Collaborative Research: Submarine Melting and Freshwater Export in Greenland's Glacial Fjords: The Role of Subglacial Discharge, Fjord Topography and Shelf Properties
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Claudia Cenedese($972,668), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Patrick Heimbach($471,187), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Experiments And High-resolution, High-resolution Numerical Simulations, Magnitude And Spatial, Sheet And Climate, Size And Topography, Climate Models, Continental Shelf, Continental Shelves, Dominant Controls, Fjord Size, Freshwater Export, High-resolution Numerical, Ice Sheet, International Experts, Laboratory Experiments, Sea Level, Spatial Distribution, Subglacial Discharge, Submarine Melt, Submarine Melting, Analysis, Carried, Circulation, Complementary, Contribute, Disciplines, Dynamical, Existing, Fjords, Function, Glacier, Glaciers, Greenland, Greenlands, Has, Interactions, Involves, Large-scale, Margins, Media, Ocean, Parameterizations, Presence, Rise, Sill, Specific, Stratification, Summer.

US GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Characterization, Sampling and Analysis of the Sea Ice Environment in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Ana M Aguilar-Islas($609,060), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Sea Ice Environment, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Geotraces Arctic, Biological, Characterization, Characterize, Chemical, Distribution, Distributions, Initiatives, Processes, Quantify, Snow, Trace, Trace-metal-clean, Unique, Waters.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Collection and Analysis of Atmospheric Deposition
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Clifton Buck($264,219), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Atmospheric Deposition, Melt Water, Sea Ice, Aerosol, Aerosols, Arctic, Biological, Chemistry, Collected, Distribution, Distributions, Expedition, GEOTRACES, Initiatives, Isotopes, Natural, Ocean, Precipitation, Processes, Public, Regions, Surface, Trace, Unique, Variety.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Determining the Pathways, Fate, and Flux of Atmospherically Derived Trace Elements in the ocean/ice system
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. David C Kadko($369,877), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Arctic Geotraces Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Atmospheric Deposition, Atmospherically Deposited, Delivering Trace, Water Column, Assessment, Atmosphere, Behavior, Beryllium-, Biological, Catchments, Chemical, Distributions, Environmental, Estimates, Ice, Input, Mixing, Partitioning, Pathway, Processes, Sea, Species, Surface, Teis, Tracer, Upper, Variety.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Sampling and Analysis of Atmospheric Deposition
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. William M Landing($104,290), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Yuan Gao($329,697), Rutgers University Newark, Newark
Key terms: Atmospheric Deposition, Melt Water, Sea Ice, Aerosol, Aerosols, Arctic, Biological, Chemistry, Collected, Distribution, Distributions, Expedition, GEOTRACES, Initiatives, Isotopes, Natural, Ocean, Precipitation, Processes, Public, Regions, Surface, Trace, Unique, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of the U.S. Arctic GEOTRACES Study
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. David C Kadko($465,875), Florida International University, Miami
2. Gregory A Cutter($690,314), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. David C Kadko($465,875), Columbia University, New York
4. William M Landing($338,109), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, International Geotraces, Canada, Capability, Climate, Conditions, Cruise, Distributions, Ecosystem, Effort, Environmental, Geochemistry, Global, Isotopes, Management, Marine, NSF, Processes, Regional, Sea, Stations, Technical, Trace.

Dependence of Antarctic sea-ice extent on mesoscale ocean variability in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Scott R Springer($464,384), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Energetic Southern Ocean, Global Coupled Climate, Marginal Ice Zone, Sea Ice Extent, Sea-ice Concentration Fields, Ice Edge, Mesoscale Field, Ocean Mesoscale, Sea-ice Concentration, Analyses, Analyzed, Ccms, Center, Characteristics, Compared, Eddies, Eddy-permitting, Effect, Fronts, Has, Ice-edge, Increased, Inform, Instabilities, Inter-annual, Interactions, Investigate, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Modern, Outreach, Position, Processes, Regional, Resolution, Satellite, Trends, Web.

Collaborative Research: Changes in ecosystem production and benthic biodiversity following the widespread loss of an ecosystem engineer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brenda H Konar($303,195), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Matthew S Edwards($355,985), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Situ Benthic Chambers, Aleutian Archipelago, Benthic Biodiversity, Kelp Forests, Remote Sensing, Shipboard Incubations, Water Column, Widespread Losses, Activities, Dominant, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Entire, Estimate, Estimates, Examine, Irradiance, Islands, Modeling, NEP, NPP, Net, Plot-scale, Primary, Productivity, Satellite, Scaled, Species, Structure, Teacher.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Impacts of size-selective mortality on sex-changing fishes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark A Steele($310,220), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
2. Scott Hamilton($207,252), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
3. James W White($210,326), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Field Experiments, Integrated Set, Marine Reserves, Population Dynamics, Reproductive Output, Selective Mortality, Sex Ratios, Sex-changing Fishes, Sex-changing Species, Size-selective Mortality, Ability, California, Consist, Direct, Effects, Female, Findings, Fisheries, Fishing, Individuals, Inside, Larger, Male, Models, Populations, Sex-change, Sex-changing, Size-selection, Size-selective, Targets, Usually.

RAPID: Tracking Recovery from the 2014 Coral Bleaching Event in Hawaiian Waters: Water Quality Gradients, Ecological Factors, and Reef Resilience to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cynthia Hunter($163,308), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coral Bleaching, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Hawaiian Islands, Reef Resilience, Severe Bleaching, Temperature Anomaly, Water Quality, Algae, Basic, Colonies, Corals, Differences, Document, Education, Factors, Habitat, Heterogeneity, Land-based, Millions, Recover, Recovery, Species, Stress.

Collaborative Research:RAPID: A hyper-thermal anomaly in the Florida Reef Tract: An opportunity to explore the mechanisms underpinning patterns of coral bleaching and disease
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Laurie L Richardson($177,913), Florida International University, Miami
2. Diego Lirman($20,587), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Frequent And Severe, Mass Coral Bleaching, Subsequent Disease Outbreaks, Coral Reefs, Natural Bleaching, Bacterial, Baseline, Climate, Colonies, Common, Corals, Diverse, Expected, Explore, Florida, Holobiont, Mechanisms, Mortality, Opportunity, Recovery, Species, Stress, Students, Symbiodinium, Time-sensitive, Unique.

Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling by SAR11 Marine Bacteria
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen J Giovannoni($712,231), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbon Oxidation Functions, High-resolution Mass Spectrometry, Dissolved Organic, Dom Oxidation, High-resolution Mass, Ocean Ecosystems, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Oxidation Rates, Sar11 Cells, Surface Layer, Abundant, BATS, Bacterioplankton, Biological, Compounds, Cruises, Culture, Detailed, Genome, Genomes, Information, Oceans, Oxidize, Predict, Program, Short, Site, Strategies, Technology, Upper.

Exploring the physiological and ecological basis of mixotrophy in marine food webs
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew D Johnson($618,488), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Marine Microbial Food, Microbial Food Webs, Marine Phytoplankton, Nutrient Limited, Phototrophic Competitors, Shed Light, Approaches, Cellular, Controls, Ecological, Environmental, Factors, Feed, Feeding, Integrated, Involve, Low, Metabolism, Mixotrophs, Mixotrophy, Molecular, Ocean, Photosynthesis, Program, Species, Students.

Functional Diversity and Performance of Ciliated Marine Invertebrate Larvae: Measuring and Modeling Larval Swimming, Feeding and Hydrodynamic Signaling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kit Yu Karen Chan($282,606), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Survival And Transport, Individual Larva, Larval-fluid Interactions, Overall Morphology, Surrounding Fluid, Water Column, Adult, Armed, CFD, Ciliated, Highly, Hydrodynamic, Influences, Knowledge, Larvae, Larval-fluid, Micropiv, Modeling, Models, Observational, Observations, Organisms, Rapidly, Settlement, Shape, Signals, Significantly, Species, Stage, Swimming, Undergraduate.

Size structure and function of phytoplankton communities in a changing ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephanie W Dutkiewicz($531,997), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Light And Temperature, Carbon Export, Modelling Effort, Multiple Dimensions, Biochemical, Climate, Complex, Control, Diverse, Diversity, Ecosystems, Enhanced, Explore, Food, Function, Functional, Global, Incorporate, Lead, Marine, Models, Phytoplankton, Shifts, Significantly, Size, Space, Species, Structure, Structures, Time, Trait, Unique, Varying.

Collaborative Research: Marine priming effect - molecular mechanisms for the biomineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/04/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert G Spencer($149,844), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Aron Stubbins($383,925), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
3. Robert G Spencer($150,392), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
4. Andrew D Steen($463,047), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Labile Organic Matter, Aromatic Compounds, Coastal Ocean, Land-sea Interface, Metabolic Pathways, Bacteria, Biological, Carbon, Central, Continue, DOM, Degradation, Experiments, Fluxes, Gene, Heterotrophic, Land-sea, Lignin, Magnitude, Marine, Mechanisms, Microbial, Mineralization, Model, PE, Potential, Priming, Program, Refractory, Removal, Reveal, River, Roseobacter, Specific, Students, T-dom, Terrigenous, Track, UTK.

Collaborative Research: How can bacterial viruses succeed in the marine environment?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Martin F Polz($474,817), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Libusha Kelly($348,490), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc., Bronx
Key terms: Virus And Host, Host Genomes, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Hosts, Viral Strategies, Virus-host Interactions, Abundance, Analysis, Available, Characterize, Collection, Diversity, Dynamics, Ecological, Environmental, Genetic, Genomic, Identification, Marine, Model, Module, Ocean, Parameters, Poorly, Prevalence, Quantification, Specific, Training, Virus-host, Viruses.

High resolution genome changes during evolution in a classic fisheries experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen R Palumbi($635,579), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Compare Genetic, Fish Populations, Genetic Variants, Lines Selected, Natural Selection, Rapid Evolution, Strong Selection, Classic, Conover-munsch, Deleterious, Evolutionary, Experiment, Fisheries, Fishing, Genome, Genomic, Gradient, Growing, Has, Individuals, Legacy, Loci, Original, Pressure, Relaxation, Size, Species.

Collaborative Research: A combined boron isotope, pH microelectrode and pH-sensitive dye approach to constraining acid/base chemistry in the calcifying fluids of corals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Justin B Ries($369,413), Northeastern University, Boston
2. Aradhna Tripati($270,587), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Calcifying Fluid Ph, Coral Calcifying Fluid, Estimating Coral Calcifying, Experimentally Induced Ocean, Induced Ocean Acidification, Atmospheric Co2, Coral Calcification, Coral Species, Independent Approaches, Multi-pronged Approach, Assess, Carbon, Carbonate, Combined, Corals, Cross-examination, Effects, Exploration, Ions, Marine, Measure, Multi-pronged, Proton-pumper, Responds, Seawater, Shallow, Skeletons, So-called, Validity.

Photoheterotrophy in unicellular cyanobacteria: ecological drivers and significance for marine biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Solange Duhamel($334,185), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon And Nutrients, Southwest Pacific Ocean, Controlled Cultures, Ecological Drivers, Field Experiments, Light Energy, Organic Compounds, Organic Substrates, Unicellular Cyanobacteria, Ability, Adaptations, Cell, Complemented, Crocosphaera, Ecologically, Glucose, Importance, Investigate, Laboratory, Metabolism, Microbial, Nitrogen, Photoheterotrophy, Photosynthesis, Play, Poorly, Primary, Range, Representative, Situ, Students, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Climate Change and Upwelling -- Comparative Analysis of Current & Future Responses of the California and Benguela Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ryan Rykaczewski($149,946), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Bryan A Black($492,760), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Oceanographic And Atmospheric, Winter And Summer, Benguela Current, California Current, South Africa, Upper-trophic Fish, Upwelling Modes, Analyzed, BCS, Biology, CCS, Chronologies, Climate, Conditions, Developed, Ecosystems, Forcing, Global, Growth, Namibia, Regional, Seasonal, Similar, Upper-trophic, West, Winds.

Collaborative research: Patterns of diversity in planktonic ciliates: spatio-temporal scales and community assembly in the coastal ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George B McManus($541,804), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Laura A Katz($472,730), Smith College, Northampton
Key terms: Measure Microbial Diversity, Time And Space, Microbial Diversity, Ciliate, Common, Factors, Food, Metabolism, Methods, Microbes, Ocean, Oceans, Rare, Sequencing, Species, Technologies.

Can B-vitamins control phyto-and-bacterioplankton successions in a coastal upwelling region?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sergio A Sanudo-Wilhelmy($700,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Phytoplankton And Bacterial, B-vitamin Requirements, Coastal Upwelling, Species Composition, Species Succession, Upwelling Region, Upwelling Regions, Algae, Algal, Availability, B-vitamin, B-vitamins, Bloom, Comprehensive, Experiments, Field, Graduate, Growth, Has, Importance, Influence, Inorganic, Marine, Organic, Organisms, Productive, Seasonal, Time, Try, Vitamins, Waters, World, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Consequences of sub-lethal hypoxia exposure for teleosts tracked with biogeochemical markers: a trans-basin comparison
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Karin E Limburg($290,114), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
2. Benjamin D Walther($257,960), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Zunli Lu($47,224), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Sub-lethal Hypoxia Exposure, Baltic Sea, Hypoxic Regions, Lakes Fisheries, School Teachers, Sub-lethal Exposure, Sub-lethal Hypoxia, Consequences, Curriculum, Ecosystems, Freshwater, Growth, Gulf, Hypoxia-related, Incorporated, Increased, Marine, Markers, Mexico, Multiple, Otoliths, Program, Proxies, Species, Students, Time.

Community Effects of Competition and Predation across Latitude and Implications for Species Invasions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy L Freestone($850,000), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Competition And Predation, Biological Invasions, Non-native Species, Sessile Marine, Species Diversity, Species Interactions, Activities, Alaska, Biodiversity, Biologists, Demonstrate, Ecological, Effects, Experimental, Factors, Global, International, Latitude, Latitudes, Limit, Non-native, Occurring, Panama, Primary, Regions, Relative, Shape, Shaped, Stronger, Subarctic, Tropics.

Environmental stress and signaling based on reactive oxygen species among planktonic protists
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Suzanne L Strom($599,638), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Oxidatively Stressed Phytoplankton, Chemical Signaling, Food Webs, Graduate Students, Oxidative Stress, Protist Predation, Activities, Basis, Cells, Central, Eat, Elucidate, Environmental, Has, Larger, Links, OS, Organisms, Planktonic, Potential, Protists, Release, Signals, Size.

Collaborative Research: Dinitrogen fixation rates and diazotrophic communities in contrasting oxygen regimes of the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bonnie Chang($342,062), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Margaret R Mulholland($501,142), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Active N2 Fixation, Sea And Etnp, Aphotic Waters, Arabian Sea, Eastern Tropical, Etnp Omz, Etnp Omzs, Geochemical Inferences, Oceanic And8232, Omz Regions, Vertical Gradients, Adjacent, Andand, Andn, Andof, Andthis, Andto, Biological, Concentrations, Construct, Contribute, Cycle, Denitrification, Depth-integrated, Diazotrophic, Diazotrophs, Diazotrophy, Dissolved, ETSP, Estimates, Evidence, Expansive, Fixed, Inputs, Light, Loss, Losses, Magnitude, Measured, Nitrogen, Oxic, Oxygen, Pacific, Pis, Productive, Rate, Respect, Students, View.

Collaborative Research: New Approaches to New Production
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas G Capone($755,454), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Alyson E Santoro($197,452), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Ammonium And Urea, Upper Water Column, Coastal Waters, Dissolved Organic, N2 Fixation, Southern California, Substantial Source, Water Column, Agents, Conditions, Contribute, Definitions, Directly, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Has, Involved, Marine, Model, Nitrate, Nitrification, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Ocean, Populations, Predominant, Primary, Processes, Recycled, Regenerated, SIP, SPOT, Specifically, Uptake.

RAPID: Understanding Thresholds and regime shifts in marine ecosystems: effects of the 2014-2015 El Nino in the Galapagos rocky subtidal
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jon D Witman($154,999), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: El Niño, El Niños, Galapagos Subtidal, Non-linear Effects, Barnacles, Benthic, Brown, Climate, Corals, Drive, ENSO, Ecological, Ecosystems, Extreme, Food, Marine, Non-linear, Predictions, Regime, Stress, Students, Thresholds.

Nitrogen Fixing Prokaryotes in Corals: Is Nitrogen Fixation a Core Function of the Coral Microbiome?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael P Lesser($799,896), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Taxonomic And Functional, Coral Holobiont, Coral Reefs, Fixed Nitrogen, Nitrogen Fixation, Reef-forming Corals, Bacteria, Biodiversity, Biogeochemistry, Contribution, DON, Developed, Diversity, Ecology, Environment, Fields, Has, Microbes, Mucus, Process, Program, Prokaryotes, Public, Reef-forming, Remain, Surrounding, Tissues, Undergraduate, Veterans.

RUI: Vitamin B12 and nitrogen regulation of oceanic dimethylsulfoniopropionate and dimethylsulfide
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Giacomo R DiTullio($894,662), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: B12 And Nitrogen, Dmsp And Dms, B12 Availability, Climate Feedback, Dmsp Formation, Field Studies, Nitrogen Availability, Atmosphere, Bacteria, Biogeochemical, Compound, Critical, Degradation, Effect, Examine, Interactive, MMPA, Mechanisms, Methionine, Microbial, Models, Oceanic, Phytoplankton, Summer.

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Interactive effects of acidification, low dissolved oxygen and temperature on abalone population dynamics within the California Current
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James P Barry($466,857), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Stephen G Monismith($469,772), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Clifton B Woodson($184,914), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Demographic And Bio-economic, Frequency Andor Intensity, Ph And Low, Populations And Fisheries, Red And Pink, Dissolved Oxygen, Laboratory Experiments, Low Ph, Marine Ecosystems, Near Shore, Ocean Acidification, Pink Abalone, CCLME, California, Climate, Climate-related, Coastal, Conditions, Duration, Ecological, Effects, Future, Increasing, Investigate, Management, Nearshore, Oceanographic, Particular, Scenarios, Services, Species, Strategies, Stressors, Temperature.

RAPID Collaborative Research: Tracking coral reef impacts of the 2014/2015 El Nino event
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ruth D Gates($115,886), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Kim M Cobb($33,815), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: El Niño Conditions, Peak El Niño, Christmas Island, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Temperature Stress, Climate, Corals, Ecosystem, Endosymbionts, Geochemistry, Months, Ocean, Sites, Skeletal, Trip, Warming.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Are Eastern Tropical Pacific reefs becoming more resilient to ENSO?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peggy M Fong($22,396), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Tyler B Smith($92,710), University of The Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie
3. Andrew C Baker($84,634), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Bleaching And Mortality, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Coral Species, Limit Algal, Nutrient Limitation, Ability, Bioassays, Critical, Disturbances, ENSO, ETP, Following, Functioning, Galápagos, Herbivory, Hit, Limits, Multiple, Opportunity, Recovery, Reefs, Resilience, Situ, Strength, Strong, Temperature, Thermal, Third, Top-down.

RAPID: Testing the rocky intertidal community consequences of the decimation of purple sea star populations along the Oregon coast by sea star wasting disease
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bruce A Menge($74,995), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Purple Sea Star, Sea Star Populations, Oregon Coast, Pisaster Ochraceus, Wasting Disease, Absence, Abundance, April, Cage, Compensate, Ecosystem, Exclusion, Expand, Expansion, Experiments, Increase, Leptasterias, Loss, Low, Mussel, Mussels, Observed, Possibility, Predation, Predator, Predators, Rates, Removal, Shore, Size, Species, Whelk, Whelks.

2014 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Hutchins($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Ocean Acidification, Ocean Global, Ocean Properties, Alterations, Biological, Biology, Biota, Changing, Conference, Distinct, Effects, Environment, Gordon, Growing, Interactive, Oceanic, Range, Warming.

Collaborative Research: The effects of diatom-produced polyunsaturated aldehydes on the microbial food wed in temperate and polar waters
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James J Pierson($477,309), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Peter J Lavrentyev($420,515), University of Akron, Akron
Key terms: Aldehyde-producing, Aldehydes, Allelopathy, Blooms, Copepods, Dedicated, Diatom, Diatoms, Dominant, Dynamics, Effects, Experiments, Food, Grazers, Impacts, Information, Interactions, Marine, Microzooplankton, Ocean, Outreach, PUA, Phytoplankton, Pis, Plankton, Planktonic, SM, Students, Whereas.

Collaborative Proposal: Vibrio as a model microbe for opportunistic heterotrophic response to Saharan dust deposition events in marine waters
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael Wetz($220,758), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
2. Erin K Lipp($527,598), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Minerals And Nutrients, Biogeochemical Cycling, Dust Aerosols, Dust Deposition, Heterotrophic Microbes, Heterotrophic Microbial, Saharan Dust, Activity, Additionally, Bacteria, Biological, Climate, Components, Constituents, Controlled, Deposited, Effects, Graduate, Has, Local, Marine, Mechanisms, Meetings, Model, Oceans, Oligotrophic, Opportunistic, Opportunities, Participation, Processing, Programs, Specific, Stimulate, Students, Tropical, Utilization, Vibrio.

Collaborative Research: Vibrio as a model microbe for opportunistic heterotrophic response to Saharan dust deposition events in marine waters
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William M Landing($200,584), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Minerals And Nutrients, Biogeochemical Cycling, Dust Aerosols, Dust Deposition, Heterotrophic Microbes, Heterotrophic Microbial, Saharan Dust, Activity, Additionally, Bacteria, Biological, Climate, Components, Constituents, Controlled, Deposited, Effects, Graduate, Has, Local, Marine, Mechanisms, Meetings, Model, Oceans, Oligotrophic, Opportunistic, Opportunities, Participation, Processing, Programs, Specific, Stimulate, Students, Tropical, Utilization, Vibrio.

Collaborative Research: Differential contributions of archaeal ammonia oxidizer ecotypes in relation to their changing environment
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher A Francis($464,991), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Francisco Chavez($361,916), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: 15n-based Nitrification Rates, 15n-based Nitrification, Ammonia Oxidation, Archaeal Ammonia, Global Ocean, Microbial Ecology, Monterey Bay, Water Column, AOA, Abundance, Activity, Amoa, Believed, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Conditions, Critical, Depths, Discovery, Distinct, Diverse, Gene, Has, Implications, Incorporated, Influenced, Information, Insights, MBTS, Marine, Nitrogen, Oceanic, Primary, Quantitative, Regenerated, Responsible, WCA, WCB, Waters, Zone.

Eco-DAS 2.0: Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Paul F Kemp($550,629), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Formal Proceedings Volume, Trusted Network, Andthe, Aquatic, Collaboration, Direct, Eco-das, Experience, Feedback, Foster, Funding, Mentors, NSF, Participants, Publication, Symposia, Symposium, Tools.

RAPID: Mega-typhoon impacts on the metapopulation resilience of coral reef fishes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Malin L Pinsky($93,009), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Larval Dispersal, Parentage Methods, Reef Fish, Abundance, Clownfish, Conservation, Disturbance, Ecosystems, Efforts, Field, Habitat, Processes, Rare, Recovery, Reefs, Site, Storm, Typhoon, World.

Ecology of diatom viruses: connecting physiology and field dynamics through host transcriptional responses
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gabrielle Rocap($451,985), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Diatom Virus, Dna Virus, Pseudo-nitzschia Multiseries, Public Health, Viral Infection, Viruses Infecting, Blooms, Cell, Coastal, Contribute, Diatoms, Diversity, Eukaryotic, Field, Function, Genes, Genome, Graduate, Host, Marine, Metatranscriptomes, Metaviromes, Model, Mortality, Pmdnav, Productive, Pseudo-nitzschia, Species, Strains, Underrepresented, Waters.

Effects of Disturbance and Larval Supply on Communities at Hydrothermal Vents
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Lauren S Mullineaux($225,731), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Larval Connectivity, Larval Exchange, Species Identification, Woods Hole, Colonists, Critical, Degrees, Deterministic, Disturbance, Diversity, EPR, Education, Efforts, Engaging, Eruption, Field, Has, Influence, Long-term, Minutes, PEP, Partnership, Program, Regional, Spatial, Specifically, Students, Succession, Synthesis, Time, Undergraduates, Vent, Vents.

Detecting genetic adaptation during marine invasions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Allan E Strand($622,923), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Native And Non-native, Native-source And Non-native, Biological Introductions, Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Invasive Species, Marine Invasive, Non-native Populations, Undergraduate Students, After-school, Based, Ecological, Evolutionary, Field, Genetics, Hands, Has, Independent, Introduced, Invasions, Knowledge, Mating, Opportunity, Processes, Resistant, Seaweed, Skills, Structure, Undergraduates, Vermiculophylla.

Collaborative Research: Turbulence-spurred settlement: Deciphering a newly recognized class of larval response
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher Lowe($260,000), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Matthew C Ferner($24,034), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
3. Brian P Gaylord($305,067), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Adult Habitat, Activity, Approach, Based, Bay, Characteristic, Chemical, Class, Cues, Delivery, Development, Dispersal, Dispersing, Ecologically, Ecology, Existing, Explore, Findings, Has, Integrate, Larvae, Larval, Marine, Nbottom, Organisms, Otherwise, Phylogenetically, Potential, Process, Processes, Public, Recruitment, Resource, Robust, Settlement, Shore, Stages, Surfing, Thousands, Transport, Turbulence, Via.

Membrane vesicles produced by marine bacteria: origins, distributions, and functions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sallie W Chisholm($599,200), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Horizontal Gene Transfer, Membrane Vesicles Represent, Ecological Roles, Marine Microbial, Natural Seawater, Numerically Dominant, Ocean Ecosystems, Abundance, Bacteria, Cell, Childrens, Does, Environment, Factors, Feature, Found, Has, Influence, MIT, Macromolecules, Metagenome, Microbes, Oceans, Play, Prochlorococcus, Program, Proteins, Release, Sites, Structures, Sunlight, Tell.

New insights into the response of reef corals to climate change using the symbiont to host cell ratio as a metric of bleaching susceptibility
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew C Baker($638,787), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Coral Bleaching, Thermal Stress, Activities, Corals, Depends, Development, Ecology, Environment, Molecular, Outreach, Resource, Susceptibility, Symbiont, Symbioses, Symbiotic.

Collaborative Research: Microbial carbon cycling and its interactions with sulfur and nitrogen transformations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Samantha B Joye($532,503), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Andreas P Teske($754,128), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Anaerobic Methane Oxidation, Hydrothermally Active Sediments, Guaymas Basin, Methane-oxidizing Microbial, Nitrogen Transformations, Woods Hole, Biogeochemical, Capabilities, Carbon, Class, Coastal, Cruise, Deep, Electron, Explore, Field, Foundation, Hands-on, Level, Marine, Mats, Methane-oxidizing, Organic, Outreach, Pathways, Potential, Processes, Sea, Situ, Subsurface, Sulfate, Trips, Waters, Zephyr.

Are blue crab declines leading to a trophic cascade and massive loss of U.S. southern marshes?
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Silliman($8,449), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Blue Crab Densities, Blue Crabs, Marsh Die-off, Past Decade, Salt Marsh, Salt Marshes, Snail Densities, Top-down Control, Trophic Cascade, Barren, Bottom-up, Density, Die-off, Effects, Experiments, FWS, Field, Low, Managers, Paradigm, Plant, Plants, Predators, Snails, Southeastern, Spatial, Surveys, Top-down.

Collaborative research: Nearshore larval transport: physical and biological processes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nathalie Reyns($342,987), University of San Diego, San Diego
2. Jesus G Pineda($555,012), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Circulation Stokes Drift, Drift And Internal, Internal Tidal Bores, Internal Tide Circulation, Wave Circulation Stokes, Larval Transport, Near Shore, Tide Circulation, Transport Mechanisms, Adaptive, Advances, Behavioral, Biological, Coastal, Component, Connectivity, Cross-shore, Delivery, Disseminate, Flows, Habitats, Has, Hydrodynamic, Intertidal, Larvae, Management, Marine, Processes, Required, Student, Students, Suggest, USD, Undergraduate, Water.

RAPID: Documenting bleaching susceptibility and resilience in Guam, Micronesia
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kiho Kim($93,490), American University, Washington
Key terms: Coral Bleaching, Coral Reef, Initial Surveys, Reef Resilience, Ability, Combinations, Corals, Differences, Differential, Environmental, Examine, Experiencing, Extent, Genetic, Genotypes, Host, Host-symbiont, Island, LTER, Long-term, Micronesia, Moorea, Mortality, Recovery, Severity, Sites, Temperature, Time, Unprecedented.

High Resolution Linkages Between DOC Turnover and Bacterioplankton in a Coastal Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patricia M Medeiros($998,701), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Hypothesized Network Links, Complex Natural, Doc Compounds, Doc Pool, Gene Expression, Laboratory Exercises, Bacteria, Bacterial, Bacterioplankton, Biology, Bioreactive, Chemical, Coastal, Collaborate, Components, Composition, Fate, Georgia, Heterotrophic, Level, Linking, Marine, Microbial, Ocean, Pis, Queries, School, Simplified, Students.

Gene Flow and Divergence Across the Equatorial Tropical Marine Barrier: Past, Present and Future
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter B Marko($167,251), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Northern And Southern, Warmest Tropical Regions, Gene Flow, Graduate Students, Southern Hemispheres, Antitropical, Connectivity, Currents, Dispersive, Distributions, Elegans, Equator, Future, Has, History, Larval, Populations, Separation, Species, Taught, Temperature, Tolerance, Tropics, Via.

Spatial variability of larval fish in relation to their prey and predator fields: Patterns and interactions from cm to 10s of km in a subtropical, pelagic environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert K Cowen($888,504), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Food Webs, Image Analysis, Intellectual Merit, Larval Fishes, Larval Growth, Pelagic Food, Predator-prey Interactions, Analyses, Biological, Broad, Consequences, Distribution, Ecosystems, Environments, Fine-scale, Focus, ISIIS, Imagery, Organisms, Plankton, Planktonic, Predator-prey, Predators, Processes, Range, Sampling, Simultaneously, Spatial.

EAGER: Persistent Virus Infections in Marine Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joaquin Martinez Martinez($299,546), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Persistent Virus Infections, Marine Phytoplankton, Marine Viruses, Analysis, Biodiversity, Component, Cycle, Ecosystem, Environment, Evolution, Function, Global, Host, Importance, Knowledge, Ocean, Primary, Program, Public, Writer.

RUI: Colonization genetics of globally invasive marine bryozoa: Does adaptation prior or post-introduction determine spread?
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joshua mackie($355,586), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
Key terms: Harbors And Bays, Copper Anti-fouling, Ecological Genetics, Growth Rate, Invasive Species, Propagule Pressure, Adaptation, Anti-fouling, California, Coastal, Complex, Correlates, Examine, Experiments, Genus, Hulls, Introductions, Invasions, Marine, Microsatellite, Paints, Past, Reconstruct, Selection, Spread, Success, Successful, Temperature, Undergraduate, Watersipora.

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

1. Julia A Cherry($522,386), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Temporal And Spatial, Little Lagoon, Microalgal Dynamics, Nutrient Enrichment, Spatial Scales, Alabama, Assess, Benthic, Composition, Demonstrated, Dependence, Dilution, Discharge, Driven, Ecological, Findings, Has, LLPS, Local, MPB, Microalgae, Nshore, Nutrients, Past, Phytoplankton, Pis, Press, SGD, Shown, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: "EaSM-3": The Role of Ocean Eddies in Decadal Prediction
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Joseph Tribbia($1,000,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Benjamin P Kirtman($1,600,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Observational Error Statistics, Resolution-dependent Observational Error, Weather And Climate, Decadal Predictability, Decadal Prediction, Eddy Resolving, Eddy-resolving Scales, Experimental Prediction, Ocean Eddies, Ocean Eddy-resolving, Resolution-dependent Observational, Approach, Assimilation, Available, Broader, CESM, DART, Demand, Developed, Development, Eddy-resolving, High-resolution, Initialize, Interactions, Limitations, Model, Modeling, Models, Predictions, Processes, Range, Seeks, Simulations, Tools.

Collaborative Research: EaSM-3: Modeling, Understanding, and Prediction of the Decadal Variability of Productive Eastern Boundary Coastal Upwelling Regions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. James C McWilliams($1,999,974), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Curtis Deutsch($739,760), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Eastern Boundary Upwelling, Magnitude And Seasonality, Alongshore Winds, Anthropogenic Signals, Coming Decades, Ebus Regions, Future Climate, High-resolution Regional, Historical Reconstructions, Marine Ecosystems, Model Simulations, West Coast, Cloud, Consequences, Controls, Current, Decadal, Essential, Evolution, Experiments, Focused, Groundwork, Has, High-resolution, Humboldt, Lay, Management, Natural, Output, Past, Prediction, Processes, Productivity, Quantify, Reanalysis-driven, Stakeholders, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: Scale Dependence and Adaptive Capacity
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Kevin Gross($99,909), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Peter J Edmunds($1,892,911), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Coral Reef Organisms, Corals And Calcified, Moorea Coral Reef, 20-m Depth, Calcified Algae, Coral Reefs, Oa Effects, Ocean Acidification, Reef Ecosystems, Within-species Genetic, Year-long Duration, Administered, Affect, Builds, Climate, Coastal, Couple, Ecological, Emerging, Existing, Experiments, Exploit, Flumes, Focused, Focuses, Function, Has, Involvement, LTER, Marine, NSF, Opportunities, Program, Replicated, Technical, Thematic, Theory, Underwater, Within-species, Ylong.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: microbes as sentinels of adaptive responses to multiple stressors: contrasting estuarine and open ocean environments
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Konstantinos T Konstantinidis($366,350), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Zackary I Johnson($798,452), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Essential Ecosystem Services, Coastal Ecosystems, Increased Acidity, Mesocosm Experiments, Multiple Stressors, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Waters, Temperate Estuary, Activities, Adaptive, Advanced, Assess, Characterize, Estuarine, Marine, Microbes, Microbial, Model, Natural, OA, Oceans, Ph, Physiological, Predict, Quantify, Temperature.

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Development of a Compact Instrument for Field Measurements of pH, Total Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, and Total Alkalinity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Robert H Byrne($312,764), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Lori R Adornato($617,951), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Mica Iii, Ocean Acidification, Total Alkalinity, Approach, Archive, Calculated, Carbon-system, Carbonate, Chemistry, Collect, Compact, Consequences, Context, DIC, Design, Development, Directly, Discussion, Enable, Festival, Field, Highly, Instrument, Measured, National, Observations, Parameters, Petersburg, Ph, Portable, Protocols, Requirements, Sensor, Specific, St, Substantially, Surface, TA, Technology.

Collaborative Research Ocean Acidification: Establishing the links between offshore biogeochemistry, coral reef metabolism and acidification
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Andreas Andersson($429,545), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Rodney Johnson($378,280), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Bermuda Coral Reef, Carbon And Nitrogen, Local Seawater Acidification, Seawater Biogeochemical Properties, Carbon Dioxide, Coral Reefs, Long-term Acidification, Main Drivers, North Atlantic, Ocean Acidification, Organic Carbon, Reef Biogeochemical, Reef Calcification, Reef Platform, Time-series Station, Believe, Calcium, Carbonate, Effects, Evidence, Food, Forcings, Fueled, Heterotrophy, Increase, Increased, Inorganic, Inshore, Linked, Long-term, NAO, Negative, Nutrients, Observed, Offshore, Open-ocean, Pressure, Primary, Processes, Students, Supply, Time-series, Total.

Effects of acidification and warming on long-term ocean carbon cycling constrained by observations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Andreas Schmittner($259,788), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles, Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Cycling, Existing Observations, Ocean Acidification, Organic Carbon, Particle Aggregation, Publicly Available, Anthropogenic, Benefit, Caco, Climate, Coccolithophores, Control, Dataset, Effect, Effects, Feedback, Future, Global, Lead, Model, POC, Processes, Projections, Quantify, Species, Surface, Time, Waters, Zone.

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: The response of calcareous nannoplankton to ocean acidification during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. Timothy J Bralower($747,063), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. James C Zachos($277,192), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Greenhouse Gas, Ocean Acidification, Surface Ocean, Adapt, Calcite, Carbonate, Coccolithophores, Cores, Deep, Deep-sea, Existing, Experiments, Has, Low, Marine, Maximum, Modern, Morphotypes, Nannoplankton, Natural, PETM, Ph, Saturation, Sections, Shelf, Shells, Species, Stages, Temporal, Time.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Determination of atmospheric wet and dry deposition and air-sea exchange of mercury species from coastal and offshore waters
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert P Mason($98,547), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Steven B Brooks($91,205), University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma
Key terms: Humans And Wildlife, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Activities, Biological, Concentrations, Critical, Deposition, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Local, Mercury, Methylmercury, Processes, Surface, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Inventories of Primary Productivity by In-situ Mass Spectrometry in the Upper Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brice Loose($256,756), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Strawn Toler($149,986), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Dissolved Oxygen, Mass Spectrometer, Organic Matter, Ar, Atmosphere, Balance, Budget, Deployed, Exceeds, Floats, Food, Marine, Measure, Methodological, NCP, Net, Ocean, Oceanic, Organisms, Photosynthesis, Processes, Regions, Resolve, Respiration, Seawater, Students, UMIMS.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Mercury Speciation and Cycling in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chad R Hammerschmidt($212,746), Wright State University, Dayton
2. Carl Lamborg($234,089), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Extent And Rate, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Mercury Species, Biological, Chemical, Concentration, Cycling, Distributions, Ecosystem, GEOTRACES, Has, Ice, Measure, Methylmercury, Particles, Processes, Sea, Sediments, Snow, Students, Trace, Variety.

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Thorium-230, Thorium-232, and Protactinium-231 tracers of trace element supply and removal.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert F Anderson($774,246), Columbia University, New York
2. Richard L Edwards($454,947), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: 231pa And 230th, Dissolved And Particulate, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Canada Basin, Geotraces Arctic, Geotraces Program, Lithogenic 232th, Sea Ice, Aerosol, Concentrations, Distributions, Information, Isotopes, Margin, Naturally-occurring, Near, Participating, Rate, Rates, Scavenging, Sediments, Supply, TEI, Trace.

GEOTRACES Arctic section: Dissolved micronutrient trace metal distributions and size partitioning
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jessica N Fitzsimmons($497,314), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Geotraces Program, Sea Ice, Biological, Concentrations, Control, Distributions, Essential, Information, Measured, Metal, Metals, Micronutrients, Processes, Seawater, Six, Trace, Unique, Variety.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Arctic Section - Water mass composition, circulation and mean residence times derived from measurements of natural and manmade tracers
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David T Ho($233,265), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Robert Newton($1,140,095), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Changing Environmental Conditions, Mean Residence Times, Water Mass Composition, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice, Time Scales, Water Movement, Biological, C-, Cfcs, Circulation, Distributions, Essential, Establish, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Measure, Oceanic, Pathways, Processes, SF, School, Teis, Trace, Tracers, Trajectories, Waters.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Processes affecting the biogeochemical cycling of essential and toxic metalloids in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gregory A Cutter($238,385), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Arsenic And Selenium, Arctic Expedition, Chemical Speciation, Anthropogenic, Biological, Changing, Concentration, Concentrations, Control, Cycling, Distributions, Establish, GEOTRACES, Implications, Inputs, Knowledge, Latitude, Marine, Metalloid, Ocean, Oxidation, Processes, Toxic, Trace.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Improving understanding of controls on the distributions of selected anthropogenic radionuclides in the Amerasian Basin
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy C Kenna($398,279), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Anthropogenic Radioisotopes, Anthropogenic Radionuclides, Arctic Expedition, Geotraces Arctic, Cesium-, Concentrations, Distributions, Fate, Global, Has, Human-made, Influence, Isotopes, Nuclear, Plutonium-, Processes, Sources, Transport.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Shipboard determination of key trace elements
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher I Measures($366,783), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Geotraces Arctic Expedition, Shore-based Icp Ms, Dissolved Aluminum, Shore-based Icp, Biological, Collected, Contamination, Distribution, Distributions, Iron, Manganese, Metals, Processes, Sampling, Sea, Seawater, Set, Shipboard, Trace, Water.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Methane, vanadium, barium, and gallium as process indicators in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alan M Shiller($303,214), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Dissolved Trace, Atlantic, Atmosphere, Barium, Biological, Circulation, Contributions, Distributions, Fluxes, GEOTRACES, Gallium, Gas, Indicator, Inputs, Measured, Methane, Processes, Region, River, Shelf, Tracers, Vanadium, Variety, Water.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Marine Cycling of Bioactive Trace Metals in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Seth G John($274,065), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Mak A Saito($328,737), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sources And Sinks, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Bioactive Metals, Bioactive Trace, Geotraces Program, Metal Isotopes, Modern Ocean, Analysis, Biogeochemical, Biological, Cd, Changing, Concentrations, Cycling, Dataset, Dissolved, Distributions, Fe, Influence, Methods, Parameters, Processes, Productivity, Seven, Speciation, USGEOTRACES, Zn.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Cycling of Particulate Trace Elements in the Western Arctic Basin
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Peter Morton($430,334), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Enable Scientists, Particulate Trace, Water Column, Biological, Changing, Conditions, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Geochemical, Particles, Phytoplankton, Processes, Scavenging, Sources.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Actinium-227 as a Naturally-occurring Tracer of Dissolved Material Transport in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Douglas E Hammond($135,464), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Deep Sea, Geotraces Program, Actinium-, Biological, Distributions, Dynamics, Half-life, Measured, Processes, Separate, Solute, Trace, Tracer, Tracers, Transport.

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical cycling of particulate trace elements in the western Arctic basin
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin S Twining($243,548), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Enable Scientists, Particulate Trace, Water Column, Biological, Changing, Conditions, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Geochemical, Particles, Phytoplankton, Processes, Scavenging, Sources.

US GEOTRACES ARCTIC: Measuring stable isotopes of carbon in dissolved inorganic carbon and oxygen/argon gas ratios to show impact of organic matter export on nutrient distributions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($414,908), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Organic Matter Export, Arctic Ocean, Biological Pump, Chemical, Circulation, Conditions, Control, Cycling, Delc, Distribution, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Gas, Information, Isotopes, Measure, Nutrients, Oar, Processes, Quantify, Ratio, Spatial, Stable, Surface, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Calibration and application of vascular plant and aqueous microbial biomarkers to examine transformations of dissolved organic matter
Award Effective Date: 09/04/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert G Spencer($163,684), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Organic Matter, Biomarker, California, Cycling, DOM, Environments, OM, Processing, Quantitative, Students, Terrestrial, Tools.

OPERATION OF A COMMUNITY MARINE-ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLING FACILITY AT TUDOR HILL, BERMUDA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew J Peters($289,010), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Marine Boundary Layer, Marine Troposphere, Tudor Hill, Ability, Atmospheric, Bermuda, Continue, Effects, Exchange, Future, Global, Has, Ocean, Operation, Station, Topics.

Role of variable picoplankton cellular phosphorus turnover and allocation in marine phosphorus cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kimberly Popendorf($234,419), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cellular Phosphorus Turnover, Biochemical Analyses, Biomass Turnover, Dissolved Phosphorus, Dissolved Pool, Microbial Uptake, Phosphorus Fluxes, Rapid Return, Sargasso Sea, Surface Ocean, Turnover Rate, Turnover Rates, Activity, Biogeochemical, Central, Chemical, Controlling, Cycling, Dynamics, Educational, Field, Linking, Mechanistic, Picoplankton, Recycling, Relative.

Collaborative Research: New Constraints on Marine Oxygen Cycling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William M Berelson($96,925), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Laurence Y Yeung($203,480), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Marine O2, Marine Oxygen, Organic Matter, Combined, Cycling, Dissolved, Isotopes, Methods, Ocean, Profiles, Quintuple-isotopologue, Substances, Yield.

Source, Composition, and Stability of Soluble Iron Fluxing from Continental Margin Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Martial Taillefert($497,590), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Continental Margin Sediments, Atmospheric Inputs, Limiting Nutrient, Overlying Waters, Primary Productivity, Sediment-derived Iron, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical, Chemical, Complexes, Dissolved, Flux, Has, Importance, Main, Ocean, Oceans, Phytoplankton, Processes, Quantified, Redox, Regulating, Sediment-derived, Sources, Students.

Inferring large-scale patterns of nutrient regeneration in the ocean using a global biogeochemical inverse model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francois Primeau($384,895), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Ecosystem And Biogeochemical, Global Ocean Circulation, Biogeochemical Cycles, Decomposition Products, Elemental Composition, Global Database, Inverse Modeling, Organic Matter, Pre-existing Organisms, Surface Ocean, Abiotic, Biological, Carbon, Estimate, Export, Jointly, Marine, Models, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Nutrients, Oxygen, Phosphorous, Phytoplankton, Pre-existing, Ratios, Regeneration, Silicon, Stoichiometry.

Collaborative Proposal: Assessment of the Colloidal Iron Size Spectrum in Coastal and Oceanic Waters
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jessica N Fitzsimmons($198,737), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Mark L Wells($269,334), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Colloidal Phase, Physicalchemical Character, Composition, Iron, Marine, Matter, Methods, Phases, Primary, Serve, Size, Source, Spectrum.

Collaborative Research: Identification of nitrogen sources for toxic Alexandrium blooms using a novel species-specific tracer, d15N-saxitoxin
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Juliette L Smith($394,395), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
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: Isotopic insights to mercury in marine food webs and how it varies with ocean biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($362,164), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Kanesa D Seraphin($417,205), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Joel D Blum($358,982), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ocean Food Webs, Intermediate Waters, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Chemical, Controlling, Depths, Entry, Fractionation, MDF, MIF, Marine, Mercury, Mmhg, Oxygen, Pathways, Reactions, Surface.

Fingerprinting and Calibrating Low Oxygen Conditions Using Vanadium Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Sune G Nielsen($369,520), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bottom Water Oxygen, Low Oxygen Conditions, Water Oxygen Concentrations, Chemical Proxies, Paleoredox Proxy, Redox Conditions, Vanadium Isotopes, Climate, Ferromanganese, History, Importance, Isotopic, Marine, Modern, Ocean, Organic, Past, Periods, Range, Rich, Sediments.

GEOTRACES Peru-Tahiti section: Measurement of 7Be as a Tracer of Upper Ocean Processes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David C Kadko($320,631), Florida International University, Miami
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.

Collaborative Proposal: GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Collection and analysis of atmospheric deposition
Award Effective Date: 05/30/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Clifton Buck($117,951), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Clifton Buck($199,380), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Aerosol And Rainfall, Atmospheric Deposition, Characterize Aerosol, Zonal Section, Alaska, Analyzed, Florida, GEOTRACES, Inputs, Iron, Pacific, Quantify, Seawater-soluble, Teis, Transect.

Interannual variability of oxygen and macro-nutrients in the Labrador Sea
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Takamitsu Ito($397,587), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Labrador Sea, Biological, Climate, Cycling, Deep, Global, Oxygen, Regions.

The Microobial Nitrogen Pump: Coupling 14C and Compound-specific Amino Acids to Understand the Role of Microbial Transformations in the Refractory Ocean DON Pool
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Thomas P Guilderson($600,000), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Biologically-available Dissolved Organic, Ocean Nitrogen Cycle, Organic Nitrogen Pool, Biologically-available Dissolved, Nitrogen Pool, Active, Formation, Microbes, Microbial, Oceans, Transformation.

Collaborative Research: Experimental constraints on marine Fe isotope effects - Biology, ligands, and particles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kristen N Buck($155,641), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Iron Biogeochemical Cycling, Bermuda Institute, Dissolved Iron, Essential Micronutrient, Iron Dissolution, Iron Isotopes, Iron-binding Ligands, Isotopic Fractionation, Biological, Development, Iron-binding, Marine, Natural, Ocean, Oceans, Phytoplankton, Public, Uptake.

Fate of Phosphorus during Photochemical Cycling of Iron Oxyhydr(oxides) in the Upper Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kathleen C Ruttenberg($150,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Ferric Oxyhydroxide, Ferric Oxyhydroxides, Bioavailable, Dust, Particles, Phosphorus, Source.

Filling Gaps in the Atlantic and Pacific Pb and Pb Isotope Spatial and Temporal Evolution
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward A Boyle($386,335), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Leaded Gasoline, Followed, Human, Ocean.

Natural Iron Fertilization from the Patagonian and South Georgia Island Shelves to the Open Waters of the Southern Ocean.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Yvette H Spitz($753,084), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Atlantic Sector, Southern Ocean, Carbon, HNLC, Iron, Observed, Primary, Productivity, Undergraduate.

Following the Trail of Fukushima Tracers: Transport Pathways, Spreading and Mixing in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($1,099,945), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Pacific, Analysis, CLIVAR, Cesium, Combined, Cs, Float, Fukushima, Half-life, Invited, Isotopes, Lab, Levels, Mixing, Model, Modeling, Observations, Ocean, Outreach, Particular, Pis, Processes, Profiles, Public, Release, Sr, Strontium, Student, Summer, Unique, WHOI, Water, Waters.

The Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Iron-ligands in Marine Cyanobacteria and Seawater
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel J Repeta($672,744), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Iron And Cobalt, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Organic Geochemistry, Trace Metals, Availability, Available, Binding, Cycling, Graduate, Institute, Ligands, Microbial, Primary.

Biopolymers as carrier phases for selected natural radionuclides (of Th, Pa, Pb, Po, Be) in diatoms and coccolithophores
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kathleen A Schwehr($506,849), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Diatoms And Coccoliths, Biogenic Opal, Carrier Molecules, Molecular-level Characterization, Natural Radioisotopes, Natural Radionuclides, Approaches, Attached, Biopolymers, Caco, Carbon, Cells, Coccolithophores, Cycling, EPS, Molecular-level, Ocean, Oceanographic, Organic, Pa, Particle, Particles, Pb, Po, Program, Proxies, Pure, Scavenging, Separation, Shells, Silica, Students, Techniques, Templates, Texas, Th, Tracer, Tracing, Via.

Outwelling of Dissolved Organic Carbon from Salt Marshes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jennifer Cherrier($44,492), Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Salt Marshes, Coastal, Flux, Gulf, Intertidal, Little, Mexico, Ocean, Outwelling, Terrestrial.

A Planning Workshop for an International Coupled North Atlantic-Arctic Science Program
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Heather Benway($75,735), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic Arctic, Comprehensive Vision, Global Climate, Ocean Physics, Spring Bloom, AMOC, Basins, Biogeochemical, Circulation, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Effort, European, Initiative, International, Marine, Program, Region, Resources, Timing, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Defining the Role of Biologically Produced Reactive Oxygen Species in Dark Mercury Cycling
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Colleen Hansel($822,062), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Bettina M Voelker($95,255), Colorado School of Mines, Golden
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Colorado School, Dark Hg, Dark Redox, Graduate Student, Hg Cycling, Boston, Controls, Marine, Mercury, Mines, Obtain, Reactions, Students, Summer.

Regional air-sea CO2 fluxes from the WOCE and CLIVAR 13C-DIC dataset and in an ocean carbon cycle model
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rolf E Sonnerup($593,822), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Cycle, Climate, Cycling, Essential, Model, Models, Ocean, Predictions.

P-NEXFS investigation of the influence of aerosol phosphorus on the Mediterranean Sea
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellery D Ingall($288,928), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Mediterranean Sea, Phosphorus Phases, X-ray Fluorescence, Aerosol, Aerosols, Composition, Has, Nutrients, Ocean, Productivity, Region, Source, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: The Cariaco Basin Oceanographic Time Series Program
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Claudia R Benitez-Nelson($735,128), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Yrene M Astor($1,699,804), University of South Florida, Tampa
3. Mary I Scranton($946,351), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Cariaco Basin, Continental Margin, Ocean Time-series, Adjacent, Carbon, Caribbean, Climate, Continue, Ecosystem, Efforts, Fluxes, Global, Has, International, Latin, OCB, Past, Processes, Program, Programme, South, Surface, Time-series, Transfer, Venezuelan.

Rapid, Autonomous Particle Flux Observations in the Oligotrophic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Margaret Estapa($122,570), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Particle Flux, Available, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Fellow, Floats, Method, POC, Processes, Technology, Via.

Relating the Optical Properties of CDOM within the Ocean Basins to Source and Structure
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rossana Del Vecchio($500,441), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Source And Structure, Organic Matter, Acquired, Atlantic, CDOM, Chemical, Has, Marine, Oceans, Presentations, Properties, Spectral.

Quantifying the Photochemical Reactivity of Deep Ocean Water
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Patricia M Medeiros($398,874), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Carbon Cycle, Deep Ocean, Doc Concentrations, Organic Carbon, Refractory Doc, Undergraduate Students, Found, Global, Oxygen, Photochemistry, Reflect, Removal, Sinks.

Interdisciplinary Research and Training at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Claudia Cenedese($1,342,182), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Broader Impacts, Environmental Sustainability, Graduate Students, Climate, Fields, GFD, Has, Interdisciplinary, Introduces, Participants, Particular, Postdoctoral, Program, Purposes, Selected, Societal, Strong, Summer, Techniques, Theme, Topics, Training, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Dimensions: Coevolution of scleractinian corals and their associated microorganisms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Dimensions of Biodiversity

1. Rebecca L Vega($1,095,956), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Monica Medina($908,570), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Coral Microbial, Coral Phylogeny, Coral Species, Microbial Diversity, Bleaching, Complex, Computational, Corals, Disease, Diverse, Ecosystems, Educational, Microbiota, Predictive, Reef, Reefs, Stressors, Susceptibility, Techniques, Vulnerability.

REU Site: Research Internships in Ocean Sciences (RIOS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Kenneth W Able($270,256), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Marine Field Station, Bay, Coastal, Ecosystems, Experience, Housed, Mullica, NJ, Ocean, Orientation, Poster, Program, Rutgers, Students, Summer, Training, Tuckerton, Workshops, Write.

CAREER: Diagnosis of forced versus intrinsic low-frequency variability in high-resolution coupled climate models using geostrophic turbulence techniques
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian Arbic($715,918), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Coupled Climate Models, Idealized Two-layer Qg, Qg Turbulence Simulations, Transfers And Fluxes, Two-layer Qg Turbulence, Atmospheric Forcing, Eddy-resolving Ocean, Graduate Student, Idealized Two-layer, Ocean Models, Satellite Altimeter, Spectral Transfers, Two-layer Qg, Builds, Capacity, Diagnosed, Eddy-resolving, Energy, Forced, Frequency, Ghana, Has, Intrinsic, Low-frequency, Nonlinearities, Oceanic, Oceanography, Pis, Postdoc, Principal, Run, Space, Students, Substantial, Tools.

Marine Technology Mentoring and Internship Program on Oceanographic Research Vessels
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Deidre Sullivan($316,562), Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
Key terms: Internship Program, Marine Technical, Students Enrolled, Undergraduate Students, Center, Internships, MATE, Programs, Qualified, UNOLS, USCG.

CAREER: Investigating Earthquake Cycles on Mid-Ocean Ridge Transform Faults
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Margaret S Boettcher($445,733), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Largest Earthquakes, School Physics, Seismic Coupling, Experience, Fault, Faults, Following, Gain, Hazard, Predictability, RTF, Rtfs, Simple, Size, Slip, Students, Teachers, Time.

CAREER: Ready to Resolve: Subgridscale Physics for Mesoscale Ocean Large Eddy Simulations
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Baylor Fox-Kemper($594,018), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Climate Models, Rhode Island, Subgrid Model, Subgrid Models, Advantages, Approaches, Bay, Brown, Build, Class, Combine, Developed, Eddies, Eddy, Educate, Energy, Future, Graduate, MOLES, Modeling, Non-stem, Ocean, Physics, Potential, Required, Resolution, Resolved, Save, Trained, Transport, Undergraduate, Unresolved.

REU Site: Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jane L Teranes($527,294), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Quality Collaborative, Environmental, Faculty, Graduate, Participants, Program, REU, Scripps, Students, Summer.

REU Site: Coral Reef Biodiversity and Resilience on Little Cayman
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Carrie Manfrino($292,194), Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Princeton
Key terms: Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, CCMI, Caribbean, Disturbances, Ecological, Ecosystem, Global, Local, Ocean, Opportunity, Processes, Program, REU, Recovery, Resilience, Students, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Method Development for High-Resolution Underway N2 Fixation Measurements
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Nicolas Cassar($790,179), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Nitrogen Fixation Rates, Oceanic Nitrogen Fixation, Nitrogen Gas, Climate, Current, Duke, Graduate, Knowledge, Method, Reduction, Student, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Coastal Research in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST) at UMass Boston
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Alan D Christian($368,096), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Coastal Environmental, Umass Boston, CREST, Disciplines, Gain, Program, REU, Scholars, Skills, Training.

CAREER: Development of a broadband acoustic system for quantifying the flux of free gas in methane seeps
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Thomas C Weber($690,785), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Global Flux, Methane Gas, Methane Seeps, Acoustic, Atmosphere, Benefit, Bubble, Bubbles, Chemistry, Depth, Development, Escaping, Estimates, Has, Instrument, Khz, Local, Ocean, Range, Schools, Sea, Seabed, Size, Wide.

CAREER: Lagrangian investigation of upper ocean turbulence
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Tobias Kukulka($400,456), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Lc And Breaking, Ocean Boundary Layer, Plastic Marine Debris, Upper Ocean Dynamics, Upper Ocean Turbulence, Wave-driven Upper Ocean, Weather And Climate, Breaking Wave, Breaking Waves, Educate Students, Lagrangian Analysis, Minority Students, Mixed Layer, Ocean Physics, Surface Waves, Undergraduate Students, Underrepresented Students, Wave Effects, Wave-driven Upper, Activities, Activity, Approach, Education, Educational, Fluid, Framework, Has, Lead, Models, Objectives, Parameterizations, Participation, Pis, Pollution, Processes, Public, Substances, Systematically, Transport, Turbulent.

CAREER: Small Grazers, Multiple Stressors and the Proliferation of Fungal Disease in Marine Plant Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian Silliman($342,201), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Marine Plant Ecosystems, Disease Dynamics, Food Web, Fungal Disease, Fungal Infection, Grazer Facilitation, Integrated Educational, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Plants, Multiple Stressors, Plant Disease, Plant Growth, Top-down Control, Class, Commonly, Conservation, Field, Global, Grazers, Has, Interaction, Interactions, Marshes, Program, Student, Students, Terrestrial, Top-down, UF, Was.

Continuing Outreach Activities at ASLO Meetings to Assist Ocean Scientists
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jonathan H Sharp($48,640), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Communication, Meeting, Participants, Public, Training, Videos, Workshop, Workshops.

Ocean 2YC: Expanding a Community of Oceanography Two Year College Instructors
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Allison Beauregard Schwartz($29,007), Northwest Florida State College, Niceville
Key terms: Oceanography Faculty, Access, Conference, Critical, Development, Educational, Held, Joint, Lack, Minority, National, Serve, Session, Society, Students, Teaching, Workshop, YC.

OCE-PRF Track 1: Dissecting the physiological and molecular responses of marine picoeukaryotes to the interactive effects of P deficiency and ocean acidification
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. LeAnn P Whitney($174,000), Whitney LeAnn P, East Boothbay
Key terms: Carbon Cycling, Carbon Dioxide, Availability, Cellular, Climate, Conditions, Ecologically, Ecosystem, Fellow, Field, Future, Global, Molecular, Ocean, Oligotrophic, Phosphorus, Picoeukaryotes, Picophytoplankton, Somalian.

Linking biogeochemical sulfur and iron cycling with the diversity and activity of benthic microbes in coastal Hawaiian marine environments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kiana L Frank($130,000), Frank Kiana L, Kailua
Key terms: Iron And Sulfur, Hawaiian Coastal, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biogeochemical, Cycling, Diel, Distribution, Extent, Fish, Fishpond, Heeia, Management, Microbes, Microbial, Ocean, Organisms, Oxygen, Processes, Redox.

Collaborative research: Dynamics and origins of explosive silicic volcanism at 2300 mbsl on a mid-ocean ridge spreading center
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ryan Portner($161,105), Brown University, Providence
2. Brian Dreyer($148,338), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Monterrey Bay Aquarium, Deep Sea, California, Center, Deposits, Discovered, Dispersal, Eruption, Explosive, Geochemical, Glasses, Institute, Isotopes, Magmatic, Silicic, Volatile, Volcanic, Volcaniclastic, Volcano.

Sr, Nd, Pb and Hf isotopes of basalts from the Quebrada/Discovery/Gofar transform fault system;key to test models of melt generation,transport and focusing beneath mid-ocean ridges
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alberto E Saal($137,898), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Mid-ocean Ridges, Rhode Island, Analytical, Elementary, Geochemical, Involved, Lavas, Minority, Models, Pacific, Processes, Programs, Students, Volcanic.

RAPID: Characterizing the overwash deposition of Super Typhoon Haiyan along the Philippine Coast with connections to long-term records
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Davin Wallace($29,987), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Typhoon Haiyan, Wind Speeds, Context, Contribute, Extreme, Geologic, Historic, Philippines, Sites.

Collaborative Research: the role of fluids in intermediate-depth seismicity and wedge anisotropy: Case studies for Cascadia and Alaska, with a comparison to Japan
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Geoffrey A Abers($122,274), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Subduction Zones, Alaska, Cascadia, Collaboration, Fluids, Japanese, Mantle, Plate, Wave.

Development and Deployment of Autonomous and Remotely Operated Chemical Sensor System: Integrated Laboratory and Field Studies of Seafloor Hydrothermal Vent Fluids
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: HSD - AGENTS OF CHANGE

1. Kang Ding($485,874), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent Fluids, Chemical Sensor, Chemical Sensors, Fluid Sampling, Graduate Students, Hydrothermal Fluid, Advances, Autonomous, Calibration, Components, Contribute, Deep-sea, Enhancing, Has, In-situ, Lab, Nanotechnology, Newly, Objectives, Ocean, Operation, Participation, Ph, Program, Range, Seafloor, Technical, Temperatures, Undergraduate, Vents.

Provision of Log Data Reduction and Database Services for Scientific Ocean Drilling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROG

1. David S Goldberg($1,067,983), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Reduction And Qaqc, Joides Resolution, Maintain Historic, Ocean Drilling, Access, BRG, Collaborate, Collected, Continue, Database, Expeditions, Files, Future, Has, IODP, Interface, LDEO, Log, Logdb, ODP, Program, Quality-controlled, Search, Secure, Sets, Ship, Transferred, Uploaded, Web.

International Council for Exploration of the Sea: Travel Support for Academic Participants, 2014-2017
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward D Houde($331,667), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Academic Scientists, Ecosystem-based Management, Ices Activities, Arctic, Atlantic, Climate, Ecosystem-based, Emphasis, Funds, Increased, Initiatives, Inquiry, Insure, Leadership, Marine, Ocean, Opportunities, Provided, Sustainable.

Support of US Scientific Participation in the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Enrique N Curchitser($385,384), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Academic Scientists, North Pacific, Collaboration, Collaborations, Diverse, International, Marine, Ocean, PICES, Travel, Workshops.

Participation of Qualified Oceanographers from Developing Countries in International Scientific Activities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

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

REU Site: Research Experience for Undergradutes: Analyzing Global Databases
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Michael R Kaplan($338,631), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Has, LDEO, Ocean, Program, Student, Students.

REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Program for Climate Change Science in Metropolitan Coastal Communities at Old Dominion University
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Rodger Harvey($190,804), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Climate, Coastal, ODU, OEAS, Pis, Presentations, REU, SLR, Students, Urban.

REU Site: Marine Research in Puget Sound for Community College STEM Students
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Marina Halverson($288,717), Seattle Community College District Office, Seattle
Key terms: Ocean Inquiry, Puget Sound, Central, Cruises, District, Eight, Faculty, Lab, North, Opportunities, Pairs, STEM, Seattle, Students.

REU: From the intertidal to the ocean deep: Monterey Bay Regional Ocean Science REU Program
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Corey Garza($504,942), University Corporation at Monterey Bay, Seaside
Key terms: Monterey Bay, CSUMB, Marine, Oceanographic, Partner, Program, REU, Students.

Management and Operations of the JOIDES Resolution as a Facility for the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: International Ocean Discovery

1. Bradford Clement($627,898,407), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Brthe Joides Resolution, Integrated Ocean Drilling, International Ocean Discovery, Joides Resolution Operations, Ocean Discovery Program, Ocean Drilling Program, Cooperative Agreement, Day Rate, Drilling Platforms, Earth's Climate, Facilities Board, International Partners, Jr Fb, Plan Identifies, Texas Aandm, AM, Advance, Annual, Awardee, Based, Budgetary, CA, Capabilities, Contract, Core, Council, Decision, Deep, Depth, Enhanced, Environmental, Examine, Existing, Extensions, Facility, Financial, Five, Foundation, Future, Has, IODP, Indexed, Infrastructure, Initial, June, Low, Management, NSF, National, ODL, Operate, Operator, Panels, Past, Period, Planning, Potential, Previous, Principal, Priorities, Programs, Proven, Re-compete, Renew, Report, Representatives, Review, Sampling, Subcontract, Supported, Survey, Terminate, Themes, USC, Vessel, Yearly.

Diagnosing the origin of isotopically light carbon in the South Atlantic during the last deglaciation: An oceanic or geologic source?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. David C Lund($313,060), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Carbon Isotope Anomalies, Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Isotopic, Co2 Rise, Geologic Past, Atlantic, Deglaciation, Ice, Largest, Occurred, Ocean, Origin, Source, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Geochemical variation of the Pacific crust subducting beneath the Izu-Bonin arc and its implications for the generation of arc magmas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Paterno R Castillo($370,124), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Susanne M Straub($166,981), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Altered Ocean Crust, Elemental And Isotopic, Arc Magmas, Izu-bonin Arc, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Arcs, Composition, IODP, Input, Izu-bonin, Mantle, Nsf-funded, Output, Pacific, Pb, Recycling, Subducting, Transect.

MRI: Acquisition of a field-deployable mass spectrometer for biogeochemical research and education.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Giacomo R DiTullio($574,942), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Feedback Mechanisms Involving, Nitrogen And Carbon, Biogeochemical Cycling, Global Biogeochemical, Mass Spectrometers, Oceanic Dms, Ammonia, Aquatic, Cellular, Climate, Compounds, Concentrations, Control, Critical, Cycle, DMSP, Ecologically, Environments, Factors, Field, Formation, Level, Levels, Models, PTR-MS, Phytoplankton, Processes, Proportions, Rates, Relating, Relative, Successfully, Sulfur, Tool.

MRI: Acquisition of a laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS) for research in the marine, earth and environmental sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Justin B Ries($500,000), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Structure And Connectivity, Broad Range, Drug Discovery, Laser Ablation, Mass Spectrometer, Population Structure, Substrate Versatility, Acquisition, Afforded, Analysis, Analytical, Capabilities, Carbonate, Chemical, Coral, Developing, Disciplines, Elemental, Environmental, Experiments, Faculty, Fields, Fingerprinting, Fish, Gt, Instrument, Instrumentation, Investigating, Isotopic, LA-ICP-MS, Levels, Lt, Marine, Mid-level, Multiple, NSF, Northeastern, Numerous, Otoliths, Rapid, Resolution, Senior, Sensitivity, Shell, Skeletal, Staff, Students, Synthesis.

MRI: Acquisition of an Acoustic Wave Glider
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John P Walsh($281,393), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Acoustic Wave Glider, Acoustically Tagged, Marine Animals, Analysis, Conditions, Displays, Endangered, Missions, Mobile, Ocean, Public, Rainfall, Recording, Sea, Sensor, Sensors, Sounds, Species, Static, Storm, Temperature, Unmanned, Wind.

MRI Development: Imaging FlowCytobot on Autonomous Vehicles for Plankton Research and Harmful Algal Bloom Mitigation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Heidi M Sosik($517,998), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Harmful Algal Blooms, Existing Ifcb, Marine Ecosystems, Wide Range, Advance, Analysis, Applications, Coastal, Critical, Deployed, Deployment, Deployments, Design, Developed, Diverse, Duration, Fisheries, Flow, Gulf, IFCB-AV, Instrument, Management, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Spatial, Technology, Time, Vehicles, Water.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alan M Shiller($320,477), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Coupled Plasma-mass Spectrometry, Deepwater Horizon Oil, Horizon Oil Spill, Resolution-inductively Coupled Plasma-mass, Coupled Plasma-mass, Current Instrument, Graduate Students, Plasma-mass Spectrometry, Principal Investigator's, Resolution-inductively Coupled, Analysis, Analytical, Available, Composition, Contaminants, Elemental, Environmental, GEOTRACES, Gulf, HR-ICP-MS, Has, Mainly, Metal, Mexico, Sensitive, Trace.

Collaborative Research: The Thermal Regime of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone and Shallow Slow Slip Events, New Zealand.
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew T Fisher($64,720), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Robert N Harris($297,144), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heat Flow, Plate Interface, Margin, Northern, Processes, Seismic, Southern, Sses, Subduction, Thermal.

Collaborative Research: ELUCIDATING CONDUIT, ERUPTION AND PYROCLAST TRANSPORT DYNAMICS OF LARGE SILICIC SUBMARINE ERUPTIONS
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bruce F Houghton($454,871), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Samuel A Soule($278,746), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eruption Products, Explosive Eruption, Sediment Cores, Analysis, Ash, Currents, Deposits, Distribution, International, Involves, Ocean, Presentations, Processes, Pumice, Seafloor, Spotted, Stratigraphic, Thousands, Training, Volcano, Volcanoes, Water.

RUI: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Surface reservoir ages and ventilation in the Bering Sea during the last deglaciation from tephras and radiocarbon
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mea S Cook($228,321), Williams College, Williamstown
2. Alan C Mix($147,490), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Marine Sediment Cores, Southeast Bering Sea, Surface Reservoir Ages, Eastern Aleutians, Local Surface, North Pacific, Ocean Circulation, Sanak Island, Tephra-based Age, Water Masses, Benthic, Constant, Deglaciation, Has, Match, Measure, Nearby, Past, Planktonic, Potential, Radiocarbon, Reconstruction, Tephra-based, Tephras, Time, Trace, Ventilation.

North Atlantic Bottom Water Temperature and Ice Volume Records from the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Heather L Ford($221,274), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Bottom Water Temperature, Carbon Dioxide Levels, Global Ice Volume, Ice Volume Signals, Ocean Bottom Water, Temperature And Ice, Benthic Foraminifera, Global Climate, Mid-pleistocene Transition, Oxygen Isotope, Sea Level, Solar Strength, Mgca, Mid-pleistocene, Past, Proxy.

Defining the noble gas composition of highly depleted mantle domains
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($325,885), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Enriched Mantle Domains, Normal And Enriched, Earth's Mantle, Isotopic Composition, Mantle Degassing, Mass Spectrometry, Noble Gas, Noble Gases, Ridge Basalt, Allow, Atmosphere, Constrain, Depleted, MORB, Non-radiogenic, Origin, Process, Ratios, Sources, Structure, Student, Volatile, Volatiles, Xe.

Quantitative analysis of the Costa Rica margin 3D seismic volume to reveal subduction zone structure, tectonics, and the development of the seismogenic zone
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kirk D McIntosh($372,430), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Costa Rica, Megathrust Fault, Sedimentary Wedge, Analysis, Deformation, Faults, Fluid, Generation, Margin, Ocean, Plate, Seismic, Seismicity, Structure.

Thermohaline Circulation and Deep Ocean Carbonate Chemistry across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maureen E Raymo($696,199), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Circulation And Co2, Isotopes And Bca, Atmospheric Co2, Bca Ratios, Deep-ocean Circulation, Global Climate, Thermohaline Circulation, Benthic, Carbon, Carbonate, Climatic, Cycles, Deep-ocean, Geological, Glacial, Ice, MPT, Nd, Past, Proxies, Quantify, Shifted, Transition.

Experimental Investigations of Peridotite-H2O-CO2 Interactions under Hydrothermal Conditions: A Study of Carbon Sequestration and Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Compounds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Seewald($299,740), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Abiotic Synthesis, Carbon Sequestration, Carbonate Minerals, Organic Compounds, Academy, Atmospheric, Chemical, Co-charged, Deep, Earth, Experimental, Experiments, Fluid, Fluids, Formation, Found, Inorganic, Interaction, Kinetic, Microbes, Natural, Process, Puerto, Reaction, Reactions, Rock, Seafloor, Serpentine, Serpentinization, Students, Subsurface, Surface, Thermodynamic.

High-resolution seismic models of the upper mantle beneath the Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($279,970), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Seismic Models, Upper Mantle, Amplitude, Attenuation, Average, Composition, Features, Magma, Pacific, Plates, Structure, Velocity.

Developing Methods for Detection and Analysis of Repeating Earthquakes and Low Frequency Earthquakes Using Cascadia Initiative Amphibious Network Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Susan L Bilek($156,753), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Ocean Bottom, CI, Fault, Hazard, LFE, Megathrust, Offshore, Pacific, Plate, Portion, Repeating, Seismic, Slip, Source, Undergraduate.

Completing the Global Seafloor Fabric and Magnetic Lineation Project
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Paul Wessel($35,503), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Magnetic Lineation Picks, Fracture Zones, Global Fracture, Marine Geophysical, Seafloor Fabric, Web Site, Access, Availability, Available, Collection, Complete, Database, Digitize, Fzanalyzer, Fzblender, Fzs, GMT, Google, Has, Lineated, Online, Plate, Software, Supplement, Technical, Tools, Via, Website, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Oxygen Fugacity (i.e., Chemical Activity) in the Upper Mantle: Intercalibration of Upper-Mantle Oxybarometers with State-of-the-Art Analytical Techniques
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Frederick A Davis($92,327), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Jessica M Warren($189,068), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Katherine A Kelley($55,453), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts, Mid-ocean Ridge, Oxygen Fugacity, Upper Mantle, Abyssal, Alteration, Chemical, Determined, Determining, Development, Earth, Female, Has, Involves, MORB, Melting, Minerals, Peridotite, Peridotites, Processes, Public, Range, Rock, Seafloor, Smithsonian.

Reconciling substrate specific differences in the carbon isotope excursion marking the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. D C Kelly($313,679), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Planktic Foraminiferal Shells, Terrestrial And Marine, Carbon Emitted, Carbon Input, Carbon Isotope, Cie Magnitude, Future Climate, Global Warming, Massive Quantities, Reconstruct Past, Stable Isotope, Accurate, Amount, Calcite, Carbon-bearing, Chemical, Compositions, Conditions, Developed, Driven, Geologic, Has, Laboratory, PETM, Processes, Rapid, Ratios, Reported, Sediments, Subdomains, Surface, Time, Tiny, Twice, Wiscsims.

Toward an understanding of Neogene plate dynamics: Completion of a high-resolution, closure-enforced chronology of global plate motions since 20 Ma
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dennis C DeMets($302,254), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Basin Spreading Centers, Pacific Basin Spreading, Southern Mid-atlantic Ridge, Broadly Useful, Global Plate, Indian Ridge, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Neogene Period, Plate Motions, Reversal Identifications, Southern Mid-atlantic, Ago, Complete, Completing, Existing, Fracture, Framework, Magnetic, Million, Movements, Nearly, Partly, Past, Plates, Principle, Random, Rotation, Rotations, Suitable, Tectonic, Transform.

Runaway Slip: Understanding Nucleation of Subduction Megathrust Earthquakes and Slow Slip Precursors
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Demian M Saffer($110,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Fault Rock, Megathrust Earthquakes, Experiments, In-situ, Natural, Runaway, Shear.

Earthquake Triggering and Synchronization on Oceanic Transform Faults
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Meng Wei($167,926), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Oceanic Transform Faults, Earthquake Triggering, Fault Behavior, Activity, Cycle, Earthquakes, Models, Quantitative, Relatively, Rupture, Short, Slip, Sparse, Studying, Teleseismic, Zone.

Response of the Labrador Sea and south Greenland Ice Sheet to the mid-Pliocene climate optimum: sedimentary, magnetic and geochemical evidence from the Eirik Drift
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anders E Carlson($399,956), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Co2 Levels, Eirik Drift, Ice Sheets, Ice-free Greenland, Isotopic Signatures, Labrador Sea, Mid-pliocene Optimum, Models Suggest, South Gis, South Greenland, Undergraduate Students, Behavior, Climate, Completely, Concentrations, Crossed, Deglaciate, Earth, Has, Ice-free, Magnetic, Mechanism, Mid-pliocene, Particles, Postdoctoral, Ppm, Present-day, Reached, Sea-level, Sediment, Silt-size, Threshold, Tipping, Was.

Collaborative Research: Testing Mechanisms of Tropical Climate Change and Variability Using New Cores from the Line Islands
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Pratigya J Polissar($305,511), Columbia University, New York
2. Ana C Ravelo($234,500), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: El Niño-southern Oscillation, El Niño-southern, Enso Behavior, Equatorial Pacific, Interannual Climate, Line Islands, Niño-southern Oscillation, Sea-surface Temperature, Tropical Pacific, Foraminifera, Forcing, Future, Global, Globally, Human, Individual, Interactions, Near, Past, Sea-surface, Shells, Temperatures, Undergraduate.

Hindcasting the Ocean radiocarbon history of the past 25,000 years
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Axel Timmermann($168,705), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Climate-carbon Cycle Feedbacks, Climate-carbon Cycle, Ocean Circulation, Age, Atmospheric, Conditions, Experiments, Glacial, Model, Past, Radiocarbon, Reservoir, Time-varying, Tracers.

Collaborative research: Mio-Pliocene evolution of the Indian summer monsoon recorded in the Bengal Fan
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Sarah Feakins($226,075), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Valier Galy($135,809), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bengal Megafan, Carbon Burial, Organic Carbon, Has, Indian, Largest, Monsoon, Plant, Precipitation, Region, River, Sediments, Southern, Students, Summer.

Collaborative Research: Calibration of a new approach to reconstruct ancient bottom water oxygen levels
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Bruce H Corliss($30,404), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen, Analysis, Cruise, Indiana, Marine, Pore, Students.

RAPID Collaborative Research: Ground Truthing Coral Proxy Reconstructions of ENSO by Observing the 2014-15 El Nino
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Samantha Stevenson($73,012), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Kim M Cobb($26,626), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Climate Model Validation, El Nino, Isotopic Oxygen, Winter 2014-15, Collect, Coral, Corals, Critical, Dataset, ENSO, Expected, Future, Influence, Information, Instrumental, Isoroms, Observational, Ocean, Ongoing, Paleoclimate, Past, Precipitation, Projections, Properties, Proxy, Reanalysis, Reef, Resource, Sites, Situ, Source, Water, World.

The North Atlantic Oscillation Over Three Millennia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lloyd D Keigwin($427,432), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic Region, Sediment Cores, Available, Climate, NAO, Past, Salinity, Shelf, Temperature.

Reconciling divergent histories of Eastern Pacific climate with new coral data from Galapagos (Ecuador)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Julia E Cole($449,993), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: El Niño, Climate, Conditions, Conservation, ENSO, Galapagos, History, Paleoclimate, Range, Region, Warming.

Collaborative Research: An Isotopic and Trace Element Study of Links Between Source Heterogeneity and Mantle Melting Beneath the Southeast Indian Ridge
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Barry B Hanan($170,256), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
2. David W Graham($99,523), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Southeast Indian Ridge, French Oceanographic, Isotopic Heterogeneity, Ridge Basalt, San Diego, Spreading Center, Academic, Analysis, Chemical, Examine, Geochemical, Hf, Investigate, Isotopes, Lavas, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Pb, Streak-like.

Geochemical Calibration of Modern Isopora and Acropora Corals from the Great Barrier Reef and Application to IODP Leg 325 Fossil Corals
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Braddock K Linsley($183,808), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Isopora And Acropora, Temperature And Salinity, Acropora Corals, Barrier Reef, Fossil Corals, Modern Isopora, Sampling Protocols, Calibrations, Collected, IODP, Leg, Ocean, Previously, Reconstructions, Sea.

North Atlantic Meridional Circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum:Density Structure and Pre-formed Nitrate: Phase I
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Pockalny($299,747), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Glacial Maximum, Pore Waters, AMOC, Atlantic, Circulation, Climate, Coring, Deep, Directly, Expedition, Nitrate, Via.

Collaborative Research: Next Generation Imaging of Magmatic Processes beneath the Juan de Fuca Ridge using MCS data
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Graham Kent($98,226), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Alistair J Harding($208,366), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: De Fuca Ridge, Juan De Fuca, Axial Volcano, Cruise, Crust, Differences, Methods, Process, Profiles, Structure.

EAGER: Mantle Rheology and the Dynamics of Suboceanic Mantle: A Bottom-Up Approach
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jun Korenaga($205,583), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Mantle Flow, Architectures, Behavior, Description, Developed, Directly, Included, Simulations, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Heat Flow and Hydrothermal Transport in the Panama Basin Linked with Geophysical and Oceanographic Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert N Harris($151,047), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Robert P Lowell($111,589), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Heat Flow, Acquisition, Axis, Circulation, Crust, Flux, Hydrothermal, Main, Model, Ocean.

Ultraslow crustal accretion at the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center: Mantle exhumation or magmatism?
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Harm J Van Avendonk($699,076), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Crustal Thickness, Acquired, Gravity, International, MCSC, Magmatism, Mantle, Oceanic, Range, Rift, Segment, Seismic, Spreading, Structure, Ultraslow.

Gulf of Alaska Deep and Intermediate Watermass Changes and Paleoventilation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alan C Mix($395,359), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: North Pacific, Assess, Carbon, Climate, Deep, Depth, Focus, Foraminifera, Global, Heat, Isotopes, Past, Subsurface, Watermass.

Oxygen Minimum Zone Variability and Ecosystem Responses in the Arabian Sea during the Last Glacial-interglacial Cycle:A Paired Paleogenomic and (Isotopic) Lipid Biomarker Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Liviu Giosan($550,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ancient Dna, Arabian Sea, Food Webs, Woods Hole, Bioinformatics, Climate, Conditions, Ecosystems, Environmental, Fellowship, Has, Impacted, Long-term, Marine, OMZ, Omzs, Past, Reconstruct, Sediment.

Collaborative Research: Advanced modeling for understanding fluid and magma migration in subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marc W Spiegelman($228,080), Columbia University, New York
2. Peter E van Keken($39,312), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Computer Code, Flux Melting, Subduction Zones, Computational, Control, Development, Fault, Flow, Fluids, Geochemical, Interactions, Mantle, Model, Relatively, Solid, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Holocene Tropical Cyclone Variability in the Western North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey Donnelly($355,411), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Peter Van Hengstum($182,599), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Holes And Blue, Tropical Cyclone Activity, Blue Holes, Coarse Sediment, Hurricane Activity, Sink Holes, Coastal, Efforts, Grained, Hurricanes, Increased, Past, Sediments, Storm, Thousands.

Pre-and post typhoon sediment patterns in the central Philippine Islands
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter D Ward($19,380), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Central Philippine Islands, Devastating Impacts, Marine Ecosystems, Assessment, Biological, Collected, Deep, Erosion, Fisheries, Haiyan, Offshore, Piston, Sea, Seafloor, Sediment, Storm, Storms.

How Minerals Control Hydrothermal Organic Reactivity
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lynda Williams($448,932), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Temperature And Pressure, Electron Microscopy, Gold Bag, Ocean Crust, Organic Compounds, Organic Molecules, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Aqueous, Chemistry, Course, Dissolved, Examine, Experiments, Function, Gas, Geochemistry, Mineral, Minerals, Parameters, Properties, Rates, Reactions, Scanning, Static, Thermodynamic.

Collaborative Research: Community-Based 3D Imaging That Ties Clinoform Geometry to Facies Successions and Neogene Sea-Level Change
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mladen Nedimovic($241,150), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Gregory S Mountain($791,150), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 3d Seismic, Nj Margin, Base-level, Context, Continent, Evolution, Global, Gulf, Imaging, Jersey, Map, Pis, Sediment, Sedimentary, Shelf, Stratigraphic.

Constraining mantle flow between Samoa and the northern Lau and N. Fiji Basins with geochemistry and geodynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/02/2013; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew G Jackson($392), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Lau And North, North Fiji Basins, Isotopic Ratios, Lau Basin, Northwest Lau, Observed North-south, Oceanic Lithosphere, Samoan Plume, Samoan-plume Mantle, Western Limit, BU, Characterize, Depletion, Existing, Extent, Flow, Geochemical, Geodynamic, Gradients, Hall, Intrusion, Nd, North-south, Northern, Pb, Presence, Region, Samoan-plume, Southward, Spatial, Sr, Trace, Undergraduate.

OCE-PRF Track 1 (Broadening Participation): Greenland fjord-glacier coupling from an ice-sheet-wide perspective
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Twila A Moon($174,000), Moon Twila A, Big Sky
Key terms: Circulation And Ice, Sea Level Rise, Greenland Ice, Ice Dynamics, Ice Sheet, Ocean Circulation, Critical, Current, Extent, Fellow, Fjord, Fjord-glacier, Glaciers, Gris, Interdisciplinary, Local, Mass, Modeling, Postdoctoral, Primary, Program.

OCE-PRF Track 1 (Broadening Participation): Examining the role of anoxic events on coastal micronutrient (Fe) supplies from a novel high-resolution profiling sampler
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Amy Mueller($174,000), Mueller Amy, Somerville
Key terms: Primary Productivity, Trace-metal Clean, Automated, Coastal, Cycles, Driving, Fe, Fellowship, Iron, Mentor, Months, Moorings, Nutrients, Ocean, Relative, Remain, Sampling, Seattle, Site, Students, Trace-metal, Via, Washington.

Geomorphology Drives Species Distribution: A Case Study on the Sandy Plains of the Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Michael O Navarro($174,000), Navarro Michael O, La Jolla
Key terms: Monterey Bay, Sandy Plains, Analyses, Biological, CSUMB, Coastal, Geomorphology, Habitat, Investigate, NWIC, ROV, Shelf, Structure, Structures.

OCE-PRF Track 1 (Broadening Participation): Near-Inertial Oscillations on the West Florida Shelf in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Ekaterina V Maksimova($174,000), Maksimova Ekaterina V, Tallahassee
Key terms: West Florida Shelf, Coastal Ocean, Depth, Dynamics, Fellow, Investigate, Mixing, NIO, Oceanography, Thermocline, WFS.

Reconstructing Cretaceous Mean Climate and Seasonality using the Clumped Isotope Paleothermometer on Mollusks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sierra V Petersen($174,000), Petersen, Sierra V, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbonate Clumped Isotope, Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry, Isotopic Composition, Ocean Dynamics, School Students, Temperature Estimates, Andosw, Circulation, Climate, Cretaceous, Direct, Fellow, Global, Latitudes, Levels, Mentor, Methods, Minority, Paleo-andosw, Past, Period, Proxy, Seawater, Spatial, World.

OCE-RIG Canary on the coral reef: ecophysiology of tropical crustose coralline algae across latitudinal gradients
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Nichole N Price($109,482), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Crustose Coralline Algae, Tropical Crustose Coralline, Mg Content, Net Calcification, Ocean Acidification, Skeletal Tissue, Activities, Biological, CCA, Calcite, Carbonate, Climate, Common, Effects, Established, Field, Global, Growth, Has, OA, Objective, Range, Rates, Reef, Reefs, SST, Salinity, Seawater, Sites, Situ, Species, Temperature, Temperatures, Warming.

OCE-RIG: Improving Climate Records Through a Mechanistic Understanding of Sub-Micron Proxy Heterogeneity in Spinose Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Alexander Gagnon($99,958), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Foraminiferal Shells, Basic, Biomineralization, Elemental, Interpret, Investigate, Paleoceanographic, Student.

RUI: OCE-RIG: Decadal climate, carbon and nutrient variability: New insights from deep-sea bamboo coral records on the California margin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Michele LaVigne($99,994), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Intermediate Water Nutrient, Bamboo Corals, California Current, Carbon Cycling, Carbon Export, Mechanisms Linking, Nutrient Cycling, Rapid Climate, Baca, Biogeochemistry, CCS, Deep-sea, Depth, High-resolution, Instrumental, Interannual-decadal, Ocean, Oscillation, Paleoceanographic, Past, Productivity, Upwelling.

OCE-RIG: Hydrodynamics of Flexible Ribbon-Fin Propulsion for Highly Maneuverable Research Vessels
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Oscar M Curet($99,984), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Ribbon-fin Propulsion, Auvs, Control, Designs, Efficiency, Experiments, Flexible, Flow, Graduate, Hydrodynamics, Maneuvers, Ocean, Particular, Ribbon-fin, Students, Undergraduate, Underwater, Vehicles.

OCE-RIG: Implementation of Advanced Underwater Optical Instrumentation for the Study of Marine Particle Dynamics in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: OCE Research Initiation Grant

1. Andrew M McDonnell($109,999), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Particles And Carbon, Particulate Organic Matter, Arctic Ocean, Carbon Cycling, Marine Particles, Particle Dynamics, Particle Size, Situ Imaging, Biological, Oceans, Region, Sinking, Students, UAF, UVP.

Modeling Shoreline Morphological Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Britt Raubenheimer($829,576), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Martha's Vineyard, Morphological Evolution, Near Katama, Water Quality, Accretion, Bay, Caused, Combination, Combined, Currents, Existing, Flood, Flows, Future, Inlet, Inlets, Marthas, Model, Models, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Processes, Range, Sand, Scenarios, Shoreline, Simulations, Site, Storm, Strong, Tides, Waves.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacific Section: The Geochemistry of Size-fractionated Suspended Particles Collected by In-situ Filtration
Award Effective Date: 11/06/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Phoebe J Lam($203,412), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, East Pacific, Graduate Student, Hydrothermal Particles, Particle Phases, Trace Metals, Cities, Education, GEOTRACES, Measure, POC, Particulate, Peru, Productivity, Regards, Scavenging, TEI, Teis.

Dynamics of Protistan Grazers: Diversity, Abundance and Prey Relations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Heidi M Sosik($999,445), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Specialist Feeding Strategies, Genetic Information, Abundance, Automated, Based, Cell, Cells, Distribution, Grazer, Grazers, Grazing, Image, Particular, Phytoplankton, Prey, Protistan, Protists, Selected, Situ, Species, Time.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of Freshwater Exchange Across the East Greenland Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Thomas Haine($372,238), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Michael A Spall($394,862), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: East Greenland Shelf, Sub-polar North Atlantic, Climate Models, Deep Ocean, Ocean Circulation, Sea Ice, Sub-polar North, Arctic, Bottom, Exchange, External, Forcing, Freshwater, Graduate, Idealized, In-situ, Interior, Mechanisms, Observations, Outflow, Processes, Realistic, Sensitivity, Students, Wind.

Development of a Low-Cost True-North Seeking Fiber Optic Gyrocompass and Integrated Doppler Navigation System for Precision Navigation of Underwater Vehicles for Ocean Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Louis L Whitcomb($579,937), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Comparatively Low-cost, Low-cost Uuvs, Navigation Methods, Attitude, Designs, Doppler, Ecology, Employ, Enable, Estimation, FOG, Heading, High-accuracy, Imus, Instrument, Integrated, Low-cost, Open-source, Pitch, Precision, Roll, Sea, Sensors, Software, Survey, Surveys, True-north, Underwater, Unmanned, Vehicles.

Tectonic & Petrologic Evolution of the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Henry J Dick($378,073), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantis Bank, Geologic Map, Available, Complex, Crust, Drilling, Existing, Oceanic, Prior, Seafloor, Systematically.

A Robust and Sensitive In Situ Analyzer for Simultaneous Methane Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Measurements in the Deep Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Scott D Wankel($1,076,010), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Methane Isotope Sensor, Quantum Cascade Laser-based, Situ Methane Isotope, Cascade Laser-based, Deep Ocean, Deep Sea, Capable, Chemical, Cycling, EV, Exploration, Gas, Hercules, Inlet, Instrumentation, Isotopic, Measuring, Nautilus, ROV, Sensors, Sources.

Collaborative Research: Linking climate-driven changes in erosion to tectonic processes along the southern Alaska Margin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Eva Enkelmann($100,057), University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati
2. John M Jaeger($55,852), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Kenneth D Ridgway($124,905), Purdue University, West Lafayette
4. Ellen A Cowan($36,800), Appalachian State University, Boone
5. Sean S Gulick($52,154), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
6. Robert Reece($56,221), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Active Mountain Building, Climate-tectonic Interactions, Cores Allow, Elias Orogeny, Local Climate, Mountain Range, Surveyor Fan, Age, Alaska, Analytical, Belt, Challenging, Climate-tectonic, Close, Control, Deep-sea, Developed, Erosion, Erosional, Exhumation, Expedition, Faulting, Glaciation, Glaciers, Global, Gulf, Has, IODP, Integrated, Ma, Mass, Means, Neogene, Numerical, Offshore, Period, Processes, Rates, Redistribution, Sediment, Sedimentary, St, Time, Transition.

Red Sea Circulation and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. John T Farrar($699,965), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Fluxes, Red Sea, Air-sea, Circulation, Currents, Dynamics, Has, Idealized, Model, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Situ, Surface.

Mixing in the Equatorial Atlantic's Cold Tongue- Chipods on PIRATA Moorings
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Emily L Shroyer($1,500,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Atlantic Cold Tongue, Cold Tongue Mixing, Equatorial Cold Tongues, Pacific And Atlantic, Pacific Cold Tongue, Sea Surface Temperature, Annual Cycle, Atlantic Oceans, Boreal Summer, Equatorial Pacific, Tropical Atlantic, Atmosphere, Climate, Complement, Cool, Cooling, Critical, Degrees, Differences, Dynamics, East, Establish, Exist, Fluid, Heat, Moorings, Observations, Ongoing, PIRATA, Peak, SST, Seasonal, Upper, Vertical, Weather, Webcam.

Collaborative Research - Sediment pathways, sedimentation processes, and structural growth along the Tohoku segment of the Japan subduction margin: Role of megathrust earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Leonardo Seeber($119,005), Columbia University, New York
2. Marie-Helene Cormier($82,530), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Morphology And Tectonic, Active Margins, Japan Trench, Seafloor Morphology, Sediment Dispersal, Seismic Hazards, Tectonic Structures, Trench Slope, Activity, Agents, Analysis, Assessment, Collaboration, Collected, Contribute, Cores, Coseismic, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Existing, Focus, Geophysical, Japanese, Megathrust, Paleoseismology, Principle, Sedimentary, Trenches.

Collaborative Research: Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy System for Alvin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Alan D Chave($1,015,207), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Stanley M Angel($203,294), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Alvin, Compatible, Environment, Has, LIBS.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Measurement of the organic complexation of dissolved iron, copper and cobalt, and total dissolved cobalt
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Kristen N Buck($241,240), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Bermuda Institute, Dissolved Fe, Graduate Student, Oxygen Minimum, Scripps Institute, Water Column, BIOS, Bioactive, Bioavailability, Concentrations, Cu, Gradients, Hydrothermal, Marine, Oceanography, Organic, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Using the Rurutu hotspot to evaluate mantle motion and absolute plate motion models
Award Effective Date: 01/06/2014; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Jasper Konter($137,715), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaiian-emperor And Louisville, Plate Motion, Submarine Volcanoes, Chains, Collected, Define, Fixed, Geochemical, Hotspot, Hotspots, Lavas, Mantle, Pacific, Rurutu, Students, Tracks, Training.

Quantifying the contribution of the deep biosphere in the marine sediment carbon cycle using deep-sea sediment cores from the Baltic Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Andrew D Steen($362,095), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Baltic Sea, Deep Subsurface, Organic Matter, Specific Taxa, Subsurface Microorganisms, Vmax Values, Activity, CARD-FISH, Carbon, Cell, Cells, Counting, Degradation, Enzymes, Evidence, Genomes, Methods, Microbial, Potential, Quantify, Sediments, Single, Situ, Uncultured, Viable.

RAPID proposal: Site characterization cruise to document the active and extensive subsurface biosphere in the Guaymas Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Andreas P Teske($57,979), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Site Survey Cruise, El Puma, Gravity Coring, Guaymas Basin, Organic-rich Sediments, Properly Plan, Requests Funds, Additional, Analysis, Carbon, Characterizations, Distributed, Drilling, Expands, Expedition, Extensive, IODP, Implications, Magmatism, Mexican, Microbial, Organic-rich, Planned, Potential, Principal, RAPID, RV, Required, Seismic, Spreading, Subsurface.

Establishing more accurate chronologies for marine climate records using data from deep-sea cores from northern East China Sea
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Steven C Clemens($202,464), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: 18-o And Delta, Accurately Quantify, Deep-sea Cores, Delta 13-c, Delta 18-o, Marine Climate, Ability, Accuracy, Ages, Benthic, Cave, China, Collaborative, Deep-sea, Developed, Differences, East, Effort, Foraminifer, Global, Hulu-sanbao, IODP, Length, Monsoonal, Objective, Ocean, Past, Site, Timing, Underlying.

Developing a tephra database to document the evolution of explosive volcanism along the Gulf of Alaska margin for the past six million years
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Jeff Benowitz($214,498), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Margin, Explosive Volcanism, Sites U1417, Volcanic Frequency, Alaskan, Climate, Climatic, Collected, Cores, Database, Erosion, Eruption, Evolution, Geochemical, Glaciers, Gulf, IODP, Ii, Iii, Influence, Marine, Million, Paleoclimatic, Past, Rare, Rate, Region, Regions, Tectonic, Tephra, Tephras, Terrestrial, Yukon.

Linking magnetic and isotopic data from Gulf of Alaska deep-sea cores: understanding the region's contribution to global oceanographic variability and the earth's magnetic field
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Joseph S Stoner($379,999), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic, North Pacific, Sedimentation Rates, Alaska, Expedition, Focus, Glacial, Global, Gulf, High-quality, High-resolution, IODP, Isotopic, Paleomagnetic, Resolution, Robust, Sites.

Collaborative Research: Resolving Centennial-Scale Environmental Change and Geomagnetic Field Variability From Iberian Margin Sediment Drifts Cored on IODP Expedition 339
Award Effective Date: 12/16/2013; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Gary Acton($109,971), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville
Key terms: Analysis, Circulation, Climate, Combination, Cored, Detailed, Development, Enable, Exp, Field, Magnetic, Models, Outflow, Quaternary, Section.

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

1. Andrew C Kurtz($164,202), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Electron Donors, Organic Matter, Primary Objectives, Spg Sediment, Subseafloor Sedimentary, Water Radiolysis, Activities, Advancing, Concentrations, Expedition, Extent, Fluxes, Focus, IODP, Importance, Laboratory, Life, Lowest, Microbial, Quantification, Rates, Shipboard, Students, URI, World.

Development of an active layer seafloor sampler as an add-on unit for portable free-fall penetrometers
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Nina Stark($360,467), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Coastal And Offshore, Mobile Seafloor Surface, Portable Free-fall Penetrometers, Seafloor Surface Layer, Subaqueous Sediment Dynamics, Add-on Unit, Free-fall Penetrometers, Geotechnical Engineering, Offshore Surveying, Portable Free-fall, Sediment Transport, Add-on, Allow, Density, Development, Female, Field, Issues, Knowledge, Marine, Principal, Procedures, Sampler, Sampling, Stability, Students, Testing, Thickness.

Development of a Submersible Ammonium Fluorescence Analyzer for In-Situ and Underwater Application with a View Towards Application on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Peter B Ortner($488,009), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Ammonium Discharge, Submersible Analyzer, Autonomous, Coastal, Environmental, In-situ, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Development of an In Situ Porewater Sampler Coupled to an Underwater Mass Spectrometer for High-Resolution Biogenic Gas Measurements in Permeable Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Andres M Cardenas-Valencia($378,454), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. William B Savidge($132,249), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
3. Robinson W Fulweiler($510,769), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Permeable Sediment Environments, Porewater Sampling Interface, Continental Shelf, Continental Shelves, Gas Concentrations, Global Climate, Mass Spectrometer, Permeable Sediments, Reaction Rates, Sandy Sediments, Ability, Additionally, Advection, Allow, Analysis, Appropriate, Artifacts, BU, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Build, CH, Capture, Carbon, Coupled, Cycling, Designed, Device, Exchange, Field, Gases, HS, Has, Instrument, Instrumentation, Marine, Measure, Membrane, Methods, Modeling, Nitrogen, Ocean, Pis, Platform, Processes, Represent, Situ, Students, Technology, Time, Undergraduate, Underwater, Vertical, Videos, Water, Wider.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Testing High Temperature Subseafloor Tracers and Optical Communication Networks at Axial Seamount Using Available DSV Alvin Bottom Time
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Timothy J Crone($18,894), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Subsurface Fluid Flow, Sensor Network, Sensor Networks, Vent Fluid, Approach, Component, Components, Distributed, Does, Extended, Future, Glass, High-temperature, Hydrothermal, Life, Monitor, Non-toxic, Ocean, Optical, Phenomena, Probes, Stability, Tracer, Underwater.

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Testing High Temperature Subseafloor Tracers and Optical Communication Networks at Axial Seamount Using Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Cody Youngbull($106,650), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Subsurface Fluid Flow, Sensor Network, Sensor Networks, Vent Fluid, Approach, Component, Components, Distributed, Does, Extended, Future, Glass, High-temperature, Hydrothermal, Life, Monitor, Non-toxic, Ocean, Optical, Phenomena, Probes, Stability, Tracer, Underwater.

EAGER-Collaborative: Exploring the feasibility of TIRF-based sensors for oceanographic research applications.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Michael Lochhead($75,554), MBio Diagnostics, Inc., Boulder
2. Gregory J Doucette($123,310), University of Maine, Orono
3. James Birch($78,121), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Biochemical, Diagnostics, Ireland, Module, Molecular, Oceanographic, Sensitive, Sensor, TIRF, Technology, Time.

Collaborative Research: Robust optode-based eddy correlation systems for oxygen flux measurements in aquatic environments
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Peter Berg($490,899), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
2. Markus H Huettel($298,977), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Eddy Correlation Instruments, Aquatic, Environments, Flow, Flux, Oxygen, Pis, Sensors, Technology.

RAPID: Long-duration AUVs as tools to explore Mesoscale feature-Aggregate Interactions (MAGI)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Tracy A Villareal($153,898), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Sampling Platform, Wave Glider, Aggregation, Allow, Competition, Diatom, Duration, Educational, Extended, Features, Mission, North, Pacific, Phytoplankton, Principal, Program, Public, Sensors, Specific.

The Surveying Coastal Ocean Autonomous Profiler (SCOAP): Development and Demonstration
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. David Ullman($679,531), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, ASC, Autonomous, Has, Mobile, Oceanographers, Platform, Potential, Processes, SCOAP, Sampling, Transport.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2014
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David C Fisichella($12,800), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. David S Goldberg($103,847), Columbia University, New York
3. Timothy W Deering($21,760), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Purpose Global Vessel, Total Sailing Schedule, Projects Accounted, Rv Atlantis, Rv Knorr, Shared-use Instrumentation, Accounting, Completed, Days, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Scheduled, Sea, Shared-use, Vessels.

University of Hawaii R/V Kilo Moana Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2014
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James S Ferguson($62,650), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kilo Moana, Shared-use Instrumentation, Days, Deck, Ft, Hawaii, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Shared-use, Space, Sq, Vessel, Was.

Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Terry B Appelgate($30,548), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Purpose Global Vessel, Rv Roger Revelle, Rv Melville, Rv Sproul, Shared-use Instrumentation, Total Days, California, Completed, Has, Horizon, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Owned, Scheduled, Shared-use, Vessels.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, RV Blue Heron, 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($12,956), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Lakes Observatory, Oceanographic Laboratory, Shared-use Instrumentation, Days, Minnesota, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, UNOLS, Vessel.

University of Washington/R/V Thomas G. Thompson Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. William S Wilcock($7,025), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Barnes, Days, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, RV, Scheduled, Shared-use, Thompson, Vessel.

University of Georgia / R/V Savannah / Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($20,272), 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.

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI/FG WALTON SMITH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard J Findley($100,178), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Acoustic Doppler Current, Doppler Current Profiler, Khz Acoustic Doppler, Rv Walton Smith, Total Sailing Schedule, Shared-use Instrumentation, South Florida, Days, Gulf, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Operations, Shared-use, Vessel, Water.

Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) 2014-2019
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Suzanne Carbotte($4,064,726), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Academic Fleet, R2r Program, Catalog, Centers, Cruise, Document, Efforts, Feedback, Five, Focus, Funding, Has, NOAA, Ocean, Oceanographic, Operation, Operators, Products, Public, Quality, RR, Routinely, Rrs, Selected, Services, Technicians, UNOLS, Vessel.

2014 Oceans and Human Health GRC/GRS: Anthropogenic Impacts on Coastal Communities and Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Oceans & Human Health

1. Helena M Solo-Gabriele($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Oceans And Human, Cutting Edge, Human Health, Junior Faculty, Ocean Environment, Climate, Conference, Contaminants, Discoveries, Emerging, Emphasis, Field, Forum, Frontier, GRC, GRS, Gordon, Government, International, Meeting, OHH, Participation, Post-docs, Seminar, Share, Students, Tracks, Two-day, Unpublished.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Cross-shore Thermally Driven Exchange
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kristen A Davis($385,508), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Eugene R Pawlak($201,871), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Baroclinic Exchange, Coral Reefs, Cross-shelf Circulation, Cross-shore Transport, Numerical Modeling, Offshore Flow, Thermally Driven, Bathymetry, Characterized, Coastal, Coastlines, Cross-shelf, Cross-shore, Eilat, Environments, Existing, Extent, Flows, Heat, Nearshore, Oahu, Ocean, Regimes, Relatively, Sets, Shelves, Steep, Temperatures, Tropical, Water.

Collaborative Research: A Lagrangian Description of Breaking Ocean Surface Waves from Laboratory Measurements and Stochastic Parameterizations.
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. W K Melville($479,490), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Juan M Restrepo($312,471), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Transport And Dispersion, Differential Equation, N-point Structure, Ocean Modeling, Stochastic Ordinary, Surface Wave, Wave Breaking, Wave-current Interaction, Dynamics, Eulerian, Fluid, Lagrangian, N-point, Obtain, Parameterization, Processes, Representation, Subsequently, Wave-current.

Quantifying Energy Dissipation From Breaking Waves Using Time-Varying Properties of Whitecap Foam
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Adrian H Callaghan($702,083), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Breaking Strength Parameter, Breaking Wave Speed, Remote Sensing Techniques, Sea Surface Images, Breaking Waves, Bubble Plume, Energy Dissipation, Laboratory Experiments, Looking Camera, Wave Breaking, Wave-by-wave Basis, Whitecap Foam, Analysis, Applied, Approach, Channel, Digital, Estimate, Exchange, Existing, Furthermore, Generated, Has, High-speed, Monitor, Properties, Quantify, Wave-by-wave, Wind-driven.

Collaborative Research: Temporal and spatial scaling of dissipation under non-breaking surface waves
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian Haus($544,171), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Darek J Bogucki($409,394), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Mean Flows, Pre-existing Turbulence, Surface Waves, Turbulence Generation, Upper Ocean, Wave Energy, Assumption, Breaking, Conditions, Dissipation, Experiments, Has, Laboratory, Measure, Non-breaking, OTS, Pre-existing, Quantify, Resolve, Sheared, Short, Temporal, Time, Water, Wave-induced.

Along-shelf Transport and Cross-shelf Exchange Driven by Surface Waves on the Inner Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas P Connolly($247,440), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Inner Shelf, Inner-shelf Circulation, Model Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Surf Zone, Surface Waves, Turbulent Mixing, Wave Forcing, Advection, Analysis, Bottom, Breaking, Complex, Development, Exchange, Field, Focused, Generate, Importance, Inner-shelf, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Models, Momentum, Near, Observations, Observed, Offshore, Processes, Realistic, Relative, Sediment, Spatial, Strong, Transport, Water, Wave-current, Wave-driven, Wind.

Understanding the essential characteristics of surface ocean boundary layer turbulence in frontal zones
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D Skyllingstad($526,318), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Generalized Linear Instability, Linear Instability Theory, Ocean Boundary Layer, Stress And Buoyancy, Buoyancy Flux, Coherent Structures, Horizontal Density, Large-eddy Simulation, Large-eddy Simulations, Mean Horizontal, Surface Stress, Basic, Circulation, Dependence, Development, Examined, Fluxes, Forcing, Frontal, Gradient, Gradients, Graduate, Instabilities, Langmuir, Large-eddy, Numerical, Processes, Quantitative, Regimes, Scaling, Specific, Strength, Turbulent.

Ocean eddies-topographic interactions along the Brazilian Coast
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bruno Deremble($496,752), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: North Brazilian Rings, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Rings, Warm Water, Accelerate, Atlantic, Coast, Combined, Dynamics, Embedded, Equation, Examined, Interaction, Mean, Modeling, NBC, Numerical, Oceanography, Pathways, Propagate, Realistic, Ring-topographic, School, Sites, Summer, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Relating Topographic Complexity and Circulation Patterns on Coral Reefs from Colony-Scale to Reef-Scale
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James L Hench($289,784), Duke University, Durham
2. Johanna H Rosman($292,101), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Currents And Waves, Theoretical And Conceptual, Time Scales Interacts, Topography Spatial Statistics, Coastal Ocean, Complex Topography, Conceptual Framework, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Length Scales, Multi-scale Topography, Wide Range, Circulation, Developed, Examine, Field, Flow, Geometries, Interactions, International, MCR-LTER, Modeling, Multi-scale, Physics, Predictive, Site, Varies.

Collaborative Research: Role of Mixed Layer Eddies on Phytoplankton Productivity in Seasonally Variable Regimes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amala Mahadevan($782,055), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Amit Tandon($324,615), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Mixed Layer Eddies, Air-sea Fluxes, Mesoscale Eddies, Phytoplankton Productivity, Primary Productivity, Air-sea, Carbon, Coupling, Cycle, Interaction, Light, Massachusetts, Nutrients, Ocean, Oceans, Processes, Pycnocline, Spring, Stratification, Strong, Studying, Submesoscale, Subpolar, Summer, Surface, Temporally, Times, Turbulence, Vertical, Winter.

The Upstream Sources of the Denmark Strait Overflow
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert S Pickart($297,319), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Denmark Strait Overflow, East Greenland Current, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Strait Overflow Water, Atlantic Ocean, Dense Water, Nordic Seas, Upstream Circulation, Upstream Sources, Aim, August, Climate, Collaborators, DSOW, Dynamics, Flow, Forcing, Heat, Iceland, Influence, Mooring, Newly, North, Northward, Objective, Observed, Pathway, Pathways, Provided, Quantify, Sill, Slope, Time, Transport, Waters.

A Study to Enravel the Abyssal Circulation of the Northeast Pacific Ocean and its Double Silica Maximum
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susan L Hautala($199,724), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Double Silica Maximum, North Pacific Double, Northeast Pacific Basin, Pacific Double Silica, Bottom Water, Cascadia Basin, Detailed Analysis, Flow Path, Ocean Circulation, Western Flank, Available, Complex, Connection, Deep, East, Entire, Fields, Found, Has, Inverse, Mid-depth, Objective, Oceanography, Plume, Region, Resolution, Revealed, Ridge, Simple, Undergraduate, Upward, Was, Washington.

Parameterizations of Salt Fingers in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Raymond W Schmitt($585,904), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Circulation Models, Density Ratio, Double Diffusion, Fresher Water, Mixing Process, Ocean Circulation, Salt Finger, Salt Fingers, Salty Water, Analysis, Colder, Contribute, Developed, Dispersion, Dynamics, Flux, Has, Heat, Importance, Lateral, Layer, Layers, Microstructure, Numerical, Oceans, Parcel, Properties, Quantify, Region, Regions, SFTRE, Sinking, Staircase, Stratifications, Students, Surrounding, Theoretical, Thermohaline, Theta-s, Tracer, Warm.

Wave Breaking Across the Inner Shelf and Nearshore Regions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Fengyan Shi($363,133), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Deep Water, Eddy Simulation, Inner Shelf, Intermediate Depth, Shallow Water, Water Breaking, Water Depths, Wave Breaking, Bottom, Crest, Development, Distribution, Generated, Hydrostatic, Laboratory, Model, Ocean, Processes, Public, Range, Region, Resolution, Shift, Spanning, Surface, Transition, Vertical, Vortex, Vorticity, Wave-averaged, Wave-driven, Waves.

Interannual Variability of Winter-Spring Temperature in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Linkages to Large-Scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Changes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ke Chen($768,030), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atmospheric And Oceanic, Commercial Fishing Industry, Middle Atlantic Bight, Coastal Ocean, Commercial Fisheries, Extreme Warm, Heat Budget, Jet Stream, Large-scale Atmospheric, Ocean Temperature, Temperature Anomalies, Analysis, Ecosystem, Focus, Interannual, Large-scale, Links, Management, Northeast, Northeastern, Period, Processes, Region, Relative, Shelf, Temperatures, Warming, Winter, Winter-spring, Yto-year.

Cascading of Ocean Waters at the Continental Shelf Edge: Winds, Cooling and Stability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kenneth H Brink($421,582), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Eddy Field, Simple Geometries, Affect, Cascading, Continent, Cooling, Cross-shelf, Current, Currents, Dense, Eddies, Effects, Forcing, Process, Resulting, Shelf, Slope, Waters, Wind.

EAGER: Development of a High-Control Jet-Array Wavemaker
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick J Lynett($58,127), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Waves And Currents, Complex Oceanographic, Simultaneous Waves, Advantages, Completely, Components, Concept, Control, Cylinder, Design, Existing, Experimental, Flow, Generated, Has, JAW, Mechanically, Piston, Platform, Potential, Precise, Primary, Specific, Stratification, Traditional, Water, Wavemaker.

Collaborative Research: A study of the energy dissipation of the internal tide as it reaches the continental slope of Tasmania
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer A MacKinnon($561,018), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Jonathan D Nash($44,575), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Samuel M Kelly($161,583), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Internal-tide Energy Flux, Continental Slope, Internal Tide, Internal Tides, Internal-tide Beam, Internal-tide Beams, Internal-tide Energy, Low-mode Internal, Tasman Sea, Analysis, Compare, Comprehensive, Decay, Dissipation, Energetic, Enhance, Estimates, Experiment, Focused, Generated, Generation, Global, Has, Low-mode, Mesoscale, Mixing, Observations, Observed, Ocean, Presence, Propagates, Rates, Regions, Situ, Strong, T-TIDE, T-beam, Tasmanian.

Near-Inertial waves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William R Young($855,945), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Internal Gravity Waves, Internal Wave Band, Near-inertial Waves, Ocean Mixing, Wind Stress, Carbon, Control, Eddies, Effort, Energy, Essential, Generation, Interaction, Involves, Main, Modeling, NIW, Ninertial, Niws, Oceans, Oscillations, Peak, Propagation, Radiation, Supply, Surface, Universal.

RAPID: Response of Lake Superior to anomalously high ice cover during the winter of 2013-2014
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jay A Austin($40,914), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Cold Winter, Ice Cover, Lake Superior, Amounts, Anomalously, Completely, Conditions, Consequences, Frozen, Lakes, Levels, Low, Opportunity, Summer, Was, Wider.

Measurement of Surfactants on Wavy Water Surfaces Using Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William E Asher($272,827), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Jet Array Tank, Naturally Occurring Surfactants, Synthetic Jet Array, Vibrational Sum-frequency Spectroscopy, Sum-frequency Spectroscopy, Summer Undergraduate, Surfactant Concentrations, Vibrational Sum-frequency, Washington Space, Water Surfaces, Aerosols, Air-water, Atmosphere, Continuing, Demonstrate, Demonstration, Developing, Exchange, Facility, Has, Laboratory, Method, Ocean, Organic, Participation, Processes, SJAT, SURP, Schools, Situ, Students, Substances, VSFS.

Modeling Bubbly Flows and Bubble-Mediated Gas Transfer in High Wind Conditions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D'Asaro($295,974), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Transfer, Bubble-mediated Gas Flux, Bubbles And Dissolved, Dissolved Gas Concentration, Air-sea Gas, Bubble-mediated Gas, Dimethyl Sulfide, Dissolved Gases, Effective Solubility, Local Schools, Ocean Surface, Surface Ocean, Wind Conditions, Activities, Based, Biogeochemical, Carbonate, Climate, Description, Dissolution, Evolution, Governing, Has, Hurricane, Layer, Model, Multiple, Oceanic, Outreach, Oxygen, Parameterization, Processes, Simulations, Supersaturated, Tested, Turbulence.

Bottom Stress and the Generation of Vertical Vorticity Over the Inner Shelf
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John H Trowbridge($729,670), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Bottom Drag Law, Bottom Stress Models, Currents And Stratification, Inner Shelf, Langmuir Circulations, Longstanding Models, Near-bottom Flow, Numerical Models, Regional-scale Simulations, Sea Floor, Shallows Adjacent, Simulations Suggest, Wind Forcing, Analysis, Applications, Based, Coast, Coastal, Concurrent, Dependence, Dynamics, Eddies, Exchange, Hypothesized, Influence, Insights, Lead, Nbottom, Physics, Planners, Predictions, Produce, Quantities, Regional-scale, Separately, Set, Surface, Transport, Velocities, Vorticity, Water, Water-column, Waves.

Boundary Layer Effects on Flow and Mixing in Deep Ocean Canyons
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ian Eisenman($223,089), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mixing And Upwelling, Ridge Flank Canyons, Abyssal Mixing, Boundary Layer, Boundary Layers, Complicated Topography, Deep Ocean, Deep-ocean Mixing, Mixing Parameterizations, Observations Suggest, Circulation, Deep-ocean, Distribution, Expected, Internal, Mechanism, Metrics, Mid-ocean, Modeling, Models, Portion, Processes, Tidally-driven, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: Continuation and Enhancement of MPOWIR
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Colleen B Mouw($82,739), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
2. Susan Lozier($97,881), Duke University, Durham
3. Sonya A Legg($249,958), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Town Hall Meetings, Geoscience Disciplines, Junior Women, Mpowir Activities, Conference, Field, Mentoring, Oceanographers, Oceanography, Population, Program, Resources, Retention, Senior, Surveys, Variety, Via, Website.

Cross-Frontal Fluxes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current near Udintsev Fracture Zone
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kathleen A Donohue($895,358), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Current And Pressure, French And Korean, Heat And Momentum, Inverted Echo Sounders, Mean And Eddy, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Pressure Recording Inverted, Recording Inverted Echo, Southern Acc Front, Udintsev Fracture Zone, Eddy Fluxes, Fracture Zone, Polar Front, Southern Ocean, Subantarctic Front, Array, Arrays, Budget, CPIES, Climate, Closely, Complementary, Cross, Cross-frontal, Currents, Density, Dynamical, Eddies, Efforts, Estimates, Exchange, Exchanges, Fronts, Govern, Lee, Main, Modeling, Models, Moorings, Near, Numerical, Potential, Quantify, Region, Remote, Selected, Sensors, Sites, Strong, Tall, Vorticity.

The Turbulence Responsible for Horizontal Surfzone Dispersion
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew S Spydell($230,091), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Eulerian Eddy Properties, Incident Wave Field, Surfzone Eddy Diffusivity, Dispersion Depends, Eddy Field, Eddy Statistics, Existing Observations, Frequency-wavenumber Spectra, Health Risks, Lagrangian Statistics, Observed Eddy, San Diego, Surfzone Eddies, Surfzone Horizontal, Time Scales, Wave Averaged, Wave Resolving, Alpha, Beach, Beaches, Calculated, Cross-shore, Determined, Education, Environmental, Frequency-wavenumber, ILACSD, Length, Model, Models, Objective, Particular, Poses, Sandyduck, Simulations, Theory, Turbulence, Unknown, Values, Velocity, Water.

Collaborative Research: Large-scale Laboratory Investigation and Numerical Modeling of Sheet Flow Sediment Transport Dynamics across a Surf Zone Sand Bar
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jack A Puleo($470,055), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Daniel T Cox($421,654), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Laboratory And Numerical, Laboratory Experiments, Sediment Transport, Wave Flume, Beach, Coastal, Drive, Educational, Effort, Erosion, Improvements, Investigate, Lead, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Nearshore, Offshore, Processes, Sand, Students, Water, Waves.

Collaborative Research: An Eddy-resolved Ensemble Approach to Pacific Ocean Decadal Variability
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander F Shchepetkin($127,804), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($391,728), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Niklas Schneider($266,192), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Eddy-resolved Ensemble Modeling, Ensemble Modeling Approach, Lorenzo And Schneider, North Pacific Gyre, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Pacific El Niño, Pis Di Lorenzo, Water Mass Properties, Aleutian Low, Atmospheric Circulation, Central Pacific, Decadal Variance, Eastern Pacific, Eddy-resolved Ensemble, Marine Ecosystem, Pacific Ocean, Tropical Pacific, Anomalies, Available, Bridge, Climate, Coastal, Controlling, Diagnose, Dynamics, ENSO, Eddy-resolving, Eddy-scale, Explored, Expression, Forcing, Generate, Has, Hindcasts, Large-scale, Mechanisms, Models, NPGO, Observations, PDO, Positive, Processes, Pronounced, Subsurface, Transport, Tropics, Warming, Was.

Collaborative Research: Marginal instability and deep cycle turbulence in the equatorial oceans
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James N Moum($482,006), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Sutanu Sarkar($304,421), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, Deep Cycle, El Niño, Heat Flux, Marginal Instability, Climate, Coincided, Currents, Document, ENSO, Effects, Equatorial, Existing, Explore, History, Large-scale, Magnitude, Mixing, Models, Observational, Physics, Property, Range, Ri, Simulations, Turbulence, Was.

The vertical propagation of internal waves through the ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Thomas Peacock($268,160), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Experiments And Numerical, Stratifications And Vertical, Arctic Ocean, Deep Ocean, Double-diffusive Staircase, Field Studies, Fluid Dynamics, Graduate Student, Internal Waves, Laboratory Experiments, Mixed Layer, Ocean Mixing, Theoretical Method, Theoretical Model, Vertical Shear, Wave Energy, Base, Circulation, Complex, Double-diffusive, Investigations, Ninertial, Program, Propagation, Recruited, Scenarios, Structures, Students, Summer, Training, Validated, WHOI.

Along-isopycnal Salinity Variability: Deducing Horizontal Stirring in the Global Ocean from Argo
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sylvia T Cole($452,074), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Along-isopycnal Salinity Fluctuations, Horizontal Diffusivity Estimates, Length And Horizontal, Temperature And Salinity, Velocity Fluctuations Derived, Along-isopycnal Salinity, Argo Float, Density Surfaces, Eddy Stirring, Horizontal Stirring, Mixing Length, Additional, Assessment, Compared, Current, Depth, Diffusion, Future, Global, Gradients, Mean, Methods, Near, Ocean, Processes, Regions, Tracer, Tracers.

Inferring Ocean Mixing Rates from Hydrography and Turbulent Energy Sources
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Geoffrey Gebbie($413,458), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Mixing Rates, Heat And Carbon, Ocean Mixing Rates, Age Tracers, Hydrographic Observations, Ocean Circulation, Resulting Global, Already-collected, Climate, Developed, Diffusivity, Direct, Energy, Estimate, Estimates, In-situ, Inclusion, Information, Inherent, Inversion, Map, Maps, Method, Processes, Radiocarbon, Serve, Small-scale, Sources, Spatial, Technique, Transports, Uncertainty, Uptake.

Wave processes along 26N
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Zoltan B Szuts($568,550), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Theoretical And Numerical, Amoc Array, Dynamic Height, Energy Flux, Internal Waves, Large-scale Waves, Observational Basis, Planetary Waves, Potential Energy, Real Ocean, Spatial Scales, Western Boundary, Allows, Atlantic, Basin, Broad, Dissipation, Examine, Extend, Frequency, Horizontal, Kelvin, Kinetic, Lack, Large-scale, Low-frequency, Mode-space, Moorings, Motion, Observations, Pathways, Periods, Pressure, Previous, Propagation, Range, Relations, Rossby, Satellite, Signals, Spectrum, Subsurface, Subtropical, Temporal, Tidal, Velocity.

Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium VIII and IX
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher I Measures($279,184), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pods Symposia, Academic, Collaborations, DISCO, Department, Discussion, Field, Foster, Future, Hawaii, Individuals, Interactions, Invitees, Meeting, Meetings, Oceanography, October, Participants, Pool, Presentations, Program, Sessions, Symposium.

Dynamical and Material Connectivity Across Continental Shelves
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James C McWilliams($631,905), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dynamics And Scales, Submesoscale Shelf Eddies, Santa Barbara, Surf Eddies, Transition Zone, Bathymetric, Beach, Circulation, Collaborations, Currents, Fluxes, Gradients, Graduate, Lead, Model, Modeling, Ocean, Primary, Processes, Program, ROMS, SSTZ, Sites, Strong, Surface, Transport, Typically, Validation, Water, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: The Upper Branch of the Southern Ocean Overturning in the Southern Ocean State Estimate: Water Mass Transformation and the 3-D Residual Circulation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ryan Abernathey($101,621), Columbia University, New York
2. Ivana Cerovecki($813,328), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ocean's Overturning Circulation, Southern Ocean's Overturning, Air-sea Fluxes, Deep Waters, Drake Passage, Lower Cell, Mitgcm Users, Neutral Density, Ocean's Overturning, Residual Circulation, Sea Ice, Sea Surface, Southern Ocean's, Upper Cell, Zonally Averaged, ACC, Air-sea, Antarctic, Atlantic, Carbon, Climate, Contributions, Denser, Diagnostics, Diapycnal, Essential, Examine, Examined, Fed, Freshwater, Global, Heat, Hemisphere, Indian, Isopycnal, Lighter, Mass, Oceanic, Oceans, Online, Pacific, Processes, Quantify, Regions, Relative, SOSE, Subtropical, Thermocline, Three-dimensional, Tool, Transformation, Upwelling, Volume.

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

1. Kraig Winters($253,962), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
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, Realistic Simulations, Amplitude, Analyses, Bathymetric, Behavior, Coastal, Coupled, Depth, Field, Generation, Investigate, Mexican, Nature, Numerical, Propagation, Sense, Shelf, Stratification, Structure, Techniques, Tidal, Time.

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

1. Luc Rainville($1,611,323), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dissipation And Mixing, Continental Slopes, Low-mode Baroclinic, Tidal Dissipation, Assess, Australian, Barotropic, Breaking, Deep, Effort, Energy, Experiment, Geometry, Gliders, Internal, Low-mode, Magnitude, Mechanisms, Models, Moorings, Observations, Parameterizations, Plan, Processes, Scattering, Sea, T-TIDE, Tide, Tides, Wave.

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

1. Zhongxiang Zhao($586,202), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Flux And Dissipation, Internal Tide Energy, Low-mode Internal Tide, Altimetric Estimates, Circulation Models, Energy Flux, Internal Tides, Low-mode Internal, Spatial Resolution, Tp-jason Tandem, Altimetry, Geography, Global, Globe, High-resolution, Incoherent, Maps, Mixing, Non-uniform, Numerical, Ocean, Pacific, Pis, Program, Realistic, Satellite, Students, Task, Techniques, Tp-jason, Washington.

RUI: The Evolution of the Galapagos Hotspot
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Karen S Harpp($283,641), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Ocean Island Volcanoes, Mantle Plumes, Analyses, Carried, Chemical, Colgate, Composition, Deep, Efforts, Evolution, Field, Galápagos, Geochemical, Islands, Lavas, Nature, Students, Surface, Volcanic.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Oyster fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay: Integrating stakeholder objectives with natural system models to promote sustainable policy
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Jeffrey Blair($135,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Troy W Hartley($458,207), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Jeffrey C Cornwell($1,435,274), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Tools And Practices, Human Dimensions, Implementation Success, Policy Formation, Policy Objectives, Policy Recommendations, Recommended Policies, Stakeholder Involvement, Sustainable Management, Advance, Approach, Coastal, Collaborative, Complex, Create, Developed, Development, Economics, Ecosystem, Enhance, Ensure, Incorporate, Influence, Knowledge, Model, Modeling, Models, Natural, Oyster, Process, Resource, Rules, Select, Shellfisheries, Stakeholders, Values, Water, Workshops.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: A cross-site comparison of salt marsh persistence in response to sea-level rise and feedbacks from social adaptations
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Anne E Giblin($309,021), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
2. Robert J Johnston($377,776), Clark University, Worcester
3. Karen J McGlathery($428,730), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
4. Matthew Kirwan($431,612), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
5. Merryl L Alber($449,832), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Biophysical And Social, Adaptation Options, Integrated Approach, Marsh Vulnerability, Projected Rates, Salt Marshes, Actions, Atlantic, Broader, Coastal, Combined, Drivers, Economic, Feedbacks, Graduate, Human, Influence, Local, Long-term, Models, Planning, Potential, Range, SLR, Sites, Socio-ecological, Sustainability.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Adaptations of fish and fishing communities to rapid climate change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Simon A Levin($135,442), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Eli P Fenichel($150,514), Yale University, New Haven
3. Kevin J St. Martin($1,110,024), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Flounder And Hake, Cumulative Impacts, Fisheries Management, Hake Fisheries, Species Distributions, Summer Flounder, Abundance, Adapt, Affect, Capital, Climate, Coastal, Comprehensive, Design, Ecosystem, Explore, Factors, Fishers, Fishing, Human, Maintain, Marine, Natural, Populations, Range, Regulatory, Shifts, Social, Sustainability.

Collaborative Research: EaSM-3: Regional decadal predictions of coupled climate-human systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Robert E Kopp($800,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. William G Large($381,556), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Climate And Socio-economic, Land Surface Model, Multi-scale Climate Model, Atmospheric Blocking, Decision Makers, Heat Waves, Multi-scale Climate, Sea Level, Socio-economic Models, Successfully Incorporated, Atmosphere, Challenges, Changing, Coastal, Coupled, Decadal, Degree, Environs, Existing, Extreme, Framework, Future, Highly, Human, Hurricanes, Jersey, Local, Ocean, Precipitation, Predict, Produce, Regional, Regions, Resolution, Social, Storm, Storms, Surges, Time-slice, Vulnerable, Weather.

Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO): A System for Access to Ecological and Biogeochemical Ocean Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Ship Operations

1. Cynthia Chandler($9,600,001), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Biological And Chemical, Chemical Oceanography, Outreach Activities, Publicly Available, Access, BCO-DMO, Changing, Climate, Collaborative, Complex, Component, Cycle, Datasets, Development, Distributed, Exchange, Existing, Facilitate, Foster, Information, Integrated, International, Level, Management, Metadata, NSF, National, Oceanographic, Office, Participates, Programs, Repository, Sharing, Synthesis.

The importance of sulfurized sugars for organic carbon burial: Testing the model in Santa Barbara Basin
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SEES Ship Operations

1. Alex Sessions($354,959), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Original Organic Molecules, Analytical Technique, Carbon Cycle, Cariaco Basin, Individual Organic, Minority Undergraduate, Newly Developed, Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Organic Sulfur, Sulfur Isotope, Water Column, Absence, Allow, Compared, Compounds, Crosslinking, Depocenters, Deposited, Determining, Disulfide-bound, Formation, Has, Kerogen, Lipids, Petroleum, Polymerization, Process, Processes, Reaction, S-, Sediments, Seeing, Students, Timescales, Via.

In-situ X-ray Tomography and Chemical Tracer Experiments Examining Hydrothermal Alteration of Peridotite: Pore Scale Studies with Implications for Water-Rock Interaction Models
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: SEES Ship Operations

1. Martin O Saar($470,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Dissolution And Precipitation, Porosity And Permeability, Fluid Flow, Mineral Dissolution, Reaction Rates, Real Time, Stable Isotopes, Water-rock Interaction, Allows, Approaches, Ca, Chemical, Conditions, Cores, Coupled, Evolution, Examined, Experimental, Experiments, Flow-through, Fluids, Has, Hydrothermal, Lattice-boltzmann, Mathematical, Mg, Minerals, Peridotite, Peridotites, Processes, Reactions, Reactor, Seafloor, Si, Species, Theoretical, Through-going, Water-rock.

EAGER - Chief Scientist Training for Young Investigators: MLML/CSU Focus on Coastal Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Kenneth H Coale($62,851), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Short Cruises, Acquire, Activity, Education, Experiences, Generation, Oceanography, Opportunities, Participants, Plan, RV, Rapidly, Sea, Sur, Time, Training, UNOLS.

Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Training Chief Scientists for Shipboard Research
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. William Byam($89,397), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Rv Hugh Sharp, Acquire, Activity, Chief, Cruise, Cruises, Day, Education, Experiences, Generation, Marine, Objectives, Oceanography, Opportunities, Participants, Plan, Rapidly, Short, Time, Training, UNOLS.

EAGER - Introducing Early Career Scientists to Research on the Great Lakes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Richard D Ricketts($18,506), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Training Cruise, Unols Ships, Fleet, Has, Lakes, NSF, RV.

Chief Scientist Training Cruise (Barbados-Bermuda, May 2014)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Maureen Conte($69,257), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Plan And Execute, Cruise Participants, Cst Cruise, Activities, Atlantic, Cruises, Diversity, Fleet, Future, Geographic, Increase, Opportunities, Participation, Provided, Seagoing, Ship, Training, UNOLS.

Replacement and upgrade for an integrated radar, AIS and DSC system for the R/V Neeskay
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. J V Klump($24,695), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Equipment, Radar, Safety.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment, RV Blue Heron, 2013
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($72,424), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Blue Heron, Fire Detection, Board, Deck, Documentation, Equipment, Mcds, Operated, UNOLS, Users, Vessel.

EASM-3: Collaborative Research: Quantifying Predictability Limits, Uncertainties, Mechanisms, and Regional Impacts of Pacific Decadal Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Sustainability Resrch Networks

1. Aneesh C Subramanian($586,827), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Hyodae Seo($368,144), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Emanuele Di Lorenzo($292,284), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Decadal Climate, Pacific Decadal, Regional Coupled, Regional Impacts, Educational, Flows, Focuses, Influence, Limits, Long-term, Mechanisms, Models, Ocean, Practical, Predictability, Predictions, Skill, Statistical, Students, Temperatures, Timescales, Tools, Uncertainties, Variables.

Funding to support the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System Office
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: nan

1. Jonathan C Alberts($5,167,602), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Nine Standing Committees, University-national Oceanographic Laboratory, Deep Sea, University-national Oceanographic, Unols Office, Academic, Advance, Assist, Bring, Broad, Challenges, Consortium, Critical, Development, Direction, Diverse, Efforts, Facilities, Federal, Field, Five, Fleet, Future, Marine, Meet, Mission, Programs, Requirements, Safe, Ships, Sixty-one, Students, Technicians, Time.

Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography XXIV and XXV
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: nan

1. Christopher I Measures($279,184), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Chemical Oceanographers, Academic, Announcement, Chemistry, DISCO, Hawaiian, International, Marine, Meeting, Oceanography, October, Opportunity, Peers, Pool, Symposia, Symposium, Th.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2014

Collaborative Research: Submarine Melting and Freshwater Export in Greenland's Glacial Fjords: The Role of Subglacial Discharge, Fjord Topography and Shelf Properties Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

US GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Characterization, Sampling and Analysis of the Sea Ice Environment in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Collection and Analysis of Atmospheric Deposition Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Determining the Pathways, Fate, and Flux of Atmospherically Derived Trace Elements in the ocean/ice system Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Sampling and Analysis of Atmospheric Deposition Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of the U.S. Arctic GEOTRACES Study Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Dependence of Antarctic sea-ice extent on mesoscale ocean variability in the Southern Ocean Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: Changes in ecosystem production and benthic biodiversity following the widespread loss of an ecosystem engineer Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: RUI: Impacts of size-selective mortality on sex-changing fishes Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Tracking Recovery from the 2014 Coral Bleaching Event in Hawaiian Waters: Water Quality Gradients, Ecological Factors, and Reef Resilience to Climate Change Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research:RAPID: A hyper-thermal anomaly in the Florida Reef Tract: An opportunity to explore the mechanisms underpinning patterns of coral bleaching and disease Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling by SAR11 Marine Bacteria Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Exploring the physiological and ecological basis of mixotrophy in marine food webs Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Functional Diversity and Performance of Ciliated Marine Invertebrate Larvae: Measuring and Modeling Larval Swimming, Feeding and Hydrodynamic Signaling Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Size structure and function of phytoplankton communities in a changing ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Marine priming effect - molecular mechanisms for the biomineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in the ocean Award Effective Date: 09/04/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: How can bacterial viruses succeed in the marine environment? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

High resolution genome changes during evolution in a classic fisheries experiment Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A combined boron isotope, pH microelectrode and pH-sensitive dye approach to constraining acid/base chemistry in the calcifying fluids of corals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Photoheterotrophy in unicellular cyanobacteria: ecological drivers and significance for marine biogeochemistry Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Climate Change and Upwelling -- Comparative Analysis of Current & Future Responses of the California and Benguela Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Patterns of diversity in planktonic ciliates: spatio-temporal scales and community assembly in the coastal ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Can B-vitamins control phyto-and-bacterioplankton successions in a coastal upwelling region? Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Consequences of sub-lethal hypoxia exposure for teleosts tracked with biogeochemical markers: a trans-basin comparison Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Community Effects of Competition and Predation across Latitude and Implications for Species Invasions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Environmental stress and signaling based on reactive oxygen species among planktonic protists Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Dinitrogen fixation rates and diazotrophic communities in contrasting oxygen regimes of the Eastern Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: New Approaches to New Production Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Understanding Thresholds and regime shifts in marine ecosystems: effects of the 2014-2015 El Nino in the Galapagos rocky subtidal Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Nitrogen Fixing Prokaryotes in Corals: Is Nitrogen Fixation a Core Function of the Coral Microbiome? Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Vitamin B12 and nitrogen regulation of oceanic dimethylsulfoniopropionate and dimethylsulfide Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Interactive effects of acidification, low dissolved oxygen and temperature on abalone population dynamics within the California Current Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID Collaborative Research: Tracking coral reef impacts of the 2014/2015 El Nino event Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Are Eastern Tropical Pacific reefs becoming more resilient to ENSO? Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Testing the rocky intertidal community consequences of the decimation of purple sea star populations along the Oregon coast by sea star wasting disease Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

2014 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The effects of diatom-produced polyunsaturated aldehydes on the microbial food wed in temperate and polar waters Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: Vibrio as a model microbe for opportunistic heterotrophic response to Saharan dust deposition events in marine waters Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Vibrio as a model microbe for opportunistic heterotrophic response to Saharan dust deposition events in marine waters Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Differential contributions of archaeal ammonia oxidizer ecotypes in relation to their changing environment Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Eco-DAS 2.0: Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Mega-typhoon impacts on the metapopulation resilience of coral reef fishes Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecology of diatom viruses: connecting physiology and field dynamics through host transcriptional responses Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Disturbance and Larval Supply on Communities at Hydrothermal Vents Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Detecting genetic adaptation during marine invasions Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Turbulence-spurred settlement: Deciphering a newly recognized class of larval response Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Membrane vesicles produced by marine bacteria: origins, distributions, and functions Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

New insights into the response of reef corals to climate change using the symbiont to host cell ratio as a metric of bleaching susceptibility Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Microbial carbon cycling and its interactions with sulfur and nitrogen transformations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Are blue crab declines leading to a trophic cascade and massive loss of U.S. southern marshes? Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Nearshore larval transport: physical and biological processes Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Documenting bleaching susceptibility and resilience in Guam, Micronesia Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

High Resolution Linkages Between DOC Turnover and Bacterioplankton in a Coastal Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Gene Flow and Divergence Across the Equatorial Tropical Marine Barrier: Past, Present and Future Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Spatial variability of larval fish in relation to their prey and predator fields: Patterns and interactions from cm to 10s of km in a subtropical, pelagic environment Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Persistent Virus Infections in Marine Phytoplankton Award Effective Date: 08/15/2013; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Colonization genetics of globally invasive marine bryozoa: Does adaptation prior or post-introduction determine spread? Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

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

Collaborative Research: "EaSM-3": The Role of Ocean Eddies in Decadal Prediction Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research: EaSM-3: Modeling, Understanding, and Prediction of the Decadal Variability of Productive Eastern Boundary Coastal Upwelling Regions Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: Scale Dependence and Adaptive Capacity Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: microbes as sentinels of adaptive responses to multiple stressors: contrasting estuarine and open ocean environments Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Development of a Compact Instrument for Field Measurements of pH, Total Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, and Total Alkalinity Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Collaborative Research Ocean Acidification: Establishing the links between offshore biogeochemistry, coral reef metabolism and acidification Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Effects of acidification and warming on long-term ocean carbon cycling constrained by observations Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: The response of calcareous nannoplankton to ocean acidification during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Determination of atmospheric wet and dry deposition and air-sea exchange of mercury species from coastal and offshore waters Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Inventories of Primary Productivity by In-situ Mass Spectrometry in the Upper Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Mercury Speciation and Cycling in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Thorium-230, Thorium-232, and Protactinium-231 tracers of trace element supply and removal. Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Arctic section: Dissolved micronutrient trace metal distributions and size partitioning Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Arctic Section - Water mass composition, circulation and mean residence times derived from measurements of natural and manmade tracers Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Processes affecting the biogeochemical cycling of essential and toxic metalloids in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Improving understanding of controls on the distributions of selected anthropogenic radionuclides in the Amerasian Basin Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Shipboard determination of key trace elements Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Methane, vanadium, barium, and gallium as process indicators in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Marine Cycling of Bioactive Trace Metals in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical Cycling of Particulate Trace Elements in the Western Arctic Basin Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Actinium-227 as a Naturally-occurring Tracer of Dissolved Material Transport in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography