Moorea, Objective, Onset, Represent, Reproductive, Resource, Serve, Similar, Situ, Specificity, Stages, Students, Techniques, Training, Variety, Website.

Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO): Program Office Support and Steering Committee Workshop
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Linda A Deegan($55,095), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Activity, Biological, CAMEO, Ecosystem, Marine, Program.

EAGER: Assessment of Pseudo-nitzschia ferritin gene expression as a molecular indicator of iron nutritional status along natural iron gradients
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Adrian Marchetti($123,792), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Iron Nutritional Status, Iron Availability, Iron Status, Iron Storage, Oceanic Species, Pennate Diatom, Pennate Diatoms, Transcript Abundance, Development, FTN, Ferritin, Field, Granii, Laboratory, Limited, Natural, Phytoplankton, Potential, Pseudonitzschia, Serve, Thalassiosira, Undergraduates, Was.

Macrophyte-induced variability in coastal ocean pH and consequences for invertebrate larvae
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lisa A Levin($370,016), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Carbonate Chemistry, Coastal Habitats, Decreased Ph, Invertebrate Larvae, Ocean Acidification, Ph Regimes, San Diego, Seagrass Beds, California, Context, Courses, Cycles, Educational, Effects, Experiments, Extreme, Field, Graduate, Health, Implications, Incorporate, Kelp, Laboratory, Larval, Marine, Mean, Measure, Natural, Predictions, Public, Rates, Respiration, Sensitive, Student, Students, Temperature, Thresholds, Variable, Variance.

Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Claudia Mengelt($50,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Broad Range, Ocean Color, Climate, Consensus, Marine, Meet, Observations, Options, Satellite, User.

RUI: Changes in Baseline Conditions in Gulf of Maine Coastal Ecosystems Over the Last 4000 Years
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Beverly J Johnson($392,803), Bates College, Lewiston
Key terms: Food Web, Nearshore Primary, Trophic Connectivity, Assess, Bates, Carbon, Coastal, Consumers, Ecosystem, Gom, Isotope, Isotopes, Long-term, Marine, Organic, Organisms, Spatial, Students, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Function, activity, and adaptation of microbial communities in geochemically diverse subseafloor habitats
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julie A Huber($470,582), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
2. David Butterfield($292,996), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Quantitative Predictive Framework, Axial Seamount, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Functional Diversity, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Lineages, Outreach Effort, Specific Microbial, Active, Activity, Chemical, Conditions, Current, Deep-sea, Developed, Development, Field, Geochemical, Growth, Habitats, Isolates, Laboratory, Linking, Links, MBL, Marine, Microbiological, Module, NWF, North, Ocean, Pacific, Particular, Partnership, Physiological, Processes, Program, Real, Serve, Students, Subseafloor, Vents.

Collaborative Proposal: Connectivity of Disease in Marine Ecosystems: Multi-scale Dynamics of a Viral Disease Infecting Caribbean Spiny Lobster
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Claire Paris($265,667), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Jeffrey D Shields($310,384), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Donald Behringer($267,595), University of Florida, Gainesville
4. Mark J Butler($573,498), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Distant Host Populations, Local Disease Dynamics, Developing Caribbean, Large-scale Connectivity, Marine Diseases, Marine Pathogens, Panulirus Argus, Pathogen Connectivity, Waterborne Pathogens, Biology, Demographically, Dispersal, Epidemiology, Evidence, Fishery, Florida, Has, Highly, Hosts, Importance, Infected, Infection, Influence, Large-scale, Larvae, Larval, Lobster, Maintenance, Management, Mechanism, Modeling, Molecular, Ocean, Pav, Planktonic, Postlarvae, Programs, Rapid, Resource, Sea, Species, Spiny, Spread, Techniques, Virus.

Environmental signal analysis: Monitoring the impacts of climate change on rocky intertidal ecosystem across a cascade of scales
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jijun Tang($761,670), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Predatory Seastar Pisaster, Lesson Plans, Climate, Complex, Database, Ecological, Effects, Experience, Habitat, Has, Interactions, Intertidal, Level, Multiple, Niche, Organisms, Physiological, Sensors, Students, Temperature, Weather.

Killer Seaweeds: Allelopathy against Fijian Corals
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark E Hay($1,204,987), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Coral Reefs, Marine Conservation, Seaweed-coral Competition, Allelopathic, Commonly, Contact, Corals, Critical, Damage, Dominated, Ecology, Education, Effects, Efforts, Field, Fiji, Has, Herbivores, Information, Limited, Managing, Mechanisms, Metabolites, Mpas, Recovery, Rotary, Seaweed-coral, Seaweeds, Useful, Via, Villagers.

Reproductive pairing, conflict and offspring size in a marine snail.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Richard K Grosberg($744,849), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Allocation Trade-offs, K-12 Teachers, Maternal Provisioning, Offspring Size, Reproductive Pairing, Biology, Conflicts, Considered, Ecology, Egg, Evolution, Evolutionary, Experience, Genetic, Has, Interface, Isolation, Marine, Molecular, Nucella, Organisms, Population, Predators, Program, Siblings, Snail, Species, Students, Trade-offs, Widespread.

Investigating the Fundamental Units of Natural Selection Amng Coral-Algal Symbioses: Ecological, Geographic, and Physiological Diversity of Host-Symbiont Genotypes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Todd C LaJeunesse($612,780), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Diverse Host Populations, Population Genetic Structure, Acropora Palmata, Coral-algal Symbioses, Evolutionary Models, Low Diversity, Natural Selection, Symbiodinium Populations, Symbiont Populations, Analyses, Animal, Basic, Caribbean, Climate, Clonal, Colonies, Colony, Combinations, Coral-algal, Corals, Critical, Dinoflagellates, Ecological, Environmental, Genotype, Genotyping, Host-symbiont, Importance, Individual, Interactions, Investigate, Life, Outreach, Parameterize, Processes, Public, Respond, Severe, Significance, Specificity, Specimens, Stability, Symbionts, Zoos.

Is overfishing triggerng the die-off of New England salt marshes?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew H Altieri($490,984), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Local Fishing Pressure, Creek Bank, Ecosystem Services, Marine Ecosystems, Marsh Die-off, Predator Control, Salt Marsh, Salt Marshes, Sesarma Populations, Coastal, Conservation, Crab, Depletion, Die-off, Die-offs, Herbivorous, Herbivory, Management, Northeastern, Overfishing, Predation, Predators, Region, Regional, Releasing, Strong, Triggering.

Phylogeography and Evolution of Indo-Pacific Reef Fishes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian W Bowen($117,647), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pacific And Indian, Coral Reefs, Gene Genealogies, Indian Oceans, Island Students, Marine Biology, Pacific Island, Reef Fish, Reef Fishes, Age, Analysis, Center, Colonization, Core, Developed, Dispersal, Enhance, Facility, Fauna, Genetic, Has, Hawaii, Indo-pacific, Local, Mpas, NSF, Opportunities, Recruit, Speciation, Species, Survey, World.

The Sensory Basis for Ecological Paradigms on Wave-Swept Shores
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven J Kim($381,880), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Complete, Compound, Dynamics, Interactions, Levels, Marine, Predator, Predators, Prey, Processes, Sensory, Species.

RAPID Collaborative Research: Short-term colonization processes at Costa Rica methane seeps
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Victoria J Orphan($30,014), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Lisa A Levin($60,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Anthony E Rathburn($29,951), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Key terms: Costa Rica, Hard Substrates, Hydrate Ridge, Carbonate, Colonization, Deployed, Development, Experiments, Methane, Microbial, Oxygen, Seeps, Students, Vent, Wood.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Geological, Chemical, and Biological Processes: Implications for Ecological Succession on the East Pacific Rise
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Costantino Vetriani($136,295), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. George W Luther($36,471), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Timothy M Shank($112,402), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Integration And Synthesis, Microbial And Metazoan, Fluid Flux, Hydrothermal Vents, Outreach Activities, Public Outreach, Vent Habitats, Additional, Characterization, Chemical, Chemistry, Colonization, Component, Continue, Continued, Deployed, Designed, Ecological, Education, Educational, Eruption, Experiments, Faunal, Film, IMAX, Integrated, Interaction, Interactions, Investigate, Linkages, Multi-disciplinary, On-going, Program, RK, Ridge, Students, Succession.

Collaborative Research: Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new production in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael W Lomas($507,538), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Adam C Martiny($657,830), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Broader Impacts, No3 Assimilation, Sargasso Sea, Assay, Biogeochemical, Capable, Cell, Contribute, Cycles, Direct, Ecology, Experiments, Field, Flow, Genes, Genome, Global, Has, NO-, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Ocean, Oceanic, Pis, Potential, Processes, Prochlorococcus, Productivity, Quantify, Rates, Regions, Seasonal, Shown, Specific, Students.

PNWTOX-The Columbia River plume and HABs in the Pacific Northwest: bioreactor, barrier or conduit?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Evelyn J Lessard($1,000,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Columbia River Plume, River Plume Enhances, Transport And Mixing, Harmful Algal, Shoreward Transport, Toxic Blooms, CR, Closures, Coast, Coastal, Dept, HAB, Habs, Information, Interdisciplinary, NOAA, PN, PNW, Particular, Predictability, Pseudo-nitzschia, Training, Washington, Winds.

Importance of Winter Upwelling to California Current Ecosystem Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William J Sydeman($223,705), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: California Current Ecosystem, Rockfish And Seabird, Wintertime Ocean Conditions, Ecosystem Productivity, Seabird Time, Spring Transition, Climate, Climatic, Establish, Fisheries, Growth, Has, Indicators, Information, Multiple, Reproductive, Seabirds, Training, Upwelling.

Significance of metabolic interactions of diatom-diazotrophic associations (DDAs) for ocean ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rachel A Foster($306,172), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Marine Microorganisms, Metabolic Interactions, Activity, Conditions, Contributions, Fixation, Knowledge, Promote, Symbioses, Symbiotic.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Regenerated Nitrogen for Rocky Shore Productivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Altabet($183,381), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Catherine A Pfister($282,804), University of Chicago, Chicago
3. David M Post($144,705), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrogen Supply, Regenerated Nitrogen, Regenerated Nutrients, Rocky Shores, =, Abundance, Algal, Ammonium, Animal, Animals, Biological, Coastal, Contribution, Graduate, Larger, Local, Makah, Marine, Microbial, Mussel, Nitrate, Ocean, Pis, Potential, Processes, Productivity, Proxy, Regeneration, Regions, Relative, Stable, Students, Typically, Undergraduate, Upwelling, Versus, Water.

Feeding and food limitation in copepod nauplii, the neglected life stage
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cynthia S Cohen($540,702), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Adults And Nauplii, Cultured Prey, Food Selection, Life Stages, Natural Prey, Population Dynamics, Predatory Copepod, Prey Species, San Francisco, Applied, Consumed, Contrast, Copepodites, Developed, Dextrilobatus, Diverse, Does, Experiments, Feeding, Field, Growth, Laboratory, Ocean, Primers, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Were Protists the Beginning of the End for Stromatolites?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joan M Bernhard($536,093), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Roger Summons($270,972), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Chromatographic And Mass, Hisher Phd Studies, Mass Spectrometric Methods, Stromatolites And Thrombolites, Fossil Stromatolites, Heterotrophic Protists, Lipid Biomarkers, Microbial Mats, Modern Stromatolites, Sediment Fabric, Solvent Extraction, Activity, Benthic, Billion, Caused, Complex, Decline, Document, Eukaryotic, Evidence, FLEC, Geological, Half, Layered, Life, MIT, Molecular, Neoproterozoic, Overall, Predators, Processes, School, Sedimentary, Stromatolitic, Structures, Student, Students, Undergraduate, Visible.

RAPID: Synechococcus diversity and Fe stress and the relationship to dissolved metals in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric A Webb($59,719), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ecological Niches, Marine Synechococcus, Activity, Available, Clade, Clades, Cruise, Database, Define, Defined, Distribution, Diversity, Farther, Fe, Field, Has, JAS, Lab, Little, Ocean, Oceanographic, Pacific, Region, Sohm, South, Specific, Strains.

Phytoplankton Traits, Functional Groups and Community Organization: A Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher A Klausmeier($560,441), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Ecosystem Functioning, Phytoplankton Ecology, Phytoplankton Traits, Available, Biogeochemical, Database, Differences, Distributions, Diverse, Ecological, Educational, Environmental, Explore, Functional, Global, Models, Organization, Parameterize, Principles, Scaling, Scenarios, Size, Species, Structure, Wide.

Collaborative Research: A Matter of Life or Death? Assessing the physiological roles of PCD-related genes to stress adaptation in diatoms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Adam Kustka($68,591), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
2. Kay D Bidle($707,949), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Expression And Activity, Coastal Diatoms, Increased Fitness, Modern Ocean, Pcd-related Genes, Undergraduate Students, Unicellular Phytoplankton, Availability, Cellular, Center, Death, Development, Differentially, Ecological, Elucidate, Fe, Function, Functions, Graduate, Importance, Limitation, Marine, Mechanistic, Metacaspases, Nutrient, Ongoing, Organic, Pcd-related, Pis, Populations, Processes, Productivity, Pseudonana, Putative, Regulate, Retention, Specific, Stress, Subset.

Collaborative Research: Development of Numerical Models Linking Fluid Geochemistry and Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jan P Amend($150,514), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Thomas M McCollom($142,747), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Environments, Fluid, Microbes, Microbial, Mixing, Modeling, Processes, Reactions, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Iron limitation, carbon metabolism and siderophore production in marine bacteria - a systems biology approach
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Elizabeth L Mann($404,833), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Hongwei Wu($217,798), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Eric Stabb($134,382), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Gene Regulatory Network, Iron And Carbon, Limitation And Siderophore, Regulatory Network Model, Carbon Source, Gene Expression, Iron Concentrations, Iron Limitation, Iron Speciation, Marine Bacteria, Siderophore Synthesis, Approach, Bacterioplankton, Control, Educators, Efficiencies, Environmental, Global, Interactions, Laboratory, Levels, Ligands, Linked, Low, Metabolism, Pis, Processes, Requested, Seawater, Siderophores, Similar, Situ, Specifically.

Ocean acidification in a California upwelling zone: A sentinel site for impacts on open-coast and estuarine foundation species
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ann Russell($650,214), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, BML, Carbonate, Effects, Field, Graduate, Incorporated, Integrated, Interactive, Juvenile, Laboratory, Larval, Level, Life, Marine, Organisms, Ph, Play, Population, Program, Public, Sampling, Seawater, Species, Stages, Students, Unique, Upwelling, Via, Water.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Influence of Temperature and Acidification on the Dynamics of Coral Co-Infection and Resistance
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Laura D Mydlarz($58,061), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
2. None($504,963), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithica
Key terms: Temperature And Acidification, Aspergillus Sydowii, Changing Climate, Co-infection Dynamics, Coral Disease, Coral Reef, Global Environmental, Host Immunity, Host Resistance, Ocean Acidification, Pathogen Virulence, Sea Fan, World Bank, Co-infection, Co-infections, Effects, Efforts, Fungal, Has, Increase, Increases, Infections, Influence, International, Invertebrate, Management, Multiple, Pathogens, Potential, Primary, Programs, SPX, Shellfish, Single, Susceptibility.

Collaborative research at the Lau ISS: integrating microbial diversity with geochemistry using heat and mass transport models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anna-Louise Reysenbach($117,116), Portland State University, Portland
2. Margaret K Tivey($158,346), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Microbial Diversity, Chimney, Chimneys, Compositions, Computer, Deposits, Fluids, Geochemical, Habitats, Hydrothermal, Interior, Seafloor, Temperatures, Vent.

EAGER: Did Oxygenic Photosynthesis Cause Marine Group 1 Crenarchaeota to Take a Dive?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James T Hollibaugh($95,987), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Archaea, Archaeal, Bacteria, Concentrations, Culture, Directly, Distributions, Environment, Evidence, Generate, HO, Hard, Limited, MGC, Metabolism, Pathogens, Peroxide, Property, ROS, Relative, Seasonal, Sensitive, Sensitivity, Surface, Targets, Toxicity, Via.

EAGER: Viral tagging: Combining flow cytometry and genomics to explore virus-host interactions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew Sullivan($206,825), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Flow Cytometry, Host Cell, Viral Dna, Viral-tagged Cells, Viral-tagging Method, Wild Populations, Collaboration, Cryopreservation, Cultured, Enable, Experiments, Fluorescent, High-throughput, Interactions, Labeling, Marine, Microbes, Microbial, Molecular, Natural, Range, Sorting, Viral-tagged, Viral-tagging, Virus-host, Viruses.

RAPID: Lionfish invasion of the Mesoamerican reef: community invasibility and the evolutionary response of prey avoidance behavior to a novel predator
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John F Bruno($133,051), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Assays, Bahamas, Behavior, Belize, Caribbean, Compared, Consume, Coral, Ecological, Evolutionary, Exotic, Factors, Fish, Habitats, Influence, Invasion, Lionfish, Local, Native, Perform, Post-invasion, Predator, Predators, Prey, Reef, Reefs, Site, Sites, Threat, Time.

Physical-Biological Interactions in the Fertilization Ecology of Broadcast Spawners: The Role of Gamete Traits and Turbulence Structure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John P Crimaldi($449,984), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Instantaneous Turbulence Structure, Broadcast Spawning, Fertilization Rates, Gamete Surrogates, Gamete Viscosity, Laboratory Experiments, Numerical Simulations, Obstacle Wakes, Sea Urchin, Benthic, Biological, Coalescence, Concentrations, Demonstration, Dilution, Educational, Effect, Effects, Factors, Flow, Gametes, Has, Investigate, Model, Particles, Quantify, Removable, Rheology, Students, Teaching, Tool, Unsteady.

Collaborative Research: Hypoxia and the ecology, behavior and physiology of jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brad A Seibel($330,944), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. William F Gilly($380,663), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Kelly J Benoit-Bird($463,873), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Physiological And Biochemical, Dosidicus Gigas, Electronic Tagging, Midwater Organisms, Squid Fishery, Acoustic, Activity, Basis, California, Cold, Colleagues, Conditions, Daily, Does, Ecological, Environment, Extended, Foraging, Has, Hypoxic, Involved, Management, Metabolism, Methods, Mexican, Mexico, OML, Oceanographic, Outreach, Regions, Students, Variety, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Oceanic diazotroph community structure and activities in a high carbon dioxide world
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew Church($437,859), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Ricardo M Letelier($231,667), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: N2 Fixing Microorganism, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Seawater Pco2, Abundances, Activities, Assemblages, Carbon, Climate, Diazotrophs, Ecosystem, Growth, Influence, Marine, NPSG, Perturbations, Quantify, Structure.

RAPID: Resilience of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Russell J Schmitt($150,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Moorea Coral Reef, Reef Lter Site, French Polynesia, Living Coral, Mcr Lter, Natural Disturbance, Carry, Combinations, Conservation, Cover, Disturbances, Environmental, Explore, Following, Opportunity, Outreach, Press, Pulse, Reefs, Resilience, Strength, Website.

Effects of Marine Preserves and Nonindigenous Species on Rocky Subtidal Communities: Indirect Interactions, Disturbance and Community Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth P Sebens($718,448), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Invasive Species, Rocky Subtidal, San Juan, Abundance, Benefit, Climate, Coastal, Conservation, Ecological, Effects, Extraction, FHL, Fish, Fisheries, Graduate, Little, Marine, Predators, Prey, Program, Sites, Students, Temperate, Training, Trophic, Undergraduate, Zones.

RUI-The ecophysiological basis of the response of coral larvae and early life history stages to global climate change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter J Edmunds($626,658), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Marine Biology Program, Seas Marine Biology, Coral Reefs, Life Stages, Analyses, Completed, Effects, Environmental, GCC, Importance, Moorea, Opportunities, Students, Taiwan, Training, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Dispersal and Life History Dynamics in Benthic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susan T Goldstein($166,159), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Joan M Bernhard($304,367), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dispersal And Connectivity, Life History Dynamics, Benthic Foraminifera, Coastal Zone, Environmental Conditions, Environmental Perturbations, Propagule Bank, Ability, Bathyal, Capabilities, Contribute, Education, Extent, Foraminiferal, Georgia, Graduate, Insight, Marine, Populations, Processes, Respond, Settings, Sites, Species, Students.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Constraints on Virus Infection of Cyanobacteria
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jay T Lennon($199,093), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Steven W Wilhelm($299,798), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Marine Microbiology, Outer Membrane, Receptor Expression, Virus Infection, Analyses, Chemostats, Cyanobacteria, Ecology, Environmental, Generate, Information, Microbial, Molecular, Populations, Public, Receptors, Students, Synechococcus, Tennessee, Viruses.

Collaborative Research: Midwater animal models: Optical measurement of metabolic transitions in pelagic biota
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sonke Johnsen($281,181), Duke University, Durham
2. Brad A Seibel($210,568), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Blood Oxygen Binding, Oxygen Minimum Zones, Midwater Animals, Midwater Environment, Midwater Organisms, Ocean Acidification, Optical Physiological, Approach, Bloom, Direct, Fishes, Graduate, Has, Hypoxia, Imaging, Metabolic, Oceanic, Pelagic, Physiology, Planet, Public, Rate, Rates, Relating, Sea, Students, Techniques, Tolerance, Transparency, Unique, Video, Volume, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: ETBC: Implication of ANAMMOX community structure and microbial interactions in estuarine N removal processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bongkeun Song($515,800), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. Gregory D O'Mullan($220,594), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Aerobic Ammonia, Anammox Bacteria, Anammox Ecology, Anammox Rates, Environmental Parameters, Estuarine Gradients, Microbial Ecologist, Molecular Microbial, AAO, Abundance, Activities, Analyses, Columbia, Denitrifying, Diverse, Ecosystems, Educational, Estuary, Eutrophication, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Isotope, Loading, Loss, Ocean, Pathway, Pis, Program, Removal, Significance, Structure, Techniques, Total, UNCW, Various.

Community Phylogeny and Global Phylogeography of the Neuston
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Diarmaid O'Foighil($381,829), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Benthic Sister Lineages, Genetic Structuring, International Museum, Neuston Taxa, Subtropical Gyre, Aims, Chondrophore, Cnidarian, Collaborative, Colleagues, Collect, Directly, Ecological, Establish, Evolutionary, Expert, Gastropods, Graduate, Gyres, Has, Hosts, Ichthyoplankton, Involving, Marine, Multiple, Neustonic, Ocean, Outreach, Panmixis, Photosymbionts, Phylogeny, Preliminary, Primary, SSV, Sampling, Sea, Section, Species, Student, Students, Surface, Target, UM, Undergraduate.

Ecological Release and Resistance at Sea: Invasion of Atlantic Coral Reefs by Pacific Lionfish
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Hixon($718,712), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ecology And Behavior, Native Coral-reef Fishes, Comparative Studies, Coral-reef Fishes, Ecological Release, Ecological Resistance, Indirect Effects, Invasive Species, Native Coral-reef, Native Pacific, Native Species, Natural Enemies, Abundance, Activities, Atlantic, Bahamas, Caribbean, Clues, Competitors, Consuming, Direct, Documented, Especially, Experiments, Extreme, Graduate, Has, Indirectly, Invaded, Invasion, Involve, Juvenile, Lionfish, Managers, Marine, Patch, Predator, Predators, Range, Reefs, Seaweeds, Sources, Students, Various, Via.

Functional Diversity of Subsurface Deposit Feeders
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sara M Lindsay($499,198), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Subsurface Deposit Feeders, Crack Propagation, Displaces Particles, Free Particles, Geological Time, Particulate Bioturbation, Animal, Biosphere, Carbon, Contact, Food, Mechanics, Medium, Seabed.

Collaborative Research: A Submarine Eruption on the North East Lau Spreading Center, a RAPID Response Effort
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William N Lange($58,603), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. David W Caress($52,886), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
3. Craig L Moyer($20,750), Western Washington University, Bellingham
4. Joseph A Resing($80,165), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Erupting Undersea, Discovered, Explosively, Fluids, Hydrothermal, Volcanic, Volcano.

RAPID: Role of Ephemeral Bottom Roughness Patches in Unpredictable Recruitment of Surfclams on the Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patricia A Ramey($99,989), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Bottom Roughness, Shell Patches, Affect, Ephemeral, Growth, LEO-, Management, Outside, Persistence, Recruitment, Recruits, Settlement, Surfclam, Surfclams, Survival.

A Proposal for a Workshop on Global Environmental Change & Biological Evolution in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gretchen E Hofmann($19,619), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Rapid Regime Shifts, Evolutionary Biology, Future Effects, Multiple Environmental, Activity, Adaptations, Anthropogenic, Approach, Biological, Catalysis, Ecosystem-level, Global, Held, Marine, Meeting, Ocean, Organisms, Predict, React, Timescales, Workshop.

Nutritional, environmental, and genetic regulation of toxicity and growth in Dinophysis
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Donald M Anderson($747,360), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Health And Economic, Culture Collection, Dinophysis Species, Public Health, Shellfish Poisoning, Analysis, Array, Ciliate, Ciliates, Countries, Cryptophyte, Cryptophytes, Cultures, DSP, Differences, Dinoflagellate, Environmental, Evolution, Feeding, Genetic, Genus, Geographically, Growth, Has, Interns, Investigate, Isolates, Laboratory, Months, Organisms, Physiology, Rates, Responsible, Toxicity, Toxin, Undergraduate.

Role of Latent Virus Infection in Marine Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William Wilson($549,105), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Host Cell, Increased Temperature, Latent Infections, Marine Phytoplankton, Uv Irradiation, Aspect, BLOOM, Cells, Coral, Designed, Ecosystems, Environment, Genome, Global, Has, Hence, Informal, Information, Killing, Latency, Methods, Models, Ocean, Particles, Pis, Processes, Program, Public, School, Sequence, Students, Teach, Trigger, Viral, Virus, Viruses, Zooxanthellae.

Pickled Protists or Community Uniquely Adapted to Hypersalinity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joan M Bernhard($588,094), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eukaryotic Life, Lay Public, Water Column, Adaptation, Analysis, Anoxic, Approaches, Basins, Biogeochemical, Cruise, Degree, Dhabs, Diverse, Diversity, Ecosystem, Environments, Explored, Extreme, Functioning, Gain, Global, Graduate, Habitats, Halocline, Has, Highly, Hypersaline, Increasing, Marine, Microbial, Middle, Potential, Protists, School, Secondary, Sediments, Symbionts, Teachers.

Experimental investigations of the giant colonies of Phaeocystis globosa in China
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Walker O Smith($461,284), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Coastal Waters, Colony Size, Giant Colonies, Nutrient Uptake, Phaeocystis Globosa, Algal, Blooms, Carbon, Cell, Chinese, Course, Density, Ecology, Experimental, Graduate, International, Investigation, Jinan, Phytoplankton, Represent, Sinking, Substantial, Symposium, Theoretical, Unique, VIMS.

Long-term and interactive effects of seaweed diversity and herbivory on intertidal community structure and functioning
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John J Stachowicz($522,631), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Algal Diversity, Ecosystem Functioning, Grazer Richness, Interactive Effects, Management Efforts, Previous Nsf, Rocky Intertidal, Abundance, Algae, Assemblage, Biodiversity, Bodega, California, Composition, Consequences, Continue, Cover, Disturbance, Ecosystems, Examine, Experiment, Experiments, Grazers, Has, Invertebrates, Maintaining, Mobile, Nested, Outreach, Plots, Public, Recovery, Resilience, Seaweed, Seaweeds, Species, Weeding.

Targeted environmental probing: Linking microorganisms with biogeochemical function at Fe- and Mn-rich, diffuse hydrothermal vents
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Suzanna L Brauer($64,188), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Carbon Fixation, Organisms Responsible, Bacteria, Broad, Hydrothermal, Methods, Microorganisms, Mn, Objective, Oxidation.

Collaborative Research: Iron storage in diatoms and N2 fixing cyanobacteria: mechanisms, regulation and biogeochemical significance
Award Effective Date: 08/22/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Benjamin S Twining($257,021), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Fe Storage, Lab Cultures, Marine Diatoms, N2 Fixing, Time Scales, Biogeochemical, Buffer, Cell, Cellular, Critical, Degradation, Ferritin, Ferritins, Generational, Genes, Has, Intracellular, Involved, Mechanism, NRAMP, Objectives, Photosynthetic, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Prevent, Protein, Proteins, Pseudonana, Quota, Regulation, Serve, Stored, Synthesis, Training, Trichodesmium, Tricornutum, Vacuoles.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Factors Affecting the Nature and Strength of Indirect Effects: A Modeling and Empirical Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bernard T Luttbeg($143,595), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Emergent Indirect Effects, Nature And Strength, Prey Behavior, Prey Foraging, Resource Levels, Shape Prey, Trophic Cascade, Trophic Cascades, Ecological, Ecology, Empirical, Experience, Factors, Functions, Importance, Individual, Influence, Interactions, Internship, Marine, Model, Models, Natural, Predation, Predict, Relative, Short-term, Students, Theory, Tmiis.

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

1. Zanna Chase($252,786), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Deep Subsurface, Dispersal Pathways, Iodp Cruise, Microbial Observatory, North Pond, Ridge Flank, Site Survey, Subsurface Microbial, Subsurface Microbiology, Activities, Activity, Basalt, Biogeochemical, Cells, Composition, Crust, Environment, Flow, Fluid, Focuses, Isolated, Marine, Metabolic, Preparation, Sediment, Sediments, Student, Vision.

CDI Type-II: Distributed Ocean Monitoring via Integrated Data Analysis of Coordinated Buoyancy Drogues
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. Peter J Franks($1,368,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Currents And Sense, Ocean Circulation, Analysis, Coastal, Computational, Control, Development, Drogues, Environment, Festival, Observatory, Oceanographic, Presently, Processes, Require, Sampling, Sensing, Sensor, Vertical.

Computer Vision Coral Ecology: Cyber-Enabled Image Classification for Rapid, Large Scale, Automated Monitoring of Climate Change Impacts on Coral Reefs
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. Serge J Belongie($1,999,440), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Computer Vision Technology, Temporal And Spatial, Automated Technology, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Spatial Scales, Allow, Classification, Climate, Creation, Ecological, Ecology, Education, Health, Methods, Monitor, Rapid, Students, Web-based.

Collaborative Research: Linking Researchers and Graduate Students through COSEE Tools & Services
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Janice McDonnell($95,316), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Linda E Duguay($65,500), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Annette V deCharon($173,621), University of Maine, Orono
4. Cheryl L Peach($81,829), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Graduate Students, Target Audiences, Content, Development, Interactive, Literacy, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - National Network Partnerships
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Annette V deCharon($305,603), University of Maine, Orono
2. Gail A Scowcroft($849,236), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Central Coordinating Office, Online Cosee, Activities, CCO, Center, Centers, Development, Diverse, Education, Educational, Literacy, Network, Ocean, Partners, Partnerships, Practices, Program, Workshops.

COSEE-West, Community-based Ocean Sciences Education
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Judith D Lemus($2,746,010), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Education Centers, Education Partners, Exhibit Retreats, Informal Education, Informal Educators, Minority Students, Ocean Literacy, Online Services, School District, Southern California, Teacher Workshops, Activities, Audiences, Build, Cosee-west, Create, Development, Diverse, Enhance, Expand, Increase, Model, Objectives, Opportunities, Outreach, Programs, Public, Reach, Reaching, Synergistic, Teachers.

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

1. Harold Clark($386,002), Liberty Science Center, Inc., Jersey City
Key terms: Effective Education Practices, Ocean Observing, Public Awareness, Target Audiences, Technology Center, COSEE-NOW, Contribute, EPO, Enable, Increase, Institute, K-, Knowledge, Literacy, Marine, OOS, Partners, Pis, Products.

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: Analysis of 230Th, 232Th and 231Pa
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laura Robinson($381,455), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Robert F Anderson($655,702), Columbia University, New York
3. Richard L Edwards($405,023), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: 231pa And 230th, Geotraces North Atlantic, Geotraces Program, International Geotraces, Particle Composition, AMOC, Concentrations, Critical, Designated, Importance, Interior, Isotopes, LDEO, Lead, Objectives, Ocean, Past, Path, Plan, Proxy, Success, Trace, Uminn.

2010 Oceans and Human Health GRC-Conference and Seminar
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Algal And Microbial, Epidemiology And Public, Oceans And Human, Scientists And Students, Biological Oceanography, Human Health, Informal Interactions, Microbial Biology, Personal Contact, Public Health, Conference, Discipline, Economics, Field, Fields, Formal, GRC, GRCGRS, GRS, Genomics, Gordon, June, Minority, Participants, Pharmacology, Poster, Presentations, Proteomics, Seminar, Sessions, Toxicology.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section - Nd isotope distribution: sources, sinks and internal cycling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven L Goldstein($234,471), Columbia University, New York
2. Katharina Pahnke($284,682), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Howard Scher($196,289), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Nd Isotopes, Distribution, Distributions, Fluxes, GEOTRACES, Ocean, Oceans, Program, Student, Trace, Water.

U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: The chemical speciation of dissolved iron and copper
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kristen N Buck($317,042), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Fe-binding Organic, Organic Ligands, Component, Concentrations, Dissolved, Distributions, Fe-binding, Field, GEOTRACES, Ocean, Strong.

GEOTRACES Zonal Atlantic Section: Arsenic and phosphorus biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gregory A Cutter($318,896), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: North Atlantic, Arsenic, Arsenite, Biogeochemical, Concentrations, Dimethyl-arsenic, Dissolved, Distributions, Establish, GEOTRACES, Monomethyl-arsenic, Quantify.

GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Total Dissolved Cobalt and Cobalt Speciation in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mak A Saito($355,478), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cobalt, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Processes, Sources, Speciation, Trace.

US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: Dissolved Iron and Iron(II)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter N Sedwick($350,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Flow Injection, Cruise, Distribution, Distributions, Dominion, Fe, GEOTRACES, Graduate, Marine, Ocean, Processes, Water.

US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: Sample collection for iron stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jess F Adkins($20,865), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Biogeochemical, Carbon, Cycle, Dissolved, Distributions, Fe, Fluxes, Hydrothermal, Isotopes, Margin, Ocean, Oceans, Processes, Sources, Trace.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Trace Element Sources and Sinks Elucidated by Short-Lived Radium and Thorium Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($869,830), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Willard S Moore($80,501), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: 228ra And 226ra, 234th And 228th, Export And Remineralization, Sources And Sinks, North Atlantic, Tei Distributions, Boundary, Cruise, Fluxes, GEOTRACES, Inputs, Isotopes, Ocean, Participation, Particle, Processes, Quantify, Radium, Rates, Sampling, Scavenging, Short-lived, Students, Teis, Transport, Undergraduate, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Testing Linkages Between Plankton Community Structure and Export of C, Po, and Th in the Sub-Arctic NE Pacific: Field and Lab Studies
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael W Lomas($149,932), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Gillian Stewart($290,930), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Po210 And Th234, Euphotic Zone, Export Fluxes, Ecosystem, Field, Focus, Investigate, Low, OSP, Ocean, POC, Pacific, Packaging, Particle, Particles, Plankton, Planktonic, Processes, Radionuclide, Rates, Sinking, Site, Structure, Tracer, Tracers, Upper.

GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Measurement of Helium Isotopes and Tritium
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William J Jenkins($592,297), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Rates And Fluxes, Dilution Scales, Geotraces Program, Hydrothermal Activity, Biogeochemical, Distributions, Gauge, Global, Isotopes, Ocean, Primary, Section, Strategy, Survey, TEI, Teis, Timescales, Trace, Tracer, Tracers, Transient, Tritium, Useful.

GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Characterization of phytoplankton trace metal quotas and their contribution to the particulate metal pool in the upper ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin S Twining($349,430), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bulk Particulate Matter, Broader Impacts, Cellular Trace, Global Ocean, Individual Phytoplankton, Analyzed, Atlantic, Bigelow, Biogeochemical, Chemical, Collected, Combination, Cu, Diatoms, Fe, GEOTRACES, Gradients, Layer, Macronutrients, Micronutrients, Mn, Natural, Ni, Potential, Program, Quotas, SXRF, Surface, Zn.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Mercury Speciation Along a Zonal Section in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chad R Hammerschmidt($57,930), Wright State University, Dayton
2. Carl Lamborg($226,803), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Atlantic Cruise, North Atlantic, Conditions, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Graduate, Hg, Human, Insight, Mercury, Oceanic, Species, Student, Wright.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES N Atlantic Section, shipboard and shorebased determination of key trace elements
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jingfeng Wu($307,345), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Christopher I Measures($200,286), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Marine And Atmospheric, Geotraces Cruise, Graduate Student, North Atlantic, Rosenstiel School, Analyses, Biogeochemically, Board, Concentrations, Distributions, Global, Hawaii, Ocean, Postdoc, Processes, Sampling, Shipboard, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Outwelling of Dissolved Organic Carbon from Salt Marshes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. George B Gardner($274,525), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
2. Jennifer Cherrier($257,306), Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee
3. Christof D Meile($166,487), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
4. Jaye E Cable($257,380), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Organic Matter, Salt Marshes, Assess, Carbon, Coastal, Dynamic, Intertidal, Marine, Modeling, Ocean, Students, Terrestrial.

Manganese, vanadium, gallium and rare earth elements in the GEOTRACES North Atlantic zonal section
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alan M Shiller($174,857), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Distributions, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Processes, Trace.

Developing a Global Perspective on Dynamics of Riverine Transfer of Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon to the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy I Eglinton($304,560), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biospheric Carbon Discharged, Biospheric Oc Pool, Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon, Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Cycle, Vascular Plant-derived, Age, Climate, Collaborative, Constituents, Cycling, Database, Deposits, Dynamics, Exchange, Exported, Global, Latitude, Legacy, Ocean, Oceans, Plant-derived, Publications, River, Rivers, Shared, Size, Timescales.

Lead and Lead Isotope Sample Collection and Analysis for the U.S. GEOTRACES Zonal North Atlantic Survey Section
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward A Boyle($623,139), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Pb And Pb, North Atlantic, Pb Isotopes, Trace Metals, Anthropogenic, Biogeochemical, Boundary, Deposition, GEOTRACES, Models, Ocean, Processes, Regards, Scavenging, Western.

U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: CFC and SF6 Measurements
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Smethie($260,190), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cfcs And Sf6, North Atlantic Ocean, Clivar Cruises, Earth's Climate, Evolving Cfc, Geotraces Program, Selected Trace, Sf6 Distributions, Transit Times, Water Column, Water Masses, CFC-, Concentrations, Cycle, Cycles, Estimate, Global, Information, Isotopes, Measured, Objectives, Past, Processes, Programs, Rates, Species, Ventilation.

GEOTRACES: Determination of copper distribution, speciation, and its relationship to picoplankton community structure for the U.S. GEOTRACES Zonal North Atlantic Survey Section
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($397,358), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Control, Copper, Cu, Dissolved, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Metal, Oceanographic, Particle-reactive, Particulate, Speciation.

Direct measurement of dissolved organic nitrogen concentration and 15N/14N ratio
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Angela N Knapp($356,314), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Nitrogen, Total Dissolved Nitrogen, Directly Measure, Isotopic Composition, Nitrogen Cycle, Accurately, Concentration, DON, Developing, Inorganic, Method, Ocean.

US GEOTRACES N. Atlantic: Measuring the δ13C-DIC distribution and quantifying the impact of organic matter export on δ13C, nutrients and biologically active trace metals.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rolf E Sonnerup($385,118), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air-sea Disequilibrium, Atlantic Ocean, Bioactive Trace, Course Entitled, Gas Exchange, Geotraces Program, Method Relies, Om Export, Surface Layer, Additionally, Air-sea, Carbon, Circulation, Control, Dissolved, Distributions, International, Measure, Past, Processes, Proxies, Rates, Undergraduate.

BEACON: BErmuda ocean Acidification and COral reef iNvestigation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andreas Andersson($851,025), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Bermuda Coral Reef, Calcification And Caco3, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Individual Coral Colonies, Bermuda Platform, Coral Reefs, Local Reef, Net Calcification, Ocean Acidification, Spatial Scales, Annual, BEACON, BIOS, Calcifiers, Calcifying, Carbonate, Conditions, Consequences, Contribute, Emission, Experiments, Future, Global, Gradient, Light, Marine, Natural, Seawater.

Comparison of Sample Collection, Preservation, and Analysis During GEOTRACES Intercalibration Cruises
Award Effective Date: 09/22/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jingfeng Wu($69,650), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Geotraces Intercalibration Cruises, Geotraces Program, Sampler Comparison, Storage Procedures, Activities, Global, Investigate, June, Marine, May-june, Ocean, Oceanic, Proper, Sampling, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Using Biogeochemical and Genetic Tools to Unravel the Environmental Controls of Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Heterotrophic Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Scott W Nixon($563,373), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Robinson W Fulweiler($239,272), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Anne E Giblin($262,558), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Sediments, Nitrogen Fixation, Rhode Island, Coastal, Environmental.

U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Sector: The Fractional Solubility of Aerosol Iron in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ana M Aguilar-Islas($115,305), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Changing Environmental Conditions, Aerosol Fe, Atmospheric Deposition, Fractional Solubility, Global Carbon, North Atlantic, Alaska, Ambient, Approach, Control, Cycle, Dissolution, Distribution, Distributions, Establish, Fairbanks, GEOTRACES, Has, Incorporated, Information, Iron, Isotopes, Ocean, Parameter, Processes, Seawater, Source, Surface, Trace, UAF.

Oceans and Human Health Symposium and Workshop: Accomplishments and Future Directions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lora E Fleming($40,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Oceans And Human, Coastal Zone, Future Challenges, Health Hazards, Human Health, Ohh Advances, Past Five, Climate, Disasters, Discipline, Meeting, NSF-NIEHS, National, Training.

Collaborative Research: Sources and Sinks of Stoichiometrically Imbalanced Nitrate in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jacques C Finlay($824,761), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Robert M McKay($343,290), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
Key terms: Extreme Stoichiometric Imbalance, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Water Column, Anammox, Assemblage, Bacteria, Balance, Biogeochemical, Buildup, Clades, Conditions, Considered, Cycle, Denitrification, Graduate, Has, Imbalances, Involve, LCCC, Lakes, Laurentian, Mechanisms, Microbial, Minnesota, Nitrate, Nitrification, Nitrogen, Partnership, Previously, Program, Student, Unknown.

A Model-Data Synthesis Study of the Marine Iron Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jefferson K Moore($313,803), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Field Campaigns, Iron Cycle, Climate, Dissolved, Fe, Model, Ocean, UCI.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of a Marine Aerosol Generator for Shipboard Deployment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David J Kieber($7,070), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
2. William C Keene($143,629), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
3. Lynn M Russell($59,822), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Nascent Marine Aerosols, Aerosol Generator, Earth's Climate, Hardened Version, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Organic Matter, Physiochemical Evolution, Size Distribution, Surface Ocean, Ìm Diameter, Atmosphere, Characteristics, Chemical, Composition, Consequently, Contribute, Deploy, Deployed, Evaluating, Feedbacks, Implications, Influences, International, Magnitude, Modified, National, Pathways, Photochemical, Rates, Reactive, Resulting, Sea, Ship, Upper, Via.

Preparation and Distribution of DOC Consensus Reference Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($447,484), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Marine Carbon Cycle, Crm Program, International Ocean, Low Carbon, Marine Doc, Ampoules, Analyses, Available, Common, Comparable, Continue, Deep, Has, Laboratories, Miami, Reference, Renewal, Seawater, Was, Water.

Collaborative Research: Management and Logistics Operations for the U.S. GEOTRACES Zonal North Atlantic Survey Section
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gregory A Cutter($419,334), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. William J Jenkins($496,304), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Edward A Boyle($356,627), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycles, Ocean Biogeochemical, Trace-metal Clean, Anthropogenic, Climate, Control, Cruise, Development, Distributions, Future, GEOTRACES, Global, Hydrographic, Isotopes, Manage, Nutrients, Oceans, On-board, Oxygen, Platform, Play, Processes, QAQC, Quality, Sampling, Service, Techniques, Teis, Trace-metal, Water.

Investigating YREE Co-Precipitation with Phosphate and Biogenic Aragonite as Possible Indicators of Ocean Acidification
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Johan Schijf($403,536), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbonate And Phosphate, Biogenic Minerals, Ocean Acidification, Allow, Aragonite, Geochemical, Geological, Involve, Marine, Rare, Seawater, Speciation, YREE, Yrees.

Reactive iron supply to shelf sediments and surface waters of the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Zanna Chase($581,002), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Bioavailable Iron, CCS, California, Carbon, Coast, Coastal, Gradient, Increase, Latitudinal, Oregon, Productivity, River, Shelf, Student, Supply, Surface, Upwelling, Water.

Linking Protein Degradation to Peptide and Amino Acid Compositions in Sinking Particles and Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard G Keil($592,116), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Amino Acid Analyses, Carbon And Nitrogen, Sequence And Source, Organic Matter, Source Information, Degradation, Diagenesis, Marine, Protein, Proteins, Proteomic, Sediments, Techniques.

Microbial Metabolites in Marine DOM
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($485,046), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Microbial Activity, Characterize, Chemical, Components, Compounds, DOM, Facility, Interactions, Marine, Metabolic, Metabolites, Ocean, Organisms, Pool, Produced, Specific, WHOI.

Reassessment of dissolved DMSP concentrations and turnover flux in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ronald P Kiene($412,866), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Biologically Available Fraction, Carbon And Sulfur, Assess, Atmospheric, Compound, Cycle, DMS, DMSP, Dissolved, Dmspd, Fluxes, Gas, Information, Marine, Objective, Ocean, Pool, Precursor, Rate, Source, Student, Turnover.

Collaborative Research: Examining the Binding of Radionuclides with Marine Biopolymers, A Comparative Study on TH, PA, BE, PO and PB Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kathleen A Schwehr($460,487), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Laodong Guo($333,888), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Natural Radioisotopes, Binding, Biogeochemical, Biopolymers, Marine, Oceanographic, Organic, Radionuclides, Tracer.

Particle Transport and Carbon Export over the Northwest Atlantic Margin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Matthew A Charette($1,058,724), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Intermediate Nepheloid Layers, Organic Carbon, Atlantic, Continent, DWBC, Dynamics, Emanating, Established, Exported, Importance, Line, Margin, Ocean, Particle, Potential, Primary, Program, Region, Section, Student, Tracers, Transport, WHOI, Website.

Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elaine M Faustman($1,853,367), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Oceans And Human, Defining Features, Domoic Acid, Environmental Conditions, Human Health, Public Health, Puget Sound, Risk Assessment, Risk Chain, Species Distributions, Toxic Blooms, Approaches, Center, Consisting, Continue, Conveying, Current, Define, Development, Discipline, Efforts, Emerging, Expertise, Exposure, Factors, Field, Focus, Framework, Future, Has, Humans, Interactions, Levels, Linkages, Mechanisms, Mechanistic, Models, Molecular, Monitoring, Oceanography, Pacific, Practices, Pseudo-nitzschia, Seafood, Shellfish, Steps, Toxicity, Toxin, Washington.

GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Aerosol and Rainfall collection and analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($300,475), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Aerosol And Rainfall, Atmospheric Deposition, North Atlantic, Aerosols, Analyzed, Anthropogenic, Collect, Concentrations, Dissolved, Distributions, Dust, Fe, Filters, Funding, GEOTRACES, Graduate, Isotopes, Mn, Nitrate, Oceans, Pb, Program, Samplers, Seawater, Soluble, Source, Teis, Um.

Development of Methods for Direct Determinations of Carbonate Ion Concentrations in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert H Byrne($457,059), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Carbonate Ion Concentrations, Carbon Dioxide, Absorbance, Dissolved, Lead, Method, Ocean, Oceans, Ph, Rates, Saturation, Shipboard, Variables.

EAGER: Initiation of a pH/pCO2-sensing mooring platform on the Oregon coast
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bruce A Menge($179,963), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Inner Shelf Waters, Ph And Pco2, California Current, Ecological Consequences, Ocean Acidification, Pco2 Time, Sensor Array, Accurate, Activities, Biogeochemical, CCS, Coast, Coastal, Deploy, Deployed, Field, Has, Inner-shelf, Instruments, Marine, Network, OA, Oregon, Regional, Scope, Sensors, Severe, Site, Sites, Spatial, Upwelling.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Microfluidic assessment of chemotaxis towards different inorganic and organically complexed iron species by marine bacteria and phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark L Wells($81,259), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Bacteria And Phytoplankton, Marine Bacteria, Massachusetts Institute, Phytoplankton Species, Preferentially Utilized, Available, Chemical, Chemotaxis, Cultures, Iron, Methods, Microfluidics, Ocean, Plan, Speciation, Technique, Technology.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES- Methods development and intercalibration for the 210 Pb and 210 Po radionuclide pair
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark Baskaran($85,000), Wayne State University, Detroit
2. Manmohan Sarin($114,999), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Geotraces Intercalibration, Geotraces Program, Particulate Aliquots, Closely, Collected, Delaware, Dissolved, Dozen, Effort, Has, Isotopes, Isotopic, Pair, Pb, Po, Po-pb, Priority, Radionuclide.

Collaborative Research: Documenting N2 fixation in N deficient waters of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Berelson($872,707), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Angela N Knapp($164,358), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: N2 Fixation, Sediment Traps, Surface Waters, Add, Budget, Cruises, Cycle, Direct, Dn, ETSP, Estimates, Evidence, Expected, Geochemical, Global, Graduate, Marine, Opportunities, Previously, Quantitative, Rates, Summer, USC.

Methyl Bromide and Selected Halocarbons: Response of the Ocean to the Montreal Protocol and Subsequent Amendments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Shari Yvon-Lewis($312,147), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Environmental Policies, Montreal Protocol, Biological, Chbr, Cycling, Graduate, Halocarbons, Ocean, Oceanic, Parameters, Potential, Rates, Surface.

Carbon isotopic heterogeneity in modern bacterioplankton: Model systems for understanding paleoenvironmental signatures.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ann Pearson($516,154), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Marine Microbial Diversity, Carbon Isotope, Bacterioplankton, Current, Differences, Environments, Harvard, Has, Ocean, Past, Surface.

Assessing the Impact of Developing-World Land Use on Riverine Organic Carbon Delivery to the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tibisay J Perez($389,261), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Developing Regions, Organic Carbon, Amount, Chemistry, Coastal, Delivered, Global, Increase, Inputs, Land, Marine, Nutrient, Nutrients, Ocean, Play, River, Rivers, Sediments, Suspended, Venezuelan.

Collaborative Research: The Cariaco Basin Oceanographic Time Series Program
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Frank E Muller-Karger($1,587,521), University of South Florida, Tampa
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.

Processes Controlling the Release of Iron from Continental Margin Sediments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Martial Taillefert($491,111), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Continental Margin Sediments, Atmospheric Inputs, Bioturbation Intensity, Iron Flux, Primary Productivity, Sediment-water Interface, State-of-the-art Voltammetric, Component, Content, Deep-sea, Demonstrate, Deployments, Establish, Feiii, Has, Low, Oceanographic, Organic, Possibly, Processes, Sediment-water, Situ, Source, Speciation, State-of-the-art, Students, Upwelling, Waters, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Environmental Controls on Anammox and Denitrification Rates in Estuarine and Marine Sediments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jeremy J Rich($446,472), Brown University, Providence
2. Joseph J Vallino($482,144), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Matter And Nitrate, Nitrate Delivery Rates, Graduate Student, Heterotrophic Denitrification, Organic Matter, Situ Conditions, Varying Organic, Anammox, Brown, Environmental, Experiments, Field, Flux, Microcosm, Models, Nitrogen, Postdoctoral, Predictive, Process, Program, Relative, Sediment, Students, Switch.

The Black Carbon Cycle: Budget and Fluxes of Black Carbon in South Atlantic Sediments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rainer Lohmann($392,493), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Deep Sea Sediments, Biomass Burning, Black Carbon, Global Climate, Soot Bc, South Atlantic, Account, Aid, Analysis, Atmospheric, Attempt, Cycle, Deposition, Holds, Marker, Organic, Riverine, Sinks, Source, Sources, Total, Transport.

Effects of ocean acidification on the formation and sinking of particle aggregates
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Anja Engel($496,689), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Organic Matter, Seawater Ph, Affect, Aggregation, Biological, Chemical, Cycling, Export, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Processes, Properties.

Collaborative Research: Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gary K Ostrander($1,385,177), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Alexandria Boehm($393,100), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Edwin Cruz-Rivera($20,273), Jackson State University, Jackson
Key terms: Pathogen And Pathogen, Fish Tissue, Human Health, Pathogen Indicator, Protein Kinase, Advantage, Assay, Aureus, BMAA, Bioactivity, Ciguatoxin, Collaboration, Compounds, Concentrations, Conditions, Discovery, Focus, Jackson, Marine, Methods, Microbial, Molecular, Na, PRCMB, Pathogens, Pharmaceutical, Recreational, Refinement, Resistant, Sampling, Spectrometry, Stanford, Streams, Toxin, Tropical, Waters.

CSTORMS: The Center for Oceans and Human Health Research in Marine Sciences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Helena M Solo-Gabriele($1,850,495), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Florida Red Tide, Marine Food Chain, Oceans And Human, Harmful Algal, Human Health, Microbe Component, Microbial Pollution, Ohh Center, Activities, BMAA, Beach, Blooms, Build, Course, Efforts, Environment, Expand, Exploration, Five, Funding, Graduate, HAB, Habs, Impacts, Interact, Miami, Modeling, Neurotoxin, Ongoing, Opportunity, Predictive, School, Source, Students, Supported, Toxin, Toxins, Water.

2009 Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($35,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Gordon, Marine Chemistry, Biogeochemical, Conference, Cycling, Docs, Graduate, Processing.

The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis J McGillicuddy($1,824,997), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Gene Transfer, Human Health, Human Pathogens, Indicator Organisms, Population Structure, Public Health, Vibrio Species, Woods Hole, Activities, Activity, Alexandrium, Benefits, Biological, Bloom, Blooms, Center, Centers, Coastal, Continue, Differentiation, Distribution, Diversity, Dynamics, England, Funding, Fundyense, Genomics, HAB, Has, Hydrodynamic, Microbial, Nauset, Officials, Pathogenic, Physiological, Populations, Potential, Toxin, WHCOHH, Was.

Food Chain Magnification of Marine Toxins
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Charles J OKelly($929,362), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Fish And Shellfish, Flora And Fauna, Source Amino Acids, Trophic Amino Acids, Unstructured Food Web, Biological Magnification, Coral Reef, Food Webs, Molecular Weight, Trophic Level, Amu, BMAA, CTX, Ca, Concentrations, Consumer, Differences, Dn, Experimental, Hawaii, Inclusion, Marine, Nitrogen, Oceanography, Organisms, Position, Reflect, Students, Theoretical, Toxins, UH.

Collaborative research: Understanding the spatial and temporal variability of dissolved oxygen through a hierarchy of models.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Curtis Deutsch($343,239), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen, Graduate Students, Observational Strategies, Oceanic Oxygen, Time Scales, Upper Ocean, Wide Range, Biological, Climate, Decadal, Efforts, Global, Hierarchy, Large-scale, Mechanistic, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Oceans, Osses, Plan, Theoretical, Thermocline, Tracer, Underlying.

The effects of animal-sediment interactions on biogeochemical processes at the sediment -water interface
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Qingzhi Zhu($997,600), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Planar Optical Sensors, Biogenic Structures, Biogeochemical Cycles, Microbial Activity, Redox Reaction, Sensor Images, Activities, Applications, Benthic, Burial, Conceptual, Continue, Cycling, Designed, Developed, Development, Diagenesis, Distributions, Effect, Effects, Examine, Examined, Experiments, HS, Importance, Incorporated, Integrated, International, Measure, Microenvironments, Models, Multiple, Natural, Processes, Quantify, Remineralization, Scaling, Sediment, Sedimentary, Situ, Transport.

Extracellular enzymes in aggregates and contributions of free enzymes to hydrolytic activities: Consequences for organic mater remineralizations in marine systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carol Arnosti($571,035), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Microbial Extracellular Enzymes, Aggregate-associated Microbial, Dissolved Organic, Free Enzymes, Organic Matter, Structural Specificities, Active, Activities, Aggregate-associated, Aggregates, Assess, Carbon, Critical, Differences, Dynamics, Enzymatic, Graduate, Microorganisms, Suggest, Undergraduate.

Determining seasonal and interannual controls on air-sea carbon dioxide flux in a highly productive marginal sea
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Joseph E Salisbury($741,910), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Air-sea, Coastal, Flux, Global, Has, Model, Ocean.

Fe isotope composition of seawater as a tracer for marine Fe sources and biogeochemical cycles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jess F Adkins($369,550), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Cycle, Dissolved, Fe, Marine, Ocean, Particulate, Phytoplankton, Productivity, Worlds.

Development of sequential injection analaysis (SIA) techniques for trace element determinations in oceanography
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher I Measures($296,379), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Sequential Injection Analysis, Adaptation, FIA, Iron, Method, Methodology, Plan, Trace.

Kinetics of Inorganic Sulfide Mineral Oxidation in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael A McKibben($163,268), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Mineral Surface, Sulfide Mineral, Chemical, Nature, Oceanic, Oxidation, Rates, Reactors, Seafloor, Seawater, Student.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Atmospheric Deposition on the Distribution and Speciation of Trace Elements in the Upper Ocean - Focus on Iron in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter N Sedwick($109,521), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Aerosol Fe Concentrations, Concentration And Speciation, Aerosol Sampler, Buoy-mounted Aerosol, Sargasso Sea, Surface Waters, Aeolian, Atmospheric, Autonomous, Bermuda, Buoy-mounted, Delaware, Dissolved, Input, Iron, Model, Nm, Ocean, Sampling, Solubility, Spring, Student, Summer.

Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($286,220), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Isotope Ratio, Mass Spectrometer, Analyses, Analysis, COFS, Existing, Faculty, Failure, Graduate, Increase, Instrument, Laboratory, Oceanography, Rely, Students, Teaching, Undergraduate, Washington.

Collaborative Research: Photodegradation of Dissolved Organic Matter and its Contribution to Surface Water CO2 fluxes and the Carbon Cycle in a River Dominated Ocean Margin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ronald Benner($188,413), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Ronald Benner($253,787), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Coupled Photochemical-microbial Carbon, River Dominated Margins, Carbon Fluxes, Co2 Fluxes, Coupled Photochemical-microbial, Mexico Margin, Northern Gulf, Ocean Margin, Ocean Margins, Photochemical-microbial Carbon, Surface Waters, Terrigenous Dom, Approach, Assessments, Biological, CDOM, Classes, DOC, Estimates, Graduate, Has, Highly, Importance, Opportunity, Processes, Programs, Regional-scale, Removal, Student, Undergraduate.

Nitrogen Isotope and N2/Ar Biogeochemistry of the Peru Suboxic Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark A Altabet($405,428), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Oceanic Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrogen Isotope, Suboxic Waters, Gas, Isotopic, Margin, Oceans, Peru, Peruvian, Sink.

The California Current transition zone off northern and central California: an extensive region exhibiting Fe-limitation and moderate chlorophyll
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth W Bruland($680,298), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Cc Transition Zone, Northern And Central, California Current, Fe Limitation, Phytoplankton Biomass, Time Scales, Coastal, Drawdown, Nitrate, Offshore, Regards, Regions, Shelf, Upwelling, Waters.

Persistence and Fate of Domoic Acid in the Santa Barbara Basin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($499,383), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Da Toxicity, Pseudo-nitzschia Blooms, Santa Barbara, South Carolina, Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia, Vertical Transport, Water Column, Algal, California, Coast, Coastal, Collections, Core, Demise, HAB, Harmful, Marine, Program, Pseudo-nitzschia, Regional, School, Sediment, Sediments, Species, Students, Surface.

Acquisition/upgrade of alpha spectrometry facility
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. J Kirk Cochran($36,120), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Suny Stony Brook, Alpha Spectrometry, Quad Alpha, Activities, Carbon, Cycle, Equipment, Failed, Oceans.

Collaborative Research: Global Ocean Repeat Hydrography, Carbon, and Tracer Measurements, 2009-2014
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($5,805,375), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. James H Swift($3,961,587), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. William M Smethie($8,054,344), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Heat And Freshwater, Carbon Dioxide, Model Calibration, Quality Control, Advances, Anthropogenic, Assess, Circulation, Climate, Continue, Continued, Dissolved, Fluxes, Global, Hydrographic, International, Ocean, Oceans, Parameters, Pco, Program, Quantifying, Rapid, Resource, Salinity, Sections, Storage, Studies, Systematic, Temperature, Training, Transport, Uptake, Water.

Collaborative Research: Net Carbon Transport and Reaction in the bottom Boundary Layer of an Upwelling Margin
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. David T Ho($380,846), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Bottom Boundary Layer, Iron And Methane, Air-sea Gas, Ocean Interior, Water Column, Activities, Adult, Atmosphere, Carbon, Coastal, Field, Net, Oregon, Organic, Program, Rates, Reaches, Reaction, Students, Transport.

Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Maureen Conte($1,374,485), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Biogeochemical Observations, Climatic Forcing, Deep Fluxes, Deep Ocean, Applied, Archive, Atlantic, Bermuda, Biological, Climate, Continue, Evidence, Experiences, Fluctuations, Future, Has, Interactions, Invaluable, Mooring, OFP, Opportunities, Processes, Provided, Time-series, Unique.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Richard B Forward($334,724), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Coastal And Estuarine, Marine Laboratory, Pivers Island, Reu Site, Beaufort, DUML, Foot, Ocean, Students.

REU Site: Bridge to Research in Marine Sciences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Tara Cox($291,434), Savannah State University, Savannah
Key terms: Ethics, Focus, Georgia, Marine, Program, REU, Report, Savannah, Seminar, Student, Students, Summer, Weeks, Writing, Written.

Research Experience in Marine Science and Marine Biology in the Gulf of Mexico and other Coastal Oceans at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG-REU)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. William Seitz($301,754), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Efforts, Field, National, Program, REU, Recruiting, Student, Students, Summer, TAMU, TAMUG, UT.

REU Site: Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in the Blue Water Environments of Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. F. Gerald Plumley($345,728), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Bermuda Institute, Atlantic, BIOS, Ocean, Opportunities, Program, REU, Seminar, Specific, Students, Topics, Travel.

REU Site: Aquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Tech
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Julia Kubanek($397,151), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aquatic, Chemical, Cues, Ecological, Environments, Interactions, Processes, Program, Students.

CAREER: Origins of high Indo-West Pacific marine biodiversity: the role of allopatric divergence in marine environments.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Paul H Barber($91,938), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Malucca And Flores, Pelagic Larval Dispersal, Allopatric Divergence, Flores Seas, Marine Biodiversity, Marine Environments, Marine Scientists, Undergraduate Educational, Activities, Biology, Courses, Creation, Efforts, Evolutionary, Experiences, Explicitly, Foundation, Genetic, Genetics, Has, IWP, Identifying, Increase, Isolated, Management, Molecular, Opportunities, Populations, Processes, Regional, Species, Techniques, Theory, Training.

Collaborative Research: ETBC: The coupling between DOM, algae, and microbes on coral reef platforms
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Craig A Carlson($339,737), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Forest Rohwer($753,508), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
3. James J Leichter($710,058), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coral Disease Prevalence, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Degraded Reefs, Dissolved Organic, Microbial Food, Reef Degradation, Semi-labile Doc, Water Column, Abundance, Algal, Biomass, Characterization, Characterized, Chemical, Concentrations, Cover, DOM, Determined, Exudates, Has, Level, Levels, Low, Lower, Metagenomic, Observed, Offshore, Pathogens, Previous, Semi-labile, Shift, Similar, Spp, Standing, Students, Super-heterotrophs, Surface, Video.

Collaborative Research: ETBC: Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses (ANACONDAS)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Patricia L Yager($415,690), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Deborah K Steinberg($399,581), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Edward J Carpenter($389,822), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
4. Joseph P Montoya($393,953), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
5. Victoria J Coles($447,780), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
6. JOAQUIM I GOES($333,261), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
7. William M Berelson($1,001,751), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Amazon River Plume, Biological Pump, Co2 Drawdown, Tropical River, Aggregation, Atlantic, Context, Ddas, Ecology, Education, Export, Fate, Field, Flux, Grazing, Hypothesize, Modeling, Ocean, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Previous, Processes, Public, Quantify, Responsible, Sensitivity, Sequestration, Si, Sinking, Surface, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research ETBC: Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Physical Mechanisms Underlying Deposition, Degradation and Preservation of Marine Organic Carbon
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Arndt Schimmelmann($594,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Daniel J Repeta($413,516), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Daniel H Rothman($350,230), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
4. Richard H Bennett($398,577), SEAPROBE, Inc., Picayune
5. Kenneth Curry($236,973), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Carbon Burial, Fossil Fuel, Organic Matter, Allows, Atmospheric, Degradation, Global, Increase, Involves, Sediments.

ETBC Collaborative Research: Feedbacks between nutrient enrichment and intertidal sediments: erosion, stabilization, and landscape evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Robinson W Fulweiler($897,134), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading, Nutrient Enrichment, Blooms, Coastal, Ecosystem, Erosion, Field, Has, Increased, Landscape, Managers, Variety.

ETBC: Cyanobacterial hopanoids: Function, Natural Distribution and Significance in the Marine Geologic Record
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Roger Summons($502,413), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Biological, Chemical, Class, Compounds, Institute, Marine, Measure, Nitrogen, Organisms, Potential.

ETBC: Collaborative Research: Controls on the Flux, Age, and Composition of Terrestrial Organic Carbon Exported by Rivers to the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Wilfred M Wollheim($842,431), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
2. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink($1,457,441), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole, Bangladesh, Based, Broader, Canada, Carbon, China, Congo, Exhibition, Lena, Republic, River, Sites, Spatial, Students, Temporal.

University of Hawaii Oceanographic Instrumentation 2009
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Timothy McGovern($259,019), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Requests.

The evolution of life histories in geminate echinoderms: a comparative approach to unscrambling the relationships among environment, egg size, and the energetics of development.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Amy Moran($441,054), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Egg Energy, Egg Size, Larval Development, Life History, Marine Organisms, Affect, Aspects, Assumptions, Comparative, Composition, Developmental, Directly, Ecological, Eggs, Evolution, Evolutionary, Food, Growth, Has, Larvae, Models, Principle, Public, Resource, Species, Total, Web, Wiki.

CAREER: Swash Zone Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jack A Puleo($444,229), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Swash-zone Sediment Transport, Bedload Transport, Swash Zone, Swash-zone Sediment, Beach, Boundary, Coastal, Layer, Level, Near, Outreach, Predictive, Processes, School, Sea, Shoreline, Students, Wave.

Exploring the adaptation and acclimatization potentials of tropical reef corals to Global Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty($385,984), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
Key terms: National And International, Australian Scientists, Coral Reefs, Coral Species, Coral Symbioses, Gene Expression, Global Climate, Global Environmental, Global Warming, Thermal Tolerance, Acclimatization, Adapt, Capacity, Corals, Ecology, Effort, Facing, Field, Future, GCC, Generated, Genetic, Has, Initiative, Laboratory, Lafayette, Level, Louisiana, Mechanisms, Molecular, Planet, Potential, Rapid, Respond, Selection, Students, Temperature, Training.

Collaborative Research: Defining locations and patch sizes for slow earthquake ruptures in subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Heather R DeShon($83,376), University of Memphis, Memphis
2. Susan L Bilek($110,334), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
3. E.Robert Engdahl($24,449), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Slow Earthquakes, Generating, Pis, Slip, Subduction, Zone.

RAPID: Tsunami Reconnaissance of the 29 September 2009 American Samoa and Samoa Islands Earthquake
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: Geotechnical Engineering and M

1. Hermann M Fritz($60,570), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Earthquake, Education, Tsunami, Warnings.

Central Management and Planning for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2004; Program: INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROG

1. Kiyoshi Suyehiro($166,539,343), IODP MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL, INC, Washington
Key terms: Central Management Office, Commingled International Funds, Integrated Ocean Drilling, Legal And Financial, Multiple Drilling Platforms, Nsf And Mext, Ocean Drilling Program, Assume Legal, Centralized Management, Diversity Activities, Drilling Operations, European Consortium, Financial Responsibility, Iodp Vessels, Management Structure, Mission Specific, Vesseldrilling Operations, Advisory, Agreed, Alliance, Arctic, CMO, Chikyu, Climate, Composed, Contractor, Corporation, Countries, Crust, DSDP, Deep, Drillship, Earth, Educational, Environmental, Examine, France, Funding, Has, Heavy, IMI, Inc, JOI, Japan, Japanese, Leading, Light, Membership, Not-for-profit, ODP, Objectives, Occasional, Oceanographic, Outreach, Phase, Planning, Primary, Representatives, Represented, Requirement, Sampling, Separate, Services, Terminated.

Support for International Research Projects and Working Groups Through SCOR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward R Urban($1,463,901), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Activities, Coordination, Ecosystem, Global, International, Issues, NSF, National, Ocean, Oversight, Provided, SCOR, Sscs.

Ship Operations Weatherbird II
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: ITR FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

1. Ronald H Harelstad($17,321,852), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Rv Weatherbird Ii, Weatherbird Ii Operations, Ocean Flux, Oceanographic Time-series, Public Outreach, Ship Operations, Access, Atlantic, BATS, BBSR, BTM, Bermuda, Climate, Contribute, Days, Education, Efforts, Global, Has, Hydrostation, Issues, NSF, OFP, Programs, Sea, Station, Time-series, Training, Vessel.

Collaborative Research: A 3D Seismic Study of the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary in Southern California
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Monica D Kohler($253,324), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Local Earthquake, Offshore Faults, Pacific Plate, Plate Boundary, San Andreas, Southern California, Western North, Activities, Activity, Background, Catalog, Center, Continent, Crust, Deformation, Driving, Experiment, Extends, Forces, Half, History, Mantle, Microplates, Nshore, OBS, Oceanic, Pacific-north, Process, Properties, Seismic, Seismicity, Students, Tectonic.

Collaborative research: RUI: Seismicity and 3-D velocity structure of Lo`ihi submarine volcano
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach($193,543), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Clifford H Thurber($89,511), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Internal Structure, Introductory Geophysics, Submarine Volcano, Active, Activity, Has, Hawaiian, Hot, Image, Lo`ihi, Lo`ihis, Perform, Quality, Seismic, Seismicity, Tomographic, Undergraduate, Volcanism.

Expanding Diversity in the Aquaitc Sciences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Benjamin E Cuker($755,352), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Active Participation, Annual Meetings, Aslo Meetings, Graduate Students, Minority Students, Aquatic, Attend, Cohorts, Degrees, Faculty, Hampton, Law, Minorities, Participant, Participants, Participated, Phd, Program, Programs, Special.

Enhanced Engagement by Scientists for Broader Societal Impacts
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jessica Kastler($576,332), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Broader Impacts Activities, Broader Societal Impacts, Education And Outreach, Effective Practices, Available, COSEE, Convey, Educators, Effort, Electronic, Engaging, Methods, Ocean, Programs, Public, Resources, Students.

Linking infaunal hydraulic activities, porewater flow and biogeochemical processes in marine sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Charles R Lovell($591,351), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, Grad School, Hydraulic Activities, Infauna Contribute, Microbial Activity, Undergraduate Students, Analyzed, Animals, Availability, Behaviors, Benthic, Bio-advection, Bio-advective, Combination, Conditions, Diversity, Ecology, Exercise, Feedbacks, Field, Fields, Habitats, Has, Increase, Infaunal, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Meetings, Porewater, Processes, Program, Robolugs, Sediment, Sediments, Significantly, Transient, Weekly.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2009 EM-302
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. William S Wilcock($656,204), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: EM, Gravimeter, Instrumentation, Thompson.

REU Site Proposal: Environmental research to support management of human (especially military) activities on coastal barriers and nearby estuaries in North Carolina
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Stephen R Fegley($197,803), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, Coastal Regions, North Carolina, Reu Program, Activities, Effort, Habitats, Has, IMS, Individual, Information, Integrating, Maintaining, Management, Natural, Site, Specific, Students.

Assessing Wind-driven Circulation Variability in the Subtropical N. Atlantic Using an Array of Archived Radiocarbon Records
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Brad E Rosenheim($255,073), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Short Instrumental, Atlantic, Climate, Spatially, Stcs, Transport.

Changing Phytoplankton Trace Metal Requirements in a High CO2 Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Sergio A Sanudo-Wilhelmy($428,461), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Trace Metal Quotas, Natural Phytoplankton, Trace Metals, Anthropogenic, Biogeochemistry, Changing, Experiments, Future, Global, Has, Increases, Iron, Marine, Ocean, Past, Pco, Programs, Relation, Requirements, Shifts, USC.

The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT): Sustaining ocean ecosystem and climate observations in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Matthew Church($6,201,878), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Monthly Hot Cruises, Students And Teachers, Hot Program, Hot Scientists, North Pacific, Ocean Carbon, Ocean Ecosystem, Biogeochemical, C-MORE, Center, Changing, Climate, Cycle, Dynamics, Ecological, Education, Environmental, Fluxes, Future, Graduate, Habitat, Hawaii, Influence, Infrastructure, Leadership, Long-term, NPSG, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Oceans, Opportunities, Oscillation, Own, Perturbations, Ph, Platform, Predicting, Processes, Programs, Properties, Pursue, Required, School, Structure, Time, Training, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Coastal and Nearshore Marine Systems of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. John F Valentine($258,552), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
Key terms: Dauphin Island, DISL, Ecology, Faculty, Field, Graduate, Gulf, History, Independent, Marine, Opportunities, Participants, Program, Recruit, Sea, Students.

CAREER: Causes for the Indian Ocean Vertical Warming Structure and its Decadal Change during Recent Decades
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Weiqing Han($610,286), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Indian Ocean Warming, Vertical Warming Structure, Weaker Warming Underneath, Complex Vertical, Graduate Education, Intellectual Merit, Model Experiments, Warming Trend, Achieve, Analyzed, Atmospheric, Climate, Colorado, Contribute, Cooling, Decadal, Effects, Has, Ii, In-depth, Insight, Inter-decadal, Interns, OGCM, Objectives, Participation, Processes, Program, SOARS, Students, Surface, Thermocline, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Shoaling of Non-Linear Internal Waves over Gentle Slopes: Wave-Scale Interactions and Dissipative Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Peter J Diamessis($646,700), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Benthic Boundary Layer, Nliw-induced Benthic Boundary, Ocean And Lakes, South China Sea, Basic Physics, Close Comparison, Flow Fields, Nliw-induced Benthic, School Students, Trapped Cores, Wave Shoaling, Aims, Computational, Computing, Course, Dissipation, Dissipative, Educational, Energy, Engineering, Future, Graduate, Initiate, Internal, Large-scale, Methods, Model, Modeling, Nliws, Numerical, Oceanographic, Small-scale, Transformations, Transport, Turbulent, Water, Wave-scale, Waves.

MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Melting of Carbonate-bearing Sediments in Subduction Zones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Rajdeep Dasgupta($266,942), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Cornelia Class($54,229), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Subduction Factory, Mass, Melting, Sediments.

MARGINS: Central American Magmatic Volatile Histories as Recorded by Apatite Phenocrysts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Craig E Manning($338,226), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Apatite Volatile Barometry, Apatite Phenocrysts, Costa Rica, Melt Inclusions, Pre-eruptive Magmatic, Volatile Contents, Volatile Histories, Barometer, Boyce, CAVA, Central, Cl, Compositions, Developing, Eruption, Experiments, Has, Hazards, Hervig, Irazú, Local, Magmas, Pre-eruptive, Processes, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

CAREER: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Nitrogen-Cycling Microbial Communities Across Physicochemical Gradients in the San Francisco Bay Estuary
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christopher A Francis($522,691), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Time And Space, Environmental Gradients, Activities, Ammonia, Ammonia-oxidizing, Approaches, Bay, Biogeochemical, Complex, Coupled, Course, Cultivation, Denitrification, Diversity, Effects, Encoding, Estuaries, Estuarine, Estuary, Focused, Genes, Importance, Influenced, Intensive, Microbial, N-cycling, Nitrate, Nitrification, Nitrite, Nitrogen, Physicalchemical, Processes, Redwood, San, School, Spatial, Students, Temporal, Underlying.

The Genetics of Innate Immunity and Disease Resistance in Reef-Building Corals
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Steven Vollmer($440,250), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Natural Disease Resistance, Resistant And Susceptible, Susceptible Staghorn Corals, Disease Exposure, Innate Immunity, Reef-building Corals, Act, Caribbean, Cervicornis, Conservation, Diseases, ESA, Especially, Exposed, Gene, Genes, Genetic, Genome, Host, Host-pathogen, Knowledge, Markers, Populations, Students, Survey, Threatened, Transcriptome, Tropical, WBD.

Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water mass formation and distribution: an observational-model synthesis using a Southern Ocean state estimate
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Lynne D Talley($374,991), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Antarctic Intermediate Water, Observations And Model, Samw And Aaiw, Southern Ocean Circulation, Flux Products, Forcing Fields, Horizontal Resolution, Mode Water, Ocean Interior, Subantarctic Mode, Water Mass, Air-sea, Assimilates, Available, Climate, Compare, Comparison, Eddy, Estimate, Fluxes, Formation, Global, Influence, Lateral, Literature, Numerical, Observational, Pacific, Plan, Previous, Processes, Properties, SOSE, Surface, Tropical, °.

Understanding how global warming will select for zooxanthellae phenotypes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Paul G Falkowski($606,694), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Coral Reef Health, Genetic Diversity, Heat Stress, Activities, Bleaching, Corals, Genotype, Has, Hosts, Organisms, Photosynthetic, Process, Releasing, Strains, Symbiodinium, Zooxanthellae.

RUI: High throughput culturing and ecophysiological analyses of low light adapted Prochlorococcus ecotypes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Lisa Moore($445,331), University of Southern Maine, Portland
Key terms: Ll Adapted Prochlorococcus, Adapted Clades, Hl Adapted, Phylogenetic Clades, Abundant, Biogeochemical, Characteristics, Deposited, Distinct, Distributions, Ecological, Ecotype, Ecotypes, Information, Isolates, Marine, Phototroph, Physiological, Populations, Sequences, Specific, Student, Worlds.

System Integration Contractor for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2003; Program: International Ocean Discovery

1. David Divins($609,772,535), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Drilling Program, Drilling Operations, Drilling Platforms, Earth's Climate, Texas Aandm, Concentrate, Continent, Continuing, Contract, Contractor, Conversion, Crust, DSDP, Deep, Drillship, Energy, Examine, Funding, Global, Has, Heavy, IODP, Initial, JOI, Lamont-doherty, Mantle, Mass, Million, NSF, ODP, Objectives, Oceanic, Oceans, Phase, Plan, Planning, Primary, Processes, Produced, Rates, Rifting, Rock, Sampling, Sediment, Sediments, Services, Tectonic, Terminated, Thousand, Time, Transfer, Vessel.

Development of a Greenhouse Gas Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Sensor with MEMS-based Photoacoustic Technology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eugene A Terray($1,104,321), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Gas Concentration, Highly Sensitive, Trace Gases, Absorption, Combination, Direct, EC, Fast, Flux, Fluxes, IR, Ireland, Oceanographic, Pis, Sensitivity, Sensor, Sensors.

Atmospheric Deposition Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Adina Paytan($514,568), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Atmospheric Deposition, Hands-on Inquiry-based, Aerosol, Aerosols, Chemical, Coastal, Composition, Contribution, Course, Ecosystem, Education, Educational, Effects, Fluxes, Future, Global, Graduate, Hands-on, Inquiry-based, Ocean, Phytoplankton, School, Specific, Students, Taxa, Undergraduate, Underrepresented.

CMG Collaborative Research: Multiscale Modeling of the Coupling between Langmuir Turbulence and Submesoscale Variability in the Oceanic Mixed Layer
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Baylor Fox-Kemper($473,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Eric D'Asaro($471,000), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Gregory Chini($451,010), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Climate Models, Floats Deployed, Ipcc-class Ogcms, Langmuir Turbulence, Lateral Mixing, Upper Ocean, Analysis, Applied, Approach, Asymptotic, Compared, Coupled, Difficult, Disciplines, Dominated, Driven, Dynamics, Embedded, Energy, Equations, Existing, Gradients, Ipcc-class, LES, Modeling, Multiscale, Oceanography, Parameterizations, Predictions, Processes, Reduced, Regions, Submesoscale, Surface, Tending, Theoretical, Theory, Turbulent, Vertical.

CMG Collaborative Research: Particle Filters and Ecological Models (PFEM): Application of chainless Monte-Carlo methods to mapping the ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Yvette H Spitz($817,005), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Alexandre J Chorin($282,996), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Assimilation Techniques, Coupled Model, Highly Nonlinear, Markov Chain, Monte-carlo Particle, Parameter Estimates, Particle Methods, Probability Density, Prohibitively Expensive, Remotely Sensed, Variational Methods, World Ocean, Applicable, Assessment, Bayesian, Chainless, Climate, Complexity, Distribution, Ecological, Ecosystem, Future, Gaussian, Information, Interannual, Interdisciplinary, Modeling, Models, Monte-carlo, Non-linear, Observations, Particles, Reflect, Resampling, Species, Structure.

MRI: Acquisition of a Mass Spectrometric System for Determination of Biogeochemical Fluxes Between the Atmospheric and Marine Environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alexander Orlov($623,118), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Marine And Atmospheric, Isotopic Composition, Mass Spectrometer, Allow, Carbon, Chemical, Emissions, Ice, Instrumentation, Organic, Pis, Processes, Program.

MRI: Acquisition of Stable Isotope Instrumentation for the Biogeosciences at Princeton University
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Daniel M Sigman($516,086), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Isotope Mass Spectrometer, Stable Isotope Mass, Natural Abundance, Biogeochemistry, Capabilities, Carbon, Enable, Expand, Instrumentation, Instruments, Method, Ocean, Peripherals, Pis, Thermo, Tracer.

MRI-Consortium: Acquisition of a Shipboard Sorting High Speed Flow Cytometer for Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Giacomo R DiTullio($1,274,295), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Sorted Marine, South Carolina, Algal, Cell, Cytometer, Efforts, Facility, Instrumentation, Shipboard, Species.

MRI: Acquisition of a Hitachi S-3400N-II SEM and an INCA E250 EDX System for the microanalysis of sediments and biological material
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ivano W Aiello($204,485), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Bay, Examining, Instrumentation, Microbial, Pis, San, Student.

Collaborative Proposal: Influence of plate boundary evolution and global mantle flow on ridge geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Laurent Montesi($299,970), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Clinton P Conrad($39,387), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Lithosphere Beneath, Mid-ocean Ridges, Flow, Global, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Models.

Dredging rocks from a large volcanic flow in the Bismarck volcanic arc, Papua New Guinea
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Eli A Silver($38,589), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Carry, Days, Dredge, Flow, Guinea, Papua, Transit.

Operation of the Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the Marine Geosciences Community
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John A Collins($1,310,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Earthquakes.

Enhancement and Maintenance of the Marine Seismic Processing System SIOSEIS
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Henkart($106,925), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Applications, Basic, Has, Marine, Processing, SIOSEIS, Seismic, Tool.

EAGER: Exploratory research in non-Fourier tidal analysis of hydrothermal time series
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Adam Schultz($105,619), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Forcing Functions, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Approach, Fluid, Land, Ocean, Ridge, Software.

High and Low-Latitude Controls on the Mean Position of the Atlantic ITCZ (0-150 ka BP)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter DeMenocal($366,010), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate, Emergence, Excursions, Global, ITCZ, North, Position, Radiation, Sensitivity, Subtropics.

Holocene climate change in the high latitudes of the North American continent: reconstruction of vegetation and fire histories using Hudson Bay sediment records
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Miguel A Goni($384,969), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Boreal Forest, Climate, Expansion, Holocene, Periods, Wildfire.

Collab. Research: Decadal Scale Patterns in Hurricane Activity Over the Last Several Millennia: Exploring Geographic Patterns and Climatic Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jonathan Woodruff($57,960), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Jeffrey Donnelly($252,650), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hurricane Frequency, Hurricane Landfall, Climate, Coastal, Trends.

Collaborative Research: Linking stress changes and hydrothermal activity during a non-eruptive spreading event
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William S Wilcock($201,008), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($177,576), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Hydrothermal Circulation, Regional Spreading, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Floor, Magmatic, Ocean, Processes, Ridges, Stress.

MARGINS Successor Planning Workshop
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Geoffrey A Abers($179,544), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Community-wide Workshop, Continental Margins, Economic Resources, Successor Program, Based, Broad, Coherent, Community-wide, Coupled, Environmental, February, Field, Focused, Future, Geologic, Hazards, Integrated, Investigations, MSC, Plan, Processes, Range, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Determination of Trace Element Partition Coefficients Between Anorthitic Plagioclase and MORB
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. A. Dana Johnston($178,006), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Roger L Nielsen($90,037), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Amount, Composition, Crust, Crystals, Designed, HO, Heat, Magma, Magmatic, Mantle, Minerals, Plagioclase, Pressure, Pressures, Processes, Temperature, Zones, Zoning.

Student and Young Investigator Support for the 10th International Conference on Paleoceanography
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher D Charles($42,465), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Icp Meeting, Held, Paleoceanography, Students.

Archiving the Karen Von Damm Legacy Hydrothermal Fluid Collection
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Linda H Kalnejais($123,195), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Von Damm, Collected, Crust, EPR, Fluid, Fluids, Hydrothermal, Ocean, Prior, Time, Vent.

A synthesis of Indian and U.S. geophysical data to investigate the structure and tectonics of the Andaman Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Leonardo Seeber($307,236), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Boundary, Convergence, Indian, Plate.

Collaborative Research: Establishing a U.S. Marine Heat Flow Capability
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew T Fisher($48,852), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Robert N Harris($196,225), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heat Flow Capability, Facility, Importance.

MORB Construction Processes: Plutonic to Volcanic Connections in Plagioclase Ultraphyric Basalts (PUBs)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Roger L Nielsen($357,424), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mid Ocean, Oceanic Crust, Basalts, Composition, Compositions, Geochemical, MORB, Mantle, Processes, Textural, Trace.

Temperature recorded in DNA and soft-tissue biomass: Implications for the deep-sea biosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ruth E Blake($361,286), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Extreme Environments, Oxygen Isotope, DNA, Growth, Life, Phosphate, Rate, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Sediment Sources, Transport Mechanisms, and Fluxes in a Coastal Plain Estuary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher K Sommerfield($377,740), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Robert J Chant($388,732), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Sediment Flux, Channel, Deposition, Estuary, Transport, Trapping.

Collaborative, RUI: Plume-Ridge Interaction in the Northern Galapagos: Understanding mantle-lithosphere dynamics through geochemistry, geophysical mapping, and gravity modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Karen S Harpp($215,998), Colgate University, Hamilton
2. Daniel J Fornari($404,191), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mantle Plumes, Mid-ocean Ridges, Archipelago, Collected, Conservation, Essential, Galapagos, Galápagos, Information, Mid-ocean, Responsible, Rock, Seafloor, Tectonic.

Effect of Melt Supply on MORB Compositions at Local and Regional Scales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenna H Rubin($356,191), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Earth's Interior, Compositions, Dates, Determined, Erupted, Heat, Magma, Radiogenic, Rock, Seafloor, Surface, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Climate System Sensitivity to Ice Age Orbital Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David Pollard($219,472), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Christopher J Poulsen($245,660), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Earth's Orbit, Orbit-climate Link, Orbital Forcing, Developed, Glacial, Insolation, Model, Orbit-climate, Pis, Plio-pleistocene.

Holocene paleomagnetic record and observations on magnetic acquisition from North Atlantic sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph S Stoner($332,329), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Northern North Atlantic, Holocene Geomagnetic, Cores, Paleomagnetic, Synthesis.

Collaborative Research: The dynamics of sediment-laden river plume and initial deposition off small mountainous rivers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Wayne R Geyer($392,596), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu($450,361), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Convective Instability, Enhanced Cstms, Hyperpycnal Flows, Montane Rivers, Rans Model, Sediment Deposition, Sediment Transport, Sediment-laden Plume, Surface Waves, Theoretical Formulation, Undergraduate Scholars, Based, Comprehensive, Dynamics, Field, Fine, Global, Importance, Interaction, Mechanisms, Modeling, Models, Outflows, Processes, Programs, Sediment-laden, Sediment-transport, Stratified, Students, UD, Vertical.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Numerical Modeling of Coupled Magma-Hydrothermal Processes at Oceanic Spreading Centers Including Magma Replenishment and Phase Separation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert P Lowell($295,331), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Oceanic Spreading Centers, Circulation, Crust, Hydrothermal, Modeling, Models, Processes.

Collaborative research: Isotopic Investigation of Gakkel Ridge peridotites to determine the length scale, origin and age of heterobeneities in the sub-ridge mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Henry J Dick($168,956), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Vincent J Salters($357,312), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Chemical, Determining, Expedition, Mantle, Melting, Mid-ocean, Peridotites, Process, Rock, Seafloor, Students.

Collaborative Research: Thermal Contraction, Oceanic Intraplate Deformation, and Plate Circuit Closure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Gordon($134,791), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Cornelis Kreemer($92,043), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Plate Tectonics, Thermal Contraction, Plates, Rigid.

Using Numerical Models of Poroelastic Fluid Flow to Constrain the Permeability Structure of Young Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy J Crone($152,909), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridges, Copper, Deposits, Earthquakes, Has, Hydrothermal, Mid-ocean, Permeability, Seafloor, Tides.

Collaborative Research: Using Melt Inclusions to Test Models for Wet Melting and Melt Extraction Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alison M Shaw($309,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hosted Melt Inclusions, Olivine Hosted Melt, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Chemistry, Crust, Determining, Environments, Generation, Lavas, Magmatic, Mantle, Melting, Mid-ocean, Processes, Spreading, Volatile.

Lateral Variations in Seismic Structure of Atlantis Massif Oceanic Core Complex
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Graham Kent($232,214), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atlantis Massif, Core Complexes, Oceanic Core, Vertical Resolution, Allow, Analysis, Bodies, Compare, Crust, Detailed, Existing, Intrusive, MCS, Mafic, Model, OBS, OCC, Refraction, Rock, Structural, Structure.

Sampling Galapagos corals for SST trend reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julia E Cole($49,999), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: El Nino, Coral, Corals, ENSO, Galapagos, Living, Past, Region, Student.

Structural control of hydrothermal flow: A comparison between the RIDGE2000 sites and the Iceland spreading centers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey A Karson($159,411), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Crust, Deposits, Distribution, Heat, Hydrothermal, Picture, Sites, Vent.

Degassing During a Seafloor Eruption along the Mid-Ocean Ridge: Helium, Argon and Carbon Isotopes in Basalts from the East Pacific Rise Integrated Study Site
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Graham($180,472), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Noble Gas, Ocean Crust, Amount, Carbon, Degassing, Hydrothermal, Lava, Magmas, Mid-ocean.

Closing the global plate circuit: High resolution reconstructions of African plate motion from 0 to 20 Ma
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dennis C DeMets($161,483), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Plate Motions, Climate, History, Models, North, Russian.

Experimental Study of Iron Partitioning and Hydrogen Generation During Serpentinization of Ultramafic Rocks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas M McCollom($445,062), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Chemical Energy, Generated, Hydrogen, Laboratory, Process, Reaction, Reactions, Serpentinization, Students, Training.

Climate Sensitivity to Obliquity Forcing During the Pliocene Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katharina Billups($175,361), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Heat, Ma, Pacific.

An intergrated physical and chemical model for silica transport and deposition in sub-seafloor magmatic-hydrothermal environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert P Lowell($215,671), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Spreading Centers, Chemistry, Composition, Hydrothermal, Mid-ocean, Mineral, Oceanic, Phase, Seawater, Silica, Sub-seafloor, Transport.

Collaborative Research: SERPENT: Serpentinite, Extension and Regional Porosity Experiment across the Nicaraguan Trench
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel Lizarralde($269,702), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kerry W Key($700,003), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Upper Mantle, Volcanic Eruptions, Amount, Carried, Earthquakes, Fluid, Input, Plates, Poorly, Processes, Subduction, Thin, Water.

Collaborative Research: Hotspot Rift Interaction & Geochemistry of the North Atlantic Mantle: A U.S.-Norwegian Expedition to Sample the Aegir Ridge "Hole" in the Iceland Hots
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Garrett T Apuzen-Ito($162,094), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Barry B Hanan($252,117), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Aegir Ridge, Analyses, Geologic, Norwegian.

Collaborative Research: Temperature reconstruction of the western equatorial Pacific thermocline during the last ~2000 years: a paleo perspective for modern observations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Braddock K Linsley($94,399), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Yair Rosenthal($194,402), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Western Pacific Warm, Late Holocene, Benthic, Calibration, Existing, Foraminifera, Hydrography, Mgca, Seas, Student.

Collaborative Research: Holocene Shell Accumulation from the Southeast Brazilian Bight: Multi-Centennial Dynamics of Oceanographic, Environmental, and Ecological Changes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher S Romanek($11,865), University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
Key terms: Shelf-break And Coastal, Southeast Brazilian Bight, Coastal Upwelling, Shell Accumulation, South Atlantic, Frequency, Holocene, Processes, Western.

A depth transect of sedimentary 231Pa/230Th in the western Atlantic since the last ice age
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($399,223), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atlantic, Glacial.

Collaborative Research: Formation, Reworking and Accumulation of Sedimentary Deposits, Waipaoa River Shelf, New Zealand
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrea Ogston($339,081), University of Washington, Seattle
2. John P Walsh($384,874), East Carolina University, Greenville
3. Courtney K Harris($164,023), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Bottom Tripods, Collect, Collected, Cores, Deposition, Objective, Prior, Processes, Shelf, Sites, Transport.

Tracing the Radiocarbon Signal of the Ocean's CO2 Release During the Last Deglaciation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas M Marchitto($457,981), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Atmospheric D14c, Baja California, D14c Reconstructions, Intermediate Water, Water D14c, DC, Deglacial, Mechanistic, Southern, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Geophysical Constraints on Mechanisms of Ocean Plateau Formation from Shatsky Rise, Northwest Pacific
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jun Korenaga($319,681), Yale University, New Haven
2. John B Diebold($181,739), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Crustal Structure, Shatsky Rise, Tectonic History, Coeval, Formed, Geophysical, Giant, Igneous, MCS, Magnetic, Mantle, Pis, Relation, Spreading, Students, Upper.

Collaborative Research: Serpentinization and cycling of B, Nd and Sr in submarine hydrothermal systems: An experimental study on the effects of pH and temperature
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($179,955), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Michael Bizimis($173,958), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Boron Isotope Fractionation, Collaboration, Crust, Elemental, Examine, Experiments, Geochemical, Hydrothermal, Mineral, Ocean, Ph, Seafloor, Serpentine, Temperature.

Hydrographic and sediment-trap monitoring of anoxic Soledad Basin off Baja California for enhanced climate reconstructions: An interdisciplinary planning workshop
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alexander van Geen($44,200), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Soledad Basin, California, North, Workshop.

Understanding paleo-climate tools: Effects of carbonic anhydrase and Mg on oxygen isotopes in dissolved and solid carbonate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard E Zeebe($248,760), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Carbonic Anhydrase, Magnesium Ions, Oxygen Isotopes, Carbonate, Chemical, Climate, Effects, Equilibrium, Influence, Inorganic, Potential, Processes, Separation, Tool, Water.

Marine Seismic Reflection and Refraction Study of the Salton Trough
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Graham Kent($903,928), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Salton Sea, Structure Beneath, California, Has, Region, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Integrating proxies and Earth System Models to elucidate water cycle dynamics:Did global warming cause an enhanced hydrological cycle in the Eocene?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark Pagani($272,660), Yale University, New Haven
2. Gabriel J Bowen($472,346), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Global Warming, Hydrological Cycle, Climate, Eocene, Pis, Poleward, Programs, Water.

Noble gas studies along the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: Constraining magmatic degassing processes and the origin and lengthscale of mantle hetereogenities
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($369,250), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Noble Gases, Ridge Spreading, Atmosphere, Constraints, Degassing, Evolution, Million, Rates.

Numerical Constraints on the Causes and Processes of Submarine Slope Failure along Active, Passive, and Volcanic Margins
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julia K Morgan($138,767), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Internal Friction, Attempt, Modeling, Shear, Submarine.

Sediment production via landsliding in the Waipaoa: Temporal and spatial variability using InSAR, LiDAR, air photos, and Be-10
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David A Schmidt($326,175), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Basin, Generation, Landslide, Landslide-prone, Local, MARGINS, Sediment, Spatial, Waipaoa, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing deep sea acidification during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James C Zachos($244,989), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Ellen Thomas($173,888), Yale University, New Haven
3. Baerbel Hoenisch($68,185), Columbia University, New York
4. Richard E Zeebe($164,710), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ocean Acidification.

Barbados Sea Level and Radiocarbon Calibration Records
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Fairbanks($497,513), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Sea Level History, Acropora Palmata, Barbados, Coral, Corals, Curve, Dating, Ky, Pis, Radiocarbon, Resolve, U-series.

Deep-sea coral records of past ventilation rate and temperature in the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jess F Adkins($489,006), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Measure Past, Climate, Deep-sea, Technique, Temperatures, Timescales, ÄC.

A M-sequence geomagnetic polarity time scale that minimizes global spreading rate variations and incorporates cyclostratigraphic information
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alberto Malinverno($98,149), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Marine Magnetic Anomaly, M-sequence Gpts, Spreading Rate, Accurate, Assumption, Constant, Cretaceous, Cyclostratigraphy, Late, M-sequence, Polarity, Time.

230Th dynamics in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean: testing the 230Th-normalization method to estimate sediment fluxes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Franco Marcantonio($401,841), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Water Column, Cruise, Flux, Graduate, Pacific, Pis, Sediment, Sedimentary, Th, Transport.

Testing New Paradigms: The Sea Level Record of Past Interglacials
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William Thompson($449,998), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Interglacial Sea-level, Past Interglacial, Sea Levels, Approach, Climate, Sea-level, Stratigraphic.

A Synthesis of the Physical State of the Mantle Wedge in Costa Rica-Nicaragua and Izu-Bonin-Mariana
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alison M Shaw($166,739), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Depth, Flow, MARGINS, Mantle.

Foraminifera as a proxy for seawater neodymium: Core-top calibration and down-core application for reconstructing Holocene variability in the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Yair Rosenthal($180,958), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: South Pacific, Water Mass, Andnd, Assess, Foraminifera, Holocene, ITF, Measured, Proxy, Thermocline, Utility.

RAPID: Deep seismic investigation of Sumatran subduction zone seismic gap
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Suzanne Carbotte($74,527), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Subduction Zone, Mentawai, Sumatran, Tsunami.

Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change; June 15-19, 2009; Columbus, Ohio
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harunur Rashid($20,000), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Discuss, Forcing.

Collaborative Research: Volcanic Eruptions on the Galapagos Spreading Center: Effect of Variable Magma Supply on Eruption and Magma Chamber Processes on Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenna H Rubin($449,168), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Scott M White($175,500), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
3. Julie A Bowles($34,827), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Galapagos Spreading Center, Intermediate-spreading Galapagos Spreading, Intermediate-spreading Galapagos, Magma Supply, Obtain, Processes, Volcanic.

Investigating Upper Mantle Heterogeneity and Partial Melting Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges Using Helium and Argon Isotopes in Abyssal Peridotite, Gabbro and Basalt
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Graham($323,883), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Noble Gases, Chemical, Isotopic, Mantle, Oceanic, Ridge.

Testing the Significance of Melt Inclusions for Ocean Ridge Petrogenesis
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Charles H Langmuir($332,833), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Melt Inclusions, Unusual Compositions, Consistent, Geochemical, Olivine, Ridge, Segment, Trace, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Rapid Response to a Submarine Eruption at W. Mata Volcano
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph A Resing($96,088), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Julie A Huber($29,789), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
3. Kenna H Rubin($95,484), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Erupting Undersea, Hydrothermal Fluids, Compositions, Lava, Unusual, Volcanic, Volcano.

Investigating the Role of Ocean Circulation in Climate Change During the Last Ice Age Using 231Pa/230Th
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($104,152), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean, Circulation, MOC, Path, Water.

Collaborative Research: A Plate Boundary Observatory on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy Dixon($199,743), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Susan Y Schwartz($247,131), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Costa Rica, Slow Slip, Earthquakes, Monitoring, Seismic, Students, Tremor.

MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Institute: Volatiles in the Subduction Factory; Workshop: Mt. Shasta, CA, August 2009
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Geoffrey A Abers($152,026), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Focus, MARGINS, TEI, Workshop.

Collapse of the Submarine South Flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: Constraints from GPS-Acoustic Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. C. David Chadwell($92,055), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Collapse Process, Gps-acoustic Methods, Horizontal Motions, South Flank, Constrained, Earthquakes, Gps-acoustic, Kilauea, Obvious.

Seismic Slip in Oceanic Lithosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Rachel E Abercrombie($393,950), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Sea Floor, California, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Faults, Global, Mitigating, Processes, Strike-slip, Transform.

Stress Transfer Between the Cascadia Megathrust and the Northern San Andreas Fault
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Chris Goldfinger($444,971), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Cascadia Margin, Plate Boundary, Tsunami Hazards, California, Chronologies, Deposits, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Establish, Interaction, Megathrust, Paleoseismic, Produce, Truly.

MARGINS Workshop: Rupturing Continental Lithosphere: Synthesis and New Perspectives; April 2009, South Carolina
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Geoffrey A Abers($106,937), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: California, Exchange, Future, Gulf, Initiative, MARGINS, RCL, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Strombolian eruptions, magma degassing, and hydrothermal discharge at an active submarine arc volcano
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert P Dziak($390,304), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Katharine V Cashman($126,143), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
3. Joseph A Resing($435,784), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Robert W Embley($72,801), NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle
Key terms: Eruption, Explosive, Fluids, Observations, Strombolian, Vent, Volcanic, Volcano.

Dynamics of Oceanic Triple Junctions, Hotspots, and Bathymetric Plateaus
Award Effective Date: 01/31/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jennifer E Georgen($78,443), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Crustal Accretion, Igneous Provinces, Numerical Models, Triple Junctions, Melting, Plate.

Towards Integration and Synthesis of MARGINS S2S Research in PNG and NZ Focus Areas
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven A Kuehl($163,843), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: International Partners, Allow, Focus, Future, Has, Integration, MARGINS, SS, Sites, Synthesis, Waipaoa, Workshop, Zealand.

SGER: Long coring in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific to address key questions of tropical and global climate change
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy D Herbert($108,636), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Coring Capability, Graduate Students, Cores, EEP, Knorr, RV.

Glacial water mass geometry in the South Atlantic: testing neodymium isotopes versus benthic carbon isotopes as paleo-water mass tracers
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katharina Pahnke($326,129), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Water Mass Geometry, Benthic Carbon, Broader Impacts, Carbon Isotope, Carbon Isotopes, South Atlantic, Epsilon-nd, Glacial, Holocene, LGM, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Origin of Crust and the Temporal and Spatial Scales of Mantle Melting at the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Frank C Ramos($112,427), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Ocean Crust, Analytical, Composition, Geochemical, Heterogeneities, Hydrothermal, Impacts, Mantle, Melts, Ridge, Seafloor, Spreading, Students, U-series, Washington.

Pleistocene Sea Level Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 02/13/2008; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Fairbanks($157,174), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Fossil Corals, Sea Level, Dating, Techniques.

Measuring and modeling the impact of ice on surface fluxes, thermal structure and circulation in Lake Erie
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Dmitry Beletsky($606,770), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Concentration And Thickness, Lake Erie Lead, Lake-atmosphere Heat Flux, Mixing And Heat, Central Basin, Decreased Ice, Heat Exchange, Ice Concentration, Ice Concentrations, Ice Cover, Ice Thickness, Increased Ice, Lake-atmosphere Heat, Spatial Heterogeneity, Thermal Structure, Vertical Temperature, Water Temperatures, Circulation, Ecological, Field, Fluxes, Following, Forecasting, Half, Hydrodynamics, Idealized, Lake-effect, Lakes, Model, Momentum, Northern, Observations, Program, Southern, Winter, Winters.

An Investigation of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Kurt L Polzin($3,106,336), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Interior Abyssal Circulation, Interior Flow Field, Structure And Strength, Bermuda Rise, Diapycnal Forcing, Diapycnal Mixing, North Atlantic, Ocean Models, Quantitative Picture, AMOC, Accomplish, Analysis, Basin, Budgets, Buoyancy, Consistency, Construct, Current, Designed, Dynamical, Estimates, Feeds, Fields, Flank, Flows, Fluxes, Geostrophic, Horizontal, Low, Northern, Nutrients, Observed, Poorly, Process, Products, Region, Regional, Topographic, Tracer, Transports, Turbulent, Vertical, Western.

OCEANOGRAPHY: Mountains in the Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($52,500), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Commercial, Current, Ecology, Fisheries, Issues, Magazine, Oceanography, Protection, Seamounts.

Collaborative Research: Nitrogen fixation, nutrient supply and biological production in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Joseph P Montoya($636,893), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Tracy A Villareal($328,180), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Nutrient Dynamics, Riverine Inputs, Advective, Biological, Chemical, Climate, Coastal, Diazotroph, Factors, Forcing, Graduate, Gulf, Land, Limitation, Mexico, Model, N-fixation, Nitrogen, Offshore, Potential, Processes, Regions, Significance, Supplying, Teachers, Temperate, Water, Waters.

A Crossroads of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: The Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Amy S Bower($2,913,796), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Warm And Cold, Cold Limbs, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Primary Objectives, Visually Impaired, AMOC, Array, Basic, CGFZ, Climate, Effort, Flows, Gaps, Has, Low-frequency, Massachusetts, Mid-atlantic, Modeling, Observational, Perkins, Students, Transport, Westward.

Collaborative Research: Zooplankton feeding at the base of the particle maximum: Gatekeepers of the Vertical Flux?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. David M Checkley($545,707), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. George A Jackson($312,657), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
3. Michael J Dagg($141,636), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Biological Pump, Carbon Cycle, Euphotic Zone, Vertical Flux, Abundance, Aggregates, Autonomous, Gatekeepers, Instrument, Particle, Particles, Postdoctoral, SIO, SOLOPC, Sampling, Sinking, Spectra, Student, TAMU, Water, Zooplankton.

Ocean Acidification
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan Park($100,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, Strategic Plan, Adaptation, Advice, Challenges, Committee, Expert, Frame, Interagency, Management, Natural, Resources, Strategies.

Ocean Studies Board Activities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($718,621), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Policy Issues, Board, Dissemination, Engineering, Federal, OSB, Ocean, Ocean-related.

2010 - 2012 Fleet Broadband Operating Support Program Proposal
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Albert F Suchy($2,980,367), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fleet Broadband, FBB, Hiseasnet, Maintenance, Program, Service, Services, Vessels.

Collaborative research: The Tropical Pacific in Glacial-Interglacial Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. John Chiang($194,989), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Ping Chang($33,596), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Tropical Pacific Climate, Glacial Climate, Cycles, Dynamics.

HiSeasNet: Expanding Coverage and Real-Time Data Collection Capabilities for UNOLS Vessels
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jonathan Berger($51,949), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Accelerators, Atlantic, Cost, Hiseasnet.

Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project Office
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Heather Benway($2,246,732), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: International Carbon Cycle, National And International, Programs And Activities, Ocb Activities, Ocb Scientists, Ocb Ssc, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Ocean Carbon, Approach, Broader, Climate, Coordination, Courses, Created, Efforts, Established, Information, Logistical, Newsletter, Office, Opportunities, Outreach, Priorities, Products, Was, Workshops.

Multidecadal to Centennial Scale Variability in the Surface Ocean of the Northern Gulf of Mexico over the Late Holocene
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Terrence M Quinn($341,284), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Mean Annual, Surface Temperature, Gulf, Linked, Mexico, SST, Solar.

Collaborative Research: Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R): Transforming the Academic Fleet Into an Integrated Global Observing System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Suzanne Carbotte($1,387,173), Columbia University, New York
2. Shawn R Smith($711,566), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Stephen P Miller($924,842), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
4. Cynthia Chandler($950,231), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Long-term National, Rolling Deck, Ship Operators, Approach, Costs, Cruise, Development, Documentation, Expedition, Expensive, Facilitate, Fleet, Global, Leverage, Long-term, Ndcs, Preservation, QA, RR, Routinely, Sampling, Sensors, UNOLS, Underway, Vessels.

An Ocean Infrastructure Strategy for U.S. Ocean Research in 2030
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($150,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Infrastructure, Advice, Committee, Current, Facilities, Future, Investments, Nations, Planning, Required, Value, Worldwide.

Collaborative research: A systems biology approach of diatom response to ocean acidification and climate change
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Virginia Armbrust($398,613), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Monica V Orellana($846,025), Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Key terms: Acidification And Climate, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Sequestration, Ocean Acidification, Approach, Biological, Biology, Broader, Cells, Diatoms, Ecosystems, Enable, Expression, Food, Future, Global, Linking, Marine, Model, Oceans, Pseudonana, Regulation, Tools, Training, Worlds.

Evolution of the Philippine Sea Plate: Geochemical and Geochronological Studies of Pre-Oligocene Igneous Rocks
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Rosemary L Hickey-Vargas($81,694), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Ibm Arc, Arcs, Collected, Crust, Development, Evolution, Intrusive, Middle, Possibly, Rock, Unusual, Volcanic.

Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium VI and VII
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Christopher I Measures($275,286), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pods Symposia, Academic, Collaborations, DISCO, Discussion, Field, Future, Individuals, Interaction, Invitees, Issues, Meetings, Oceanographers, Oceanography, October, Participants, Pool, Presentations, Separate, Sessions.

Collaborative Research:Extracting Multi-century Low-latitude Sea Surface Temperatures from Coral Skeletons Using Replicated Records of Annual Growth: Method Refinement&Application
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Braddock K Linsley($104,402), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Delia Oppo($680,666), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coral Growth, Annual, Anthropogenic, Applied, Corals, Error, Estimates, Global, Latitude, Low-latitude, Method, Multiple, Oceans, Period, Pis, Reconstructions, SST, Ssts, Surface, Temperature, Tree, Uncertainties.

Inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrates
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Peter B Flemings($22,500), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Continental Margin, Gas Hydrates, Greenhouse Gas, Natural Gas, Methane, Participation, Workshop.

RAPID: Biologically-mediated methanogenesis and acetogenesis in the hydrothermally altered sediments of the Guaymas Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Samantha B Joye($59,845), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Methane And Acetate, Methanogenesis And Acetogenesis, Carbon Dioxide, Guaymas Basin, Organic Matter, Biologically-mediated, Hydrothermal, Pis, Processes, Producing, Sediments, Thermal.

Muddy Waters: Deep-seated fluid flow processes, seismic faulting and mud volcanism in a mature collision zone
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Michael D Tryon($119,213), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Accretionary Complex, Fluid Flow, Geochemical Analyses, Buttress, Collected, Geotechnical, IODP, Information, Intermediate, Mediterranean, Pore, Processes, Situ, Survey.

Megathrust seismic hazards by reflection mapping
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Mladen Nedimovic($723,708), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismogenic Zone, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Ground, Limit, Reflection, Subduction.

EAGER Collaborative Research: The Basalt-Hosted Biosphere Observatory at North Pond, Advanced Instrumentation for Transformative Science
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Keir Becker($149,154), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. James P Cowen($147,686), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deep Marine Biosphere, Basaltic Basement, Borehole Observatories, Deep Biosphere, Instrument Packages, Marine Sediments, Mid-atlantic Ridge, North Pond, Approaches, Conditions, Corks, Deploy, Drilling, Essential, Exchange, Fluid, Geochemical, Hydrological, IODP, Interfaced, Larger, MARME, Microbial, Microbiological, Mid-atlantic, Nature, Permit, Phase, Program, Rock, Site, Situ, Subseafloor, Thermal, Was.

Climate forcing of Atlantic overturning over the last 3 Myr
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Lorraine Lisiecki($317,113), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Circulation, Isotope, Overturning.

Collaborative Research: Reorganization of deepwater circulation in response to the opening of Southern Ocean passages in the middle/late Eocene (40-33 Ma)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Benjamin S Cramer($120,802), Theiss Research, La Jolla
2. Miriam E Katz($353,398), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Component Water, Ocean Structure, Southern Ocean, Circulation, Development, Eocene, Isotope.

RREADI3- TCS Eruption dating readiness and decadal magmatic timing studies for the EPR ISS
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kenna H Rubin($124,653), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridges, Dating, Earth, Eruption, Mid-ocean, Po, Sites, Submarine, Volcanism.

What are the sources and mechanisms of iron enrichments during oceanic anoxic event 2? - Evidence from iron stable isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Silke Severmann($149,707), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Euxinic Sediments, Isotopic Analyses, Ocean Productivity, Carbon, Dfe, Fe, Hydrothermal, Increased, Inputs, Investigate, Iron, OAEII, Overall, Relative.

Collaborative Research: A 3D seismic investigation of the transition to seismogenic behavior along the southern Costa Rica subduction zone
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kirk D McIntosh($988,186), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Eli A Silver($342,428), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Costa Rica, Plate Boundary, Subduction Zone, Processes, Sliding, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing the Meridional SST Gradient and Climate Conditions of the Early Pliocene
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Ana C Ravelo($192,492), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Alexey Fedorov($202,152), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Coupled Gcms, El Niño-like, Pliocene Climate, Warm Pool, Atmospheric, Conditions, Equator, Factors, Gradient, Investigate, Niño-like, Ocean, Pacific, Proxy, Reconstruct, SST, Subtropics, Temperature, Tropical, Was.

Pb Isotopes in the Southern Ocean: A Study of Pb Systematics and Continental Weathering During the Eocene/Oligocene Transition
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Ellen E Martin($295,809), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Pb Isotopes, Seawater Pb, Southern Ocean, Antarctic, Deep, Information, Input, Local, Sites, Systematics, Water, Weathering.

MARGINS Office Support
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Geoffrey A Abers($580,264), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Margins Office, Outreach Activities, Educational, Program.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, R/V Kilo Moana
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Timothy McGovern($2,462,968), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Rv Kilo Moana, Basic Services, Specialized Services, Khz, Maintain, UNOLS, Vessel.

4th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-based Ecosystems (4th CBE); June 29-July 3, 2009, Okinawa, Japan
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Horst Felbeck($35,973), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Chemicals, International, Symposia.

SGER: IODP Site Survey participation YK-0905, Tectonic and petrologic evolution of Godzilla Mullion
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jonathan E Snow($6,773), University of Houston, Houston
2. Henry J Dick($13,100), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Crustal Formation, Backarc, Detachment, Direct, Exchange, IODP, International, Magma-starved, OCC, Ocean, PVR, Students.

SGER: US-Japan Collaborative Studies of Submarine Mariana Arc Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert J Stern($22,081), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Hydrothermal Activity, Active, Cruise, Exchange, International, Mariana, Students, Submarine, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Advanced models of magma migration at convergent MARGINS
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Marc W Spiegelman($276,065), Columbia University, New York
2. Peter E van Keken($56,164), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Fluids, Models.

Imaging 3D Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Heterogeneity Along the Seismogenic Zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Heather R DeShon($132,513), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Subduction Zone, International.

Ocean Observatories Initiative under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN OBSERV INIT-CONSTRUCTION

1. Timothy J Cowles($105,930,000), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Construction, NSF, OOI, Ocean.

Development of a High-Precision TOC/DOC Analyzer With a nM Detection Limit
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Aron Stubbins($394,749), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Benefits, Concentrations, DOC, Development, Dominion, Global, Instrument, Models, Monitoring, Ocean, Sensitivity, Water.

Conference on The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Arthur N Popper($45,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Activities, Animals, Effects, Fish, Noise, Sounds, Turtle.

A new high pressure liquid chromatography system for in situ measurements in marine pore waters
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Donald B Nuzzio($666,302), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Marine Sediments, Pore Waters, Redox Species, Cations, HPLC, Has, Instrument, Involved, Mixing, Past, Pis, Processes, Reduction, Situ, Students, Technology, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: High Resolution Bacterial Mat Sampler for Operation with Deep Submergence Vehicles
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. David Emerson($115,372), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. John A Breier($292,354), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Microbial Mat, Microbial Mats, Deep-sea, Design, Ecosystems, Ocean, Pis, Sampler, Sampling, Variety.

Development and deployment of a swarm of mini-floats for studying coastal physical and biological dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Peter J Franks($914,696), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coastal, Component, Mini-floats, Ocean, Pis, Plankton, Resolution, Students, Vehicles.

Carbon Flux Explorer Development
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James K Bishop($1,819,156), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Carbon Flux, Activities, CFE, Cfes, Deployments, Depths, Developed, Development, Education, Environment, Issues, OST, Ocean, PIC, POC, Particulate, Poorly, Potential, Public, Real, Real-time, Sedimentation, Society, Technology, Time, Via.

CORK Optical Telemetry System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Maurice A Tivey($723,372), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Optical Communications, Borehole, CORK, CORK-OTS, Education, Enhance, Infrastructure, Instrumented, Monitoring, OTS, Pacific, Pis, Plan, Rates, Seafloor, Technology, Underwater.

Collaborative Research: Developing and Improving Scripps Shallow Water Mapping Capability
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Graham Kent($1,316,890), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Steven G Schock($676,321), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Mapping Capability, Subbottom Imaging, Build, CHIRP, Coastal, Coverage, Depth, Driscoll, Environmental, Generation, Has, High-resolution, Increasing, Multibeam, Penetration, Range, Resolution, SAS, Scripps, Seafloor, Sediment, Shallow-water, Subsurface, Swath, Training, Water, °.

Development of a Robust, High Speed, Underwater Optical Communications System for Ocean Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James C Preisig($2,523,471), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Visible Band, Acoustic, Auvs, Capability, Communication, Communications, Development, Latency, Limited, Networks, Operations, Optical, Rates, Rovs, Sensors, Speed, Transfer, Underwater, Vehicles, Vessels, Video, Water, Waters.

RAPID: Seamount research with Eye-in-the-Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Edith A Widder($40,651), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bruce Robison, Costa Rica, Marine Reserve, Miles South, National Geographic, Sylvia Earle, Advantage, Cocos, Collect, Conservation, Discovery, EITS, Exceptional, Expedition, Eye-in-the-sea, Has, Low-cost, Opportunity, Public, Seamount, Seamounts, Species.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Integration of the Capillary Waveguide Biosensor (CWB) with the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP): Detection of microorga
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Josephine Y Aller($213,884), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Paul F Kemp($19,892), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Christopher A Scholin($25,537), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: CWB, CWB-ESP, Field, Pis, Students.

Construction and Deployment of a Seafloor Drift-Corrected Pressure Gauge for Deformation Observation at Axial Volcano
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Glenn S Sasagawa($609,066), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Pressure Gauges, Seawater Pressure, Vertical Deformation, Drift, Geodesy, Observe, Pis, Prototype, Seafloor.

Development and Testing of a Coastal Autonomous Profiling and Boundary Layer System (CAPABLE)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Murray D Levine($884,252), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Autonomous Profiling, Ocean Observatories, X10 Amp, CAPABLE, Coastal, Control, Field, Multi-parameter, Oregon, Software.

In Situ Oxygen Sensor Calibration
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steven R Emerson($542,845), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Biological Oxygen, Oxygen Sensors, Accuracy, Atmospheric, Carbon, Future, Has, Increased, Marine, Method, Moorings, Net, Ocean, Pressure, Pump, Situ.

EAGER: Bottom Drifters
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kevin Speer($189,368), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Bottom Drifter, Circulation, Disciplines, Float, Track.

SGER: A Seafloor Camera System for Flow Rate Measurements in Black Smoker Vents
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Timothy J Crone($142,371), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Black Smoker Vents, Flow Rates, Fluid Flow, Biological, Camera, Chemical, Has, Heat, Hydrothermal, Instrument, Measuring, Processes.

EAGER Proposal: The construction, calibration and field testing of new devices for measuring fluid flow at seafloor hydrothermal vent sites
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert P Lowell($120,367), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fluid Flow, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Construct, Cruises, Devices, Field, Pis, Platforms, ROV, Submersible.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Blue Heron, 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($110,251), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Richard D Ricketts($52,656), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Instrumentation, Lakes, Sampling, UNOLS, Vessel.

Potential Fields Pool Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daniel J Fornari($239,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Magnetics, Potential Fields, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, BGM-, Electronics, Equipment, Gyros, Magnetometer, Nsf-funded, Operators, Pool, Purchase, Shared-use, Shipping, Spare, UNOLS.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2009 Plus
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daryl L Swensen($250,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Core, Instrumentation, Oceanographic, Request, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation Enhancements 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. William S Wilcock($140,743), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Barnes, CTD, Instrumentation, Purpose, RV, Thompson, Vessel, Vessels.

2009 Oceanographic Instrumentation for R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Ronald H Harelstad($7,650), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Acquisition, Instrumentation, Request.

2009 Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Kilo Moana Multibeam Sonar Upgrade
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy McGovern($296,270), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Instrumentation, Requests.

A Replacement Liquid Scintillation Counter for Operation SWAB
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James D Happell($43,802), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Replacement Scintillation Counter, Swab Program, Allows, Request.

2009 OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David S Goldberg($900,354), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sound Source Umbilicals, Instrumentation, Langseth, MCS, RV, Seismic, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation; R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($17,000), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, Instrumentation, Oceanographic, Request.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2009
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daryl L Swensen($88,300), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. David C Fisichella($1,742,935), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Richard J Findley($160,126), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. William S Wilcock($42,613), University of Washington, Seattle
5. Daniel C Guidry($51,525), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
6. William S Wilcock($40,941), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Rv Wecoma, Instrumentation, Operation, Request, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Benjamin M Jokinen($68,870), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Stewart K Lamerdin($17,000), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
3. Terry B Appelgate($673,717), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
4. Timothy W Deering($24,500), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Instrumentation, Request, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras June 2009
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($9,071), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Instrumentation, Oceanographic, Request.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for SIO
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Terry B Appelgate($13,330), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Purpose Global Vessel, Acquisition, Fleet, Instrumentation, RV, Request, Scripps, Vessels.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($44,564), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Coastal, Instrumentation, Request.

2007 Oceanographic Instrumentation for the RV Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Ronald H Harelstad($122,331), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Bottles, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011: R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Ronald H Harelstad($1,068,054), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Rv Atlantic Explorer, Registered.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, R/V Atlantis, R/V Knorr, R/V Oceanus
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. David C Fisichella($8,328,281), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Rv Knorr, Aboard, Atlantis, Oceanographic, Oceanus.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009 - 2011, R/V Point Sur
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($602,849), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: RV, Seagoing, Services, Sur.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2009 - 2011, R/V Melville, R/V Revelle, R/V New Horizon, R/V Sproul
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Terry B Appelgate($8,439,112), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Basic, Horizon, Melville, Operations, RV, Revelle, Service, Services, Sproul, UNOLS, Vessels.

Oceanographic Technical Services 2009-2011, R/V Langseth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. David S Goldberg($8,797,545), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Basic, LDEO, Langseth, Operated, Operation, RV, Seismic, Services, Specialized, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009 - 2011, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Richard D Ricketts($171,875), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Services.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, RV Endeavor
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Jeffrey E Callahan($1,203,279), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Basic Services, Rv Endeavor.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, R/V Pelican
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daniel C Guidry($54,082), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Technical Services.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Bruce H Corliss($520,360), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, Seagoing, Services.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009 - 2011, R/V Thompson and R/V Barnes
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. William S Wilcock($2,009,760), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Basic Services, Rv Barnes, Rv Thompson, Instrumentation, Maintain, Sail, Shared-use, Technician, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, R/V Wecoma
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daryl L Swensen($1,924,290), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rv Wecoma, Specialized Services, Basic, Continue, Facility, Maintain, Vessel.

Stewardship of SAMOS data and metadata from UNOLS vessels
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Shawn R Smith($81,045), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Meteorological And Near-surface, Near Real-time, Underway Meteorological, DAC, Florida, Nsurface, Protocol, RR, Real-time, Repository, Rvs, SAMOS, Sampling, Shore, Transmitted, UNOLS, Vessel, Vessels.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011, R/V Seward Johnson and R/V Walton Smith
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Richard J Findley($638,607), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: HBOI, Oceanographic, Operated, RSMAS, RV, Smith.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009 - 2011, R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. James G Sanders($194,660), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Technical Services, Instrumentation, Maintain, Shared-use.

Oceanographic Technical Services, 2009-2011,R/V Hugh R. Sharp
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Timothy W Deering($389,876), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Qualified Users, Rv Sharp, Delaware, Maintain, Programs, Services, Technical.

CMG Research: Making inferences about planktonic ecosystems with models and observations: use of emulators to make complex multidimensional applications tractable
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH CMG

1. Dennis J McGillicuddy($660,035), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Plankton Ecosystem Models, Dynamical Model, Emulator Methods, Application, Atlantic, BATS, Basin-wide, Biological, Carbon, Computational, Context, Drawn, Ecosystems, Emulators, Forcing, Inexpensive, Inference, Interface, Multidimensional, Observations, Output, Statistical, Uncertainty.

Stability analysis of the western boundary currents in the tropical Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Javier Zavala-Garay($299,618), Theiss Research, La Jolla
Key terms: Atlantic And Pacific, Tropical Indian Ocean, Western Boundary Currents, Additional Objective, Coastal Oceanography, East Africa, Equatorial Counterpart, Overall Objective, Pacific Ocean, Quasigeostrophic Model, Stability Theory, Yanai Waves, Affect, Contribute, Educational, Generation, Growth, Instabilities, Instability, Investigate, Particular, Pis, Processes, Students, Zanzibar.

Collaborative Research: Does coupling between the inner shelf and surf zone regulate larval supply to intertidal populations?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James MacMahan($274,199), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. Steven G Morgan($310,818), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Ad Reniers($234,533), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Alan L Shanks($342,525), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Reflective And Dissipative, Cyprid Settlement, Intertidal Zone, Population Densities, Surf Zone, Surf Zones, West Coast, Barnacle, Beaches, Biological, Correlated, Cyprids, Delivery, Hydrodynamic, Hydrodynamics, Intensive, Investigate, Larvae, Model, Module, Nearshore, Oceanographic, Plates, Processes, Public, Sandy, Shore, Students, Time, Transport, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Estimating the Indian Ocean overturn and diapycnal mixing
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alison M Macdonald($306,523), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Lynne D Talley($561,316), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Overturn And Mixing, Co2 Uptake, Diapycnal Mixing, Indian Ocean, Nutrient Budgets, Ocean Circulation, Overturning Circulation, South Indian, Analysis, Approaches, Carbon, Climate, Collected, Decadal, Deep, Demonstrated, Divergences, Estimates, Forcing, Freshwater, Has, Heat, Models, Oxygen, Previous, Processes, Repeat, Resolution, Section, Sections, Southern, Suited, Teachers, Time, Transports, Upwelling, WOCEJGOFS, Waters, Workshop, °S.

A New Look at Old Data in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Wilton Sturges($152,264), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Deep Water, Heat Budget, Western Gulf, Yucatan Channel, Exchange, Experiment, Experiments, Flow, Included, Literature, Merit, Mexico, Models, Modern, Mooring, Moorings, Numerical, Previously, Program, Reanalysis, SSH, Seriously, Unpublished, Was.

A Numerical Study of the Patagonia Upwelling Region
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ricardo P Matano($587,663), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Patagonia's Shelfbreak Upwelling, Cross-shelf Exchanges, Dynamical Mechanisms, Patagonia's Shelfbreak, Atlantic, Basic, Chlorophyll, Contribute, Controlling, Cross-shelf, Deep, Developed, Development, Foster, Future, Large-scale, Largest, Little, Observations, Ocean, Patagonias, Region, Regions, Satellite, South, Waters, Wind.

Effects of sea level on wave-driven inundation for reef-fringed shorelines
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Merrifield($1,584,380), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Future Sea Level, Level Rise Scenarios, Management And Assessment, Numerical Inundation Model, Ongoing Coastal Management, Assessment Purposes, Coastal Inundation, Fringing Reef, Island Nations, Water Level, Wave Transformation, Conditions, Driven, Dynamics, Islands, Observations, Observing, Obtain, Ocean, Parametric, Pressure, Quantitative, RMI, Reefs, Sensors, Shorelines, Tidal, Transferred.

Horizontal convection: the role of turbulence
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stefan G Llewellyn Smith($519,857), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Horizontal Convection, Mechanical Forcing, Meridional Overturning, Natural Ventilation, Boundary, CFD, Contribute, Environmental, Experiments, Fluid, Laboratory, Nsf-funded, Students, Teachers, Undergraduate.

RAPID: Evaluating Fine-Structure Estimates of Diapycnal Mixing from the DIMES 2010 Research Cruise
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sarah T Gille($148,369), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fine-structure Methods, Finestructure Methods, Based, Contribute, Critical, Ctds, Determining, Diapycnal, Diffusivity, Error, Estimates, Findings, Fine-structure, Global, Microstructure, Mixing, Ocean, Uncertainties, Vertical, Xctds.

Decadal Upper Ocean Variability in the North Pacific: Mechanisms, Impact and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bo Qiu($417,937), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Dynamic And Thermodynamic, Midlatitude North Pacific, North Pacific Ocean, Upper Ocean Dynamic, Western Boundary Current, Kuroshio Extension, Marine Ecosystems, Ocean Dynamics, Pacific Climate, Sea Surface, Air-sea, Anomalies, Circulation, Decadal, Determining, Interaction, KE, Oceanic, Predict, Processes, Weather.

Breaking and Runup of Transient Long Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip L Liu($563,970), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Bottom Shear Stress, Hazard Mitigation Programs, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Leading Tsunami Waves, Tsunami Hazard Mitigation, Sediment Deposits, Tsunami Hydrodynamics, Wave Breaking, Coastal, Engineering, Establish, Experimental, Experiments, Flow, Heights, Involving, Processes, Prof, Run-up, Student, Transport, Turbulence, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: LES & Modeling of Turbulence on Shallow Shelves under Combined Langmuir, Tidal & Convective Forcing with Comparison to VADCP Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ann Gargett($554,972), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Andres E Tejada-Martinez($92,687), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Dana K Savidge($207,450), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Circulation Models, Coastal Ocean, Forcing Conditions, Parameter Space, Shallow Seas, Turbulence Parameterizations, Vertical Mixing, Accounting, Biologically, Bottom, Displays, Dynamics, Effect, Flows, Inclusion, Interaction, Island, LEO, LES, LSC, Langmuir, Large-eddy, Lead, Mechanisms, Methods, Modeling, Observations, Oceanography, Public, Range, Sediment, Sets, Shelves, Spanning, Teachers, Transport, Wave.

A Study of the Efficacy of Conceptual Models for Air-Sea Gas Transfer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William E Asher($655,530), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Surface Divergence Models, Air-sea Gas, Air-water Gas, Air-water Transfer, Gas Exchange, Gas Fluxes, Gas Transfer, Infrared Imagery, Air-sea, Air-water, Climate, Fluctuations, Laboratory, Measured, Participation, Process, Summer.

Near-N Internal Waves and Transition-Layer Mixing
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jerome Smith($761,224), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: High-frequency Internal Waves, Mixed Layer Motions, Air-sea Exchange, High-frequency Internal, Inertial Shear, Model Development, Surface Layer, Turbulent Structures, Upper Ocean, Upper Pycnocline, Uppermost Pycnocline, Air-sea, Base, Comparisons, Effects, Estimates, Fluxes, Generate, Hence, LES, ML, Mixed-layer, Mixing, Modeling, Momentum, NNIW, Net, Nutrients, Profiles, Resulting, Simulations, Stratified, Time, Transition, Wind.

Secular Changes in Pacific Tides
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Jay($779,436), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Gsl Rise, Ne Pacific, Sea Level, Secular Trends, Tidal Amplitude, Tidal Amplitudes, Tidal Evolution, Tidal Properties, Admittance, Analysis, Causing, Changing, Climate, Coastal, Constituent, Diurnal, Energy, HHW, Large-scale, Mean, Mechanisms, Method, Mm, Ocean, Processes, Spatial, Stations, Stratification, Tides, Time.

The death of Agulhas rings and the emergence of a modified Brazil Current
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Doron Nof($477,529), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Agulhas Rings, Brazil Current, South Atlantic, Analytical, Currents, Energy, Has, Influence, Nonlinear, Numerical, Upstream, Western.

Generation of sea sprays and their impact on near surface turbulence and air-sea momentum flux
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephan T Grilli($527,391), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Hybrid Approach Combining, Momentum And Heat, Sea Spray Generation, Two-phase Fluid Dynamics, Air-sea Fluxes, Air-sea Momentum, Breaking Wave, Breaking Waves, Broader Impacts, Flux Parameterizations, Heat Fluxes, Lattice-boltzmann Method, Momentum Flux, Near Surface, Sea Sprays, Spray Droplets, Tropical Cyclone, Two-phase Fluid, Wind Conditions, Wind Speeds, Accurate, Air-sea, Atmospheric, Collaboration, Drag, Education, Effect, Effects, Field, Flow, Hence, Individual, Interactions, Lattice-boltzmann, Main, Methodology, Model, Modeling, Modified, Numerical, Objectives, Observations, Ocean, Parcels, Potential, Predictions, Processes, Range, Resolved, Storm, Turbulence, Turbulent, Winds.

Atmospheric Forcing of Marginal-Sea Overflows
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lawrence J Pratt($597,179), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Nordic Seas Overflow, Atmospheric Forcing, Changing Climate, Marginal Sea, Marginal Seas, Numerical Modeling, AMOC, Deep, Global, Interannual, Investigated, Layer, Marginal-sea, Models, NAO, Observed, Outflow, Outflows, Overflows, Parameterizations, Predict, Predictability, School, Simulations, Students, Temperature.

Testing the turbulence avoidance hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Donald Webster($445,759), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Copepod Behavior, Fine-scale Turbulent, Apparatus, Biological, Chemical, Copepods, Distribution, Distributions, Environment, Experiments, Features, Field, Fine-scale, Flow, IBM, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, Laboratory, Model, Plankton, Position, Simulations, Species-specific, Specific, Student, Turbulence, Velocity, Via, Zooplankton.

The Influence of Surface Waves on the Upper Mixed Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. W K Melville($885,836), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Entrained Air, Langmuir Circulations, Les Models, Surface Wave, Upper Ocean, Wave Effects, Approximation, Assumptions, Atmosphere, Breaking, Climate, Conditions, Currents, Dynamical, Education, Energy, Environmental, Experiments, FLIP, Field, Fluxes, Mixing, Momentum, OBL, Phenomena, Predictions, Rise, Students, Temperature, Training, Turbulence, Undergraduate, Vortex.

Collaborative Research: Lateral mixing and dispersion on the inner shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen G Monismith($597,394), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Margaret McManus($378,008), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Mark T Stacey($388,396), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Surface Mixed Layer, Biological Distributions, Dispersion Rates, Forcing Conditions, Inner Shelf, Lateral Dispersion, Lateral Mixing, Stratified Interior, Andor, Anisotropies, Coastal, Comprehensive, Directly, Dye, Environment, Equipped, Examine, Field, Fluorometer, Has, Horizontal, Implications, Marine, Measure, Measured, Modeling, Northern, Parameterizations, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Scale-dependent, Stratification, Thin, Transport, Transportretention, Vertical, Waves, Winds.

Collaborative Research: Frontal Interaction and Atmospheric Forcing North of Cape Hatteras, an Analysis and Modeling Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ruoying He($233,326), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Glen G Gawarkiewicz($555,260), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cape Hatteras, Continental Shelf, Gulf Stream, North Pacific, Numerical Model, Offshore Transport, Shelf Water, Shelfbreak Front, Shelfbreak Jet, South Atlantic, Activities, Classes, Convergence, Current, Dynamics, Entrained, Export, Fisheries, Focus, Forcing, Has, Kuroshiooyashio, Region, Sub-regional, Surface.

Research in Linear and Nonlinear Instability and Ocean Circulation Theory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Pedlosky($323,534), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Graduate Student, Indonesian Throughflow, Circulation, Coastal, Context, Flow, Fluid, Has, Hence, Instability, Island, Islands, Oceanographic, Planetary, Preliminary, Relevance, Shelf, Theme, Topographic, Topography, Transport.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Basin Modes in Pacing Pacific Decadal Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Francois Primeau($206,145), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Wilbert Weijer($382,428), New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos
Key terms: Advanced Numerical Analysis, Basin Modes Play, Rossby Basin Modes, Modal Structures, Model Integrations, Pacific Decadal, Projection Technique, Rossby Wave, Circulation, Climate, Decade, Detect, Irvine, Low-frequency, Models, Noisy, Ocean, PDV, Periods, Spatial, Surface, Task, Time, Training, UCI, Waves.

Collaborative Research: On the importance of Submesoscale processes for ocean productivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amit Tandon($328,384), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Modeling And Analysis, Mixed Layer, Nutrient Transport, Vertical Nutrient, Vertical Velocity, Activities, Affected, Biological, Biology, Contribution, Density, Fluxes, Interpret, Inversions, Lateral, Meso-, Mesoscale, Models, Nutrients, Observations, Ocean, Outreach, Physics, Phytoplankton, Pis, Processes, Productivity, Pycnocline, SG, SQG, Structure, Submeso-scale, Submesoscale, Surface, Tracers.

Turbulent Regimes in Circumpolar Flow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kevin Speer($346,915), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Multiple Jet Regime, Numerical Simulation, Appropriate, Beta, Circulation, Experiments, Facility, Geostrophic, Influence, Institute, Laboratory, Maintain, Ocean, Student, Transport.

Wave Impacts in Upper Ocean Mixing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D'Asaro($1,499,988), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Boundary Layer Parameterizations, Upper Ocean Boundary, Kinetic Energy, Mixed Layer, Surface Wave, Wide Range, Wind Speed, Buoyancy, Climate, Dependencies, Deployed, Enhanced, Entrainment, Existing, Experience, Float, Flux, Fluxes, LES, Long-term, Models, NOAAPMEL, OWS-P, Oceanic, Profiles, Quality, Sea, Seas, Set, Shear, Span, Stress, Testing, Turbulence, Undergraduate, Waves.

Deep ocean mixing and circulation in subpolar seas
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter B Rhines($514,084), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Circulation And Mixing, Dense Plumes, Gfd Laboratory, Laboratory Experiments, Overturning Circulation, Atlantic, Basins, Channel, Circulations, Climate, Complex, Currents, Deep, Dynamics, Effect, Effects, Entrainment, Field, Fluids, Global, High-latitude, Involves, Latitude, Model, Models, Norway, Observations, Ocean, Oceanic, Optical, Pathways, Program, Recently, Rotating, Stratified, Topographic, Univ, Washington, Water.

RAPID: The Impact of the 2009 Suwannee River Surge on the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson($77,379), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Extreme Freshwater Pulses, Continental Shelf, Flood Levels, River Pulse, Suwannee River, Unique Opportunity, Advance, Characteristics, Current, Deployed, Estuarine, Estuary, Exchange, Expected, Extent, Florida, Flow, Gulf, Influence, Inner, Instruments, Lower, Mexico, Moored, Observations, Onto, Plume, Processes, Rivers, Shallow, Shape, Surveys, Time, Transition.

Collaborative Research: What Do Global Surface Drifters Tell Us About Submesoscale Processess?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Zulema D Garraffo($251,169), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Carmela Veneziani($251,773), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Zonal Band, Degrees, Distribution, Dynamical, Global, Has, Lagrangian, Loopers, Models, Ocean, Prevalently, Processes, Regimes, Regional, Resolution, Structures, Submesoscale.

Collaborative Research: Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS) Analysis - Mesoscale Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ivana Cerovecki($361,323), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Kathleen A Donohue($1,088,618), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Steven R Jayne($346,808), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Observations And Models, Projects And Additional, Summer Reu Programs, Additional Undergraduates, Combining Observations, Frontal Waves, Global Ocean, Kuroshio Extension, North Pacific, Potential Vorticity, Recirculation Gyre, Recirculation Gyres, Senior Projects, Strong Deep, Water Column, Analyses, Atmospheric, Circulation, Cross-frontal, Current, Deployed, Drive, Driving, Dynamics, Eddies, Exchange, Exchanges, External, Field, Interactions, Investigate, Jet, KESS, Meandering, Mechanisms, Mesoscale, Processes, Rings, Seamounts, South, Steep, Strength, Warm, Waters.

Dynamics of the descending branch of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Axel Timmermann($443,595), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: North Atlantic, Sinking Branch, Vertical Mixing, AMOC, Circulation, Climate, Dynamical, Dynamics, Focus, Future, Hierarchy, Horizontal, Large-scale, Model, OGCM, Perturbations, Processes, Rapid, Solutions, Strength, Subpolar.

Energetics of Estuarine and Coastal Flow
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Parker MacCready($478,635), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Coastal And Estuarine, Coastal Upwelling, Energy Budget, Energy Budgets, Mechanical Energy, Circulation, Domains, Flows, Forcing, Hence, Numerical, Shelf, Theoretical.

Equatorial Wave Reflection and Equatorial Warm Water Volume
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Allan J Clarke($400,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Eastern Pacific, El Niño, Interannual Coastal, Pacific Ocean, Boundary, Decay, Dynamics, ENSO, Energy, Equatorial, Flow, Lead, Low-frequency, Near, Reflection, Signal, South, Tropical, WWV, Water, Western.

Agulhas Current Time-series (ACT): Towards a multi-decadal index of Agulhas Current transport
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lisa Beal($3,500,630), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Agulhas Current Transport, Global Ocean Observing, Tropical Indian Ocean, Climate Indices, Western Boundary, ACT, Altimeter, Array, Arrays, Atlantic, Build, CLIVAR, Capacity, Has, Kuroshio, Link, Long-term, Monitoring, Oceanographic, Pacific, Participation, Phase, Satellite, Significance, Time, Track, Transports, Via.

A Feasibility Study for Understanding Climate Uncertainty with an Ocean Focus
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robin Tokmakian($393,274), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Public And Policy, Broader Impacts, Climate Model, Climate Models, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Component, Parameter Space, Policy Makers, Allow, Analysis, Complex, Computer, Emulator, Ensemble, Ensembles, Examine, Experiment, Information, Method, Methods, Metrics, Parameters, Represent, Resolution, Runs, Set, Simulations, Span, Statistical, Uncertainties, Uncertainty, Various, °.

Collaborative Research: Formation of Multiple Zonal Jets in the Oceans
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Igor V Kamenkovich($406,386), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. John T Farrar($224,126), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atmospheric Jets, Jet Formation, Jet Properties, Oceanic Jets, Alternating, Analysis, Anisotropic, Flow, Mechanisms, Models, Multiple, Nonlinear, Observations, Phenomenon, Poorly, Theoretical, Typical.

Collaborative Research: Creation of a coastal current - The transition of an energetic river discharge from buoyant jet to geostrophic plume
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander Horner-Devine($363,444), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Daniel G MacDonald($499,416), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. Robert D Hetland($308,328), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Arrest Plume Spreading, Graduate And Undergraduate, Near And Mid-field, Numerical Model Experiments, Spreading And Mixing, Coastal Currents, Estuary Mouth, Graduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Mid-field Plume, River Plume, River Plumes, Undergraduate Students, Along-shore, Approach, Arrested, Background, Circulation, Constrain, Determining, Directed, Dominate, Entrainment, Evolution, Far-field, Flow, Geophysical, Geostrophic, Jet, Mechanisms, Nfield, Operating, Processes, Reduced, Regions, Relative, Shape, Strongly, Transition, Vessels, Water.

Dynamics of a Rotating, Supercritical Large-River Plume
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Jay($386,534), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Analytical And Numerical, Dynamics And Energetics, Plume And Near-field, Actual Plume, Ambient Waters, Buoyant Plumes, Front Decays, Nliw Generation, Numerical Models, Nutrient Input, Plume Front, Plume Mixing, Remote Sensing, Rotating Plume, Tidal Plume, Analyses, Asymmetry, Below, Carbon, Coastal, Columbia, Defined, Depends, Describe, Does, Existing, Frontal, Global, Influence, Interaction, Larger, Mechanisms, Nfield, Plunge, Processes, RISE, Radially, Regional, River, Rivers, Small-scale, South, Structure, Theory, Underlying, Vessel.

The equatorial surface velocity field derived from satellite altimeter observations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jurgen Theiss($84,398), Theiss Research, La Jolla
Key terms: Geostrophic Balance Relations, Global Surface Velocity, Surface Heat Budget, Surface Velocity Field, Current Methods, Equatorial Region, Accuracy, Based, CTOH, Investigate, Issues, Model, OSCAR, Observations, Product, Properties, SSH.

Observations and Analysis of Deep Equatorial Variability in the Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John M Toole($420,259), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Equatorial Atlantic, Deep Equatorial Motions, Equatorial Deep Jets, Existing Upper Ocean, Upper Ocean Moored, Whoi And Ifm-geomar, Analysis Effort, Vertical Resolution, Acquired, Available, Conjunction, Contribute, Depth, Discrete, Dynamics, German, Information, Invited, Numerical, Observations, Particular, Past, Period, Sensors, Shared, TS, Theories.

2009 Coastal Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James O'Donnell($18,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Scholars And Students, Junior Scholars, Program Committee, Chair, Conference, Discussion, Diverse, Field, Formal, Geographic, Gordon, Has, Held, Informal, Leaders, Meeting, Participants.

Antipodal acoustic propagation and a half-century of ocean warming
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian D Dushaw($245,032), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Southern Indian Ocean, Acoustic Path, Acoustic Propagation, Ocean Temperature, Travel Time, Travel Times, Antipodal, Atlantic, Based, Bermuda, Climate, Experiment, Explanation, Half-century, Importance, Measure, Particular, Sound, Subject, Traversed.

Larval Response to Turbulence During Dispersal and Settlement
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lauren S Mullineaux($925,421), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Diving Behavior, Fluid Dynamics, Larva Experiences, Larval Behavior, Larval Behaviors, Shear Stress, Water Column, Alter, Approach, Benthic, Bio-physical, Bottom, Coupled, Critical, Dispersal, Effects, Experiments, Flow, Habitat, Information, Interactions, Laboratory, Larvae, Lulls, Marine, Models, PIV, Seafloor, Settle, Settlement, Simultaneous, Swimming, Turbulence, Vertical.

Constraints on Cross-shelf Exchange Imposed by Boundary Layer Buoyancy Arrest
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth H Brink($528,673), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bottom Ekman Transport, Bottom Boundary, Bottom Friction, Boundary Layer, Drawn Offshore, Along-isobath, Arrest, Broader, Buoyancy, Conditions, Cross-isobath, Current, Effects, Flow, Flows, Has, Isobaths, Issue, Left, Ocean, Onshore, Onto, Regard, Shelf, Steady, Stratification, Wide, Width.

Collaborative Research: Wind, Waves, Rain and their Effects on Air-Water Gas and Momentum Exchanges
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David T Ho($279,817), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ocean Surface, Surface Fluxes, Surface Waves, Wind Speed, Amounts, Atmosphere, Climate, Dissipation, Dynamic, Dynamics, Gas, Has, Induced, Laboratory, Mixing, Momentum, Rain, Rain-induced, Rainfall, Rates, Shear, Stress, Transfer, Turbulence.

Spume Droplet Source Function:Measurements and Theory
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fabrice Veron($208,307), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Air-sea Interaction, Generation Mechanism, Water Droplets, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Broader, Climate, Coupled, Has, Heat, Mass, Moisture, Momentum, Multiple, National, Ocean, Potential, Sea-spray, Surface, Time, Transfers, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Kinetic Energy Pathways to Dissipation in the World Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raffaele Ferrari($243,738), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Robert B Scott($266,218), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Energy Flux, Global Oceans, Bottom, Circulation, Climate, Dissipated, Dissipation, Driving, EKE, Flow, Forcing, Future, Mixing, Models, Observations, Ogcms, Pathways, Potential, Processes, Proper, Realistic, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Understanding tidal Resonances in the Present-Day and Ice-Age Oceans
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Arbic($83,667), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Basin Geometry, Forward Model, Ice-age Tides, Iceberg Discharges, Oceanic Circulation, Sea Level, Tidal Mixing, Dissipation, Forcing, Global, Has, Normal, Pis, Principal, Spatial.

Initial deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: A Gulf of Mexico perspective
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Benjamin P Flower($118,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: AMOC, Comparison, Deglacial, LIS, Melting, Meltwater.

The influence of shelf and offshore processes on the Mississippi River plume dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Vassiliki H Kourafalou($537,990), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Low Salinity Waters, River Plume Dynamics, Sediments And Pollutants, Complex Topography, Mississippi River, Numerical Studies, Offshore Interactions, River Waters, Ambient, Application, Boundary, Broad, Coastal, Control, Current, Currents, Deep, Discharges, Eddies, Eddy, Employed, Especially, Experiments, Fate, Flows, Forcing, Freshwater, Influence, Model, Models, Near, Nutrients, Pathways, Processes, Prominent, Realistic, Satellite, Seas, Settings, Shelf, Slope, Transport, Wind.

NSF 2010 Large Facilities Workshop
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Terry B Appelgate($23,200), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Education, Experiences, Facilities, Facility, Issues, NSF, Workshop.

UNOLS and RV Inspection Support
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Douglas A White($332,842), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Information Technology Infrastructure, Ship Condition, Fleet, Maintenance, Mission, UNOLS.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. William Byam($586,040), University of Delaware, Newark
2. James G Sanders($210,268), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
3. Stewart K Lamerdin($572,282), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
4. Thomas S Althouse($2,418,745), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
5. Thomas S Althouse($193,445), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Instrumentation, Request.

2009 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Stanley Winslow($861,092), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Stewart K Lamerdin($118,000), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
3. Richard Kniffin($204,985), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Daniel C Guidry($300,000), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
5. Paul S Joyce($18,000), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
6. Samuel DeBow($240,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
7. Albert F Suchy($1,561,500), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
8. Albert F Suchy($580,050), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
9. Bruce H Corliss($113,200), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Kilo Moana, Hawaii, Items, NSF, Operators, Past, Requests, SSSE, Vessel, Vessels.

West Coast Winch Pool
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Thomas S Althouse($780,555), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coast Winch Pool, Unols West Coast, West Coast Winch, Proper Maintenance, Academic, Administrative, Broader, Commonality, Current, Design, Ensure, Equipment, Fleet, Funding, Operations, Purchase, Scripps, Shared-use, Standards, Structure, Vessel, Vessels, Winches.

2009 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment for R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Ronald H Harelstad($463,000), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Atlantic Explorer, Bermuda Institute, Items, NSF, Ocean, Operators, Past, Requests, Routinely, SSSE, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment, R/V Blue Heron, 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($179,742), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Minnesota Duluth, Items.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment Enhancements 2009
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. William S Wilcock($886,355), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: BARNES, Items, NSF, Operators, Past, Requests, SSSE, THOMPSON, Vessel, Vessels, Washington.

East Coast Winch Pool Facility
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David C Fisichella($2,779,273), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coast Winch Pool, East Coast Winch, Hole Oceanographic Institute, Unols East Coast, Winches And Handling, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Proper Maintenance, Aboard, Academic, Administrative, Broader, Commonality, Current, Design, Ensure, Equipment, Fleet, Funding, Portable, Purchase, Sea, Shared-use, Standards, Structure, Vessel, Vessels.

2009 Shipboard Scientific Equipment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David S Goldberg($1,134,081), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Items, LANGSETH, LDEO, NSF, Operators, Past, Requests, SSSE, Vessel, Vessels.

2007 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment for the RV Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Ronald H Harelstad($98,582), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Oceanic Explorer, BBSR, Boarding, Item, Items, Outreach, Purchase, Requested, Safety, Sheave, Ship, Standards, Users, Vessel, Was, Waters, Winch.

Infrastructure Enhancements for Deep Submergence
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT

1. Andrew D Bowen($999,358), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence, Underwater Vehicle, Alvin, Jason, NDSF.

HOV Sphere Documentation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT

1. William N Lange($75,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence, Construction, Engineering, HOV, Imagery, Outreach, Website.

Do clay mineralss influence the burial and preservation of organic carbon on geologic timescales?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Martin J Kennedy($273,009), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Organic Carbon, Conditions, Depositional, Level, Ocean, Range, Rock, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: Ontogenic change in Cnidarian-algal symbioses: A genomic and ecologic perspective
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Symbiosis Infection & Immunity

1. Monica Medina($257,525), University of California - Merced, Merced
2. Mary Alice Coffroth($780,621), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Host And Symbiont, Adult Host, Assemblage Found, Coral Reef, Environmental Conditions, Final Assemblage, Final Symbiont, Gene Expression, Reef Ecosystem, Affect, Approach, Arrays, Available, Coffroth, Competition, Continue, Corals, EST, Ecological, Establishment, Fitness, Genomic, Lab, Lead, Maintenance, Mechanisms, Ontogeny, Outreach, Students, Symbiodinium, Symbionts, Symbiosis, Training.

Continuation and enhancement of the MPOWIR program
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Susan Lozier($454,564), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Geosciences Disciplines, Junior Women, Mpowir Activities, Mpowir Program, Senior Scientists, Development, Establish, Field, Focus, Information, Mentoring, Oceanographers, Oceanography, Population, Retention, Surveys, Variety, Website, Workshop.

Interagency Working Group on Ocean Observations (IWGOO) Support Office
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Robert B Gagosian($311,585), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Activities, Federal, IOOS, IWGOO, Interagency, Ocean, Partners, Planning, Remain.

OCEANOGRAPHY magazine issues: National Oceanographic Partnership Program (Vol 22, No. 2) and Ocean Acidification (Vol. 22, No. 4)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: nan

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($99,482), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: National Oceanographic Partnership, Oceanographic Partnership Program, Ocean Acidification, Oceanography Issue, Special Issues, Articles, Comprehensive, Education, Interdisciplinary, NOPP, Tools.

UNOLS Van Pool; 2009-2011
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Timothy W Deering($1,096,448), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Coast Van Pool, Delaware, Facilities, National, Operated, Oregon, Pools, Vans.

REU Site: SURFO - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Robert A Pockalny($286,764), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Graduate School, Graduate Students, Renewable Energy, Surfo Program, Authentic, Cutting-edge, Exposure, GSO, NSF, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Participants, REU, Undergraduate, Was.

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: nan

1. Jonathan C Alberts($4,165,570), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Unols Office, Academic, Facilities, Federal, Has, Organization, Programs, Shared-use, Vehicles.

Marine Technology Mentoring and Internship Program on Oceanographic Research Vessels
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Tami L Lunsford($212,277), Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
Key terms: Internship Program, Marine Technical, Marine Technicians, Funding, MATE, REU, Site, Students, Vessels, Weeks.

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

1. Samuel DeBow($12,873,729), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Program, Black Sea, Suboxic Environments, Cruises, Days, ENDEAVOR, Giving, Global, Has, Low, MATE, MO, Marine, Microbial, NSF, Nitrogen, Outreach, Participates, Platform, Processes, Programs, Public, Ship, Students, Studying, Timing, Tours, URI.

Ship Operations CY2005 Through CY2009
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Richard Kniffin($5,500,010), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Education Program, Walton Smith, Bahamas, Billfish, Blooms, CY, Contribute, Days, Florida, Marine, Miami, Modern, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanography, Operations, Opportunities, Platform, Programs, RSMAS, Rosenstiel, School, Sea, Ship, Students, Vessel.

A Project Office to Coordinate Ocean Observing Activities
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2004; Program: nan

1. Timothy J Cowles($38,517,807), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Advisory, CORE, Experience, JOI, Management, OOI, Ocean, Office, Plan, Responsibility, Setting, Structure, Technical.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2009

Collaborative Research: Sustained Observations of the North Pole Environment to Characterize Ongoing Arctic Change Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in the Meridional Overturning Circulation Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Processes controlling cross shelf exchange in the Amundsen/Bellingshausen Seas Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Air-Sea Exchange in the Southern Ocean Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Stream Ecosystem "Harshness" and Microbial Endemism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Support for the U.S. GEOTRACES Project Office Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Construction and operation of the Alaska Region Research Vessel: Phase III - Shipyard Construction Costs Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: ARRV - CONSTRUCTION

2010 Marine Microbe Gordon Research Conference Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Larval Dispersal and Retention Among Sub-populations of Coral Reef Fishes: A Multi-Technique Approach Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biological and Physical Determinants of Euphausiid Aggregation, Behavior, and Interaction with Higher Predators at an Abrupt Topographical Feature in the Gulf of Maine Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: El Nino and the controls of marine virus diversity Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Spatial Subsidy and Trophic Connectivity between Nearshore Macrophyte Production and Subtidal Food Webs Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Phase Shift to Algal Dominated Mesophotic Reef Communities in Response to Lionfish Invasion Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantification of Trichodesmium spp. vertical and horizontal abundance patterns and nitrogen fixation in the western North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RIDGE: Tipping Points in the Evolution of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems: Habitat Generation, Organic Transformation, and Rock Alteration Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Development of Microbial Associations in Major Reef Building Corals of the Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO): Program Office Support and Steering Committee Workshop Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Assessment of Pseudo-nitzschia ferritin gene expression as a molecular indicator of iron nutritional status along natural iron gradients Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Macrophyte-induced variability in coastal ocean pH and consequences for invertebrate larvae Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Changes in Baseline Conditions in Gulf of Maine Coastal Ecosystems Over the Last 4000 Years Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Function, activity, and adaptation of microbial communities in geochemically diverse subseafloor habitats Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: Connectivity of Disease in Marine Ecosystems: Multi-scale Dynamics of a Viral Disease Infecting Caribbean Spiny Lobster Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Environmental signal analysis: Monitoring the impacts of climate change on rocky intertidal ecosystem across a cascade of scales Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Killer Seaweeds: Allelopathy against Fijian Corals Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Reproductive pairing, conflict and offspring size in a marine snail. Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Investigating the Fundamental Units of Natural Selection Amng Coral-Algal Symbioses: Ecological, Geographic, and Physiological Diversity of Host-Symbiont Genotypes Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Is overfishing triggerng the die-off of New England salt marshes? Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Phylogeography and Evolution of Indo-Pacific Reef Fishes Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Sensory Basis for Ecological Paradigms on Wave-Swept Shores Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID Collaborative Research: Short-term colonization processes at Costa Rica methane seeps Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Integrating Geological, Chemical, and Biological Processes: Implications for Ecological Succession on the East Pacific Rise Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new production in the Sargasso Sea Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

PNWTOX-The Columbia River plume and HABs in the Pacific Northwest: bioreactor, barrier or conduit? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Importance of Winter Upwelling to California Current Ecosystem Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Significance of metabolic interactions of diatom-diazotrophic associations (DDAs) for ocean ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The Role of Regenerated Nitrogen for Rocky Shore Productivity Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Feeding and food limitation in copepod nauplii, the neglected life stage Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Were Protists the Beginning of the End for Stromatolites? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Synechococcus diversity and Fe stress and the relationship to dissolved metals in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Phytoplankton Traits, Functional Groups and Community Organization: A Synthesis Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A Matter of Life or Death? Assessing the physiological roles of PCD-related genes to stress adaptation in diatoms Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Development of Numerical Models Linking Fluid Geochemistry and Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Environments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Iron limitation, carbon metabolism and siderophore production in marine bacteria - a systems biology approach Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ocean acidification in a California upwelling zone: A sentinel site for impacts on open-coast and estuarine foundation species Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Influence of Temperature and Acidification on the Dynamics of Coral Co-Infection and Resistance Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research at the Lau ISS: integrating microbial diversity with geochemistry using heat and mass transport models Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Did Oxygenic Photosynthesis Cause Marine Group 1 Crenarchaeota to Take a Dive? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Viral tagging: Combining flow cytometry and genomics to explore virus-host interactions Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Lionfish invasion of the Mesoamerican reef: community invasibility and the evolutionary response of prey avoidance behavior to a novel predator Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Physical-Biological Interactions in the Fertilization Ecology of Broadcast Spawners: The Role of Gamete Traits and Turbulence Structure Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Hypoxia and the ecology, behavior and physiology of jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Oceanic diazotroph community structure and activities in a high carbon dioxide world Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Resilience of Coral Reef Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Marine Preserves and Nonindigenous Species on Rocky Subtidal Communities: Indirect Interactions, Disturbance and Community Dynamics Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI-The ecophysiological basis of the response of coral larvae and early life history stages to global climate change Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Dispersal and Life History Dynamics in Benthic Foraminifera Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Constraints on Virus Infection of Cyanobacteria Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Midwater animal models: Optical measurement of metabolic transitions in pelagic biota Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: ETBC: Implication of ANAMMOX community structure and microbial interactions in estuarine N removal processes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Community Phylogeny and Global Phylogeography of the Neuston Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecological Release and Resistance at Sea: Invasion of Atlantic Coral Reefs by Pacific Lionfish Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Functional Diversity of Subsurface Deposit Feeders Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A Submarine Eruption on the North East Lau Spreading Center, a RAPID Response Effort Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Role of Ephemeral Bottom Roughness Patches in Unpredictable Recruitment of Surfclams on the Continental Shelf Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

A Proposal for a Workshop on Global Environmental Change & Biological Evolution in the Ocean Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Nutritional, environmental, and genetic regulation of toxicity and growth in Dinophysis Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Role of Latent Virus Infection in Marine Phytoplankton Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Pickled Protists or Community Uniquely Adapted to Hypersalinity Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Experimental investigations of the giant colonies of Phaeocystis globosa in China Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Long-term and interactive effects of seaweed diversity and herbivory on intertidal community structure and functioning Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Targeted environmental probing: Linking microorganisms with biogeochemical function at Fe- and Mn-rich, diffuse hydrothermal vents Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Iron storage in diatoms and N2 fixing cyanobacteria: mechanisms, regulation and biogeochemical significance Award Effective Date: 08/22/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Factors Affecting the Nature and Strength of Indirect Effects: A Modeling and Empirical Approach Award Effective Date: 08/16/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

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

CDI Type-II: Distributed Ocean Monitoring via Integrated Data Analysis of Coordinated Buoyancy Drogues Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: CDI TYPE II

Computer Vision Coral Ecology: Cyber-Enabled Image Classification for Rapid, Large Scale, Automated Monitoring of Climate Change Impacts on Coral Reefs Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE II

Collaborative Research: Linking Researchers and Graduate Students through COSEE Tools & Services Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - National Network Partnerships Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE