Sustaining Coastal Experimentation and Observing Systems in Support of Marine Ecosystem and Climate Science
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

1. Margaret A Palmer($1,672,553), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Chesapeake Bay, Activities, CBLR, Climate, Damage, Education, Extensive, Mesocosms, Pier, Platform, Presently, Public, Renovations, Seawater, Storm, Students.

Laboratory renovation at the Ocean Research College Academy at Everett Community College
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

1. Ardi Kveven($276,084), Everett Community College, Everett
Key terms: Puget Sound, Carrying, Chemistry, Environmental, Everett, Facility, Faculty, Has, Laboratory, Local, Marine, Monitoring, ORCA, Renovated, Serve, Students, Water.

MARINE: Modernizing Academic Research INfrastructure at Eckerd
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

1. Jonathan H Cohen($870,720), Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg
Key terms: Development, Eckerd, Ecology, Impacted, Infrastructure, Laboratories, Marine, Seawater, Training, Undergraduates.

Modernization and Enhancement of the Seawater System and Research Infrastructure at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

1. Steven Vollmer($1,768,555), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Capacity, Development, Facilities, Fisheries, Infrastructure, Lab, Mariculture, Marine, Northeastern.

Upgrading Middlebury College's Floating Laboratory: A State-of-the-Art Research Vessel
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

1. James R Ralph($1,731,377), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Rv Baldwin, Carried, Chemistry, Diverse, Environmental, Lake, Local, Middlebury, People, Public, Ship, Students, Training, Undergraduate, Vermont, Vessel.

Workshop on Paleo-ocean Acidification and Carbon Cycle Perturbation Events August 26~28, 2010
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Baerbel Hoenisch($33,376), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, Broad, Carbon, Consequences, Paleocean, Workshop.

IMBER IMBIZO-II: Support and Facilitation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Eileen E Hofmann($25,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Webs And Biogeochemical, Biogeochemical Cycles, Food Webs, Trophic Levels, Conference, Marine.

Collaborative research: Modeling control of Antarctic Bottom Water production by small-scale bathymetry and tides
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Tamay M Ozgokmen($347,494), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Laurence Padman($315,972), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Density, Antarctic Outflows, Bottom Water, Continental Slope, Deep Ocean, Density Outflow, Regional Ocean, Relative Importance, AABW, Anslope, Antarctica, Climate, Dominant, Dynamics, ESR, Energetic, Extensive, Factors, Field, Following, Formation, Global, Has, Hydrographic, LES, Model, Modeling, Models, Nonlinear, Notably, Numerical, Oregon, Parameterizations, Processes, Progress, Rate, Sea, Set.

A Data Management System and Portal for Access to Ecological and Biogeochemical Ocean Data - BCO-DMO
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Cynthia Chandler($6,379,585), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biogeochemical And Ecological, Biological And Chemical, Chemical Oceanography, Information Exchange, Management Office, Marine Biogeochemical, Activities, Adoption, Approach, Available, BCO-DMO, Collaborative, Complex, Component, Development, Distributed, Existing, Facilitate, Field, Individual, Integration, Intermediate, Metadata, NSF, National, Oceanographic, Online, Opportunity, Participation, Programs, Repository, Sets, Standards, Synthesis, Tools.

Phase 4 Proposal: Management of the Post Delivery Testing and Sea Trials of the R/V SIKULIAQ (Alaska Region Research Vessel/ARRV)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ARRV - CONSTRUCTION

1. Daniel Oliver($10,336,519), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Phase Iv, ARRV, Acquisition, Alaska, Completed, Construction, Delivery, Final, NSF, Original, Panel, Plan, SIKULIAQ, UAF, Vessel, Was.

Construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel Program Solicitation NSF 07-515: Phase 3 Management Proposal
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: ARRV - CONSTRUCTION

1. Daniel Oliver($22,054,387), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Regional And Global, Alaska Region, External Panel, Phase Ii, Sea Ice, Sea Trials, AOC, ARRV, Acquisition, Arctic, Baseline, Climate, Completed, Consent, Construction, Contract, Cost, December, Design, Experts, FDR, Following, Held, January, March, Marinette, Meeting, Milestones, NSB, NSF, Ocean, Operations, Original, Oversight, Planned, Planning, Platform, Quarterly, Review, Reviewed, Seasonal, Shipyard, Similar, Successfully, Thinning, UAF, Vessel, Was, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Ecology of a Reverse Zoonosis: Human-Environment Interactions in the Transmission, Persistence, and Virulence of White Pox Disease in Elkhorn Coral
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Andrew W Park($2,095,300), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Kathryn P Sutherland($188,469), Rollins College, Winter Park
Key terms: Elkhorn Coral, Human Pathogen, Infectious Diseases, Marine Invertebrate, Threatened Species, Caribbean, Dynamics, National, Population, Transmission, WPD.

RAPID on Gulf Oil Spill: Phytoplankton and environmental stressors as determinants of Vibrio ecology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Crystal N Johnson($150,000), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Affect Vibrio Abundance, Iii Secretion, Oil Spill, Biological, Environmental, Genes, Increase, Oysters, PAI, Plankton, TTSS.

Collaborative Research: Activity and abundance of photoheterotrophs fueled by photochemically-produced substrates
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David J Kieber($389,540), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
2. Matthew T Cottrell($490,925), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Brbrthe Pis, Delaware Estuary, Lab Experiments, Organic Compounds, Photochemical Reactions, Abundance, Abundant, Anaplerotic, Bacteria, CDOM, DOM, Energy, Examining, Fixation, Growth, Kirchman, LMW, Light, Low, Microbes, Mrna, Oceans, Photochemically-produced, Photoheterotrophs, Produced, Proteorhodopsin, Respiration, Students, Testing, Undergraduates, Uptake.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Impact of the 2010 Caribbean Coral Bleaching Event: Assessing Changes in Coral Immune Function
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ernesto F Weil($38,745), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
2. C. Drew Harvell($107,527), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Immune Gene Expression, Caribbean Bleaching, Coral Bleaching, Coral Health, Coral Holobiont, Coral Immune, Gorgonia Ventalina, Immune Function, Puerto Rico, Southeastern Caribbean, Thermal Anomalies, Assessment, Center, Corals, Cover, Disease, Diversity, Field, Following, Heating, Hypothesize, Levels, Microbial, Objectives, Ocean, Outreach, Physiology, Pre-event, Public, RAPID, Resilient, Species, Spp, Surveys, Temperatures, Thermally, Transient, Warm.

EID: Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecology of Marine Infectious Diseases
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rachel T Noble($49,922), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Coastal And Estuarine, Infectious Diseases, ASLO, Activity, Benefit, Challenges, Discussions, EID, Ecology, Held, Importance, Increase, Marine, Meeting, Pis, Planning, Terrestrial, Workshop.

Functional diversity of infaunal burrowers: Towards a mechanistic understanding of animal-sediment interactions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gregory W Rouse($527,281), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Diverse And Abundant, Ecological And Biogeochemical, Morphologies And Behaviors, Sands Versus Muds, Burrowing Behaviors, Burrowing Mechanics, Functional Roles, Organic Carbon, Species Diversity, Advances, Analyses, Benthic, Broad, Burrowers, Burrows, Closely, Collaboration, Comparisons, Enable, Environments, Especially, Extend, Forces, Fracture, Functions, Gelatin, Has, Individual, Infauna, Mechanical, Organisms, Physics, Podcast, Pollutants, Public, Resulting, Scripps, Sediments, Shared, Similar, Taxa, Trophic.

Collaborative Research: Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert Condon($301,338), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Susanne Neuer($396,014), Arizona State University, Tempe
3. Tammi L Richardson($465,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Composition And Trophic, Carbon Export, Euphotic Zone, Food Web, Sargasso Sea, Trophic Interactions, Abundance, Andor, BATS, Based, Bermuda, Biological, Characterize, Characterized, Components, Contributors, Current, Diatoms, Direct, Gyres, Has, Increased, Modeling, Observations, Ocean, Oligotrophic, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Planktonic, Rates, Site, Size, Students, Time, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Connectivity in western Atlantic seep populations: Oceanographic and life-history processes underlying genetic structure
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Clifford W Cunningham($864,669), Duke University, Durham
2. Ruoying He($473,346), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
3. Craig M Young($610,720), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Deep-sea Chemosynthetic Ecosystems, Deep Sea, Deep-sea Chemosynthetic, Deep-sea Seep, Larval Biology, Life Histories, Oceanographic Circulation, Spatial Scales, Water Column, Advance, Barbados, Biodiversity, Biophysical, Capacity, Connectivity, Contemporary, Coupled, Enhance, Explore, Genetic, Genetics, Graduate, Historical, History, IAS, Knowledge, Larvae, Life-history, Marine, Model, Orenoque, Phylogeographic, Planktonic, Population, Populations, Presentations, Processes, Relatively, Sampling, Seeps, Shallow-water, Species, Students, Tools, Transport, Underlie.

Collaborative Research: Seasonal and decadal changes in temperature drive Prochlorococcus ecotype distribution patterns
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven W Wilhelm($799,179), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
2. Zackary I Johnson($600,915), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Molecular Ecology, Ocean Ecosystems, Relative Abundance, Temperature Gradient, Analyses, Based, Biological, Chemical, Climate, Coefficients, Collaborations, Cruise, Dominant, Ecotype, Ecotypes, Efforts, Emed, Emit, Hypothesized, Isotherm, Lab, Latitudinally, Marine, Migration, Outreach, Pis, Primary, Ratio, Seasonal, Summer, Teachers, Transition, Warming, °.

Are blue crab declines leading to a trophic cascade and massive loss of U.S. southern marshes?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Silliman($214,231), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Blue Crab Densities, Blue Crabs, Marsh Die-off, Past Decade, Salt Marsh, Salt Marshes, Snail Densities, Top-down Control, Trophic Cascade, Barren, Bottom-up, Density, Die-off, Effects, Experiments, FWS, Field, Low, Managers, Paradigm, Plant, Plants, Predators, Snails, Southeastern, Spatial, Surveys, Top-down.

Collaborative Reserach: Integrating geochemistry, microbiology, and hydrodynamics: A model for trace element transport and fate in hydrothermal plumes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gregory J Dick($245,300), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. John A Breier($328,197), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Brandy M Toner($198,147), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Particle Formation, Vent Plume, Biological, Chemical, Chemistry, Hydrothermal, Influence, Microbial, Mineral, Mineralogical, Organic, Plumes, Processes, Rising, Students, Summer, Under-represented.

Investigation of the Effects of CACO3 Saturation State & Temperature on the Calcification Rate & Skeletal Properties of Benthic Marine Calcifiers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Justin B Ries($655,689), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Benthic Marine Calcifiers, Co2-induced Ocean Acidification, Marine Calcifiers Build, Shells And Skeletons, Atmospheric Pco2, Biomechanical Properties, Caco3 Saturation, Co2-induced Ocean, High-mg Calcite, Low-mg Calcite, Marine Organisms, Advance, Aragonite, Calcification, Co-induced, Future, High-mg, Inform, Investigating, Low-mg, Mineralogical, Native, Pco-t, Pilot, Polymorphs, Potential, Ppm, Proportion, Range, Seawater, Shellsskeletons, Soluble, Temperature, Time, Training, Various.

Collaborative Research: Trophodynamics of Myrionecta rubra and cryptophyte algae
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew D Johnson($323,301), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Diane K Stoecker($67,932), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Rubra And Cryptophytes, Aquatic Ecosystems, Chesapeake Bay, Coastal Ecosystems, Cryptophyte Algae, Cryptophyte Prey, Food Webs, Genetic Diversity, Microbial Food, Abundant, Ciliate, Ciliates, Considered, Dynamics, Ecological, Ecology, Estuarine, Factors, Interactions, Myrionecta, Organelles, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Possesses, Predict, Red-tide, Seasonally, Sites.

Linking biogeochemistry and microbial community dynamics in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gregory J Dick($367,176), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Dna Sequencing Technologies, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Enhanced Microbial, Hydrothermal Inputs, Microbial Activity, School Students, Summer Camp, Versus Background, Activities, Biogeochemistry, Compare, Deep-sea, Energy, Environments, Flux, Gene, Geosciences, Manganese, Metabolic, Microorganisms, Nvent, Oceans, Plume, Plumes, Potential, Processes, Public, Relative, Source.

Collaborative research: Evolutionary ecology of marine cyanophages
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marcia F Marston($316,161), Roger Williams University, Bristol
2. Jennifer B Martiny($813,207), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Host Range Genes, Time And Space, Conserved Core, Evolutionary Ecology, Genetic Markers, Marine Viruses, Nutrient Cycling, Virus-host Interactions, Approach, Biogeographic, Build, Challenge, Compare, Composition, Cyanophage, Cyanophages, Diversity, Genome, Has, Infect, Isolate, Isolates, Levels, Martiny, Park, Particular, Phage, Phenotype, Phenotypes, Rates, Sequencing, Students, Synechococcus, Time-series, Undergraduates, Virus-host.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Marine Clines to Predict Larval Retention
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Byers($385,064), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. James M Pringle($72,981), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Chilean Coast, Coastal Ocean, Gene Flow, Larval Dispersal, Planktonic Larvae, Range Limits, Analysis, Asymmetric, Barnacle, Cline, Colleagues, Connectivity, Demographic, Diversity, Dynamics, Efforts, Essentially, Genetic, Influence, Link, Maintain, Marine, Mechanisms, Models, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Persist, Phylogeographic, Pis, Population-genetic, Populations, Scabrosus, Selection, Spatial, Species, Structure, Students.

Marine viral dynamics and incorporation into microbial association networks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jed A Fuhrman($565,955), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Microbial Association Networks, Environmental Parameters, Microbial Observatory, Predictable Repeating, Secondary School, Viral Otus, Bacteria, Bacterial, Biogeochemical, Component, Daily, Dynamics, Effects, Genes, Global, Host, Hosts, Incorporating, Information, Lab, Marine, Monthly, Preliminary, Protists, Site, Statistical, Structure, T-like, Time, Training, Viruses, Weekly.

Biodiversity and Complex Forcing of Ecosystem Functioning in the Marine Foundation Species, Eelgrass: A Global Experimental Network
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. J. Emmett Duffy($728,879), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Abiotic Forcing, Collaborative Network, Crustacean Mesograzers, Globally Distributed, Marine Vegetation, Resource Supply, Trophic Transfer, BEF, Biodiversity, Biomass, Coastal, Complex, Diversity, Ecologists, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Eelgrass, Effects, Experience, Experiments, Field, Fostering, Functioning, Gradients, Grazing, Importance, Interactions, Lasting, Model, Multitrophic, Natural, Partner, Program, Quantify, Range, Relative, Richness, Sites, Variables.

Collaborative Research: CAMEO 2009 - A novel tool for validating trophic position estimates in ecosystem-based fisheries models
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Carolyn M Jones($95,304), Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo
2. Brian N Popp($426,800), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Robert J Olson($32,552), Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla
4. Michael R Landry($322,866), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling Regimes, Allow Testing, Ecosystem-based Models, Food Web, Isotopic Composition, Marine Organisms, Trophic Position, Trophic Structure, AA-CSIA, Application, Approach, Differing, Ecosystem-based, Effects, Efficacy, Estimates, Feeding, Fisheries, Integrated, Multiple, Pacific, Phyla, Physiological, Refine, Students, TP, Tool, Tools, Validate.

Marine Metapopulation Connectivity: Modeling, Estimation and Demographic Consequences
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael G Neubert($995,084), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dispersal And Settlement, Coral Reef, Coupled Models, Demographic Consequences, Dna Parentage, Isotope Labeling, Kimbe Bay, Larval Dispersal, Marine Metapopulations, Metapopulation Connectivity, Modeling Framework, Population Connectivity, Reef Fish, Ability, Approaches, Conservation, Development, Drivers, Dynamics, Efforts, Estimating, Graduate, Gravity, Habitat, Incorporate, Influence, Knowledge, Management, Metrics, Oceanographic, Predictors, Processes, Range, Recruitment, Spatial, Temporal, Various.

Ridge 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Reactive Transport Modeling of Biogeochemical Processes in a Hydrothermal Vent Field
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Benjamin Larson($166,634), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent, Biological, Chemical, Fluid, Modeling, Parameters, Processes, Ridge, Training.

Chemical ecology of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph R Pawlik($580,000), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Caribbean Coral, Caribbean Sponges, Chemical Defense, Chemical Defenses, Competitive Interactions, Coral Reef, Ecosystem Model, Indirect Effects, Ocean Acidification, Reef Sponges, Resource Allocation, Sponge Metabolites, Sponge-eating Fishes, Allelopathic, Bleaching, Control, Corals, Ecosystems, Experiments, Field, Food, Gel-based, Growth, Predation, Predators, Reefs, Reproduction, Species, Sponge-eating, Students, Succession, Testing.

Collaborative Proposal: CAMEO: Using interdecadal comparisons to understand trade-offs between abundance and condition in fishery ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Molly Lutcavage($32,438), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Rebecca J Tien($58,878), Ohio State University, Columbus
3. Andrew Pershing($346,342), University of Maine, Orono
4. Jason Stockwell($45,078), Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland
Key terms: Middle Trophic Levels, Pelagic Fish, Abundant, Condition, Conditions, Consider, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Examine, Finmarchicus, Gulf, Herring, Maine, Model, Pressure, Productive, Species, Tuna, Typically.

RAPID: Rapid Assessment of Extent and Photophysiological Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander M Chekalyuk($199,972), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Capacity And Population, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Spill, Photosynthetic Capacity, Subsurface Plumes, Water Column, Amount, Appropriate, Attention, Dispersants, Distribution, Ecosystem, Effect, Estimates, Gulf, Has, Horizontal, Magnitude, Mexico, Mid, Near, Ocean, Organisms, Potential, Primary, RV, Spread, Surface, Techniques, Unprecedented, Vertical.

CAMEO: Collaborative Research: Patterns of Connectivity in Northwest Atlantic Fishery Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert J Latour($117,612), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. Michael J Wilberg($228,255), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
3. Michael Frisk($140,525), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
4. Jeremy Collie($122,726), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Atlantic Coastal Shelf, Northwest Atlantic Coastal, Marine Ecosystems, Analyses, Connectivity, Consequences, Degree, Dynamic, EAM, Function, Ieas, Management, Multiple, Quantify, Resources, Structure, Time.

Collaborative Research: CAMEO: Comparative analyses of natural and human influences on coral reef community structure, diversity, and resilience
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer E Smith($285,950), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Stephanie E Hampton($41,559), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Pacific Islands Region, Coral Reefs, Ecosystem Approaches, Ecosystem Resilience, Activities, Anthropogenic, Comparative, Directly, Diverse, Diversity, Dynamics, Effects, Efficacy, Global, Health, Human, Local, Management, Monitoring, NOAA, Regional, Status, Structure, Time.

RAPID Collaborative Proposal: Spatially-explicit, High-resolution Mapping and Modeling to Quantify Hypoxia and Oil Effects on the Living Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James J Pierson($107,961), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. David G Kimmel($44,284), East Carolina University, Greenville
3. Stephen Brandt($46,981), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Bp Oil Spill, Zooplankton And Fish, Northern Gulf, Nsf Biological, Date, Dispersants, Ecosystem, Effects, Fishing, Has, High-resolution, Horizon, Mapping, Mexico, Mississippi, NOAA, Nations, Nearly, Oxygen, Pelagic, Previous, RAPID, REU, Recreational, Saltwater, Summer, Transport.

CAMEO: Multiscale modeling of Hawaii's coral reef communities
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul Jokiel($364,541), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coral Recovery Model, Combo Model, Coral Reef, Gis Database, Hawaiian Archipelago, Local Model, Marine Ecosystems, Modeling Approaches, Niche Modeling, Spatially Continuous, Species Distribution, Transition Theory, Based, Distributions, Dynamics, Environments, Existing, Generate, Interactions, Landscape, Management, Multiple, Predictive, Regional, Surveys, Validated.

EAGER: Application of transcriptomics to investigate organism-environment relationships in marine zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Petra H Lenz($213,960), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Seasonally Regulated Genes, Environmental Stress, Undergraduate Students, Approaches, Available, Calanoid, Collected, Copepods, Finmarchicus, Graduate, Gulf, Individuals, Maine, Microarray, Molecular, North, Physiological, Sequence, Submission, Techniques, Tools, Transcriptome, Transcriptomics.

RAPID: The Microbial Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher S Martens($199,953), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Oxygen And Light, Light Hydrocarbon, Marine Sediments, National Geographic, Time Scales, Water Column, Acids, Activity, Analyses, Assessments, Bacterial, Biogeochemical, Consequences, Coverage, Cruise, Cruises, Database, Dissolved, Enrichment, Geochemical, Lab, Microbial, Microbiological, Molecular, Monitor, Outreach, Pis, Populations, Potential, RAPID, Rrna, Surface.

RAPID: Assessment of the impacts of the Deep Horizon oil spill on Bluecrab, Callinectes sapidus, spawning and recruitment in the northcentral Gulf of Mexico.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert Griffitt($133,140), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Blue Crab Settlement, Blue Crab Zoea, Oil And Dispersant, Surface Oil Slicks, Zoea And Megalopae, Broader Impacts, Crude Oil, Dph Oil, Marine Environment, Mortality Rate, Oil Spill, Pelagic Larvae, Settlement Rates, Allow, Assays, Build, Coastal, Compare, Crabs, DWH, Ecosystem, Examination, Examine, GCRL, Gulf, Has, Highly, Historical, Hydrodynamic, Larval, Mexico, Model, Observed, Pis, Stages.

EAGER: Cyanobacteria-Bacteria Associations in the Ocean and Their Biogeochemical Consequences
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Farooq Azam($153,992), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Synechococcus And Prochlorococcus, Biogeochemical Significance, Carbon Cycling, Marine Ecosystems, Natural Assemblages, Primary Producers, Analysis, Bacteria, Cells, Climate, Conjoint, Coupling, EAGER, Findings, Functioning, Has, Heterotrophic, Micrometer, Nature, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Public, Symbioses.

RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Impact of sub-surface oil plumes on mesopelagic micronekton
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David J Hollander($147,696), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Previously Collected Specimens, Subsurface Oil Plumes, Broader Impacts, Oil Spill, Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Shipboard Sampling, Day, Deep, Depths, GOM, Geochemical, Has, Mesopelagic, Mid-water, Northern, Pelagic, Species, Trophic, Upper.

RAPID: Trophic interactions in floating Sargassum communities of the Gulf of Mexico: potential consequences of habitat degradation.
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Frank Hernandez($157,664), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Brown Algae, Graduate Students, Historically Underrepresented, Activities, Acute, Alabama, Critical, Distribution, Disturbances, Ecosystem, Education, Fish, Gulf, Habitat, Habitats, Has, Interactions, Marine, Mexico, Pelagic, Potential, Program, RAPID, Represent, Sargassum, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: the influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael F Piehler($173,906), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. David L Kimbro($301,106), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. Jonathan Grabowski($131,305), Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland
4. James Byers($261,861), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Benthic-pelagic Coupling, Ecosystem Functions, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Conditions, Oyster Reefs, Predator Effects, Resource Supplies, Undergraduate Students, Affect, Benthic-pelagic, Biogeographic, Continue, Ecological, Food, Graduate, Influence, Interactions, Knowledge, Linkages, Local, Mentoring, Nutrient, Processes, Sediment, Structure.

Collaborative Research: The Great Southern Coccolithophore Belt
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Phoebe J Lam($429,015), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Nicholas R Bates($305,793), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
3. Benjamin S Twining($1,088,876), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Austral Summer, Coccolithophore Growth, Global Biogeochemistry, Inorganic Carbon, Ocean Acidification, Southern Ocean, Atlantic, Belt, Calcification, Calcite, Climate, Coccolithophores, Concentrations, Controlled, Cruises, Dissolution, Elucidate, Examine, Experiments, Export, Field, Future, Low, Maine, Marine, Measure, Metal-addition, Observations, Optical, PIC, Region, Relates, Satellite, Students, Surface, Suspended, Teacher, Units, Verified.

Collaborative Research: The impact of multiple nursery areas and adult age structure on the population dynamics of marine fishes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas J Miller($390,058), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Jason J Schaffler($570,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. John L Wilkin($192,908), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Adult Menhaden, Estuarine Nursery, Juvenile Menhaden, Marine Populations, Nursery Affinities, Oceanographic Circulation, Recruitment Failure, Adults, Age, Age-dependent, Consequences, Contribution, Distribution, Distributional, Ecosystems, Estuarine-dependent, Exhibit, Has, Integrated, Larvae, Larval, Migrations, Model, Observed, Potential, Simulation, Species, Structure, Supply.

Collaborative Research: A mechanistic understanding of biogeographic patterns and life histories in benthic organisms in advective coastal environments
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James M Pringle($232,108), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. James Byers($263,793), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Inter And Intra-species, Dispersal Strategies, Planktonic Larvae, Reproductive Output, Species Boundaries, Species Ranges, Advective, Alleles, Allow, Alongshore, Analytical, Benthic, Biological, Climate, Conditions, Development, Direct, Distribution, Duration, Extensive, Function, Genetic, Habitat, Inter-, Larval, Life, Maintain, Managers, Mechanisms, Natal, Ocean, Quantitative, Quantitatively, Recruited, Students, Theory, Tradeoffs, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Versus.

Bacterial Interactions Underlying Coral Disease Resistance
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Farooq Azam($603,638), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Colonization And Proliferation, Coral Mucus Layer, Endogenous Bacteria, Exogenous Bacteria, Microbial Interactions, Organic Matter, Potential Pathogens, Activities, Antagonism, Bacterial, CML, Coral-associated, Corals, Critical, Disease, Diseases, Diversity, Ecological, Education, Exposed, Hotspots, Increasing, Management, Microscale, Resist, Situ.

RAPID: A Unique Cruise Opportunity to Test the Effect of Trace Metal Limitation on Oxidative Stress and Coral Bleaching
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark L Wells($104,125), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Ros Enzyme Activities, Trace Metal Limitation, Coral Bleaching, Coral Hosts, Oxidative Stress, Photosynthetic Efficiency, Antioxidant, Availability, Collected, Concentrations, Conditions, Corals, Cruise, Cu, Dissolved, Economic, Effect, Effects, Elevated, Environmental, Experiments, Factors, Fe, Findings, Increased, Light, Low, Marine, Mechanisms, Opportunity, Pis, Regions, Severity, Site, Temperature, Tropical, Undergraduates, Unique, Zn, Zooxanthellae.

RAPID: Resolving higher trophic-level change within the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem as a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William M Graham($199,867), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
Key terms: Classical Food Web, Baseline Shifts, Northern Gulf, Application, Carbon, Component, Dispersant, Dispersants, Educational, Fish, Food-chain, Gut, Limited, Mexico, Microbial, Oil, Pelagic, Phd, Programs, Released, Specifically, Stable, Surface, Trophic, Was, Water.

RAPID Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Impacts on Blue Crab population dynamics and connectivity.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Caroline M Taylor($199,863), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Blue Crab Fishery, Oil And Dispersants, Blue Crabs, Metapopulation Model, Oil Spill, Planktonic Larvae, Population Dynamics, Affected, Approach, Dispersal, Ecologically, Effects, Especially, Estimate, Estuaries, Field, Fisheries, Gulf, Habitat, Incorporate, Lacking, Larval, Mexico, Ocean, Pis, Predict, RAPID, Recruitment, Sampling, Species, Stages.

RAPID Deep water Horizon Oil spill: Trophic organization of sandy beach ecosystems across gradients of development and oiling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susan S Bell($127,693), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Anthropogenic Disturbance, Coastal Ecosystems, Food Sources, Food Web, Sandy Beach, Sandy Beaches, Activities, Acute, Chronic, Consumers, Critical, Development, Habitats, Human, Level, Levels, Oil, Oiling, RAPID, Sampling, Spill, Stable, Structure, Trained, Trophic.

Gene Flow and Divergence Across the Equatorial Tropical Marine Barrier: Past, Present and Future
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy Moran($568,245), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Northern And Southern, Warmest Tropical Regions, Gene Flow, Graduate Students, Southern Hemispheres, Antitropical, Connectivity, Currents, Dispersive, Distributions, Elegans, Equator, Future, Has, History, Larval, Populations, Separation, Species, Taught, Temperature, Tolerance, Tropics, Via.

RUI: River and sediment-modulated stress in planktonic and early settlement Mya arenaria
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph E Salisbury($500,225), Saint Joseph's College, Standish
Key terms: Acid Burdens, Aragonite Saturation, Calcifying Organisms, Casco Bay, Cohort Monitoring, Ecosystem Services, Larval Mya, Ocean Acidification, Saint Joseph's, Acidic, Andor, Atmospheric, Buffered, Coastal, Combined, Effects, Fisheries, Heterotrophy, High-frequency, Josephs, Juveniles, Larvae, Less, Maine, Marine, Model, Oceans, Ph, Potential, Rate, Resulting, SJC, Sampling, Sediment, Settling, Students, Via, Water, Waters.

RAPID: Application of ISIIS to a multi-instrumented experiment on lateral mixing and dispersion on the inner shelf
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert K Cowen($133,397), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Mixing And Dispersion, Vertical And Horizontal, Broader Impacts, Inner Shelf, Lateral Mixing, Aimed, Biological, Capabilities, Capacity, Digital, Dispersal, Experiment, Fine-scale, Focus, Graduate, ISIIS, Identifying, Layers, Opportunity, Optical, Perspective, Pis, Planktonic, Properties, RAPID, Sampling.

Effects of Viruses on Coral Fitness
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rebecca L Vega($600,000), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Healthy And Diseased, Infection And Disease, Coral Reef, Coral Tissues, Diseased Corals, Ecosystem Engineers, Scientists Clues, Tropical Reefs, Viral Consortia, Viral Infection, Viral Types, Viruses Play, Abundance, Biology, Characterization, Critical, Decline, Developmental, Diseases, Diversity, Ecosystems, Effects, Episodes, Experiments, Female, Fitness, Global, Growth, Has, Host, Investigate, Lastly, Marine, Methods, Minority, Organisms, Postdoctoral, Species, Stages, Training, Undergraduates.

Genomic and Transcriptomic Comparison of Iron and Light Physiology in Coastal and Oceanic Diatoms
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bethany D Jenkins($700,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Fe And Light, Iron And Light, Diatom Metabolism, Diatom Species, Gene Expression, Genome Sequence, Genomics Tools, Light Levels, Oceanic Diatom, Analysis, Antibodies, Basis, Carbon, Changing, Climate, Co-limitation, Coastal, Compare, Conditions, Course, DGE, Developed, Diatoms, EST, Ecological, Ecologically, Environments, Experiments, Fe-limiting, Field, Genes, Growth, Low, Nutrient, Oceanica, Pathways, Photosynthesis, Potential, Predict, Qpcr, Respond, School, Students.

Environmental Change and Biological Adaptation in the Ocean Workshop, May 7-9, 2010
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy Moran($90,478), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Catalytic Workshop, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Marine Biology, Phenotypic Plasticity, Steering Committee, Adaptation, Biological, Climate, Complex, Discussion, Environmental, Experts, Global, Invited, Larger, Nsf-supported, Ocean, Participants, Plenary, Predict, Processes, Public, React, Report, Summary.

Effects of Fe:C ratios in food on marine copepod productivity and physiology
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen B Baines($473,904), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Iron And Carbon, Copepod Tissues, Iron Limitation, Algal, Aspects, Assimilation, Biogeochemical, Composition, Consequences, Copepods, Determined, Diet, Directly, Elemental, Experiments, Fec, Food, Limited, Marine, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Productivity, Ratio, Ratios, Retention, Secondary, Species, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research - Taxon-Specific Variability of Organiz Matter Production and Remineralization Potential
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Angelicque E White($413,045), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Adina Paytan($235,012), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Dissolved Organic, Greenhouse Gases, Heterotrophic Bacteria, Organic Matter, Alterations, Carbon, Composition, Compounds, Coupling, Cycle, Cycles, Cycling, DIP, DOM, DOP, Decomposition, Driven, Dynamics, Ecologically, Elemental, Energy, Environment, Experiments, Export, Genera, Incorporated, Kit, Lability, Marine, Metabolic, Microbial, Natural, Nitrogen, Objectives, Occurring, Oceanic, P-C-N, POM, Particulate, Populations, Potential, Primary, Prochlorococcus, Remineralization, Stoichiometry, Structure, Trichodesmium, Via.

Understanding copepod life-history and diversity using a next-generation zooplankton model
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew Pershing($490,669), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Stage And Mass, Copepod Diversity, Life History, Abundance, Biological, Climate, Conditions, Copepods, Correlations, Development, Ecosystems, Environmental, Estimates, Gulf, Mass-dependent, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Parameters, Predation, Productivity, Properties, Range, Species, Temperature, Temperature-dependent, Tested.

Experimental studies to understand and evaluate acclimation of marine plankton assemblages to increased CO2 and temperature.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Astrid Schnetzer($710,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Co2 And Temperature, Field Incubation Experiments, Laboratory Culture Competition, Field Incubations, Global Climate, Microbial Assemblages, Acclimated, Algal, Ambient, Changing, Conditions, Cotemperature, Diversity, Dominant, Examine, Experimental, Extended, Focus, Greenhouse, Increased, Isolated, Marine, Microbes, Natural, Observed, Plankton, Presence, Program, Protistan, Short-term, Species, Specific, Strains, Structure, Students, Tools, Treatments.

RAPID: Sources and Fates of Nitrogen and its Role in Supporting Dinoflagellate Blooms in the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patricia M Glibert($68,478), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Indian And Omani, Nitrogen Cycling, Nocticula Milaris, Rapidly Changing, Reu Student, Blooms, Climate, Collaboration, Dinoflagellate, Efforts, Eutrophication, Expansion, Massive, Ocean, Past, Previously, Primary, Rates, Students, Supporting.

Collaborative Research: Does larval transport or physiological tolerance set the southern range boundary of a northern blue mussel?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael A McCartney($226,137), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. Charles Tilburg($465,663), University of New England, Biddeford
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Flow Fields, Larval Dispersal, Mytilus Trossulus, Northeastern Maine, Physiological Tolerance, Range Boundary, Thermal Tolerance, Aquaculture, Assess, Canadian, Combination, EMCC, Edulis, Experiments, Growers, Gulf, Juveniles, Larvae, Mussel, Northern, Opportunities, Regimes, Region, Settlers, Sites, South, Spatial, Species, Student, Temperature, Transplants, Transport, Via, Water.

Collaborative Research: Groundwater Discharge, Benthic Coupling and Microalgal Community Structure in as Shallow Coastal Lagoon
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William C Burnett($229,566), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Little Lagoon, Microalgal Dynamics, Nutrient Enrichment, Spatial Scales, Alabama, Assess, Benthic, Composition, Demonstrated, Dependence, Dilution, Discharge, Driven, Ecological, Findings, Has, LLPS, Local, MPB, Microalgae, Nshore, Nutrients, Past, Phytoplankton, Pis, Press, SGD, Shown, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Hypoxia in Marine Ecosystems: Implications for Neritic Copepods
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James J Pierson($1,114,711), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Mary Beth Decker($149,946), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Hypoxic And Normoxic, Hypoxic Bottom Waters, Predators And Prey, Chesapeake Bay, Coastal Ecosystems, Copepod Mortality, Food-web Consequences, Gelatinous Zooplankton, Hypoxic Waters, Low-oxygen Waters, Mg L-1, Migratory Behavior, Normoxic Waters, Pelagic Fish, Spatial Coherence, Consumption, Copepods, Critical, Depth, Distribution, Effects, Egg, Fitness, Food-web, Horn, Hypoxia, Increased, Jellyfish, Laboratory, Low-oxygen, Microzooplankton, Migration, Oxycline, Planktonic, Predation, Program, REU, Stage-specific, Students, Top-down, Vertical.

Context-Dependency of Marine Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Relationships
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Geoffrey C Trussell($399,823), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Diversity-function Relationships, Ecosystem Functioning, Environmental Context, Herbivore Diversity, Producer Diversity, Seaweed Diversity, Biodiversity, COSA, Consequences, Diversity-function, Does, Ecosystems, Effects, Experiments, Feedbacks, Field, Grazer, Interactions, Intertidal, Levels, Maine, Marine, Processes, Public, Sites, Species, Students, Top-down, Trophic.

Collaborative Research: Life in the Dead Zone: Microbial respiration, production, diversity and gene expression in seasonally anoxic estuarine waters
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Byron C Crump($836,774), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbon Respiration Rates, Anoxic Waters, Anoxic Zones, Bottom Waters, Gene Expression, Growth Efficiency, Microbial Respiration, Respiratory Succession, Aerobic, Anoxichypoxic, Bacterial, Biogeochemical, Composition, Cycling, Dead, Depleted, Elevated, Environmental, Estuaries, Estuarine, Little, Oxic, Pis, Processes, Quantifying, Redox, Reduced, Reduction, Sulfate, Summer, Techniques, Was.

Planktonic interactions in a changing ocean: Biological responses of Emiliania huxleyi to elevated pCO2 and their effects on microzooplankton
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brooke Love($557,708), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Haptophyte Emiliania Huxleyi, Elevated Pco2, Gas Dms, Grazing Dynamics, Microzooplankton Grazing, Ocean Acidification, Organic Carbon, Trophic Levels, Active, Alterations, Biogeochemically, Calcifying, Controlled, Increase, K-, MIMSUP, Marine, Mechanisms, Modifications, Numerous, Organism, Outreach, Parameters, Phytoplankton, Program, REU, Received, Rising, SPMC, Strains, Student, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

EAGER: Population Genomics to Discern How Global Change Affects Species
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marjorie F Oleksiak($123,641), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Biological Oceanography, Coding Sequences, Population Structure, Affect, Approach, Biologically, Connectivity, Conservation, EAGER, Genes, Genetic, Genome, Individuals, Information, Marine, Markers, Methods, Particular, Pis, Populations, Resolution, SNP, Snps, Spatial, Species, Traits.

AGU Chapman Conference on Detachments in Oceanic Lithosphere: Deformation, Magmatism, Fluid Flow, and Ecoystems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brenda L Weaver($50,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Detachment Faults, Cyprus, Features, Gaps, Knowledge, Structures, Tectonic, Workshop.

Fucoid inducible defenses: the causes and consequences of intraspecific variation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeremy Long($242,924), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Exhibit Inducible, Inducible Defenses, Lesson Plans, Outreach Program, Rocky Shore, Seaweed Inducible, Seaweed-herbivore Interactions, Broad, Considerable, Consumers, Dynamics, Ecology, Enhance, Geographic, Grazing, Gulf, Intertidal, Junior, Littorina, Maine, Play, Populations, Seaweed-herbivore, Seaweeds, Species, Structuring, Students, Undergraduate.

Are Feeding and Growth Rates of Planktonic Ciliates Overestimated from Experiments in the Absence of Copepod Predators?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jens C Nejstgaard($451,347), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Aquatic Ecosystems, Copepod Predators, Trophic Levels, Assumption, Attempt, Ciliate, Ciliates, Common, Complexity, Copepods, Education, Experiments, Feeding, Flows, Growth, Interactions, Life, Marine, Model, Models, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Prey, Processes, Quantify, Rates, Resulting, School, Simplify, Strong, Students, Summer, Teacher, Teachers, Time, Via, World.

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

1. Nicole J Poulton($228,646), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Biogenic Sulfur Compounds, Diagnostic Nutrient Enrichment, Iron And Macronutrients, Nutrient Enrichment Experiments, South Atlantic Ocean, Status And Algal, Algal Class-specific, Benguela Upwelling, Climate Warming, Oligotrophic Gyres, Physiological Status, Assess, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Class-specific, DMS, Determining, Educational, Especially, Estimate, Fluxes, Global, In-situ, Levels, Low, Modelers, Models, Oceans, Populations, Primary, Productivity, Ratios, Region, Respect, Structure, Utilize.

Patterns of Ecosystem Function and Trophic Status in Well-mixed Subtropical Estuaries Undergoing Anthropogenic Modification
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marc E Frischer($445,645), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Fin And Shellfish, Dissolved Oxygen, Estuarine Ecosystems, Food Web, Gelatinous Predators, Nutrient Loading, Accepted, Bacteria, Basic, Caused, Components, Concentrations, Declines, Development, Ecological, Environmental, Eutrophication, Evidence, Facilitate, Fin-, Function, Increasing, Levels, Long-term, Lower, Microbial, Natural, Net, Nutrients, Plankton, Structure.

Collaborative Proposal: Local adaptation across latitudes: spatial scales, gene flow, and correlates of countergradient growth variation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Hannes Baumann($860,684), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Gene Flow, Growth Rate, Local Adaptation, Marine Species, Molecular Genetic, Behavior, Conservation, Environmental, Evolution, Excellent, Experience, Extensive, Fishing, Geographic, Highly, Latitudinal, Opportunity, Physiological, Populations, Public, Rapidly, Silverside, Size-selective, Surveys, Traits.

EAGER: Micromachined Sensors for Multi-functional and Autonomous Analysis of Geofluids: A New Approach to the Design and Performance of Chemical Sensors in Extreme Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: CCSS-Comms Circuits & Sens Sys

1. Kang Ding($50,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Yogesh B Gianchandani($51,805), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Aquatic, Ceramic, Developed, Development, Dramatically, Environmental, Environments, Lithography-compatible, Sensitivity, Sensor, Sensors, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Communities in Education And social Networks (COSEE-OCEAN)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Alan J Friedman($144,752), New York Hall of Science, Corona
2. Robert F Chen($854,999), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Boston Public Schools, Education And Outreach, Urban School Districts, Cosee Network, Existing Networks, Informal Education, Ocean Literacy, Ocean Scientists, Outreach Activities, Outreach Opportunities, Quality Ocean, ASLO, Broaden, COSEE-OCEAN, Capacity, Deliver, Development, Diverse, Educational, Educators, Effectively, Engage, Exchange, Experience, Hall, Non-coastal, Reach, Resources, STEM, Strategically, Strengthen, Students.

Collaborative Research: COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities - Connecting Communities around the World's Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Frederick Stahr($72,906), Ocean Inquiry Project, Seattle
2. Richard G Keil($617,932), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Puget Sound, Activities, Broad, COSEE-OLC, Citizen, Developed, Education, Educational, Efforts, Engage, Experiences, Formal, Informal, MVC, Ocean, Promote, Reach, Students.

Collaborative Research - COSEE Florida: Water as Habitat
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Valerie J Paul($668,138), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Susan B Cook($968,032), Indian River State College, Fort Pierce
3. Edith A Widder($749,869), Ocean Research & Conservation Association, Inc., Vero Beach
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Cosee Florida, Florida Ocean, Indian River, Intellectual Merit, Ocean Scientists, Stem Education, Audiences, Centers, Communicate, Content, Contribute, Educators, Expand, Floridas, Habitat, Informal, Initiatives, Literacy, Marine, Network, Nodes, Opportunities, Outreach, Pierce, Programs, Public, Quality, Regional, Technology, Water, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Systems - Building Capacity Through Collaboration
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Ashanti Johnson($142,490), Institute for Broadening Participation, South Portland
2. Annette V deCharon($1,172,181), University of Maine, Orono
3. William S Spitzer($179,325), New England Aquarium Corporation, Boston
Key terms: Bi Activities, Aid, Build, Building, COSEE-OS, Center, Centers, Content, Diverse, Education, Educators, Effective, Efforts, England, Increase, Laboratory, Model, NERACOOS, Neaq, OS, Ocean, Opportunities, Partnership, Products, Regional, Tools, Training.

COSEE SE: Addressing New Challenges
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Lois L Spence($1,075,009), South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston
Key terms: Cosee Se, Elementary School, Assist, Audiences, Broader, CCSD, Carolina, Challenges, Coastal, Continue, Education, Educators, Effort, Has, Informal, Information, Ocean, Potential, Reach, Regional, Resources, Strategies, Students, Targeting, Teachers.

Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Systems-Building Capacity
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Mark Wiley($155,080), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Bi Activities, Aid, Build, Building, COSEE-OS, Center, Centers, Content, Diverse, Education, Educators, Effective, Efforts, England, Increase, Laboratory, Model, NERACOOS, Neaq, OS, Ocean, Opportunities, Partnership, Products, Regional, Tools, Training.

COSEE-TEK: Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Technology & Engineering for Knowledge
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Lauren M Rader($975,000), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Information And Communications, Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Ocean Technologies, Ocean Technology, Activities, Approaches, Availability, COSEE-TEK, Catalyze, Center, Deaf, Developed, Education, Educational, Educators, Efforts, Engineering, Formal, Informal, Innovative, Knowledge, Objectives, Online, Opportunities, Outreach, Public, Quality, Resources, STEM, Seek, Students, Topics, Workforce.

Ocean Acidification Category 2: Collaborative Research - Development of geochemical proxies to evaluate larval pH-exposure history
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Lisa A Levin($199,803), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Achim D Herrmann($99,633), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Ph And Oxygen, Living Organisms, Ocean Acidification, Proxy Development, ASU, Ability, Anbar, Assess, Calcium, Carbonate, Chemistry, Courses, Del, Exposure, Exposures, Extent, Geochemistry, Herrmann, Larvae, Larval, Marine, Paleoclimatology, Past, Proxies, Species, Statoliths, Students, Via.

Ocean Acidification - Category 1: Climatological Mean Distribution of pH in Surface Waters in the Unified pH Scale and Mean Rate of changes in Selected Areas
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Taro Takahashi($291,596), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Global Ocean Ph, Pco2 And Dic, Ph And Carbonate, Carbonate Ion, Ion Concentration, Land Interactions, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Baseline, Surface Ocean, Alkalinity, Based, Characterization, Computed, Decades, Dickson, Distribution, Future, Information, North, Obtained, Past, Reference, Sea, Serve, Total, Waters.

RUI: Ocean Acidification- Category 1- The effects of ocean acidification on the organismic biology and community ecology of corals, calcified algae, and coral reefs
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Peter J Edmunds($2,067,539), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Calcifying Taxa, Coral Reefs, Graduate Students, Mentoring Program, Oa Effects, Ocean Acidification, Algae, Baseline, Calcification, Context, Current, Ecological, Ecophysiology, Effort, Ensure, Field, Focused, Functional, Investigations, LTER, Marine, Mechanisms, Mineralization, Moorea, Multiple, Omega, Processes, Recommendations, Significance, Structure, Threat.

Ocean Acidification-Category 1- Impact of ocean acidification on survival of early life stages of planktonic copepods in the genus Calanus in the northern
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Jeffrey Runge($697,701), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Surface And Deep, Temperature And Lower, Arctic Ocean, Calanus Species, Co2 Concentrations, Hatching Success, Lower Ph, North Atlantic, Northern Ocean, Ocean Acidification, Ph Levels, Planktonic Copepods, Population Dynamics, Reproductive Success, Cruise, Females, Finmarchicus, Glacialis, Gulf, Hyperboreus, Increased, Laboratory, Maine, Oceans, Primary, Seawater, Student.

Ocean Acidification Category 1: A mechanistic understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on the early life stages of marine bivalves
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. George G Waldbusser($1,996,833), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbonate Chemistry, Experimental Approach, Marine Organisms, Ocean Acidification, Periodically Acidified, Seawater Chemistry, Shell Mineralogy, Shell Structure, Aquaculture, Biological, Bivalve, Bivalves, Coastal, Control, Development, Effects, Experiments, Growth, Has, Integrated, Life, Longer-term, Measured, Mimicking, Mytilus, Nativity, Pco, Ph, Physiological, Pis, Species, Variables.

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION - Category 1: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Acclimation and adaptation to ocean acidification of key ecosystem components in the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Gretchen E Hofmann($473,354), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Francisco Chavez($329,805), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
3. Margaret McManus($33,115), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
4. Ann Russell($424,793), University of California-Davis, Davis
5. John A Barth($408,704), Oregon State University, Corvallis
6. Peter T Raimondi($73,540), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
7. Stephen R Palumbi($250,088), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Urchins And Mussels, Aragonite Saturation, Calcification-dependent Marine, Carbonate Chemistry, Northern California, Ocean Acidification, Sea Urchins, Upwelling Regimes, Ability, Acclimatization, Biochemistry, CCLME, Calcification-dependent, Carry, Challenge, Chemical, Conditions, Context, Integrated, Intense, Invertebrates, Larvae, Local-scale, Molecular, Nsf-funded, O-A, Oceanography, Oregon, Organisms, Ph, Physiological, Pis, Range, Regions, Upwelling-dominated, Variable.

Ocean Acidification-Category 1: Collaborative Research: An Investigation of the Role of Nutrition in the Coral Calcification Response to Ocean Acidification
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Daniel C McCorkle($951,619), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Samantha de Putron($78,888), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Coral's Energetic Status, Laboratory And Field, Co2 Conditions, Coral Calcification, Coral Host, Coral Reef, Coral's Energetic, Heterotrophic Feeding, Inorganic Nutrients, Nutrient Reefs, Ocean Acidification, Century, Coastal, Concentrations, Conspecifics, Corals, Course, Critical, Decreased, Direct, Exceed, Exists, Experimental, Experiments, Findings, Initial, Low, Naturally, Omegaar, Photosynthesis, Program, Rates, Reared, Seawater, Species, Threshold, Tropical.

Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Thecosome Pteropods in Relation to Carbonate Chemistry in the Northwest Atlantic and Northeast Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Zhaohui 'Aleck' Wang($1,628,088), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Aragonite Saturation Levels, Atlantic And Northeast, Atlantic And Pacific, Vertical Migratory Behavior, Carbonate Chemistry, Compensation Depth, Northeast Pacific, Northwest Atlantic, Ocean Acidification, Pacific Oceans, Pteropod Distribution, Species Composition, Thecosome Pteropods, Vertical Distribution, Water Column, Zooplankton Ecology, Abundance, Acoustic, Biological, Changing, Combination, Concurrent, Detailed, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Findings, Future, Highly, Horizontal, Implications, Inter-disciplinary, Marine, Objectives, Pelagic, Planktonic, Resources, Shell, Transects.

Ocean Acidification - Category 1: Calibration and application of the boron isotope seawater-pH indicator in deep-water corals
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Baerbel Hoenisch($441,221), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Deep-sea Coral Reefs, Anthropogenic Co2, Boron Isotope, Changing Seawater, Deep Ocean, Deep-sea Coral, Deep-sea Corals, Live Collected, Ocean Acidification, Carbonate, Chemistry, Composition, Female, Paleo-ph, Past, Ph, Reconstructions, Species.

Ocean Acidification- Category 1: Real time assessment of ocean acidification proxies and their incorporation in the marine sediment record
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Howard Scher($440,877), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Ion And Ph, Atmospheric Co2, Carbonate Ion, Cariaco Basin, Ocean Chemistry, Ph Proxies, Water Column, Centuries, Foraminiferal, Oceans, Time.

Ocean Acidification Category 2: Calcification in low saturation seawater: What can we learn from organisms in the proximity of low pH, undersaturated submarine springs?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Adina Paytan($262,340), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Graduate Student, Calcification, Corals, Experiments, Field, Future, Low, Mexico, Natural, Observations, Ocean, Organisms, Ph, Saturation, Sites, Spatial, Springs, Temporal, Utility, Water.

RAPID: Evaluation of the near term impact of the Deepwater Horizon blowout to the South Florida coast
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Ashwanth Srinivasan($170,267), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: South Florida Coast, Loop Current, Mixture Behavior, Modeling Framework, Ocean Predictions, Oil Mixture, Oil Products, CMS, Capability, Circulation, Coastal, Deep, Efforts, Gulf, Has, Hycom-based, Mexico, Multi-scale, Nested, Operational, Particles, Pathways, Probabilistic, Processes, RAPID, Resolution, Simulated, Transport, Water, Website.

Dispersion and Mixing Caused By Near-Inertial Internal Waves in Lake Michigan
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Cary Troy($409,996), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Inertial Internal Waves, Mixing And Horizontal, Broader Impacts, Coastal Environment, Dye Release, Educator Workshop, Horizontal Dispersion, Inertial Wave, Lake Michigan, National Parks, Near-inertial Internal, Near-inertial Waves, Purdue's Autonomous, Vertical Mixing, Absent, Additionally, Based, Dominated, Energetic, Experiments, Features, Importance, Lakes, Magnitudes, Microstructure, Ninertial, Numerical, Ocean, Outreach, Performed, Period, Processes, Purdues, Quantify, Set, Stratified, Tides, Turbulent, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: A Novel Tracer Approach to Estimate the Atmospheric Input of Trace Elements into the Global Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($221,186), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. David C Kadko($429,272), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric Flux, Atmospheric Input, Chemical Species, Surface Ocean, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Deposition, Estimates, GEOTRACES, Graduate, Inventory, Models, Plays, Program, Tes, Trace, Wet.

Collaborative Research: Source apportionment of iron in the marine atmosphere - application of stable iron isotopic measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian J Majestic($18,877), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Pierre Herckes($225,202), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Natural And Anthropogenic, Anthropogenic Sources, Fe Isotopes, Fe Isotopic, Marine Microorganisms, Additionally, Aerosol, Aerosols, Arizona, Assess, Availability, Bermuda, Demonstrated, Dust, Elemental, Has, Limited, Micronutrient, Nutrient, Ocean, Origin, Primary, Solubility, Specific, Tracer, Winds.

Collaborative Research: The Contribution of Polyamines to N and C cycling in Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James T Hollibaugh($189,915), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Xiaozhen Mou($246,622), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Assemblages, DON, Dissolved, Examine, Fate, Involved, Molecular, Ocean, Polyamines, Students.

Evaluating the Environmental Influences on D/H Fractionation in Algal Lipids
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Julian P Sachs($662,334), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dh Fractionation, Conditions, Environmental, Experiments, Growth, Has, Huxleyi, Influence, Lab, Lipids, Natural, Phytoplankton, Principal, Undergraduates, Washington, Women.

A new method for rapid and high sensitivity determinations of low-molecular-weight organic acids in seawater
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christian Brueckner($354,375), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Lmw Organic Acid, Detection Limits, Organic Acids, Compounds, Connecticut, Contamination, Coumarin, Cycling, Method, Seawater, Students.

Collaborative Research: Control of Denitrification and Anammox in the Oxygen Deficient Waters of the Eastern Tropical North and South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Allan H Devol($543,999), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Amal Jayakumar($682,478), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Denitrification And Anammox, Anammox Rates, Eastern Tropical, Graduate Student, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Ammonium, Coverage, ESTP, ETNP, Experiments, Fixed, Flux, Incubation, Investigate, Nitrogen, OMZ, Omzs, Oxygen, Pacific, Princeton, Removal, Tracer, Undergraduate, Washington, Waters, Whereas.

90Y/90Sr and 234Th/238U disequilibria: Using dual chronometers to measure the effect of invasive dreissenid mussels on particle dynamics in Lake Michigan.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James T Waples($390,481), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Benthic Mussel Population, Situ Benthic Mussel, Lake Michigan, Situ Particle, Dynamics, Effect, Environmental, Examine, Has, Lakes, Nearshore, Nutrient, Objectives, Particles, Removal, Residence, Techniques, Tracers, Water.

Acquisition of Additional Counting Instruments for Radiochemical Research at Wayne State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark Baskaran($30,700), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: Additional Alpha, Alpha Spectrometer, Capability, Facility, Has, Outside, Radiochemists, Students, Training.

Molecular and isotopic composition of novel biomarkers in diatom frustules as indicators of past ocean conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Anitra E Ingalls($491,254), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Diatom Frustules, Isotopic Signature, Oceanographic Conditions, Organic Compounds, Organic Molecules, Organic Template, Useful Biomarkers, Collaboration, Composition, Examine, Involve, Matrix, Molecular, Nutrient, Potential, Surface.

Biogeochemical Impact and Fate of Non-phosphorus Membrane Lipids in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin Van Mooy($699,565), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon And Phosphorus, Particulate Organic Matter, Degradation Rates, Lipid Molecules, Marine Carbon, Non-phosphorus Lipids, Woods Hole, Abundant, Biochemical, CNP, Compose, Export, Foundation, Ip-dags, Non-phosphorus, Phospholipids, Plankton, Poorly, Relative, Student, Training, Units.

Sources and Sinks of Methyl Halides in the Florida Everglades and Coastal Waters
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. M.A.K. Khalil($449,692), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Formation And Consumption, Sources And Sinks, Coastal Wetland, Mechanisms Responsible, Methyl Halides, Microbial Formation, Everglades, Photochemical, Stable, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Changing the manganese paradigm
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bradley M Tebo($67,675), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
2. George W Luther($82,325), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Approaches, Detection, Has, Investigated, Levels, Method, Methods, Mniii, Sensitivity, Tested.

Redox dynamics resulting from chemical and physical fluxes in surficial permeable sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francis J Sansone($682,069), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Biogeochemical Fluxes, Permeable Sediments, Chemical, Modeling, Porewater, Situ, Spatial, Student, Temporal, Wide.

Sharpening Geochemical Tools for Assessing Oceanic Biological Production: Exploring the Limits of Oxygen/Argon Ratios and Triple Oxygen Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rachel Stanley($392,889), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Toi And O2ar, Gross Primary, Intercalibration Effort, O2ar Ratios, Available, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Continuous, Cruise, Differences, EIMS, Laboratories, Marine, Oar, Oxygen, Plankton, Productivity, Properties, Situ, Spatial, VPR-II, Water.

Investigating the Structural Basis of the Optical and Photochemical Properties of Chromophoric Dissolve Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rossana Del Vecchio($605,451), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Chromophoric Dissolved Organic, Dissolved Organic Matter, Optical And Photochemical, Resolution Mass Spectra, Ultra-high Resolution Mass, Marine Waters, Photochemical Properties, Photochemical Reactivity, Structural Basis, Ultra-high Resolution, Undergraduate Students, Atlantic, CDOM, Coastal, Collected, Compared, Content, De, Fresh, Maryland, Spectral.

Boundary Sources and Sinks of 230Th, 232Th and 231Pa in the NW Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert F Anderson($202,149), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sedimentary 231pa230th Ratios, 231pa230th Ratios, Chemical Fractionation, Enhanced Scavenging, Ocean Margins, Pacific Ocean, Preferential Removal, Reactive Substances, Sedimentary 231pa230th, Aspects, Boundary, Collected, Concentration, Dissolved, Focus, Importance, Inform, Isotopes, Near, Objectives, Particle-reactive, Particulate, Path, Phases, Previously, Processes, Sediment-water, Spatial, Various.

Connecting Trace Elements and Metalloenzymes Across Marine Biogeochemical Gradients
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carl Lamborg($837,905), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Tropical North Pacific, Incubation Experiments, Trace Metals, Activity, Biogeochemical, Controlled, Cycling, Degradation, Enzymatic, Enzymes, Methylation, Organic, Particulate, Proponents, Proteases, Zinc.

The Marine Dissolved N2/Ar Ratio, A Tracer for Deep Ocean Denitrification?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven R Emerson($503,461), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Near And Krar, Analytical Methods, Gas Ratios, Indian Ocean, N2ar Ratio, North Pacific, Time-series Site, Atlantic, Caused, Collaboration, Contamination, Cycle, Deep, Denitrification, Global, Has, Increase, Nar, Nitrogen, Observed, Oceanography, Processes, Sediment, Sites, Tgyr, Time-series, Washington.

Organic geochemical and isotopic analysis of dissolved and particulate organic matter of diffuse flow hydrothermal water (Juan de Fuca ridge; ODP Borehole Observatories)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Fabien P Kenig($196,094), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Dissolved And Particulate, Particulate Organic Matter, Allow Examination, Basement Crust, Organic Compounds, Organic Geochemical, Age, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Biosphere, Bulk, Characteristics, Chemical, Chemistry, Chicago, Collaboration, Collect, Complex, Composition, DOM, Environments, Examine, Existing, Exists, Fluids, Hypothesized, Illinois, Influence, Information, Interactions, Isotopic, LMOM, Little, MOR, Microbial, Ocean, Processes, Sources, Students, Sub-seafloor, Subsurface, Time, Washington.

RAPID: Mass Spectral Characterization of the Water-Soluble Component of Crude Oil Released During Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($37,681), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical And Biological, Crude Oil, Oil Spill, Woods Hole, Analytical, Components, Composition, Environmental, Gulf, Mexico, Student, Water-soluble, Weathering.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Snow and Sedimentation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Uta D E Passow($79,903), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Arne Diercks($47,033), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Marine Snow, Oil Aggregates, Oil Spill, Remain Suspended, Snow Formation, Accident, Activity, Consequences, Cycling, Dispersants, Distribution, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Fate, Following, Future, Hotspots, Measures, Particles, Sedimentation, Sink, Water.

RAPID: Marine-to-Land Fluxes of Dissolved and Particulate Carbon Derived from the Deepwater Horizon Surface Slick During the 2010 Hurricane Season
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Siddhartha Mitra($43,497), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon, Inland Sites, Oil Spill, Tropical Storms, Attention, Coastal, Environmental, Gulf, Marine, Potential, Rainfall, Via.

RAPID: Impact of Nutrient Limitation on Microbial Degradation of Deepwater Horizon Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin Van Mooy($39,437), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Release, Degradation Rates, Microbial Degradation, Oil Degradation, Ability, Assess, Benefit, Examine, Gulf, Limitation, Mexico, Microbes, Nutrient, Nutrients, Potential, Remediation, Time.

RAPID:Rates and mechanisms controlling the microbial degradation of crude oil from the MC252 spill in Gulf of Mexico beach sands
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Markus H Huettel($169,653), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Composition And Activity, Oil And Detergent-oil, Oil Degradation Rates, Structure And Function, Transport And Degradation, Beach Filtration, Crude Oil, Deepwater Horizon, Detergent-oil Mixtures, Gulf Beaches, Northeastern Gulf, Oil Contamination, Oil Transport, Sandy Beaches, Toxin Release, Caused, Decrease, Economy, Effect, Extending, Floridas, Mexico, Microbial, Penetration, Procedures, Process, Quantify, Sediment, Sediments, Uptake, Water.

RAPID: Mapping Subsurface Hydrocarbon Plume Distribution and Structure near MC Block 252
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard Camilli($131,040), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: In-situ Mass Spectrometer, Tethys In-situ Mass, Conventional Sampling, Deepwater Horizon, In-situ Mass, Oil Spill, Tethys In-situ, Woods Hole, Amu, Damage, Deeper, Findings, Gulf, Mexico, Plumes, Presence, Resolution, Underwater.

RAPID: Assessing the impact of chemical dispersents on the microbial biodegradation of oil immediately following a massive spill
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David L Valentine($119,964), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Gas Chromatography, Biodegradation, Composition, Compounds, Determined, Dispersants, Effects, Fate, Has, Hydrocarbon, Microbial, Oil, Quantified, Sampling, Spill, Surfactant, Surfactants.

RAPID: The effect of methane laden oil on climate and dissolved oxygen: using the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as an analog for clathrate decomposition and seeping methane
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Shari Yvon-Lewis($156,081), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Rig, Low Oxygen Zones, Dissolved Oxygen, Fossil Methane, Methane Released, Oxygen Concentrations, Water Column, Atmosphere, CH, Clathrate, Decomposing, Ebullition, Gulf, Information, Mexico, Oil, Oxidation, Past, Rapidly.

RAPID: Effect of Oil Spill on Organic Carbon Partitioning and Transformation in the Water Column in the Northern Gulf
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laodong Guo($60,000), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Crude Oil Components, Marine Organic Matter, Natural Marine Organic, Transport And Transformation, Northern Gulf, Oil Spill, Optical Properties, Organic Carbon, Stable Isotopes, Composition, Dissolved, EEM, Fate, Fluorescence, Interactions, Maximum, Mexico, Mississippi, Techniques, Uv-vis.

RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Deep pelagic and benthic impacts of the oil spill
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Samantha B Joye($199,581), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Waters And Sediments, Deep Waters, Deepwater Horizon, Microbially Mediated, Oil Spill, Spill Site, Female, Methane, Processes, Sampling, Sites.

RAPID - Collaborative Research: Impact of the New Horizon Oil Spill on Ecosystem Metabolism and Gas Exchange in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Region
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nathaniel E Ostrom($44,758), Michigan State University, East Lansing
2. Zhanfei Liu($44,612), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Composition And Origin, Msu And Ut, Respiration And Gas, Drilling Rig, Gas Exchange, Northern Gulf, Oil Spill, Oil Spills, Surface Organic, Abundance, Austin, Courses, Depth, Development, Discharge, Enhance, Environmental, Hypoxia, Impacted, Layer, Mexico, NGOMEX, Primary, Rate, Rates, Reducing, Regions, Stations.

RAPID: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Effects on Metal, Nutrient, and Organic Matter Distributions in the Water
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alan M Shiller($48,729), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Chemical Distributions, Oil Spill, Affected, Affecting, Effects, Fishery, Nutrients, Ongoing.

RAPID: Hydrocarbon Dissolution Fluxes from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Plume: GCxGC Chemical Analysis and Mass Transfer Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher M Reddy($149,989), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oil Spill Models, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Plume, Oil Release, Sea Floor, Woods Hole, Behavior, Damage, Fate, Hydrocarbon, Opportunity, Resulting, Subsurface, Unprecedented.

Collaborative Research: Constraining the sources, ages and alteration of dissolved and particulate lipids in estuarine and coastal organic matter
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James Bauer($349,240), Ohio State University, Columbus
2. Elizabeth A Canuel($361,572), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Doc And Poc, Lipophilic Organic Matter, Mary Virginia Institute, William And Mary, Coastal Waters, Graduate Student, Lipid Components, Lipid Fraction, Organic Carbon, Residence Times, Age, Estuarine, Marine, Ohio, Reactivity, Sources.

Transient Diagenesis in Organic Poor Sediments: Lake Superior
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Josef P Werne($416,961), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Seasonal And Multi-decadal, Temporal And Spatial, Lake Superior, Organic Carbon, Water Column, Budgets, Chemistry, Concentrations, Dynamics, Elucidate, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Iron, Models, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Objectives, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Productivity, Quantify, Rates, Sediment, Sediments, Situ.

Uranium Isotopes in Carbonate Sediments: Assessing a Novel Paleoredox Proxy
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laura Wasylenki($368,544), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Isotope Composition, Abiotic, Biogenic, Fractionation, Isotopes, Redox.

RUI: Biological production of oceanic alkyl nitrates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elizabeth E Dahl($186,806), Loyola University Maryland, Inc., Baltimore
Key terms: Oceanic Alkyl Nitrates, Cultures, Factors, Nitrogen, Phytoplankton, Source, Sources, Students.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section Nitrate Isotope Measurements
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($237,716), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Meredith Hastings($109,335), Brown University, Providence
3. Daniel M Sigman($270,643), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Biologically Mediated, Broader Impacts, Intermediate Water, Nitrate D15n, North Atlantic, Sargasso Sea, Antarctic, Atmospheric, Basin, Biogeochemical, Budget, Core, Cycles, Cycling, Dn, Fixation, Fixed, GEOTRACES, Global, Interior, Isotope, Isotopic, Mediterranean, Modern, Nutrient, Ocean, Oceanographic, Paleoceanographic, Platform, Processes, Rate.

Production and Fate of Acrylate in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David J Kieber($448,000), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Marine Acrylate Cycle, Acrylate Concentrations, Contrasting Oceanic, Graduate Students, Biogeochemistry, Chemistry, DMS, DMSP, Dissolved, Environmental, Especially, Fluxes, Foster, Has, Local, Mentoring, Oceans, Participation, Photolysis, Presentations, Rates, SUNY, Significantly.

Collaborative Research: Chemical Changes Accompanying Petroleum Weathering in the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David L Valentine($373,024), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Christopher M Reddy($349,787), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Santa Barbara, Analytical, Biodegradation, Broadly, Chemists, Directly, Dissolution, Environmental, Evaporation, Gt, Mass, Molecules, National, Ocean, Oil, Seeps, Weathering.

Expression of Microbial Nitrification in the Stable Isotopic Systematics of Oceanic Nitrite and Nitrate
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($727,317), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Nitrite And Nitrate, Isotopic Signatures, Nitrite Maximum, Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrous Oxide, Oxygen Isotopic, Secondary Nitrite, Analysis, Budget, Budgets, Climate, Experiments, Field, Hypothesize, Involved, Laboratory, Marine, Nitrification, Oxidation, Primary, Processes, Produced, Quantitative, Training.

The quality control of oceanic carbon dioxide measurements: preparation and distribution of reference materials.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew G Dickson($414,439), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Oceanic Carbon Dioxide, Total Dissolved Inorganic, Ocean Acidification, Quality Control, Sea Water, Total Alkalinity, Analytical, Analyzed, Based, Education, Field, Future, High-quality, Institute, International, Methods, Parameters, Particular, Principal, Program, Public, Reference, Seawater, Students, Various.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES - Application of 210-Pb and 210-Po distribution at North Atlantic interface regimes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Thomas M Church($151,294), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Gillian Stewart($59,848), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
3. Mark Baskaran($101,284), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: 210po And 210pb, Atlantic Survey Section, Geotraces North Atlantic, Broader Impacts, Hydrothermal Plumes, Particle Types, Scavenging Models, According, Atmospheric, BNL, Biogenic, Closely, Coordinated, Depths, Designated, Dissolved, Half, Hypothesize, INL, Input, Interface, Interfaces, Isotopes, Lithogenic, Ocean, Pair, Particulate, Processes, Radionuclide, Sections, Source, Teis, Trace, Waters.

US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: Analysis of Key Trace Elements in Size-fractionated Marine Particles
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Phoebe J Lam($354,065), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Battery Operated In-situ, Geotraces Atlantic Section, Operated In-situ Filtration, Atlantic Geotraces, In-situ Filtration, Mclane Pumps, Operated In-situ, Size-fractionated Particles, Trace Metal, Woods Hole, Analysis, Collection, Composition, Control, Cycling, Dataset, Distribution, Isotopes, Ocean, Parameters, Particulate, Phases, Plan, Processes, Radionuclide, Short-lived, Size-fractionated, Student, Teis.

US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: Trace Metals in the Surface Waters of the North Atlantic Transect - Plus an Archive of the Vertical Profiles
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth W Bruland($427,307), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Carousel Sampling, Near Surface, Surface Ocean, Surface Water, Trace Metals, Vertical Profiles, Analyzed, Atmospheric, Collected, Extensive, Facilitate, GEOTRACES, Investigating, Program, Set.

The Oceanography of B-Vitamins: evaluating how nutrients and trace metals influence their synthesis, cycling, and biogeochemical impact
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Sergio A Sanudo-Wilhelmy($819,448), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Growth Factors, Southern California, World Ocean, Activity, Auxotrophic, Availability, B-vitamins, Balance, Biological, Cells, Cyanobacteria, Cycling, Dissolved, Eukaryotic, Field, Found, Marine, Particulate, Phase, Prokaryotic, Vitamin.

RAPID: Anthropogenic radionuclides in the Atlantic Ocean 4 decades after GEOSECS
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy C Kenna($132,662), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Anthropogenic Radionuclides, Geotraces Cruises, Isotopic Composition, Nuclear Power, Allow, Atlantic, Concentrations, Cs, Distributions, Energy, Fate, GEOSECS, Gained, Information, Mass, Measured, Np, Nuclides, Particle, Processes, Pu, Pupu, Range, Regions, Reliance, Scavenging, Sources, Teis, Tracers, Transport, Water.

EAGER: Quantification of Dissolved Titanium in Open Ocean Seawater
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard W Murray($115,224), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Dust And Fluvial, Fluvial Fluxes, Geotraces Rosette, Icp-ms Analysis, Ability, Aluminosilicate, Analytical, Boston, Broader, Climate, Cruz, Cycling, Education, Establishing, Followed, Gathered, Has, ICP-MS, Impacts, Inorganic, Methodology, Multiple, Ocean, Pre-concentration, Procedure, Resin, Sampling, Seawater, Ti, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Global Ocean Survey of Dissolved and Particulate Iron and Aluminum and Aerosol Iron and Aluminum Solubility Supporting the CLIVAR/Repeat Hydrography Project
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($490,222), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Christopher I Measures($509,235), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Clivar Repeat Hydrography, Repeat Hydrography Program, Rainfall Sampling, Sampling Equipment, Aerosol, Analyzed, Biogeochemical, Collected, Coupled, Filtered, Florida, GEOTRACES, Hawaii, ICP-MS, Iron, Postdoc, Seawater, Section, Shore-based, Soluble, Stored, Subsamples, Trace, °S.

Collaborative Research: Applying O2/Ar, DELTA17O and 222Rn methodologies to constrain organic carbon productivity in the upper ocean of the ETSP
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward D Young($99,256), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. William M Berelson($301,969), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: 17o Excess, Gas Exchange, Los Angeles, Nitrogen Fixation, Southern California, Biological, Contribution, Export, Measuring, Oar, Oxygen, Primary, Processes, Produced, Productive, Productivity, Radon, Rates, Supersaturation, Surface, Upper, Water, Waters.

Radiocarbon in Dissolved Organic Matter in Ocean Water
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellen R Druffel($570,870), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Black Carbon, Bulk Doc, Doc Cycling, South Atlantic, South Pacific, Age, Analyzed, Classes, Deep, North, Ocean, Set, Signatures, Timescale, Water, °N, °S.

Dissertations in Chemical Oceanography XXII and XXIII
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher I Measures($279,504), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Chemical Oceanographers, Academic, Announcement, DISCO, October, Pool, Symposium.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The role of marine Crenarchaeota in nitrification and links among biogeochemical processes in the eastern tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 12/10/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. John M Beman($215,830), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Goc And Etnp, Upper Water Column, Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea, Inorganic Carbon, Marine Crenarchaeota, Microbial Ecology, Nitrite Oxidation, Oxidation Rates, AOA, Active, Ammonia-oxidizing, Amoa, Archaeal, Biogeochemistry, Broader, Connections, Coupling, Critical, Depths, Fixation, Has, Nitrification, Nitrogen, OMZ, Ocean, Plays, Processes, Quantify, Removal, Stations, Students.

Collaborative Research: Macrofaunal community effects on benthic exchange fluxes
Award Effective Date: 09/30/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. George G Waldbusser($182,409), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Reactive Transport Model, Benthic Infauna, Model Simulations, Sediment Biogeochemistry, Spatial Arrangement, Approach, Biogeochemical, Burrow, Burrows, Coastal, Critical, Cycling, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Effects, Experimental, Experiments, Findings, Flux, Fluxes, Framework, Information, Interaction, Interactions, Irrigation, Laboratory, Larger, Macrofaunal, Nutrient, Sampling, Scaling, Seafloor, Species, Water.

Dimensions: Collaborative research: Biological controls of the ocean C:N:P ratios
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. Kun Zhang($572,518), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Steven D Allison($1,030,458), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Michael W Lomas($899,658), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
4. Simon A Levin($498,848), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Nutrient Supply Ratesratios, Genetic Diversity, Redfield Ratio, Surface Ocean, Acquisition, Affects, Analyses, Assimilation, Biodiversity, Biogeochemistry, CNP, Cell, Cellular, Climate, Composition, Ecological, Elemental, Environment, Evolutionary, Field, Framework, Functional, Genomic, Global, Growth, Has, Laboratory, Mechanistic, Mentoring, Microbes, Model, Oceans, Plankton, Program, Stoichiometry, Students, Taxon, Taxonomic, Training.

DIMENSIONS: Collaborative Research - Uncovering the novel diversity of the copepod microbiome and its effect on habitat invasions by the copepod host
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. Carol E Lee($726,561), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Joana C Carneiro da Silva($1,640,357), University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore
Key terms: Copepod Host, Copepod Microbiome, Freshwater Habitats, Functional Diversity, Functional Integration, Genetic Diversity, Metabolic Functions, Microbial Taxa, Preliminary Sequencing, Taxonomic Composition, Affinis, Analysis, Consortia, Disease, Ecology, Ecosystem, Following, Genetics, Insights, Interactions, Invaded, Invasions, Play, Processes, Reveal, Saline, Shift, Students, Underrepresented, Unexplored.

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Significance of nitrification in shaping planktonic biodiversity in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. James W Moffett($599,278), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. David A Stahl($2,419,273), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Physiological And Environmental, Ammonia Oxidation, Nitrogen Available, Nitrogen Cycle, Nutrient Cycles, Photic Zone, Reactive Nitrogen, AOA, Acidification, Activity, Affected, Alter, Analyses, Anthropogenic, Archaea, Atmospheric, Bacterial, Biodiversity, Biological, Compelling, Competitive, Control, Controlling, Cycling, Diversity, Enhance, Environments, Estimates, Formal, Function, Functional, Genetic, Has, Inputs, Marine, Microbial, Microorganisms, Nitrate, Nitrification, Nitrite, Ocean, Possibly, Prior, Sequencing, Specific, Students, Sustain, Taxonomic, Taxonomy, Teachers, Terrestrial, Tremendous.

Support for Aquatic Sciences Film Festival Workshop
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jonathan H Sharp($12,490), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: ASLO, Held, Short, Workshop.

RAPID: Responsive Oil Spill Outreach Based in Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian M McCann($186,078), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Broadcast Programs, Companion Web, Oil Spill, Video Packages, Content, Discussions, Focus, Funding, MPB, Minutes, Mississippi, Public, Roundtable, Timely, Topics, Videos.

CAREER: The Influence of Distributed River Inputs and Coastal Embayments on Dynamics in Large Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Michael M Whitney($599,786), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Circulation And Density, Distributed River Inputs, Education And Outreach, Rivers And Coastal, Watersheds And Estuaries, Coastal Embayments, Coastal Watersheds, Density Structure, Distributed Rivers, Estuarine Dynamics, Fresh Water, Graduate Students, Straining Conditions, Surface-runoff Model, Transport Pathways, Approach, Carbon, Connecticut, Coupled, Course, Effects, Estuary, Gain, Gradients, Hydrodynamic, Increased, Influence, Inform, K-, LIS, Modeling, Multiple, Oceanology, Program, Quantify, Riverine, Storm, Surface-runoff, Techniques, Tidal, Transform, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Chemical Sentinel--A Mass Spectrometer Payload for AUV Gliders
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Richard Camilli($798,869), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Auv Glider, Broader Impacts, Mass Spectrometer, Shelf Break, Water Column, Aboard, Broad-based, Carbon, Coastal, Curricula, Cycling, Education, Engineering, England, Experiences, Gas, Integrate, Levels, Nitrogen, Observation, Onboard, Operation, Oxygen, Program, Programs, STEM, School, Students, Technology.

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Center for Great Lakes Studies
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($283,388), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Active, Program, Public, REU, Students.

REU SITE: Research Experience for Undergraduates: Analyzing Global Databases
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Dallas H Abbott($369,208), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: LDEO, Program, Students, Summer.

NSF REU 2010-2015
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. David L Kirchman($531,791), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Workshops And Round, Round Tables, Graduate, Interns, Marine, Program, REU, Seminars, Students, Summer, Topics, Write.

REU Site: Research Experiences in estuarine science for undergraduates at Mote Marine Laboratory: Developing a new generation of leaders in Ocean Sciences
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Barbara Kirkpatrick($174,409), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Mote Marine Laboratory, Program, REU, Students, Undergraduates.

REU: Ocean Sciences Meeting Support For OCE REU Students
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Carmen Aguilar($177,468), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Reu Students, AGU, ASLO, Aspects, Meeting, Meetings, Networking, Oce-funded, Opportunity, Program, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

CAREER: Physical Modulation of Dissolved Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Malcolm E Scully($535,003), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Coastal And Estuarine, Water Quality Issues, Chesapeake Bay, Comprehensive Examination, Density Stratification, Dissolved Oxygen, Educational Activities, Estuarine Bathymetry, Lateral Circulation, Turbulent Mixing, Turbulent Scalar, Wide Range, Biological, CHIMP, Control, Development, Direct, Dominant, Efforts, Flux, Hampton, Hypoxia, Importance, Interactions, Mechanism, Model, Objective, Processes, Program, Promote, Public, Students, Targeting, Tool, Vertical, Waters.

NUTURING THE EMERGING LANGUAGE OF VIDEO: A Video-Making Workshop
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($9,720), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Short Videos, Audience, Compelling, Outreach, Public, Workshop.

RAPID: Understanding Early Time Biogeophysical Signals of the Microbial Degradation of Crude Oil from the BP Spill in Saline Marshlands
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Babu Z Fathepure($192,749), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Deep Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Geophysical Signatures, Characteristics, Coastal, Contaminated, EM, Methodology, Microbial, Sediments.

Does habitat specialization drive population genetic structure of oceanic zooplankton?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Erica Goetze($561,994), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Diel Vertical Migration, Population Genetic Structure, Depth Specialization, Depth-related Habitat, Gene Flow, Graph Theoretic, Nuclear Markers, Ocean Regions, Target Species, Zooplankton Species, Broad, Coalescent, Controlling, Depth-related, Developed, Development, Distinct, Eight, Global, Little, Marine, Pacific, Plankton, Populations, RET, School, Spatial, Students, Teachers, Timing, Training, Underrepresented.

Nitrogen cycle changes across the Cretacous-Paleogene mass extinction event
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Tracy M Quan($343,893), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Mass Extinction, Biogeochemical, Boundary, Cores, Deep, Dn, Following, Funding, K-pg, Nitrogen, Ocean, Program, Reactions, Was.

Collaborative Research: Determining rates of group-specific phytoplankton and bacterial uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen by means of stable isotope techniques
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Boris Wawrik($392,863), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Deborah A Bronk($377,744), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Phytoplankton And Bacterial, Bacteria Specific, Chesapeake Bay, Dna Sip, Advances, Applied, Biology, Center, Cruise, Cycling, Ecosystems, Educational, FCM, Graduate, Has, Individual, Industry, Inorganic, Interactive, K-, Marine, Measured, Methodological, Methodologies, Methodology, NO-, Network, Nutrition, Oklahoma, Organic, Pis, Populations, Schools, Species, Students, Summer, Teachers, Tools, Transect, Undergraduate, Uptake, Via.

Collaborative Research: Host-environment-pathogen interactions in a model coral disease system
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Greta Aeby($276,909), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Deborah J Gochfeld($198,455), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Acute Tissue Loss, Montipora White Syndrome, Bacterial Pathogens, Color Morphs, Coral Disease, Coral Diseases, Coral Reef, Disease Causation, Kaneohe Bay, Orange Morphs, Potential Pathogens, Putative Pathogens, Red Vs, School Students, Undergraduate Students, Affect, Affected, Capitata, Center, Chronic, Classes, Colonies, Compare, Contributing, Discovered, Education, Environmental, Found, Graduate, HIMB, Has, Hawaii, Infectious, Integration, Investigate, MWS, Marine, Mechanisms, Mississippi, Multidisciplinary, Oahu, Pacific, Pis, Produced, Program, Reefs, Strains, Susceptible, Triangle, UH, Was.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Phytoplankton Ballast Material in Deterring Copepod Grazing
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nicole J Poulton($462,847), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Biological Pump, Deep Ocean, Fecal Pellet, Fecal Pellets, Flow Cytometry, Grazing Experiments, Mineral Content, Mineral Load, Sinking Rates, Biogenic, Cell, Cells, Copepod, Copepods, Development, Direct, Enable, Evolutionary, Experience, Function, Has, Interactions, Link, Mechanisms, Microcinematography, Numerous, Organic, Plankton, Predict, Programs, Protists, Sediments, Specific, Students, Surface, Techniques, Undergraduate.

Geoinformatics Facilities Support: Integrated Data Collections for the Earth & Ocean Sciences: The Marine Geoscience Data System and the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Progr
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: EarthCube

1. William B Ryan($12,623,687), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Solid-earth Geosciences, Activities, Datasets, Discovery, Education, Essential, Facility, Geoinformatics, Infrastructure, Management, Resulting, Serve, Solid-earth, Standards, Tools.

GeoPRISMS Office Support - Building Beyond MARGINS
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Julia K Morgan($1,760,624), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Geoprisms Office, Committee, Developing, GSOC, Guided, Margins, Planning, Program, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Mantle Serpentinization and Water Cycling Through the Mariana Trench and Forearc
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Douglas A Wiens($413,112), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Daniel Lizarralde($445,769), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Outer Rise, Forearc, Mantle, Quantify, Serpentinite, Serpentinization.

Support for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Kathy Tedesco($250,295), United Nations Educ Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, Ocean Carbon, Program Officer, Activities, Consequences, Ecosystems, Exchanges, IOC, IOCCP, Iocs, Planning, Sequestration.

Support for US Scientific Participation in PICES
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. George W Boehlert($230,814), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Academic Scientists, North Pacific, Collaboration, Collaborations, Diverse, International, Marine, Ocean, PICES, Travel, Workshops.

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

1. Nicole J Poulton($1,555,516), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Automatically, Classification, Classify, Detritus, Expeditions, Features, Image, Images, Instruments, Marine, Particles, Phytoplankton.

EID: Roles of a marine host cycle and particle aggregation in transmission of zoonotic pathogens in coastal ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Woutrina A Miller($2,449,716), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Definitive Hosts, Marine Aggregates, Sea Lions, Gondii, Has, Investigate, Oocysts, Outreach, Parasite, Strong, Students, Terrestrial, Transmission, Transport.

Pathways to Ocean Sciences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ashanti Johnson($535,443), Institute for Broadening Participation, South Portland
Key terms: Assist Reu, Reu Pis, Reu Students, Communication, Digital, Funding, Graduate, Networking, Ocean, Outreach, Pathways, Programs, Resources, Tools.

Evaluation of Finestructure Mixing Parameterizations Based on LADCP Shear
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Andreas Thurnherr($318,124), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ocean Mixing, Climate, Gregg-henyey, Has, LADCP, Micro-structure, Oceanographic, Parameterization, Processing.

Sensors for Characterization of Phytoplankton Size and Taxonomic Composition Using Spectral Fluorescence Signatures and Imaging Multivariate Optical Computing
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Timothy J Shaw($1,089,543), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Fluorescence Excitation Spectra, Interference Filters, Multivariate Optical, Phytoplankton Taxa, Wider Range, Basis, Cells, Code, Environment, Field, Gliders, Imaging, Instrument, Light, Moes, Natural, Ocean, Size, Students, Successful, Training, Vehicles.

Collaborative Research: Organic geochemical and isotopic reconstructions of North Pacific climate and sea ice variability
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Timothy Shanahan($276,072), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Konrad A Hughen($167,555), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Past Sea Ice, Sea Ice Cover, Sea Ice Extent, Sea Surface Temperatures, Climate, Compare, IP, Index, Latitude, Reconstruct.

Collaborative Research: Estuarine Response to Climate Forcing
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Raymond G Najjar($331,155), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Ming Li($404,327), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Chesapeake And Delaware, 3-dimensional Modeling, Delaware Bay, Delaware Bays, Estuarine Dynamics, Estuarine Salinity, Future Climate, Mid-atlantic Region, Modeling Studies, Potential Impacts, Realistic 3-dimensional, River Flow, Sea Level, Sea-level Rise, Shelf Salinity, Simplified 2-dimensional, Analysis, Applied, Assessment, Broad, Circulation, Developed, Estuaries, Insights, Interannual, Mid-atlantic, Mixed, Models, Numerical, Quantify, Sea-level, Stratification, Tidal.

Targeted and comparative viral community genomics of the Eastern North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Matthew Sullivan($576,716), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Oxygen Minimum Zones, Omz Expansion, Sampling Effort, Viral Metagenomes, Atmospheric, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Changing, Co-occurring, Coastal, Concentrations, Cycling, DMS, DNA, Defined, Direct, Diversity, ENP, Encoding, Flux, Genes, Gradients, Interior, June, Largest, Marine, Metabolic, Microbial, Ocean, Oceanographic, Planets, Play, Productivity, Sequencing, Students, Sulfur, Surface, Trace, Viruses, Warming, Water.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduate Minorities in Marine and Environmental Sciences (MIMES)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Peter Kingsley-Smith($161,685), South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston
Key terms: Marine And Environmental, South Carolina, Experience, MIMES, MRD, Minority, Program, Resources, Site, Students, Summer, Undergraduate.

RAPID: Assessing tsunami impacts on the benthic community of Robinson Crusoe Island
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: International Research Collab

1. Richard A Wahle($126,138), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Robinson Crusoe Island, Temperate Oceanic, Assess, Benthic, Chilean, Collected, Collectors, Components, Disturbance, Ecological, Fishery, Has, Information, Islands, Level, Lobster, Marine, Media, Natural, Oceanographic, Opportunity, Pacific, Planktonic, Populations, Post-larval, Predation, RAPID, Sampling, Terrestrial, Tsunami, Tsunamis, Video.

RAPID: Response of European Intertidal Communitites to the Severe Winter of 2009-2010
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: International Research Collab

1. Sarah A Woodin($81,900), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Geographic Range Limit, Northern Geographic Range, Rocky And Sedimentary, Southern Geographic Limit, Adult Intolerance, Graduate Students, Mechanisms Controlling, Northern Species, Reproductive Failure, Southern Species, Biogeographic, Catastrophic, Central, Climate, Climatic, Cold, Coldest, Continent, Distribution, Effects, Europe, Field, Intertidal, Limits, Marine, Mediated, Mortality, Opportunity, Pis, Portugal, Set, Summer, Undergraduate, Warm, Winter, Winters.

RAPID: Larval Abundance, Behavior and Dispersal at Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents in the Southern Mariana Trough
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: International Research Collab

1. Stace E Beaulieu($161,991), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Back-arc Spreading Center, Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents, Southern Mariana Trough, Back-arc Spreading, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Larval Abundance, Larval Dispersal, Little-studied Region, Vent Fauna, Vent Larvae, Vent Sites, Behavior, Comparison, Direct, Diversity, EPR, Effort, Guide, Habitats, Has, ISS, Identification, Information, Japanese, Knowledge, Large-volume, Little-studied, Pis, Program, Pumps, Ridge, Sampling, Species.

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1. Wilfred M Wollheim($2,213,777), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Matter And Nutrient, Shape Organic Matter, Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Zone, Ecosystem Dynamics, Estuarine Ecosystems, Food Webs, Human Activities, Intertidal Marshes, Ipswich River, Nutrient Transformations, Outreach Program, Pie Lter, Pie Scientists, Plum Island, Sea Level, Trophic Levels, Association, Climate, Consequences, Coupled, Drivers, Emphasis, Estuary, Function, Geomorphology, Gulf, Interact, Land, Local, Long-term, Maine, Ngos, Ocean, Overarching, Parker, Policy, Regional, Students, Tidal, Training, Water, Watershed, Watersheds.

LTER: MCR II - Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1. Peter J Edmunds($2,224,276), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Rising Seawater Temperature, Structure And Function, Coral Reefs, Global Climate, Interactive Effects, Mcr Ii, Activities, Arising, Continue, Developing, Drivers, Dynamics, Faculty, Focus, Graduate, Indirect, Influence, LTER, Long-term, Moorea, OA, Outreach, Participation, Processes, Program, Resilience, Resistance, Structure-function, Students, Themes, Undergraduate, Vulnerable, Was.

Ecological Transitions in the California Current Ecosystem: CCE-LTER Phase II
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1. Ralf Goericke($6,560,875), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fronts And Eddies, Lagrangian Process Cruises, Cce Lter, Cce Region, Changing Ocean, Coastal Ocean, Ecosystem Transitions, Food Web, Graduate Student, Lter Site, Mesoscale Fronts, Biotic, California, Climate, Communication, Continue, Contribute, Developed, Differences, EOCB, Effects, Examine, Expand, Features, Found, Hypoxia, Importance, Information, Interactions, Interplay, Local, Managers, Mechanisms, Mode, Model, Modeling, Nutrient, Pelagic, Phase, Program, Properties, Resource, Stratification, Structure, Students, Teachers, Time, Upwelling.

RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Insights into salt marsh food webs from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1. Steven C Pennings($131,115), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Arthropod Food Web, Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Coastal Wetland, Coastal Wetlands, Oil Affects, Oil Exposure, Spatial Extent, Critical, Disturbance, Ecosystems, Effects, Florida, Future, Has, Insights, RAPID, Reveal, Sites.

CMG Collaborative Research: Probabilistic stratigraphic alignment and dating of paleoclimate data
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Lorraine Lisiecki($157,017), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Charles E Lawrence($604,382), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Age Model Development, Pair And Profile, Age Models, Alignment Algorithm, Alignment Uncertainty, Confidence Limits, Discrete High-d, High-d Spaces, Orbital Tuning, Posterior Spaces, Probabilistic Models, Software Developed, Stratigraphic Alignment, Stratigraphic Alignments, Uncertainty Analysis, Uncertainty Estimates, Algorithms, Ando, Applied, Characterization, Characterize, Climate, Direct, Error, HMM, Has, High-d, Limited, Methods, Multiple, Paleoclimate, Relative, Stack, Users, Version, Website.

CMG Collaborative Research: Simulation of Wave-Current Interaction Using Novel, Coupled Non-Phase and Phase Resolving Wave and Current Models
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Andrew B Kennedy($248,815), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
2. Ethan Kubatko($91,257), Ohio State University, Columbus
3. Clinton N Dawson($159,972), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Phase Resolving Wave, Physics And Levels, Barrier Islands, Breaking Zones, Broader Impacts, Coastal Engineering, Highly Energetic, Severe Storms, Shallow Water, Storm Surge, Surf Zone, Water Levels, Wave Breaking, Wave Climate, Ability, Algorithms, Applied, Assess, Code, Combined, Computational, Coupled, Current, Currents, Degradation, Design, Developed, Dunes, Dynamics, Energy, Equation, Equations, GN, Hurricanes, Hydrodynamics, Inland, Levees, Limited, Model, Models, Nonlinear, Nshore, Operations, Resolution, Risk, Roads, Run-up, Shipping, Techniques, Waves, Wind.

The Maintenance of Deep Circulation and Stratification in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Geoffrey K Vallis($344,848), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Mid-depth And Abyssal, Stratification And Circulation, Carbon Dioxide, Deep Circulation, Deep Stratification, Diapycnal Diffusivity, Numerical Simulations, Overturning Circulation, Aspect, Climate, Developed, Has, Level, Maintained, Mixing, Ocean, Past, Presence, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Modeling DOC dynamics from landscapes to coasts: hydrological connectivity and estuary processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Anna Liu($329,346), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Yong Q Tian($188,641), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Gis-based Transport, Human Activities, Monthly Doc, Predict Doc, Remote Sensing, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Varying Coefficient, Carbon, Climate, Coastal, Contribution, Export, Female, Functional, Gis-based, Graduate, Interactions, Land, Lies, Model, Modeling, Models, Natural, Processes, Programs, Rivers, Spatial, Statistical, Students, Watershed.

CMG COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: From internal waves to mixing in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Raffaele Ferrari($294,467), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Oliver Buhler($381,990), New York University, New York
Key terms: Internal Waves, Advanced, Current, Experiences, Field, High-resolution, Horizontal, Importance, Induced, Mathematical, Mathematics, Models, Numerical, Ocean, Theory, Topics, Tracers, Training, Transport, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Proposal: Multi-Scale Modeling: Assessing the role of eastern boundary upwelling regions and their ecosystems on climate variability using a fully coupled model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: MULTI-SCALE MODELING

1. Nicole Goebel($401,219), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. James W Hurrell($800,249), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Katherine S Hedstrom($853,737), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
4. Fei Chai($512,226), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Climate Model, Graduate Students, Ocean Model, Technical Developments, Activities, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical, Contribute, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Future, Global, Has, Levels, Modeling, Models, NCAR, Regional, Regions, Teaching.

Regional Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback Processes Affecting Climate Along the California Coast
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: MULTI-SCALE MODELING

1. Arthur J Miller($652,703), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Coupled And Uncoupled, Mesoscale Ocean-atmosphere Coupling, Atmospheric Circulation, California Coast, Coupled Ocean-atmosphere, Flux Anomalies, Global Warming, Mesoscale Ocean-atmosphere, Ocean-atmosphere Coupling, Upwelling Frontal, Climate, Coastal, Effects, Feedbacks, Flows, Local, Model, Observations, Oceanic, Processes, Regional, Remote, Runs, SST, School, Surface, Tropospheric, Usage.

MRI: Acquisition of a gas source mass spectrometer and carbonate preparation device for applications in the geosciences
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christopher D Charles($349,091), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Graduate, Instrument, Instrumentation, Mass, Program, Undergraduates.

MRI: Acquisition of a Hitachi S-3400N-II Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope with an Analytical Quantitative Element Detector for the University of Hawaii at Hilo
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Jason E Adolf($396,208), University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo
Key terms: Analysis, Enhance, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Instrument, Opportunities, Population, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Hybrid Mass Spectrometry System for the Next Generation of Multidisciplinary Environmental Research, Graduate Education and Student Training
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Rodger Harvey($585,098), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Access, Acquisition, Capabilities, Characterization, Compounds, Ecosystems, Environmental, Faculty, Female, Graduate, Instrument, Instrumentation, Lc-msn, Maryland, Organic, Students, Training, UMCES, Undergraduate.

RAPID: MRI - Acquisition of an Accelerated Solvent Extractor (ASE) to Rapidly Extract Petroleum Hydrocarbons from Atmospheric Samples in the Field During the 2010 Hurricane Season
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Siddhartha Mitra($54,780), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon, Hurricane Season, Marine-to-land Transfer, Oil Spill, Deposition, Gulf, Hurricanes, Hydrocarbons, Marine-to-land, RAPID, Sampling, Via.

MRI:RAPID: Gulf Oil Spill Instrument Acquisition for Fluorometric Detection of Underwater Oil and Soluble VOCs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Andrew R Juhl($132,639), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Oil Spill, Subsurface Plumes, APEX, Composition, Cruise, Cruises, Essential, Fluorescence, Fluorescence-based, Gulf, Instruments, Measure, Mexico, Near, Oxygen, Pis, Properties, RAPID, Rapid, Request, Upcoming.

MRI RAPID: Acquisition of a Water Quality Sonde to Measure Near-Surface Hydrocarbon Concentrations and Water Quality Indicators in Mobile Bay
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Bret M Webb($79,163), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Local And Remote, Near-surface Hydrocarbon Solute, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Near-surface Hydrocarbon, Portable Seakeeper, Remote Forcing, Water Chemistry, Distributions, Estuary, Hydrocarbons, Instrument, Mobile, Nsurface, Oil, Opportunity, Sampling, Sensor, Surveys, Total, YSI.

RAPID: MRI: Acquisition of an oil extraction system and gas chromatograph with mass spectrometer for the extraction and analysis of DWH crude oil in Gulf sands.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Markus H Huettel($100,850), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Buried Oil, Gulf Beaches, Degradation, Expanding, FSU, GCMS, Getting, NSF, RAPID, Shared, Spill.

RAPID: MRI: Acquisition of an Autonomous Underwater Glider to Investigate Mixing and Dispersion of Oil-gas Mixtures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Robin Brinkmeyer($199,998), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Biogeochemical Variables, Oil-gas Plumes, Allow, Deep-sea, Dispersion, Dynamics, Interdisciplinary, Oil-gas, Opportunity, Pis, Processes, Relatively, Simultaneous, Turbulence.

RAPID/MRI: Acquisition of a Triple-Quad Mass Spectrometer for Quantitative Identification of Dispersants and Water-Soluble Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Melissa Soule($200,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Gulf Oil Spill, Dispersant Components, Environmental Fate, Mass Spectrometer, Rapid Funding, Appropriate, Biological, Chemical, Compounds, Instrument, Mexico, Pis, Processes, Quantify, Quantitative, Triple-q-ms.

MRI RAPID: Acquisition of a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer to track oil molecular degradation in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Patricia M Medeiros($100,900), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Massive Oil Spill, Degradation Products, Water Column, Analyses, Composition, GC-MS, Gulf, Instruments, Mexico, Organic, POC, Sediment, Time.

MRI-RAPID: Acquisition of Spectroscopic Instrumentation for Oil Spill Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Laodong Guo($108,871), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Oxygen And Hydrogen, Transport And Transformation, Graduate Education, Oil Spill, Pi's Request, Rapid Funding, Allow, Analyzer, CRDS, Determination, Field, Geochemical, Gulf, Instrumentation, Marine, Metals, Methane, Mexico, Natural, Pis, Region, Spectrophotometer, Water.

MRI RAPID: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Acquisition of cavity ring-down spectroscopy systems to quantify concentration and stable isotopic composition of multiple carbon species.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Samantha B Joye($192,528), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Oil, Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Horizon Oil Spill, Oil And Gas, Gas Derived, Mri Rapid, Rapid Funding, Ability, Collected, Concentration, Current, Gulf, Instruments, Isotopic, Mexico, Seawater.

MRI RAPID: Development of a gas preparation system for the triple isotopic composition of dissolved oxygen and O2/Ar in the northern Gulf of Mexico oil spill region
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Nathaniel E Ostrom($107,570), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Available, Developed, GPS, Gas.

MRI RAPID: Acquisition of two cavity ringdown spectrometers to quantify hydrocarbon conversion in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David L Valentine($124,313), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Carbon, Gas, Gulf, Has, Hydrocarbon, Mexico, Oil, Potential, Quantification, RAPID, Release, Spill.

MRI-R2 Consortium: Acquisition of multiple Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and supporting mooring and communications hardware
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Gregory J Doucette($1,934,178), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Algal, Deployed, Dream, ESP, Educational, Environmental, Esps, Foster, Has, Metabolites, Microorganisms, Potential, Students, Technology, Time, Undergraduates, Various, Water, Wide.

MRI-R2: Development of the New Generation of Long-Period Seafloor MT Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Robert L Evans($1,527,934), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cascadia, Instruments, MT, Seismic.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of IRMS Instruments for Stable Isotope Analyses of New Geobiological Substrates
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Hope Jahren($716,368), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coupled Denitrification N2, Denitrification N2 Fixation, Picarro L1102-i, Act, Analyses, Analysis, Carbon, Coastal, Dc, Education, Groundwater, Hawaii, Hawaiian, IRMS, Isotope, Levels, MAT, Marine, Native, Natural, Oxidation, Pacific, Program, Rates, Species, Students, Topics, Users.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of a liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer for biogeochemistry and paleoclimate studies at the Large Lakes Observatory
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Josef P Werne($327,334), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Black Carbon, Acquisition, Characterization, Development, Hands-on, Ionization, LCMS, Lipids, Molecules, Pis, Request, Triple.

MRI R2: Acquisition of the next generation IRMS and CRDS for the SERC Stable Isotope Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michael R Heithaus($328,334), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Organic Carbon, Stable Isotope, Allow, CRDS, Delta, Dissolved, Generation, Graduate, Has, IRMS, Instruments, Marine, Mass, SIL.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of Airborne Remote Sensing System for Oceanographic, Terrestrial, and Environmental Research
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Paul F Linden($841,848), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Remote Sensing, Temporal Coverage, Time Scales, Video Camera, Acquisition, Airborne, Atmospheric, Built, Coastal, Days, Environmental, Hours, Hyperspectral, LIDAR, Ocean, Optimal, Processes, Range, Resolution, Satellite, Sufficient.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of a GC/MS triple quadrupole for the characterization of terrestrial plant biomarkers in complex environmental media at TAMUG
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Patrick Louchouarn($150,791), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Air Quality, Biomass Combustion, Organic Matter, Arctic, Atmospheric, Climate, Contribute, Hydrological, Natural, Particles, Particular, Processes, Regional, Rural, TOM, Tracers, Transport, Urban, Watersheds.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Laboratory Research and Teaching Flume for Estuarine Sediment Bed and Ecological Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michael L Parsons($230,822), Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers
Key terms: Flume, Macroalgae, Macroalgal, Organisms, Reefs, Sediment.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of instruments to facilitate and enhance education and research on marine ecosystems at TAMUG
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Peter H Santschi($383,127), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Marine Ecosystems, Marine Organisms, Public Outreach, Analytical, Ecological, Faculty, Instrument, LA-ICP-MS, Pis, Program, TAMUG.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: 3D Numerical Models of the Dynamic Generation of Outer Rise Faults
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Magali I Billen($179,947), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Dimensional, Mainly, Plate, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: Faulting Processes During Early Stage Rifting: Analysis of an Unusual Earthquake Sequence in Northern Malawi
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew E Pritchard($11,602), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Scott L Nooner($102,793), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Earthquake, Malawi, Pis.

Experimental Constraints on the Rheology and Seismicity of Subducting Lithosphere and the Slab-Wedge Interface
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($363,600), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Dehydration Reaction, Friction Experiments, Frictional Behavior, Mantle Wedge, Reaction Products, Rheological Properties, Serpentinite Document, Subduction Zones, Wide Range, Conditions, Consistent, Earthquakes, Evolution, Fault, Flow, Fluid, Has, Hydrated, Hypothesized, Intermediate, Lab, Motivated, Origin, Rates, Reactions, Rheology, Seismic, Seismicity, Serpentinites, Settings, Silicate, Slab, Slip, Student, Subsequent, Thesis, Transport, Velocities, Velocity, Weakening.

Processes controlling volatiles at the Endeavour Integrated Study Site
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marvin D Lilley($67,852), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vents, Carbon, Endeavour, Fluid, Ridge, Source, Species.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Reliability of Paleo Ventilation Estimates
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lloyd D Keigwin($444,801), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Jerry F McManus($226,999), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Equatorial Pacific, Abundance, Benthic, Cores, Pis, Radiocarbon, Sediment, Significance, Thorium.

Collaborative Research: Constraining Sub-surface Fluid Circulation at the RAVEN Hydrothermal Field, Endeavour Ridge: An in situ Geophysical Experiment and Numerical Modeling Study
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harlan P Johnson($284,093), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Maurice A Tivey($182,623), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Michael Hutnak($71,653), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Heat Flow Blankets, Hydrothermal Circulation, Deployment, Rock.

Coral-based reconstruction of salinity and temperature variability in the southern Makassar Strait and its Influence on the Indonesian Throughflow
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Braddock K Linsley($339,877), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, Southern Makassar Strait, Indian Ocean, Low Salinity, Strait Near, Surface Water, Coral, Cores, Freshening, Freshwater, ITF, Pacific, Plug, Seasonal, Seasonally, Srca, Thermocline, Western.

Influence of the Indonesian Throughflow in the western Indian Ocean thermocline--the 20th century record from sclerosponges
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher D Charles($160,815), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Thomas P Guilderson($78,594), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Indian Ocean Thermocline, Indonesian Throughflow, Future, Models, Radiocarbon, Stable, Trends, Tropical, Western.

Partial Support for US Participation in a Workshop Geological Carbon Capture & Storage in Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter B Kelemen($29,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mafic And Ultramafic, Carbon Sequestration, Drilling Program, Ultramafic Rocks, Field, Geological, International, Potential, Storage, Students, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: A High-Resolution, Multi-Isotopic Study of Upper Mantle Heterogeneity Beneath the Southeast Indian Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Graham($183,953), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Barry B Hanan($238,647), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Analyzed, Composition, Differences, Indian, International, Isotopes, Lavas, Mantle, Relate, Seafloor.

Array Analysis of Teleseismic Body-Wave Microseisms
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter M Shearer($330,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earth, Energy, Interior, Seismic, Structure, Student, Surface, Waves.

Collaborative Research: A Deep-AUV Magnetic and Seismic Study of the Hawaiian Jurassic Crust - The Global Significance of Jurassic Magnetic Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William W Sager($103,334), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Adrienne Oakley($71,105), Kutztown University, Kutztown
Key terms: Geomagnetic Polarity Time, Unusual Field Behavior, Magnetic Field, Allow, Dynamics, Global, Has, Implications, JMQZ, Japanese, Jurassic, Lineation, Local, Low, Period, Profiles, Seismic.

A Newly Discovered Hawaiian Volcano on Kaena Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John J Mahoney($107,452), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Oceanographic Cruise, Volcanic Rocks, Discovery, Geochemical, Gravity, Hawaiian, Island, Seafloor, Students.

Collaborative Research: Automated large scale bathymetric mapping in complex environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher Roman($206,744), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Dana R Yoerger($74,453), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: AUV, Auvs, Efficient, Mapping, Maps, Oceanographic, Seafloor.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Subsurface Processes across Spatial and Temporal Scales - a Holistic Analysis of Vent Fluid Chemistry at the Lau Back-Arc Spreading Center
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Giora Proskurowski($15,796), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
2. Charles G Wheat($126,003), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Jeffrey S Seewald($127,655), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arc Basin Spreading, Ocean Crust, Created, Evolution, Examine, Hydrothermal, Species, Undergraduates, Vent.

Support for the Generic Mapping Tools
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($275,042), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Base, Extraordinary, GMT, Interoperability, Software.

Collaborative Research: Continuous acoustic and volcanic debris records of the deepest explosive submarine eruption ever observed
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($66,560), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Robert P Dziak($88,059), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Acoustic Signals, Activity, Eruption, Sources, Volcanic.

Late Quaternary Variability of the Agulhas Thermohaline Valve from Nd Isotopes in Planktonic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Leopoldo Pena Gonzalez($236,132), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Agulhas Leakage, Nadw Export, Atlantic, Climate, Contributed, Increases, Ocean, Position, Water.

RAPID: Assessing the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the West Florida Shelf and Slope
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Benjamin P Flower($99,678), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Deepwater Horizon Oil, Oil And Dispersants, Oil Spill, West Florida, Assess, Benthic, Marine, Sediments, Transects.

Temperature and Carbonate System Influences on the Test Chemistry of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera: Laboratory Culture Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel C McCorkle($224,824), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Benthic Foraminiferal, Shell Chemistry, Calibrations, Conditions, Culture, Environmental, Growth, Proxy, Reproduction, Variable, Water.

Persistent Segmentation, Stress Triggering and Energy Management of the Sumatran Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Chris Goldfinger($525,356), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Long-term Energy, Subduction Zone, Analyses, Cores, Dates, Indonesia, Long-term, OSU, Paleoseismicity, Refined, Segment, Seismic, Strain, Strong, Student, Turbidite.

Multicentury Reconstruction of Tropical Climate Variability from Red Sea Corals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Konrad A Hughen($344,175), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, Temperature And Salinity, Mean Climate, Nao Behavior, Red Sea, Female, Student.

Mapping Saharan dust fluxes through the onset and termination of the African Humid Period in a transect of African margin cores
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William D McGee($347,769), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: African Humid Period, North Africa, Abruptness, Climate, Continent, Cores, Dust, Sediment, Thousand, Transition, Undergraduate.

Testing the Silicic Acid Leakage Hypothesis: A Study of Opal in the Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Laura Robinson($246,190), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Isotopic And Trace, Silicon Isotope Compositions, Atlantic Ocean, Biological Drawdown, Biological Productivity, Dissolved Silicon, North Atlantic, Outreach Activities, Silicon Cycling, Trace Metal, Carbon, Circulation, Climate, Concentrations, Continue, Deep, Diatoms, Distribution, Existing, Hendry, Intermediate, Link, Nutrient, Nutrients, Opal, Past, Postdoctoral, Public, Reconstruct, Seawater, Silica, Spicules, Supply, Surface, WHOI, Waters.

Lau Basin Vent Deposit Morphology and Composition: Links to Geologic Setting and Vent Fluid Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Margaret K Tivey($234,939), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Settings And Vent, Vent Deposit Formation, Vent Fluid Chemistry, Volcanic Substrate Composition, Affects Deposit, Biological Activity, Deposit Composition, Geologic Settings, Seafloor Vent, Vent Deposits, Vent Field, Vent Fields, Vent Fluids, Allow, Available, Combined, Developed, Evolution, Extents, Ferrini, Geochemical, Has, Hydrothermal, ISS, Information, Lau, Linked, Low, Models, Morphology, Past, Ph, Range, Recovered, Relative, Student, Temperature, Testing, Transport.

Hyperpycnal River Plumes - an opportunity to study their transport and deposition in a controlled dam-removal experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Charles A Nittrouer($525,635), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dam Removal, Allow, Conditions, Density, Discharge, Elwa, Flows, Hyperpycnal, Plumes, Rivers, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: The Southeast Mariana Forearc Rifts and the Southernmost Mariana Trough Spreading Center: New Insights into the Tectonics and Magmatism of Intraoceanic Arcs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fernando Martinez($281,947), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Robert J Stern($205,401), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
3. Katherine A Kelley($102,692), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Evolution, Mantle, Marina, Pis, Rifts, SEMFR, Slab.

Constraints on the Mechanics of Ocean Crustal Faults
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Nicholas W Hayman($358,463), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Fault Rocks, Exposed, Land.

Solar forcing of ice-rafting in the North Atlantic during the Holocene?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Benjamin P Flower($142,907), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Climate, Holocene, IRD, Region, Solar.

Environmental Impacts of Caribbean Plateau Volcanism: Timing and Composition of Magmatic Activity Related to Ocean Anoxic Event 2
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Duncan($293,716), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Caribbean Plateau, Organic-rich Sediments, Trace Metals, Abundances, Activity, COAS, Conditions, Construction, Crust, Deposition, Fluids, Lavas, Lead, Magmatic, Margins, Marine, Massive, Methods, OAE, Oaes, Ocean, Organic-rich, Program, Release, Sections, Senior, Students, Submarine, Thick.

Collaborative Research: Modeling Coupled Reactive Flow at the TAG Hydrothermal Mound
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Grant Garven($229,648), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Flow Pathways, Fluid Flow, Hydrothermal Vent, Mathematical Models, Mid-ocean Ridge, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Chemical, Fluids, Mid-ocean, Mineral, Permeability, Precipitation, Subsurface, Temperature.

Collaborative Proposal - Constraints on the Evolution of Hotspot-Ridge Interactions: The Northern Galapagos Region
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher W Sinton($72,130), University of Redlands, Redlands
Key terms: Construction, Galapagos, German, Lineaments, Maps, Seafloor, Tectonic, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Modeling Coupled Reactive Flow at the TAG Active Hydrothermal Mound
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ann Mulligan($121,682), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Flow Pathways, Fluid Flow, Hydrothermal Vent, Mathematical Models, Mid-ocean Ridge, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Chemical, Fluids, Mid-ocean, Mineral, Permeability, Precipitation, Subsurface, Temperature.

Noble Gas Fractionation During Degassing: A Proof-of-Concept High-Pressure Experimental Study
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Stephen Parman($57,707), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Magma Degassing, Analyzed, Ar, Atmosphere, Bubble, Bubbles, Compositions, Experimental, French, Gases, Glasses, Greenhouse, Ne, Pressure, Process, Rate, Volatile, Volcanic.

Antarctic Bottom Water Circulation during the Last Deglaciation: Quantitative Constraints from Stable Isotope Tracer Budgets
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David C Lund($320,963), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Antarctic Bottom Water, Atmospheric Co2, Deep Ocean, Atlantic, Carbon, Circulation, Deglaciation, LGM, Lower, Mixing, Plays, Primary, Regulating, Storage, Tracer, Was.

Collaborative Research: Constraints on the Evolution of Hotspot-Ridge Interactions: The Northern Galapagos Region
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Karen S Harpp($35,581), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Construction, Galapagos, German, Lineaments, Maps, Seafloor, Tectonic, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Growth of oceanic lower crust: an integrated high-precision geochronologic and trace-element approach
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Samuel A Bowring($186,609), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Michael Cheadle($99,899), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Intrusive Rocks, Mass Spectrometry, Ocean Crust, Dating, Measured, Precision, Ridges, SIMS, TIMS, Zircons.

Collaborative Research: High resolution paleoceanography in the heart of the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy D Herbert($342,901), Brown University, Providence
2. Mark A Altabet($181,235), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. Yair Rosenthal($245,015), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: EEP, Holocene, LGM, Ocean, Properties, Region.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of the Climate Continuum - Late Paleogene to Present
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Linda A Hinnov($32,897), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Stephen R Meyers($207,550), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Late Paleogene, Stochastic Climate, Analysis, Available, Deterministic, Evolution, Forces, Ma, Neogene, Orbital, Pco, Resolution, Timeframe, Transition, Versus.

Magnesium Isotope Geochemistry of Carbonate Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel P Schrag($299,998), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Magnesium Isotope, Pelagic Carbonates, Andmg, Approaches, Cenozoic, Chemistry, Climate, Elucidate, Geochemical, Potential, Seawater, Sites.

Collaborative research: Construction of a continuous, high resolution and absolutely-dated marine chronology from the Gulf of Maine during the last millennium
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Karl J Kreutz($200,052), University of Maine, Orono
2. Alan D Wanamaker($300,000), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Atlantic, Climate, Growth, Gulf, Maine, NAO, Pis, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Data Synthesis for Examination of Magmatic, Tectonic, and Hydrothermal Acitivity at the Endeavour Segment ISS
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Deborah S Kelley($193,096), University of Washington, Seattle
2. David W Caress($55,079), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
3. James B Gill($51,447), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Hydrothermal, Integrated, Mid-ocean.

A Half-Million Year Geochemical Record of Climate from Cariaco Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Larry C Larry($207,234), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Xrf Scanning, Climate, Core, Generate, Multiple, Resolution, Sequence.

Reconstruction of the Pacific Marine ITCZ over the Last Glacial Cycle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz($384,695), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: North Equatorial, ITCZ, Ridge.

Constraints on the Composition of the Subducting Oceanic Crust in the Northwest Pacific Ocean Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter B Kelemen($206,735), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ocean Crust, Volcanic Arcs, Aleutians, Approach, Compendiums, Geoinformatics, Mantle, Nsf-funded, Rock, Seafloor.

The LDEO Deep-Sea Repository and the Curating and Maintenance of the Sediment Library and Dredge Collection
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Ryan($758,998), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Access, Collection, Continue, Curation, Repository, Staff.

Continued Operation of the OSU/COAS Marine Geology Repository
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anthony Koppers($649,999), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sediment Cores, Sediment Trap, Activities, Education, Nodules, Ongoing, Repository, Rock.

Development and application of seawater nutrient proxies in deep-sea corals
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert M Sherrell($327,190), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Nutrient Concentrations, Atlantic, Corals, Deep, Fossil, Information, Ocean, Past, Southern, Water, Yield.

Characterization of fault zone sediments from borehole logging data at the Nankai Trough (NanTroSEIZE Project)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harold J Tobin($167,826), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Log, Postdoctoral.

Seafloor Samples Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William B Curry($744,695), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Activities, Collection, Marine, Repository.

Collaborative Research: The Volatile Contents of Seamount and Intra-Transform Lavas from the EPR: Deconstructing the Aggregation Process in MORB
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Erik H Hauri($57,813), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Alberto E Saal($204,745), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Chemical, Lavas, Mantle, Rise.

Climate variability in the North Atlantic since 3 Ma in a stratigraphic framework using stable isotopes and relative paleointensity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James E Channell($168,784), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: North Atlantic, Broader, Climate, Ice-rafting, Stratigraphic, Transition, UK.

Acquisition and Development of ICP-MS Instrumentation for Ocean Science Research at the University of Minnesota
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brandy M Toner($117,262), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Instrument.

Collaborative Research: Synthesis of MARGINS Source-to-Sink Concepts and Integration of Supporting Research
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven A Kuehl($45,177), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. Charles A Nittrouer($64,822), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Digital Text, Broader, Conference, Courses, Setting, Synthesis.

Marine Geological Samples Laboratory: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven Carey($216,497), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Deep Sea, Marine Geological, Activities, Core, Dredge, GSO, MGSL, Repository, Students.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructions of the Gulf of California - Salton Trough Plate Boundary Since 14 Ma: A Digital Synthesis of Recent Advances and Outstanding Problems
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul J Umhoefer($103,467), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Rebecca J Dorsey($48,344), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
3. Michael E Oskin($47,004), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: End-member Models, Marine Incursion, Plate Boundary, Development, End-member, Explore, Future, Gulf, Highlight, Maps, Offset, Period, Pis, Processes, Reconstructions, Strain, Synthesis, Total, Unresolved.

RAPID: Chilean Earthquake Rupture Survey
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. C. David Chadwell($279,565), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquake, Ground, Immediate, Models, Offshore, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Enhanced 3-D tomography of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Gulf Extensional Province and Baja California
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Donald W Forsyth($106,085), Brown University, Providence
2. Brian K Savage($50,153), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Baja California, Broader Impacts, Beneath, Define, Gulf, Mantle, Region.

MARGINS Post-Doctoral Fellowship: A synthesis model for the Fly River dispersal system, Papua New Guinea
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Sergio Fagherazzi($187,509), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Fly And Strickland, Fly River, Middle Fly, Strickland Rivers, Assess, Entire, Fluxes, Marine, Model, Sea-level, Sediment, Sediments, Shelf, Tidal, Water.

Volcanic and Epeirogenic Consequences of Plume-Lithosphere Interaction beneath Hawaii and Passive Continental Margins
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jason Phipps Morgan($339,469), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Hawaiian, Lithosphere, Mantle, Modeling, Numerical, Plate, Public, Volcanism.

Investigations of the Updip Limit of the Cascadia Seismogenic Zone
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($750,029), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: International Collaboration, Subduction Zone, Broader, Cascadia, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Processes, Region, Seismogenic, Zones.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Temporal Evolution of Hydrothermal and Volcanic Processes at the East Pacific Rise From Microearthquake Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maya Tolstoy($448,163), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: EPR, Earthquakes, Eruption, Has, January, Processes, Seismic.

MARGINS Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Investigating sediment dynamics on the Waipaoa River shelf, New Zealand: creating a framework to predict preservation on continental margins.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Tara A Kniskern($228,641), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Flood And Storm, Oceanic Conditions, River Shelf, Sediment Transport, Storm Beds, Create, Fluvial, Framework, River-shelf.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Off-shore coseismic effects of the Port au Prince earthquake, Haiti
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew Hornbach($40,954), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Marie-Helene Cormier($169,854), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Baie De Port, De Port Au, Port Au Prince, Fault Zone, Southern Peninsula, EPGF, Earthquake, Immediate, Mapping, Offshore, Seismogenic, Seismometers, Sonar, Structures, Survey.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Composition of Oceanic Lithosphere and the Lithosphere/Asthenosphere Boundary
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James G Hirth($27,358), Brown University, Providence
2. Daniel Lizarralde($865,748), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. James B Gaherty($353,255), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Central, Composition, Control, Earthquakes, Factors, Lithosphere, Pacific, Plates, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Seismogenesis of the Middle America Trench at the Nicoya Peninsula over multiple seismic cycles
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey Marshall($90,156), Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc., Pomona
2. James A Spotila($109,524), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Costa Rica, Nicoya Peninsula, Earthquake, Field, Investigate, Long-term, Pre-historic, Students, Subduction.

Collaborative Research: Iceland Flexure Zones: Analogs for Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading Centers
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert J Varga($36,356), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: Developed, Iceland, Lava.

Collaborative Research: CI Isotope Systematics of Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Insights into Geochecmical Cycling of Volatile Elements Between Crust, Hydrosphere and Mantle
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Nobumichi Shimizu($147,319), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chlorine Stable Isotopes, Ion Mass Spectrometer, Secondary Ion Mass, Techniques And Protocols, Broader Impacts, Melt Inclusions, Volcanic Glasses, Volcanic Rocks, Accuracy, Analyses, Analytical, In-situ, Precision, WHOI.

MRI: Acquisition of Sensors for an Oceanographic Moored Array Constituting an Integrated Research Instrument
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Robert S Pickart($1,397,225), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Moored Instrumentation, Pool Instrumentation, Whoi Pool, Acquisition, Equipment, Inventory, Mooring, Range.

EAGER: Metabolic mechanisms that align phytoplankton growth to the integrated growth environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Michael J Behrenfeld($250,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Transient Carbon Pool, Carbon Assimilation, Cell Cycle, Diel Cycle, Metabolic Pathways, Activities, Chl, Fixation, Global, Gross, Growth, Linked, NPP, Net, Ocean, Photosynthate, Photosynthesis, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Pis, Portion, Primary, Program, Rates, Sink, Species, Surface, Tertiolecta, Training, Undergraduate.

A Shelf / Slope Discussion Group and Workshop for OOI Related Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Glen G Gawarkiewicz($47,537), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Pioneer Array, Observatory, Planning, Workshop.

RAPID: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Instrumentation Development for Hyperspectral Characterization of Natural and Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Paula G Coble($197,542), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Analysis, Concentrations, Cruises, Detection, EEM, Excitation, Existing, Fluorescence, Instrument, Instrumentation, Matrix, Oil, Optical, Pis, Seawater, Situ, Spectrofluorometers, Techniques, Time-resolved.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission 50th Anniversary
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($82,200), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, 50th Anniversary, Special Issue, Addressing, Approaches, Collection, Contributions, Coordinating, Department, Efforts, Has, IOC, International, Management, NSF, Oceanography, Partnership, Topics.

Evolution of Ocean Observing Systems: Building an Infrastructure for Science
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Albin J Gasiewski($10,000), Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway
Key terms: Geoss Workshop, Geoss Workshops, Ocean Observing, Attention, Benefits, Broad, Direct, Discussions, Engineering, Focus, Follows, Global, IEEE, International, Issues, Observation, Serves, User.

Dimensions: The Role of Viruses in Structuring Biodiversity in Methanotrophic Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. David L Valentine($924,127), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Marine Methanotrophic Ecosystems, Microbial And Viral, Genetic Diversity, Taxonomic Diversity, Aerobic, Anaerobic, Bacterial, Biodiversity, Carbon, Comparison, Environments, Field, Functional, Genomic, Importance, Metagenomes, Metagenomic, Methane, Microbes, Organisms, Sediments, Seeks, Techniques, Viruses.

Fecal Pellets of Doliolids and Copepods: Two Different Microworlds?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Jay Brandes($585,207), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Future Ocean Scientists, Calanoid Copepods, Fecal Pellets, Primary Productivity, Se Shelf, Western Boundary, Abundance, Beyond, Cells, Collaboration, Compare, Consumers, Continent, Decomposition, Doliolids, Education, Heterotrophic, Inefficient, Ingested, K-, Main, Marine, Occasional, Pelagic, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Processes, Specific, Students, Subtropical, Teacher, Tunicates.

Constraining Thermal Thresholds and Projections of Temperature Stress on Pacific Coral Reefs Over the 21st Century: Method Refinement and Application
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Anne Cohen($570,014), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Degree Heating Weeks, Stress And Mortality, 21st Century, 3-d Cat, Central Pacific, Coral Bleaching, Coral Species, Model Output, Mortality Risk, Ogcm Output, Pacific Reefs, Reef Sites, Skeletal Growth, Thermal Stress, Thermal Thresholds, Tropical Pacific, Application, Calcification, Climate, Colonies, Coral-reef, Corals, Decades, Degrees, Depth, Dhws, Following, Future, Global, Graduate, Has, IPCC, Increase, Individual, Initial, Islands, Method, Multiple, Ocean, Potential, Program, Projections, Quantify, Rates, Recovery, Reef-building, Reserve, Resolution, Sea, Spatial, Ssts, Student, Successive, Temperature, Temporal, Time, Undergraduate, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Automated continuous measurement of CFC and SF6 saturations in surface waters
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. David T Ho($457,490), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. William M Smethie($277,034), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Anthropogenic Co2 Uptake, Cfcs And Sf6, Clivarrepeat Hydrography Cruises, Mass Formation Rates, Sf6 And Cfc, Water Mass Ages, Cfc Saturations, Circulation Models, Mass Ages, Ocean Circulation, Surface Ocean, Transient Tracers, Acquired, Analysis, Automated, Calculate, Constrain, Distribution, Environmental, Errors, Gain, Inventories, Knowledge, Region, Regions, Ships, Students, TTD, Time, Uncertainty, Underway.

Mixing and Radiation in Tropical Instability Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. James N Moum($615,871), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Equatorial Currents, Vertical Mixing, Analyses, Effects, Energy, Extended, Radiation, Stability, Theory, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Metabolic Rates and Growth Efficiency across Redox and Thermal Gradients: An Experimental Study to Constrain Biomass Production at Vents
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($180,865), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Stefan M Sievert($267,967), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Sea, Chemical, Efficiencies, Growth, Hydrothermal, Metabolic, Microbes, Microorganisms, Rates, Reactor, Student, Vent.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Acute response of benthic hardbottom communities to oil exposure in the deep Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Timothy M Shank($40,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Helen K White($26,718), Haverford College, Haverford
3. Charles R Fisher($97,949), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Deep Sea, Mms Lease, Analyses, Analysis, Assess, Coral, Ground-truthing, Gulf, High-priority, Imaging, Leak, MC, Macrofauna, Mexico, Mosaics, Oil, Ongoing, Site, Sites, Time, Tissue, Visited.

The biogeography of primary producers in the subpolar North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Michael J Follows($969,769), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Diatom And Dinoflagellate, Diatoms And Dinoflagellates, Subpolar North Atlantic, Subpolar North, Abundance, Assemblages, CPR, Carbon, Diverse, Ecosystem, Microbial, Mixotrophy, Models, Spatial, Species, Survey, Temporal, Trophic.

RAPID: Collaborative Proposal: Acute response of benthic hardbottom communities to oil exposure in the deep Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Erik Cordes($27,801), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Deep Sea, Mms Lease, Analyses, Analysis, Assess, Coral, Ground-truthing, Gulf, High-priority, Imaging, Leak, MC, Macrofauna, Mexico, Mosaics, Oil, Ongoing, Site, Sites, Time, Tissue, Visited.

Wire Flyer (WiFly): A cable flying vehicle system for high resolution water column profiling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Christopher Roman($611,334), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Flying Vehicles, Moving Vessel, Wide Range, Wing Foils, CTD, Cable, Demonstrated, Difficult, Engineering, Flyer, Has, Payload, Resolution, Sensors, Towed, Vertical, Water, Wire.

Collaborative Research: Expedition 323 Objective Research on the Paleoceanography of the Bering Sea
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Ana C Ravelo($244,446), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Carlos A Alvarez Zarikian($45,398), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
3. Steven P Lund($111,221), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
4. Ivano W Aiello($117,930), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
5. Alan C Mix($165,456), Oregon State University, Corvallis
6. Mea S Cook($96,845), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Bering Sea, Iodp Expedition, Analysis, Arctic, Climate, Cruise, Education, Eg, Ice, Information, Ky, Levels, Pacific, Pliocene.

RAPID: A Nonmagnetic Sinker Bar for Magnetic Logging on IODP Expedition 330
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey S Gee($17,980), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bar And Centralizer, Component Magnetic Anomalies, Hotspot And Pacific, Borehole Magnetometer, Louisville Hotspot, Magnetic Logging, Pacific Plate, Quality Paleomagnetic, Requires Rapid, Sinker Bar, Allow, Core, Detailed, Document, Expedition, Fabrication, GBM, Motion, Oriented, Primary, Required, Robust, Signals, Time.

RAPID: The Science of the Spill; A Series of Short Programs for TV and the Web
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Charles R Fisher($200,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Film Crew, Oil Spill, Animals, Efforts, Environments, Gulf, Has, Heart, Marine, Marshes, Mexico, News, Plants, Reported, Stories, Story, Told, Tragic, Underwater, Underway, Water, Web.

Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium: Professional Development fopr Early Career Researchers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey Schuffert($198,483), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Leadership Skills, Leadership Symposium, Marine Geoscientists, Ocean Leadership, Policy Makers, Create, Development, Generation, Media, Meetings, Planning, Presentations, Success, Training.

Death of a Backarc Rift: A Petrologic Site Survey of Godzilla Mullion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jonathan E Snow($405,858), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Back-arc Spreading, Godzilla Mullion, Life Cycle, Mantle Rocks, Ocean Floor, Os Isotopes, Ridge Jumps, Spreading Center, Traditionally Underserved, Back-arc, Basic, Class, Crust, Female, Formation, Graduate, Japanese, Magmatic, Martinez, Mineral, Observations, Relatively, Secondary, Student, Students, Substantial, Taylor, Teaching, UH, Undergraduates, Upwelling.

Collaborative Research: Expedition 322 Objective Research on the Nature and History of Subsurface Flow within the Nankai Sediments Prior to Subduction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. James C Sample($150,787), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. Marta E Torres($182,361), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Upper Oceanic Crust, Clumped Oxygen, Diagenetic Reactions, Flow Regime, Incoming Plate, Lower Strata, Newly Discovered, Sedimentary Strata, Seismogenic Zone, Subduction Inputs, AOM, Basement, Carbonates, Characterize, Characterized, Deep, Depth, Drilled, Driven, Education, Exp, Fluid, Fluids, Geomechanical, Has, Hydrologic, Information, Interface, Isotopes, Methane, Microbial, Migration, Nature, Objective, Oregon, Presence, Processes, Program, Properties, Regimes, Seaward, Sites, Sources, Subducting, Sulfate, Temperatures, Unraveling.

Collaborative research: Large-scale, long-term, multi-directional, cross-hole experiments in the upper oceanic crust using a borehole observatory network
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Charles G Wheat($150,149), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Jordan F Clark($185,621), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Andrew T Fisher($87,702), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Keir Becker($200,799), University of Miami, Coral Gables
5. James P Cowen($135,031), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Drilling Program Expedition, Integrative Ocean Drilling, Ocean Drilling Program, Ocean Crust, Experiments, Hole, Transport.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Investigation of IODP Expedition 318 Site U1357 Sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Joshua M Feinberg($10,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Lisa Tauxe($70,631), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Nitrogen Flushed Bags, Magnetic Mineralogy, Site U1357, Basin, Expedition, Funding, Hole, Mechanism, Obtained, Resolution, SV, Sampling, Split, UA, Was.

RAPID Response in Gulf of Mexico: Sediment Trap Investigations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Chris German($193,944), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemosynthetic Tube-worm Colonies, Trap And Current, Chemosynthetic Tube-worm, Deepwater Horizon, Sediment Trap, Tube-worm Colonies, Additional, Already-funded, Biogenic, Combined, Coral, Cruise, Ecosystems, Gulf, Has, Incident, July, Light, Mexico, Moorings, Nd, Nmiles, November, Ocean, Oil, Overlain, Pristine, Remains, Seafloor, Seek, September, Serendipitously, Settling, Sites, Traps, Unique.

RAPID: US Scientific Participation in Two JAMSTEC Cruises to Study the Mariana Arc
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Robert J Stern($34,254), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Mariana Forearc, Zealandia Bank, Arc, Collaboration, Cruise, Cruises, Dives, Enhance, Expedition, Explore, Focus, Guam, Guam-guam, July, Marine, RV, Southern, Submarine, Time, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Geomagnetic Variability, Paleoenvironmental Change, and a Tuned Geologic Timescale from Pacific Eocene-Pleistocene Sediments from IODP Expeditions 320-321
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Gary Acton($119,904), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Carl Richter($111,514), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
3. Helen Evans($90,551), Columbia University, New York
4. James E Channell($117,885), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Geologic Timescale, Geomagnetic Intensity, Expedition, Generate, IODP, Pacific, Refine, Resolution, Tool.

Review of the Scientific Accomplishments and Assessment of the Potential for Future Transformative Discoveries with U.S.-Supported Scientific Ocean Drilling
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Deborah Glickson($598,785), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Drilling Program, Accomplishments, Climate, Committee, DSDP, Deep, Emphasis, Facilities, Has, History, IODP, ODP, Potential, Programs, Resulting, Transformative.

IODP Expedition Objective Research: Neogene productivity and biogenic sedimentation in the equatorial Pacific
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. J. G Baldauf($359,316), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Co2 Levels, Ocean Productivity, Analyses, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Cenozoic, Cores, Cycling, EP, Equatorial, Expedition, Export, Global, Highly, IODP, Indicators, Leg, Past.

SENSORS: Networked Oceanographic Sensor Array (NOSA) for Sensing the Chemical and Biological State of the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: OCEAN OBSERVATORY SCI & TECH

1. Zbigniew Kolber($73,949), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Instrument Frame, Allow, Architecture, Configuration, Development, Instruments, Interface, Measure, NOSA, Object, Operate, Properties, Sensor, Sensors, Set, Software, Standardized, Variety, Well-defined.

Sizing Marine Microbes With Scattered Light
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jules S Jaffe($323,521), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Marine Microbes, Marine Microbial, Optical Methods, Routine Manner, Cell, Cellular, Characterize, Conventional, Ecology, Fields, Has, Light, Microscopy, Particles, Size, Structure, Structures, Wavelength.

MRI: Development of Instrumentation to Control Seawater Composition for Ocean Acidification Research
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Andrew G Dickson($209,876), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Design Course, Capstone, Components, Conditions, Control, Gas, Levels, Parameters, Summer.

MRI: Development of Novel Profiling Buoy Technology for Satellite Ocean Color Calibration and Data Product Validation.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Norman B Nelson($765,235), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ocean Color, Profiling Buoy, Calibration, Collect, Deployment, Instrumentation, NSPB, Required, Satellite, Validation.

RAPID: Funds to Complete Seafloor CORK Instrument Sleds for Imminent Deployment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James P Cowen($125,001), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Instrument Sleds, North Pond, Basement, Chemical, Deployment, Development, Fabrication, Flanks, Fluids, Ocean.

MRI: Development of a Lightweight Towed Array Receiver (LTAR) for Wide Area Ocean Monitoring and Imaging
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Purnima R Makris($1,138,490), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Marine Life, Ocean Environment, Remote Sensing, Towed Array, Designed, Enable, LTAR, Monitoring, Passive, Range, Sea, Signals, Significantly, Students, Surface, Underwater, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Development of an in situ sensor for high-resolution measurements of total dissolved inorganic carbon
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert H Byrne($144,347), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Lori R Adornato($150,060), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Graduate Student, Optical Cell, Anthropogenic, Aragonite, Atmospheric, CT, Capability, Climate, Development, Field, Global, Has, Instrument, Measure, Ocean, Oceans, Parameters, Ph, Profiling, SEAS, Saturation, Situ, Total.

Collaborative Research: Integration of Deep Ocean Benthic Sampler Technology with Microbial Biogeochemistry of Methane Seeps and Isolation of Piezophilic Deep-Sea Sediment Microbes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Richard P Sheryll($400,360), American Museum Natural History, New York
2. Stefan M Sievert($748,982), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Ocean Benthic, Ocean Benthic Sampler, Deep Sea, Hydrostatic Pressure, Situ Conditions, Ability, Biogeochemical, Broad, Chemical, DOBS, Deep-sea, Ecosystems, Environments, Fields, Knowledge, Limited, Microbial, Obtain, Particular, Public, Retrieval, Sediment, Sediments, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Submersible, Autonomous Rn-222 Survey System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Richard N Peterson($181,605), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
2. John A Breier($696,402), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continental Shelf, Deeper Waters, Engineering Students, Groundwater Discharge, Water Column, Analysis, Breier, Capable, Delivery, Fluxes, Hydrothermal, Measure, Mentor, Mixing, Program, Quantifying, Radon, Resolution, Rn, SGD, Situ, Smith, Tool, Tracers, Undergraduate, Vehicle.

Wave Gliders in the Development of a Continental-Scale Integrated Ocean-Observing System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Charles H Greene($433,990), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Echo Sounder, Wave Glider, Wave Gliders, CALCOFI, Capability, Development, Doctoral, Echo-sounder, Engineering, Fisheries, Has, Master, Platform, Run, Specific, Standard, Student, Unmanned.

RAPID: DEBI-t: development of a Deep Exploration Biosphere Investigative Tool
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Katrina J Edwards($193,399), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Spatial Scales Ranging, Microbial Life, Single Cells, Bacterial, Biosphere, Boreholes, Components, DUV, Deep, Detecting, Detection, Distribution, Fluorescence, Involve, Loss, Methods, Natural, Subsurface, Tool.

Recovery of the UMCES MUDBED Surface Buoy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Lawrence P Sanford($8,678), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Surface Buoy, Chain, Recover, Recovered, Tide, Underwater, Was.

MRI: RAPID: Development: Spectrally resolved, ultrafast and simultaneous measurements of methane and carbon dioxide in sea waters with femtosecond supercontinuum fiber laser
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Hans A Schuessler($145,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Sea Water, Concentration, Content, Gas, Methane, Monitoring, Oil, Processes, Range, Region, Sensor.

RAPID: Adaptive, Mobile Robotic Sampler Platform for In-Water Capture and Return of Oil Spill Chemical, Microbial and Particulate Matter
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. David P Fries($229,140), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Gulf Oil Spill, Intelligent Aquatic, Mobile Sampling, Renewable Energy, Robotic Sampling, Adaptive, Approach, Based, Biological, Chemical, Coastal, Complex, Coupled, Ecosystem, Ocean, Operational, Phenomena, Platform, Remote, Sampler, Spatial, Technology, Temporal, Underwater.

RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: In-situ tracking of oil in seawater and the aging process using spectral fluorescence
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Andrew H Barnard($189,335), Western Environmental Technology Laboratories, Inc., Philomath
Key terms: Crude Oil Presence, Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Spectral Fluorescence, Current, Environment, Future, Gulf, In-situ, Low-cost, Natural, Sensors, Track, Tracking.

Optical monitoring of ocean temperature over scales 10m to 10 km
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert Pinkel($299,016), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Optical Fiber, Brillouin, Channel, Flow, Light, Monitor, Potential, Technology, Temperature, Transmitted.

Development of a Micro-Rosette Sensor for Total Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Measurement from Autonomous Lagrangian Ocean Profilers
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Todd Martz($614,013), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Lagrangian Vertical Profiles, Maguire And Mclaughlin, Randd Partnership Program, Receive Funding Exclusively, Usireland Randd Partnership, Broader Impacts, Microfluidics Engineering, Northern Ireland, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Ocean Physics, Profiling Float, Profiling Floats, Respective National, Analysis, Application, Autonomous, Available, Brings, CT, Collaboration, Component, Device, Effort, Expertise, Has, Micro-rosette, Observations, Pco, Potential, Sensors, Time, Times, Ward.

Autonomous Particulate Inorganic Carbon Sensor and Carbon Explorer Deployment
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James K Bishop($1,340,324), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Ocean's Biological Pump, Particulate Inorganic Carbon, Particulate Organic Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Ocean's Biological, Autonomous, Characterize, Measure, Oceans, PIC, POC, Parameters, Prediction, Profiles, Sea, Sensors, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Developing A Prototype Drifter to Measure the Oceanic Geomagnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. William W Sager($44,510), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Maurice A Tivey($330,087), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Magnetic Stripe Anomalies, Inexpensive Magnetic, Low Power, Magnetic Field, Ocean Basins, Broad, Coverage, Drifter, Drifters, Geomagnetic, Global, Magnetometer, Obtained, Sensors, Sparse, Surface, Was.

Collaborative Research: Development of a next generation sensor for measuring biologically available iron in seawater
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Karen Orcutt($576,416), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. Mark L Wells($356,838), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Eukaryotic Phytoplankton, Reactive Iron, Carbon, Fluorescence, Has, Lead, Measure, Ocean, Offshore, Photoactive, Pis, Range, Real-time, Regulation, Sensor, Students, Teachers, Ultra-sensitive.

ALOHA Cabled Observatory: Installation and Operation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Frederick K Duennebier($905,310), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Deep Water, Station Aloha, ACO, Acoustic, Activity, Cable, Commercial, Continuous, Design, Enabling, Has, Installation, Installed, Internet, Node, Observatories, Observatory, Ocean, Pressure, Sensors, Shore, WMC, Was.

International Travel Grant: 2010 IEEE/OES South America International Symposium; April 12-14, 2010
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Andrew Clark($18,300), Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway
Key terms: Buenos Aires, Climate, Engineering, Exchange, Information, South, Symposium, Theme, Topics, Was.

Saltmarsh Circulation, Inundation and Bathymetric Mapping using HF-radar
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Dana K Savidge($275,865), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Horizontal Resolution, Intertidal Marsh, Measure Vector, Salt Marsh, Ability, Bathymetry, Channels, Circulation, Complex, Database, Extensive, Inundated, Pathways, Radars, Setting, Skio, Tidal, Variety, Vhf-radar, Water.

An Autonomous Expendable Instrument System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Keith Vonderheydt($496,897), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Broader Impacts, AXIS, Existing, Probe, Probes, Sampling.

Modular Autonomous Biosampler (MAB): A Multi-platform System for Distinct Biological Size-class Sampling and Preservation
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Arthur C Trembanis($245,750), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Biological And Chemical, Discovery And Environmental, Environmental Health Assessment, Chemical Sensors, Autonomous, Biosampler, Critical, Development, Extremely, Growth, Has, Modular, Ocean, Platforms, Potential, Realm, Sampling, Significantly.

RAPID: Seamount research with Eye-in-the-Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/17/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Edith A Widder($40,651), Ocean Research & Conservation Association, Inc., Vero Beach
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.

RAPID: Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V OCEANUS 2010 RAPID Response
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David C Fisichella($68,488), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Fulfill, Nsf-funded, Scope, Shared-use, Spill.

2010 Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David S Goldberg($192,157), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mcs Streamer, Instrumentation, Request.

Purchase of a Nutrient Analysis System to Support Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Research
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Tracy A Villareal($55,431), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Has, Time.

RAPID: Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V CAPE HATTERAS 2010 Rapid Response
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($86,538), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Fulfill, Instrumentation, Scope, Spill.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2010
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David C Fisichella($138,185), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Daniel C Guidry($17,350), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
3. William S Wilcock($6,547), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Daryl L Swensen($11,750), Oregon State University, Corvallis
5. Daniel C Guidry($15,500), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
6. David S Goldberg($146,200), Columbia University, New York
7. David S Goldberg($684,306), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Purpose Global Vessel, Instrumentation, Oceanographic, RV, Request.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for 2010, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($35,599), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Instrumentation, Request.

2010 Oceanographic Instrumentation for R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Ronald H Harelstad($8,760), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Instrumentation, Request.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Benjamin M Jokinen($47,400), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Timothy W Deering($36,825), University of Delaware, Newark
3. Terry B Appelgate($359,090), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Instrumentation, Request, Vessel.

Sonar Electronics Replacement for Vessels Corwith Cramer and Robert Seamans
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Mary Engels($10,450), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
Key terms: NSF, Ocean, Operating, SEA, UNOLS, Vessels, Was.

University of Hawaii Oceanographic Instrumentation CY2010
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy McGovern($23,137), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Instrumentation, Requests.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($48,246), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Instrumentation, Request.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($75,335), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Instrumentation, Oceanographic.

Collaborative Research: A Workshop Proposal for Improving Access to R/V Langseth Seismic Data
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. W Steven Holbrook($21,042), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Graham Kent($117,826), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Rv Langseth, Access, Operation, Opportunities, Seismology, Workshop.

Mitigation of Impacts of Ocean Sciences Research of Marine Mammals 2009- 2011
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. John B Diebold($2,546,744), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Act, Environmental, Lamont-doherty, Marine, National, Observatory.

Denmark Strait Overflow Water: A New Paradigm for the Origin of the Deep Western Boundary Current
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert S Pickart($2,434,278), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Deep Western, East Greenland Current, North Atlantic Deep, Northwest Icelandic Jet, Water Mass Transformation, Western Boundary Current, Continental Slope, Denmark Strait, Global Warming, Iceland Sea, Overflow Water, Overturning Circulation, Ship Time, Climate, Component, DSOW, Earth, Forcing, Hydrographic, Links, MOC, MRI, Moored, Moorings, Origin, Plume, Quantify, Sources, Transport, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: DYNAmics of the Madden Julian Oscillation/DYNAMO Mooring
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James N Moum($745,765), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Ren-Chieh Lien($1,715,725), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Equatorial Indian Ocean, Seychelles-chagos Thermocline Ridge, Shallow Seychelles-chagos Thermocline, Simulation And Prediction, Surface Mixed Layer, Air-sea Interaction, Barrier Layer, Dynamo Moorings, Field Program, Mjo Initiation, Prediction Skill, Seychelles-chagos Thermocline, Shallow Seychelles-chagos, Tropical Climate, Turbulence Flux, Upper Ocean, Wyrtki Jet, Air-sea, Array, Arrays, Components, Confidence, Deployed, Effects, Evolution, Models, Observational, Observations, Oceanic, Pods, Processes, Recovery, Sensors, Upper-ocean.

Kuroshio Transport: Inter-annual to Decadal Variability and the Underlying Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Magdalena Andres($542,013), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Remote Forcing Reaches, Atmospheric Forcing, North Pacific, Observational Studies, Subtropical Gyre, Western Boundary, Baroclinic, Basin-scale, Circulation, Climate, Current, Decadal, Ecs-kuroshio, Especially, Extension, Inter-annual, Interannual, Kuroshio, Lead, Middle, Model, Ocean, Output, Relative, School, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Global Impacts of Eddies on Inertial Oscillations of the Mixed Layer
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kathleen Dohan($130,933), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
2. Renellys C Perez($66,313), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. Jonathan M Lilly($1,011,278), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Propagating Near-inertial Waves, Inertial Oscillations, Mixed Layer, Near-inertial Waves, Propagating Near-inertial, Small-scale Mixing, Wind Forcing, Ability, Analysis, Available, Benefit, Budget, Circulation, Dataset, Eddies, Energy, Global, Modeling, Ninertial, Numerical, Ocean, Oceans, Predict, Primary, Small-scale, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of nutrient input at the shelf margin supporting persistent winter phytoplankton blooms downstream of the Charleston Bump
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Harvey E Seim($688,415), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Catherine R Edwards($952,396), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Shelf And Slope, South Atlantic Bight, Continental Shelf, Gulf Stream, Nutrient Input, Observational Technologies, Outer Shelf, Physical-biological Coupling, Upper Slope, Winter Blooms, Assemblage, Bay, Break, Component, Conditions, Enhanced, Favor, Features, Field, Information, Larger, Mechanisms, Mixing, Moored, Nitrate, Observations, Offshore, Physical-biological, Phytoplankton, Primary, Prior, Program, Recurring, Regime, Region, Repeated, SAB, Section, Spring.

Intra-seasonal to decadal variability and role of eddies in the low-latitude western boundary current off the Philippines
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tangdong Qu($398,318), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pacific Decadal, Available, Climate, ECCO, Has, Integration, LLWBC, OFES, Oscillation, Period, Phenomena, Resolution, Simulated, Western.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:The Propagating Response of the Inner Shelf to Wind Relaxations in a Coastal Upwelling System
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Oscar Schofield($372,650), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Libe Washburn($698,120), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Mark A Moline($464,601), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Cross-shore And Alongshore, Coastal Upwelling, Relaxation Flows, Source Waters, Wind Relaxations, California, Density, Examine, Extensive, Observational, Pressure, Region, Regional, Structure, Students, Velocity.

Turbulence in the Inner Part of a Combined Wave-Current Coastal Bottom Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph Katz($517,548), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Bottom Ripples, Bottom Topography, Boundary Layer, Boundary Layers, Dissipation Rate, Dissipation Rates, Energy Spectra, Mean Current, Mean Velocity, Wave Boundary, Abundance, Affect, Amplitude, Analysis, Available, BBL, Below, Characteristic, Circulation, Coastal, Continue, Database, Develops, Eddies, Essential, Field, Flow, Generated, Inflection, Instabilities, Interactions, Interface, Modeling, Near, Obtained, Oceanography, Orientation, PIV, Peak, Peaks, Populating, Relative, Reynolds, Roughness, Shear, Steady, Stress, Students, Turbulence, WBL, Waves.

Analysis of eddies, mixing, and dense overflows at the Iceland-Faroe Ridge in the Northern Atlantic Ocean observed with Seagliders
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles C Eriksen($506,439), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Temperature And Salinity, Dense Overflow, Depth-averaged Velocity, Global Climate, Horizontal Velocity, Optical Backscatter, Polar Front, Vertical Velocity, Water Masses, AMOC, Analysis, Arctic, Branch, Collaborations, Deployments, Depth-averaged, Dynamics, Environmental, Faroe, Glider, Gliders, Hydrography, Issues, Mixing, Models, Near, November, Observations, Ocean, Plume, Profiles, Program, Resolution, Rim, Seafloor, Sections, Strong, Structure, Students, Time, Transformation, Undergraduate, Warm, Widely.

Collaborative Research: Mixing in the Equatorial Thermocline (MIXET)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Scott E Worrilow($911,936), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Eric Firing($997,185), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Climate, Comprehensive, Cruises, Equatorial, Has, Linking, Mixing, Modeling, Models, Observations, Ocean, Pis, Strong, Student, Svss, Wind.

Modeling, Assimilation, and Analysis of the Shelf - Interior Ocean Exchange off Oregon
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John S Allen($880,904), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Assimilation Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Oregon Coast, Adjacent, Circulation, Coastal, Dynamics, Exchanges, Has, Investigate, Observational, Ocean, Shelf, Zone.

The Structure and Dynamics of the Surfzone Eddy Field
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Falk Feddersen($385,089), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Freely Decaying Turbulence, Surfzone Eddy Field, Surfzone Turbulent Eddies, Teen Surfscience Conferences, 2d Turbulence, 2d Turbulent, Alongshore Current, Cross-shore Variable, Drains Directly, Forceddissipated Turbulence, Surfzone 2d, Turbulent Eddy, Variable Bathymetry, Vorticity Sources, Wave-group Forcing, Barred, Beach, Budgets, Cross-shore, Dispersion, Distinct, Effects, Enstrophy, Evolution, Examined, Health, Inverse-energy, Length, Length-scales, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Monotonic, Objectives, Observations, Pis, Pollution, Properties, Relative, Set, Spatial, Students, Water, Wave-group.

Gravity Currents and Large-Amplitude Internal Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Karl R Helfrich($547,502), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Brian L White($367,018), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Currents And Nonlinear, Nonlinear Internal Waves, Coastal Ocean, Gravity Currents, Trapped Cores, Wave Generation, Experiments, Fluid, Graduate, Numerical, Transport.

Symmetric Stability and Instability of Ocean Currents
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rudolf C Kloosterziel($273,945), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Effective Energy Method, Broader Impacts, Stability Criteria, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Flows, Geophysical, Has, Instability, Mechanisms, Potential, Previous, Shear, Theoretical.

Formation, Growth and Separation of the Northwest Corner Eddy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David Ullman($965,754), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Eddy Formation, Heat Fluxes, North Atlantic, Northwest Corner, Dynamics, Experience, Growth, Models, Natural, Ocean, Process, Region, Sub-polar, Teacher.

The Equatorial Mixed Layer and Upper Ocean Mixing
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert Pinkel($1,587,985), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mixed Layer, Uppermost Pycnocline, Air-sea, Below, Central, Combined, Doppler, Fluxes, Generation, Heat, High-resolution, Mixing, Momentum, NNIW, Net, Nutrients, Observations, Oscillation, Shear, Surface, Transition, Tropical, Turbulent, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Benthic Exhange Events and Near-Boundary Mixing on the Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Erika McPhee-Shaw($489,328), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. James G Bellingham($150,100), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
3. Timothy P Stanton($806,153), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Entire Water Column, Internal Wave Energy, Benthic Exchange, Boundary Layer, Boundary-interior Exchange, Continental Margin, Deeper Continental, Fixed Stations, Monterey Bay, Moored Profiler, AUV, Blooms, Bottom, Boundary-interior, Coastal, Continuously, Cross-shelf, Deployed, Designed, Developed, Directly, Dispersal, Dissipation, Dynamics, Findings, Fluxes, Full-water-column, Global, Graduate, Has, Inls, Innovative, Instrumentation, Intrusion, Intrusions, Investigate, MLML, Measure, Mechanisms, Mixing, Processes, Seasonal, Shelf, Stratified, Temporal, Transport, Turbulence, Upwelling.

Upwelling Dynamics from Days to Years Using Underwater Gliders
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John A Barth($907,827), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Remotely Sensed Surface, Coastal Upwelling, Frontal Circulation, Glider Line, Glider Observations, Nh Line, Upwelling Front, Upwelling Jet, Ageostrophic, Chlorophyll, Complex, Cross-shelf, Current, Days, Dynamics, E-W, Efforts, Estimate, Flow, Formation, Gliders, Interannual, Layer, Lines, Local, Low-oxygen, Nbottom, Ocean, Oregon, Particular, Processes, Range, Relative, Shelf, Source-water, Structure, Substantial, Subsurface, Time, Water, Wind, Wind-driven.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Deepwater Horizon: Simulating the three dimensional dispersal of aging oil with a Lagrangian approach
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward E Adams($24,903), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Elizabeth W North($64,194), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Droplet Behavior, Model Output, Oil Dispersal, Oil Droplets, Oil Spill, Sabgom Model, Age, Available, Coastal, Compared, Coupled, Diameter, Differences, Dispersion, Ensure, Existing, Future, Gulf, Information, Interaction, LTRANS, Lagrangian, Mexico, Micron, Mms, Models, Observations, Particle, Particles, Predictions, Realistic, Run, Runs, Simulating, Simulations, Size, Source, Time, Time-varying.

Spectral Energy Dissipation in Broad-banded Wave Fields
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Thomson($766,620), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Broad-banded Wave Fields, Broad-banded Wave, Energy Dissipation, Remote Observations, Remotely Estimating, Situ Observations, Wave Age, Wave Breaking, Adapted, Dependence, Determination, Distribution, Estimates, Experiment, Experiments, Extend, Frequency-directional, Has, Input, Method, Models, Narrow-banded, Ocean, Phillips, Simultaneous, Validated, Washington, Waves, Wind.

EAGER: Deepglider Pilot Observations of Western Boundary Current Structure Offshore Abaco
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles C Eriksen($359,568), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Extended Western Boundary, Western Boundary Region, Barotropic Contributions, Climatically Critical, Deep Ocean, Deepglider Estimates, Depth-averaged Current, Dynamic Height, Intellectual Merit, Ocean Circulation, Overturning Circulation, Upper Ocean, Array, Atlantic, Autonomous, Climate, Compared, Complement, Deepgliders, Depth-averaged, Displacement, Flow, Glider, Gliders, Global, Independent, Inferred, MOC, Measuring, Meridional, Monitor, Monitoring, Moorings, North, Observed, Possibility, RAPID-MOCHA, Repeat, Resolution, Section, Sections, Transport, Transports.

Dynamics of near-surface eastward flows in the South Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julian P McCreary($446,113), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ekman And Sverdrup, Surface Eastward Currents, Eastward Flow, Numerical Models, Situ Observations, Absolute, Analysis, Argo, CSIRO, Circulation, Combines, Dataset, Dynamics, Features, Gap, Historical, IPRC, ITF, LC, Ocean, SIO.

RAPID: Sub-Mesoscale Dynamics of Buoyant Plumes
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tamay M Ozgokmen($86,216), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Argonne National Laboratory, Broader Impacts, Buoyant Plume, Buoyant Plumes, Oceanic Environment, Oil Spill, Relative Dispersion, Collaboration, Days, Density, Does, Future, Main, Models, Ongoing, Range, Source, Step, Subsurface, Surface, Three-dimensional, Water.

RAPID: Glider Observations in the Gulf of Mexico in Response to the Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel Rudnick($43,868), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Cdom Fluorometer, Oil Spill, Subsurface Oil, Collaboration, Conditions, Glider, Gliders, Ocean, Oceanographic, Rapid.

RAPID: 3-D Model Forecast of the Vertical and Horizontal Distributions of the Oil Plumes Arising From the DeepWater Horizon Spill
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ruoying He($80,646), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: South Atlantic Bight, Oil Spill, Three-dimensional Oil, Aircraft, Amount, Circulation, Depths, Distributed, GOM, Gulf, Information, Mexico, Model, Ocean, Satellite, Southeast, Spilled, Surface, Three-dimensional, Total, Tracer, Trajectories.

Collaborative Research: Topography, Boundary Currents and the Submesoscale
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William K Dewar($402,879), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. James C McWilliams($352,444), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dynamics, Flows, Lead, Mesoscale, Models, Ocean, Resolution, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: Representing internal-wave driven mixing in global ocean models
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William G Large($520,880), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Brian Arbic($629,876), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Harper L Simmons($118,109), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
4. Louis C St Laurent($1,253,367), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
5. Matthew H Alford($387,934), University of Washington, Seattle
6. Robert Pinkel($791,636), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Internal Wave Energy, Climate Models, Field Mixing, Based, Breakdown, Ocean, Parameterizations.

Agulhas Return Current Surface Mooring Reference Station
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicholas A Bond($150,545), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Agulhas Return Current, Air-sea Heat Fluxes, Arc Reference Station, Various Process Studies, Western Boundary Current, Agulhas Current, Air-sea Heat, Carbon Dioxide, Experiment Led, Global Network, Indian Ocean, Near-real Time, Oceansites Time, Reference Stations, African, Available, Beal, Carry, Contribute, Equatorward, Hemisphere, Lead, Mooring, NSF, Nreal, Physics, Re-analyses, Region, SCOR, Surface, Telemetered, WBCE, Workshop, °S.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Bottom Boundary Layer Drag and Topographic Wave Drag on the Eddying General Circulation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Arbic($703,059), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Robert B Scott($161,909), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Glenn R Flierl($114,068), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
4. Steven R Jayne($109,080), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Boundary Layer Drag, Eddy Kinetic Energy, Internal Wave Drag, Topographic Internal Wave, Two-layer Quasi-geostrophic Models, Bottom Drag, Circulation Models, Contribute Significantly, Energy Budget, Energy Dissipation, Graduate Student, Idealized Models, Low-frequency Flows, Ocean Models, Oceanic Energy, Quasi-geostrophic Models, Realistic Eddying, Realistic Models, Rough Topography, Two-layer Quasi-geostrophic, Climate, Coefficients, Compared, Continue, Datasets, Dynamics, Eddies, Eddy-resolving, Employing, Global, Has, Lead, Low-frequency, Observations, Previous, Roughness, Scheme, Sinks, Strong, Summer, Surface, Tested, Vertical.

Optimizing the utility of satellite altimetry for diagnosing lateral stirring and mixing in the upper ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kendall S Smith($643,325), New York University, New York
Key terms: Satellite Altimetry Products, Mixing Diagnostics, Flow, Model, Models, Ocean, Parameters, Resolution, Stochastic.

Collaborative Research: The Physics and Statistics of Global Sea Level Change
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick Heimbach($1,360,390), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Peter Huybers($339,609), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. Rui M Ponte($626,981), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Regional And Global, Sea Level Rise, Growing Literature, Adaptation, Costs, Impacts, Magnitude, Mm, Ocean, Periods, Rates, Shifts, Time.

Collaborative Research: Vortex dynamics and interannual variability in the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan M Lilly($47,822), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Boundary Current, Buoyancy Transport, Eddy Generation, Labrador Sea, AMOC, Analysis, Benefit, Convection, Deep, Eddy-driven, Experiments, Forcing, Graduate, Idealized, Instability, Large-scale, Local, Modeling, Numerical, Supported.

RAPID: Microstructure Observations of Rapid Surface Freshening in the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan M Lilly($106,600), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Deep Convection, Labrador Sea, Overturning Circulation, Boundary, CTD, Capping, Climate, Formation, Freshwater, Halocline, Instrument, Layer, Mixing, Particular, Rapid, Region, Regions, Shear, Transport, Turbulent.

Pathways and variability of NADW export from the Atlantic Ocean, in two eddy-resolving models
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ashwanth Srinivasan($382,484), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atlantic, Circulation, Climate, Deep, Global, Indian, Links, NADW.

Eddy diffusivities in the Southern Ocean from an eddying model
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexa Griesel($314,360), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Eddy Diffusion Coefficients, Horizontal And Vertical, Southern Ocean Eddy, Diffusion Model, Diffusivity Estimates, Eddy Fluxes, Eddy Tracer, Isopycnal Eddy, Lagrangian Diffusivities, Spatial Distributions, Vertical Distributions, Zonally Integrated, ACC, Assess, Circulation, Climate, Conflicting, Contribute, Deployed, Eddies, Efforts, Floats, Global, Local, Methods, Mixing, Models, Parameterize, Unclear, Water.

Collaborative Research: Examining a New Paradigm for Eighteen Degree Water Formation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James B Girton($142,217), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Terrence M Joyce($379,846), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. William K Dewar($290,240), Florida State University, Tallahassee
4. Leif N Thomas($159,673), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Mode Water Formation, Brbrin Terms, Degree West, Edw Formation, Frontal Dynamics, Frontal Region, Gulf Stream, Numerical Simulations, Oxygen Saturation, Shear Dispersion, CLIMODE, CLIVAR, Diabatic, Driven, Examine, GS, Graduate, Has, Importance, Inertial, Instabilities, Mixing, Model, Near, Nested, Observations, Oceanic, PV, Paradigm, Potential, Salinity, Simulationsin, Strong, Sub-mesoscale, Temperatures, Vorticity.

Intermediate-depth Ventilation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southwestern Scotia Sea
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alejandro Orsi($392,356), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Circumpolar Deep Water, South Scotia Ridge, Southwestern Scotia Sea, Ventilated Slope Waters, Antarctic Slope, ACC, ASC, Analysis, Bottom, CDW, Cold, Coordinated, Critical, Cross-slope, International, Layers, MCDW, Main, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Mixing, Moorings, Northern, Objectives, Ocean, Outflows, Path, Program, Proximity, Regional, SSR, Salinity, Temperature, Transport, Ventilation.

Collaborative Research: Evolution and Fate of Eighteen Degree Water in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David M Fratantoni($1,073,639), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Susan Lozier($200,024), Duke University, Durham
3. Lynne D Talley($396,429), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Shallow Overturning Circulation, Mode Waters, North Atlantic, Primary Productivity, Profiling Floats, Advance, Air-sea, Array, CLIMODE, CLIVAR, Dataset, Destruction, EDW, Eddy-resolving, Evolution, Examine, Exchange, Field, Heat, Interannual, Nutrients, Ocean, Pathways, Predictability, Processes, Reservoir, Storm, Subtropical, Surface, Unique.

The Influence of Coastal-Trapped Waves on the Inner Continental Shelf: Temperature and Circulation Patterns
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Melanie R Fewings($376,868), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Kelp Forest Ecosystems, Northern Channel Islands, Santa Barbara Channel, Baja California, Coastal Ocean, Coastal Pressure, Coastal-trapped Waves, Internal Tidal, Marine Protected, Remote Winds, Temperature Fluctuations, Water Temperature, West Coast, Wind Fluctuations, Affect, Along-shelf, Bores, Circulation, Coastal-trapped, Driven, Dynamical, Effect, Gradients, Influence, Management, Mechanism, Near, Observed, Sea-level, Strength, Thermocline, Transport, Velocity.

Extending Abyssal Mixing Observations and Parameterizations
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas S Luther($247,868), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Abyssal Diapycnal Mixing, Abyssal Mixing Parameterizations, Circulation And Climate, Infer Diapycnal Mixing, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Mixing Parameterizations Intended, Abyssal Ocean, Climate Models, Fine-scale Parameterizations, Observational Knowledge, Ocean Circulation, Southern Ocean, Spatial Distribution, Accurate, Analysis, Depth, Dissipation, Expected, Fine-scale, Global, Has, Hydrographic, Internal, Near, Numerical, Observations, Predictor, Regions, Stratification, Thorpe, Validation, WOCE, Weak.

Studies of multiple equilibria in ocean-atmosphere-ice simulations of aquaplanets
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John C Marshall($477,412), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Coupled Climate, Ice Caps, Multiple Equilibrium, Ocean Circulation, Sustain Polar, Barriers, Geometrical, Sea-ice.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Eighteen Degree Water from CLIMODE Observations and its Climate Implications
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Shenfu Dong($254,671), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Kathryn Kelly($351,614), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air-sea Fluxes, Air-sea Interaction, Climate Models, Edw Evolution, Edw Region, Field Program, Heat Storage, Mode Water, North Atlantic, Ocean Circulation, Air-sea, Analyses, CLIMODE, CLIVAR, Contribute, Contributing, Depend, Formation, Has, Importance, Interannual-to-decadal, Link, Memory, Metrics, Mid-latitude, Modeling, Period, Predictability, Primary, Processes, STMW, Subsequent, Variables, Volume, Western.

Routes to vertical mixing in the Equatorial Under Current: quantification through high-resolution numerical simulations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kraig Winters($450,888), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Instabilities, Linearly Stable, Vertical Fluxes, Background, Based, Broad, Conditions, Contribute, Development, Directly, EUC, Effort, Energy, Existing, Heat, High-resolution, Mean, Mechanisms, Modeling, NSF, Numerical, Observations, Profiles, Quantify, Shear, Simulations, Transport, Turbulence, Turbulent, UCSD, Wind.

XVIII Alpine Summer School on Buoyancy-Drive Flows
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Claudia Cenedese($35,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Buoyant Coastal Currents, Atmospheric Flows, Buoyancy-driven Flows, Lecture Notes, Ocean Circulation, Summer School, Volcanic Flows, Wider Range, Avalanches, Book, Buoyancy-driven, Climate, Earth, Etc, Experimental, Geophysical, Importance, Lectures, Modeling, Specific, Theoretical.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment - 2010
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Daniel C Guidry($299,240), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Albert F Suchy($247,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Rv Pelican, Safety Standards, Wire Monitoring, Appendix, Cable, Compliance, Lower, Marine, Meet, Ocean, Oceanographic, Purchase, RVSS, Requirements, SWL, Vessel.

University of Hawaii Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment CY2010
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Stanley Winslow($164,358), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kilo Moana, Hawaii, Items, Vessels.

2010 Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David S Goldberg($161,179), Columbia University, New York
2. David S Goldberg($94,179), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Columbia, Item, LANGSETH, Lamont-doherty, Observatory, Seismic, Vessel.

Five Year Request for East Coast Winch Facility
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David C Fisichella($3,301,018), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coast Winch Pool, East Coast Winch, Hole Oceanographic Institute, Unols East Coast, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Direct Pull, Proper Maintenance, Traction Winches, Aboard, Academic, Administrative, Available, Broader, Commonality, Current, Design, Ensure, Equipment, Fleet, Handling, Pools, Shared-use, Standards, Structure, Vessel, Vessels.

2010 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard Kniffin($136,198), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Rv Walton Smith, Items, Miami, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment for the R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. James G Sanders($35,103), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Skidaway Institute, Items, NSF, Oceanography, Vessel.

2010 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment for R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Ronald H Harelstad($43,500), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Atlantic Explorer, Bermuda Institute, Items, Ocean, Routinely, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment for 2010, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($13,669), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Item, Minnesota.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. William Byam($119,269), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Stewart K Lamerdin($64,840), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Rv Hugh, Broader, Coast, Delaware, Items, SHARP, Vessels.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2008
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David S Goldberg($145,168), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Rv Marcus Langseth, Columbia, Items, Operations.

MoorSPICE: Moorings for the Southwest Pacific Circulation Experiment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: STCs - 2006 CLASS

1. Janet Sprintall($1,772,819), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Pacific Thermocline Waters, Pacific Western Boundary, Simultaneous Mooring Deployments, South Pacific Western, Boundary Currents, Solomon Sea, Southwest Pacific, Thermocline Water, Available, Component, ENSO, Equator, Equatorial, Flow, International, Models, Moorspice, Oceanic, Passages, Pathway, Quantitative, Range, Remain, Responsible, Route, Set, Strait, Straits, Time, Transport.

Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: STCs - 2010 Class

1. Steven L D'Hondt($47,474,312), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, Ocean Drilling, Ocean Floor, Sub-surface Biosphere, Americans, Attracting, Below, Biology, Biomass, Bring, C-DEBI, California, Center, Development, Diversity, Education, Estimated, Excite, Global, Graduate, Has, Igneous, Implications, Interdisciplinary, International, Lead, Life, Microbial, Native, Processes, Programs, Public, Pursue, Regard, Sediments, Students, Sub-seafloor, Sub-surface, Technologies, Technology, Undergraduate, Unique, Women.

RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Responses of Benthic Communities and Sedimentary Dynamics to Hydrocarbon Exposure in Coastal Ecosystems of the northern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Laodong Guo($147,874), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Northern Gulf, Oil Spill, Coastal, Examine, Mexico, Processes, Sites, Time.

RAPID: Support to the IODE/OBIS Project Office at Rutgers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: nan

1. Edward Vanden Berghe($100,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Available, Database, IOC, Invaluable, Marine, OBIS, Ocean, Resource, Transition, Was, World-wide.

IWGOO Support Office FY 11
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: nan

1. Robert B Gagosian($311,894), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Coastal And Ocean, Ocean Observing, Activities, Collaboration, Efforts, Federal, IOOS, IWGOO, Interagency, Natural, Operations, Partners, Planning, Priorities, Remain, Resources, Technology.

CAMEO: Collaborative research -- Fish productivity and fishing impacts compared across a range of marine ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: nan

1. Ray W Hilborn($309,460), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Olaf P Jensen($187,110), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Biological And Management, Levels And Functional, Structure And Productivity, Yield And Ecosystem, Ecosystem Approach, Ecosystem Impacts, Ecosystem Status, Ecosystem Structure, Fish Stocks, Fishing Pressure, Management Drivers, Productive Stocks, Rebuilding Rates, Sustainable Yield, Trophic Level, Trophic Levels, Analyses, Assessment, Catch, Correlations, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Extent, Fisheries, Interaction, Marine, Models, Outreach, Over-exploited, Population, Spatial, Species, Surveys.

CAMEO: Comparative Approaches to Predicting the Consequences of an Impending Re-invasion: Top-predator Effects on Californian Near-shore Fisheries
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: nan

1. Jennifer Caselle($122,482), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Mark H Carr($465,078), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Ca Kelp Forests, Central And Southern, Southern Ca Kelp, Structure And Dynamics, Analytical Tools, Impending Re-invasion, Nearshore Ecosystems, Sea Otters, Southern Californian, Affect, Application, Approaches, Compare, Development, Ecosystem-based, Effects, Efforts, Facilitate, Fisheries, Indicators, Long-term, Management, Managers, Modeling, Models, Monitoring, Mpas, Predictions, Processes, Range, Re-invasion, Resiliency, Training.

National Deep Submergence Facility (CY10 - CY14)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: nan

1. Andrew D Bowen($41,324,799), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Submergence, Alvin, Days, NDSF, Operating, Sentry, Vehicle.

REU Site for Oregon Marine Science: From upper estuaries to the deep sea.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: nan

1. Robert A Duncan($522,300), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Reu Program, COAS, Diverse, Field, HMSC, Interdisciplinary, Interns, Marine, Opportunity, Oregon, Site, Students.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2010

Sustaining Coastal Experimentation and Observing Systems in Support of Marine Ecosystem and Climate Science Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

Laboratory renovation at the Ocean Research College Academy at Everett Community College Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

MARINE: Modernizing Academic Research INfrastructure at Eckerd Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

Modernization and Enhancement of the Seawater System and Research Infrastructure at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

Upgrading Middlebury College's Floating Laboratory: A State-of-the-Art Research Vessel Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

Workshop on Paleo-ocean Acidification and Carbon Cycle Perturbation Events August 26~28, 2010 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

IMBER IMBIZO-II: Support and Facilitation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative research: Modeling control of Antarctic Bottom Water production by small-scale bathymetry and tides Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

A Data Management System and Portal for Access to Ecological and Biogeochemical Ocean Data - BCO-DMO Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Phase 4 Proposal: Management of the Post Delivery Testing and Sea Trials of the R/V SIKULIAQ (Alaska Region Research Vessel/ARRV) Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ARRV - CONSTRUCTION

Construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel Program Solicitation NSF 07-515: Phase 3 Management Proposal Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: ARRV - CONSTRUCTION

Collaborative Research: Ecology of a Reverse Zoonosis: Human-Environment Interactions in the Transmission, Persistence, and Virulence of White Pox Disease in Elkhorn Coral Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

RAPID on Gulf Oil Spill: Phytoplankton and environmental stressors as determinants of Vibrio ecology Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Collaborative Research: Activity and abundance of photoheterotrophs fueled by photochemically-produced substrates Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Impact of the 2010 Caribbean Coral Bleaching Event: Assessing Changes in Coral Immune Function Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EID: Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecology of Marine Infectious Diseases Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Functional diversity of infaunal burrowers: Towards a mechanistic understanding of animal-sediment interactions Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Plankton Community Composition and Trophic Interactions as Modifiers of Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Connectivity in western Atlantic seep populations: Oceanographic and life-history processes underlying genetic structure Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Seasonal and decadal changes in temperature drive Prochlorococcus ecotype distribution patterns Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Are blue crab declines leading to a trophic cascade and massive loss of U.S. southern marshes? Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Reserach: Integrating geochemistry, microbiology, and hydrodynamics: A model for trace element transport and fate in hydrothermal plumes Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Investigation of the Effects of CACO3 Saturation State & Temperature on the Calcification Rate & Skeletal Properties of Benthic Marine Calcifiers Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Trophodynamics of Myrionecta rubra and cryptophyte algae Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Linking biogeochemistry and microbial community dynamics in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Evolutionary ecology of marine cyanophages Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Marine Clines to Predict Larval Retention Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Marine viral dynamics and incorporation into microbial association networks Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biodiversity and Complex Forcing of Ecosystem Functioning in the Marine Foundation Species, Eelgrass: A Global Experimental Network Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: CAMEO 2009 - A novel tool for validating trophic position estimates in ecosystem-based fisheries models Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Marine Metapopulation Connectivity: Modeling, Estimation and Demographic Consequences Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ridge 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Reactive Transport Modeling of Biogeochemical Processes in a Hydrothermal Vent Field Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Chemical ecology of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: CAMEO: Using interdecadal comparisons to understand trade-offs between abundance and condition in fishery ecosystems Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Rapid Assessment of Extent and Photophysiological Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

CAMEO: Collaborative Research: Patterns of Connectivity in Northwest Atlantic Fishery Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: CAMEO: Comparative analyses of natural and human influences on coral reef community structure, diversity, and resilience Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID Collaborative Proposal: Spatially-explicit, High-resolution Mapping and Modeling to Quantify Hypoxia and Oil Effects on the Living Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

CAMEO: Multiscale modeling of Hawaii's coral reef communities Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Application of transcriptomics to investigate organism-environment relationships in marine zooplankton Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: The Microbial Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Assessment of the impacts of the Deep Horizon oil spill on Bluecrab, Callinectes sapidus, spawning and recruitment in the northcentral Gulf of Mexico. Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Cyanobacteria-Bacteria Associations in the Ocean and Their Biogeochemical Consequences Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Impact of sub-surface oil plumes on mesopelagic micronekton Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Trophic interactions in floating Sargassum communities of the Gulf of Mexico: potential consequences of habitat degradation. Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: the influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The Great Southern Coccolithophore Belt Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The impact of multiple nursery areas and adult age structure on the population dynamics of marine fishes Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A mechanistic understanding of biogeographic patterns and life histories in benthic organisms in advective coastal environments Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Bacterial Interactions Underlying Coral Disease Resistance Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: A Unique Cruise Opportunity to Test the Effect of Trace Metal Limitation on Oxidative Stress and Coral Bleaching Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Resolving higher trophic-level change within the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem as a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Impacts on Blue Crab population dynamics and connectivity. Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID Deep water Horizon Oil spill: Trophic organization of sandy beach ecosystems across gradients of development and oiling Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Gene Flow and Divergence Across the Equatorial Tropical Marine Barrier: Past, Present and Future Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: River and sediment-modulated stress in planktonic and early settlement Mya arenaria Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Application of ISIIS to a multi-instrumented experiment on lateral mixing and dispersion on the inner shelf Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Viruses on Coral Fitness Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Genomic and Transcriptomic Comparison of Iron and Light Physiology in Coastal and Oceanic Diatoms Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Environmental Change and Biological Adaptation in the Ocean Workshop, May 7-9, 2010 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Fe:C ratios in food on marine copepod productivity and physiology Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research - Taxon-Specific Variability of Organiz Matter Production and Remineralization Potential Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Understanding copepod life-history and diversity using a next-generation zooplankton model Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Experimental studies to understand and evaluate acclimation of marine plankton assemblages to increased CO2 and temperature. Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Sources and Fates of Nitrogen and its Role in Supporting Dinoflagellate Blooms in the Arabian Sea Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Does larval transport or physiological tolerance set the southern range boundary of a northern blue mussel? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Groundwater Discharge, Benthic Coupling and Microalgal Community Structure in as Shallow Coastal Lagoon Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Hypoxia in Marine Ecosystems: Implications for Neritic Copepods Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Context-Dependency of Marine Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Relationships Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Life in the Dead Zone: Microbial respiration, production, diversity and gene expression in seasonally anoxic estuarine waters Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Planktonic interactions in a changing ocean: Biological responses of Emiliania huxleyi to elevated pCO2 and their effects on microzooplankton Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Population Genomics to Discern How Global Change Affects Species Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

AGU Chapman Conference on Detachments in Oceanic Lithosphere: Deformation, Magmatism, Fluid Flow, and Ecoystems Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Fucoid inducible defenses: the causes and consequences of intraspecific variation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Are Feeding and Growth Rates of Planktonic Ciliates Overestimated from Experiments in the Absence of Copepod Predators? Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Patterns of Ecosystem Function and Trophic Status in Well-mixed Subtropical Estuaries Undergoing Anthropogenic Modification Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: Local adaptation across latitudes: spatial scales, gene flow, and correlates of countergradient growth variation Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Micromachined Sensors for Multi-functional and Autonomous Analysis of Geofluids: A New Approach to the Design and Performance of Chemical Sensors in Extreme Environments Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: CCSS-Comms Circuits & Sens Sys