Collaborative Research: Using ocean data assimilation to explore Arctic/subarctic climate variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Gennady Chepurin($648,602), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Michael Steele($109,250), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Latitude Ocean, Nordic Seas, Ocean Reanalyses, Ocean Reanalysis, Overlying Atmosphere, Arctic, Assimilation, Atlantic, Climate, Explore, Historical, Meteorological, Meteorology, Models, Oceanic, Particular, Past, Processes, SODA, Salinity, Sparse, Substantial, Surface, Task.

Seeking Hidden Glaciations of the Greenhouse World
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Howard Scher($285,021), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Antarctic Glaciation, Glacial Weathering, Sediment Cores, Ago, Climate, Eocene, Evidence, IODP, Isotopic, Million, Nd, Ocean, Period, Produced, Sr.

Studies of Turbulence and Mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, a Continuation of DIMES
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Louis C St Laurent($3,224,357), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Scotia Ridge, Velocity And Turbulence, Carbon Dioxide, Drake Passage, Graduate Students, Rough Topography, Scotia Sea, Turbulence Levels, ACC, Antarctic, Circulation, Climate, Continent, Continue, Cruise, Cruises, Current, DIMES, Density, Diapycnal, East, Enhanced, Floats, Front, Heat, Larger, Late, Led, Mixing, Ocean, Processes, Program, Ridges, Sampling, South, Tracer, Transport, UK, West.

EAGER: Blood Parasite Infections in Fishes and Their Transmission by Gnathiid Isopods on Caribbean Coral Reefs.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Paul C Sikkel($327,568), Arkansas State University Main Campus, Jonesboro
Key terms: Coral Reefs, Fish Hosts, Gnathiid Isopods, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Animal, Benthic, Biologists, Caribbean, Contribute, Diseases, Ecology, Environmental, Has, Historically, Local, Organisms, Parasites, Protozoan, Structure, Terrestrial, Transmit, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Are coral diseases contagious?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Robert van Woesik($256,888), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Coral Disease, Coral Diseases, Coral Reef, Thermal Stress, Approach, Caribbean, Colony, Ecology, Incorporate, Infectious, Pathogens, Prevalence, Principal, Spatial, Transmissible.

EAGER: Developing a model for transmission of an infectious disease of marine sponges
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Marilyn Brandt($299,997), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Coral Reef, Disease Transmission, Transmission Dynamics, Transmission Model, ARBS, Affecting, Aplysina, Approach, Biodiversity, Caribbean, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystems, Enhance, Environment, Focused, Knowledge, Marine, Models, Potential, Processes, Reefs, Requires, Sponge, Sponges, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Use of ecogenomics and metabolomics to investigate the evolution of pathogenicity
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

1. Patrick M Gillevet($299,191), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Metabolomics And Metagenetics, Evolutionary Context, Genetic Potential, Organic Carbon, AMLC, Awarding, BBD, Based, Coral, Degrees, Environment, Extreme, Has, Identical, Mats, Meetings, Metabolites, Microbial, Minority, Pathogenic, Photoautotrophic, Populations, Powers, Structure, Students, Sulfide, Training, Underlying, Underrepresented.

An Integrative Investigation of Population Connectivity Using a Coral Reef Fish
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter Buston($1,439,322), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Belizean Barrier Reef, Coupled Biophysical Models, Allele Frequencies, Genetic Methods, Larval Behavior, Larval Dispersal, Parentage Analyses, Population Connectivity, Consequences, Developed, Development, Ecology, Facilitating, Factors, Has, Lori, Marine, Modeling, Pis, Predict, Range, Recruits, Spatial, Water.

EAGER: New molecular methods for studying copepod nauplii in the field
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Petra H Lenz($298,507), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Complete, Emphasis, Field, Food, Graduate, Nauplii, Public, Students, Studying, Training, Under-represented, Undergraduate, Web.

The Chemical Ecology of Marine Sediment Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul R Jensen($708,445), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Bacterial Secondary Metabolites, Diversity And Distributions, Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Invertebrate Feeding Deterrents, Microbial Secondary Metabolites, Salinispora Secondary Metabolites, Biological Activities, Ecological Functions, Marine Biome, Marine Sediments, Recently Developed, Additionally, Affect, Assay, Broadly, Chemical, Co-occurring, Composition, Compounds, Defenses, Ecology, Effects, Employing, Existing, Experiments, Highly, Insight, NIH, Natural, Potential, Program, Situ, Specific, Tested, Time.

Testing the Invasion Process: Survival, Dispersal, Genetic Characterization, and Attenuation of Marine Biota on the 2011 Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Field
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gregory Ruiz($36,969), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Debris Field, Arriving, Assessment, Floating, Genes, Information, Invasions, Marine, Pis, Potential, Species.

Collaborative Proposal:Testing the Invasion Process: Survival, Dispersal, Genetic Characterization, and Attenuation of Marine Biota on the 2011 Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Field
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Carlton($29,113), Williams College, Williamstown
2. Jessica A Miller($89,153), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Jonathan B Geller($42,888), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Debris Field, Arriving, Assessment, Floating, Genes, Information, Invasions, Marine, Pis, Potential, Species.

LTER: Georgia Coastal Ecosystems-III
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Merryl L Alber($6,243,180), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Merryl L Alber($5,950,180), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Biotic And Ecosystem, Salinity And Inundation, Sea Level Rise, Adjacent Uplands, Boundary Conditions, Coastal Ecosystems, Freshbrackish Marsh, Gce Domain, Georgia Coastal, Habitat Provisioning, Human Activities, River Inflow, Schoolyard Program, Spartina Marsh, Water Delivery, Accomplish, Accomplished, Affected, Climate, Describe, Designed, Dominant, Driven, Drivers, Field, Habitats, Information, Input, Interdisciplinary, LTER, Landscape, Long-term, Modeling, Monitoring, Opportunities, Outreach, Partnership, Presses, Public, Pulses, Runoff, Sequestration, Sites, Spatial, Students, Temporal, Thresholds, Transitions.

Collaborative Research: Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new production in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael W Lomas($123,182), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Broader Impacts, No3 Assimilation, Sargasso Sea, Assay, Biogeochemical, Capable, Cell, Contribute, Cycles, Direct, Ecology, Experiments, Field, Flow, Genes, Genome, Global, Has, NO-, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Ocean, Oceanic, Pis, Potential, Processes, Prochlorococcus, Productivity, Quantify, Rates, Regions, Seasonal, Shown, Specific, Students.

Growth Rates of Bacterial Taxa in Coastal Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Barbara J Campbell($773,996), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Barbara J Campbell($773,996), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Growth Responsive Transcript, Individual Bacterial Taxa, Rate And Abundance, Specific Bacterial Taxa, 16s Rrna, Biogeochemical Cycles, Environmental Factors, Gene Ratios, Growth Rate, Growth Rates, Individual Taxa, Pis Hypothesize, Rdna Ratios, Single Cell, Throughput Sequencing, Conditions, Contribution, Correlate, Delaware, Diverse, Examine, Genomes, Genomics, Growth-regulated, Investigate, Involved, Kirchman, Marine, Metabolic, Microbial, Organisms, Processes, Rrnardna, Sequenced, Site, Situ, Transcriptgene, Visitors.

Collaborative Research: Regional Variability in Future Temperature Stress to Coral Reefs in the Coral Triangle
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Enrique N Curchitser($24,948), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Joan Kleypas($354,290), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Coral Reef Vulnerability, Influence Coral Bleaching, 21st Century, Coral Reefs, Coral Triangle, Observed Bleaching, Oceanographic Conditions, Ability, Account, Adapt, Algorithms, Capacity, Circulation, Climate, Complex, Design, Developed, Efforts, Future, MPA, Marine, Model, Modeling, Regional, Sensitivity, Simulate, Stress, Temperature.

Fundamental Coral-Microbial Associations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy Apprill($566,018), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Corals Harbor, Microbial Associates, Reef-building Corals, Bacterial, Health, Healthy, Identity, Public, Reef-building, Students.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Regulation of Greenhouse Gas N2O Emission from Intertidal Oyster Reefs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig R Tobias($225,818), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Mark J Brush($167,135), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Michael F Piehler($208,955), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
4. Bongkeun Song($332,456), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Oyster Reef Restoration, Water Quality Enhancement, N2o Emission, N2o Flux, N2o Fluxes, Oyster Reefs, Oyster Restoration, Substantial N2o, Tidal Estuaries, Cycling, Denitrification, Density, Ecological, Ecologist, Ecosystem, Educational, Estimate, Estuarine, Eutrophication, Factors, Function, Graduate, Greenhouse, Habitats, Individual, Interdisciplinary, Intertidal, Level, Microbial, Model, Outreach, Oysters, Processes, Quantify, Relative, Sediments, Source, Students, Tool, Undergraduate, Virginica.

Collaborative Research: The effect of inbreeding on metapopulation dynamics of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter T Raimondi($349,976), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Daniel C Reed($264,575), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Filipe Alberto($355,006), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Giant Kelp Forests, Southern California Bight, Discrete Patches, Inbreeding Depression, Local Population, Local Populations, Metapopulation Theory, Aimed, Connectivity, Contribute, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Estimating, Extent, Extinction, Findings, Habitat, Highly, Management, Principal, Reproduction, Size, Time.

THE DRIVE TO SURVIVE: COPEPODS vs ICHTHYOPLANKTON
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel K Hartline($542,383), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Capabilities And Importance, Predator And Prey, Animal Behavior, Attack Strategies, Fish Predator, Age, Copepod, Copepods, Cues, Dynamics, Escape, Evasion, Failure, Fishes, Food, High-speed, Hydrodynamic, Kinematics, Larval, Marine, Orientation, Outreach, Planktonic, Predatory, Reaction, Speed, Stages, Success, Techniques, Training, Trajectory, Undergraduates.

Eutrophication Effects on Sediment Metabolism and Benthic Algal-bacterial Coupling: An Application of Novel Techniques in a LTER Estuary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rachel Stanley($786,295), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Excess Nutrient Loading, Microalgae And Bacteria, Algal-bacterial Coupling, Benthic Algal, Benthic Microalgae, Benthic Microalgal, Carbon Dynamics, Field Season, Organic Matter, Salt Marshes, Sediment Bacteria, Sediment Metabolism, Sediment Microalgae, Tidal Creek, Tidal Creeks, Algal-bacterial, Availability, Biomarkers, Coastal, Cycling, Education, Estuaries, Estuarine, Eutrophication, Furthermore, Geomorphological, Has, Importance, Increases, Inorganic, Isotope, Methods, Oxygen, Primary, Productivity, Rates, Respond, Shallow, Societal, Sources, Students, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical effects on the functional microbial community dynamics of hydrothermal deposits along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anna-Louise Reysenbach($348,198), Portland State University, Portland
2. Jeffrey S Seewald($238,350), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: 16s Rrna, Active Hydrothermal, Deep-sea Hydrothermal, Enrichment Culturing, Extreme Environmental, Fluid Ph, Hydrothermal Deposits, Rrna Gene, Vent Fields, Analyses, Composition, Conditions, Deep-sea, Differences, Distinct, Diversity, Dynamics, ELSC, Explore, Factors, Geochemical, Geochemically, Geochemistry, Individual, Information, Investigate, Involve, Low, Mariner, Metagenomic, Microbial, Molecular, Obtained, PSU, Processes, Proximity, Regulating, Specific, Student.

Ocean's dark energy: Global inventory of chemoautotrophs in the aphotic realm
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brandon K Swan($900,000), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bacteria And Archaea, Metagenomic And Metatranscriptomic, Single Cell Genomics, Chemoautotrophy Pathways, Dark Ocean, Energy Sources, Genomic Dna, Global Carbon, Individual Cells, Metabolic Pathways, Prokaryote Taxonomic, Water Masses, Chemoautotrophic, Chemoautotrophs, Diverse, Genomes, Globe, Human, Matter, Microbial, Microorganisms, Representing, Sags, Sequencing.

Can you hear me now? Estuarine soundscapes and their role in larval settlement
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl($456,414), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Estuarine Soundscape, Underwater Sound, Biological, Educational, Effects, Environment, Has, Larval, Marine, Potential, Program, Settlement, Training.

The role of the sensory environment and predator chemical signal properties in determining NCE strength in cascading interactions on oyster reefs
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julia Kubanek($723,886), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aversive Cues, Blue Crab, Crab Predators, Graduate Students, Perceptive Range, Trophic Cascade, Chemical, Effects, Environment, Examine, Georgia, Management, Mediated, Nces, Oyster, Perception, Prey, Produce, Rate, Strength, Teaching, Training.

Collaborative Research: Biodiversity, connectivity and ecosystem function in organic-rich whale-bone and wood-fall habitats in the deep sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig R Smith($569,255), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Kenneth M Halanych($231,321), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Whale-bone And Wood, Ecosystem Function, Evolutionary Novelty, Wood Falls, Auburn, Biodiversity, Connectivity, Course, Deep-sea, Experimental, Experiments, Graduate, Habitats, Pis, Students, UH, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: CAMEO 2009 - A novel tool for validating trophic position estimates in ecosystem-based fisheries models
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Carolyn M Jones($28,106), Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycling Regimes, Allow Testing, Ecosystem-based Models, Food Web, Isotopic Composition, Marine Organisms, Trophic Position, Trophic Structure, AA-CSIA, Application, Approach, Differing, Ecosystem-based, Effects, Efficacy, Estimates, Feeding, Fisheries, Integrated, Multiple, Pacific, Phyla, Physiological, Refine, Students, TP, Tool, Tools, Validate.

Understanding the Effects of Complex Phage-Bacteria Infection Networks on Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joshua S Weitz($471,076), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Quantitative Viral Ecology, Structure And Function, Bacterial Hosts, Coevolutionary Models, Ecosystem Structure, Graduate Students, Marine Ecosystems, Multi-scale Structure, Quantitative Biologists, Quantitative Infection, Software Tools, Theoretical Framework, Affects, Aim, Backgrounds, Carbon, Complex, Course, Cross-infection, Developed, Diverse, Diversity, Dynamics, Eco-evolutionary, Empirical, Environmental, Establish, Has, Ii, Interactions, Large-scale, Link, Methods, Microbial, Multi-scale, Multi-strain, Organized, PBIN, Pbins, Phage-bacteria, Phages, Population, Stability, Theories, Utilized, Viral-host.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Assessing the Ecophysiological and Biogeochemical Response to Deliberate Nutrient Loading in the Southern California Bight
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew J Lucas($74,928), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Raphael M Kudela($112,703), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Planned Diversion, Surface Ocean, Bloom, Coastal, Develops, Discharge, Ecologically, Expected, Heterotrophy, Nutrient, Nutrients, OCSD, Period, Plume, Strong, Time, Weeks.

Ecology of eukaryote microbes in the deep North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander B Bochdansky($539,945), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Biological Activity, Biological Indicators, Deep Sea, Eukaryotic Microbes, Geographic Regions, Organic Carbon, Bacterivory, Cells, Combined, Deep-sea, Energy, Environments, Exhibit, Feeding, Flux, Has, Held, Incubations, Microbial, Ocean, Particle, Particles, Represent, Resolution, Respiration, Single-cell, Situ, Sources, Stages, Time, Undergraduate.

Using Next Generation Sequencing to Quantify the Symbiotic Prokaryotic Communities of the Coral Montastraea cavernosa and the Response of the Holobiont to Thermal Stress
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Aaron B Margolin($294,190), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Coral, Corals, Ecology, Effects, Functional, Metatranscriptomic, Multiple, Prokaryotes, Prokaryotic, Students, Taxonomic.

Mechanisms and Consequences of Fish Biodiversity Loss on Atlantic Coral Reefs Caused by Invasive Pacific Lionfish
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Hixon($772,943), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Invaded Reefs, Invasive Lionfish, Atlantic, Does, Effects, Fishes, Has, Invader, Native, Natural, Pacific, Population, Predation, Species.

RAPID: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Ecological & genetic recovery from a massive invertebrate die-off along the central coast of California
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael N Dawson($76,969), University of California - Merced, Merced
2. Richard K Grosberg($122,691), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Population Genetic Structure, Dispersal Distances, Impacted Range, Leptasterias Sp, Abundance, Competitors, Distribution, Factors, Interactions, Large-scale, Marine, Mortality, Natural, Ochraceus, Purpuratus, Sites, Species.

Collaborative Research: Can Raman Spectroscopy be Used as a High-accuracy Method to Identify Bivalve Larvae?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sheri N White($30,474), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Christine Thompson($268,865), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Bivalve Species, Raman Spectroscopy, Identification, Larvae, Methods, Pis, Spectral.

Collaborative Research: Establishing baselines for nearshore marine ecosystems by examining sea otter trophic variation over 5,000 years of climatic and anthropogenic change
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicole Misarti($268,716), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Bruce P Finney($99,923), Idaho State University, Pocatello
3. Nicole Misarti($268,716), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Conservation And Management, Broader Impacts, Sea Otter, Sea Otters, Stable Isotope, Trophic Position, Carbon, Ecosystems, Education, Interdisciplinary, Isotopic, Local, Marine, Modern, Museum, Nearshore, Species.

Consequences of hypoxia on food web linkages in a pelagic marine ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Timothy E Essington($1,214,569), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pelagic Food Webs, Energy Flow, Hood Canal, Hypoxia Affect, Marine Ecosystems, Application, EBM, Ecological, Effects, Fish, Mesozooplankton, Pis, Potential, Processes, Shifts, Species, Students, Trophic.

RAPID: High-resolution sampling of plankton taxa, marine snow, and environmental variables across the north Atlantic subpolar gyre
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cabell S Davis($99,962), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Environmental Variables, Fragile Plankton, North Atlantic, Woods Hole, Aggregates, Analysis, Available, Latitude, Marine, Opportunity, Sampling, Set, Ship, South, Time, VPRII.

RAPID response to an extreme low ice year on Lake Erie
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert M McKay($18,175), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
Key terms: Abundant Winter Diatom, Erie's Central Basin, Expansive Ice Cover, Lake Erie's Central, Winter Diatom Growth, Coast Guard, Erie's Central, Lake Erie's, Maximum Ice, Phytoplankton Biomass, Accumulation, Annual, BGSU, Bacterial, Collaboration, Conditions, Consistent, Documented, Eries, Function, Has, Hypolimnion, Low, Measured, Opportunity, Oxygen, Pis, Ranging, Summer, Surveys, Warm.

RAPID: Effect of a Very Low NAO Event on the Abundance of the Lipid-Rich Planktonic Copepod, Calanus Finmarchicus, in the Gulf of Maine
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey Runge($122,566), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Developmental Stages, External Forcing, Finmarchicus Abundance, North Atlantic, Wilkinson Basin, Coastal, Collected, Decades, Genetic, Gom, Gulf, Low, Maine, NAO, Negative, Observing, Population, Populations, RAPID, Source, Sources, Summer, Survey, Time.

Collaborative Research: Determining the Field Metabolic Rate of Marine Predators: Integrating Accelerometry and Respirometry to Bridge the Gap Between the Laboratory and the Field
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Samuel H Gruber($127,621), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Robert E Hueter($551,965), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Accelerometry Technology, Marine Predators, Metabolic Rate, Metabolic Rates, Natural Habitat, Animals, Behaviors, Calculating, Declines, Ecosystems, Energy, Experiments, Feeding, Free-ranging, Gap, Level, Link, Mmls, ODBA, Pis, Public, Respirometry, Shark, Sharks, Species, Students, Temperatures, Trophic, Visitors.

Group-Specific Diatom Silica Production in a Coastal Upwelling System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jeffrey W Krause($453,487), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Cell Size, Coastal Upwelling, Diatom Silica, Diatom Species, Food Webs, Oligotrophic Subtropical, Regional Differences, Si Limitation, Biogeochemical, Biological, Capacity, Carbon, Cells, Contribution, Contributions, Diatoms, Distribution, Factors, Field, Function, Gyre, Has, Individual, K-, Knowledge, Laboratory, Marine, Measures, OC, Program, Rates, Regulating, Shift, Silicon, Species-specific, Specific, Strong, Students, Total.

The Continous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survery: Monitoring the Plankton of the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter H Wiebe($774,877), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cpr Survey, International Programs, Marine Ecosystems, Nw Atlantic, Acidification, Addressing, Annual, Archive, Climate, Collected, Continuation, Contribute, Global, Highly, Information, Issues, Long-term, Maintain, Molecular, Monitoring, Ocean, Plankton, Policy, Reports, Themes, USA, Wide.

EAGER: Marine biopolymers as tracers of major biogeochemical processes: Using proteomics and antibody-sensor technology
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Monica V Orellana($299,802), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Complement And Validate, Deep Distribution, Depths Andgt, Direct Link, Dissolved Organic, Mass Spectrometry, Multiple-reaction Monitoring, North Pacific, Ocean Transect, Organic Matter, Phylogenetic Presence, Physicochemical Reactivity, Quantify Rubisco, Amino, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Carbon, Concentrations, Cycling, DOM, Degradation, Distributions, Enzyme, Findings, Furthermore, GOS, Gt, Immunosensors, Independent, Information, Line, MRM, Marine, Methods, Multiple-reaction, Nitrogen, Organism, Pis, Pool, Processes, Protein, Proteins, Proteomics, Seawater, Single, Surface, °.

Collaborative Research: Interacting Effects of Local Demography and Larval Connectivity on Estuarine Metapopulation Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fredrick J Fodrie($510,000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. David B Eggleston($555,804), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
3. Elizabeth W North($175,839), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Pamlico Sound, Approaches, Connectivity, Demographic, Design, Larval, Management, Model, Modeling, Network, Networks, Oyster, Pis, Potential, Refine, Reserves, Students, Tools, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Interactions with Marine Plastic Debris: Diversity, Function and Fate
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tracy Mincer($247,908), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Linda A Amaral Zettler($506,195), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
3. Erik Zettler($300,311), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
Key terms: Plastic Marine Debris, Amplicon Sequencing, Marine Ecosystems, Plastic Debris, Sea Semester, Subtropical Gyre, Affecting, Approach, Atlantic, Biomes, Combined, Degradation, Delicate, Education, Environmental, Environments, Foundation, Gene, Has, Humans, Implicated, Microbes, Microbial, Natural, North, Ocean, Pacific, Plastisphere, Program, Students, Substrates, Surrounding, Undergraduate, Unique.

A novel approach for evaluating temporal and spatial changes in trophic structure of the mesopelagic eastern Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul L Koch($516,441), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Mesopelagic Food Webs, Stable Isotope Analysis, Structure And Function, Investigate Temporal, Isotopic Values, Marine Mammals, Nutrient Cycling, Population Structure, Sperm Whales, Trophic Position, Academia, Collaboration, Current, Dynamics, Ecology, Ecosystems, Future, Indicator, Indicators, Management, Pacific, Past, Perturbations, Pis, Predator, Species, Unique.

Influence of organism-scale turbulence on the predatory impacts of a suite of cnidarian medusae
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kelly Sutherland($304,007), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Unique Fluid Signatures, Flow Visualization, Fragile Plankton, Gelatinous Zooplankton, Predation Modes, Predator-prey Interactions, Prey Selection, Behavior, COSEE, Effects, Field, Hydromedusae, Increased, Influence, Investigate, Jellyfish, Laboratory, Marine, Predator-prey, Predators, Species, Trophic, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Does larval transport or physiological tolerance set the southern range boundary of a northern blue mussel?
Award Effective Date: 02/13/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip O Yund($175,923), Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education, Beals
Key terms: Field And Laboratory, Flow Fields, Larval Dispersal, Mytilus Trossulus, Northeastern Maine, Physiological Tolerance, Range Boundary, Thermal Tolerance, Aquaculture, Assess, Canadian, Combination, EMCC, Edulis, Experiments, Growers, Gulf, Juveniles, Larvae, Mussel, Northern, Opportunities, Regimes, Region, Settlers, Sites, South, Spatial, Species, Student, Temperature, Transplants, Transport, Via, Water.

RAPID: Natural Laboratories in the Chilean Fjords: Studying Reproduction and Development in Emergent Deep-Sea Corals
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rhian G Waller($78,457), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Broader Impacts, National Geographic, Northern Patagonian, Ago, Anthropogenic, Benthic, Corals, Deep-sea, Depths, Dianthus, Ecological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Extremely, Fjord, Fjords, Forming, Habitat, Particular, Population, Process, Processes, Region, Sampling, Shallow, Species, Thousands, Unique, Waters, Website.

Effects of Viruses on Coral Fitness
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rebecca L Vega($318,835), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Healthy And Diseased, Infection And Disease, Coral Reef, Coral Tissues, Diseased Corals, Ecosystem Engineers, Scientists Clues, Tropical Reefs, Viral Consortia, Viral Infection, Viral Types, Viruses Play, Abundance, Biology, Characterization, Critical, Decline, Developmental, Diseases, Diversity, Ecosystems, Effects, Episodes, Experiments, Female, Fitness, Global, Growth, Has, Host, Investigate, Lastly, Marine, Methods, Minority, Organisms, Postdoctoral, Species, Stages, Training, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Development of Numerical Models Linking Fluid Geochemistry and Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jan P Amend($116,865), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Environments, Fluid, Microbes, Microbial, Mixing, Modeling, Processes, Reactions, Transport.

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

1. Lawrence W Harding, Jr($801,467), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Cb And Aps-nre, Hydrodynamic Biogeochemical Models, Observations And Modeling, Biogeochemical Models, Climatic Forcing, Climatic Perturbations, Drought-flood Cycles, Floral Composition, Long-term Trends, Phytoplankton Dynamics, Tropical Storms, Allowing, Analysis, Biomassproduction, Chl-a, Climate, Combination, Departures, Drought-flood, Ecosystems, Effects, Estuaries, Field, Focus, Has, Hurricanes, Long-term, Mechanistic, Monitoring, Nutrient, PP, Paradigm, Plankton, Processes, Quantifying.

Ocean 2YC: Building a Community of Oceanography Two-Year College Instructors
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Allison Beauregard Schwartz($39,456), Northwest Florida State College, Niceville
Key terms: Effective Teaching, Jan Hodder, National Conference, Ocean 2yc, Oceanography Faculty, Access, Attend, Building, Challenges, Classrooms, Critical, Educational, Instruction, Lack, Lead, Meeting, Reception, Serve, Session, Step, Strategies, Student, Students, Workshop.

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

1. Jim M Wharton($496,835), Seattle Aquarium Society, Seattle
Key terms: Puget Sound, Activities, Broad, COSEE-OLC, Citizen, Developed, Education, Educational, Efforts, Engage, Experiences, Formal, Informal, MVC, Ocean, Promote, Reach, Students.

Selecting and Applying an Inverse Method to Infer Particle Dynamics from GEOTRACES Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CI REUSE

1. Olivier Marchal($529,388), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Inverse Methods, Rate Constants, Adequacy, Dataset, Environments, GEOTRACES, Ocean, Particle, Processes, Trace, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: Impacts on copepod populations mediated by changes in prey quality
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Julie E Keister($177,683), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Brooke Love($540,020), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Physiology And Biochemistry, Copepod Populations, Pco2 Concentrations, Phytoplankton Quality, Salish Sea, Trophic Levels, Affects, Composition, Copepods, Development, Effects, Egg, Facility, Future, Grazing, Hatching, Increasing, Lipid-bearing, Marine, Mechanism, OA, Outreach, Participation, Pcoh, Pis, Prey, Public, Reproductive, Species, Spmcs, Student, Varying.

Carbonate preservation in pelagic sediments: Developing a new aragonite preservation proxy
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Figen A Mekik($87,087), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
Key terms: Deep Sea, Modern Ocean, Ocean Acidification, Anthropogenic, Caco, Carbon, Carbonate, Corals, Dissolution, Future, Geographic, Marine, Past, Preservation, Proxy, Pteropods, Saturation, Seawater, Sediments, Under-saturated, Waters.

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION - COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OMEGAS II - Linking ecological and organismal responses to the ocean acidification seascape in the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Francisco Chavez($209,611), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Peter T Raimondi($77,018), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Margaret McManus($13,820), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
4. Gretchen E Hofmann($320,491), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
5. John A Barth($186,183), Oregon State University, Corvallis
6. Ann Russell($279,353), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Coastal Ecosystems, Inner Shelf, Juvenile Mussels, Oceanographic Mosaic, CCS, Californianus, Conditions, Ecological, Ecology, Existing, Explore, Extensive, Field, Growth, Increase, Influence, Interdisciplinary, Link, Modeling, Molecular, OA, OMEGAS, Oceanography, Organization, Pco, Performance, Physiological, Physiology, Predation, Public, Regions, Resistance, Shell, Sites, Species, Strength.

Ocean Acidification: The Influence of Ocean Acidification and Rising Temperature on Phytoplankton Proteome Composition
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Mak A Saito($697,491), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Iron Availability, Marine Cyanobacteria, Marine Nitrogen, Marine Phytoplankton, Nitrogen Fixing, Ocean Acidification, Abundant, Diatoms, Environmental, Growth, Has, Increased, Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, Warming.

Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Project Office
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Heather Benway($2,326,173), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biogeochemistry And Ecosystem, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Ocean Carbon, Scoping Workshops, Short Course, Activities, Balance, Benefits, Collaborations, Continue, Convene, Coordinate, Coordination, Development, Discussions, Fertilization, International, Meeting, OCB, Office, Opportunities, Organization, Planning, Primary, Processes, Programs, SSC, Serves, Subcommittees, Summer, Synthesis, Timely, Topical.

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Investigation of seawater CO2 system thermodynamics under high pCO2 conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Lori R Adornato($313,416), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Robert H Byrne($650,603), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Carbonate Ion, Elevated Co2, Ocean Acidification, Thermodynamic Models, Accurate, Borate, CT, Concentrations, Consequences, Contributions, Developed, Development, Dissolved, Effects, Experiments, Fco, Parameters, Ph, Practices, Require, Seawater, Total, Uatm.

Ocean Acidification: Physiological and genetic responses of the deep-water coral, Lophelia pertusa, to ongoing ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Rob J Kulathinal($658,994), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Physiological And Genetic, Aragonite Saturation, Candidate Genes, Carbonate Chemistry, Deep-water Corals, Gulf Coast, Illumina Sequencing, Laboratory Experiments, Ocean Acidification, Qpcr Assays, Alkalinity, Available, Body, Calcification, Combination, Cruise, Deep-water, Depth, Effects, Enzyme, Examine, Expression, Framework-forming, Future, Inclusion, Long-term, Low, Mexico, Oceanographic, Pathways, Pertusa, Pis, Quantitative, School, Scleractinians, Teachers, Temple, Transcriptome.

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Establishing The Magnitude Of Sea-Surface Acidification During The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Baerbel Hoenisch($111,935), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard E Zeebe($206,681), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. James C Zachos($319,203), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Carbonate Ion Concentration, Ocean Carbonate Chemistry, Ph And Carbonate, Carbon Release, Numerical Models, Ocean Ph, Ph Units, Surface Ocean, Anthropogenic, Experienced, Foraminifera, Information, Isotopes, Mass, PETM, Planktonic, Projected, Quantify, Rate, Saturation, Testing.

Ocean Acidification - Collaborative Research: Measuring the kinetics of CaCO3 dissolution in seawater using novel isotope labeling, laboratory experiments, and in situ experiments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Jess F Adkins($619,648), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. William M Berelson($469,212), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Biogenic Carbonate, Carbonate Dissolution, Dissolved Inorganic, Labeled Biogenic, Ocean Acidification, Rate Law, Relative Importance, Situ Experiments, Based, Broad, Built, Caco, California, Carbon-, Chemistry, Efforts, Influence, Laboratory, Marine, Measure, Niskin, Particles, Range, Reaction, Saturation, Seawater, Set, Students, Time.

Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia and Warming: Experimental Investigations into Compounded Effects of Global Change on Benthic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Joan M Bernhard($499,837), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Calcareous And Non-calcareous, Benthic Foraminifera, Ocean Acidification, Undergraduate Students, Allowing, Assemblage, Effects, Examine, Experiments, Hypoxia, Increased, Lower, Pco, Ph, Pre-industrial, Relatively, Temperature, Warming.

Toward Predicting the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Net Calcification by a Broad Range of Coral Reef Ecosystems: Identifying Patterns and Underlying Causes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Kathryn Shamberger($695,322), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: 21st Century Ocean, Calcium Carbonate Saturation, Century Ocean Acidification, Coral Reef Ecosystem, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Laboratory Manipulation Experiments, Net Ecosystem Calcification, Reef Ecosystem Calcification, Aragonite Saturation, Rate Equation, Reef Calcification, Conservation, Critical, Dataset, Degree, Delta, Depend, Dissolution, Ecosystem-scale, Emerging, Energetically, Existing, Implication, NEC, OA, Oceanography, Organisms, Predict, Predictions, Processes, Program, Reefs, Sensitivity, Sparse, Verified, World.

Ocean Acidification - Effects of ocean acidification on Emiliania huxleyi and Calanus finmarchicus; insights into the oceanic alkalinity and biological carbon pumps
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. David M Fields($999,956), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Six Supervised Undergraduate, Supervised Undergraduate Students, Calcification Rates, Dissolution Rates, Ocean Acidification, Pco2 Levels, School Students, Alkalinity, Balch, Bigelow, Biological, Chambers, Coccolithophore, Coccolithophores, Copepod, Designed, Direct, Ecology, Educational, Effects, Experiments, Facility, Has, Marine, Meet, Monitored, Numerous, Overall, PIC, Ph, Physiology, Phytoplankton, Potential, Predator, Predatorprey, Prey, Program, Rural, Seminar, Single, Societal, Summer, Units, Weekly, World.

Collaborative on Oceanographic Chemical Analysis (COCA)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Chemical Measurement & Imaging

1. Christopher I Measures($49,965), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Oceanography, Application, Bring, Field, Marine, Workshop.

GEOTRACES Pacific Section: 227Ac Distribution in Deep Waters as a Constraint on Mixing and Mass Transport of Solutes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Douglas E Hammond($147,376), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Mixing And Transport, Deep Sea, Geotraces Program, International Geotraces, Transport Rates, Water Column, Ac, Dynamics, Effort, Half-life, Ocean, Opportunity, Pacific, Solutes, Tracer.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Mercury Speciation Along a Zonal Section in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chad R Hammerschmidt($179,081), Wright State University, Dayton
2. Carl Lamborg($192,697), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Graduate Student, Methylated Hg, Chhg, Cruise, Hydrothermal, OMZ, Ocean, Pacific, Peru, Plan, Source, Tahiti, Total, Track, Vertical, Wright.

Collaborative Research: Seawater Inorganic and Organic Carbon Measurements for the US GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nicholas R Bates($272,076), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
2. Craig A Carlson($164,589), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Seawater Carbonate Chemistry, Organic Carbon, Santa Barbara, California, Cruise, DOC, Dissolved, GEOTRACES, Influence, Pacific, Ph, Plan, Speciation, Teis, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Suspended particle geochemistry along the US GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect, from high productivity ocean margin to deep sea hydrothermal plume
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chris German($101,316), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Robert M Sherrell($380,064), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Core-top Sediments, Eastern Pacific, Pacific Cruise, Suspended Particulates, Upper Ocean, Analyzed, COSEE-NOW, Composition, Core-top, Dissolved, Education, Hydrothermal, OMZ, Oligotrophic, Particles, Peru, Peru-chile, Relative, Rutgers, TEI, Teis, Uptake, Waters.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific Section - Nd isotopes and REEs in the South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian A Haley($274,188), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Leopoldo Pena Gonzalez($425,210), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Advance, Aerosols, Cruise, Distribution, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Models, Nd, Pacific, Processes, REE, TEI, Teis, Trace, Water.

US GEOTRACES Pacific section: Characterizing the redox environment of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gregory A Cutter($414,427), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Oxygen Deficient Zone, Redox Conditions, Cruise, GEOTRACES, Horizontal, Pacific, Reduction, Species, Student, Sulfide, Trace.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Zonal Transect: Rates of supply, removal and internal cycling of trace elements and isotopes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Willard S Moore($87,313), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
2. Matthew A Charette($1,100,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Boundaries, Cycling, Distribution, Distributions, Fluxes, GEOTRACES, Involved, Isotopes, Ocean, Pis, Processes, Ra, Rates, South, Students, TEI, Teis, Th, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific section: Spatial variability of lead concentrations and isotopic compositions in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward A Boyle($378,738), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Arthur Flegal($318,582), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Massachusetts Institute, Santa Cruz, California, Hydrothermal, Lead, Pacific, Pb, Plan, Plume, Students, Technology.

Collaborative Research: A dual-dye approach to measuring in situ light fields: development and preliminary field testing
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth Mopper($83,621), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Jay A Austin($116,379), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Light Sensitive, Aquatic, Decay, Dominion, Duluth, Dyes, Fluorescein, Graduate, History, Lagrangian, Minnesota, Photochemical, Primary, Processes, Rhodamine-wt, Student, Supported, Technique, UMD, Undergraduate, Water.

A Sediment Trap Study to Determine if the Flux of Silver to the Seafloor is Related to Export Productivity
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jennifer L McKay($335,442), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ag And Export, Broader Impacts, Export Productivity, Biogenic, Cycling, Flux, Has, Ocean, Organic, Paleoproductivity, Particulate, Past, Proxy, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Trace, Tracer.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific section: Collection and analysis of atmospheric deposition
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ana M Aguilar-Islas($299,042), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aerosol And Rainfall, Atmospheric Deposition, Characterize Aerosol, Zonal Section, Alaska, Analyzed, Florida, GEOTRACES, Inputs, Iron, Pacific, Quantify, Seawater-soluble, Teis, Transect.

Collaborative Research: Identification of nitrogen sources for toxic Alexandrium blooms using a novel species-specific tracer, d15N-saxitoxin
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Juliette L Smith($453,829), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Deana L Erdner($113,429), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Anthropogenic Nutrient, Hab Species, Isotopic Signature, Natural Sources, Shellfish Poisoning, Blooms, Bulk, Challenge, Chemical, Countries, Deln, Details, Habs, Human, Nitrogen, Particular, Processing, Produce, Relative, Saxitoxins, Species-specific, Stxs, Toxin, Waters, World.

Collaborative Research: Linking geochemistry and proteomics to reveal the impact of bacteria on protein cycling in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brook L Nunn($350,000), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Rodger Harvey($349,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Individual Proteins, Organic Matter, Organic Nitrogen, Potential Contribution, Analysis, Bacteria, Bacterial, Degradation, Enrichment, Geochemical, Has, Marine, Mass, Multiple, ODU, Opportunities, Programs, Proteomics, Recycling, Represent, School, Students, Synthesized, Training.

Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Maureen Conte($1,393,179), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Climate And Ocean, Deep Fluxes, Deep Ocean, Applied, Bermuda, Biogeochemical, Biological, Chemistry, Continue, Evidence, Experiences, Focus, Forcing, Future, Has, Interactions, Interannual, Invaluable, Long-term, Managed, OFP, Observational, Observations, Opportunities, Provided, Site, Students, Time-series, Unique.

GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Characterizing biogenic trace elements across productivity and oxygen gradients in the eastern South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin S Twining($399,960), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Cu And Zn, Eastern Tropical South, International Geotraces Program, Measure Cellular Quotas, South Pacific Ocean, Tropical South Pacific, Broader Impacts, Bulk Particulate, Te Stoichiometries, Biogenic, Cells, Chemical, Collected, Component, Concentrations, Educators, Environmental, Fe, Functional, Geochemical, Global, Gradients, Laboratory, Mn, Natural, Ni, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Productivity, Si, Students, Tes, Trace, Undergraduate.

GEOTRACES Peru-Tahiti section: Measurement of 7Be as a Tracer of Upper Ocean Processes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David C Kadko($399,991), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric Deposition, Atmospheric Input, Geotraces Program, Water Column, Atmosphere, Campaign, Component, Distributions, Environmental, Estimates, Global, Influencing, Measured, Miami, Ocean, Processes, Species, Teis, Trace, Tracers, USGEOTRACES.

The Fate of Molybdenum and Its Isotopes in Deep Marine, Oxide-Rich Sediments: Implications for the Mo Isotope Paleoproxy
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Natascha Riedinger($179,601), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Past Ocean, Composition, Deep, Diagenetic, Mo, Potential, Proxy, Sediments, Waters.

The Microbial Carbon Pump and Bacterial Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ronald Benner($500,000), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Concentrations, Nw Pacific Ocean, Ocean And Sargasso, Sdoc And Rdoc, Bacterial Doc, Bacterial Sdoc, Carbon Sequestration, Sargasso Sea, Laboratory, MCP, Mesopelagic, Microbial, Pump, Recognized, Regulation, Structure, Waters.

Intracellular DOM: Fate and flux at the microbial nodes of C and N cycles in the ocean, with a focus on the primary producer Prochlorococcus
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Shawn R Campagna($600,000), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Metabolomics And Transcriptomics, Particulate Organic Matter, Broader Impacts, Nitrogen Cycling, Educational, Marine, Ocean, Primary, Prochlorococcus, Students.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES - 210Po and 210Pb distribution at Eastern Pacific Interface Regimes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mark Baskaran($189,844), Wayne State University, Detroit
2. Gillian Stewart($141,165), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: 210po And 210pb, Broader Impacts, Geotraces Program, Scavenging Models, According, Campaign, Chosen, Closely, Coordinated, Dissolved, Half, Isotopes, Marine, Natural, Pacific, Particle-reactive, Particulate, Public, Radioactive, Radionuclide, Students, Trace, USGEOTRACES, Useful, Value, Wayne.

US GEOTRACES Pacific: Measuring the d13C-DIC distribution and quantifying the impact of organic matter export on d13C, nutrients and trace metals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($403,708), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dissolved O2ar Gas, Depth Distribution, Dissolved O2ar, International Geotraces, O2ar Gas, Om Export, Surface Layer, Additionally, Biological, Carbon, Characterize, Control, Cycling, Delc, Distributions, Expected, Has, Inorganic, Isotopes, Measure, Oar, Ocean, Offshore, Organic, Past, Processes, Productivity, Ratio, Resolution, Species, Tes, Trace, Undergraduate.

The Ocean Nitrogen Imbalance Paradox: Environmental Controls on the Denitrification Isotope Effect
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Julie Granger($231,013), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Isotope Effect Amplitude, Graduate Student, Basis, Culture, Denitrifiers, Environment, Enzymatic, Experiments, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Ocean.

Nitrogen isotopic (d15N) composition of carbonate-bound organic nitrogen in Deep Sea Corals: A new, high resolution proxy for N cycle studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Branwen Williams($355,692), Pomona College, Claremont
Key terms: San Pedro Basin, Deep-sea Corals, Isotopic Composition, Organic Nitrogen, Pon Exported, Temporal Resolution, Archives, Bound, Coral-bound, Cruises, Cycle, Deep-sea, Deln, Distinct, Geographic, History, Lattice, Limited, Marine, Past, Pomona, Pools, Sediments, Sinking, Suboxicanoxic, Suspended, Time, Undergraduate.

Tempo and mode of salt marsh exchange
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Aron Stubbins($699,971), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Quantity And Quality, Carbon Cycling, Organic Matter, Conditions, Critical, DOM, Environmental, Estuary, Exported, Marsh, Marshes, POM, Public, Salt, Skidaway, Temporal, Transformation.

GEOTRACES Pacific section: Dissolved Fe, Cd, and Zn isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Seth G John($394,048), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Dissolved And Particulate, Dissolved Fe, Fe Isotopic, Hydrothermal Vents, Isotopic Signatures, Trace Metals, Affecting, Bioavailable, Cd, Climate, Contribute, Distribution, GEOTRACES, Global, Isotope, Isotopes, Measure, Nutrient, Nutrients, Ocean, Oceans, Pacific, Phytoplankton, Pool, Processes, Productivity, Sediments, Sources, South, Stable, Various, Zn.

RUI: The production and degradation of oxygenated hydrocarbons in seawater
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Catherine Clark($249,698), Chapman University, Orange
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Oxygenated Hydrocarbons, Undergraduate Students, Acetaldehyde, Atmosphere, Chapman, Estimates, Levels, Limited, Low, Methanol, Oceans, Pis, Sources.

Geotraces Pacific section: dissolved Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Cd and colloidal Fe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jingfeng Wu($449,948), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Cruise, Hydrothermal, Iron, Lt, Pacific, Peru, Tahiti.

Ventilation and Timescales of Oxygen and Nutrient Cycling in the Oxygen Deficient Waters Of The Eastern Tropical South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rolf E Sonnerup($424,715), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Eastern Tropical South, Marine Nitrogen Cycle, Oxygen Minimum Zone, Tropical South Pacific, Dissolved N2o, Fixed Nitrogen, Hydrographic Sections, Oxygen Utilization, Water Column, Anammox, Brief, Combined, Denitrification, Efforts, Has, Interns, JISAO, KUOW, Measure, Nutrient, Nutrients, Oceanic, Public, Quantify, Radio, Rates, Summer, Timescales, Undergraduate, Washington.

Role of Organic Matter in Determining the Solubility of Atmospherically-Delivered Iron
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew S Wozniak($367,105), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Combustion Influenced Air, Influenced Air Masses, Acidic Functional, Aerosol Wsom, Biogeochemical Cycling, Fe Solubility, Molecular Characteristics, Soluble Fe, Trace Metals, Unique Components, Wsom Molecular, Aspects, Atmospheric, Collected, Continent, Contributions, Examined, Global, Highly, Marine, OM, Ocean, Oceanic, Organic, Primary, Relative, Techniques.

Preparation, Certification and Distribution of Reference Materials for Dissolved Organic Carbon Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($482,703), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Marine Carbon Cycle, Crm Program, International Laboratories, Low Carbon, Ampoules, Analyses, Available, Common, Comparable, Consistent, Continue, DOC, Deep, Distributed, Growing, Ocean, Principal, Reference, Seawater, Was, Water.

Characterizing a refractory DOC sink in the deep northern North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($591,043), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Modern Ocean, North Pacific, Rdoc Sink, Climate, Future, Global, Has, Larger, Oceans, Past, Pool, Processes, Reservoir.

Automated instrumentation for chemical oceanography based on sequential injection lab-on-valve technology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher I Measures($408,583), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Analytical, Benefit, Development, Gathering, Generation, Methodology, Ocean, Platforms, Reach, Trace.

GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Surface Sampling with the GeoFish and Dissolved Trace Metals on the Peru to East Pacific Rise Section
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kenneth W Bruland($570,487), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Eastern Tropical South, Tropical South Pacific, Trace Metals, Analyzed, Available, Collaborators, Collect, Cruise, Ensure, GEOTRACES, Geofish, Ocean, Peru, Plans, Program, Quality, Surface, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Production Fluxes and Physicochemical Properties of Nascent Marine Aerosols: Implications for the Atmosphere and Upper Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lynn M Russell($137,084), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. David J Kieber($91,808), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
3. Jennie L Moody($171,090), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Upper Ocean Biogeochemistry, Aerosol Generator, Marine Aerosol, Marine Aerosols, Seawater Characteristics, Surface Ocean, Climate, Distinct, Evolution, Influences, Organic, Radiation, Serve, Species, Thorough, UVA.

Microbial cycling of volatile organic carbon in the marine surface layer
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Stephen J Giovannoni($234,218), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Knowledge And Technology, Carbon Cycle, Ocean Surface, Turnover Rates, Voc Compounds, Voc Cycle, Voc Cycling, Airsea, Atmospheric, Attention, Biochemical, Climate, Cruise, Evidence, Future, Gene, Genes, Genomes, Hidden, Laboratory, Magnitude, Metabolic, Metabolism, Microbial, Oregon, Organic, Organisms, Oxidation, Pathways, Plankton, Predictions, Processes, SOLAS, Setting, Specialized, Vocs.

Collaborative Research: Biological controls on reactive oxygen species in the oligotrophic ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Colleen Hansel($377,860), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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.

Development and Application of a Radiotracer Rate Method for Ethane and Propane Consumption
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David L Valentine($388,632), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ethane And Propane, Consumption Rates, Ethane Consumption, Propane Consumption, Santa Barbara, Abundance, California, Capacity, Coastal, Continent, Field, Gases, Laboratory, Method, Ocean, Quantify, Release, Step, Total, Tracer, Waters.

RUI: Photochemical Transformations of Algal Toxins (PbTx-2, PbTx-3 and microcystin-LR) on resuspended sediments in Coastal Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Stephen A Skrabal($678,515), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Algal Toxins, Resuspended Sediments, Alter, Blooms, Coastal, Concentration, Dissolved, Exposed, Fate, Global, Habs, Lifetime, MLR, Pbtx-, Photochemical, Photoproducts, Processes, Produced, School, Sorbed, Summer, Sunlight, Surface, Teachers, Undergraduates, Waters, Worldwide.

Behavior of Nd isotopes at the Ocean-Sediment Boundary: Addressing the "Nd Paradox"
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian A Haley($439,864), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Elemental Nd, Isotope Ratios, Nd Paradox, Past Ocean, Water Column, Interface, Isotopic, Marine, Oregon, Resolve, Tracer, Tracers.

RAPID: Does dinitrogen fixation occur in oxygen minimum zones?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Margaret R Mulholland($25,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Denitrification And N2, Arabian Sea, N2 Fixation, Active, Cycle, ETNP, Evidence, Expect, Fixing, Inputs, Marine, Nitrogen, OMZ, Omzs, Process, Respect, View.

Collaborative Research: Kinetics and Stable Isotopic Fractionation for Abiotic and Microbial Transformations of Elemental Sulfur at Seafloor Hydrothermal Environments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David Fike($280,456), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. Dionysios I Foustoukos($80,071), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Kinetic Rate Constants, Chimney Deposits, Elemental Sulfur, Shallow Subsurface, Abiotic, CIW, Conditions, Environments, Found, Haq, Has, Hydrothermal, Intermediate, Microbial, Mm, Oaq, Online, Ph, Rates, Redox, Secondary, Species, Transformations, WU, Washington.

Hydrogen production and nitrogen fixation in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David M Karl($281,421), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Dissolved H2, H2 Cycling, Surface Waters, Atmospheric, C-MORE, Concentrations, Emissions, Field, Global, HOT, Hawaii, Laboratory, Marine, Microbial, Ocean, Oceans, Pacific, Program, Supersaturation.

The Variable and Changing Carbonate Chemistry of the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nicole S Lovenduski($453,752), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ocean Carbon Uptake, Ocean Carbonate Chemistry, Southern Ocean Carbonate, Acidification, Benefit, CESM, Carbon-climate, Changing, Colorado, Cycle, Education, Future, Global, Graduate, Hydrographic, Model, Multi-decadal, Numerical, Past, Processes, Quantify, Rate, Satellite, Students.

Models of the Ocean Carbonate cycle and the Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Variations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael J Follows($596,307), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ocean Carbonate Cycle, Glacial Periods, Glacial-interglacial Co2, Biogeochemical, Circulation, Consistent, Ecological, Explicit, Glacial-interglacial, Has, Ice-core, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Observations, Observed, Oscillations, Possibility, Potential, Ppm.

Collaborative Research: Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) transformations in deep sub-surface sediments and its role as a source of "old" DOC to the water column
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tomoko Komada($430,578), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
2. David J Burdige($339,573), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Jeffrey P Chanton($169,111), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Corg Remineralization Process, Ocean Margin, So4= Reduction, So4= Sink, Water Column, Allow, Anaerobic, Basin, C-depleted, CH, Carbon, DOC, Deep, Del-c, Depth, Indicating, Modeling, Oceans, Overall, Oxidation, Rates, SMT, SO=, Santa, Sediments, Strong, Sub-surface, Typically, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Cyanate availability and utilization by marine microbial assemblages
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Margaret R Mulholland($149,992), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Anton F Post($149,992), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cyanate, Cyante, Demonstrate, Examine, Importance, Method, Microbes, Organic, Organisms, Source.

Investigating the chemical and isotopic kinetics of aerobic methane oxidation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. John D Kessler($550,266), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Ch4 And Dissolved, Ch4 Oxidation Rates, Ch4 Perturbations, Dissolved Oxygen, Isotopic Fractionation, Microbial Growth, Stable Isotopes, Assess, Atmosphere, Availability, Bloom, Carbon, Chemical, Collaboration, Concentrations, Days, Disaster, Emitted, Extent, Incubations, Inorganic, Kinetics, Limited, Measured, Model, Ms, Natural, School, Soutar, Stages, Structure, Texas, Time-, Was.

Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in the Deep Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Krista Longnecker($932,099), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Low Molecular Weight, Resolution Mass Spectrometry, Students And Postdocs, Ultrahigh Resolution Mass, Deep Ocean, Proponents Plan, Analytical, Antarctic, Atlantic, Carbon, Class, Component, Composition, DOM, Flowing, Graduate, Has, Teach, Water.

Toward a better characterization of the aromatic and alicyclic components of marine dissolved organic matter: development and application of a one-step reduction reaction
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lihini I Aluwihare($289,253), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Aliphatic And Aromatic, Dissolved Organic Matter, Analytical Method, Deep Water, Dom Isolated, Mass Spectrometry, Reduction Products, Allow, Aquatic, Characterization, Chemical, Compound, Compounds, Developed, Existing, GC×GC, Library, Ocean, Pacific, RDOM, Separation, Structural, Technique, Time, Tropical, Yield.

The 4th International Ra-Rn Workshop June 3-8, 2012
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward G Durbin($25,000), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Accurate, Application, Broader, Developments, Discussions, Groundwater, International, Isotopes, Issues, Meeting, Ra, Radium, Radium-, Radon, Radon-, Rn, Special, Tracers, Water, Workshop.

In Situ Experimentation to Determine the Impact of Sinking Particles on Dentrification and Anammox in Suboxic Waters
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard G Keil($674,549), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrogen Cycling, Nitrogen Pathways, Organic Matter, Isotopic, Plan, Processes, Program, Remineralization, Sinking.

Using the RO/ED Method to Isolate Low-Ash Dissolved Organic Matter in High Yield along a Salinity Gradient
Award Effective Date: 01/09/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. E. Michael Perdue($347,440), Ball State University, Muncie
Key terms: Isolate Dom, Roed Method, Salinity Gradient, Salinity Gradients, Biogeochemical, Characteristics, Experiments, Georgia, Inorganic, Isolation, Low-ash, Modified, Range, River-estuary-ocean, Yield.

RAPID: Effect of Oil Spill on Organic Carbon Partitioning and Transformation in the Water Column in the Northern Gulf
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laodong Guo($50,403), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Crude Oil Components, Marine Organic Matter, Natural Marine Organic, Transport And Transformation, Northern Gulf, Oil Spill, Optical Properties, Organic Carbon, Stable Isotopes, Composition, Dissolved, EEM, Fate, Fluorescence, Interactions, Maximum, Mexico, Mississippi, Techniques, Uv-vis.

Collaborative research: Understanding the spatial and temporal variability of dissolved oxygen through a hierarchy of models.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Takamitsu Ito($126,196), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Takamitsu Ito($396,838), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen, Graduate Students, Observational Strategies, Oceanic Oxygen, Time Scales, Upper Ocean, Wide Range, Biological, Climate, Decadal, Efforts, Global, Hierarchy, Large-scale, Mechanistic, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Oceans, Osses, Plan, Theoretical, Thermocline, Tracer, Underlying.

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Do Parallel Patterns Arise from Parallel Processes?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. Julian P Sachs($559,255), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Michael N Dawson($1,373,582), University of California - Merced, Merced
Key terms: Marine Lakes, Biodiversity, Diversity, Education, Functional, Genetic, Has, Organisms, Palau, Papua, Processes, Public, Sea, Society, Species, Survey, Tourism, Website.

Dimensions:Collaborative Research: Oligotrophic phytoplankton community response to changes in N substrates and the resulting impact on genetic, taxonomic and functional diversity
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. Kevin R Arrigo($362,619), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Zbigniew Kolber($1,286,748), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Matthew Church($341,405), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Carbon Fixation, Ecosystem Function, Gene Expression, Marine Phytoplankton, Phytoplankton Diversity, Phytoplankton Growth, Phytoplankton Taxa, Scholars Program, Activities, Availability, Biodiversity, Competition, Composition, Compounds, Concentrations, Ecological, Educational, Exploratorium, Functional, Functions, Genetic, Genomics, Global, Level, Linked, Methods, Microarray, Microbial, Molecular, NH, NO-, Nitrogen, Nutrients, Ocean, Postdoctoral, Seeks, State-of-the-art, Students, Supply, Taxonomic, Training, Undergraduate, Urea.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Coastal Biology on Florida's First Coast.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. James J Gelsleichter($373,211), University of North Florida, Jacksonville
Key terms: Coastal Biology, North Florida, Complete, Experience, Faculty, Field, Mentored, Participants, Poster, Program, Provided, REU, Student, Students, Topics, Training, UNF.

REU Site: Student Research in Oceanography and Marine Sciences at BIOS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. F. Gerald Plumley($107,623), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Reu Students, Atlantic, BIOS, Bermuda, Funding, Marine, Ocean, Opportunities, Processes, Program, Programs, Site, Topics.

CAREER: Quantifying wave-driven mixing and mass transport dynamics within coastal ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Matthew A Reidenbach($531,428), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Coastal Bays, Coastal Ecosystems, Particulate Transport, Seagrass Beds, Seagrass Ecosystems, Water Quality, Wave-dominated Environments, Affect, Attenuation, Benthic, Chemical, Cover, Eutrophication, Flow, Flux, Hydrodynamics, Large-scale, Local, Marine, Mixing, Ocean, Online, Oxygen, Panama, Panamanian, Processes, Quantify, Resides, School, Seagrasses, Sediment, Students, VCR-LTER, Virginia, WISE, Wave-dominated.

REU Site Proposal: Environmental research supporting management of coastal barriers and estuaries in North Carolina altered by human activities and climate change
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Stephen R Fegley($264,580), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Coastal North Carolina, Coastal Regions, Activities, Base, Environmental, Habitats, Has, IMS, Maintaining, Management, Marine, Natural, Program, REU, Student, Students, Summer.

REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduate Minorities in Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Peter Kingsley-Smith($58,550), South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston
Key terms: Marine And Environmental, South Carolina, Attend, Charleston, Final, Presentation, Program, Required, Resources, Students.

REU: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Richard B Forward($339,739), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Marine Laboratory, Activities, DUML, Meals, Program, REU, Student, Students, Summer.

Research experiences in Estuarine and Coastal Science for Undergraduates at Mote Marine Laboratory: Developing a New Generation of Leaders in Ocean Sciences.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Barbara Kirkpatrick($378,388), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Broader, Coastal, Developing, Estuarine, Experiences, Findings, Habitat, Habitats, MML, Mote, Ocean, Poster, Program, Provided, REU, Skills, Student, Students.

Bridge to Research in Marine Sciences: A Summer REU Program in Savannah, Georgia
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Tara Cox($358,403), Savannah State University, Savannah
Key terms: Reu Program, Activities, Georgia, Institute, Lectures, Marine, Partners, Phase, Savannah, Student, Students.

CAREER: A phylogenetic and functional understanding of microbial sulfur cycling in oxygen minimum zones
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Frank J Stewart($1,210,901), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Oxygen Minimum Zones, Eastern Tropical, Georgia Tech, Graduate Students, Low-oxygen Regions, Sulfur Cycling, Sulfur-metabolizing Microorganisms, Active, Activity, Bacterioplankton, Basis, Biogeographic, Carbon, Course, Critical, Critically, Cycle, Distribution, Diverse, Diversity, ETNP, Ecologically, Education, Enhance, Establish, Functional, Future, GOM, Gene, Genomics, Global, Hypoxic, Low-oxygen, Marine, Mexico, Microbial, Nitrogen, OMZ, Omzs, Pacific, Permanent, Phylogenetic, Relative, SWIMS, Sulfur-metabolizing, Targeted, Training.

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

1. Bruce J Peterson($469,074), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading, Nutrient Enrichment, Blooms, Coastal, Ecosystem, Erosion, Field, Has, Increased, Landscape, Managers, Variety.

OCE-PRF: Resource-risk trade-offs and habitat use by an important forage species, Neomysis americana: the role of turbidity
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Rachel Lasley-Rasher($170,000), Lasley Rachel S, Atlanta
Key terms: Abundance And Distribution, Behavioral Experiments, Neomysis Americana, Coastal, Critical, Drivers, Ecosystems, Food, Girls, Gulf, Habitat, Maine, Ocean, Participation, Program, Resources, Risk, Species, Turbidity.

REU Site: Marine Biogeochemistry at the University of South Carolina
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Tammi L Richardson($357,959), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Marine Biogeochemistry, Salt Marshes, Program, Provided, REU, SC, Site, Student, Students, Summer.

Thermal Structure of the Cascadia Subduction Zone on the Washington Margin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Harlan P Johnson($472,360), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fluid Flux, Heat Flow, Pis Plan, Access, Cascadia, Geophysical, MCS, Margin, Obtain, Planned, Profile, Students, Thermal, UW.

GEOPRISMS Posdoctoral Fellowship: Systematic search and characterization of very low frequency earthquakes and offshore tremor in Cascadia using the Amphibious Array
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Emily E Brodsky($217,916), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Damaging Earthquakes, Seismic Radiation, Subduction Zone, Cascadia, Fault, Seismicity, Slip, Slow.

The Subduction Margin Carbon Cycle: A Preliminary Assessment of the Distribution Patterns of Multicycle Carbon
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Neal E Blair($264,535), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Active, Alaskan, Beyond, Drilling, Elemental, Environments, Geoprisms, Global, Margin, Mid-slope, Multicycle, Organic, Sites.

Collaborative Research: Dating Submerged Continental Crust Beneath the Southern Gulf of California, and a Synthesis of the Magmatic and Tectonic History of This MARGINS Focus Site
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Marty J Grove($82,408), Stanford University, Stanford
2. David L Kimbrough($83,802), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
3. Peter F Lonsdale($63,109), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Southern Gulf, California, Continent, Histories, History, Recovered, Rift, Rock, Tectonic, Volcanic.

Potential contributions of Seafloor Geodesy to understanding slip behavior along the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. C. David Chadwell($67,243), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Horizontal And Vertical, Seafloor Geodetic Monuments, Plate Boundary, Seafloor Geodesy, Thrust Fault, Vertical Seafloor, Behavior, Deformation, Frequency, GPS, Guide, Model, Models, Offshore, Onshore, Required, Resolve, Slip.

Collaborative Research: Plutons as ingredients for continental crust: Pilot study of the differences between intermediate plutons and lavas in the intra-oceanic Aleutian arc
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Matthew E Rioux($35,046), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Sidney Hemming($99,105), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Felsic Plutonic Rocks, Aleutian Arc, Continental Crust, Magmas Preferentially, Composition, Compositions, Evolution, Genesis, Lavas, Magmatic, Mantle, Processes, Representative, Viscosity, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Shallow-sea hydrothermal systems: Micron-scale sedimentary sulfur cycling and its impact on ocean processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Gregory K Druschel($101,734), Indiana University, Bloomington
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.

Tracking Sea-level Source Contributions: A Hemispheric Approach to High Resolution Sea-level Variation Over the Last Two Millennia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Andrea D Hawkes($252,601), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Africa And Argentina, Relative Sea-level Rise, 21st Century, Ice Sheets, Relative Sea-level, Sea Level, Sea-level Rise, South Africa, AD, Approach, England, GIS, High-resolution, Increased, Isostatic, Magnitude, Past, Reconstructions.

INSPIRE: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Natural Climate Variability: Sea-Surface Temperature and Ocean Heat Content
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: INSPIRE

1. Royce K P Zia($709,682), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Linear Gaussian Models, Ocean Heat Content, Physics And Climate, Sea Surface Temperature, Anthropogenic Forcing, Brbrthis Inspire, Climate Modeling, Climate Phenomena, Natural Climate, Non-equilibrium Physics, Non-equilibrium Steady-state, Non-equilibrium Steady-states, Statistical Physics, Analysis, Application, Directions, Directorate, Division, Fluctuations, Has, Hierarchy, Insight, Lgms, Lifecycles, Mathematical, Non-equilibrium, Program, Radiation, Serve, Steady-state, Steady-states, Theoretical, Theory.

Support for International Ocean Science Activities Through the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward R Urban($1,562,194), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Activities, Coordination, International, Issues, Marine, National, Ocean, SCOR.

REU Site: Ocean Sciences and Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Margaret K Tivey($540,461), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole, Fellows, Funding, Program, REU, Range, Student, Summer, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Section-Shipboard Al, Mn and Fe
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Joseph A Resing($340,006), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Peter N Sedwick($172,982), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Eastern Pacific, Water Column, Analyses, Depths, Dissolved, EPR, Encountered, Fe, GEOTRACES, Hydrothermal, Inputs, Margin, Mn, Oxygen, Peru, Plume, Subsurface, Total-dissolvable, Washington, Waters.

Development of a Theoretical Basis for Modeling Disease Processes in Marine Invertebrates
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Ximing Guo($1,384,482), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Disease Transmission, Infectious Diseases, Marine Invertebrate, Advancement, Basis, Coastal, Collaborative, Contribute, Delaware, Development, Disciplines, EMID, Experimental, Expertise, Framework, Genetics, Model, Modeling, Outreach, Pathology, Process, Sessile, Theoretical.

REU Site: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - Undergraduate Research Experience in the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. David M Fields($322,668), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bigelow Laboratory, Reu Students, Meetings, Program, Summer, Training, Undergraduate, Week.

Ship Operations - R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Terry B Appelgate($604,029), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cooperative Agreement, Instrumentation Development, Intellectual Merit, Marine Geology, Rv Sproul, Cruises, Educational, Nsf-funded, Oceanography, Operations, Programs, Scripps, Sea, Seismic.

An integrated geochemical and geodynamical approach to the origin of off-axis melt production at a range of mid-ocean ridge settings
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Rachel L Walters($193,995), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: East Pacific Rise, Broader Impacts, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Created, Crust, Geochemical, Mantle, Melting, Melts, Mid-ocean, Modeling, Off-axis, Postdoc, Processes.

Connecting genetic diversity to ecosystem functioning: links between genetic diversity, relatedness and trait variation in a seagrass community
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Susan L Williams($1,064,407), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Relatedness And Trait, Critical Ecosystem, Ecosystem Functioning, Ecosystem Functions, Genetic Relatedness, Genotypic Richness, Marine Ecosystem, Species Diversity, Trait Similarity, Approaches, Assemblage, Assess, Brings, Coastal, Ecological, Ecosystems, Eelgrass, Effects, Evidence, Experiments, Genotypes, Habitat, Interactions, Interface, Intraspecific, Nutrient, Outcome, Predict, Primary, Processes, Program, Relative, Services, Students, Undergrads.

Investing in the future of paleoclimate research: U.S. graduate student fellowships for the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Stephen A Schellenberg($132,044), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: International Collaboration, Experience, Faculty, Participation, Students, USSP, Urbino.

Towards a Global Reconciliation of Last Interglacial Sea Level Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Andrea Dutton($314,258), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Eustatic Sea Level, Sea Level Rise, Ice Sheet, Caribbean, Collaboration, Constraints, Effects, Florida, Geophysical, LIG, Modeling, Period, Reconstructions, Sites.

CAREER: Internal Waves, Turbulence and Diapycnal Mixing in Oceanic Flows
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Subhas K Venayagamoorthy($557,151), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Mixing And Dispersion, Stably Stratified Turbulence, Stratified Geophysical Flows, Turbulence And Diapycnal, Circulation Models, Insights Gained, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Mixing Parameterizations, Model-data Comparisons, Numerical Simulations, Particle Tracking, Principal Investigator's, Stratified Flows, Turbulent Mixing, Approach, Aspect, CSU, Climate, Coupled, Developed, Dynamics, Educational, Energy, Engineering, Female, Field, Fluxes, Formulate, Integrated, Knowledge, Model-data, Momentum, Multi-disciplinary, Ocean, Oceanic, Oceanography, Outreach, Particular, Performed, Predictions, Processes, Program, Small-scale, Strong, Students, Via, Widely.

LTER-PIE: Interactions Between External Drivers, Humans and Ecosystems in Shaping Ecological Process in a Mosaic of Coastal Landscapes and Estuarine Seascapes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1. Wilfred M Wollheim($4,171,697), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arrangements And Connectivity, Ecological Habitat Patches, Watershed And Estuary, Human Activities, Long-term Monitoring, Pie Lter, Plum Island, Sea-level Rise, Spatial Arrangements, Climate, Coastal, Connections, Continue, Coupled, Critical, Drivers, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effort, Efforts, Environment, Estuarine, Examine, Expand, Feedbacks, Geomorphic, Has, Importance, Influenced, Landscapes, Long-term, Management, Marsh, Mbl-brown, Processes, Program, Schools, Sea-level, Seascape, Seascapes, Serves, Students, Watersheds.

Collaborative Research: Modeling DOC dynamics from landscapes to coasts: hydrological connectivity and estuary processes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Yong Q Tian($188,641), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Key terms: Gis-based Transport, Human Activities, Monthly Doc, Predict Doc, Remote Sensing, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Varying Coefficient, Carbon, Climate, Coastal, Contribution, Export, Female, Functional, Gis-based, Graduate, Interactions, Land, Lies, Model, Modeling, Models, Natural, Processes, Programs, Rivers, Spatial, Statistical, Students, Watershed.

MRI: Acquisition of a Hybrid Mass Spectrometry System for the Next Generation of Multidisciplinary Geosciences Research, Student Education and Training
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alexander B Bochdansky($517,631), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Analysis, Benefit, Characterization, Cycling, Development, Environmental, Instrumentation, Lc-msn, Marine, Molecules, Nitrogen, ODU, Organic, Outreach, Public, State-of-the-art, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer for microbial metabolomics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Mary E Lidstrom($617,845), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Environmental Microbiology, Mass Spectrometry, Bring, Engineered, Field, Function, High-end, Instrument, Instruments, Labs, Level, Metabolic, Metabolomics, Microbes, Microbial, Natural, Program, Proteomics, Reactions, Training.

RUI/MRI: Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer for Marine Science Research at the Shannon Point Marine Center
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Brian L Bingham($346,880), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Multicultural Initiative, Multipurpose Sampler, Undergraduate Participation, Visiting Scientists, Allow, Diverse, Experiences, GCMS, Has, Injected, Instrument, Marine, Programs, Range, SPMC, Track, Undergraduates, Underrepresented.

Hurricane Isaac Storm Surge Sedimentation
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harry F Williams($18,781), University of North Texas, Denton
Key terms: Long-term Marsh Sedimentation, Marsh Sedimentation Rates, Storm Surge Deposits, Hurricane Deposits, Long-term Marsh, Coastal, Hurricanes, Incorporation, Transects.

Calcium and strontium isotopes as indicators of recrystallization rates in marine carbonates: Implications for geochemical proxies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew Fantle($159,923), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Rapid Recrystallization, Recrystallization Rates, Accurate, Alteration, Carbonates, Climate, Diagenetic, Geochemical, Marine, Models, Numerical, ODP, Penn, Previously, Proxy, Sites.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Hydrothermal Flow and Heat Transfer Using Acoustic Imaging in the NEPTUNE Canada Cabled Observatory at Main Endeavour Field, JdFR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Karen G Bemis($351,030), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: De Fuca Ridge, Juan De Fuca, Acoustic Sonar, Hydrothermal Vent, Canadian, Flow, Fluxes, Generated, Grotto, Heat, Hot, Images, Infrastructure, Outreach, Plume, Plumes, Quantitative, Seafloor, Testing, Thermal, Vents, Water.

4D Imaging of Oceanic Transform Fault Material Properties Variations During the Earthquake Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert D van der Hilst($250,027), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Fault Zone Properties, Largest Earthquakes, Properties Control, Transform Faults, Broader, Lead, Observed, Populated, Processes, Spatial.

RAPID: Impacts of Tropical Storm Debby in Apalachee Bay
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey Donnelly($49,971), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Tropical Storm, Backbarrier, Bald, Coastal, Collected, Debby, Frequency.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Study of Mineral-Fluid Fractionation of Non-Traditional Isotopes (Fe, Cu, Zn, S) with Implications for Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David Borrok($61,941), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
2. Shuhei Ono($48,336), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. William E Seyfried($267,976), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Empirical Studies, Fluid Chemistry, Fractionation Factors, Non-traditional Stable, Stable Isotopes, Carried, Cu, Development, Experimental, Experiments, Fe, Look, Minerals, Non-traditional, Reaction, Zn.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of eruptive plumes above a submarine arc volcano
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Joseph A Resing($31,419), University of Washington, Seattle
2. William W Chadwick($138,195), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Multi-beam Sonar, Bubble, Capability, Collected, Cruise, Deposits, Eruption, Infrastructure, Mid-water, Multi-beam, Plume, Ships, UNOLS, Volcanic, Volcano.

Collaborative Research: Iodine in foraminifera as a proxy for ocean deoxygenation during the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Zunli Lu($248,550), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Ellen Thomas($150,929), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Oxygen Levels, Benthic, Conditions, Deoxygenation, Foraminiferal, Iodine, Ocean, Oxygenation, PETM, Past, Proxy, Students, Warming, Yale.

Evaluating Seawater Contamination and Assimilation in Mid-Ocean Ridge Magmatic Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Horst Marschall($49,499), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Melt Inclusions, Mid-ocean Ridge, Ocean Crust, Spreading Centers, Volcanic Rocks, Assimilation, Boron, Depth, Geochemical, Isotopes, Mid-ocean, Pacific, Processes, Seafloor.

Colloborative Research: Assessing Climate Model Simulations of Last Glacial Maximum Ocean Circulation with Carbon Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andreas Schmittner($95,391), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ar5 And Pmip3, Climate And Ocean, Chemical Signatures, Climate Models, Future Climate, Ocean Circulation, Past Climate, Past Climates, Ability, Assess, Biogeochemical, Capable, Collaboration, Directly, Interaction, LGM, Period, Sediments, Simulate, Simulating, Simulations, Tracers, World.

Collaborative Research: Coupled Backwater and River-Plume Dynamics and their Control on Terrestrial-to-Marine Sediment Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael P Lamb($268,088), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Alexander Horner-Devine($240,226), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sediment Transport, Coupled, Explore, River.

Testing geochemical proxy relationships under variable paleo-seawater chemical compositions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Baerbel Hoenisch($418,861), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Changing, Chemistry, Composition, Conditions, Foraminifera, Graduate, Has, Ocean, Proxies, Proxy, Seawater, Students.

Collaborative Research: Continuing a Unique Time-Series of Volcanic Inflation at Axial Seamount
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Scott L Nooner($69,811), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. William W Chadwick($116,391), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Submarine Volcanic, Submarine Volcano, Volcanic Hazards, Allow, Axial, Behavior, Eruption, Has, Magma, Ridge, Seafloor, Site, Time-series, Undersea.

Test Between Thermal and Tectonic Hypotheses for North Atlantic Seafloor Spreading Geometry Reorganization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fernando Martinez($450,191), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Education And Human, Nearly Universally Assumed, Plate Boundary Reorganization, Iceland Plume, North Atlantic, Reykjanes Ridge, Spreading Geometry, Transform Faults, Accurate, Climate, Geodynamics, Has, Implications, Interpreted, Mantle, Mechanism, Previous, South, Teaching, Tectonic, Thermal, True.

Development of Detachment Faults at Intermediate Magma Supply
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Deborah K Smith($562,809), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Detachment Fault Formation, Detachment Faults, Fluid Flow, Local Magma, Magma Supply, Mid-segment Detachment, Multibeam Bathymetry, Ocean Crust, Active, Allow, Architecture, Axis, Core, Critical, Has, MAR, Magnetic, Mantle, Mid-segment, Near, Overall, Regional, Students.

Mapping Saharan dust fluxes through the onset and termination of the African Humid Period in a transect of African margin cores
Award Effective Date: 08/17/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William D McGee($275,579), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: African Humid Period, North Africa, Abruptness, Climate, Continent, Cores, Dust, Sediment, Thousand, Transition, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: A Combined Proxy and Model Investigation of Late Holocene Paleoclimate in the Horn of Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Caroline C Ummenhofer($523,541), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Peter DeMenocal($10,098), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Regional Sea Surface, Africa, Climate, Drought, Horn, Hydroclimate, Model, Proxy.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Continuous Reconstruction of Tropical Pacific Climate Over the Last 500-700 Years: Analysis of Massive Porites Corals from American Samoa
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert B Dunbar($215,474), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Braddock K Linsley($237,543), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Coral Cores, Exhibit, Lamont, Pacific, Samoa, Stanford, Tau.

Plate Boundary Evolution and Physics at an Oceanic Transform Fault System - The Blanco Transform OBS Experiment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John L Nabelek($622,173), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Oceanic Transform Faults, Cascadia Initiative, Graduate Students, Array, Broader, California, Earthquakes, Obss, Onshore, Oregon, Otfs, Plates, Seafloor, Seismicity.

Rift Propagation, Transform Migration, and Microplate Tectonics in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey A Karson($350,000), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Hot Spot, Mid-ocean Ridges, Crust, Has, Iceland, Mid-ocean, Processes, Rift, Surface, Tectonic.

Assessing tropical Pacific climate variability since the Early Pliocene warm period
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ana C Ravelo($335,944), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Pliocene Warm Period, Tropical Pacific Climate, ENSO, El, Frequency, Generation, Global, Has, Mean, Potential, Synthesis, Time, Was.

Late Medieval Climate in the Caribbean: Pacific vs. Atlantic control on interannual variability and mean state
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kelly H Kilbourne($317,836), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Atlantic Ocean, Surface Temperatures, Caribbean, Climate, Field, Has, Influence, Knowledge, LIA, MCA, Pacific, Paleoclimate, Program, Short-term, Student, Students, Tropical, Undergraduate.

Data-Model Synthesis: Gulf of Alaska Sea-Surface Paleotemperature, Freshwater Input, and the Dynamics of Deglacial Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Fredrick G Prahl($530,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: North Pacific, School Students, Alaskan, Compared, Faculty, LGM, Model, Multiple, National, OSU, Ocean-climate, Portugal, Produced, Program, Region, Synthesis.

Intermediate Water Records of Radiocarbon and Temperature Variability from the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean Using Deep-Sea Corals.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jess F Adkins($472,133), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ocean Circulation, Climate, Continue, Coral, Corals, Deep-sea, Fossil, Intermediate, Radiocarbon, Resolve, Transition, Water.

RAPID: Sediment Delivery and Dispersal from the Copper River, Alaska, Following Record Snowfall: Implications for Future Climate Change?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Steven A Kuehl($27,000), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Copper River, Climate, Discharge, Expected, Sediment, Snowfall.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: A Short, Open-Access 2D MCS Acquisition Program off Washington State
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harlan P Johnson($16,863), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Graham Kent($14,430), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
3. Kathleen M Keranen($13,479), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
4. W Steven Holbrook($51,656), University of Wyoming, Laramie
5. Anne M Tréhu($13,797), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Cascadia, Earthquake, Effort, Region, Seismic, Survey.

A Study of Continental Margins Amphibious Seismometry
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Spahr C Webb($109,621), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cascadia Initiative, Earthquake Seismicity, Obs Deployments, Coast, Noise, Obss, Planning, Program, Risk, Sources.

Collaborative Research: 3D Geodynamic Models of Tectono-Magmatic Extension at Mid-Ocean Ridges: Variations in Magmatism, Faulting, and Morphology at the Segment Scale
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Garrett T Apuzen-Ito($229,721), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Mark D Behn($276,368), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge, Faulting, Has, Mid-ocean, Models, Process, Seafloor, Surface, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Evolution and Hydration of the Juan de Fuca Crust and Uppermost Mantle: A Plate-Scale Seismic Investigation from Ridge to Trench
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Juan Pablo Canales($372,675), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Mladen Nedimovic($599,376), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cascadia, Earthquakes, Japan, Margins, Plate, Process, Subduction, Survey.

Collaborative Research:HF-Isotopes as Tracers of Highly Depleted Oceanic Mantle
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Vincent J Salters($292,735), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Henry J Dick($142,210), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Earth's Mantle, Mid-ocean Ridges, Abyssal, Chemical, Gakkel, Geochemical, Hf, Isotopes, Melting, Mid-ocean, Nd, Process, Rock, School, Seafloor.

A Factor of 2 Improvement in Global Marine Gravity from Cryosat, Jason-1, and Envisat
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dave Stegman($229,188), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Bathymetry, Marine Gravity, Factor, Has, Public, Satellite, Seafloor.

Collaborative Research: Coring the Line Islands Ridge for Paleoceanographic Research
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Pratigya J Polissar($74,468), Columbia University, New York
2. Robert A Pockalny($46,684), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Mitchell W Lyle($30,365), Texas A&M University, College Station
4. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz($73,444), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Itcz And Enso, Line Islands Ridge, Rv Langseth, Bathymetric, Behavior, Broader, Collect, Core, Cores, Coring, Datasets, Models, Ocean, Optimal, Paleoclimatic, Reconnaissance, Region, Sediment, Site.

Earth's Climate History, Ice Sheets, and Sea Level Over Last Four Million Years
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maureen E Raymo($137,316), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Wiki Site, Climate, History, Less, Mid-pliocene, Optimum, Pliocene, Sea.

OCE-PRF: Examining biological production and utilization of marine polyphosphate with integrated biogeochemical methods as an approach to broaden participation in ocean sciences
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Julia M Diaz($170,000), Diaz Julia M, Cambridge
Key terms: Biological Mechanisms, Global Climate, Marine Poly-p, Poly-p Cycling, Abundance, Abundant, Advance, Broader, Composition, Critical, DOP, Dissolved, Education, Existing, Fellowship, Microbial, Ocean, Participation, Phosphorus, Poly-p, Potential, Remains, Shape, Students, Utilization.

OCE-PRF: The contribution of Prochlorococcus mixotrophy to global ocean carbon cycling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alexis P Yelton($170,000), Yelton Alexis P, Berkeley
Key terms: Ecosystem Model, Carbon, Climate, Describe, Has, K-, Marine, Mixotrophy, Models, Ocean, Phototrophic, Process, Prochlorococcus, Program, Students, Undergraduates.

OCE-PRF: ZOOPREDICT - A study of ZOOPlankton Responses to Environmental Determinants with Interns, Classes, and Teachers
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. David T Elliott($170,000), Elliott David T, Cambridge
Key terms: Broadening Participation, Chesapeake Bay, Quantitative Modeling, Zooplankton Growth, Activities, Climate, Conditions, Directly, Dynamics, Ecology, Ecosystem, Effects, Fish, Food, Increase, Mortality, Ocean, Plankton, Population, Prey, Program, Recruitment, Relative, Students, Summer, Temperature, Under-represented, Vcus.

OCE-PRF: Interannual variability in estuarine exchange due to oceanic forcing conditions and offshore river plumes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sarah N Giddings($170,000), Giddings Sarah N, Seattle
Key terms: Current Modeling Efforts, Estuarine Exchange, Estuary Mouth, Exchange Flow, Oceanestuary Connectivity, Pacific Northwest, Pnw Estuaries, Remote Forcing, River Plume, River Plumes, Salish Sea, Visualization Tools, Alter, Bay, Build, COSEE, Circulation, Downwelling, Establish, Exhibit, Guidance, Implications, Influence, Interactive, Mechanisms, OIP, Objectives, Outreach, Presence, Processes, Program.

OCE-PRF: Symbiosis unbound? Investigating the physiology, genome, and proteome of Thiotaurens thiomutagens, a novel marine sulfide-oxidizing bacterium
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Beverly E Flood($170,000), Flood Beverly E, Minneapolis
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Fixes Carbon, Free-living Stage, Basal, Cultivation, Ecophysiologies, Elucidate, Enable, Endosymbionts, Free-living, Gammaproteobacteria, Growth, Host, Hosts, II, Marine, Mentor, Ocean, Organic, Participation, Pathway, Physiology, Proteomics, Recently, Rubisco, Serve, Source, Strain, Students, Succinate, Sulfide-oxidizing, Thiomutagens, Thiotrophic.

OCE-PRF: Melt Inclusions as Windows into Melt Generation and Crystallization Beneath Off-Axis Seamounts at Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Virginia Wanless($170,000), Wanless Virginia, Woods Hole
Key terms: Beneath Off-axis Seamounts, Beneath Off-axis, Crystallization Beneath, Melt Generation, Melt Inclusions, Mid-ocean Ridge, Oceanic Crust, Off-axis Seamounts, Accumulation, Composition, Depth, Erupted, Magmatic, Mid-ocean, Student, Under-represented.

OCE-PRF: Carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate sensing pathways in reef-building corals and regulation of homeostasis in response to ocean acidification
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Katie L Barott($170,000), Barott Katie L, San Diego
Key terms: Pathway Affects Coral, Affect Coral, Coral Physiological, Coral Physiology, Ocean Acidification, Ph Homeostasis, Sac Pathway, Activity, Camp, Corals, Differences, Enzyme, HCO-, Involved, OA, Regulation, Sensing.

OCE-PRF: The Use of Biological, Ecological and Genetic Observations as an Integrative Approach to Understand Coral Decline
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jorge H Pinzon($170,000), Pinzon Jorge H, Arlington
Key terms: Reef Ecosystems, Activities, Affected, Annularis, Bleaching, Caribbean, Coral, Corals, Diseases, Effects, Environmental, Genetic, Individual, Local, Observations, Ocean, Participation, Species, Stress, Students.

OCE-PRF: The Role of Chemotaxis in Bacterioplankton Ecology
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Steven Smriga($170,000), Smriga Steven, Cambridge
Key terms: Marine Bacteria, Resource Gradients, Activities, Bacterial, Challenge, Chemotactic, Chemotaxis, Development, Diversity, Enable, Microscale, Nutrient, Ocean, Program, Sensing, Students.

OCE-RIG: Causes and consequences of consumer pressure across latitude
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Amy L Freestone($99,999), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Complex Natural Ecosystem, Simplified Model Habitat, Broaden Participation, Consumer Pressure, Species Diversity, Activities, Central, Diverse, Ecological, Ecosystems, Established, Experiments, Explore, Field, Gradient, Hands-on, Importance, Jersey, Latitude, Local, Macroalgae, Middle, NSF, North, OCE-RIG, Ocean, Primary, Program, Programs, School, Seagrass, Seagrasses, Students, Temple, Under-represented.

OCE-RIG: Variability in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) strength and hydrological conditions in the central Sahara/Sahel during the Pliocene-Pleistocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Isla S Castaneda($99,939), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Multi-proxy Geochemical Approach, Subsurface Water Temperatures, Surface And Subsurface, Graduate Student, Multi-proxy Geochemical, North Atlantic, Past Amoc, Activities, Continent, Effort, Evolution, Examine, Hydrology, Increase, OCE-RIG, Ocean, Opportunities, Participation, SST, Sahel, School, Students, Teachers, Tropical, Under-represented, Undergraduates, Visit, Warming.

OCE-RIG: Emission of greenhouse gases by coastal marine invertebrates in response to nitrogen loading and ocean warming
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Serena M Moseman-Valtierra($99,993), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Invertebrates, CH, Diversity, Emissions, Enhance, Experiments, Fertilization, GHG, Ghgs, Global, Greenhouse, Microbes, Nitrogen, OCE-RIG, Ocean, Participation, Potential, Principal, Program, Temperature, Under-represented, Undergraduate, Warming.

Ocean Studies Board Activities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Susan J Roberts($709,989), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Policy Issues, Board, Dissemination, Engineering, Federal, OSB, Ocean, Ocean-related.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Kristen Yarincik($13,300), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: School Teachers, Conference, Development, Ecosystem, Engage, Gulf, Mexico, Participation, Plenary, Programs.

GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Measurement of CFCs and SF6
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Rana A Fine($527,192), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Low Oxygen Waters, Circulation, Cruise, GEOTRACES, OMZ, Processes, Program, Regions, Teis.

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Analysis of 230Th, 232Th and 231Pa
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Robert F Anderson($690,000), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard L Edwards($410,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: 232th And 230th, Dissolved And Particulate, Lithogenic 232th, Aerosol, Combined, Concentrations, Effort, GEOTRACES, Ocean, Particles, Processes, Quantify, Rates, Scavenging, Sections, Sediments, Supply, Trace.

GEOTRACES Pacific section: Dissolved and particulate concentrations of selected anthropogenic radionuclides along the U.S. GEOTRACES Peru-Tahiti zonal section
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Timothy C Kenna($388,691), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Anthropogenic Radionuclides, Distribution, Environmental, GEOTRACES, Global, Isotopes, Marine, Mission, Ocean, Plan, Processes, Pu, Teis, Trace.

GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Measurement of Helium Isotopes, Tritium, Noble Gases, and Radiocarbon
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. William J Jenkins($797,709), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eastern South Pacific, Oxygen Minimum Zone, Broader Impacts, Geotraces Program, Hydrothermal Plume, International Geotraces, Marine Environment, Noble Gases, Abyssal, Anthropogenic, Biogeochemical, Biological, Characterization, Climate, Cycling, Distributions, Estimate, Evidence, Fluxes, Global, Has, Improvement, Isotopes, Measure, Models, OMZ, Ocean, Oceanic, Plan, Play, Processes, Quantify, Quantitative, Radiocarbon, Rates, TEI, Teis, Trace, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: Using the Rurutu hotspot to evaluate mantle motion and absolute plate motion models
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Matthew G Jackson($200,815), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Anthony Koppers($255,194), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Jasper Konter($242,800), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Hawaiian-emperor And Louisville, Plate Motion, Submarine Volcanoes, Chains, Collected, Define, Fixed, Geochemical, Hotspot, Hotspots, Lavas, Mantle, Pacific, Rurutu, Students, Tracks, Training.

Development of an ISFET sensor for seawater Total Alkalinity and pH
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Todd Martz($659,543), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ph And Total, Total Alkalinity, Sensor.

Collaborative Research: Repeat Observations by Gliders in the Equatorial Region (ROGER)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Daniel Rudnick($1,663,982), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. W. Brechner Owens($1,691,256), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Equatorial Current, Equatorial Front, Equatorial Pacific, Galapagos Archipelago, Analyses, Analysis, Days, EUC, Glider, Gliders, High-resolution, Horizontal, Model, Models, Observational, Observations, Quantify, Section, Suitable, Sustained, Tropical.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Marcus G. Langseth, 2012 ? 2016
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. David S Goldberg($20,548,369), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Single Cable, Specialized Services, Basic, LDEO, Langseth, Mode, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Operated, RV, Seismic, Shared-use, Technicians, Vessel.

Collaborative Research:Extracting Multi-century Low-latitude Sea Surface Temperatures from Coral Skeletons Using Replicated Records of Annual Growth: Method Refinement&Application
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Braddock K Linsley($79,242), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Coral Growth, Annual, Anthropogenic, Applied, Corals, Error, Estimates, Global, Latitude, Low-latitude, Method, Multiple, Oceans, Period, Pis, Reconstructions, SST, Ssts, Surface, Temperature, Tree, Uncertainties.

IODP Expeditions 334/344 Objective Research: Geochemical investigation of fluid/rock reactions and the nature of fluid flow at the erosive Costa Rica subduction zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Evan A Solomon($226,778), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Subduction Zone, Behavior, Characterize, Fault, Fluid, Produce, Reactions, Undergraduate.

Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium: Professional Development for Early Career Researchers
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeffrey Schuffert($290,784), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Increase.

Collaborative Research: IODP Expedition 336 Objective Research: The deep biosphere of young and oxic oceanic crust
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Heath Mills($162,663), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Beth N Orcutt($182,306), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, North Pond, Basement, Crust, Expedition, IODP, Investigate, Life, Metabolic, Microbes, Ocean, Population, Program.

Noble Gas Distribution and Migration in the Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Mark D Kurz($392,792), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Noble Gas Concentration, Amphibole, Crust, Gases, Oceanic, Preliminary, Reveal, Rock, Tested.

Renewal of Curation of ODP Legs 150X and 174AX cores: The Rutgers Core Repository
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Dennis V Kent($204,296), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 150x And 174ax, Ocean Drilling Program, Rutgers Core Repository, Rutgers Geology Museum, Site Survey Cores, Coastal Plains, Iodp Repository, Leg 174ax, Legs 150x, Nj Slope, Pis Request, Sq Ft, Wilson Lake, Activities, Archiving, Center, Connecticut, Continental, Continue, Continued, DOSECC, Delaware, Description, Developed, Drilled, Expedition, Graduate, Has, International, Jersey, Kpg, Meetings, NSF, Numerous, ODP, Obtained, Onshore, Outreach, PETM, Partial, Provided, Public, Sea-level, Shelf, Space, Storage, Students, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: High Precision 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology and Paleomagnetism to Determine the History and Consequences of Louisville Mantle Plume Motion
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Anthony Koppers($145,401), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Jeffrey S Gee($140,674), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Absolute Plate Motion, Hawaiian And Louisville, Louisville Seamount Trail, Ar39 Ar, Consistent Inclinations, Iodp Expedition, Louisville Hotspot, Louisville Hotspots, Louisville Seamounts, Pacific Plate, Paleolatitude Estimates, Accurate, Additional, Age, Allow, Drilled, Duration, Effort, History, Individual, International, Magnetic, Paleomagnetic, Proponents, Sets, Shipboard, Similar, Sites, Units, Volcanic, Volcaniclastic, Volcanism.

Elemental and Isotopic Systematics in Erosional and Accretionary Subduction Zones, with Implications for Fluid Sources, Pathways, and Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Miriam Kastner($495,878), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Pore Fluid, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Crust, Dataset, Fluids, Geochemical, Insights, Land, Pressures, Processes, Time.

Processing 3D Seismic Reflection Dataset From Offshore Costa Rica Through 3D Pre-Stack Depth Migration
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Eli A Silver($189,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Subducting Plate Interface, 3d Seismic, Costa Rica, Rica 3d, Seismogenic Zone, Subduction Zone, Acquired, Acquisition, Agreement, Complete, Costs, Delay, Earthquake, Excellent, Fault, Image, Included, Langseth, Margin, Partnership, Plan, Postdoc, Process, Processed, Processing, Produce, Quality, Repsol, Repsolcggveritas, Stage, Students, Volume, Was.

RAPID: Development and Deployment of a Prototype Full Ocean Depth OBS
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Maya Tolstoy($49,573), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mariana Trench, Ocean Depth, Submarine Earthquakes, Deployed, Depths, Instrument, January, Obss, Opportunity, Seismic.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Diode Laser Cavity-Ringdown Spectrometer for Shipboard Measurements of the Stable Isotopes on Oceanic Methane
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. John D Kessler($1,742), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Ä2h-ch4 And Ä13c-ch4, Stable Isotopes, Achieved, CRDS, Cavity, Coupled, Developed, Has, Increased, Isotopic, Methane, Optical, Precision, Prototype, Sampling, Sensitivity, Ship-based, Sources, Spectroscopy, Standard, Äc-ch, Äh-ch.

Program Support Office for the IOOC
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steven G Ackleson($448,937), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Observation, Drafting, IOOC, Interagency, Natural, Office, Planning, SOST.

Conference on Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life (2013)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Arthur N Popper($32,730), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Aquatic Life, Regulatory Issues, Approaches, Conference, Experimental, Meeting, Meetings, Noise.

Collaborative Research: Development of a low-cost PHOtosynthesis, Respiration, and Carbon balance Yielding System (PHORCYS)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Richard G Keil($234,631), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Benjamin Van Mooy($337,572), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Activity, Configuration, Creation, Cruises, Education, Incubation, Ocean, Oceanographic, PHORCYS, Pis, Situ, Students, Vehicle.

ALOHA Cabled Observatory: Operations and Maintenance
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Bruce M Howe($1,223,115), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Cabled Observatory, ACO, ALOHA, HOT, Has, Hawaii, Instruments, Ocean, Pis, Students, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Permanent seafloor benchmarks for geodetic measurements of horizontal and vertical plate motion
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. C. David Chadwell($204,014), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Spahr C Webb($70,906), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seafloor Geodetic, Attached, Benchmark, Removed, Sensors, Via.

Participant Support for IOOS Summit
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Melbourne Briscoe($76,495), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Integrated And Sustained, Integrated Ocean Observing, Sustained Ocean Observing, Optimize Technical, Components, IOOS, Management, Planning, Policy, Set, Stage, Summit.

Collaborative Research: Autonomous Lagrangian Floats for Oxygen Minimum Zone Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Mark A Altabet($411,756), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Eric D'Asaro($1,199,518), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Nitrogen Balance, Autonomous, Biogeochemical, Critical, Current, Development, Global, Loss, Magnitude, Marine, OMZ, Oceans, Omzs, Pis, Processes, Spatial, Teacher, Temporal.

Implementation of continuous flow cytometry for high resolution mapping of microbial distributions in surface waters
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Robert M Morris($873,930), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Surface Waters, Analysis, Development, Heterotrophic, Instrument, Marine, Microbial, Seaflow, Undergraduates.

A Device for In Situ Calibration of Oxygen Sensors
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steven R Emerson($385,307), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Oxygen Sensors, Calibration, Extremely, Moorings, Oceans, Situ.

Collaborative Research: T-LEOST (realTime-Larval Environment and Ocean Signal Tracking): An Integrated System for the Study of Navigational Cues in the Marine Environment
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Claire Paris($249,668), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. David A Mann($234,855), Loggerhead Instruments, Sarasota
Key terms: Larval Dispersal, Larval Fish, Behavior, Challenge, Cues, Larvae, Marine, Observing, Organisms, Orientation, Pelagic, Signals, Swimming.

RAPID: Emergency mooring deployment cruise necessitated by Kilo Moana hull incident
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Matthew H Alford($62,333), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hot Profiler, Funding, RAPID, Seeks, Ship.

RCN:OceanObsNetwork
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jay Pearlman($336,839), Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway
Key terms: Capacity Building, Cooperation, Effective, Exchange, Information, International, Interoperability, Long-term, Network, Observatories, Observing, Ocean, RCN, Sustainability, Technical, Users.

MRI: Acquisition of a flow field-flow fractionation system to enhance colloidal research and education at USM
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Laodong Guo($171,575), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
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.

Interagency Ocean Observation Committee Support Office
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steven G Ackleson($249,997), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Observation, Drafting, IOOC, Interagency, Natural, Office, Planning, SOST.

Oceanographic Instrumentation 2012
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David S Goldberg($8,803), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard J Findley($16,787), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. William S Wilcock($28,806), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Request, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V CAPE HATTERAS
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($5,512), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Ocean Instruments, Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Review, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation for the R/V Savannah
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($7,900), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Total Sailing Schedule, Rv Savannah, Shared-use Instrumentation, Coastal, Days, Has, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Terry B Appelgate($36,215), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Timothy W Deering($101,120), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Nsf Days Accounting, Purpose Global Vessel, Rv Roger Revelle, Total Sailing Schedule, Rv Melville, Rv Sproul, Shared-use Instrumentation, California, Has, Horizon, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Scheduled, Seasoar, Shared-use, Vessels.

2012 Oceanographic Instrumentation R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James Caison($49,000), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Rv Atlantic Explorer, Bermuda Institute, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, BIOS, Days, NSF, Nsf-funded, Ocean, Oceanographic, Operated, Shared-use, Ship, Vessel.

University of Hawaii Oceanographic Instrumentation CY2012
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James S Ferguson($109,988), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Rv Kilo Moana, Shared-use Instrumentation, Additional, Hawaii, Niskin, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Purchase, Request, Shared-use, UH, Vessel.

RAPID: Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V CAPE HATTERAS 2011 Rapid Response ADCP
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce H Corliss($82,152), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Vessel Mounted Adcp, Cape Hatteras, Shared-use Instrumentation, Equipment, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Ship, Was.

2012-2016 Fleet Broadband Support Program
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Albert F Suchy($9,103,793), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Satellite Communication, Shared-use Instrumentation, Maintenance, Nsf-funded, Platforms, Program, Services, Shared-use.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Atlantis and R/V Knorr, 2012 - 2016
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. David C Fisichella($8,885,436), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Atlantis, Class, Knorr, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Operated, RV, Requested, Separate, Shared-use, Vessel, WHOI.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Revelle, R/V Melville, R/V New Horizon and R/V Sproul, 2012 ? 2016
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Woody C Sutherland($18,276,417), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Academic Fleet, Shared-use Instrumentation, Basic, Horizon, Internet, Management, Melville, Nsf-funded, RV, Revelle, Separate, Services, Shared-use, Specialized, Sproul.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Cape Hatteras, 2012 - 2016
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Bruce H Corliss($308,781), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Rv Cape Hatteras, Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Seagoing, Services, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Walton Smith, 2012 ? 2016
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Richard J Findley($435,657), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Rv Walton Smith, Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Operated, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Endeavor, 2012?2016
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. William L Fanning($1,623,026), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Rv Endeavor, Shared-use Instrumentation, Nsf-funded, Services, Shared-use, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Thompson and R/V Barnes, 2012-2016
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. William S Wilcock($2,526,407), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Basic Services, Rv Barnes, Rv Thompson, Shared-use Instrumentation, Maintain, Nsf-funded, Sail, Shared-use, Technician, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Point Sur, 2012 ? 2016
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($480,200), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Maintenance, Nsf-funded, RV, Seagoing, Services, Shared-use, Sur, Vessel.

Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Sharp, 2012-2016
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Timothy W Deering($360,301), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Specialized Services, Basic, Delaware, Maintain, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Operation, RV, Shared-use, Sharp, Vessel.

Renewal of the MISO Facility: Deep-Sea Imaging and Instrumentation for Oceanographic Research (Renewal of NSF-OCE-0649621)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daniel J Fornari($426,186), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biological Oceanography, Shared-use Instrumentation, Digital, Imaging, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Technical, Vessel, WHOI.

Oceanographic Technical Support, R/V Blue Heron, 2012-2014
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Richard D Ricketts($580,727), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Shared-use Instrumentation, Technical Services, Basic, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Users, Vessel.

High-order accurate numerical models for magma migration beneath mid-ocean ridges: Geochemical consequences and geophysical implications
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH CMG

1. Jan S Hesthaven($409,541), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Basaltic Lavas, Melt Migration, Algorithms, Allow, Channels, Chemical, Developed, Earth, Erupted, Generation, Geochemical, Magma, Mantle, Melting, Methods, Models, Numerical, Parameters, Processes, Reactive, Resulting, Segregation, Software.

2012 Oceans and Human Health GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Oceans & Human Health

1. Nancy R Gray($18,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Graduate Students, Human Health, Conferees, Conference, Experts, Future, GRC, Gordon, OHH, Public, Session, Topics.

Rapid Response: Morphological Change Near Katama Inlet During Hurricane Sandy
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Britt Raubenheimer($25,686), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ebb Shoal, Flood Flows, Hurricane Sandy, Inlet Evolves, Katama Bay, Morphological Evolution, Numerical Models, Combined, Currents, Depth, Local, Observations, Operations, Sediment, Shell, Shoreline, Storms, Survey, Tides, Transport, Water, Waves.

Collaborative Research: DNS and high resolution measurements of scalar transfer across an air-water interface during inception and growth of Langmuir circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fabrice Veron($354,016), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Andres E Tejada-Martinez($324,145), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Air-sea Scalar Fluxes, Heat And Gas, Short Capillary Waves, Skin And Gas, Surface Molecular Layers, Air-sea Interface, Air-sea Scalar, Cool Skin, Gas Transfer, Langmuir Turbulence, Lc Development, Surface Molecular, Surface Renewal, Accordingly, Based, Computations, DNS, Direct, Disappear, Effect, Estimates, Evolution, Experiments, Fine-scale, Global, Influence, Infrared, Laboratory, Ocean, Parameterizations, Processes, Public, Quickly, Resolution, Shear, Spectrum, Stages, Structure, Structures, Temperature, Time, Vortices, Wind, Yielding.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current: a Fractured Transport Barrier
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew F Thompson($499,389), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Circulation Models, Flow Interactions, Insight Gained, Ocean Circulation, Southern Ocean, Water Mass, ACC, Aspect, Behavior, Climate, Controls, Discrete, Dynamical, Eddy, Forcing, Global, Has, Meridional, Overturning, Potential, Properties, Regional, Significantly, Spatial, Structure, Topography, Transitions, Transport, Vertical, View, Zonally-averaged.

Turbulent mixing by nearshore internal bores
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen G Monismith($231,136), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Mixing And Stratification, Acoustic Doppler, Inner Shelf, Monterey Bay, Turbulent Mixing, Bores, Boresfronts, Class, Coastal, Detailed, Dynamics, Ecologically, Ecosystems, Environments, Field, Flows, Fluxes, Graduate, Has, Interact, Interaction, Internal, Involved, Larger-scale, Local, Mechanism, Microdocumentary, Nearshore, Observations, Ocean, Offshore, Regions, Shore, Stratified, Students, Tower, Turbulence, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Frontogenesis and Fine-Sediment Trapping in a Highly Stratified Estuary
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David K Ralston($1,717,973), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Gail Kineke($444,263), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Connecticut River Estuary, Hydrodynamics And Sediment, Model Sensitivity Studies, Overall Estuarine Regime, Estuarine Frontogenesis, Estuarine Fronts, Fine-grained Sediment, Graduate Students, Highly Time-dependent, Sediment Transport, Sediment Trapping, Class, Convergence, Coupled, Dynamics, Ephemeral, Estuaries, Examination, Field, Fine-grained, Forcing, Frontal, High-resolution, Influence, Intense, Lead, Methods, Modeling, Observations, Observed, Processes, Producing, Strong, Time-dependent, Variables.

Collaborative Research: Diagnosing Eddy mixing in DIMES
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. W. Brechner Owens($99,939), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Raffaele Ferrari($904,230), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Kevin Speer($640,124), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Vertical And Horizontal, Climate Models, Eddy Mixing, Large-scale Circulation, Overturning Circulation, Southern Ocean, DIMES, Eddies, Floats, Has, Indeed, Jupiter, Large-scale, Mesoscale, Parameterizations, Quantify, Quantifying, Resolve, Students, Tracer.

A Vortex Census from Lagrangian Floats
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan M Lilly($720,034), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Coherent Eddies, Eddy Field, Lagrangian Observations, Numerical Models, Satellite Altimetry, Vortex Field, Ability, Analysis, Census, Describe, Detailed, Dynamics, Eddy-resolving, Estimates, Eulerian, Float, Increasing, Issues, Large-scale, Ocean, Phase, Populations, Processes, Set, Situ, Statistical, Testing, Transport, Vorticity.

Short-crested Breaking Waves and Surfzone Vorticity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David Clark($849,955), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mean Wave Angle, Circular Array, Diffusivity Estimates, Horizontal Eddies, Surfzone Eddy, Surfzone Pollution, Surfzone Vorticity, Video Observations, Wave Conditions, Wave Height, Beach, Breaking, Compared, Crest, Crest-end, Current, Dispersion, Education, Field, Forcing, Frequency, Increases, Indicate, Lead, Lesson, Model, Primary, Public, Range, School, Shear, Shoreline, Students, WHSTEP, Waves, Wide.

Along-isopycnal transport in the Southern Ocean: Assessing DIMES results with an assimilating model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sarah T Gille($823,268), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Meridional Overturning Circulation, Dimes Domain, Dimes Observations, Heat Transport, Isopycnal Mixing, Sose Fields, Southern Ocean, Analysis, Assimilation, Contribute, Diapycnal, Estimates, Graduate, Mid-depth, Model, Processes, Tracer, Uncertainties, Water.

Forced Transients in Water Mass Transformation and the Meridional Overturning Circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael A Spall($532,439), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eddy Resolving Numerical, Geostrophic Contours, Numerical Model, Ocean Circulation, Thermohaline Circulation, Analytic, Anomalies, Atmospheric, Central, Climate, Dynamical, Graduate, Heat, Incorporate, Information, Large-scale, Low-frequency, Meridional, Models, Principal, Processes, Propagation, Regions, Summer, Theoretical, Theory.

AGU Chapman Conference on the Agulhas System and its Role in Changing Ocean Circulation, Climate, and Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brenda L Weaver($21,206), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Chapman Conference, Indian Ocean, Africa, Agulhas, Atlantic, Climate, Global, Meetings, October, Regional, Southern.

Horizontal Convection at Large Rayleigh Number: Laboratory Experiments and Direct Numerical Simulation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian L White($565,572), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Interdisciplinary Fluids Lab, Heat Transport, Mixing Efficiency, Moc Energy, Ocean Circulation, APE, Approaches, Based, Climate, Contribute, DNS, Display, Dissipation, Efficient, Experiments, Forcing, Fully-developed, HC, Has, Larger, Mechanical, PIV, Pathways, Plan, Potential, Public, Share, Turbulence, UNC, Visualization.

Deepglider Reliability Development
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles C Eriksen($898,974), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Advanced Prototype, Deep Ocean, Ocean Circulation, Sea Surface, Water Column, Atlantic, Autonomous, Bring, Capable, Casts, Climate, Communication, Constructed, Cost, Current, Deepglider, Deepgliders, Depth, Design, Development, Endurance, Extensive, Glider, Lost, Mission, Moored, Oceanographic, Oceans, Oxygen, Pressure, Projected, Range, Salinity, Sampling, Sensors, Site, Stability, Structure, Technology, Temperature, Time-series, Tool, Underwater, Units.

Measurements and Modeling of the Kinematics and Dynamics of Surface-Wave Breaking in Directional Wave Fields
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. W K Melville($1,178,199), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Kinematics And Dynamics, Directional Distributions, Directional Wave, Surface Wave, Wave Breaking, Wave Field, Analysis, Based, California, Classes, Dissipation, Environment, Experience, Experiment, Function, Hands-on, Laboratory, Length, Mechanics, Models, Ocean, Programs, SIO, Spectra, Students, Transfer, UCSD, Undergraduate, Waves, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Origin, Dynamics and Transport Characteristics of the Large-Scale Eddy-Driven Patterns
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Igor V Kamenkovich($348,599), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Timour Radko($343,346), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Mesoscale Eddies, Multi-scale Methods, Analytical, Climate, Dynamics, Eddy, Effects, Future, Heat, Induced, LEDP, Ledps, Models, Multi-scale, NPS, Numerical, Observational, Ocean, Oceanic, Oceans, Primary, Represent, Spatial, Structures, Tracers, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Along-coast structure and propagation of internal tides
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Lerczak($270,287), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Along-coast Propagating Internal, Baroclinic Energy Conversion, Idealized And Realistic, Internal Basin Modes, Propagating Internal Tides, Tide Generating Potential, Along-coast Propagating, Barotropic Tide, Continental Shelves, Internal Waves, Kelvin Waves, Amplitude, Analyses, Bathymetric, Behavior, Coastal, Coupled, Field, Generation, Investigate, Mexican, Nature, Numerical, Propagation, Sense, Shelf, Simulations, Stratification, Structure, Techniques, Tidal, Time.

Large-scale controls on Equatorial Pacific nutricline structure
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Keith B Rodgers($561,102), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Mixed Layer Depths, Mode Water Nutrients, Summer Mixed Layer, Nutrient Supply, Southern Ocean, Allows, Analysis, Below, Constrain, Deeper, Diapycnal, Distinct, EUC, Exchange, Fate, Has, Increased, Investigate, Mass, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Mixing, Pacific, Pre-formed, Processes, Radiocarbon, Responsible, SAMW, Sensitivity, Thermocline, Tracers, Transport, Upper, Vertical.

Direct Phase-Resolved Simulation of Wind-Waves
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lian Shen($293,843), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Dynamic Sgs Sea-surface, Nonlinear Wave Field, Sgs Sea-surface Roughness, Steep And Breaking, Wave Breaking Dissipation, Breaking Waves, Educational Outreach, Hosm Simulation, Phase-resolved Simulation, Sea-surface Roughness, Sgs Sea-surface, Wave Simulation, Wind Input, Wind Les, Advanced, Applications, Auxiliary, Capability, Computation, Development, Doctoral, Effect, Especially, HMFS, IGERT, Interaction, JHU, Method, Model, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Phase-resolved, Students, Theoretical, Training, Turbulence, Wave-phase-resolved, Wind-wave, Wind-waves.

A Global Geography of Internal-Wave Strain and Mixing from WOCE CTD Hydrography
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Kunze($812,627), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Internal-wave-driven Turbulent Mixing, Density-overturn Analysis, Fine-scale Parameterization, Global Ocean, Internal-wave-driven Turbulent, Ocean Mixing, Available, CTD, Circulation, Density-overturn, Diffusivities, Fine-scale, Found, Gcms, Hotspots, Oceanography, Overturning, Profiles, Remains, Set, Strain, Version, Vertical, Was.

The Panulirus Hydrographic Stations: Years 59-64
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rodney Johnson($695,718), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Hydrostation 's' Cruises, Hydrostation 's' Program, 's' Cruises, 's' Program, Core Hydrography, Hydrostation 's', Observed Trends, Salinity Units, Sargasso Sea, Water Masses, Waters Consistent, Ancillary, Atlantic, BIOS, Biweekly, Climate, Deep, Has, Invaluable, Local, Media, Near, Ocean, Oceanographic, Past, Resource, Sampling, Site, Students, Subtropical, Time-series, Timeseries.

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Forcing and the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew F Thompson($116,779), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Biological Models, Bloom Initiation, North Atlantic, Atmospheric, Blooms, Climate, Criterion, Driving, Fisheries, Forcing, Has, In-situ, Interactions, Observed, Ocean, Parameters, Phytoplankton, Processes, Range, Spring, Strong, Testable, Theory, Topics, Turbulence, UK.

Collaborative Research: Forcing and the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raffaele Ferrari($690,486), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Biological Models, Bloom Initiation, North Atlantic, Atmospheric, Blooms, Climate, Criterion, Driving, Fisheries, Forcing, Has, In-situ, Interactions, Observed, Ocean, Oceanography, Parameters, Phytoplankton, Processes, Range, Spring, Strong, Testable, Theory, Topics, Turbulence, UK.

Cuddy Decay: Observation of Subthermocline Eddy Spindown and Property Exchange
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles C Eriksen($897,405), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Submesoscale Coherent Vorticies, Eddy Transport, Structural Evolution, Biological, CCS, CU, California, Chemical, Contribute, Cuddies, Cuddy, Decay, Eastern, Eddies, Exchange, Months, Near, Observed, Ocean, Offshore, Pacific, Properties, Property, Region, Seagliders, Structure, Subsurface, Time, Transmitting, Travels, Waters.

NINETEENTH CENTURY US WEST COAST SEA LEVEL AND TIDAL PROPERTIES
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Jay($93,848), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: 19th Century, Analysis Techniques, Non-tidal Variance, River Flow, San Diego, San Francisco, Tide Stations, Astoria, Climate, Collected, Contemporary, Correct, Effects, Errors, Extent, Level, Local, Long-term, MSL, Marigrams, Mean, Modern, Non-tidal, Overtides, Pacific, Processes, Recovered, Secular, Storminess, Time, Weather.

Transport Pathways in the North Atlantic: Searching for Throughput
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Irina Rypina($615,738), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Upper And Lower, Lower Limbs, North Atlantic, Overturning Circulation, Benefit, Climate, Connectivity, Field, Flows, Gyres, MOC, Meridional, Ocean, Past, Subpolar, Subtropical, Transport.

Understanding the influence of surfactants on characteristic whitecap foam decay times
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Grant B Deane($720,416), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Foam Decay Rates, Foam Decay Times, Remote Sensing Tool, Whitecap Foam Produced, Air-sea Exchange, Breaking Waves, Broader Impacts, Bubble Plume, Foam Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Generated, Looking Camera, Sea Surface, Surface Tension, Surfactant Concentration, Wave Channel, Whitecap Coverage, Active, Aerosol, Air-sea, Analysis, BAS, Based, Critical, Datasets, Effects, Existing, Field, Formation, Has, Mathematical, Measured, Model, Monitor, Observations, Ocean, Persistence, Processes, Public, Resulting, Water.

Towards Resolving the Role of Agulhas Leakage in 20th Century Global Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lisa Beal($740,031), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atlantic Overturning Circulation, Coupled Climate Models, Agulhas Leakage, Ipcc Models, Anthropogenic, Arm, Balance, Eddies, Effect, Flawed, Predict, Presence, Resolution, Resolved, Sensitivity, Simulation, Stability, Strength, Time, Versus, Warm, Water, Westerly, Wind, Winds.

Tidal-Band and High-Frequency Internal Waves on the Inner Shelf
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John A Barth($135,306), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Oregon Inner Shelf, Video Remote Sensing, Background Conditions, Background Oceanic, Continental Shelf, External Forcing, Forcing Conditions, High-frequency Internal, Inner-shelf Internal, Internal Tide, Internal Tides, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Numerical Model, Analysis, Analyzed, Argus, Coastal, Complex, Energy, High-frequency, Historical, Inner-shelf, Moored, Observational, Offshore, Output, Processes, Realistic, Regions, Temperature, Tidal, Time, Velocity, Water, Yaquina.

Understanding Observed Equatorial Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Ocean Interannual Flow Using Theory and High-Resolution ECCO2 Model Results
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Allan J Clarke($485,424), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Indian And Atlantic, Sea Surface Temperature, Atlantic Oceans, Equatorial Ocean, Equatorial Pacific, Interannual Equatorial, Interannual Flows, Observed Interannual, Ocean Basins, Satellite Altimeter, Surface Flows, Climate, Dynamics, ECCO, Future, Knowledge, Model, Structure.

Circulation and Transport in the Hudson Shelf Valley
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Steven J Lentz($709,692), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Circulation And Transport, Hudson Shelf Valley, Continental Shelf, Continental Shelves, Continental Slope, Previous Studies, Shelf Valleys, Slope Canyons, Analysis, Biological, Contrast, Cross-shelf, Flows, Forcing, Idealized, Numerical, Nutrients, Observations, Realistic, Sediment, Simulations, Slopes, Strongly, Submarine.

LTER: MCR IIB: Long-Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: SEES Fellows

1. Peter J Edmunds($4,632,747), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Gcc And Oa-related, Broader Impacts, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Field Experiments, Fore Reef, French Polynesia, Mcr Outreach, Oa-related Drivers, Activities, Affect, Annually, Continue, Corals, Dominated, Ecological, Ecosystem, Effects, Factors, Faculty, Findings, GCC-, Habitats, Island, K-, LTER, Lagoon, Local, Maintain, Moorea, Perturbations, Processes, Program, Public, Resilience, Stressors, Structure, Students, Surrounding, Theme, Themes, Time, Undergraduate, Was.

SEES Fellows: Social-Ecological Resilience of Coastal Shoreline Ecosystems: Developing a Framework for Informed Decision-Making
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: SEES Fellows

1. Steven Scyphers($503,447), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Coastal, Complexity, Decision, Ecological, Enable, Engineering, Factors, Fellows, Fisheries, Framework, Habitat, Habitats, Investigate, Resilience, Shoreline, Social, Sustainability.

A Community-Based OBSIP Management Office
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: SEES Ship Operations

1. Robert L Woodward($31,929,335), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington
Key terms: Geology And Geophysics, Ocean Bottom Seismometers, Geophysics Program, Marine Geology, Ocean-bottom Seismic, Broad, Contribution, OBSIP, OMO, Objectives, Ocean-bottom.

UNOLS IT Infrastructure Support
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Douglas A White($103,822), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Information Technology, Federal, Fleet, Infrastructure, Public, UNOLS.

R/V Clifford A. Barnes Ship Operations 2012-2016
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. William S Wilcock($771,426), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Rv Clifford, Barnes, Days, Direct, NSF, Operated, Peer-reviewed, Washington.

Ship Operations, R/V Blue Heron 2012-2016
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Richard D Ricketts($898,078), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Cooperative Agreement, Days, Lakes, NSF, Programs.

Ship Operations - R/V Melville
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Terry B Appelgate($11,114,954), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Rv Melville, Educational, Followed, Galapagos, Marine, Mission, NSF, Nsf-funded, Operations, Ship, Transit.

Ship Operations: R/V Cape Hatteras
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Bruce H Corliss($1,179,354), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Days, NSF.

Ship Operations - R/V New Horizon
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Terry B Appelgate($4,235,693), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cooperative Agreement, Instrumentation Development, Intellectual Merit, Marine Geology, Cruises, Educational, Horizon, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanography, Operations, Programs, RV, Sea.

EAGER-Training Chief Scientists for the Ocean Research of Tomorrow: A Continuation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Clare E Reimers($151,626), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms:

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment, R/V Blue Heron 2012
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($23,000), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Item, Minnesota.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Terry B Appelgate($146,442), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. William Byam($247,715), University of Delaware, Newark
3. James G Sanders($66,229), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Scripps Institute, HORIZON, Items, Oceanography, REVELLE, SIO, Vessels, Water.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment Caley Upgrade
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. William Byam($299,764), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Rv Hugh, Broader, Coast, Delaware, SHARP, Up-grades, Vessels.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment in Support of the R/V FG Walton Smith
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard J Findley($25,471), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Rv Walton Smith, Items, Miami.

2012 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment for R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. James Caison($867,979), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Rv Atlantic Explorer, Bermuda Institute, Item, Ocean.

Scientific Shipboard Support Equipment for the R/V Point Sur
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($150,000), 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 2012
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David S Goldberg($408,990), Columbia University, New York
2. William S Wilcock($2,383,168), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Columbia, Items, LANGSETH, Lamont-doherty, Observatory, Vessel.

Management of the West Coast Winch Pool
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Terry B Appelgate($2,720,657), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coast Winch Pool, West Coast Winch, Capital, Costs, Equipment, Federally-funded, Long-term, Oceanography, Portable, Properly, Requests, SIO, Scripps, Ship, Users.

UNOLS East Coast Van Pool
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Timothy W Deering($2,624,253), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Coast Van Pool, East Coast Van, Vessel Fleet, Academic, Capital, Costs, Delaware, Equipment, Long-term, Marine, Operations, Portable, Properly, Requests, Ship, Studies, Users.

Mixotrophic bacteria and the cryptic marine sulfur cycle: Mechanisms of carbon assimilation and sulfur oxidation in the Arctic96BD-19 GSO clade
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Systems and Synthetic Biology

1. Robert M Morris($373,301), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Carbon And Sulfur, Fix Inorganic Carbon, Organic And Inorganic, Arctic96bd-19 Cells, Fix Inorganic, Marine Bacteria, Arcticbd-, Assimilate, Cultures, Cycles, Cycling, Energy, Films, Genomic, Gsos, Lineage, Microbial, Nutrient, Ocean, Oxidation, Oxidize, Potential, Reduced, Species, Students, Thiosulfate, Transformations, Ubiquitous, Waters.

2012 Marine Microbes GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Systems and Synthetic Biology

1. Jill Sohm($28,925), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Grc And Grs, Students And Postdocs, Cutting Edge, Informal Networks, Marine Microbes, Marine Microbial, Bringing, Collaborations, Component, Conference, Cover, Current, Discuss, Discussions, Diseases, Ecology, Established, Field, Foster, Free, Future, Giving, Gordon, International, Invited, Italy, June, Meeting, Meetings, Mentoring, Opportunities, Own, Participants, Participation, Performing, Poster, Potential, Prof, Program, Promote, Sessions, Thinking, Time, Worlds.

EAGER: Investigate a novel way of light harvesting by marine phytoplankton: proton-pump rhodopsin in dinoflagellates
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Systems and Synthetic Biology

1. Huan Zhang($209,720), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Dinoflagellate Rhodopsin, Island Sound, Marine Bacteria, Marine Ecosystems, Rhodopsin Gene, ATP, Conditions, Contribute, Dinoflagellates, Found, Leads, PR, Phototrophy, Proton, Proton-pump, Surface, Training, Was.

R/V Thomas G. Thompson Ship Operation 2012
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. William S Wilcock($28,160,432), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Living And Non-living, Non-living Resources, Rv Thompson, San Diego, Collect, Conference, Cruise, Cruises, Days, Educational, Facilities, Future, Has, Human, Marine, NSF, Nationwide, Ocean, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Oceans, Operating, Outreach, Pacific, Programs, Required, Sea-going, Sensors, Ship, Ships, Students, Technical, Tools, Transit, UW, Vessels, Was, Washington.

R/V Oceanus Ship Operations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Demian A Bailey($17,017,604), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Oceanic And Atmospheric, Cascadia Fault, Elementary School, Graduate Students, Rv Oceanus, Academic, Agreement, Days, Expected, Fall, Funding, Knowledge, Marine, NOAA, NSF, Navy, Newport, OSU, Observation, Occasions, Oceanographic, Opportunities, Oregon, Pis, Remainder, Scheduled, Sea, Supported, UNOLS, Various, WHOI.

Ship Operations - R/V Pelican
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Daniel C Guidry($2,128,977), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Cooperative Agreement, LUMCON, NSF, Pelican, Programs, Sea-going, UNOLS, Vessel.

Ship Operations- R/V Atlantis Operations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Albert F Suchy($46,392,795), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon And Repeat, Global Ocean Carbon, Repeat Hydrography Program, Intellectual Endeavors, Intellectual Merit, Outreach Programs, Rv Atlantis, Seep Connectivity, Web Site, Whoi Vessels, Agreement, Alvin, Atlantic, Bring, Broaden, CLIVAR, Classrooms, Continue, Country, Cruise, Days, Deploy, Effectively, Efforts, Expeditions, Experience, Funding, Has, Jason, Maintained, NSF, Oceanographic, Oceans, Operations, Participants, Peer-reviewed, Process, Public, Safely, Schedule, Sea, Ship, Stimulate, Students, Supported, Theory, UNOLS.

Ship Operations 2012- R/V Endeavor
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Thomas Glennon($12,862,267), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Ri Endeavor Program, Service And Outreach, Intellectual Merit, Marine Programs, Public Service, Rhode Island, Rv Endeavor, Agreement, Coastal, Educators, Efforts, Funding, NSF, OMP, Ocean, Office, Operate, Operations, Process, RITAS, Safe, Sea, Ship, Supported, UNOLS.

Ship Operations- R/V Knorr Operations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Albert F Suchy($17,606,732), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mid Atlantic Ridge, Atlantic Ocean, Intellectual Endeavors, Intellectual Merit, Jason Operations, Joint Nasansf, Rv Knorr, Aboard, Acoustical, CY, East, Experiments, Funding, Level, Line, NSF, Oceans, Peer-reviewed, Process, Programs, Safely, Sediment, Shipyard, Students, Supported, Theory, WHOI, Water.

Ship Operations- R/V Hugh R. Sharp
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. William Byam($6,282,249), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Bay Projects, Intellectual Merit, Rv Hugh, Chesapeake, Coastal, Cruises, Days, Delaware, NOAA, NSF, People, Program, Programs, School, Sharp, Ship, Vessel.

Ship Operations - R/V Roger Revelle
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Terry B Appelgate($27,026,297), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Rv Revelle, Educational, Hawaii, NOAA, NSF, Ocean, Operations, ROV, Time.

Ship Operations - R/V Langseth
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. David S Goldberg($53,885,188), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Quality And Reliability, Imaging Capability, Rv Langseth, Seismic Capability, Academic, Acquisition, Agreement, Arrays, Climate, Days, Funding, Marine, NSF, Program, Programs, Range, Sea, Ship, Six, UNOLS, Unique.

Ship Operations CY2012-2017 for the R/V F.G. Walton Smith
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Richard Kniffin($2,888,568), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Marine And Atmospheric, Rv Walton Smith, Miami Rsmas, Rosenstiel School, Aboard, Available, Blooms, CY, Classes, Contribute, Cruises, Effort, FG, Graduate, Has, NSF, Oceanographic, Operations, Outreach, Safety, Schools, Ship, Students, Summer, Training, UNOLS, Undergraduate, Vessel, Vessels, Well-equipped.

Ship Operations R/V Point Sur 2012 - 2016
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Stewart K Lamerdin($5,337,341), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing Marine, Class Cruises, Monterey Bay, School Students, Ship Time, CI-CORE, CSU, California, Canyon, Central, Coast, Coastal, Continues, Days, Has, Included, Local, MBARI, MLML, NSF, Offshore, Operated, Operation, Program, Programs, Pt, RV, Schedule, Sur, Transit, Vessel, Vessels.

REU Site: SURFO - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: nan

1. David C Smith($395,383), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: GSO, Oceanography, Program, REU, SURFO, Student, Students.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2012

Collaborative Research: Using ocean data assimilation to explore Arctic/subarctic climate variability Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Seeking Hidden Glaciations of the Greenhouse World Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Studies of Turbulence and Mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, a Continuation of DIMES Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

EAGER: Blood Parasite Infections in Fishes and Their Transmission by Gnathiid Isopods on Caribbean Coral Reefs. Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

EAGER: Are coral diseases contagious? Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

EAGER: Developing a model for transmission of an infectious disease of marine sponges Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

EAGER: Use of ecogenomics and metabolomics to investigate the evolution of pathogenicity Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BE-UF: ECOL OF INFECTIOUS DISE

An Integrative Investigation of Population Connectivity Using a Coral Reef Fish Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: New molecular methods for studying copepod nauplii in the field Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Chemical Ecology of Marine Sediment Bacteria Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Testing the Invasion Process: Survival, Dispersal, Genetic Characterization, and Attenuation of Marine Biota on the 2011 Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Field Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal:Testing the Invasion Process: Survival, Dispersal, Genetic Characterization, and Attenuation of Marine Biota on the 2011 Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Field Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

LTER: Georgia Coastal Ecosystems-III Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Prochlorococcus and its contribution to new production in the Sargasso Sea Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Growth Rates of Bacterial Taxa in Coastal Marine Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Regional Variability in Future Temperature Stress to Coral Reefs in the Coral Triangle Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Fundamental Coral-Microbial Associations Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Microbial Regulation of Greenhouse Gas N2O Emission from Intertidal Oyster Reefs Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The effect of inbreeding on metapopulation dynamics of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

THE DRIVE TO SURVIVE: COPEPODS vs ICHTHYOPLANKTON Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Eutrophication Effects on Sediment Metabolism and Benthic Algal-bacterial Coupling: An Application of Novel Techniques in a LTER Estuary Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Geochemical effects on the functional microbial community dynamics of hydrothermal deposits along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ocean's dark energy: Global inventory of chemoautotrophs in the aphotic realm Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Can you hear me now? Estuarine soundscapes and their role in larval settlement Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The role of the sensory environment and predator chemical signal properties in determining NCE strength in cascading interactions on oyster reefs Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Biodiversity, connectivity and ecosystem function in organic-rich whale-bone and wood-fall habitats in the deep sea Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: CAMEO 2009 - A novel tool for validating trophic position estimates in ecosystem-based fisheries models Award Effective Date: 08/16/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Understanding the Effects of Complex Phage-Bacteria Infection Networks on Marine Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Assessing the Ecophysiological and Biogeochemical Response to Deliberate Nutrient Loading in the Southern California Bight Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecology of eukaryote microbes in the deep North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Using Next Generation Sequencing to Quantify the Symbiotic Prokaryotic Communities of the Coral Montastraea cavernosa and the Response of the Holobiont to Thermal Stress Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Mechanisms and Consequences of Fish Biodiversity Loss on Atlantic Coral Reefs Caused by Invasive Pacific Lionfish Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Ecological & genetic recovery from a massive invertebrate die-off along the central coast of California Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Can Raman Spectroscopy be Used as a High-accuracy Method to Identify Bivalve Larvae? Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Establishing baselines for nearshore marine ecosystems by examining sea otter trophic variation over 5,000 years of climatic and anthropogenic change Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Consequences of hypoxia on food web linkages in a pelagic marine ecosystem Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: High-resolution sampling of plankton taxa, marine snow, and environmental variables across the north Atlantic subpolar gyre Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID response to an extreme low ice year on Lake Erie Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Effect of a Very Low NAO Event on the Abundance of the Lipid-Rich Planktonic Copepod, Calanus Finmarchicus, in the Gulf of Maine Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Determining the Field Metabolic Rate of Marine Predators: Integrating Accelerometry and Respirometry to Bridge the Gap Between the Laboratory and the Field Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Group-Specific Diatom Silica Production in a Coastal Upwelling System Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Continous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survery: Monitoring the Plankton of the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Marine biopolymers as tracers of major biogeochemical processes: Using proteomics and antibody-sensor technology Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Interacting Effects of Local Demography and Larval Connectivity on Estuarine Metapopulation Dynamics Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Microbial Interactions with Marine Plastic Debris: Diversity, Function and Fate Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

A novel approach for evaluating temporal and spatial changes in trophic structure of the mesopelagic eastern Pacific Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Influence of organism-scale turbulence on the predatory impacts of a suite of cnidarian medusae Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Does larval transport or physiological tolerance set the southern range boundary of a northern blue mussel? Award Effective Date: 02/13/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Natural Laboratories in the Chilean Fjords: Studying Reproduction and Development in Emergent Deep-Sea Corals Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Viruses on Coral Fitness Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Development of Numerical Models Linking Fluid Geochemistry and Biological Communities in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Environments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Ocean 2YC: Building a Community of Oceanography Two-Year College Instructors Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

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

Selecting and Applying an Inverse Method to Infer Particle Dynamics from GEOTRACES Data Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CI REUSE

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: Impacts on copepod populations mediated by changes in prey quality Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Carbonate preservation in pelagic sediments: Developing a new aragonite preservation proxy Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION - COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OMEGAS II - Linking ecological and organismal responses to the ocean acidification seascape in the California Current System Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification: The Influence of Ocean Acidification and Rising Temperature on Phytoplankton Proteome Composition Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Project Office Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Investigation of seawater CO2 system thermodynamics under high pCO2 conditions Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification: Physiological and genetic responses of the deep-water coral, Lophelia pertusa, to ongoing ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Establishing The Magnitude Of Sea-Surface Acidification During The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification - Collaborative Research: Measuring the kinetics of CaCO3 dissolution in seawater using novel isotope labeling, laboratory experiments, and in situ experiments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia and Warming: Experimental Investigations into Compounded Effects of Global Change on Benthic Foraminifera Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Toward Predicting the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Net Calcification by a Broad Range of Coral Reef Ecosystems: Identifying Patterns and Underlying Causes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification - Effects of ocean acidification on Emiliania huxleyi and Calanus finmarchicus; insights into the oceanic alkalinity and biological carbon pumps Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Collaborative on Oceanographic Chemical Analysis (COCA) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Chemical Measurement & Imaging

GEOTRACES Pacific Section: 227Ac Distribution in Deep Waters as a Constraint on Mixing and Mass Transport of Solutes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Mercury Speciation Along a Zonal Section in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific Award Effective Date: 03/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Seawater Inorganic and Organic Carbon Measurements for the US GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Suspended particle geochemistry along the US GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect, from high productivity ocean margin to deep sea hydrothermal plume Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific Section - Nd isotopes and REEs in the South Pacific Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES Pacific section: Characterizing the redox environment of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Zonal Transect: Rates of supply, removal and internal cycling of trace elements and isotopes Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific section: Spatial variability of lead concentrations and isotopic compositions in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: A dual-dye approach to measuring in situ light fields: development and preliminary field testing Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

A Sediment Trap Study to Determine if the Flux of Silver to the Seafloor is Related to Export Productivity Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific section: Collection and analysis of atmospheric deposition Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography