Renovation of Research Laboratories in the College of Marine Science-MSL Building
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

1. Jacqueline E Dixon($1,898,232), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Facilities, Faculty, Increasing, Infrastructure, Installation, Marine, Ocean, Oceanography, Programs, Renovations, School, Students, Training, Yold.

OCEANOGRAPHY Volume 24, No. 3: Arctic Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($30,000), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Academic, Activity, Arctic, Changing, Focus, Funding, Ocean, TOS.

Role of Mesoscale Eddies in Ventilation of the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Igor V Kamenkovich($620,345), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Direct Effects, Eddy Transports, Mesoscale Eddies, Passive Tracers, Southern Ocean, Steering Committee, Analysis, Benefit, Chlorofluorocarbons, Distribution, Distributions, Govern, Has, Idealized, Importance, Isolate, MPOWIR, Main, Numerical, Objectives, Observational, Oceans, Play, Processes, Properties, Simulations, Spatial, Upper, Ventilation, Waters.

Application of the Isotopes of Carbon Monoxide as Tracers of Current OH Trends and Preindustrial CO Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John E Mak($798,328), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Atmospheric Oxidation Potential, Minority Students, Model Simulations, National Institute, Southern Hemisphere, Stony Brook, Air, Compare, Compared, Crown, International, Latitude, Level, NH, OH, Presence, Rate, Scope, Underrepresented, Water, Zealand.

Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease Workshop
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. C. Drew Harvell($36,402), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Training Workshop, Acidification, Climate, Disease, Diseases, Dynamics, Graduate, Hands-on, Increased, Infectious, Interactions, Marine, Was.

Collaborative Research: Ecology of microbial mats at seamount associated Fe-rich hydrothermal vent systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David Emerson($603,631), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Craig L Moyer($639,846), Western Washington University, Bellingham
3. Clara Chan($230,070), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Iron Oxidizing Bacteria, Iron Rich, Microbial Mats, Bacterial, Couple, Deep, Discoveries, Diversity, Ecological, Geochemical, Grow, Growth, Influence, Marine, Matrix, Microscopy, Morphological, Ocean, Oxides, Pis, Populations, Produce, Restricted, Specific, Structures, Unique, Zetaproteobacteria.

Nitrate Assimilation and the Ecology of Prochlorococcus: Features and Implications of Intraspecific Diversity in a Model Marine Phototroph
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sallie W Chisholm($803,201), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Nitrate Assimilation Genes, Abundant, Approach, Berube, Cell, Cells, Discovery, Diversity, Dynamics, Environment, Features, Functional, Genomes, Genomic, Growth, Has, Inorganic, Limiting, Local, MIT, Marine, Nitrogen, Ocean, Overall, Phylogeny, Physiological, Population, Primary, Prochlorococcus, Program, Public, Synechococcus, Was, Wild.

Quantifying the importance of biological factors in the estimation of larval connectivity and population dynamics in the coastal ocean.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bruce E Kendall($370,141), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Connectivity And Long-term, Larval Biological Factors, Long-term Population Dynamics, Marine Spatial Planning, Planning And Fisheries, Southern California Bight, Spatial And Temporal, Biophysical Model, Connectivity Estimates, Fisheries Management, Graduate Students, Larval Biology, Larval Connectivity, Long-term Population, Sbc Lter, Approaches, Assumptions, Circulation, Contribute, Critical, Female, Growth, Insights, Models, Quantify, SCB, Species.

EAGER: Characterizing biological function across a persistent oceanographic "hotspot" in the NE Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anitra E Ingalls($299,991), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Biological Activity, Molecular Ecologists, Complete, Cruise, Environment, Function, Integrated, Larger, Lead, Metabolic, Microbial, Multidisciplinary, Ocean, Oceanographic, Ongoing, Organisms, Processes, Program, Respond, Set, Structure, Time, Trace, Waters.

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Functional Diversity of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton and Their Contributions to the C and N Cycling
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew E Allen($599,967), J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., La Jolla
2. Daniel M Sigman($1,401,584), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Genetic And Functional, Broader Impacts, Cells Dominate, Eukaryotic Phytoplankton, Functional Diversity, Functional Genes, Nitrate Supply, Phytoplankton Assemblages, Taxonomic Diversity, Analysis, Assimilation, Basis, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Composition, Environmental, Eukaryotes, Experience, Flow, Fraction, Generation, Investigate, Isotope, Level, Link, Linked, Measure, Methods, Molecular, Natural, Nitrogen, Ocean, Picocyanobacteria, Primary, Princeton, Sequencing, Size, Stable, Undergraduate, Upper, Was.

Collaborative Research: Environmental Variability, Functional Redundancy, and the Maintenance of Ecological Processes: Experiments in a Model Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark W Denny($361,518), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Bengt J Allen($393,175), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Ecosystem Properties, Environmental Conditions, Functional Redundancy, Nutrient Cycling, Behavior, CSULB, Changing, Climate, Climatic, Current, Demography, Ecological, Effects, Experience, Field, Gain, Global, Grazing, Increase, Increases, Increasing, Influence, Intensive, Interactions, LSAMP, Limpet, Local, NSF, Potential, Productivity, Program, Programs, Significantly, Species, Species-specific, Students, Summer, Taxa, Temperature, Thermal, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Women.

Collaborative Research: the influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan Grabowski($83,169), Northeastern University, Boston
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: Autotrophic carbon fixation at a shallow-water hydrothermal system: Constraining microbial activity, isotopic and geochemical regimes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($59,477), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Stefan M Sievert($235,901), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Costantino Vetriani($196,665), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Autotrophic Carbon Fixation, Biomass And Specific, Carbon Isotopic Composition, Co2 Fixation Pathways, Specific Biomarker Molecules, Stable Carbon Isotopic, Thermal And Redox, Environmental Gradients, Isotopic Signatures, Isotopic Values, Microorganisms Utilizing, Redox Gradient, Alternative, CBB, Co-fixation, Cycle, Ecosystems, Exist, Extant, Geological, Hydrothermal, Information, Interdisciplinary, International, Involved, Natural, Organic, Organisms, Pis, Rates, Situ, Temperatures.

EAGER: Identification of Diagnostic Markers of Diapause Preparation in the Copepod Calanus Finmarchicus
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark Baumgartner($299,128), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Calanoid Copepods, Diapause Initiation, Diapause Preparation, Family Calanidae, Gene Expression, Heterogeneous Populations, Population Dynamics, Temperate Populations, Terminal Molt, Assumption, Collaboration, Development, Difficult, Enable, Entry, Factors, Fate, Finmarchicus, Genes, Has, Juvenile, Marine, Markers, Norwegian, Preparing, Progress, Reliably, Single, Wild.

RUI: Feeding by the ciliated larvae of marine invertebrates: effects of diverse particle capture mechanisms on feeding performance
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bruno Pernet($336,975), California State University-Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach
Key terms: Larval Feeding Mechanisms, Larval Growth Rates, Limits Clearance Rates, Maximum Clearance Rates, Opposed Band Feeding, Particular Feeding Mechanisms, Suspended Food Particles, Affect Performance, Ciliary Reversal, Feeding Capabilities, Larval Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Natural Particles, Particle Capture, Population Dynamics, Size Spectrum, Beach, Body, CSU, Comparisons, Development, Evolution, Experiences, Laboratory, Larvae, Reproductive, Seasonal, Semi-natural, Student, Supported, Tested, Um, Undergraduate.

Waterborne chemical cues in the plankton: a systems biology approach
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Facundo M Fernandez($545,870), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Chemically Mediated Interactions, Brevis Allelopathy, Chemical Cues, Dense Blooms, Karenia Brevis, Marine Plankton, Phd Students, Target Phytoplankton, Allelopathic, Cellular, Chemistry, Competing, Competition, Competitors, Compounds, Consequences, Detoxification, Ecological, Effects, Environments, Harmful, Human, Involved, Lead, MS, Metabolic, Metabolomics, Mixtures, Natural, Off-shore, Pathways, Proteomics, Red, Reducing, Resistant, Sensitive, Species, Strategies, Sub-lethal, Tech, Training, Unaffected.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Exploratory application of single-molecule real time (SMRT) DNA sequencing in microbial ecology research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Shawn W Polson($200,000), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Ramunas Stepanauskas($98,918), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Pcr Amplicon Sequencing, Biogeochemical Cycles, High-throughput Sequencing, Microbial Ecologists, Microbial Ecology, Next-generation Dna, Pacbio Rs, Pacbio Sequencing, Shotgun Metagenomics, Access, Application, Biochemical, Characterizing, Constrain, Ecosystem, Error, Genetic, Genome, Has, High-throughput, Instrument, Next-generation, Nutrient, Pis, Processes, Shape, Suited.

Collaborative Research: Controls on Hadal Megafaunal Community Structure: a Systematic Examination of Pressure, Food Supply, and Topography
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey C Drazen($469,289), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Timothy M Shank($1,058,736), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Paul H Yancey($112,642), Whitman College, Walla Walla
Key terms: Hadal And Abyssal, Deep Ocean, Food Supply, Full-ocean Depth, Genetic Divergence, Hadal Ecosystems, International Consortium, Adaptations, Advance, Advances, Biodiversity, Biomass, Broader, Composition, Concentrations, Conjunction, Deep-sea, Deepest, Depths, Distribution, Ecological, Factors, Faunal, Full-ocean, Function, HROV, Imaging, Investigated, Museum, Nereus, POC, Pressure, Processes, Public, Species, Structure, Technologies, Theory, Trench, Trenches, Web, World, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: Microbial associations in zooplankton: significance for the marine nitrogen cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Pia Moisander($623,900), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Actively Fixing, N2 Fixation, Associations, Budget, Content, Copepods, Diazotrophic, Evidence, Expression, Fate, Field, Global, Gut, Heterotrophic, Importance, Investigate, K-, Limited, Marine, Microbes, Microbial, Microflora, N-limited, Ocean, Oceanic, Oligotrophic, Pis, Previously, Process, Seasonal, Source, Sources, Students, UMD, Waters, Zooplankton.

Chemical Defenses in a Toxic Dinoflagellate: Mechanisms and Constraints
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David E Avery($468,979), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Chemical Defense, Protistan Grazers, Alexandrium, Compounds, Educators, Evolutionary, Experimental, Lay, Lead, Metazoan, PST, School, Secondary, Species, Students, Target, Toxic, Toxin, Website.

Cascading interactions of herbivore loss and nutrient enrichment on coral reef macroalgae, corals, and microbial dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Deron E Burkepile($850,106), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Enrichment And Herbivore, Coral Reefs, Forces Alter, Functional Diversity, Herbivore Removal, Nutrient Enrichment, Abundance, Affect, Algae, Bottom-up, Corals, Dynamics, Ecology, Fish, Interactions, Levels, Local, Mechanisms, Microbes, Microbial, Minority, Multiple, Pis, Programs, Stressors, Students, Taxonomic, Top-down.

Will rising pCO2 levels in the ocean affect growth and survival of marine fish early life stages?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Hannes Baumann($649,856), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Embryos And Larvae, Co2 Levels, Fish Embryos, Inland Silversides, Marine Fish, Ocean Acidification, Affects, Approach, Average, Beryllina, Challenge, Commercial, Current, Differing, Education, Experiments, Feeding, Future, Growth, Has, Larval, Life, Menidia, Oceans, Performed, Populations, Potential, Ppm, Projected, Species, Stages, Survival.

Collaborative research: Diversity and dynamics of planktonic ciliates - what can next-generation sequencing technologies tell us?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Laura A Katz($421,638), Smith College, Northampton
2. George B McManus($408,830), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Ciliate Assemblages, Ciliate Diversity, Approaches, Ciliates, Component, Continued, Efforts, Factors, Involve, Marine, Microbial, Molecular, Objective, Oceanography, Past, Planktonic, Program, Rare, Species, Teachers.

Collaborative Research: Linking Propulsive Morphology, Swimming Behavior and Sensory Perception by Marine Planktonic Protists to their Trophic Roles within Marine Food Webs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward J Buskey($214,908), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Houshuo Jiang($265,804), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biomass And Distribution, Feeding And Predator, Flow Fields, Metazoan Zooplankton, Plankton Ecology, Planktonic Protists, Predator Avoidance, Selective Feeding, Behavior, Capabilities, Fluid, Free-swimming, Grazers, Grazing, Interdisciplinary, Marine, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Pis, Propulsive, Protistan, Regulate, Sophisticated, Training, Video.

RUI: Quantifying larval behavior to reconcile genetic connectivity with biophysical model predictions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick J Krug($359,012), California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc., Los Angeles
Key terms: Gene Flow, Genetic Connectivity, Genetic Structure, Larval Behavior, Larval Duration, Model Predictions, Multi-locus Genetic, Oceanographic Models, Phylogenetic Framework, Predict Exchange, Student Co-authors, Assumption, Breaks, Caribbean, Co-authors, Congruent, Correlated, Dispersal, Divergence, Ecology, Evolution, Funding, Has, Influences, K-, Larvae, Levels, Life-history, Local, Marine, Methods, Molecular, Mtdna, Multi-locus, Nuclear, Outreach, PLD, Period, Phd, Populations, Programs, Species, Students, Theory, Trait, Undergraduate.

Interactions of bacteria, viruses and bloom-forming diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Chenyang S Jiang($200,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Algal Bloom, Algal Host, Epibiotic Bacteria, Epibiotic Bacterial, Marine Diatoms, Microbial Interactions, Physiological Experiments, Pseudo-nitzschia Sp, Undergraduate Students, Association, Blooms, California, Coastal, Collaboration, Dynamics, Environmental, Enzyme, Experimental, Following, Genome, Influences, Minority, Physiology, Program, Pseudo-nitzschia, Seeks, Society, Species, Training, Viruses.

History and future of coastal upwelling modes and biological responses in the California Current
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven Bograd($337,992), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: California Current Ecosystem, Seasonal Upwelling Modes, Global Climate, Summer Mode, Winter Mode, Assess, Biological, Biology, CCE, Contrasting, Driver, Future, Growth, Information, Long-term, Management, NOI, Pis, Processes, Productivity, Rockfish, Salmon, Species, Structure, Survival, Tree-ring.

Habitat fragmentation as a process: how habitat context influences the effects of eelgrass loss on epifaunal community structure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kevin A Hovel($188,199), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Habitat Fragmentation, Landscape Context, Seagrass Habitat, Alter, Critical, Developed, Ecological, Ecosystem, Effects, Experiments, Factors, Habitats, Has, Invertebrate, Marine, Patchiness, Processes, Species, Structure.

Reproductive and Geographic Evidence for Source-Sink Dynamics in Deep-Sea Benthic Communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Solange Brault($145,637), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Abyssal Populations, Deep-sea Species, Geographic Evidence, Reproductively Viable, Sampling Program, Source-sink Dynamics, Available, Based, Bathyal, Benthic, Curricula, Datasets, Deep-sea, Dispersal, Distributions, Diversity, Extinction, Has, Local, Low, Mollusks, Nested, Potential, Ranges, School, Source-sink, Students, Synthesis, Theory, Undergraduates.

Evolution of Deep Sea Molluscs II
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ron J Etter($300,339), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Deep Sea, Gene Flow, Graduate Students, Nuclear Loci, Population Differentiation, Population Structure, Bathymetric, Biology, Collected, Curricula, Decreases, Deep-sea, Depth, Depth-differentiation, Developed, Development, Divergence, Does, Evolutionary, Geographic, Has, Historical, Independent, Involved, Ocean, Phylogeographic, Potential, Previous, Program, Public, Represent, School, Speciation, Species, Strong, Teachers, Undergraduate.

Climate Change and Biogeography: Effects of Extreme Events
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sarah A Woodin($708,066), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Demographic Storage Effect, Time Lags Caused, Ecologically Dominant, Metapopulation Dynamics, Atlas, Biodiversity, Biogeographic, Catastrophic, Central, Century, Climate, Connectivity, Episodic, European, Extreme, Forecasting, Forecasts, Hindcasting, Intertidal, Literature, Marine, Mechanisms, Methods, Models, Past, Pis, Products, Range, Species, Students, Teachers, Th, USC.

Collaborative Proposal: CAMEO: Using interdecadal comparisons to understand trade-offs between abundance and condition in fishery ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/22/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jason Stockwell($35,088), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
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.

EAGER: Gene expression patterns in high C02-adapted Trichodesmium
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Hutchins($48,955), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Marine Organisms, Adapt, Approach, Climate, Cycles, EAGER, Evolution, Experiments, Expression, Food, Future, Increase, Keystone, Methods, Ocean, Trichodesmium, USC.

RUI Collaborative Research: Spatial Realism in the Mussel Bed Disturbance Paradigm
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patricia M Halpin($124,675), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Corey Garza($48,252), University Corporation at Monterey Bay, Seaside
3. Carlos D Robles($604,643), California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc., Los Angeles
Key terms: Gap Formation, Landscape Process, Mussel Bed, Mussel Beds, Mussel Cover, Spatial Analysis, Assumptions, Attach, Biological, Cal, Considerable, Disturbance, Ecosystems, Equilibrium, Field, Force, GIS, Marine, Mentoring, Mussels, Outreach, Phd, Predictable, Predictions, Processes, Recovery, Regions, Rock, Spatially, Stress, Structure, Structures, Unique, Wave.

RAPID collaborative research: Historic freshwater input and hypoxia effects on zooplankton populations of the northern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David G Kimmel($85,191), East Carolina University, Greenville
2. James J Pierson($89,341), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Northern Gulf, Nsf Rapid, Trophic Transfer, Water Column, Assess, Behavior, Causing, Composition, Cruises, Database, Effects, Fish, Fishing, Has, High-resolution, Hypoxia, Hypoxic, Mexico, Models, Nations, Organisms, Oxygen, Phytoplankton, Pis, REU, Recreational, Saltwater, Size, Species, Stratified, Structure, Summer, Vertical, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Modeling Infectious Diseases: How Much Ecological Complexity Must We Address?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew P Dobson($350,469), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Ryan F Hechinger($2,149,447), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Added Complexity, Appropriate Level, Infectious Disease, Model Performance, Predictive Accuracy, Alternative, Detail, Ecological, Excellent, Food, Funding, Models, Parasites, Students, Webs.

Modeling the Effects of Heterogeneity in Water Quality on Cholera Disease Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David Norman Fisman($973,128), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Coupled Patch Models, Predict Disease Spread, Cholera Crisis, Cholera Outbreaks, Cholera Transmission, Mathematical Theory, Sanitation Facilities, Spatial Spread, Water Quality, Waterborne Diseases, Advance, Availability, Explore, Factors, Has, Institute, Rapid, Scenarios, Students, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Cascading effects of an invasive seaweed on estuarine food webs of the southeastern US
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Erik E Sotka($265,414), College of Charleston, Charleston
2. James Byers($250,107), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Food Web Structure, Gracilaria Vermiculophylla, Invasive Species, Stable Isotope, Alter, Altering, Detrital, Ecosystem, Estuaries, Field, Generated, Graduate, Has, Increasing, Influential, Invader, Invaders, Invasion, Laboratory, Levels, Mechanisms, Mentoring, Microbial, Mudflat, Mudflats, Multiple, Native, Nutrients, Pis, Primary, School, Students, Techniques, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Cell to cell communication in marine phytoplankton: population density dependent control of cellular processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Maria Vernet($286,108), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cell-cell Communication, Diatom Species, Marine Phytoplankton, Phytoplankton Ecology, Qs-related Genes, Quorum Sensing, Allelopathy, Autoinduction, Biological, Candidate, Cell-cell, Demonstrated, Detailed, Examining, Formation, Function, Genomic, Has, Inter-species, Interactions, Intra-species, Level, Local, Morphology, Pathways, Perspective, Pis, Population, Process, Processes, Qs-related, Specific, Timing, Views.

EAGER: Harnessing the Power of Short-read Technology to Investigate Unexplored Microbial Communities in the Deep Euphotic Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gabrielle Rocap($299,383), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Deep Euphotic Zone, South Atlantic Gyre, Zone And Twilight, Abi Solid, Metagenomic Analyses, Phylogenetic Diversity, Sequencing Technologies, Short Read, Short-read Sequencing, Surface Waters, Twilight Zone, Assemble, Biogeochemical, Cost, Dataset, Function, Generation, Interdisciplinary, Interpret, Methods, Microbial, Molecular, Ocean, Platforms, Potential, Required, Sequence, Sequences, Short-read, Survey.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Microbial Transformations in Basement Fluids, from Genes to Geochemical Cycling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter R Girguis($354,080), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Brian T Glazer($378,937), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Julie A Huber($422,270), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Basement Fluids, Deep Biosphere, Gene Expression, Geochemical Transformations, Microbial Activity, Microbial Ecology, North Pond, Oceanic Crust, Quantitative Assessments, Autotrophic, Carbon, Center, Chemistry, Development, Distinct, Educational, Effort, Extent, Focused, Functional, Future, IODP, Life, Marine, Microbiology, Mineral, Module, NSF, Nitrogen, Oceans, Pis, Program, Programs, Ridge, Student, Sub-seafloor, Sulfur.

Scientific Advances and Accomplishments of the US GLOBEC Program - A Meeting of Experts
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susan J Roberts($178,643), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ecosystem Dynamics, Fish Populations, Globec Program, Marine Ecosystems, Sea Ice, Affect, Circulation, Climate, Coastal, Component, Contributions, Ecosystem-based, Effects, Experts, Features, Fisheries, Fishery, Future, Global, Has, Involved, Legacy, Management, Meeting, Models, NASA, NOAA, NSF, Staff, Upwelling.

RAPID: Identification of Genes Associated with Resistance to Epizootic Disease in a Marine Invertebrate
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Deborah Bouchard($51,285), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Eastern Oysters, Genetic Mechanisms, Host Population, Msx Disease, Caused, Collect, Defense, Dermo, Development, Genes, Has, Heavy, Maine, Markers, Mortality, Observe, Observed, Occurred, Outbreak, Outbreaks, Resistance, Timeline, Was.

Relative Influence of Turbulence and Waves on Larval Behavior
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gregory P Gerbi($645,439), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Rates And Vorticity, Specific Flow Regimes, Turbulence And Waves, Ecological Impacts, Flow Tanks, Generate Larger, Larval Behavior, Larval Behaviors, Multiple Flow, Strain Rates, Acceleration, Accelerations, Behavioral, Changing, Characteristics, Coastal, Complex, Cues, Dispersal, Ecology, Environments, Flow-measurement, Flows, Fluid, Graduate, Habitats, Interdisciplinary, Larvae, Marine, Models, PIV, Potential, Program, Recruitment, Rutgers, Sense, Shelf, Student, Students, Technology.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Marine Algal Sterols on Zooplankton Growth and Reproduction
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jose L Giner($362,990), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
2. R. Patrick Hassett($144,910), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Growth And Reproduction, Marine Algal Sterols, Food Webs, Benefit, Crustaceans, Enhanced, Expected, Experiments, Fisheries, Harmful, NMR, Nutritional, SUNY-ESF, Specific, Spectrometry, Structural, Students, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: The role of calcifying algae as a determinant of rocky intertidal macrophyte community structure at a meta-ecosystem scale
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sally D Hacker($749,999), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Karina J Nielsen($370,000), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Coralline Algal Turfs, Carbonate Chemistry, Environmental Stress, Laboratory Experiments, Northern California, Ocean Conditions, Rocky Intertidal, Abiotic, Alter, Canopy, Carry, Climate, Coastal, Consequences, Developed, Direct, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Efforts, Facilitation, Factors, Field, Influence, Interaction, Interactions, Light, Marine, Meta-ecosystem, Mosaic, NCC, Nutrients, PAR, Ph, Phytoplankton, Pis, Processes, Quantify, Recently, SSU, Sensors, Species, Structure, Surfgrass, Temperature, Testing, Undergraduate, Upwelling.

Effects of Predator Diversity on the Strength of Trophic Cascades in an Oceanic Benthic Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jon D Witman($628,896), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Fish And Invertebrate, Fish And Invertebrates, Cascade Strength, Conservation Protection, Ecosystem Functioning, Food Webs, Marine Reserve, Natural Levels, Outreach Activities, Predator Diversity, Top Predators, Trophic Cascades, Trophic Level, Benthic, Beyond, Broader, Brown, Consequences, Ecology, Ecosystems, Educational, Effects, Enhance, Environmental, Experimental, Experiments, GMR, Galapagos, Generation, Graduate, Guilds, Herbivores, Influence, Information, Local, MAT, Manipulating, Measure, Oceanic, Prey, Program, School, Sea, Simplified, Sites, Species, Student, Students, Theory, Time-lapse, Training, Treatments, Undergraduate, Urchin, Urchins, Video-recorded.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Climate Warming and Ocean Carbonation on Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Richard C Zimmerman($912,102), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Mark Swingle($167,086), Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc., Virginia Beach
Key terms: Dissolved Aqueous Co2, Coastal Environments, Light Requirements, Ocean Carbonation, Anthropogenic, Aquarium, Climate, Concentrations, Critically, Distribution, Ecological, Eelgrass, Increased, Negative, Photosynthesis, Positive, Potential, Rising, Seagrasses, Temperature, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Turbulence and Suspension Feeding - a New Approach using the Lobate Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John H Costello($222,783), Providence College, Providence
2. Sean P Colin($200,809), Roger Williams University, Bristol
3. John Dabiri($307,524), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Feeding Current, Lobate Ctenophores, Mnemiopsis Leidyi, Organismal Level, Predator-prey Interactions, Prey Selection, Small-scale Physical-biological, Standing Stocks, Suspension Feeders, Trophic Exchange, Turbulence Affects, Turbulent Effects, Approach, Caltech, Co-pis, Directly, Ecologically, Environments, Field, Flows, Hydrodynamic, International, Invasive, Laboratory, Marine, Mechanistic, Natural, Observe, Organisms, Physical-biological, Predator-prey, Predators, Program, Quantify, Relate, Situ, Small-scale, Species, Via, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Lipid lubrication of oceanic carbon and sulfur biogeochemistry via a host-virus chemical arms race
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kay D Bidle($739,035), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Benjamin Van Mooy($750,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Giacomo R DiTullio($445,837), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Active Viral Infection, Carbon And Sulfur, Arms Race, Biogeochemical Fluxes, Coccolithophore Populations, North Atlantic, Northeast Atlantic, Sea Girt, Upper Ocean, Biomarkers, Caco, Cell, Co-evolutionary, Diagnostic, Ecological, Host-virus, Hosts, Huxleyi, Integrating, Interactions, K-, Lipid, Lytic, Marine, Massive, Mediating, Molecular, Oceanographic, Ongoing, Organic, Public, Quantify, Students, Teacher, Touch, Vgsls, Via, Viruses.

Collaborative Research: Grazing and Iron Controls of Diatom Blooms in the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 12/13/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. JOAQUIM I GOES($107,769), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Micro And Mesozooplankton, Arabian Sea, Iron Limitation, Monsoon Intensity, Oman Upwelling, Phytoplankton Growth, Sw Monsoon, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Central, Climate, Consistent, Control, Critical, Cycling, Delayed, Diatoms, Effects, Experiments, Export, Fe, Flux, Global, Grazers, Grazing, Micro-, Oxygen, Program, Rates, Region, Regulation, Top-down, Warming, Was, Zone.

COSEE Island Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Kanesa D Seraphin($923,880), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Traditional Knowledge, COSEE, Center, Hawaii, Ocean, Opportunities.

Moving Beyond the Basics An Ocean Science Lecture Series to Increase Ocean Literacy
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Shari R Werb($144,371), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Increase Public Awareness, Top Ocean Scientists, National Cosee, Ocean Portal, Archived, Education, Health, Lecture, Lectures, NMNH, Network, Program, Promote, Smithsonian.

Great Lakes COSEE
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Philip B Moy($1,250,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Cosee Network, Freshwater Component, Activities, Center, Education, Educators, Engage, Lake, Lakes, Lakesocean, Michigan, Public, Sea, Set, Students, Teachers, Workshops.

Quantifying Thermal and Chemical Conditions within Active Seafloor Vent Deposits
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CI REUSE

1. Margaret K Tivey($250,637), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Extreme Environments, Geochemical Characteristics, Hydrothermal Vent, Code, Female, Fluids, Gradients, Health, Life, Live, Microbes, Potential, Steep, Thermal, Unique, User-friendly, Various.

Type 2: A CRI-EaSM Collaborative proposal: Climate-to-humans: A study of urbanized coastal environments, their economics and vulnerability to climate change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Frank A Felder($2,314,487), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Julio Bacmeister($530,944), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Climate And Ecosystems, Challenges Facing, Changing Climate, Activity, Aims, Anthropogenic, Biggest, Biogeochemistry, Boundary, Developed, Development, Economic, Framework, Future, Global, Human, Humans, Interactions, Long-term, Model, Models, Multi-scale, Northeast, Ocean, Outreach, Physics, Policy, Population, Region, Social, Structures, Target.

Collaborative Research Type 2 - MOBY: Modeling Ocean Variability and Biogeochemical Cycles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Michael J Follows($2,633,961), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Dennis J McGillicuddy($1,236,042), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. William G Large($1,008,685), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Chemical And Biological, Biogeochemical Cycles, Climate Models, Atlantic, Attempt, Carbon, Coupled, Current, Decadal, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Embedded, Environment, Global, Inform, Interaction, Life, MOBY, Mesoscale, Modeling, Modes, Natural, Ocean, Regions, Represent, Resolve, Southern, Students.

Type 1 - The Dynamic Watershed and Coastal Ocean: Predicting Their Biogeochemical Linkages and Variability over Decadal Time Scales
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Inez Fung($575,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Eel River Watershed, Global Climate Model, Coastal Locales, Coastal Ocean, Coupled Models, Northern California, Watershed Models, Available, Comprehensive, Differences, Embed, Examined, Information, Leaders, Modeling, Periods, Regional, Reserve, Watersheds.

Type I - Collaborative Research: Topographic Control of the Gulf Stream
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. William G Large($239,633), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Nicolas Wienders($325,290), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. James C McWilliams($300,050), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Boundary Currents, Climate Models, Gulf Stream, Ocean Circulation, Boundaries, Focus, Mesoscale, Mixing, Oceanic, Parameterizations, Particular, Primary, Processes, Separation, Stress.

RCN-SEES: Sustainability of Marine Renewable Resources in Subarctic Systems Under Incumbent Environmental Variability and Human Exploitation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Kevin M Bailey($749,823), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Students And Post-docs, Graduate Students, Marine Ecosystems, Summer Course, Activities, Applied, Approach, Aquatic, Attendance, Basic, Climate, Conservation, Current, Curriculum, Development, Ecological, Education, Educational, Focus, Integrate, International, Invaluable, Invited, Management, Managers, Network, Northeast, Opportunities, Participating, Policy, Principles, Social, Socio-ecological, Sustainability, Teaching, Terrestrial, Theme, Themes, Training, Volume, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of US GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($330,027), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Gregory A Cutter($561,412), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Chris German($675,474), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography, Geotraces Program, International Geotraces, Conventional, Coordinate, Cruise, Dissolved, Distributions, Eastern, Hydrographic, Interpret, Isotopes, Management, Mission, Oxygen, Pacific, Participating, Peru, Plan, Protocols, Section, Strong, Tahiti, Trace, USGEOTRACES.

Collaborative Research: The role of soluble Mn(III) in the biogeochemical coupling of the Mn, Fe and sulfur cycles
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. George W Luther($410,915), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Bradley M Tebo($429,746), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, Developed, Environments, Examine, Levels, Marine, Mn, Mnii, Mniii, Ocean, Oxidation, Oxygen, Reduced, Soluble, Stability.

EAGER: The relationship between microbial biogeography and ocean chemistry across a persistent oceanographic "hot spot" in the NE Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Virginia Armbrust($300,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Chemical Parameters, Molecular Ecologists, Province Boundaries, Biogeochemical, Biological, Bringing, Broad, Chemistry, Cruise, Drivers, EAGER, Examine, Focus, Funding, GEOTRACES, Geochemical, Limited, Low, Marine, Microbial, Nutrient, Potential, Provinces, Seafloor, Share, Stations, Surface, Survey, Surveys, Underlying, Waters, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Role of Picocyanobacteria in the Marine Silicate Cycle
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin S Twining($232,152), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Jackie L Collier($259,697), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Biogenic Silica, Cellular Si, Si Content, Si Uptake, Size Fractionation, Stony Brook, Analyses, Assess, Baines, Bigelow, Biomass, Cells, Contribution, Controlling, Cycle, Cycling, Diatoms, Dominant, Engage, Experiments, Factors, Field, Has, Involved, K-, Laboratory, Marine, Microscopy, Ocean, Organisms, Phylogenetic, Phytoplankton, Picocyanobacteria, Picocyanobacterial, Pis, Program, Programs, Ratios, School, Silicate, Silicon, Strains, Student, Students, Synechococcus, Undergraduates, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Modeling coastal oxygen production and carbon sequestration
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Burke Hales($539,247), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Thomas P Ackerman($27,851), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Oxygen And Carbon, Simplified Biogeochemical Module, Circulation Modeling, Coastal Ocean, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Circulation, Chemical, Collaboration, Combined, Conditions, Coupled, Critical, Dynamics, Explore, Focus, Has, Hypoxia, Issues, Oregon, Physical-biogeochemical, Postdoctoral, Processes, Shelf, Simulations, Upwelling.

Collaborative Research: Iron Regulation of the Food Quality of Phytoplankton In Acidified Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert R Bidigare($101,364), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. William P Cochlan($672,291), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
3. Mark L Wells($178,062), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Extreme Ocean Acidification, Fatty Acids, Species Composition, Conditions, Current, EFA, Expected, Fisheries, Impacts, Iron, Lipid, Nitrogen, PUFA, Ph, Physiology, Phytoplankton, Stressors, Students, Uptake, Upwelling, Variety.

The Use of Nitrogen Isotopes of Amino Acids To Understand Marine Sedimentary 15N Records
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Matthew D McCarthy($349,999), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Amino Acid, Organic Matter, Developing, Dn, Environments, Heterotrophic, Proxy, Sedimentary, Sources.

Testing model estimates of recent ocean carbon uptake and deoxygenation using atmospheric and oceanic data
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ralph F Keeling($480,616), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Apo Decrease, Observed Apo, Rising Co2, Air-sea, Anthropogenic, Approach, Atmospheric, Based, Cfcs, Climate, Component, Components, Decades, Exchange, Exchanges, Model, Modeling, Ocean, Oceans, Ongoing, Past, Precisely, Processes, Public, Scripps, Uptake, Warming.

Support for the U. S. GEOTRACES Project Office
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert F Anderson($989,909), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Marine Biogeochemical Cycles, Geotraces Program, Benefits, Building, Cycling, Distribution, Has, Office, People, Programs, Technologies, Teis, Training.

Synthesis and Modeling of Harmful Algal Blooms and Coastal Microbes Along the Gulf of Mexico U.S. States
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Helena M Solo-Gabriele($200,339), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Habs And Human, Global Climatic, Gulf, Health, Mexico, Pathogen, Pathogens, Waters.

Collaborative Research: An Inverse and Forward Global Modeling Synthesis of Noble Gases to Better Quantify Biogeochemical Cycles
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David Nicholson($392,175), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Noble Gas Observations, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Model, Deep Ocean, Noble Gases, Solubility Pump, Available, Cycle, Denitrification, Dissolved, Mediated, Modeling, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Processes, Properties, Supported, Transport, Via, WHOI.

Physical Control of Carbon Export in the Subarctic Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Charles C Eriksen($323,623), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Oxygen Mass Balance, Vertical And Horizontal, Autonomous Platforms, Biological Pump, Carbon Export, Mixed Layer, Net Oxygen, Surface Ocean, Advection, Alaska, Analysis, Apply, Below, Budget, Controlling, Course, Dependence, Deployments, Depth, Diapycnal, Estimate, Gulf, Has, Knowledge, Moored, Mooring, Pacific, Picture, Primary, Processes, Residual, Respiration, Seaglider, Station, Techniques, Time, Variables.

Collaborative Research: Application of Transcriptomics to Understanding Mechanisms of Stress Response and Toxin Production in Microbes in Tropical Marine Waters
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Henry G Trapido-Rosenthal($241,256), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Aureus, Bacterial, Ciguatoxin, Enterococcus, Exposure, Faecalis, Gambierdiscus, Genes, Health, Inactivation, Mechanisms, Organisms, Pose, Reflects, Repair, Seawater, Species, Stress, Sunlight, Toxin, Transcriptome.

Collaborative Research: Microbial influences on Alexandrium populations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Linda A Amaral Zettler($255,033), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
2. David K Ralston($540,596), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cape Cod Salt, Cod Salt Ponds, Alexandrium Blooms, Alexandrium Population, Coastal Waters, Human Health, Woods Hole, Abundance, Comparative, Context, Difficult, Dynamics, Fundyense, Grazing, Harvesting, Investigation, Laboratory, Localized, Losses, Microbial, PSP, Populations, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Using Transcriptomics to Understand Mechanisms of Stress Response and Toxin Production in Pathogenic and Toxigenic Microbes in Tropical Marine Waters
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alexandria Boehm($281,885), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Debashish Bhattacharya($276,857), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Aureus, Bacterial, Ciguatoxin, Enterococcus, Exposure, Faecalis, Gambierdiscus, Genes, Health, Inactivation, Mechanisms, Organisms, Pose, Reflects, Repair, Seawater, Species, Stress, Sunlight, Toxin, Transcriptome.

Oceans and Human Health: Gene-Environment Interactions in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elaine M Faustman($799,998), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Human Health, Public Health, Assessment, DA, Environmental, Expertise, Home, Humans, Ocean, Potential, Pseudo-nitzschia, Puget, Risk, Shellfish, Sound, Species, Toxin.

Collaborative Research: Interwoven biogeochemical cycles and biological transformations of mercury and selenium in the upper ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Elsie M Sunderland($178,362), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Carl Lamborg($44,413), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Controlled Incubation Experiments, Culture And Controlled, Hg And Se, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Graduate Student, Laboratory Culture, Biogeochemical, Connecticut, Cruise, Cycles, Formation, Global, Harvard, Importance, Mercury, Model, Photochemical.

Collaborative Research: Biological controls on reactive oxygen species in the oligotrophic ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bettina M Voelker($499,573), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
2. Colleen Hansel($382,404), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Colorado School, Graduate Student, H2o2 Concentrations, Oligotrophic Waters, Biological, HO, Harvard, Has, Involved, Mines, O-, Postdoc, Presence, ROS, Rates, Sources, Variable, Via, Yield.

Collaborative research: Constraining the global ocean nitrogen cycle with multiple tracers in a biogeochemical inverse model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francois Primeau($322,269), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Curtis Deutsch($380,755), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling, Budget, Climate, Environmental, Examine, Framework, Global, Inventory, Inverse, Magnitude, Marine, Model, Ocean, Processes, Tracers.

Trace-metal isotopes in Atlantic seawater and particles from Geotraces transects A03 and A10
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Seth G John($453,513), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Affect, Cd, Climate, Cycling, Factors, Information, Isotope, Isotopes, Measure, Metal, Metals, Ocean, Oceans, Zn.

Collaborative Research: The role of sponges in the coastal nitrogen cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian N Popp($210,314), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Niels L Lindquist($973,192), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Coastal Environments, Florida Bay, Abundant, Benefit, Benthic, Biogeochemical, Biomass, Cycling, DIN, Dissolved, Established, Flux, Has, Importance, Nitrogen, Quantified, Quantifying, Rates, Source, Species, Sponge, Sponges, Transformations, Tropical, Water.

The effects of chemical structure on hydrolysis/uptake of small peptides in the marine environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Zhanfei Liu($333,290), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Organic Nitrogen, Surface Ocean, Andor, Approaches, Compounds, Cycling, DON, Hydrolysis, Inorganic, Investigate, Marine, Peptides, Undergraduate.

The role of estuaries in modulating the export of particle-bound biogenic materials by small mountainous rivers to Cascadia Margin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James Lerczak($701,617), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Alsea Bay, Freshwater Discharge, Organic Matter, Undergraduate Student, Budget, Carry, Circulation, Coastal, Compositions, Engineering, Estuarine, Export, Flood, Geochemical, In-situ, Lastly, Marine, Metal, Metals, Model, Ocean, Oregon, Out-of-state, Plan, Program, Proponents, River, SRM, Sampling, Sediment, Students, Summer, Trace, Transport, Via, Winds.

Net Biological Oxygen Production Using O2 Measurements on Argo Floats
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven R Emerson($786,013), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Argo Floats, Broader Impacts, Kuroshio Extension, Northwest Pacific, Oxygen Concentrations, Oxygen Sensors, Situ Oxygen, Surface Mooring, Accuracy, Accurate, Biological, Calibrated, Calibration, Cruise, Deployment, Gliders, Has, Marine, Moorings, Ocean, Oceanography, Pco, Presently, Processes, Protocol, Region, Sufficient, Time, Undergraduate, Washington.

Microbial Supply and Demand of Methanol in the Marine Euphotic Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tracy Mincer($493,910), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon, Consumption, Experiments, Fraction, Has, Laboratory, Methanol, Microorganisms, Ocean, Organic, Phytoplankton, Studies, Various.

Operation of a Marine Atmospheric Sampling Facility at Tudor Hill, Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Anthony H Knap($234,818), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: North Atlantic Ocean, Tudor Hill Facility, Marine Troposphere, User Fees, Available, BIOS, Bermuda, Central, Collection, Global.

Pure standards of archaeal and bacterial GDGTs for the oceanographic community
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ann Pearson($264,342), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Access, Authentic, Calibration, Chemical, Compounds, GDGT, Gdgts, Lipids, Methods, Pure, Reference, Standards, Tracers, Variety.

GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Aerosol and Rainfall collection and analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($27,091), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Atlantic Section Cruise, Geotraces North Atlantic, North Atlantic Section, Aerosol, Analyzed, Fall, Graduate, Program, Seawater, Soluble, Teis, Was.

Collaborative Research: Source apportionment of iron in the marine atmosphere - application of stable iron isotopic measurements
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian J Majestic($12,485), University of Denver, Denver
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.

EAGER: The 17O-excess of dissolved O2 in the deep-sea: A possible tracer of Little Ice Age oceanography
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Wallace S Broecker($15,912), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Deep North Pacific, Little Ice Age, Deep Water, Del 17o, Dissolved O2, Dissolved Oxygen, Gas Exchange, North Atlantic, Sea Ice, Water Masses, Affected, Benefit, History, Likewise, NADW, Ocean, Regions, Sea-ice, Seawater, Unique, Upper, Values.

2011 Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nancy R Gray($37,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Gordon, Marine Chemistry, Conference, Cycle, Docs, Exchange, Field, Graduate, Leading, Processes, Space, Time.

Inorganic Carbon Measurements on the 2010/2011 North Atlantic GEOTRACES Cruise
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nicholas R Bates($50,576), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Atlantic Survey Section, Geotraces Zonal North, North Atlantic Survey, Zonal North Atlantic, Carbon Cycle, Inorganic Carbon, Respective Labs, Aborted, Analyzed, BIOS, Collected, Cruise, DIC, Dataset, Ocean, TA, Total.

RAPID: Carbonate Measurements for the US GEOTRACES Zonal North Atlantic Survey Section
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Frank J Millero($52,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Additional, Atlantic, Climate, Cruise, Funding, International, Oceans, RAPID, Students.

RAPID: Time Series Sampling for Radionuclide and Biogeochemical Fluxes at F1 Time-series Station, Offshore Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Facility
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chris German($199,774), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sediment Trap Mooring, Time-series Sediment Trap, Time-series Sediment, Woods Hole, Chernobyl, Collect, Cruise, Cs, Deployment, Environment, Has, International, Japan, Ocean, Particulate, Period, Public, Radionuclide, Radionuclides, Sampling, Settling, Weeks, Wider.

RAPID: US Geotraces N. Atlantic: Measuring the 13C-DIC distribution and quantifying the impact of organic matter export on 13C, nutrients and biologically active trace metals
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($28,261), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dissolved O2, Future Cruise, Autumn, Carbon, Export, Laboratory, OM, Ocean, Original, Originally, RAPID, Seawater, Was.

RAPID: Continuation of US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: The fractional solubility of aerosol iron in seawater
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ana M Aguilar-Islas($15,046), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Atlantic Section Cruise, Changing Environmental Conditions, Geotraces North Atlantic, North Atlantic Section, Aerosol Deposition, Aerosol Fe, Fractional Solubility, Alaska, Approach, Complete, Dissolution, Distribution, Distributions, Establish, Fairbanks, Fall, Incorporated, Information, Isotopes, Seawater, Surface, Trace, UAF, Was.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section, shipboard shore-based determination of key trace elements
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jingfeng Wu($8,509), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Costs, Cruise, Shipping.

RAPID: Continuation of U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Section: CFC and SF6 Measurements
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Smethie($31,462), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cfcs And Sf6, Geotraces North Atlantic, North Atlantic Campaign, North Atlantic Ocean, Evolving Cfc, Sf6 Distributions, Transit Times, Water Masses, Aborted, CFC-, Climate, Cruise, Cruises, Estimate, Global, Information, Knorr, Processes, Program, Rates, Trace, Various, Ventilation.

RAPID: GEOTRACES: Determination of Copper Distribution, Speciation, and the Relationship to Picoplankton Community Structure for the U.S. GEOTRACES Zonal North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($58,626), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Graduate Student, North Atlantic, Section Cruise, Costs, Scheduled, Supplies, Travel.

Logistical support for the continuation of the US GEOTRACES N Atlantic Basin section (shipboard trace elements).
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher I Measures($36,248), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: North Atlantic, Section Cruise, Costs, Return, Scheduled, Ship, Shipping, Travel.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Mercury Speciation Along a Zonal Section in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carl Lamborg($2,527), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Chad R Hammerschmidt($48,631), Wright State University, Dayton
Key terms: North Atlantic, Section Cruise, Equipment, Mercury, Planned, Return, Salary, Scheduled, Ship, Shipping, Supplies, Travel.

GEOTRACES Atlantic Section: Measurement of Helium Isotopes and Tritium
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William J Jenkins($17,687), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Tritium And 3he, Dilution Scales, Helium Isotope, Hydrothermal Activity, Biogeochemical, Cruise, Distributions, Effort, Flux, GEOTRACES, Gauge, Global, Objectives, Primary, Program, Rates, Sampling, TEI, Teis, Timescales, Tracer, Useful, Was.

RAPID: Participation in October 2011 US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Zonal Section Continuation Cruise
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alan M Shiller($32,829), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Graduate Student, North Atlantic, Section Cruise, Cover, Scheduled.

International Workshop/School on Tracer and Timescale Methods for Understanding Complex Geophysical and Environmental Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Thomas Haine($35,700), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Geophysical And Environmental, Tracer Timescale Methods, Model Studies, Developments, Field, Flows, Fluid, Increasingly, Timescales, Tracers, Transport, Workshop.

RAPID: Establishing Radionuclide Levels in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Originating from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($157,626), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Fukushima Daiichi, Million Curies, Collaboration, Collected, Cs-, Funding, Has, Hawaii, Health, Increase, International, Japanese, Land, Levels, March, Network, Potential, Radioactivity, Radionuclides, Release, Sampling, Site, Source, Subsequent, WHOI, Web.

Collaborative Research: Systematics of Zn Isotopes in the Oceans: Assessing the Roles of Surfaces and Speciation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laura Wasylenki($293,516), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Arizona, Biogeochemical, Cycling, Fractionation, Ocean, Student, Zinc, Zn.

RAPID: Establishing Radionuclide Levels in the Central Pacific Ocean in Response to Releases from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Henrietta Dulai($94,637), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Atlantic Oceans, Atmosphere, Cs, Dataset, Environment, Establish, Global, Guam, Hawaii, Japan, Levels, March, Pacific, Released, Releases, Sampling.

Early diagenetic aluminosilicate formation and burial of biogenic silica in tropical deltas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. J Kirk Cochran($471,594), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Cosmogenic Radionuclide 32si, Li And Ge, Marine Si Cycle, Water And Sediment, Authigenic Clay, Pore Water, Radionuclide 32si, Tropical Deltaic, Application, Balances, Biogeochemical, Burial, Component, Controlling, Diagenetic, Experiments, Formation, Implications, Integrated, Laboratory, Ocean, Processes, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Chemical and Biological Characterizations of Phosphonate and Polyphosphate Dynamics in Marine Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellery D Ingall($216,484), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Sonya T Dyhrman($386,457), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($209,056), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Children, Compound, Compounds, DOP, Has, Outreach, Phosphonate, Phosphorus, Polyphosphate, Primary, School, Specific, Whyville.

Expression of Microbial Nitrification in the Stable Isotopic Systematics of Oceanic Nitrite and Nitrate
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($508,605), Stanford University, Stanford
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.

Collaborative Research: Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Systems: Micron-Scale Sedimentary Sulfur Cycling and its Impact on Ocean Processes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David Fike($395,320), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Gregory K Druschel($114,139), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Biogeochemical Reactions, Hydrothermal Fluids, Ocean Chemistry, Redox Gradients, Shallow-sea Hydrothermal, Sulfur Cycling, Activity, Allow, Diverse, Generate, Geochemical, History, Interface, Isotopic, Marine, Microns, Reducing, Resolution, Resulting, Sediments, Shallow-sea, Shape, Thermodynamic, Training.

Do interactions between vertically and horizontally transported particles measurably affect particle composition and flux to the sediments? A mechanistic approach.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert A Armstrong($1,621,052), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Flux And Composition, Vertical And Horizontal, Bermuda Rise, Deep Sea, Graduate Students, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Particulate Organic, Sea Floor, Sinking Particles, Surface Waters, Water Column, Developed, Fluxes, Influence, Inorganic, Involved, Lateral, Modern, Ocean, POC, Paleoceanographic, Pis, Produced, Remineralization, Sediment, Sediments, Transit, Transport, Zone.

Using the RO/ED Method to Isolate Low-Ash Dissolved Organic Matter in High Yield along a Salinity Gradient
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. E. Michael Perdue($379,189), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Isolate Dom, Roed Method, Salinity Gradient, Salinity Gradients, Biogeochemical, Characteristics, Experiments, Georgia, Inorganic, Isolation, Low-ash, Modified, Range, River-estuary-ocean, Yield.

Acquisition of a sector magnet ICP-MS for Ocean and Earth Science Research at Florida State University
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Landing($250,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Cycling, Department, FSU, Facility, Faculty, Global, ICP-MS, Instrument, Post-docs, Programs, Students.

Assessing the chemical speciation and bioavailability of iron regenerated by marine zooplankton
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David M Fields($519,331), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bigelow, Bioavailability, Chemical, Examine, Fe, Grazer, Grazing, Marine, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Prey, Programs, Recycling, Redox, Regeneration, Speciation, Uptake, Waters, Zooplankton.

Understanding the nitrogen isotopes of planktonic foraminifera: A modern Sargasso Sea study
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel M Sigman($619,900), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Foraminiferal Species, Inputoutput Budget, Isotope Archive, Isotopic Analysis, Atlantic, Bermuda, Caribbean, Controls, Deln, Diagenesis, Fb-deln, Fertility, Has, Insight, Integrating, Mechanistic, Ocean, Paleoceanography, Pools, Potential, Previously, Princeton, Protocol, Region, Sea, Sediment, Sediments, Shell-bound, Shells, Surface, Yield.

Heme uptake by marine bacteria: A molecular-level study of an oceanic iron recycling pathway
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Katherine Barbeau($352,716), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Heme Uptake, Marine Bacteria, Marine Microorganisms, Assimilation, Biogeochemistry, Examined, Fe, Has, Iron, Limiting, Mechanisms, Nutrients, Ocean, Pathway, Potential.

Support for the 11th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brent A McKee($24,814), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Estuarine Chemists, North Carolina, Application, Entitled, Estuaries, Foreign, Forum, Has, International, Keynote, Meeting, Past, Session, Symposia, Symposium, Talks, Topics, Transport, Travel, Was, Waters.

Germanium Isotope Systematics in Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Douglas E Hammond($317,273), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Marine Si Cycle, Ge Isotope, Isotopic Composition, California, Cycling, Diatoms, Exist, Fractionation, Gesi, Isotopes, Ocean, Oceans, Plans, Sediment, Temporal, Weathering.

Collaborative Research: Eddy Correlation and chamber measurements of benthic oxygen fluxes in permeable sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Markus H Huettel($343,385), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Peter Berg($552,954), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Eddy Correlation Technique, Outreach Program, Oxygen Fluxes, Approach, Carbon, Estimates, Sediments, Validate.

Subtropical North Pacific variability in primary production and nutrient utilization inferred from compound specific isotopes in Hawai'ian deep-sea coral gorgonin.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Thomas P Guilderson($426,747), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Bulk Isotope, Food Webs, Proteinaceous Coral, Additional, Allow, Average, Base, Compound-specific, Corals, Cycling, Exported, Factors, Has, Information, Ocean, POM, Particulate, Signature, Trophic.

Water column POM dynamics in Cascadia Margin: effects/controls on seasonal hypoxia and acidification
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Miguel A Goni($266,162), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Cascadia Margin, Water Column, Wind-driven Upwelling, Carbon, Dynamics, Hypoxia, NOAA, Oregon, Oxygen, POM, Resolution, Wind-driven.

Calcification by amorphous pathways: Establishing effects of acidification and interplays with Mg and biomolecule chemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Patricia M Dove($418,792), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Approaches, Based, Chemical, Environmental, Marine, Non-classical, Organisms, Pathway, Processes, Skeletons.

Continental Shelf Benthic Oxygen Fluxes Determined by Eddy Correlation in the Presence of Wave Motions
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller($802,624), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Wave Flume Experiments, Dissolved Oxygen, Oregon Shelf, Benthic, Carried, EC, Fluctuations, Flux, Fluxes, Plans, Presence, Profiles, Summer, Technique, Vertical, Water, Waves.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Atlantic Section Nitrate Isotope Measurements
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($209,373), Stanford University, Stanford
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.

North American Carbon Program (NACP) and Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Interim Coastal Carbon Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Heather Benway($48,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coastal Carbon Budgets, Coastal Interim Synthesis, Interim Synthesis Activity, Spatial And Temporal, Carbon Cycle, Coastal Margins, Coastal Regions, Alaska, Biogeochemical, Continent, Efforts, Facilitate, Gulf, Health, Hypoxia, Issues, Land, Modeling, NACP, North, OCB, Observations, Ocean, Processes, Program, Regional, Sinks, Sources, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Geochemistry and Proteomics to Assess Protein Sources and Their Fate in Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rodger Harvey($313,242), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Individual Proteins, Organic Nitrogen, Proteins Represent, Advances, Approaches, Bioinformatics, Complex, Degradation, Follow, Geochemical, Has, Identification, Interdisciplinary, Involved, Marine, Mechanisms, Preservation, Process, Products, Proteomics, Sources, Structures, Student, Training.

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

1. Edward G Durbin($196,013), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: 231pa And 230th, Geotraces North Atlantic, Geotraces Program, International Geotraces, Particle Composition, AMOC, Concentrations, Critical, Designated, Importance, Interior, Isotopes, LDEO, Lead, Objectives, Ocean, Past, Path, Plan, Proxy, Success, Trace, Uminn.

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

1. Edward G Durbin($360,079), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Po210 And Th234, Euphotic Zone, Export Fluxes, Ecosystem, Field, Focus, Investigate, Low, OSP, Ocean, POC, Pacific, Packaging, Particle, Particles, Plankton, Planktonic, Processes, Radionuclide, Rates, Sinking, Site, Structure, Tracer, Tracers, Upper.

CNH: Collaborative Research: Direct and Indirect Coupling of Fisheries Through Economic, Regulatory, Environmental, and Ecological Linkages
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Lewis S Incze($30,317), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Natural And Human, Ecosystem Approach, Education Program, Groundfish Fisheries, Human Benefits, Human Linkages, Interactive Marine, Approaches, Arise, Complex, Complexity, Concepts, Coupled, Dynamic, Ecological, Examine, Existing, Explore, Fishery, Gulf, Herring, Increase, Information, Integrate, Interdisciplinary, Interrelated, Lobster, Maine, Management, Methodologies, Modeling, Models, Natural-human, Northeast, Processes, Productivity, Quantitative, Students, Subject, Sustainability, Theme, Themes.

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: An Integrated Study of Energy Metabolism, Carbon Fixation, and Colonization Mechanisms in Chemosynthetic Microbial Communities at Deep-Sea Vents
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. Ramunas Stepanauskas($413,352), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Dionysios I Foustoukos($72,032), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
3. Costantino Vetriani($420,434), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
4. Jeffrey S Seewald($1,014,241), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Diffuse Flow Vents, Low Temperature Diffuse, Potential And Diversity, Single Cell Genomics, Temperature Diffuse Flow, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Deep-sea Vents, Genetic Potential, Global Biogeochemical, Hydrothermal Vent, Metabolic Pathways, Organic Carbon, Vent Microbial, Active, Approach, Approaches, Bigelow, CIW, Characterization, Chemoautotrophic, Conditions, Deep-sea, Ecosystems, Energy, Environment, Expression, Function, Gaps, Identification, Interdisciplinary, International, Involved, Larger, Meeting, Microbes, Microbiology, Objectives, Pis, Primary, Processes, Program, Quantitative, Rates, Reactions, Situ, Taxonomic, Unique, WHOI.

Dimensions: Pattern and Process in Marine Bacterial, Archaeal, and Protistan Biodiversity, and Effects of Human Impacts
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. John F Heidelberg($2,119,585), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Genetic And Taxonomic, Functional Diversity, Functional Genes, Marine Microbial, Taxonomic Diversity, Analysis, Approaches, Carbon, Catalina, Direct, Examine, Flow, Functions, Global, Harbor, Human, Impacted, Integrate, Levels, Metatranscriptomics, Network, Ocean, Organisms, Particular, Pis, Pristine, Rates, Sequences, Site, Specific, Statistical, Taxa, Throughput, Time, USC.

Outreach to the Public: Workshops at ASLO Meetings
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jonathan H Sharp($49,988), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: ASLO, Environmental, Held, Meeting, Oceanography, Public, Workshops.

REU Site: Coastal Marine Science Research Opportunities for Undergraduates at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Rochelle D Seitz($674,224), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Coastal Marine, Alumni, Final, Has, Internship, Oceanography, Program, Students, VIMS.

Retrospective evaluation of the effectiveness of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Multicultural Program
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Benjamin E Cuker($138,563), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Students Participated, ASLOMP, Advancing, Aquatic, Comprised, Diversity, Faculty, Graduate, Minority, Participants, Program, Undergraduates.

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Changing Coastal Environments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian J Roberts($222,591), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Lumcon Reu, Coastal, Cohort, Diverse, Funding, Independent, Louisiana, Marine, Participants, Program, Skills, Student, Students.

REU Site: Research in Subtropical Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Edward J Buskey($290,801), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Funding, Program, REU, Student, Students, Summer, Texas.

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers? Investigations into the Physiological State of DHAB Metazoans
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Joan M Bernhard($299,748), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dhab Metazoans, Life Cycle, Paradigm Shift, Rna Analysis, Situ Preservation, Access, Anaerobic, Anoxic, Cellular, Complete, Cruise, DNA, Dhabs, Dominant, Environments, Living, Loriciferan, Oxygen, Physiology, Public, Remnant, Rewritten, Student, TEM, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: Serpentinization of oceanic crust: Integrated modeling of deformation, fracture, fluid flow and heat transfer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Leonid N Germanovich($211,269), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Robert P Lowell($189,772), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Initiation And Propagation, Crack Initiation, Below, Carbon, Crust, Deformation, Faulting, Features, Involved, Mineral, Minerals, Modeling, Models, Parameters, Potential, Rock, Seafloor, Structural, Students, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Langmuir Turbulence Under Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Tobias Kukulka($274,890), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Isaac Ginis($376,221), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Circulation And Turbulence, Explicit Langmuir Circulation, Ocean And Atmosphere, Tropical Cyclone Dynamics, Tropical Cyclones Critically, Upper Ocean Mixing, Upper Ocean Turbulence, Explicit Langmuir, Mixing Scheme, Surface Temperature, Turbulent Mixing, AWO, Advance, Aid, Air-sea, Assessing, Component, Conditions, Coupled, Current, Currents, Depend, Effect, Effects, Explicitly, Fluxes, Heat, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Interactions, LES, Layer, Lead, Model, Models, People, Prediction, Regions, Significantly, Societal, Wave, Waves, Website, Wind.

The response of the Subarctic North Pacific to abrupt climate change: Reconstructing dust flux and biological productivity during the last deglaciation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Robert F Anderson($354,548), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Artificial Iron Fertilization, Subarctic North Pacific, Biological Productivity, Carbon, Climate, Dust, Ecosystem, Global, International, Isotopes, Natural, Ocean, Region, Regions, Responds, School.

Collaborative Research: ETBC: Amazon iNfluence on the Atlantic: CarbOn export from Nitrogen fixation by DiAtom Symbioses (ANACONDAS)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. JOAQUIM I GOES($221,690), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Amazon River Plume, Biological Pump, Co2 Drawdown, Tropical River, Aggregation, Atlantic, Context, Ddas, Ecology, Education, Export, Fate, Field, Flux, Grazing, Hypothesize, Modeling, Ocean, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Previous, Processes, Public, Quantify, Responsible, Sensitivity, Sequestration, Si, Sinking, Surface, Undergraduates.

LINKING VARIATION IN METABOLIC PROCESSES AS A KEY TO PREDICTION
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Blaine Griffen($575,963), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Changing World, Individual Reproduction, Lesson Plans, Management Concern, Population Dynamics, Resource Requirements, Based, Biological, Conditions, Ecological, Education, Food, Individuals, Links, Mechanistic, Metabolic, Predict, Predictions, Processes, Respond, Species, USC.

Collaborative Research: Deterministic and Statistics Theory of Wind Driven Sea of Finite Depth.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alexander Korotkevich($199,335), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Vladimir E Zakharov($185,128), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Pair And Triple, Triple Correlation Functions, Deep Water, Finite Depth, Gravity Waves, Hasselmann Equation, Numerical Experiments, Numerical Simulation, Shallow Water, Statistical Description, Time Evolution, Analytical, Applied, Atmosphere, Coastal, Correlations, Coupled, Derive, Development, Dissipation, Equations, Input, Interaction, Internal, Model, Nonlinear, Obtained, Ocean, Resonant, Solution, Theory, Three-wave, White-capping.

MRI: Acquisition of an Integrated MultiBeam/Sediment Classification/ Current Profiling System for Interdisciplinary Research in Lake Champlain.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Patricia L Manley($494,664), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Lake Champlain Basin, Bottom, Characterization, Instrumentation, Interdisciplinary, MCC, Middlebury, Pis, Region, Strong, Student, Students, Training.

Biogeochemical implications of marine phage: Roseophage as a relevant and tractable model
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Shawn R Campagna($874,605), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Marine Surface, Precollegiate Students, Activity, Bacteria, Bioavailability, Biological, Carbon, Character, Composition, Compounds, DOM, Dissolved, Ecologically, Effects, Examine, Experiences, Food, Global, Graduate, Heterotrophic, Infect, Influence, Interactions, Lab, Lineage, Little, Lysate, Microbes, Microbial, Model, Molecular, Nutrient, Objectives, Organic, Particulate, Phage, Pis, Pools, Process, Processes, Programs, Rates, Regeneration, Roseobacter, Roseophage, Subsequent, Training, Undergraduate, Viruses.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Importance and Trophic Role of Noctiluca Blooms in the Arabian Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/04/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. JOAQUIM I GOES($60,124), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Northern Arabian Sea, Carbon Cycling, Field Program, Miliaris Blooms, Public Radio, Bigelow, Concern, Emergence, Existing, Increased, India, Institute, Language, Monsoon, NEM, NIO, National, Oman, Oxygen, Particular, Students, Time, UT, Univ, Website, Zone.

FESD Type I: PLIOcene MAXimum sea level (PLIOMAX): Dynamic ice sheet-Earth response in a warmer world
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Maureen E Raymo($4,249,956), Columbia University, New York
2. David Pollard($2,699,956), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Pliocene Shoreline Elevations, Sea Level Estimates, Sea Level Rise, Antarctic Ice, Dynamic Topography, Ice Sheet, Ongoing Warming, Warmer World, Capable, Climate, Climate-ice, Coupling, Database, Dynamics, Effort, Efforts, Essential, Eustatic, Expert, Expertise, Field, Global, Hearty, Isostatic, Lead, Mantle, Mentor, Mid-pliocene, Mitrovica, Model, Modeler, Modeling, Models, Outreach, Period, Predict, Processes, Scenarios, Students, Time.

Participation of Qualified Oceanographers from Developing Countries in International Scientific Activities
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward R Urban($225,000), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Developing Countries, Travel Grants, Assistance, Individuals, International, SCOR.

International Council for Exploration of the Sea: Travel Support for Academic Participants, 2011-2013
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward D Houde($319,898), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ices Activities, Academic, Insure, Leadership, Ocean, Strong.

REU Site: Coastal Research in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST) at UMass Boston
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Alan D Christian($354,539), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Coastal Environmental, Umass Boston, CREST, Department, Field, Funding, Primary, Program, REU, Skills, Student, Training.

REU Site: Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jane L Teranes($423,949), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ucsd Summer, Graduate, Marine, Program, REU, SIO, Student, Students, Workshops.

Beyond maternal effects: Transgenerational plasticity in thermal performance.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Marc S Mangel($601,928), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Graduate Students, Human-induced Evolution, Rapid Evolution, Thermal Physiology, Thermal Tgp, Center, Climate, Environment, Environmental, Environments, Evolve, Fishes, Growth, Has, Human-induced, Marine, Minorities, Model, Physiological, Pis, Population, Public, Shifts, Slow, Species, Temperature, Ucscs, Women.

LINKING SINGLE-CELL GROWTH RATES AND GENOMICS
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Scott Manalis($408,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Individual Microbial Cells, Growth Rate, Growth Rates, Single Cell, Analysis, Available, Determination, Diversity, Effectiveness, Engineering, Genomic, Has, Level, Microenvironment, Mits, Natural, Ocean, Outreach, Podcasts, Public, Teen, Website.

CAREER: Small Grazers, Multiple Stressors and the Proliferation of Fungal Disease in Marine Plant Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Brian Silliman($719,731), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Marine Plant Ecosystems, Disease Dynamics, Food Web, Fungal Disease, Fungal Infection, Grazer Facilitation, Integrated Educational, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Plants, Multiple Stressors, Plant Disease, Plant Growth, Top-down Control, Class, Commonly, Conservation, Field, Global, Grazers, Has, Interaction, Interactions, Marshes, Program, Student, Students, Terrestrial, Top-down, UF, Was.

MRI: Acquisition of a flow field-flow fractionation system to enhance colloidal research and education at USM
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Laodong Guo($161,910), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Augment Graduate Education, Colloids And Nanoparticles, Flow Field-flow Fractionation, Graduate And Undergraduate, Aquatic Environments, Field-flow Fractionation, Flow Field-flow, Natural Colloids, Requested Instrument, Add, Capabilities, Characterization, Environmental, Has, Ongoing, Size, Training, USM.

MRI: Acquisition of a BlueView Technologies Multibeam Sonar System for High-resolution Vehicle-based Sea Floor Mapping
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Christopher Roman($121,292), Sea Research Foundation, Mystic
Key terms: Complex Underwater Scenes, Pan And Tilt, Bathymetric Maps, Mapping Capability, Nautilus Program, Resolution Bathymetric, Tilt Actuator, Ability, Acquisition, Effort, Engineering, Items, Marine, Opportunities, Outreach, Participation, Pis, Public, Seafloor, Square, Students, Tools.

MRI: Acquisition of Mobile Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility for Microbiological Research and Minority Student Training
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Luis M Mota-Bravo($512,047), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Environmental Microbiology, Flow Cytometry, Mobile Facility, Bacteria, Programs, Students, Training, UCI, Underrepresented.

MRI: Acquisition of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for shelf, coastal, and estuarine oceanographic studies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William C Boicourt($1,249,159), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Coastal And Estuarine, Harmful Algal Blooms, Broader Impacts, Estuarine Marine, AUV, Chemical, Dynamics, Environments, Pis, Processes, Public, School, Shallow, Society, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS) for Earth and Marine Science Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Drew S Coleman($410,116), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Unc Ch, Carbonate, Climate, Developing, Disciplines, Elemental, Fish, Investigating, Isotopic, LA-ICP-MS, Minority, Ocean, Range, Training, Various.

MRI: Acquisition of two Autonomous Moored Profilers for Lake Ecosystem Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Robert E Hecky($485,226), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Autonomous Moored Profilers, Biogeochemical, Class, Education, Expand, Has, Pis, Processes, Region.

Collaborative Research: Post-seismic response updip of the Chilean megathrust earthquake of February 27, 2010
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anne M Tréhu($312,672), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Michael D Tryon($249,874), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Chile, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Effects, Rupture, Tsunamis.

Plate kinematic constraints on driving forces associated with the Reunion plume head
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven C Cande($221,228), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Plate Motions, Africa, Forces, Interior, Mantle, Plates, Plume, Tectonic.

Geodynamic modeling of plume capture and release by a migrating mid-ocean ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul S Hall($261,402), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Broader, Earth, Fixed, Flow, Laboratory, Models, Motions, Plates, Possibility, Surface, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Discovery, sampling, and quantification of flows from cool yet massive ridge-flank hydrothermal springs on Dorado Outcrop, eastern Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Samuel Hulme($105,845), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Andrew T Fisher($128,661), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Charles G Wheat($159,618), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Dorado Outcrop, Capabilities, Collection, Discharge, Expedition, Flank, Fluids, Hydrothermal, Plan, Ridge-flank, Students.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of the deep South Atlantic since the last interglacial period inferred from a depth transect of Cape Basin sediment cores
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher D Charles($195,803), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Niall C Slowey($290,136), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Deep Ocean, Ocean Circulation, Time Slices, Cycle, Differences, Evolution, Ice, Interglacial, Mixing, Students, Tracers, Water.

Thin Viscous Sheet Models for Diffuse Oceanic Plate boundaries.
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Gordon($203,514), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Diffuse Deformation, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Implications, Model, Planet, Rigid, Time, Volcanoes.

Collaborative Research: Venting Outside the Box - Extending the Known Limits to Seafloor Hydrothermal Circulation and the Chemosynthetic Life it Supports
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Seewald($302,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ultramafic Rocks, Vent Site, Deepest, Geochemical, Has, Hosted, Hydrothermal, NASA, NSF, Seafloor, Unusual.

Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer for the Department of Earth & Environment at Florida International University
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Florentin J Maurrasse($104,000), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Analyzed, Current, Environmental, FIU, ICP-OES, Instrumentation, NSF, Options.

Coral-based reconstruction of salinity and temperature variability in the southern Makassar Strait and its Influence on the Indonesian Throughflow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Braddock K Linsley($283,220), Columbia University, New York
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.

Collaborative Research: Pliocene and Pleistocene transient climate simulations and model-proxy comparisons for surface temperature and monsoon circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven C Clemens($470,780), Brown University, Providence
2. Zhengyu Liu($61,967), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Temperature And Monsoonal, Volume And Greenhouse, Climate Modeling, Greenhouse Gases, Ice Sheets, Ice Volume, Insolation Forcing, Model-proxy Comparison, Model-proxy Comparisons, Monsoonal Circulation, Sea Level, Surface Temperature, Approach, Brown, CAS, Changing, Collaborative, Compared, Experience, Focus, Geological, Model-proxy, Phase, Post-doctoral, Range, Student, Time.

Collaborative research: Water stratigraphy of the oceanic lithosphere using mantle xenoliths from Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael Bizimis($120,578), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Anne H Peslier($47,750), Jacobs Technology Inc., Houston
Key terms: H2o Content, Seismic Structure, Academic, Collaboration, Crust, Depth, FTIR, Geohazards, Graduate, HO, Has, Hawaiian, Magma, Mantle, Minerals, Private, Teachers, Training, Volcanoes, Xenoliths.

A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Coastal System Response to Sea-Level Rise, Climate Dynamics, and Geomorphic Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Siddhartha Mitra($399,922), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Geochemical Proxies, Paleobathymetric Models, Barrier, Climate, Coastal, Conditions, Effects, Geomorphology, Holocene, Modern, Tidal, Time.

A Combined Paleo-Proxy and Modeling Study of Abrupt Climate Change in the Tropical Atlantic and Its Relation to Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew W Schmidt($495,424), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Temperature And Salinity, Tropical Atlantic Climate, Tropical North Atlantic, Western Tropical North, Ocean Circulation, Subsurface Temperature, AMOC, Atmospheric, Coupled, Proxy, Sensitive, Surface, Warming.

Reconstructing Glacial Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling Using Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andreas Schmittner($508,466), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Nitrogen And Carbon, Carbon Isotopes, Modeling Intercomparison, Modern Ocean, Climate, Collaboration, Iron, Oregon, Sediments, Student, Summer.

Support for the Cascadia Initiative Expedition Team
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($1,919,396), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Cascadia Initiative, Obs Deployment, Activities, Array, CI, CIET, California, EO, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Megathrust, Objectives, Oregon, Planning, Program, Risks, Seismic, Seismometers, Subduction, Volcanic.

Seismic Reflectivity within Atlantis Massif: Examining Alteration Pathways & Extending Velocity Models to Greater Depths
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alistair J Harding($310,852), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atlantis Massif, Crust, Current, Depths, Drilling, IODP, Models, Ocean, Seismic, Shallow.

Enhancing the Fidelity of Early Paleogene Planktic Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope and Mg/Ca Records with the Use of In Situ Analytical Techniques
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. D C Kelly($215,457), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Delta 18o, Planktic Shells, Climate, Deep-sea, Diagenesis, Domains, Effects, Paleogene, SIMS, Site, Ssts, Technique, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: A Plate Boundary Observatory on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Award Effective Date: 08/25/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy Dixon($100,239), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Costa Rica, Slow Slip, Earthquakes, Monitoring, Seismic, Students, Tremor.

Studying Eruptions and Lava Flows on Ontong Java Plateau with High-Precision Glass Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter J Michael($191,756), University of Tulsa, Tulsa
Key terms: Ocean Drilling Program, Lava Flow, Ontong Java, Analyzed, Emplacement, Eruption, Global, Methods, Provinces, Size, Students, Undergraduates, Volatile.

Investigation of a Dynamical Response of the Tropical Pacific to Orbital and Solar Forcing during the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas M Marchitto($354,875), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Solar Forcing, Climate, ENSO, Earth, Models, Ocean, Past, Student, Thermostat.

RUI: Using opal and organic carbon as proxies for wind-driven upwelling during the onset and termination of the African Humid Period in a transect of African margin cores
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Louisa Bradtmiller($137,359), Macalester College, Saint Paul
Key terms: African Margin, Northern Africa, Sahel Region, Wind Strength, AHP, Aridity, Climate, Past, Periods, Precipitation, Specifically, Upwelling.

Sampling the intermediate loop of the subduction factory at Nankai: The mud volcanoes of the Kumano Basin, Japan
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael D Tryon($290,815), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mud Volcanoes, Public Outreach, Subduction Zone, Aquarium, Chemical, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Fluid, Fluids, International, Sediments, Slip, Zones.

Constraining Temporal Movement of the ITCZ in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Using Radiogenic Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Franco Marcantonio($234,035), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Atmospheric Circulation, Dust Provenance, Radiogenic Isotope, Climate, Lead, Potential.

RAPID - Collaborative Research - Offshore impacts of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake on seafloor deformation, sedimentation, erosion, tsunamigenesis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Leonardo Seeber($87,116), Columbia University, New York
2. Marie-Helene Cormier($24,623), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Acute, Broader, Catastrophic, Earthquake, Japan, Northern.

Origin of Millennial-scale Climate Signals in the Northwestern Subtropical Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katharina Billups($166,976), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Fourth Harmonic, Millennial-scale Climate, Outer Ridge, Earth, Isotope, Millennial-scale, Precession, Stable.

Collaborative Proposal - Constraints on the Evolution of Hotspot-Ridge Interactions: The Northern Galapagos Region
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher W Sinton($60,052), Ithaca College, Ithaca
Key terms: Construction, Galapagos, German, Lineaments, Maps, Seafloor, Tectonic, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Rapid: Activation of the Inner Continental Shelf In Response to the Great Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Flood of 2011
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alexander S Kolker($34,992), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Chunyan Li($14,999), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Atchafalaya River, Coastal Zone, Continental Shelf, Land Building, South Louisiana, Development, Flood, Geological, Loss, Sediment, Sediments.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Signature of the 2011 Flooding on the Mississippi Subaqueous Delta
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John P Walsh($58,498), East Carolina University, Greenville
2. Kehui Xu($11,982), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Delta Front, Deposits, Flood, Flooding, Flows, Mississippi, Sediment, Signature.

Glacial-Interglacial Change in California Current System Dynamics: A New Alkenone Perspective
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fredrick G Prahl($324,959), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: North Pacific Climate, Northeast Pacific Margin, Pacific Margin, Sst Proxy, Alkenone, Based, CCS, California, Current, Effects, Glacial, Mechanisms, Nutrient, Region, Sea, Sediments, Setting, Unsaturation, Upwelling.

ENSO and West Pacific Warm Pool Climate Variability over the Last Three Centuries
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Terrence M Quinn($288,125), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Centuries, Climate, ENSO, Modern, Student, WPWP, Western.

Kalman Filtering and Smoothing of Sediment Records from the Atlantic Ocean over the last 20 KYRS
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Olivier Marchal($437,445), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Filter And Smoother, North Atlantic Ocean, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Ocean Circulation, Dynamics, Model, Sediment, Time, Various.

Bathymetric Survey: Completion of Coverage of the Cascadia Subduction Zone in Support of the Cascadia Initiative OBS Array Deployment
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Chris Goldfinger($169,907), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Bathymetric Coverage, Active, Cascadia, Earthquake, Northern, OBS, Ocean, Region, Risk, Seismic, Subduction, Washington.

Quantifying the 18O/16O of Glacial Meltwater Pulses Using a Novel LA-ICPMS/IRMS Multiproxy Approach
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ann Russell($359,636), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Oxygen Isotope Composition, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Baca, Climate, Deglaciation, Has, Individual, Meltwater, Method, Methods, North, Technique.

Collaborative Research: He and Os isotope investigation of Miocene marine sediments: particulate extraterrestrial matter as a paleoflux tracer
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gregory E Ravizza($170,890), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Kenneth A Farley($125,055), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Accumulation Rates, Extraterrestrial Flux, Extraterrestrial Particles, Particulate Extraterrestrial, Ability, Changing, Marine, Os, Pacific, Potential, Productivity, Reconstruct, Sediment, Sediments, Terrestrial, Time.

Linking high latitude nutrient supply to export productivity and nitrogen cycling in the tropical Pacific across the Plio-Pleistocene
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Rebecca S Robinson($363,071), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Export Productivity, International Collaboration, Low Latitude, Nutrient Supply, Orbital Timescales, Oxygen Demand, Southern Ocean, Tropical Pacific, Water Column, Circulation, Cycling, Denitrification, Driving, Estimate, Global, Nitrogen, Relate, Shifts.

Collaborative Research: Calibration of a new approach to reconstruct ancient bottom water oxygen levels
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bruce H Corliss($86,441), Duke University, Durham
2. Anthony E Rathburn($155,638), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen, Analysis, Cruise, Indiana, Marine, Pore, Students.

RAPID: Seismic Imaging of the Salton Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Neal W Driscoll($139,180), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: San Andreas Fault, Southern Salton Sea, Salton Trough, Airguns, California, Critical, Deformation, Onshore, Seismic.

Broadband Recording at the Site of Great Earthquake Rupture in the Alaska Megathrust
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kathleen M Keranen($85,256), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Active-source Cruise, Active-source Shots, Seismic Hazard, Active-source, Alaska, Array, Creeping, Deploy, Down-dip, Earthquake, Experiment, Extend, Geodetic, Hazards, Imaging, Instruments, Megathrust, Mw=, Nearly, On-land, Pacific, Plate, Pose, Provided, Seismicity, Seismogenic, Seismometers, Summer.

Collaborative RUI: Uranium-Series Constraints on Melting in the Jan Mayen Region
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenneth W Sims($112,999), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Lynne Elkins($140,000), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Anomalous, Arctic, Cruise, Evidence, German, Hotspot, Iceland, International, Isotopes, Lavas, Melting, Mid-ocean, Students, Training.

Formation and Evolution of Sediment Waves: Integration of Quantitative Modeling and Field Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Eckart H Meiburg($299,881), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Flows And Tsunamis, Sediment Wave Fields, Bottom Currents, Debris Flows, Linear Stability, Nonlinear Simulations, Direction, Equations, Framework, Quantitative.

Collaborative Research: Beyond the Instrumental Record---The Ocean Circulation at the Last Glacial Maximum and the Deglacial sequence
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter Huybers($99,908), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Carl Wunsch($335,787), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Circulation Model, Glacial Maximum, Intellectual Challenge, Modern World, Ocean Circulation, Approach, Bring, Climate, Difficult, Directed, Effort, Exists, Extremely, Future, Inferred, Oceanic, Past, Period, Periods, Poorly, Proxy, Quantitative, Radically, Sets, Time, Useful.

Assessing Volcanic Construction Processes at Shatsky Rise from 3-D tomographic imaging
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jun Korenaga($84,916), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Seismic Refraction, Shatsky Rise, Available, Co-pi, Extend, Formed, Oceanic, Was.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing ancient passive margin dynamics by relating geomorphic and stratigraphic surfaces: a combined laboratory and field study
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Benjamin Sheets($0), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Kyle Straub($192,729), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Flume Models, Continent, Deltaic, Field, Geomorphic, Objective, Stratigraphic, Surfaces.

Modeling of Flow and Morphodynamics of Sinuous Submarine Channels
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jasim Imran($259,966), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Channel Bends, Helical Flow, Numerical Modeling, Sinuous Channels, Submarine Channels, Distribution, Laboratory, Models, Morphology, Processes, Seismic, ×.

Constraining mantle flow between Samoa and the northern Lau and N. Fiji Basins with geochemistry and geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul S Hall($219,599), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Lau And North, North Fiji Basins, Isotopic Ratios, Lau Basin, Northwest Lau, Observed North-south, Oceanic Lithosphere, Samoan Plume, Samoan-plume Mantle, Western Limit, BU, Characterize, Depletion, Existing, Extent, Flow, Geochemical, Geodynamic, Gradients, Intrusion, Jackson, Nd, North-south, Northern, Pb, Presence, Region, Samoan-plume, Southward, Spatial, Sr, Trace, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Investigating MORB differentiation through non-traditional stable isotope analyses
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Craig C Lundstrom($248,759), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Michael R Perfit($238,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Magma Chamber, Involves, Magmas, Mechanism, Silica, Volcanic.

Pacific plate apparent polar wander from skewness: Implications for motion between hotspots and for true polar wander.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard G Gordon($224,156), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Magnetic Anomalies, Pacific Plate, Plate Motions, Argued, Establish, History, Million, Paleomagnetic, Pole, Poles, Skewness.

Collaborative Research: Catchments and Coastlines--The Influence of Sediment Load and Type on Delta Morphodynamics and Deposits
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Doug Edmonds($149,338), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. Rudy L Slingerland($138,144), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Delta, Deltas, Experiments, Load, Modeling, Morphodynamic, Morphology, Numerical, Pis, Planform, River, Space, Stratigraphy, Students, Wave.

The Petrology of Abyssal Serpentinites: New Insights from Phase Petrology and Geochemical Reaction Path Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Frieder Klein($269,998), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridges, Reaction Pathways, Chemical, Conditions, Geochemical, Involves, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Process, Rock, Serpentinization.

An Experimental Study of Coupling between Stress-Driven and Reaction-Driven Melt Migration in Mantle Rocks
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David L Kohlstedt($371,485), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Erupted, Experimental, Melts, Processes, Solid, Surface.

Experimental Calibration of Mineral-Fluid Fractionation of Non-Traditional Isotopes (Fe, Cu, 33-S): Implications for Mass Transfer in Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William E Seyfried($160,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Minerals And Fluids, Hydrothermal Vent, Stable Isotopes, Chemistry, Conditions, Formation, Geochemistry, Iron, Rates, Sulfur, Temperatures.

The Absolute Motion of the Africa Plate
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($153,634), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Geologic History, Hot Spot, Plate Motion, Plate Motions, Absolute, Africa, Argued, Features, Planet, Plates, Seamount, Trails.

Collaborative Research: Fine-scale crustal accretion processes and rates of magma supply and replenishment at the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge neovolcanic zone.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James B Gill($245,489), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Julie A Bowles($42,115), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Axial Seamount, Crustal Accretion, Intermediate-spreading Ridges, Neovolcanic Zone, Ridge Segments, Analyses, Assess, Decades, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Geologic, Has, Inflated, Intermediate-spreading, Jdfr, Magmatic, Morphological, Normal, Ocean, Processes, Rates, Replenishment, Timescales, Volcanologic.

Frictional Behavior of Oceanic Transform Faults and Influence on Earthquake Characteristics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($258,077), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Transform Faults, Continent, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Rtfs, Slip.

Integrative 3-D Modeling of Upper Mantle Flow and Melting Beneath the Lau Basin
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Laurent Montesi($294,707), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Lau Basin, Spreading Centers, Adjacent, Backarc, Beneath, Geochemical, Mantle, Students.

Fine-scale crustal accretion processes and rates of magma supply and replenishment at the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge neovolcanic zone
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David A Clague($34,261), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Axial Seamount, Crustal Accretion, Intermediate-spreading Ridges, Neovolcanic Zone, Ridge Segments, Analyses, Assess, Decades, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Geologic, Has, Inflated, Intermediate-spreading, Jdfr, Magmatic, Morphological, Normal, Ocean, Processes, Rates, Replenishment, Timescales, Volcanologic.

Seismogenic zone processes of Hikurangi subduction, New Zealand: illumination using the SAHKE seismic project
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David A Okaya($379,607), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hikurangi Subduction, Slow Slip, Strongly Coupled, Aseismic, Conditions, Earthquake, Has, Japan, Regime, Seismogenic, Societal, Zealand, Zones.

MARGINS/GeoPRISMS Post-Doctoral Fellowship Research: Evolution of Sediment Physical Properties in the Nankai Subduction Zone and Implications for the Updip Limit of Seismogenesis
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($165,864), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Acoustic Wave Velocities, Friction Experiments, Pore Pressure, Conditions, Deformation, Pis, Seismic, Situ, Slip, Stress, Subduction, Zone.

Detecting Local Earthquakes in a Noisy Continental Margin Environment
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anne M Tréhu($103,966), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Arrays, Cascadia, Coast, Has, OBS, Onshore, Seismic, Seismicity, Separating, Signals.

Collaborative Research: The North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey: The Growth of Continental Transform Basins
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marie-Helene Cormier($300,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Surveys, Basin, Basins, Deep-penetration, Depth, Fault, Faults, High-resolution, International, Marmara, Stratigraphic, Tectonic, Time.

Proposal for a Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Science Workshop
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. William T Hogarth($30,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Oil Spill, Academic, Active, DWH, Federal, Gulf, Mexico.

2012 Natural Gas Hydrate Systems Gordon Research Conference (1 year)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Peter B Flemings($22,500), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Gas Hydrates, Conference, Methane, Minerals, Quantities, Release, Students, Warming.

Review of the National Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Plan
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($141,126), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, IWGOA, Plan, Review.

Our Changing Oceans Conference
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Peter D Saundry($30,000), National Council for Science and the Environment/CEDD, Washington
Key terms: Changing Oceans, Arctic, Conference, Exploring, Issues, Organizations, Recommendations, Sessions.

Pyrite nanoparticles are a kinetically stable iron source to the ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. George W Luther($337,895), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Deep Sea, Hydrothermal Vents, Chemosynthetic, Essential, Experiments, Fieldwork, Fluids, Has, Metal, Nanoparticles, Nutrients, Ocean, Oxidation, Particles, School, Seawater, Teacher.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Ocean's Responses to Solar Forcing: Multidecadel Century-scale Variability of North Atlantic SSTs Over Recent Millenia
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Scott J Lehman($243,806), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Peter DeMenocal($266,135), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: North Atlantic, Solar Forcing, AMO, Age, Based, Basin-wide, Calendar, Columbia, Dating, Directly, Marine, Method, NAO, Natural, Objectively, Observations, Ocean, Oceans, Oscillation, Past, Radiocarbon, Reconstructions, Reliable, SST, Sediment, Sediments, Temperature, Wiggle-match.

Expedition Oriented Research: Sedimentation and tectonics in Kumano forearc basin evolution, NantroSEIZE study area
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Kitty L Milliken($299,204), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Slope And Forearc, Accretionary Prism, Forearc Basin, Kumano Basin, Nankai Prism, Sediment Flux, Behavior, Boundary, Deformation, Drilling, Earthquakes, Frontal, IODP, Japanese, Japans, Margin, Mechanics, Megasplay, Model, Modules, Out-of-sequence, Plio-pleistocene, Predominantly, Prisms, Processes, Public, Sedimentary, Sedimentation, Seismic, Seismogenic, Tectonic, Toe, Wedge.

Collaborative Research: Stable isotope tracers of the subsurface biosphere and its geochemical effects in oceanic ridge flank basement
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Jeffrey C Alt($211,999), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Ruth E Blake($115,850), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Affect Chemical, Isotope Techniques, Oceanic Basement, Subsurface Biosphere, Cool, Crust, Exchange, Geochemical, Haven, Isotopes, Life, Microbes, Microbial, Oxygen, Processes, Rock, School, Seafloor, Seawater, Sites, Stable, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: Plate Tectonic and Geochemical Evolution of the Young Walvis Ridge and Implications for African Plate Motion Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Cornelia Class($272,000), Columbia University, New York
2. William W Sager($150,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
3. Anthony Koppers($379,987), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Plate Tectonic, Walvis Ridge, Africa, Examine, Hotspot, Rock, Seafloor, South, Tracks, Volcanic.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: Hydrologic History of the Indo-Pacific-Warm Pool During the Last 25,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Delia Oppo($575,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Tropical Hydrologic Cycle, Boundary Conditions, Atmospheric, Climate, IPWP, Indo-pacific, Marine, Range, Surface.

Portable and Persistent Autonomous Real-Time Marine Mammal Acoustic Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Harold A Cheyne($1,049,818), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Broadband Satellite, Marine Mammal, Marine Mammals, Autonomous, Classification, Cost, DCL, Detection, Funding, Human, Link, Localization, Lower, Monitoring, Potential, Program.

Expansion of Metadata Management, Visualization and Data Processing Functionality of OBIS-SEAMAP
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Patrick N Halpin($314,269), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Obis Seamap, Passive Acoustic, Animal, Available, Funding, Improvements, OBIS-SEAMAP, Obtain, Pis, Process, Tools.

Instantaneous Passive and Active Detection, Localization, Monitoring and Classification of Marine Mammals over Long Ranges with High-Resolution Towed Array Measurements
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Purnima R Makris($431,979), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Passive And Active, Acoustic Sensing, Marine Mammal, Marine Mammals, Towed Arrays, Approach, Effort, Estimate, Geophysical, Nreal-time, Operations, Populations, Processing, Ranging, Surveys, Wide.

Collaborative Research: An Ultra-High Resolution Holocene Climate Record from a Varved Sediment Sequence from the Adelie Coast, Antarctica (IODP Exp 318)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Stephen F Pekar($179,487), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
2. Robert B Dunbar($221,408), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, East Antarctic Margin, Wilkes Subglacial Basin, Bottom Water, Oceanic Circulation, Secondary Schools, Wilkes Land, Additionally, Antarctica, Climate, Decadal, Deglaciation, Glacial, Holocene, Isotopic, Obtained, Region, Sedimentary, Stanford, Time.

Assessing Proxies, Strategies, Technologies and Drilling Targets to Constrain the History of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Joseph S Stoner($10,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Drilling Program, Opportunity, Participation, Workshop.

Expedition Objective Research: Investigating Antarctic Cryosphere Changes at Wilkes Land During the Oligocene and Presumed "Stable" Icehouse World of the Late Miocene
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Stephen F Pekar($150,000), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: East Antarctica, Educational Outreach, Ice Sheet, Icehouse World, Late Miocene, Prydz Bay, Wilkes Land, Ar, Climate, Developing, Glacial, High-resolution, History, IRD, Ocean, Oligocene, Pieces, Region, Size, Stable, Time, Timing, Undergraduate, Video, Was.

Expedition Objective Research: U-series Geochronology for IODP Expedition 325
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. William Thompson($249,999), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Barbados And Tahiti, Future Sea Level, Level And Climate, Sea Level History, Sea Level Rise, Complement Existing, Existing Deglacial, Ice Sheets, Iodp Expedition, Isostatic Adjustment, Accurate, Corrections, Deglaciation, Established, GBR, LGM, Objectives, Participation, Presentations, Recovered, Reef, Successful, U-series.

Microbial Activities in Deep-Subsurface Sediments Beneath Mid-Ocean Gyres
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Wiebke A Ziebis($287,773), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: South Atlantic Gyre, South Pacific Gyre, Metabolic Activities, Ocean Regions, Sub-seafloor Investigations, Sub-seafloor Sediments, Biosphere, Cell, Collaborations, Deep, IODP, Microbial, Oligotrophic, Principal, Stable, Students, Sub-seafloor, Subsurface, Undergraduate, Underlying.

Collaborative Research: IODP Expedition 329 Objective Research on Supply of H2 by Water Radiolysis in Subseafloor Sediment of the South Pacific Gyre
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Arthur J Spivack($185,507), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Electron Donors, Organic Matter, Primary Objectives, Spg Sediment, Subseafloor Sedimentary, Water Radiolysis, Activities, Advancing, Concentrations, Expedition, Extent, Fluxes, Focus, IODP, Importance, Laboratory, Life, Lowest, Microbial, Quantification, Rates, Shipboard, Students, URI, World.

Special Issue of OCEANOGRAPHY on Sea Level
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jennifer G Ramarui($23,246), Oceanography Society, Rockville
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Special Issue, Articles, Ocean, Oceanography, Predicting, Written.

RAPID Response to Tohoku Earthquake: Participation in Marine Geophysical Surveys of the Quake Rupture Zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Gregory F Moore($99,994), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Marine Geophysical Surveys, Rupture Zone, Seismic Reflection, Site Survey, August, Bathymetric, Collected, Drill, Drilling, Earthquake, Extensive, IFREE, Japan, Main, Multibeam, Offshore, Opportunity, Program, Set, Sets, Students, Targets, Tohoku.

Collaborative Research: Expedition 317 Objective Research - Linking Sediment Provenance to Supply and Lithofacies Formation on the Canterbury Margin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. John M Jaeger($122,315), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Kathleen M Marsaglia($66,750), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Continental Margin Stratigraphy, Canterbury Margin, Global Sea-level, Graduate Students, Sea Level, Sediment Supply, Analyses, Autogenic, Detritus, Educational, Eustatic, Expedition, Florida, Formation, IODP, Influence, Island, Lithofacies, Local, Onshore, Pleistocene, Presentations, Preservation, Processes, Program, Relative, Represent, Rivers, School, Sea-level, Sedimentary, Sedimentation, Seismic, Sequences, Timing, Transport, UF, Undergraduate, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Expedition 322 Objective Research on Sediment-Pore Water Interactions Controlling Sediment Cementation and Deformation in the NanTroSEIZE Drilling Transect
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Marta E Torres($136,510), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Glenn A Spinelli($50,567), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Fluid Flow, Margin Wedge, Mechanical Properties, Nankai Trough, Sediment Strength, Seismogenic Zone, Shikoku Basin, Silica Cement, Sites C0011, Subduction Zone, Accretionary, Accumulation, Affect, Anomalous, Burial, Cementation, Cemented, Consolidation, Control, Deformation, Determined, Differences, Distribution, Drilling, Earthquake, Effects, Examining, Extent, Gel, Grain, Has, Margins, NMT, Nantroseize, Plate, Pore, Porosity, Pressure, Processes, Program, Rigidity, Sea, Thermal, Velocity, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Basalt-Hosted Biosphere at North Pond, A Subseafloor Mid-Atlantic Ridge-Flank Microbial Observatory
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Katrina J Edwards($66,610), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Ivano W Aiello($271,304), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Borehole Observatories, North Pond, Ocean Crust, Ridge Flank, Active, Alteration, Approach, Broader, Drilling, Establish, Establishment, Experimental, Experiments, IODP, Liaisons, Life, Long-term, Media, Microbes, Microbial, Mid, Nature, Observatory, Operations, Play, Processes, Products, ROV, Rock, Samplers, Sediment, Variety.

Expedition Objective Research: Early Pliocene Record Of Antarctic Ice Rafting And Paleoenvironmental Conditions, Wilkes Land Margin, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Sandra Passchier($183,565), Montclair State University, Montclair
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Antarctic Ice Sheets, East Antarctic Ice, Pliocene Warm Periods, Wilkes Land Margin, Global Climate, Ice-rafted Debris, Sea Level, Site U1358, Site U1359, Surface Temperatures, Analyses, Analysis, Antarctica, Conditions, Continent, Degree, EAIS, IRD, Intervals, Local, Long-term, Mass, Monitoring, Ocean, Paleoclimatic, Paleoproductivity, Provenance, Proxies, Resolution, Retreat, Rise, Sediment, Shelf, Short, Short-term, Similar, Stability, Suggest, Terrigenous, Time, Warming, Was, Weathering.

Magnetostratigraphy and Rock Magnetism of Expedition 318 Sediments
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Lisa Tauxe($259,470), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ad´elie Basin, Free Access, Geomagnetic Field, Iodp Expedition, Odp Leg, Post-doctoral Scholar, Site U1357, Southern Ocean, Wilkes Land, Ad´elie, Age, Antarctic, Calibration, Climate, Conducting, Constraints, Cores, Courses, Critical, Derived, Drilled, Drilling, Education, Glacial, Has, History, Hole, Holocene, Magnetic, Margin, Models, Objectives, Obtain, Obtained, Online, Paleomagnetic, Paleosecular, Plays, Post-doctoral, Recovered, Resolution, SV, Scripps, Sedimentary, Sediments, Sequence, Shipboard, Time, Ultra, Was.

Collaborative Research: The Basalt-Hosted Biosphere at North Pond: A Subseafloor Mid-Atlantic Ridge-Flank Microbial
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Keir Becker($248,065), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Borehole Observatories, North Pond, Ocean Crust, Ridge Flank, Active, Alteration, Approach, Broader, Drilling, Establish, Establishment, Experimental, Experiments, IODP, Liaisons, Life, Long-term, Media, Microbes, Microbial, Mid, Nature, Observatory, Operations, Play, Processes, Products, ROV, Rock, Samplers, Sediment, Variety.

EAGER: Developing Multi-Hop Sensorbots for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Cody Youngbull($360,000), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Range And Coverage, Deep Ocean, Autonomous, Communication, Development, EAGER, Expected, Extend, Fluid, Funding, Hydrothermal, Multi-hop, Network, Optical, Properties, Sensorbot, Sensorbots, Underwater.

GEOSPAR: A portable platform for GPS-Acoustic measurements of seafloor motion
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. C. David Chadwell($688,118), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cascadia, Earthquakes, GPS-A, Knowledge, Portable, Tools.

MRI: Development of an Autonomously Deployed Deep-Ocean Seismic System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jeffrey M Babcock($1,046,484), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Monitoring And Characterizing, National And International, Ocean Bottom Observables, Characterizing Earthquakes, Earthquake Parameters, Generation Instrument, Global Seismographic, Nuclear Explosions, Significantly Increase, Tsunami Warning, Accuracy, Critical, Increasing, Means, Moment, Observations, Oceanic, Oceans, Seismic, Stations, Tsunamis, Variety.

BIOME-A Bio-Robotic Infrastructure for Oceanic Microbial Ecology
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Oscar Schofield($826,509), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: BIOME, Bacterial, Biological, Ecology, Has, K-, Mechanisms, Microbial, Ocean, Pis, Plan, Potential, Programs, Rutgers, Summer.

Collaborative Research: In Situ Measurement of Rates of Chemoautotrophic Carbon Production at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Fredrik T Thwaites($682,967), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Jeremy J Rich($154,649), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vents, Measuring Rates, Brown, Nitrate, Pis, Reduction, Situ, Vent-tssid, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Enhanced imaging flow cytometry for plankton studies via acoustic focusing and emulsion microfluidics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steven W Graves($246,846), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Heidi M Sosik($934,340), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Stored Cells, Analysis, Automated, Carried, Challenge, Ecosystem, Image, Instrument, Instruments, Knowledge, Laboratory, Microbial, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Pis, Primary, Sampling, Situ, Structure, Students, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Developing New Instrumentation to Accurately Measure Heat and Mass Flux of Hydrothermal Fluids
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Timothy J Crone($394,634), Columbia University, New York
2. Daniel J Fornari($380,369), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Camera, Crust, DEMS, DFV, Designed, Development, Diffuse, Fluid, Fluids, Fluxes, Focused, Heat, Hydrothermal, Measure, OPV, Potential, Rates, Subseafloor, Time, Velocities, Ventcam.

Collaborative Research: Development of a high-resolution real-time polarization image sensor for marine deployment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Viktor Gruev($374,080), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. George W Kattawar($272,823), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
3. Molly Cummings($550,326), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Instrument Package, Optical Field, Polarized Optical, Deployed, Educational, Imaging, Lead, Outreach, Pis, Underwater.

EAGER Collaborative Research: Optimizing RNA binding and detection for use in the Capillary Waveguide Biosensor ESP module for automated, in situ microbial process studies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Paul F Kemp($22,968), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Josephine Y Aller($129,819), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Complete, Microbial, Situ, Students, Training.

Collaborative Research: Development of Compact, Fast Waterproof Hyper-Spectral Imager & Multi-Channel SpectroPolarimeter for Marine Studies of Coloration and Patterning
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Hanumant Singh($173,353), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Chuan-Chin Chiao($763,954), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Light Fields, Animals, Aquatic, Aspects, Changing, Environments, HSI, Instrument, Instrumentation, Light-field, Pis, Scenes, Time, Visual.

MRI: Development of an instrument for quantitative characterization of size distribution of aquatic colloids
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Dariusz Stramski($472,463), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Aquatic Colloids, Size Distribution, ACAN, Assemblages, Broad, Climate, Colloidal, Ecosystems, Information, Instrument, Ocean, Particles, Polydisperse, Range, Students.

Long Term Salinity Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Raymond W Schmitt($716,441), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Drifter Program, Global Water Cycle, Long-term Salinity, Surface Salinity, Drifters, Has, Long-term, Ocean, Platforms, SSS, Sensor, Sensors, Stability, Useful.

Lagrangian observations of turbulence in breaking surface waves
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Miguel F Canals($227,010), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Individual Waves, Puerto Rico, Wave Breaking, Cavities, Coastal, Difficult, Drifters, Dynamics, Pressure, Structure, Students, Turbulence.

RAPID: Deploying VentCam as a Data Collection Base Station for the Axial Seamount SensorBot Array
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Timothy J Crone($36,724), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sensorbot Array, Demonstrate, Instrumentation, Seafloor, Ventcam, Versatility.

A Miniature Archival Tag for Long Range Fish Tracking in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Godi Fischer($237,402), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Signal Detection, Fish, Flounder, Funding, Migration.

EAGER: Development of a portable air-water flux system for methane
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Shari Yvon-Lewis($299,357), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Sea-air Flux, Atmospheric, Climate, Design, Instrument, Methane, Ocean, Pco, Sea-air, Water.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Sensor Array for In-situ Real-time Measurement of Deep Ocean and Hydrothermal Vent Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. George W Luther($159,876), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Samuel P Kounaves($254,789), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Broad Range, Chemical Species, Graduate Students, In-situ Real-time, Sensor Array, Summer Field, Ability, Andor, Classrooms, Delaware, Development, Disciplines, Dynamic, Enable, Enormous, Extreme, ISE, In-situ, Involved, Ionic, Mars, Monitor, Monitoring, Near, Ocean, Outreach, Processes, Real-time, Tool, Variety, Water, Waters.

MARS (Monterey Accelerated Research System) O&M (Operations and Maintenance)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steve Etchemendy($1,112,257), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Bed, Cabled, Has, MARS, MBARI.

Developing an Equilibrator Inlet Mass Spectrometer for Underway Measurements of a Suite of Noble Gases
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Rachel Stanley($399,860), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Gas Exchange Parameterizations, Air-sea Gas, Carbon Fluxes, Coastal Regions, Noble Gases, Undergraduate Students, Bubble, Designed, Ice, Instrument, Ocean, Processes, Quantify, Ship, Underway.

Third International Conference on Acoustic Communication By Animals
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Whitlow W Au($10,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Acoustic, Animal, Communication, Conference, Field, Information, Meeting.

SID/ISMS, An Autonomous Instrument for Combined In Situ Tracer Incubation Studies and Preservation of Microbial Samples for Genomic, Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Virginia P Edgcomb($522,324), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biogeochemical, Environment, Preservation, Rate, Sampling, Situ, Technology.

Collaborative Research: Autonomous alkalinity sensors: design improvements and in situ testing
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Michael DeGrandpre($111,664), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Reggie Spaulding($140,704), Sunburst Sensors, LLC, Missoula
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Total Alkalinity, Acidification, Autonomous, Available, Complete, Cruise, Development, Evaluation, Funding, Has, Measured, Ocean, Parameter, Parameters, Ph, Sami-alk, Sensor, Was.

National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Joan S Cleveland($5,123,310), Office of Naval Research, Arlington
Key terms: Biological, Chemical, Critical, Development, Ecology, Fluorescence, Health, Integrated, NOPP, Ocean, Principal, Provided, Sensor.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2011
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David C Fisichella($48,498), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. David S Goldberg($22,230), Columbia University, New York
3. Daryl L Swensen($39,300), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Purpose Global Vessel, Shared-use Instrumentation, Laboratory, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, RV, Request, Shared-use.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2010
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James R Postel($79,741), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Meteorological Sensor, Rv Thompson, Shared-use Instrumentation, Barnes, Nsf-funded, Purpose, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for RV Endeavor 2011
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Jeffrey E Callahan($25,160), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($31,391), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

2011 Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Ronald H Harelstad($59,266), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2011, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($32,674), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanograpic Instrumentation R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($17,475), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Review, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy W Deering($84,579), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Terry B Appelgate($165,714), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

2010 Oceanographic Instrumentation: Replacement of the 12 Khz Transducer for R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Ronald H Harelstad($33,460), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Khz Transducer, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, Nsf-funded, Replacement, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

Developing a Seafloor Sediment Multicorer With a Real-time Camera System for US Oceanographic Multidisciplinary Research
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daniel J Fornari($108,271), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Multicorer, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, UNOLS.

Oceanographic Instrumentation II - 2011
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David S Goldberg($476,837), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Capabilities, Langseth, Marine, Observatory, Operated, Opportunity, Request, Seismic, Vessel, World.

Collaborative Research: Optimizing Multibeam Data Acquisition Operations and Quality for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Vicki Ferrini($79,086), Columbia University, New York
2. Jonathan D Beaudoin($420,527), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Effort, Establish, MAC, Multibeam, NSF, Nsf-funded, Operation, Shared-use, Stakeholders, Technical, Vessel.

Operation SWAB: Monitoring of Ship, Van, and Laboratory 14C and 3H Contamination
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. James D Happell($896,644), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Swab Program, Contamination, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Ships.

Marine Technology Mentoring and Internship Program on Oceanographic Research Vessels
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Tami L Lunsford($308,087), Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
Key terms: Marine Technical Internship, Technical Internship Program, Marine Technicians, Mate Center, Students Enrolled, Undergraduate Students, At-sea, Experience, Gain, Has, Industries, Internships, Job, Ocean, Prepare, Programs, Qualified, Substantial, Technology, Time, Vessels, Workforce.

Potential Fields Pool Equipment Facility: A 5-Year Proposal to Support BGM-3 Gravity Data Acquisition Systems on UNOLS Vessels
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daniel J Fornari($1,044,071), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Gravity, Shared-use Instrumentation, Development, Effort, Expertise, Maintenance, Manual, Nsf-funded, Operation, PFPE, Practices, Program, Quality, Shared-use, UNOLS.

Collaborative Research: Tasmanian Tidal Dissipation Experiment (T-TIDE)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Nash($679,394), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Harper L Simmons($634,269), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Robert Pinkel($2,364,584), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissipation And Mixing, Continental Slopes, Low-mode Baroclinic, Tidal Dissipation, Assess, Australian, Barotropic, Breaking, Deep, Effort, Energy, Experiment, Geometry, Gliders, Internal, Low-mode, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Models, Moorings, Observations, Parameterizations, Plan, Processes, Scattering, Sea, T-TIDE, Tide, Tides, Wave.

RAPID: Fine- and Microstructure Observations in Conjunction with a GEOTRACES Section along 40 degrees S in the Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kurt L Polzin($199,967), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fine And Microstructure, Geotraces A10 Section, Isopycnal Stirring Rates, Mixing And Isopycnal, Diapycnal Mixing, Published Scalings, Radiation Balance, Assist, Based, Budgets, Circulation, Climate, Compared, Direct, Estimates, Fine-, Geostrophic, Internal, Regional, Turbulent, Uncertainty, Versus, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Submarine Melting of Greenland's Glaciers: What are the relevant ocean dynamics?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick Heimbach($349,763), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Thomas Haine($293,159), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Claudia Cenedese($996,434), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ice Sheetocean Interactions, Ship-based And Moored, Submarine Melt Rate, Submarine Melt Rates, Fjord Circulations, Fjordshelf Exchange, Glaciers Termini, Mass Balance, Presently Absent, Sea-level Rise, Submarine Melting, Acceleration, Climate, Complementary, Contribute, Disciplines, Dynamics, Experts, Exposed, Future, Greenland, Greenlands, Has, Involves, Mechanisms, Models, Multidisciplinary, Ocean, Oceanic, Origin, Parameterized, Predictions, Processes, Properties, Sea-level, Shelf, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Remote Sensing Using Ambient Noise
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Oleg A Godin($335,928), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Michael G Brown($493,960), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ocean Remote Sensing, Noise Interferometry, Acoustic, Active, Ambient, Applications, Demonstrate, GA, Has, Practical, Simulations, Sound, Sources, Utility.

Turbulent Exchanges, Energetics and Transports in Buoyant Gravity Currents
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Nash($391,443), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Columbia River Plume, Laboratory And Numerical, Coastal Waters, Gravity Current, Internal Wave, Shear Flow, Wave Release, Assess, Dissipates, Energy, Exchange, Experiments, Front, Fronts, Head, Mass, Mixing, Objective, Outlined, Structure, Surface, Transport, Turbulence, Velocity, Via, Waves, White.

Collaborative Research: Downstream Impacts of the South Pacific Tropical Water
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rana A Fine($397,826), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Tangdong Qu($439,893), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Circulation And Thermal, Downstream Impacts, Equatorial Pacific, High-resolution Gcms, Simulated Passive, South Pacific, Thermal Structure, Adjoint, Analysis, Argo, Assess, Available, Climate, Contributes, ENSO, Eastern, Education, Enhance, High-resolution, Interannual, Observations, Ocean, Particular, Prediction, SPTW, Salinity, Time, Tracer, Tropical, Water.

Collaborative Res: Physics of lutoclines and laminarization extracted from turbulence-resolved numerical investigations on sediment transport in wave-current bottom boundary layer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu($243,061), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Sivaramakrishna Balachandar($266,672), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Fine Sediment, Flow Regimes, Fluid Mud, Gravity Flow, Mud Layer, Sediment Transport, Wave Boundary, Wave Reynolds, Wave-supported Gravity, Added, Bed, Challenges, Complete, Continent, Critical, Current, Dissipation, Existence, Experiment, Field, Formation, Laboratory, Laminarization, Lutocline, Microstratigraphy, Model, Mud-dominant, Nature, Near, Numerical, Observed, Polydispersed, Processes, Reveal, Rheology, Seabed, Sediments, Settling, Shelf, Simulations, Surface, Turbulence, Undergraduate, Wave-induced, Wave-supported, Well-mixed.

Assessing the importance of deep ocean topographic scattering of low mode internal tides
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas Peacock($235,588), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Deep Ocean Topographic, Internal Tide Scattering, Low Mode Internal, Mode Internal Tide, Ocean Topographic Scattering, Infinitesimal Topography, Internal Tides, Laboratory Experiments, Analytical, EXITS, Efficiency, Experimental, Field, Has, Hawaii, Indicates, Integrated, Mechanics, Method, Numerical, Program, Theoretical, Undergraduate, Validated.

Collaborative Research: Microstructure and Mixing Measurements During SPURS
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Louis C St Laurent($1,925,975), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Salinity Maximum Region, Freshwater Exchange, Model Simulations, Overall Spurs, Sub Grid-scale, Surface Salinity, Upper Ocean, Upper-ocean Salinity, Water Cycle, Atmosphere, Field, Fluxes, Focus, Global, Grid-scale, Has, Microstructure, Mixing, Modeling, Models, Parameterizations, Processes, Program, Quantify, Students, Upper-ocean, Zephyr.

Collaborative Research: Next-generation Global Altimetric Maps of Internal Tide Energy Flux and Dissipation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Harper L Simmons($206,055), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Flux And Dissipation, Internal Tide Energy, Low-mode Internal Tide, Altimetric Estimates, Circulation Models, Energy Flux, Internal Tides, Low-mode Internal, Spatial Resolution, Tp-jason Tandem, Altimetry, Geography, Global, Globe, High-resolution, Incoherent, Maps, Mixing, Non-uniform, Numerical, Ocean, Pacific, Pis, Program, Realistic, Satellite, Students, Task, Techniques, Tp-jason, Washington.

Experimental Study of Two-Phase Suspended Sediment Transport in Breaking Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Francis C Ting($406,463), South Dakota State University, Brookings
Key terms: Suspended Sediment Transport, Breaking Waves, Erodible Bed, Experimental Investigation, Flow Volume, Fluid Mechanics, Fluid Velocities, Fluid Velocity, Sediment Particle, Sediment Particles, Surf Zone, Two-phase Flow, Allow, Bottom, Build, Concerns, Conditions, Development, Distribution, Eddies, Effect, Experiments, Flume, Generation, Graduate, Impingement, Instantaneous, Interaction, Mechanisms, Models, Process, Structure, Students, Three-component, Three-dimensional, Turbulence, Two-phase, Undergraduate, VV, Volumetric.

The Origins of the Internal Wave Continuum: Wavenumber -frequency spectral diagnostics of forcing and energy transfer from new profiling platforms
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James B Girton($448,313), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Background Energy, Continuum Level, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Near-inertial Peak, ADCP, Circulation, Datasets, Development, Examination, Exchange, Forcing, Global, Graduate, Information, MP, Mixing, Moored, Ninertial, Ocean, Parameterizations, Profiler, Spectra, Spectral, Wavenumberfrequency.

DIMES Finestructure Profiling Floats: Enhancement and analysis of shear measurements in the Southeast Pacific, Drake Passage and Scotia Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James B Girton($743,298), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Internal Wave Field, Density Profiles, Drake Passage, Internal Waves, Near-inertial Waves, Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, Circulation, DIMES, EM-APEX, Extend, Has, Large-scale, Mesoscale, Mixing, Models, Ninertial, Pacific, Parameterizations, Processes, Profiling, Shear, Student, Velocity.

DYNamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation / Analysis of subsurface fluxes with coupled large-eddy simulation models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D Skyllingstad($595,739), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Formation And Evolution, Ocean Mixed Layer, Atmospheric Convection, Indian Ocean, Mjo Formation, Tropical Indian, DYNAMO, Effort, Experiments, Fluxes, Heat, Model, Oceanic, Processes, Program.

Variability of the Equatorial undercurrent in the eastern tropical Atlantic: Analysis of the 2007-2011 TACE-EUC Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William E Johns($470,988), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Eastern Equatorial Atlantic, Tropical Atlantic Region, ADCP, Analysis, Basin, Climate, Cold, Collected, Contribute, Current, EUC, French, Has, International, Main, Maintained, Moored, Observations, Ocean, Oceans, Pacific, Poorly, Program, SST, TACE, Waters, Zones.

Dynamics of frontal meandering and related exchange processes at the shelfbreak south of New England
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Glen G Gawarkiewicz($590,249), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bottom Boundary Layer, Frontal Meandering South, Historical And Forthcoming, Shelf Break Front, Shelf-break Frontal Meandering, Winds And Warm-core, Cross-frontal Exchange, Numerical Simulations, Shelf-break Frontal, Warm-core Rings, Analysis, Characteristics, Cross-frontal, Cross-shelf, Dynamics, Effects, England, Has, Investigate, Meanders, Observations, Region, Subject.

Predicting the outcome of inertial instability in ocean currents and eddies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George F Carnevale($427,910), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Angular Momentum, Inertial Instability, Ocean Models, Unstable Barotropic, Climate, Currents, Effects, Energy, Flow, Instabilities, Method, Plays, Predict, Process, Rules, Turbulent, Velocity, Vortex, Vortices, Vorticity.

Coastal Ocean Reynolds Stresses: Using New Methods with Long-Term Observations to Investigate Exchange and Evaluate Model Closures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anthony Kirincich($178,045), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Across-shelf Exchange, Coastal Ocean, Inner Shelf, Reynolds Stress, Stress Profiles, Velocity Profiles, Vertical Structure, Across-shelf, Allowing, Analysis, Available, Circulation, Closure, Control, Dataset, Dynamics, Estimates, Forcing, Interact, Long-term, Methods, Model, Models, Momentum, Numerical, Observations, Predictions, Primary, Processes, Product, Stresses, Surface, Turbulence, Turbulent, Water, Wind, Winds.

Collaborative Research: The Norrona Project: An international collaboration for sustained studies of the Meridional Overturning Circulation between Denmark, The Faroes and Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles N Flagg($515,354), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. H. Thomas Rossby($600,443), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Faroe-shetland Channel, Horizontal Resolution, Nordic Seas, Vortex Generators, Wide Range, ADCP, Adcps, Bubble, Bubbles, Climate, Current, Currents, Directly, Faroe-shetland, Ferry, Flow, Fluxes, Forcing, Has, Inflows, Knowledge, Lead, Norröna, Northern, Ocean, Performance, Ridge, South, Substantial, Thanks, Time, Warm, Was, Water, XBT.

Collaborative Research: The Japan March 11 Earthquake, Tsunami Inundation, and Initial Spread of Fukushima Dai-ichi Radionuclides into the Pacific Ocean: Model Assessment
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Changsheng Chen($80,012), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Robert C Beardsley($88,260), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coastal Inundation, Concentration Levels, Ocean Circulation, Advanced, Approach, Comprehensive, Cs-, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Initial, M=, March, Model, Models, Potential, Processes, Radionuclides, Resulting, Spread, Tsunami, Water, Website.

2011 Coastal Ocean Modeling Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nancy R Gray($17,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Modeling, Conference, Conferences, Federal, Gordon, Held, Participants, People.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Wind in Estuarine Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Malcolm E Scully($366,219), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Carl T Friedrichs($193,820), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. William C Boicourt($1,440,217), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Observation And Analysis, Chesapeake Bay, Density Structure, Estuarine Circulation, Forces Acting, Ability, Array, Description, Designed, Detail, Driving, Efforts, Estuaries, Estuary, Fisheries, Flow, Has, Intensive, Involve, Mixing, Nutrients, Oxygen, Program, Programs, Sags, Separate, Stress, Waters, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Surfzone Eddies
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller($395,826), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Stephen M Henderson($431,782), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Currents And Eddies, Surfzone Mean Currents, Direct Forcing, Endanger Swimmers, Mix Pollutants, Numerical Simulations, Relative Importance, Shear Generated, Surfzone Eddies, Across-shore, Adcps, Alongshore, Array, Available, Breaking, Constituting, De-correlation, Depth-resolving, Eddy, Field, Mixing, Model, Modeling, Nearshore, Observations, Organisms, Partner, Phasing, Program, Students, Synoptic, Three-dimensional, Transport, Vertical, Washington, Wave.

An Analysis of SSH Ridges and SST Frontal Bands in Mid-Latitude Oceans
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lewis M Rothstein($235,428), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Front Probability, Frontal Probability, Sea Surface, Anomalies, Bands, Basins, Bathymetry, Climate, Dynamics, Eddy, Features, Fields, Global, Maintenance, Mean, Meridional, Ocean, Origin, Persistence, Persistent, Processes, Ridges, SSH, SST, Structures, Time, Variety, Zonal.

Analysis of Field Measurements of Viscous Damping of Ocean Surface Waves by Fluid Mud
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter A Traykovski($564,497), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Positive Feedback Mechanisms, Mode Waves, Mud Layer, Mud Layers, Numerical Modeling, Rheological Characteristics, Surface Waves, Wave Energy, Wave Modes, Analysis, Array, Attenuation, Backscatter, Concentration, Deposition, Depth, Directly, Dissipation, Dynamics, Examine, Flow, Forcing, Increase, Increased, Increases, Isobath, Measured, Muddy, Observations, Potential, Processes, Responsible, Sediment, Shallow, Similar, Theory, Thickness, Turbulent, Velocity, Viscous, Water.

Idealized simulations of turbulence advected by surface waves: Implications for interpreting turbulence measurements in shallow water
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Johanna H Rosman($184,988), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Orbital Velocities Exceed, Velocities Exceed Currents, Wave Orbital Velocities, Advected Past, Beneath Waves, Existing Laboratory, Fixed Sensors, Frequency Spectra, Idealized Simulations, Inner Shelf, Shallow Water, Spectral Fitting, Surface Waves, Turbulence Parameters, Advection, Available, Conditions, Context, Developed, Difficult, Eddies, Energy, Environments, Estimate, Fluxes, Interpret, Literature, Methods, Space, Turbulent, Uncertainties, Website.

RAPID: Collaborative research: HF Radar surface current measurements in support of constraining shelf edge exchange in the SAB under wind, tidal and Gulf stream influence.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George Voulgaris($111,273), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Dana K Savidge($38,743), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: South Atlantic Bight, Coastal Ocean, Georgia Shelf, Gulf Stream, Hf Radar, Shelf Edge, South Carolina, Surface Current, Alongshelf, Available, Bay, Biological, Cape, Carbon, Collaboration, Collection, Contribute, Deployment, Eddies, Existing, Frequency, Glider, Global, Nelson, Nitrate, Obtaining, Operation, Phytoplankton, Processes, RAPID, Radars, Recently, Region, Regions, Resolution, Satellite, Shelf-edge, Ship, Sources, Spatial, Suitable, Temporal, Time, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Tracer Age-Based Estimates of Carbon Export and Ventilation Variability in the Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alison M Macdonald($68,258), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Sabine Mecking($561,782), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Indian Ocean Circulation, Three-dimensional Indian Ocean, Transit Time Distributions, Carbon Export, Surface Ocean, Three-dimensional Indian, Time Scales, Tracer Adjoint, Ventilation Ages, Analyses, Analysis, Approach, Biogeochemistry, Climate, Comprehensive, Contribute, Decadal, Estimates, Investigate, Involved, Mean, Model, Offline, Program, Rates, SAM, Subsurface, Tracers, °S.

Coherent Structures, Vortices and Waves in Jets and Instabilities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John P Boyd($497,758), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ocean And Atmosphere, Coherent Structures, Applicability, Critical, Grid, Mean, Methods, Nonlinear, Numerical, Physics-based, Resonances, Rossby, Solutions, Spectral, TIV, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Causes and Effects of Shelf-Edge Internal Tide Variability
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ying-Tsong Lin($764,992), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Pierre F Lermusiaux($607,248), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Generation And Propagation, Internal Tide Generation, Nonlinear Internal Waves, Internal Tides, Life Cycles, Primitive Equation, Real Ocean, Via Comparison, Conditions, Conversion, Distributions, Fish, Flow, Four-dimensional, Interactions, MSEAS, Mixing, Model, Modeling, Non-hydrostatic, Numerical, Nutrients, Plankton, Processes, Range, Speed, Stratification, Strong, Variable, Water.

Tidal Mixing Fronts: Stability and Cross-frontal Transport in the Presence of Tides, Topography and Bottom Stress
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth H Brink($552,902), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cross-frontal Eddy Fluxes, Mixing Frontal Stability, Quantified And Parameterized, Tidal Mixing Frontal, Tidal Mixing Fronts, Bottom Friction, Cross-frontal Eddy, Finite-amplitude Stability, Intellectual Merit, Linear Stability, Simulation Models, Sloping Bottom, Stability Models, Tidal Advection, Biological, Finite-amplitude, Forced, Heat, Mechanisms, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Realistic, Requires, Stage, Stratified, Third, Transport, Treat, Turbulence, Waters.

Variability of the California Current System Derived from 4D-Var Circulation Estimates
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jerome Fiechter($840,416), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, California Current, Decadal Timescales, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Model, Ocean Surface, Regional Ocean, Surface Forcing, West Coast, Analyses, Applications, Aspect, Assessment, Assimilation, Available, CCS, Climate, D-var, Development, Dominant, Error, Errors, Estimates, Fields, Grid, Individual, Lead, Models, Modes, Observation, Observations, Observing, Oscillation, Pacific, ROMS, Resolution, Resource, Resulting, Retrospective, Source, Upwelling, Wind-stress.

Zonation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William R Young($526,196), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Momentum Fluxes, Potential Vorticity, Reynolds Stresses, Zonal Flows, Zonal Jets, Dynamics, Eddy, Heat, Implications, Instability, Negative, Oceanography, Physics, Quantitatively, Transport, Turbulence, Turbulent, Viscosity.

Improved Observation, Analysis and Modeling of Fine Sediment Dynamics in Turbid, Biologically Active Coastal Environments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marjorie A Friedrichs($644,025), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Near-bed Flow Andor, Particle Packaging Affect, Bed Erodibility, Eroded Mass, Fine Sediment, Near-bed Flow, Sediment Transport, Active, Analysis, Assimilation, Biologically, Bound, Circulation, Coastal, Continual, Depends, Deposition, Distinct, Distribution, Divergent, Dominant, Dynamics, Ecology, Erosion, Flocs, Graduate, Has, Ii, Iii, Increased, Modeling, Nbed, Numerical, Observations, Pellets, Pis, Public, Settling, Size, Stress, Suspended, Turbid, Turbulence, VIMS, Velocity.

Linking topographic internal wave radiation to near-field processes, dissipation and mixing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kraig Winters($974,366), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissipation And Mixing, Wave Radiation, Dynamics, Energy, Environmental, Features, Field, Flow, Flows, Internal, Isolated, Linking, Local, Nfield, Numerical, Objective, Oceanography, Phenomena, Regime, Simulations, Topography.

Bubble Creation Rates From Breaking Wave Noise
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Grant B Deane($631,411), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bubble Creation Rates, Existing Wave Noise, Individual Spilling Breakers, Strong Wind Speeds, Wave Noise Model, Air-sea, Breaking, Bubble-mediated, Channel, Climate, Experiment, Field, Laboratory, Marine, Measured, Method, Moderate, Ocean, Primary, Processes, Simultaneous, Transfer, Wind-driven.

DYNAmics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation / DYNAMO Subsurface Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James N Moum($1,541,016), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Dynamo Subsurface Flux, Simulation And Prediction, Subsurface Flux Program, Air-sea Interaction, Indian Ocean, Mjo Initiation, Numerical Models, Tropical Climate, Upper Ocean, Air-sea, Assessment, Field, Heat, Instrumentation, Integrated, Layer, Measured, Observations, Processes, Representations, Surface, Turbulence.

Modeling of Internal Tides in Interaction with Sub-inertial Wind-Forced Flows in the Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander L Kurapov($73,396), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Internal Tide, Internal Tides, Ocean Modeling, Oregon Shelf, Analysis, Assimilation, Broad, Density, Flows, Frequency, Observational, Programs, Quantitative, Technologies, Transport, Upwelling, Wind, Wind-forced.

Collaborative Research: Transport, Internal Waves and Mixing in the Samoan Passage
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jody Klymak($2,651,635), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Glenn Carter($554,194), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hydraulic Control, Internal Wave, Mooring Array, Overturning Circulation, Samoan Passage, Abyssal, Configuration, Cruises, Detailed, Flow, Influence, Mixing, Modeling, Models, Monitoring, Northward, Observations, Pacific, Processes, Strong, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Mode Water Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in the Meridional Overturning Circulation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kathleen Dohan($245,912), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Basin Mode Water, Greenland Sea Water, Lofoten Basin Mode, Mode Water Formation, Nordic Seas Transformation, Salty Atlantic Waters, Seas Transformation Pathway, Surface Buoyancy Loss, Labrador Sea, AMOC, Branch, Central, Collaboration, Convective, Deep, Direct, Diverse, Dynamics, Has, Importance, Inflow, Intermediate, International, Limited, Pathways, Process, Product, Regions, Warm.

Fundamentals of the Oceanic Eddy Backscatter
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Irina Rypina($741,698), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Circulation Models, Eddy, Effects, Ocean, Particular, Stochastic, Turbulence.

2011 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. David S Goldberg($990,000), Columbia University, New York
2. Demian A Bailey($13,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Columbia, Items, LANGSETH, Lamont-doherty, Observatory, Vessel.

RAPID: Training Chief Scientists for the Ocean Research of Tomorrow
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Clare E Reimers($99,971), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Acquire, Oceanographic.

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

1. Michael Richter($2,980,829), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Rv Savannah, Activities, At-sea, Atlantic, Class, Coastal, Diversity, Environments, Examine, Experience, Has, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Operations, Opportunities, Primary, Programs, Public, Sea, Ship, Students, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment - Pelican 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Daniel C Guidry($46,000), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Louisiana Universities Marine, Universities Marine Consortium, Rv Pelican, Item, LUMCON.

2011 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Ronald H Harelstad($221,200), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Rv Atlantic Explorer, Bermuda Institute, Items, Ocean.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. William S Wilcock($70,743), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Albert F Suchy($32,800), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Richard Kniffin($31,448), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Thompson And Barnes, Intellectual Merit, Broader, Items, RV, Vessels, Washington.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Pt. Sur 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($205,000), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Landing Marine Labs, Moss Landing Marine, San Jose, Coastal, Items, Program, RV, SUR, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment/RV Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Bruce H Corliss($297,400), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, Intellectual Merit, Broader, Duke, Items, Nsf-funded, Operations, Routinely, School, Students, Undergraduate, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. William Byam($115,613), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Terry B Appelgate($80,166), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Rv Hugh, Broader, Coast, Delaware, Items, SHARP.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2011, R/V Blue Heron
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($7,995), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Item, Minnesota.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Oceanographic Cable
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard P Trask($4,025,706), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Vessel Fleet, Wire Pool, Wire Ropes, Academic, Cables.

ALVIN Handling System Modifications on R/V Atlantis
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Albert F Suchy($1,820,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole Vessels, ALVIN, ATLANTIS, Item, RHOV, Replacement.

UNOLS Van Pool, 2009-2011
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Demian A Bailey($381,570), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Coast Van Pool, Delaware, Facilities, National, Operated, Oregon, Pools, Vans.

Understanding microbial manganese-oxidizing communities and physiological mechanisms in metal oxide-rich hydrothermal sediments using a metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Systems and Synthetic Biology

1. Bradley M Tebo($799,339), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Mn Oxidizers Exist, Thermophilic Mn Oxidizers, Microbial Mats, Mn Oxidation, Mn Oxides, Analysis, Approaches, Automixotrophy, Bacteria, Carbon, Contribute, Cycles, Education, Fe, Ferromanganese, Ferruginous, Fixation, Genomic, Hydrothermal, Mechanisms, Mnii, Organisms, Particles, Program, School, Sediments, Sources, Training.

REU Site: Research Internships in Ocean Sciences (RIOS)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: nan

1. Kenneth W Able($410,080), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Marine Field Station, Bay, Coastal, Ecosystems, Focus, Funding, Mullica, NSF, Ocean, Orientation, Poster, Program, REU, Rutgers, Site, Student, Students, Summer, Technologies, Week, Write.

Ship Operations Award 2008 - R/V Marcus Langseth
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: nan

1. David S Goldberg($31,182,389), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sound Source Arrays, Cooperative Agreement, Intellectual Merit, Multichannel Seismic, Acquisition, Converted, Cruises, Earthquakes, Field, Geophysical, Late, Linear, Marine, NSF, Programs, Resolution, Sea, Ship, Vessel, Was.

Ship Operations, R/V Wecoma
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Demian A Bailey($14,662,871), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Hatfield Marine, Van Pool, Atmospheric, Days, Graduate, Has, NOAA, NSF, OSU, Oceanic, Oceanographic, Opportunities, Oregon, Osus, Programs, Schedule, Sea, Ship, Students, Variety, Vessel, WECOMA.

Ship Operations: R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Lillian Govoni($7,480,972), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Cape Hatteras, Cooperative Agreement, Carteret, Days, East, Graduate, Marine, NSF, Oceans, Platform, Programs, School, Ship, Tours, Undergraduate.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2011

Renovation of Research Laboratories in the College of Marine Science-MSL Building Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTU

OCEANOGRAPHY Volume 24, No. 3: Arctic Oceanography Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Role of Mesoscale Eddies in Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Application of the Isotopes of Carbon Monoxide as Tracers of Current OH Trends and Preindustrial CO Chemistry Award Effective Date: 09/15/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease Workshop Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

Collaborative Research: Ecology of microbial mats at seamount associated Fe-rich hydrothermal vent systems Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Nitrate Assimilation and the Ecology of Prochlorococcus: Features and Implications of Intraspecific Diversity in a Model Marine Phototroph Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantifying the importance of biological factors in the estimation of larval connectivity and population dynamics in the coastal ocean. Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Characterizing biological function across a persistent oceanographic "hotspot" in the NE Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Functional Diversity of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton and Their Contributions to the C and N Cycling Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Environmental Variability, Functional Redundancy, and the Maintenance of Ecological Processes: Experiments in a Model Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: the influence of predators on community structure and resultant ecosystem functioning at a biogeographic scale Award Effective Date: 10/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Autotrophic carbon fixation at a shallow-water hydrothermal system: Constraining microbial activity, isotopic and geochemical regimes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Identification of Diagnostic Markers of Diapause Preparation in the Copepod Calanus Finmarchicus Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Feeding by the ciliated larvae of marine invertebrates: effects of diverse particle capture mechanisms on feeding performance Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Waterborne chemical cues in the plankton: a systems biology approach Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Exploratory application of single-molecule real time (SMRT) DNA sequencing in microbial ecology research Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Controls on Hadal Megafaunal Community Structure: a Systematic Examination of Pressure, Food Supply, and Topography Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Microbial associations in zooplankton: significance for the marine nitrogen cycle Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Chemical Defenses in a Toxic Dinoflagellate: Mechanisms and Constraints Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Cascading interactions of herbivore loss and nutrient enrichment on coral reef macroalgae, corals, and microbial dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Will rising pCO2 levels in the ocean affect growth and survival of marine fish early life stages? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Diversity and dynamics of planktonic ciliates - what can next-generation sequencing technologies tell us? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Linking Propulsive Morphology, Swimming Behavior and Sensory Perception by Marine Planktonic Protists to their Trophic Roles within Marine Food Webs Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Quantifying larval behavior to reconcile genetic connectivity with biophysical model predictions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Interactions of bacteria, viruses and bloom-forming diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

History and future of coastal upwelling modes and biological responses in the California Current Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Habitat fragmentation as a process: how habitat context influences the effects of eelgrass loss on epifaunal community structure Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Reproductive and Geographic Evidence for Source-Sink Dynamics in Deep-Sea Benthic Communities Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Evolution of Deep Sea Molluscs II Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate Change and Biogeography: Effects of Extreme Events Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: CAMEO: Using interdecadal comparisons to understand trade-offs between abundance and condition in fishery ecosystems Award Effective Date: 08/22/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Gene expression patterns in high C02-adapted Trichodesmium Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI Collaborative Research: Spatial Realism in the Mussel Bed Disturbance Paradigm Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID collaborative research: Historic freshwater input and hypoxia effects on zooplankton populations of the northern Gulf of Mexico Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Modeling Infectious Diseases: How Much Ecological Complexity Must We Address? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Modeling the Effects of Heterogeneity in Water Quality on Cholera Disease Dynamics Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Cascading effects of an invasive seaweed on estuarine food webs of the southeastern US Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Cell to cell communication in marine phytoplankton: population density dependent control of cellular processes Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Harnessing the Power of Short-read Technology to Investigate Unexplored Microbial Communities in the Deep Euphotic Zone Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Microbial Transformations in Basement Fluids, from Genes to Geochemical Cycling Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Scientific Advances and Accomplishments of the US GLOBEC Program - A Meeting of Experts Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Identification of Genes Associated with Resistance to Epizootic Disease in a Marine Invertebrate Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Relative Influence of Turbulence and Waves on Larval Behavior Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Effects of Marine Algal Sterols on Zooplankton Growth and Reproduction Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The role of calcifying algae as a determinant of rocky intertidal macrophyte community structure at a meta-ecosystem scale Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Predator Diversity on the Strength of Trophic Cascades in an Oceanic Benthic Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Impact of Climate Warming and Ocean Carbonation on Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Turbulence and Suspension Feeding - a New Approach using the Lobate Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Lipid lubrication of oceanic carbon and sulfur biogeochemistry via a host-virus chemical arms race Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Grazing and Iron Controls of Diatom Blooms in the Arabian Sea Award Effective Date: 12/13/2010; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COSEE Island Earth Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Moving Beyond the Basics An Ocean Science Lecture Series to Increase Ocean Literacy Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Great Lakes COSEE Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

Quantifying Thermal and Chemical Conditions within Active Seafloor Vent Deposits Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CI REUSE

Type 2: A CRI-EaSM Collaborative proposal: Climate-to-humans: A study of urbanized coastal environments, their economics and vulnerability to climate change Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research Type 2 - MOBY: Modeling Ocean Variability and Biogeochemical Cycles Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Type 1 - The Dynamic Watershed and Coastal Ocean: Predicting Their Biogeochemical Linkages and Variability over Decadal Time Scales Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Type I - Collaborative Research: Topographic Control of the Gulf Stream Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

RCN-SEES: Sustainability of Marine Renewable Resources in Subarctic Systems Under Incumbent Environmental Variability and Human Exploitation Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of US GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: The role of soluble Mn(III) in the biogeochemical coupling of the Mn, Fe and sulfur cycles Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

EAGER: The relationship between microbial biogeography and ocean chemistry across a persistent oceanographic "hot spot" in the NE Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Role of Picocyanobacteria in the Marine Silicate Cycle Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Modeling coastal oxygen production and carbon sequestration Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Iron Regulation of the Food Quality of Phytoplankton In Acidified Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

The Use of Nitrogen Isotopes of Amino Acids To Understand Marine Sedimentary 15N Records Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Testing model estimates of recent ocean carbon uptake and deoxygenation using atmospheric and oceanic data Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Support for the U. S. GEOTRACES Project Office Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Synthesis and Modeling of Harmful Algal Blooms and Coastal Microbes Along the Gulf of Mexico U.S. States Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: An Inverse and Forward Global Modeling Synthesis of Noble Gases to Better Quantify Biogeochemical Cycles Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Physical Control of Carbon Export in the Subarctic Pacific Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Application of Transcriptomics to Understanding Mechanisms of Stress Response and Toxin Production in Microbes in Tropical Marine Waters Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Microbial influences on Alexandrium populations Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Using Transcriptomics to Understand Mechanisms of Stress Response and Toxin Production in Pathogenic and Toxigenic Microbes in Tropical Marine Waters Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Oceans and Human Health: Gene-Environment Interactions in the Pacific Northwest Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Interwoven biogeochemical cycles and biological transformations of mercury and selenium in the upper ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Biological controls on reactive oxygen species in the oligotrophic ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative research: Constraining the global ocean nitrogen cycle with multiple tracers in a biogeochemical inverse model Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Chemical Oceanography