Toxin expression and function by an estuarine model species in a dynamic seasonal community
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: AISL

1. Adam Reitzel($533,378), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Key terms: Arms Race, Model Cnidarian, Undergraduate Students, Venomous Animals, Abiotic, Anemones, Availability, Available, Central, Compared, Composition, Diversity, Ecological, Ecology, Environmental, Essential, Estuarine, Evolution, Exposed, Expression, Factors, Field, Genes, Genetic, Graduate, Individual, Involved, Laboratory, Molecular, NC, North, Potency, Potential, Predator, Predators, Prey, Proteins, School, Shifts, Targets, Temperature, Toxin, Toxins, Training, Vectensis.

Tracking Greenland Melt in the Ocean Using Noble Gas Fingerprints
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Nicholas L Beaird($591,009), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Fresh Water Discharge, Glacial Melt Water, Glacially Modified Waters, Greenland's Fresh Water, Continental Shelves, Geochemical Tracer, Greenland's Fresh, Land-ice Loss, Sea Level, Submarine Melt, Surface Melt, Ability, Antarctica, Assess, Circulation, Climate, Consequence, Cruises, Dynamics, Field, Fjord, Fjords, Formation, Future, Glacier-fjord, Glaciers, Global, Greenlands, Increase, Large-scale, Local, Margins, Media, Meltwater, Method, NOVA, Occurring, Ocean, Oceans, Rates, Track.

Support for the U. S. GEOTRACES Project Office
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Robert F Anderson($1,281,746), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Geotraces Program, International Geotraces, Steering Committee, Activities, Arranging, Aspects, Building, Communication, Contaminants, Coordination, Distribution, Effort, Funding, Global, Information, Involved, Marine, National, Ocean, Office, Outreach, Planning, Workshops.

Investing in the future of paleoclimate research: U.S. graduate student fellowships for the 2015-2017 Urbino Summer Schools in Paleoclimatology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Stephen A Schellenberg($188,634), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Experience, International, Participation, Students, USSP, Urbino.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Nd isotopes and REEs in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Brian A Haley($245,936), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Isotopes And Rees, Western Arctic Ocean, Arctic Expedition, Changing Environmental, Nd Isotopes, Ree Concentrations, Water Mass, Biological, Collected, Distributions, Exchanges, Future, GEOTRACES, Mixing, Neodymium, Oceanographic, Processes, Quantify, Rare, Seawater, Sediment, Sources, Teis, Trace, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: Arctic GEOTRACES - Nd isotopes and REEs in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Leopoldo Pena Gonzalez($288,446), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Isotopes And Rees, Western Arctic Ocean, Arctic Expedition, Changing Environmental, Nd Isotopes, Ree Concentrations, Water Mass, Biological, Collected, Distributions, Exchanges, Future, GEOTRACES, Mixing, Neodymium, Oceanographic, Processes, Quantify, Rare, Seawater, Sediment, Sources, Teis, Trace, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic section: Spatial variability of lead concentrations and isotopic compositions in the western Arctic basins
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Edward A Boyle($376,331), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Robert D Rember($266,223), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Toxic Trace, Western Arctic, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Biological, Collected, Concentrations, Distribution, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Ice, Isotopes, Knowledge, Lead, Measure, Pb, Processes, Sea, Seawater, Snow, Tracer.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Radium and Thorium Isotopes as Natural Geochemical Tracers in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Ken O Buesseler($1,244,524), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Willard S Moore($123,384), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Biological, Boundaries, Cycling, Distribution, Distributions, Essential, Fluxes, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Measured, Ocean, Processes, Quantify, Radionuclides, Radium, Rates, Sampling, Teis, Trace, Tracers, Uraniumthorium.

Calibration of a Novel Nutrient Paleoproxy in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Tristan Horner($388,639), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Earth's Climate, Human Observations, Nutrient Regimes, Nutrient Utilization, Organic Matter, Southern Ocean, Behavior, Carbon, Characterization, Direct, Floor, Formation, Isotopic, Marine, Nutrients, Past, Proxies, Proxy, Requires, Sea, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Sonya A Legg($84,220), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Kurt L Polzin($785,999), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Antarctic Bottom Water, Diminishing Antarctic Contributions, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Atlantic Ocean, Bottom Boundary, Boundary Current, Boundary Layer, Deep Ocean, Enhanced Mixing, Narrow Passages, Orkney Passage, Parameter Regime, Scotia Sea, Warming Trends, Basins, Choke, Climate, Dense, Diabatic, Downstream, Dynamics, Extent, Field, Flow, Flows, Formed, Funneled, GFDL, Garabato, Global, Gradients, Horizontal, Increased, Intense, Layers, Long-term, Model, Models, Naveira, Near, Numerical, Observations, Observed, Processes, Properties, Shear, Simulations, Sv, Translated, Upstream, Vertical.

OCE-RIG: Identifying the role of ocean circulation in polar climate change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Kyle C Armour($96,329), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Background Ocean Conditions, Boundary Conditions Unique, Circulation Model Driven, Climate Forcings Applied, Climate Projections Simulated, Climatological Surface Boundary, Comprehensive Coupled Global, Confident Polar Climate, Coupled Global Climate, Distinct Background Ocean, Forcings Applied Separately, Fresh Water Flux, Global Climate Models, Greenhouse Gas Forcing, Increased Freshwater Input, Inherently Coupled Nature, Large-scale And Regional, Meridional Ocean Heat, Ocean Heat Transport, Polar Climate Prediction, Polar Climate Projections, Polar Ocean Circulation, Precluding Confident Polar, Regional Surface Winds, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Studying High-latitude Climate, Surface Boundary Conditions, Surface Winds Allowing, Polar Oceans, Southern Ocean, Act, Allows, Antarctica, Approach, Arctic, Assess, Attribute, Century, Challenge, Challenges, Changing, Circulations, Combination, Coming, Contrasting, Cover, Decades, Differences, Difficult, Drivers, Driving, Dynamics, Effects, Examines, Factors, Furthermore, Governing, Has, Influence, Instance, Mediating, Numerical, Observed, Oceanic, Overcomes, Pace, Primary, Range, Reveals, Rise, Sea-ice, Seeks, Setting, Shaped, Simulation, Spread, Warming.

The International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Andrew T Jessup($19,550), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Air-sea Gas, Carbon Dioxide, Gas Transfer, International Symposium, Water Surfaces, Wide Range, Air-water, Anthropogenic, Biogeochemical, Conference, Distribution, Engineering, Environmental, Flux, Fluxes, Global, Govern, Governing, Mechanisms, Mixing, Ocean, Opportunity, Parameterizations, Processes, Students, Topics, Uptake.

2016 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gretchen E Hofmann($31,910), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Policymakers And Managers, Ocean Global, Waterville Valley, Biology, Chair, Communication, Conference, Directions, Evolutionary, Examine, Facilitate, Field, Focus, GRC, Gordon, Has, July, Marine, Meeting, Opportunity, Rapidly, Session, Share, Themes.

Can Coral Reefs in the Central Pacific Survive Ocean Warming? A 2015 El Nino Test
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anne Cohen($135,496), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: 21st Century Climate, Central Tropical Pacific, 21st Century, Coral Reef, Cover Remains, Degrees Celsius, El Niño, Equatorial Pacific, Jarvis Island, Micromolar Nitrate, Ocean Warming, Recently Expanded, Reef Ecosystem, Replete Coral, Survive Bleaching, Collected, Conditions, Cool, Corals, Cruise, EUC, Ecosystems, Enhanced, Expedition, Feeding, Generated, Mechanisms, Models, Mortality, National, Nutrient-rich, PRIMNM, Phd, Potential, Productive, Productivity, Protections, Rate, Reefs, Sea, Strengthening, Surface, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Ecosystem dynamics of Western Pacific hydrothermal vent communities associated with polymetallic sulfide deposits
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter R Girguis($367,017), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Vicki Ferrini($83,178), Columbia University, New York
3. Roxanne Beinart($360,832), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Charles R Fisher($300,058), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Animal Host, Comparable Resolution, Genetic Connectivity, Geochemical Flux, Hydrothermal Vent, Hydrothermal Vents, Lau Basin, Physico-chemical Conditions, Significantly Increase, Spreading Center, Vent Fauna, Vent Fields, Western Pacific, Acquiring, Active, Biological, Characterization, Co-registered, Collaboration, Collections, Coupling, Critical, Dispersal, Distribution, Ecological, Ecosystems, Effects, Effort, Environmental, Established, Extent, Geological, HMNH, High-resolution, Holobiont, Holobionts, Insights, Local, Mining, Natural, Particular, Photomosaics, Physico-chemical, Physiological, Physiology, Processes, Regional, Resulting, Sites, Spatially, Structure, Structuring, Students, Sulfide, Symbionts, Time, Visitors.

Collaborative research: Understanding the effects of acidification and hypoxia within and across generations in a coastal marine fish
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Janet Nye($132,194), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Hannes Baumann($710,816), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Pre And Post-hatch, Atlantic Silverside, Co2 ×, Coastal Marine, Dissolved Oxygen, Fish Species, Forage Fish, Ocean Acidification, Co-sensitivity, Conditions, Consequences, ELH, Effects, Environmental, Environments, Experiments, Fertilization, Growth, Levels, Life, Metabolism, Model, Monitoring, Offspring, Pco, Potential, Pre-, Public, Quantified, Ratio, Rearing, Silversides, Stressors, Students, Survival, Time, Traits.

How does intensity and frequency of environmental variability affect phytoplankton growth?
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Naomi M Levine($790,404), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Intensity And Frequency, Temperature And Carbon, Thermal And Carbonate, Carbon Dioxide, Affect, Conditions, Constant, Dynamic, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental, Experiments, Factors, Food, Future, Growth, Laboratory, Levels, Marine, Natural, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Plants, Previous, School, Students, Upwelling.

Coral Chorus: The Role of Soundscapes in Coral Reef Larval Recruitment and Biodiversity
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy Apprill($1,010,181), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Supply And Settlement, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Influencing Larval, Marine Protected, Settlement Habitat, Acoustic, Animals, Biodiversity, Components, Cues, Detailed, Direct, Environmental, Experiments, Fish, Influence, Isolate, Larvae, Local, Orient, Outreach, Population, Public, Sound, Soundscape, Source, Structure, Students, Summer.

Collaborative research: Is hybridization among threatened Caribbean coral species the key to their survival or the harbinger of their extinction?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicole D Fogarty($404,687), Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale
2. Webb C Miller($699,677), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Parent Species Via, Parental Species Habitats, Reef-building Acroporid Corals, Temperatures And Irradiance, Acropora Cervicornis, Disease Resistant, Elkhorn Coral, Evolutionary Trajectory, Gene Flow, Reef-building Acroporid, Shallow Habitats, Shallow Waters, Staghorn Coral, Adaptation, Adapted, Allow, Analysis, Assays, Avenue, Caribbean, Changing, Collaborative, Current, Dominant, Ecological, Evidence, Expanding, Experiments, Extent, Extinction, Extreme, Formation, Foundation, Future, Genetic, Hybrid, Hybridization, Hybrids, Increasing, Introgression, Less, Mating, Mechanisms, Mortality, Ocean, Palmata, Past, Potential, Protection, Rare, Reefs, Reproduction, Situ, Survival, Threatened, Threats, Thriving, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Effects of multiple stressors on Marine Phytoplankton
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward A Laws($189,806), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Uta D E Passow($663,945), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Multiple Environmental Stresses, Marine Phytoplankton, Nutrient Availability, Ocean Acidification, Carbon, Cartoon, Complex, Directly, Effects, Experiments, Growth, Has, Interactive, Light, Modeling, Oxygen, Parameters, Pco, Productivity, Simultaneous, Species, Stressors, Students, Temperature.

Population genomics and ecotypic divergence in the most dominant lineage of marine bacteria
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael S Rappe($579,193), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Dna Sequencing, Genetic Diversity, Marine Bacteria, Abundant, Approach, Bacterial, Biodiversity, Cells, Characteristics, Coastal, Evolutionary, Functional, Genomic, Genomics, Investigate, Microbial, Microscopic, Native, Natural, North, Ocean, Organisms, Oxygen, Pacific, Populations, Processes, SAR, Seawater, Shape, Similar, Training.

RAPID: Variations in symbiont diversity in octocoral across seasons and a predicted bleaching event
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mary Alice Coffroth($56,304), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystem, Specific Octocoral Colonies, Algal Symbiont, Algal Symbionts, Bleaching Susceptibility, Caribbean Octocorals, Caribbean Reefs, Coral Bleaching, Coral Cover, Host Species, Octocoral Bleaching, Relative Abundance, Scleractinian Corals, Symbiont Density, Attributed, Cnidarians, Contrast, Course, Deal, Decline, Determined, Diversity, Dynamics, Followed, Foundation, Growing, Habitat, Has, Importance, Increasing, Lineage, Lower, Marine, Phenomenon, Phylotype, Potential, Sea, Sensitivity, Symbioses, Symbiosis, Virtually, Warming.

Collaborative Research: A metabolic index to predict the consequences of climate change for midwater ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Karen F Wishner($1,110,027), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Model And Map, Vertical And Horizontal, Eastern Pacific, Environmental Oxygen, Horizontal Distributions, Low Oxygen, Marine Organisms, Metabolic Demand, Metabolic Index, Oxygen Demand, Oxygen Supply, Shipboard Physiological, World's Oceans, Climate, Diverse, Features, Future, Gradient, Habitat, Increase, MI, Minimum, OMZ, Omzs, Partial, Predict, Species, Temperature, Tolerance, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: A metabolic index to predict the consequences of expanding oxygen minimum zones for midwater ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Curtis Deutsch($166,963), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Model And Map, Vertical And Horizontal, Eastern Pacific, Environmental Oxygen, Horizontal Distributions, Low Oxygen, Marine Organisms, Metabolic Demand, Metabolic Index, Oxygen Demand, Oxygen Supply, Shipboard Physiological, World's Oceans, Climate, Diverse, Features, Future, Gradient, Habitat, Increase, MI, Minimum, OMZ, Omzs, Partial, Predict, Species, Temperature, Tolerance, Worlds.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Lost City as an ultramafic urban center of the subseafloor, fueled by energy and carbon from the mantle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William Brazelton($281,816), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Deborah S Kelley($86,161), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Susan Lang($290,836), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: City Hydrothermal Field, Lost City Hydrothermal, Mantle Rocks, Metabolic Pathways, Organic Molecules, Serpentinite Subsurface, Subsurface Biosphere, Acids, Active, Activity, Approach, Biological, Carbon, Deep, Documentaries, Energy, Environmental, Expedition, Fluids, Hydrogen, Lack, Limitation, Methane, Microbial, Reactions, Resulting, Seafloor, Students, Water.

Biogeography of a marine defensive microbial symbiont: relative importance of host defense vs. abiotic factors
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicole B Lopanik($492,416), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Nicole B Lopanik($520,440), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Ecological And Environmental, Bugula Neritina, Defensive Symbiont, Environmental Factors, Environmental Parameters, Low Latitudes, Lower Latitudes, Marine Bryozoan, Predation Pressure, Symbiont Growth, Aposymbiotic, Benefits, Compounds, Conspecifics, Cost, Costs, Development, Distribution, Fitness, Georgia, Has, Host, Hosting, Hosts, Individuals, Influence, Inhibited, Interactions, Natural, Outreach, Play, Predators, Products, Students, Symbionts, Symbiotic, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating algal host-virus dynamics in different nutrient regimes - mechanistic interactions and biogeochemical impact
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kay D Bidle($481,573), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Calcium Carbonate Cell, Carbonate Cell Walls, Mechanistic And Quantitative, Carbon Flow, Deep Ocean, Ecosystem Models, Host-virus Interactions, Mathematical Model, Nutrient Supply, Organic Matter, Phytoplankton Infection, Spatial Scales, Upper Ocean, Virus Infection, Ability, Activities, Adsorption, Aims, App, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical, Blooms, Cells, Cellular, Coccolithophore, Coccolithoviruses, Dependence, Dynamics, Ecological, Ecosystems, Elucidate, Enhanced, Fate, Findings, Free, Global, Globally, Host-virus, Huxleyi, Infectious, Large-scale, Levels, Marine, Mechanisms, Mucus-like, NGSS, Oceanic, Oceans, Particles, Primary, Processes, Produce, Productivity, Rates, Release, Replication, Rutgers, Sticky, Time, Tool, Viral, Viruses.

OCE-PRF Track 1: Resolving the Advantages of Motility and Chemotaxis in Oceanic Crust
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephanie A Carr($174,000), Carr Stephanie A, Golden
Key terms: Crustal Fluids, Enrichment Cultures, Oceanic Crust, Attractants, Chemotactic, Conditions, Energy, Environment, Environments, Filled, Genomic, Growth, Hard, Investigate, JFR, Laboratory, Life, Metabolic, Microscope, Motile, Motility, Nutrient, Objective, Objectives, Observations, Organisms, Potential, Pure, Slide, Subsurface, Towards, Unique, Vast.

Collaborative Research: Identifying the Role of Basin-scale Climate Variability in the Decline of Atlantic Corals
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Daniel M Sigman($264,801), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Samantha de Putron($82,401), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
3. Anne Cohen($307,283), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Caribbean And Bermuda, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Warming And Ocean, 21st Century, Atlantic Coral, Coral Growth, Enhanced Stratification, North Atlantic, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Warming, Primary Productivity, Reef-building Corals, Climate, Decline, Declined, Effects, Exacerbate, Food, Generated, Has, Institute, Link, Oceanographic, Projected, Reef-building, Rival, Suggest, Summer, Verified.

Ecological impacts and drivers of double-stranded DNA viral communities in the global oceans
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew Sullivan($851,485), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Deep Ocean Viral, Surface And Deep, Viral Populations, Abundant, Available, Cells, Dataset, Datasets, Drivers, Ecological, Ecology, Enable, Establish, Experiments, Foundational, GOV, Host, Metagenomes, Microbes, Microbial, Produce, Proteins, Public, Single-cell, Structural, Structure, Viruses.

RUI: Will climate change cause 'lazy larvae'? Effects of climate stressors on larval behavior and dispersal
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sylvia Yang($421,136), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: 'lazy Larvae Syndrome, Distribution And Restoration, Warming And Acidification, 'lazy Larvae, Larval Dispersal, Larval Transport, Native Oysters, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Warming, Salish Sea, Student Interns, Swimming Behavior, Affect, Art, Climate, Conditions, Effects, Environment, Examine, Future, Habitat, Individual, Marine, Populations, Shellfish, Species, Stressors, Undergraduate.

Patterns of Microbial Community Structure Within and Between Hadal Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas Bartlett($141,134), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Deep Ocean Trenches, Graduate Students, Mariana Trench, Additional, Analyses, Bacterial, Deepest, Diversity, Environments, Microbes, Miles, Participating, Performed, Pressures, Seawater, Square, Surface, Training, Undergraduate.

Dynamic sinking behavior in diatoms: New insights from individual-based high resolution video observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Edward J Buskey($510,598), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Cells Sink, Diatom Cells, Life History, Positive Buoyancy, Sinking Rate, Sinking Rates, Actually, Assumed, Behavior, Cellular, Characteristics, Constant, Control, Diatoms, Diffusion, Downward, Fraction, Has, Individual, Insights, Interact, Layers, Movement, Ocean, Species, Techniques, Upward, Well-lit.

Kelp forest community resilience in action: adaptive responses of predators to a disease-driven food web perturbation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mark H Carr($774,348), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Purple Sea Urchin, Sea Urchin Populations, Stability And Resilience, Foraging Behavior, Giant Kelp, Rapid Growth, Sea Otters, Sea Stars, Species Interactions, West Coast, Advance, Barrens, Contribute, Contributing, Control, Controlling, Density, Diversity, Does, Ecosystems, Experiments, Explored, Forests, Influence, Lutris, Marine, North, Otherwise, Predator, Predators, Prey, Relative, Structure, Surveys, Urchins.

Collaborative Research: Navigating through space in turbulence tubes: Copepod responses to Burgers' vortex
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Donald Webster($348,423), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. David M Fields($339,655), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Turbulence-copepod Interaction, Turbulent Flows, Advantage, Behavior, Copepods, Cues, Detect, Examine, Finding, Food, Has, Kinematics, Laboratory, Motion, Orientation, Outreach, Range, Respond, Sensory, Species, Stable, Swimming, Turbulence-copepod, Turbulent-like, Vortex, Vortices.

RUI: Collaborative Research: What's their impact?: Quantification of medusan feeding mechanics as a tool for predicting medusan predation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John H Costello($227,722), Providence College, Providence
2. Sean P Colin($250,332), Roger Williams University, Bristol
Key terms: Clearance Rate Potential, Post-encounter Capture Process, Capture Efficiencies, Post-encounter Capture, Prey Selection, Wide Range, Based, Characteristics, Eat, Ecological, Ecosystems, Enable, Environments, Factors, Feeding, Increasing, Interactions, International, Jellyfish, Laboratory, Marine, Medusae, Medusan, Morphology, Outcome, Population, Predict, Predictions, Quantify, Rates, Robust, Size, Species, Techniques, Undergraduate.

Selective feeding by mucous-net filter feeders on the ocean's smallest organisms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kelly Sutherland($239,488), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Food Web, Particle Shape, Retention Efficiencies, Upper Ocean, Adhesion, Animals, Appendicularian, Appendicularians, Center, Effect, Feeding, Field, Filtration, Flux, France, Influence, Marine, Mechanisms, Microbial, Mucous, Mucous-net, Particles, Picoplankton, Properties, Selective, Structure, Surface.

Quantifying bivalve calcification dynamics through early life ontogeny
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Annaliese Hettinger($174,000), Hettinger Annaliese, Corvallis
Key terms: Future Ocean Conditions, Natural Marine Resources, Bivalves Thrive, Cultural Importance, Irreversible Losses, Larval Bivalves, Larval Shell, Life Stage, Ocean Acidification, Organic Matrix, Shell Formation, Adults, Advance, Calcification, Coastal, Commercial, Described, Ecosystem, Food, Habitat, Larvae, Mechanisms, OA, OSU, Organisms, Population, Process, Rapid, Recreational, STEM, Sensitivity, Specific, Stages, Vital, Vulnerable.

Collaborative Research: Event response to an eruption at Axial Seamount
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William W Chadwick($18,606), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. David Butterfield($49,450), University of Washington, Seattle
3. James F Holden($10,064), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Axial Seamount, Summit Caldera, Cabled, Cruise, Eruption, OOI, Opportunity, Seafloor, Sentry, Temperature, Time-critical.

RAPID: Ecological, evolutionary and physiological responses of corals to a mass bleaching event in American Samoa
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen R Palumbi($185,919), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Coral Bleaching, Recovery Rate, Colonies, Corals, Estimate, Examining, Genetic, Host, January, Normal, Ocean, Reefs, Samoa, Species, Symbiont, Temperature, Temperatures.

Quantifying plankton dynamics in the internal tide using swarms of buoyancy-controlled robots
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter J Franks($633,569), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cross-shelf Transport, Drifting Robots, Internal Tide, Internal Waves, Accumulation, Aues, Autonomous, Coastal, Cross-shelf, Driven, Dynamics, Interactions, Larvae, Ocean, Plankton, Plankton-mimicking, Quantify, Species, Swarms, Three-dimensional, Tidal, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Role of small-sized protists in the microbial loop with emphasis on interactions between mixotrophic protists and picocyanobacteria
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. O. Roger Anderson($530,768), Columbia University, New York
2. Eunsoo Kim($80,606), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Carbon And Nutrient, Investigate Biotic Interactions, Prochlorococcus And Synechococcus, Eukaryotic Microorganisms, Living Organisms, Nutrient Availability, Small-sized Protists, Activities, Cell, Contribute, Diversity, Dominated, Environment, Environments, Eukaryotes, Experiments, Laboratory, Main, Microbial, Mixotrophy, North, Objective, Objectives, Ocean, Phosphorus, Picocyanobacteria, Planktonic, Primary, Productivity, Public, Settings, Small-sized, Sta, Video.

An interdisciplinary approach to elucidating the causes of widespread mangrove die-off
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig A Layman($75,187), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Dwarf Red Mangrove, Ecologically And Economically, Abaco Island, Ecosystem Services, Educational Module, Extensive Die-off, Foundation Species, Human Activities, Mechanistic Drivers, Salt Marsh, Simulated Grazing, Annual, Assess, BNT, BREEF, Bahamas, Bahamian, Basis, Citizen, Citizen-science, Coastal, Combination, Concern, Decline, Declines, Die-off, Directly, Ecosystems, Experiments, Fungal, Fungus, Has, Highly, Incidence, Lesions, Management, Mangroves, Nature, Observations, Pathogen, Pathogens, Potential, Recently, Remote, Satellite, Stressors, Suggest, Surveys, West.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Larval Orientation Behavior in Determining Population Connectivity
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Peter Buston($612,355), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Claire Paris($382,159), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. Jacqueline F Webb($269,349), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Larval Orientation Behavior, Genetic Methods, Oceanographic Models, Orientation Capabilities, Population Connectivity, Development, Dispersal, Dynamics, Environmental, Fish, Larvae, Lori, Mismatch, Objective, Observations, Ontogeny, Populations, Predictions.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying competing loss rates of viral lysis and microzooplankton grazing on Emiliania huxleyi mortality
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Elizabeth Harvey($603,007), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kay D Bidle($223,677), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Huxleyi Population Dynamics, Biogeochemical Cycling, Film Clips, Marine Environment, Microbial Interactions, Mortality Mechanisms, Viral Lysis, Accurate, Cycles, Drive, Ecological, Effect, Export, Grazing, Growth, Influence, Laboratory, Loss, Microzooplankton, Phytoplankton, Potential, Processes, Proportion, Relative, School, Shifts, Structure, Students, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms supporting persistence of a key plankton species during climate change on the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Changsheng Chen($208,650), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Rubao Ji($425,891), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Jeffrey Runge($223,498), University of Maine, Orono
4. Nicholas Record($136,344), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
5. Joseph E Salisbury($147,383), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Calanus Finmarchicus, Life History, Modeling Approach, Advective, Circulation, Climate, Coastal, Cold, Ecosystem, Effects, Fish, Gulf, Interdisciplinary, Lagrangian, Maine, Marine, Ocean, Planktonic, Processes, Region, Regional, Species, Tested, Warming.

Coral-microbial interactions as determinants of disease dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tarik Gouhier($659,874), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Animal And Plant, Caribbean Staghorn Coral, Endangered Caribbean Staghorn, Interactions And Dispersal, White Band Disease, Antibiotic Compounds, Coral Hosts, Disease Outbreaks, Mathematical Modeling, Microbial Genetics, Microbial Species, Outreach Programs, Pathogenic Microbes, Species Interactions, Bacteria, Biology, Competition, Complexity, Coral-microbial, Decimated, Direct, Dynamics, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Field, Fitted, Health, Ii, Incidence, Influence, Processes, Spatial, Structure, Students, Temperature, Training, Undergraduate, WBD.

Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jenifer E Dugan($1,027,987), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Conservation And Management, Fate And Transport, Plants And Algae, Recipient Beach Ecosystems, Structure And Function, Coastal Marine, Drift Cards, Drift Kelp, Food Webs, Kelp Forest, Kelp Forests, Kelp Plants, Marine Ecosystems, Mohawk Reef, Recipient Ecosystem, Sandy Beaches, Trophic Connectivity, Wrack Input, Adjacent, Approaches, Biomass, Climate, Cross-ecosystem, Ecological, Ecology, Exported, Fluxes, Highly, Inputs, Intertidal, Links, Measure, Model, NPP, Primary, Public, Quantitative, Rates, Resources, Sea, Shoreline, Source, Subsidy, Surveys, Time, Training.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Development and application of a method using coralline algae to reconstruct past changes in pH and impacts on calcification
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Branwen Williams($289,171), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont
2. Justin B Ries($330,591), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Cold-water Marine Environments, Atmospheric Co2, Cold-water Marine, High-latitude Marine, Ocean Acidification, Seawater Ph, AD, Alga, Anthropogenic, Ca, Collaboration, Coralline, Ecologically, Future, High-latitude, Information, Organisms, Past, Rate, Reconstructing, Shallow.

Phenotype and genotype of coral adaptation and acclimatization to global change
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrea G Grottoli($348,133), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Acidification And Climate, Anthropogenically Driven Ocean, Driven Ocean Acidification, Natural Corals Found, Temperature And Acidity, Temperature And Pco2, Conditions Expected, Coral Adapt, Coral Conservation, Coral Physiology, Coral Reefs, Corals Collected, Eight Species, Elevated Temperature, Hawaiian Corals, Natural Temperature, Two-part Approach, Two-year Mesocosm, Acclimatize, Adaptation, Assumption, Biogeochemical, Century, Ecosystems, Future, Genomic, Global, Gradients, Has, Long-term, Marine, Measure, Models, PMNM, Physiological, Planet, Rates, Survey, Two-part, Two-year.

Collaborative Research: The cryptic diet of the globally significant pelagic tunicate Dolioletta gegenbauri (Uljanin, 1884.)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marc E Frischer($535,553), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Deidre M Gibson($190,203), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Shelf Pelagic Ecosystems, South Atlantic Bight, Continental Shelf, Life Stages, Traditional Methods, Allow, Biology, Diet, Diversity, Doliolids, Eat, Ecological, Experimental, Filter, Food, Future, Gegenbauri, Gelatinous, Larger, Modeling, Molecular, Primary, Quantitative, Significance, Situ, Species, Trophic, Zooplankton.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The role of iron-oxidizing bacteria in the sedimentary iron cycle: ecological, physiological and biogeochemical implications.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David T Johnston($396,186), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. David Emerson($522,499), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Biologically Available, Iron Cycle, Iron Flux, Marine Sediments, Water Column, Abundance, Abundant, Activity, Bacteria, Control, Controlling, Distribution, Environments, Feob, Growth, Levels, Life, Lower, Ocean, Outreach, Oxygen, Play, Regions, Sedimentary, Sensitive, Source, Training.

Collaborative Proposal: Optimizing Recruitment of Neocalanus copepods through Strategic Timing of Reproduction and Growth in the Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andrew Christie($624,992), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Russell R Hopcroft($414,961), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Adult Females, Neocalanus Flemingeri, Physiological Quiescence, Population Growth, Spring Population, Adults, Alaska, Bloom, Combine, Copepod, Copepods, Crustaceans, Diapause, Dormancy, Duration, Emergence, Existing, Field, Food, Gulf, Life, Low, Marine, Models, Molecular, Native, Naupliar, Nauplii, Phytoplankton, Reproduction, Species, Students, Survival, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Intertidal community assembly and dynamics: Integrating broad-scale regional variation in environmental forcing and benthic-pelagic coupling
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Philip O Yund($355,917), Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education, Beals
2. Huijie Xue($218,410), University of Maine, Orono
3. Robyn E Hannigan($376,263), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
4. Tarik Gouhier($730,201), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Structure And Dynamics, Temperature And Food, Food Availability, Northern Gom, Planktonic Larvae, Population Connectivity, Regional Differences, Central, Distribution, Dominate, Driven, Experiments, Field, Gulf, Habitats, Intertidal, Larval, Local, Maine, Model, Models, Processes, Productivity, Recruitment, Regions, Southern, Species, Surveys, Transport.

RAPID collaborative proposal: Will corals recover from bleaching under ocean acidification conditions?
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert J Toonen($27,880), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Andrea G Grottoli($158,420), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Acidic Seawater, Bleached Corals, Coral Reefs, Coral Species, Kaneohe Bay, Normal Seawater, Ocean Acidification, Recovery Rate, Waimanalo Bay, Bleaching, Century, Climate, Conditions, Disciplines, Exposed, Future, Hawaiian, Impacted, Marine, Resilient, Students, Temperatures, °C.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: surviving climate change - the role of acclimatization in reef-building corals
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Iliana Baums($138,816), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Dana E Williams($18,225), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Florida Keys Reef, Individual Coral Colonies, Keys Reef Tract, Numerous Corals Species, Partially Bleached Colonies, September Numerous Corals, Stressed And Looked, Acropora Palmata, Coral Restoration, Elkhorn Coral, Fundamentally Shape, Looked Bleached, Severely Stressed, Stress Experiment, Survive Climate, Unprecedented Opportunity, Acclimatization, Acclimatized, August, Bleaching, Endangered, Exposure, Extent, Fitti, Harbor, Has, Means, Process, Public, Reefs, Students, Symbiodinium, Symbiont, Tropical, Warmest, Was.

RUI Collaborative Research: Spatial Realism in the Mussel Bed Disturbance Paradigm
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patricia M Halpin($30,389), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Gap Formation, Landscape Process, Mussel Bed, Mussel Beds, Mussel Cover, Spatial Analysis, Assumptions, Attach, Biological, Cal, Considerable, Disturbance, Ecosystems, Equilibrium, Field, Force, GIS, Marine, Mentoring, Mussels, Outreach, Phd, Predictable, Predictions, Processes, Recovery, Regions, Rock, Spatially, Stress, Structure, Structures, Unique, Wave.

RAPID: A rare opportunity to examine overcompensation resulting from intensive harvest of an introduced predator
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Catherine E de Rivera($199,187), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: European Green Crab, Green Crabs, Population Dynamics, Population Explosion, Recruitment Class, Adult, Cannibalism, Degree, Dramatic, Experiments, Females, Field, Following, Has, Human, Increase, Juvenile, Laboratory, Levels, Marine, Mesocosm, Models, Natural, Observed, Overcompensation, Paradoxical, Populations, Processes, Program, RAPID, Rates, Recently, Reduction, Size, Surveys.

Collaborative Research: The role of calcifying algae as a determinant of rocky intertidal macrophyte community structure at a meta-ecosystem scale
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Karina J Nielsen($15,000), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Coralline Algal Turfs, Carbonate Chemistry, Environmental Stress, Laboratory Experiments, Northern California, Ocean Conditions, Rocky Intertidal, Abiotic, Alter, Canopy, Carry, Climate, Coastal, Consequences, Developed, Direct, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Efforts, Facilitation, Factors, Field, Influence, Interaction, Interactions, Light, Marine, Meta-ecosystem, Mosaic, NCC, Nutrients, PAR, Ph, Phytoplankton, Pis, Processes, Quantify, Recently, SSU, Sensors, Species, Structure, Surfgrass, Temperature, Testing, Undergraduate, Upwelling.

A new approach to equatorial inertial instability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Rudolf C Kloosterziel($494,608), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coriolis Force, Inertial Instability, Ocean Models, Approximation, Beta-plane, Climate, Correct, Currents, Downward, Equatorial, Instabilities, Nequatorial, Plays, Regions, Resolved, Traditional.

Parametrizing ocean eddy transfer over continental slopes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Andrew L Stewart($472,412), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Eddy Life Cycle, Ocean And Climate, Shelf And Slope, Climate Models, Coastal Currents, Continental Slopes, Disseminated Widely, Eddy Transfer, Graduate Student, Mesoscale Eddies, Mesoscale Eddy, Steep Topography, Water Masses, Wider Oceanographic, Available, Characterize, Circulation, Create, Eddy-resolving, Energy, Existing, Explore, Findings, Generation, Importance, Mixing, Momentum, Output, Parametrization, Practices, Principal, Properties, Recommendations, Resolve, Set, Simulations, Strategies, Transport, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: Impacts of evolution on the response of phytoplankton populations to rising CO2
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

1. James J Morris($274,345), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Beneficial Mutations, Co2 Concentrations, Ocean Acidification, Undergraduate Students, Adaptive, Atmospheric, Available, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Changing, Ecological, Effects, Environmental, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Extant, Fitness, Functional, Genetic, Global, Has, Interdisciplinary, MSU, Model, Modeling, Outcomes, Physiological, Phytoplankton, Populations, Rate, Secondary, Short-term, Training, Visits.

Development and application of a high sensitivity, ultra low volume method to measure biomarkers of terrigenous organic matter in the open ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Patrick Louchouarn($256,841), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Terrigenous Organic Carbon, Terrigenous Organic Matter, Arctic Ocean, Lignin Phenol, Lignin Phenols, Ocean Basins, Robust Oceanographic, Budgets, Dissolved, Distribution, Fate, Global, Has, Limitations, Marine, Method, Methodology, Sensitivity, Tdoc, Terrestrial, Tracer, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: Direct Oxidation of Organic Nitrogen by Marine Ammonia Oxidizing Organisms
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Brian N Popp($232,316), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. James T Hollibaugh($480,835), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Direct Oxidation, Enrichment Cultures, Fixed Nitrogen, Nitrogen Oxides, Organic Nitrogen, Oxidized Directly, Polyamine Nitrogen, Ammonia, Ammonium, Biogeochemical, Coastal, Compound, Geochemistry, Global, Microorganisms, Nitrate, Nitrification, Nitrite, Ocean, Process, Regenerated.

Supply and removal of trace elements in the subtropical South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert F Anderson($50,371), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Supply And Removal, Essential Micronutrients, North Pacific, South Pacific, Biogeochemistry, Biogeographic, Comparing, Cruise, Database, Deep, Development, Dust, Enable, GEOTRACES, Global, Hydrothermal, Influence, Lamont-doherty, Ocean, Phd, Plumes, Rates, Regime, SPSG, Students, Trace, Ultrapac.

Collaborative Proposal: Phlorotannins - An Important Source of Marine Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael Gonsior($370,540), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Chromophoric Dissolved Organic, Dissolved Organic Matter, Macro Brown Algae, Marine Cdom Pool, Sea And Gulf, Sargasso Sea, Sargassum-derived Cdom, Absorb, Absorption, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Composition, Compounds, Contribution, Humic-like, Light, Local, Mexico, Mixing, Ocean, Opportunities, Oxidation, Phlorotannins, Processes, Sargassum-derived, Sources, Surface, Water, Waters.

Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Maureen Conte($1,711,459), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Changing Ocean Chemistry, Climate And Ocean, Deep Ocean, Particle Flux, Biogeochemical, Forcing, Global, Has, Interannual, OFP, Surface, Time, Time-series, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Multiple Stressors in the Estuarine Environment: What drives changes in the Carbon Dioxide system?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Marjorie A Friedrichs($560,971), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. Raymond G Najjar($180,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Anthropogenic Impacts, Atmospheric Temperature, Carbonate Chemistry, Chesapeake Bay, Local Anthropogenic, Nutrient Run-off, Alkalinity, Appropriate, Assessment, Calibrated, Changing, Characteristics, Distinguish, Environmental, Estuarine, Estuary, Eutrophication, Global, Increases, Interannual, Management, Multiple, Observations, Ph, Policy, Run-off, Stressors.

Redox Cycling of Phosphorus in the Western North Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Benjamin Van Mooy($689,502), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Low Molecular Weight, Chemical Oceanography, Redox Cycling, Compounds, Consumption, Essential, Growth, Has, Marine, Phosphate, Phosphorus, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Rates, Valence.

Multi-Decadal Global Surveys of Benthic Nepheloid Layers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mary Jo Richardson($250,044), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Benthic Nepheloid Layers, Biogeochemical Cycles, Global Maps, Kinetic Energy, BNL, Collections, Compare, Cruises, Distributions, Mass, Nephelometer, Netss, Ocean, Oceanographic, Particle, Particles, Past, Processes, Profiles, Seafloor, Studying, Transmissometer, Water.

Collaborative Research: Phlorotannins - An Important Source of Marine Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rossana Del Vecchio($145,308), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Macro Brown Algae, Marine Cdom Pool, Sea And Gulf, Sargasso Sea, Sargassum-derived Cdom, Absorb, Absorption, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Composition, Compounds, Contribution, Humic-like, Light, Local, Mexico, Mixing, Ocean, Opportunities, Oxidation, Phlorotannins, Processes, Sargassum-derived, Sources, Surface, Water, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Measuring Ocean Productivity from the Diurnal Change in Oxygen and Carbon
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($356,066), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Angelicque E White($359,108), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Biological Pump, Diurnal Cycles, Primary Productivity, Surface Ocean, Based, Benefit, Carbon, Daily, Dissolved, Estimate, Estimates, Gas, Has, In-situ, Measuring, Method, OPOC, Oceans, POC, Produced, Rates, Sites, Undergraduate.

Tracking the temporal and spatial variability of dissolved organic matter, its diagenetic state and bioavailability during various bloom states in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Craig A Carlson($661,501), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Atlantic Phytoplankton Bloom, Dissolved Organic Matter, North Atlantic Bloom, Temporal And Spatial, Biomass Phase, Spatial Distribution, Temporal Resolution, Accumulation, Amount, Bioavailability, Biological, Carbon, Context, Control, Dynamics, Has, Mechanisms, Phases, Surface, Water.

Preparation and Distribution of Dissolved Organic Carbon Consensus Reference Materials
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($483,041), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Marine Carbon Cycle, Low Carbon, Ampoules, CRM, Collected, Consensus, Consistent, Continue, DOC, DOM, Deep, Distributed, Global, International, Laboratories, Ocean, Program, Reference, Requires, Seawater, Water.

Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Recycling of Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven R Beaupre($185,535), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Michael S Long($140,467), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. David J Kieber($236,774), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
4. William C Keene($225,885), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Primary Marine Aerosol, Refractory Dissolved Organic, Atlantic Ocean, Breaking Waves, Marine Rdoc, Organic Matter, Photochemical Evolution, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Bubble, Bubbles, Bursting, Importance, Involve, OM, Oceans, PMA, Pathway, Processing, Produced, Properties, Recycling, Removal, Seawater, Surface, Via.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Calibration of the Isotopic Content of Marine Sulfate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alexander S Bradley($269,829), Washington University, Saint Louis
2. David T Johnston($74,015), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Isotope Fractionation, Isotopic Composition, Marine Sulfate, Oxygen Isotope, Oxygen Isotopes, Sulfate Reduction, Sulfur Cycle, Biogeochemical, Constraints, Cycling, Enzymes, Influence, Investigate, Involves, Microbes, Microbial, Play, Resulting, Stable, Students.

Collaborative Research: Inferring Marine Particle Properties from Polarized Volume Scattering Functions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ping Yang($197,140), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Feng Peng($442,821), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Volume Scattering Function, Angular Distribution, Mueller Matrix, Particle Properties, Particle Size, Scattered Light, Size Distribution, Size Distributions, Biogeochemical, Characterize, Composition, Derive, Detailed, Information, Inversion, Knowledge, Marine, Measured, Modeling, Ocean, Optics, Organic, Particles, Polarization, Shapes, Technique, VSF.

Quantifying nitrogen fixation along unique geochemical gradients in the southwest Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Angela N Knapp($300,971), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: N2 Fixation Fluxes, N2 Fixing Microbes, Carbon Cycle, Phosphate Concentrations, Southwest Pacific, Spatial Distribution, Surface Ocean, Capacity, Carried, Climate, Critical, Di-nitrogen, Diazotrophs, Dissolved, Dn, Dominant, Favor, Global, Has, Identifying, Influence, Iron, Largest, Marine, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Rates, Sensitivities, Source, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Planktonic Sources of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kai Ziervogel($100,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Thomas S Bianchi($231,109), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Kai Ziervogel($100,000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
4. Christopher Osburn($574,652), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Absorbance And Fluorescence, Dissolved Organic Matter, Bacterial Transformation, Heterotrophic Bacteria, Oceanic Cdom, Phytoplankton Growth, Planktonic Cdom, CT, Chemical, DOM, EI, Experiments, Formation, Linked, Marine, Model, Molecules, POM, Precursors, Probable, Source, Technique, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: Emergency Funding for Repair of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Tudor Hill Marine Atmospheric Observatory
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. William C Keene($89,428), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
2. Andrew J Peters($32,081), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Tower And Site, Tudor Hill Facility, Atmospheric Observatory, Marine Troposphere, Site Laboratories, Activities, Atlantic, BIOS, Bermuda, Central, Continue, Contributed, Expected, Gases, Global, Has, International, Monitoring, NSF, Nsf-funded, Numerous, Ocean, Processes, Public, Replaced, Sampling, Was.

A new tool for ocean carbon cycle and ocean acidification studies
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael DeGrandpre($493,772), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Inorganic Carbon Studies, Ship And Laboratory-based, Carbon Cycle, Ocean Acidification, Total Alkalinity, Autonomous, Critical, Development, Has, Instrument, Limited, Marine, Sami-alk, Sensors, Situ.

Collaborative Proposal: Assessment of the Colloidal Iron Size Spectrum in Coastal and Oceanic Waters
Award Effective Date: 05/29/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jessica N Fitzsimmons($198,737), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Colloidal Phase, Physicalchemical Character, Composition, Iron, Marine, Matter, Methods, Phases, Primary, Serve, Size, Source, Spectrum.

Chemical Oceanography: Processes at Interfaces: Bridging Spatial, Temporal and Disciplinary Divides from Micro- to Global Scales
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kathleen C Ruttenberg($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Gordon, Graduate Students, Marine Chemistry, Biogeochemical, Brings, Conference, Cycling, Exchange, Field, Holderness, Interactions, Interface, Leading, Metal, Postdocs, Theme.

Variability in particle size distributions, sinking velocities, and fluxes in the northern Gulf of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew M McDonnell($300,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Biological Carbon Pump, Ocean's Biological Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Northern Gulf, Ocean's Biological, Sinking Velocities, Sunlit Zone, Alaska, Concentration, Control, Critical, Dominant, Flux, Fluxes, Oceans, Particle, Particles, Processes, Relative, Waters.

Coastal Ocean Carbon Cycling during Wintertime Conditions
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Miguel A Goni($873,475), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ocean Observatories Initiative, Pacific Northwest Margin, Carbon Cycling, Coastal Rivers, Oregon Coast, Organic Matter, Terrestrial Inputs, Terrestrial-ocean Transfers, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Center, Characterized, Conditions, Dissolved, Effort, Flooding, Freshwater, Gain, Infrastructure, Intense, Nutrients, OOI, Periods, Regions, Seasonal, Students, Terrestrial-ocean, Upwelling, Wintertime.

Collaborative Research: Global Ocean Repeat Hydrography, Carbon & Tracer Measurements 2015-2020
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis A Hansell($5,871,388), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Heat And Freshwater, Anthropogenic Carbon, Carbon Content, Atmosphere, Calibration, Circulation, Climate, Components, Continue, Critical, Dissolved, Full-depth, Global, Hydrographic, International, Model, Nutrients, Ocean, Oceans, Oxygen, Pco, Salinity, Sections, Studies, Temperature, Transport, Uptake.

CYCLING OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER IN THE PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC OCEANS USING RADIOCARBON
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellen R Druffel($640,119), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Organic Carbon Cycling, Pacific And Atlantic, Atlantic Oceans, Atmospheric Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Deep Ocean, Deep Sea, Doc 14c, Isotopic Signatures, Radiocarbon Values, South Pacific, Available, Biogeochemistry, Circulation, Content, Findings, Information, North, Post-bomb, Processes, Quantitative, Seawater, Suggesting, Timescale.

Collaborative Research: The Paradox of Salt Marshes as a Source of Alkalinity and Low pH, High Carbon Dioxide Water to the Ocean: A First In-depth Study of A Diminishing Source
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Zhaohui 'Aleck' Wang($336,731), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kevin D Kroeger($109,589), U.S. Geological Survey -- Woods Hole, Woods Hole
Key terms: Altering Carbonate Chemistry, Dic And Alkalinity, Intertidal Salt Marshes, Carbon Budgets, Export Fluxes, Ocean Acidification, Tidal Exchange, Tidal Water, Coastal, Current, Eutrophication, Exported, Global, Methods, Sources, TA, Vegetated, Wetlands.

Development and Intercomparison of Methodologies to Measure Dissolved Ferrous Iron in Seawater
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James W Moffett($290,823), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Alternative Method, Water Column, Accurate, Artifacts, Bioavailability, CL, California, Chemical, Complexes, Conditions, Fe, Feii, Feiii, Has, Hydrolyzed, Luminol, Measure, Methodology, Oxygen, Presence, Reduced, Seawater, Soluble, Strong.

Net Community Production from O2 measurements on Argo Floats
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Steven R Emerson($860,663), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Marine Biological Pump, Annual Net, Argo Floats, Biological Oxygen, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Export, Geographic Distribution, Oxygen Concentration, Oxygen Distribution, Oxygen Sensors, Shipboard Oxygen, Winkler Titrations, ANCP, Accurate, Calibrated, Flux, Has, Method, Ocean, Organic, Resolve, Sun-lit, Temporal, Transects, Upper, Zone.

Cyanate in the Sea: Sources, Sinks, and Quantitative Significance
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Margaret R Mulholland($491,410), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Marine Nitrogen Cycle, Organic Nitrogen Compounds, Cyanate Utilization, Marine Microbes, Assimilation, Cyanates, Distribution, Environment, Genomic, Geochemical, Has, Importance, Inorganic, Microbial, Ocean, Organisms, Produced, Sources, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Relating detrital peptide sequences to particulate organic matter diagenetic histories
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lawrence M Mayer($59,863), University of Maine, Orono
2. Richard G Keil($399,248), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Amino Acid Compositions, De Novo Sequencing, Detrital Peptides, Organic Matter, Bacteria, Carbon, Degradation, Diagenesis, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Information, Marine, Method, Ocean, Opportunities, Peptidoglycan, Processes, Set, Source, Students.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Marine Cycling of Bioactive Trace Metals in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/02/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Seth G John($515,901), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: The Geochemistry Size-fractionated Suspended Particles Collected by in-situ Filtration
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Phoebe J Lam($520,605), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Phoebe J Lam($212,861), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Biological Pump, Geotraces Program, Ocean Basins, Suspended Particles, Composition, Cycling, Distributions, Isotopes, Processes, Removal, Source, Trace.

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Ocean section-Constraining Nitrogen Cycling in the western Arctic Ocean.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Julie Granger($366,905), University of Connecticut, Storrs
2. Mark A Altabet($174,607), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. Meredith Hastings($149,174), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Benthic Nitrogen Loss, Biological Nitrogen Transformations, Arctic Continental, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Regional Nitrogen, Basins, Biogeochemistry, Central, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Nitrate, Processes, Ratio, Shelf, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Resolving the processes controlling the distribution of the biogenic trace gas dimethylsulfide and related compounds in the Subarctic NE Pacific
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. John W H Dacey($509,159), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Ronald P Kiene($489,122), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Dmsp And Dmso, Oceanic Dms Emissions, Cycling Rates, Largest Source, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Biogenic, Climate, Compounds, Concentrations, Gas, Implications, Method, Methods, Pacific, Processes, Quantify, Spatial, Subarctic, Sulfur, Surface, Worlds.

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

1. Carl Lamborg($457,698), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Extent And Rate, Snow And Sea-ice, Arctic Expedition, Arctic Ocean, Mercury Species, Biological, Chemical, Concentration, Cycling, Distributions, Ecosystem, GEOTRACES, Has, Measure, Methylmercury, Particles, Processes, Sediments, Students, Trace, Variety.

Collaborative Research: New Constraints on Marine Oxygen Cycling
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Laurence Y Yeung($203,480), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Marine O2, Marine Oxygen, Organic Matter, Combined, Cycling, Dissolved, Isotopes, Methods, Ocean, Profiles, Quintuple-isotopologue, Substances, Yield.

OCE-RIG: Developing Molecular Bioassays for Evaluating Iron Status of Environmentally Relevant Diatoms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Phoebe D Chappell($100,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Alleviate Iron Stress, Calibrated Molecular, Food Web, Geotraces Program, Iron Forms, Molecular Assays, Various Forms, Availability, Base, Bioavailability, Diatom, Diatoms, Distribution, Environmentally, Essential, Experiments, Growth, Has, Increased, Marine, Modelers, Ocean, Oceanic, Organisms, Photosynthetic, Phytoplankton, Remains, School, Sources, Species, Training.

Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Central Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz($341,919), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Central Tropical Pacific, Dwelling Planktonic Foraminifera, Glacial Maximum Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Dwelling Planktonic, Boundary Conditions, Climate Models, Climate Sensitivity, North-south Gradient, Sediment Cores, Circulation, Collected, Estimates, Forcing, Latitude, Little, Mgca, North-south, Pis, Range, Ratios, Reconstructions, Set.

Student and Mentor-Student Travel Scholarship Program
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Janet L Branchaw($119,998), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Travel Scholarship Program, Reu Mentor, Reu Students, Travel Scholarships, Advisors, Attend, Benefit, Conferences, Field, Future, Meet, Meeting, Meetings, Mentors, National, National-level, Networking, Student-mentor, Supported, Undergraduate.

Teaching Undergraduate Oceanography Courses with OOI Data: A Pilot Workshop
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Janice McDonnell($49,910), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Accessible, Courses, Developed, Development, OOI, Pis, Popular, Practices, Real, Teaching, Textbooks, Themes, Tools, Undergraduate, Was, Workshop.

OCE-RIG: Changes in Herbivore-Algal Interactions in Kelp Forest Ecosystems in Response to Ocean Acidification
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Kristy J Kroeker($99,362), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Kelp Forest Ecosystems, Life History Stages, Warming And Ocean, Giant Kelp, Interaction Strengths, Kelp Forests, Ocean Acidification, Wide Range, Affect, Coastal, Disturbances, Dynamics, Effects, Examine, Future, Herbivores, Herbivory, Importance, Processes, Pyrifera, Recovery, Scenarios, Survival, Temperature, Tested.

The impact of a large episodic disturbance on an invasive (outbreak) coral: Will Typhoon Maysak promote or suppress an invasive Montipora sp. Coral on reefs of Ulithi, Micronesia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Giacomo Bernardi($165,540), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Super Typhoon Maysak, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Invasive Coral, Ulithi Atoll, Advance, Biological, Climate, Disturbances, Ecosystems, Effects, Findings, Has, Hit, Invasion, Montipora, Past, People, Rare, Species, Unique, Was.

OCE-RIG: Crustal and Mantle Processes at Gorda Ridge Based on Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusion Compositions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Virginia Dorsey Wanless($98,981), Boise State University, Boise
Key terms: Melting And Crystallization, Crystallization Depths, Gorda Ridge, Lithospheric Thickness, Magma Compositions, Melt Inclusions, Melting Systematics, Mid-ocean Ridges, Oceanic Crust, Ridge Axis, Spreading Rate, BSU, Beneath, Heat, Incorporated, Influence, Magmas, Mid-ocean, Morphology, Primary, Trace, Volatile.

Oceanography Magazine Special Issue on Graduate Education in the Ocean Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Nancy H Marcus($13,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Graduate Education, Challenges, Conference, Discussion, Future, Journal, OSM, Ocean, Oceanography, Offered, Opportunities, Prepare, Programs, Publication, Special, Students, TOS, Workforce.

CAREER: A Research and Education Plan for Advancing Ocean Carbon Research through Laser-Based Sensors
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Anna P Michel($889,916), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Critical, Laser-based, Ocean, Oceanographic, Sensing, Sensor, Techniques, Th.

Quantifying the biogeochemical consequences of viruses in marine food webs
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Alexis L Pasulka($174,000), Pasulka Alexis L, Studio City
Key terms: Marine Viruses, Ocean Ecosystems, Ability, Activity, Aims, Biogeochemical, Climate, Decade, Fluorescence-based, Food, Increase, Interactions, Involved, Microbial, Processes, Resolution, Single-cell, Structure, Studying, Techniques, Viral, Virioplankton.

CAREER: Fish-derived nutrients in a coral reef ecosystem - impacts on benthic communities and importance for coral restoration
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Deron E Burkepile($904,315), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2. Deron E Burkepile($177,744), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading, Coral Growth, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Coral Restoration, Fish Excretion, Fish-derived Nutrients, Grow Faster, Marine Biology, Restoration Efforts, Climate, Context, Corals, Creating, Ecology, Enrichment, Excretions, Experiments, Facilitate, Field, Fish-derived, Fishes, Harmful, Health, Human-derived, Influence, Objective, Processes, Providers, Seaweed, Seaweeds, Sources, Structure, Students, Threats, Training, Varies.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at Mote Marine Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Kim B Ritchie($244,777), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Coastal, Experience, Findings, Habitat, Mote, Ocean, Poster, REU, Students.

CAREER: Applying phenotypic variability to identify resilient Acropora cervicornis genotypes in the Florida Keys
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Erinn M Muller($706,687), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
Key terms: Lower Florida Keys, Ocean Acidification Conditions, Temperature And Ocean, Cervicornis Genotypes, Staghorn Coral, Threatened Species, Virgin Islands, Water Temperature, Water Temperatures, Caribbean, Corals, Disease, Future, Has, Nurseries, Outplanting, Population, Predict, Purpose, Reefs, Resilience, Resilient, Restoration, Scenarios, Stressors, Survive.

REU Site: Fall Semester Student Research in Oceanography and Marine Science at BIOS
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Penelope A Barnes($408,867), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Reu Students, BIOS, Bermuda, Fall, Graduate, Marine, Opportunities, Processes, Program, Programs.

REU Site: Ocean Observing for Emerging Ocean Scientists
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Anthony H Knap($351,880), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: GERG, Glider, Ocean, Program, REU, Students, Technologies, Texas.

REU Site: SURFO-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Lucie Maranda($407,405), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Background, Field, Graduate, Oceanography, Program, Quantitative, SURFO, Student, Students, Undergraduates.

REU Site: Community College Cultivation Cohort (C4)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jan P Amend($261,258), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Activities, Degree, Development, Graduate, Insufficient, Program, REU, Students.

Temperature-Dependent Ocean-Atmosphere Equilibration of Carbon Isotopes in Atlantic Thermocline and Surface Waters
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz($330,179), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Past Surface Ocean, Carbon Isotope, Carbon Isotopic, North Atlantic, Upper Ocean, Biological, Deglaciation, Foraminifera, Ice, Nutrient, Processes, Ratio, Reconstructions, Reflect, Temperature, Waters.

REU Site: Summer REU Program in Marine Science at the University of Delaware
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. David L Kirchman($343,953), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Marine, Program, Seminars, Summer, Workshops, Write.

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Thomas F Schultz($722,927), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Field Trips, Marine Laboratory, Duke, Final, Oral, Program, REU, Skills, Students.

CAREER: Modeling 19th century estuaries to address 21st century problems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Stefan Talke($500,000), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Columbia River Estuary, 19th Century, Salinity Intrusion, Water Temperature, Altered, Depth, Dynamics, Estuaries, Flood, Flow, Future, Historical, Level, Long-term, Model, Models, Past, Propagation, Tidal, Tides, Transport, Trends.

Bridge to Research in Marine Sciences: A Summer REU Program in Savannah, Georgia
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Tara Cox($427,437), Savannah State University, Savannah
Key terms: Expenses, Georgia, Partners, Program, REU, STEM, Savannah, Student.

Pilot Project to Increase Applications to Ocean Science REU Programs from Underrepresented Minority Students through Representation and Participation at LSAMP Meetings
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. David T Siegfried($29,907), Institute for Broadening Participation, South Portland
Key terms: Doctoral Degrees, Oce Reu, Represented Students, Reu Program, Reu Programs, Apply, Connect, Faculty, Graduate, Has, LSAMP, Ocean, Participation, Pis, Rate.

REU Site: REUisME: REU In Subtropical Marine Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Benjamin D Walther($499,067), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Coastal, Dynamics, Experiences, Natural, Program, REU, Specific, Student, Texas, UTMSI.

REU Site at the Shannon Point Marine Center: Field and Laboratory Studies of Coastal Marine Processes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Erika McPhee-Shaw($400,088), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Reu Site, Environment, Faculty, Program, Resources, SPMC, Students, Summer.

Collaborative Research: Dissolved organic matter feedbacks in coral reef resilience: The genomic & geochemical basis for microbial modulation of algal phase shifts
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Craig E Nelson($382,869), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Craig A Carlson($382,543), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
3. Forest Rohwer($449,923), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Algal Phase Shifts, Genomics And Ecosystem, Planktonic And Coral-associated, Spatial And Temporal, Algal Dominance, Coral Reef, Coral-associated Microbial, Fleshy Algae, Microbial Genomics, Reef Ecosystem, Reef Resilience, Temporal Scales, Benthic, Characterize, Composition, Corals, Diel, Dynamics, Environmental, Facilitate, Field, Has, Interactions, Investigate, Managing, Mechanisms, Metabolism, Multiple, Organic, Organics, Processes, Reefs, Species.

Epidemiology and spatial ecology of a tropical coralline fungal disease in the face of ocean warming and acidification
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Thierry M Work($775,895), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Temperature And Ph, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Coralline Fungal, Reef Ecosystems, Affect, CCA, CFD, Calcifiers, Carbonate, Climate, Complex, Disease, Driven, Dynamics, Experiments, Field, Frequency, Global, Host, Incidence, Induced, Infected, Marine, Outbreaks, Parameters, Prevalence, Primary, Progression, Seawater, Setting, Severity, Species, Spread, Structure, Time.

Collaborative research: Generation of internal waves due to the scattering of semidiurnal hybrid Kelvin-edge waves at varying continental shelf topography
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Maarten Buijsman($227,143), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
2. Alexander E Yankovsky($270,350), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Energy Flux Convergence, Baroclinic Modes, Barotropic Tides, Continental Shelves, Current Version, Energy Conversion, Hkew Mode, Internal Tides, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, South Carolina, Tidal Simulations, Wave Modes, Alongshore, Amplitude, Circulation, Coast, Currents, Decreases, Depth, Dynamics, Especially, Flows, Generation, HYCOM, Incident, Induce, Instability, Mean, Mesoscale, Mixing, Numerical, Ocean, Parameterization, Propagating, Propagation, Scattering, Semidiurnal, Shelf, Slope, Southern, Topographic, Velocity, Vicinity, Wider, Zero.

Assessing the effects of carboxylated amino acids and polysaccharides on the fluid-calcite element partitioning
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Joji Uchikawa($330,826), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Amino Acids, Calcite Precipitation, Organic Molecules, Precipitation Rates, Biological, Carbonate, Carbonates, Chemistry, Effects, Experiments, Has, Influence, Marine, Proxies, Trace, Uptake.

OCE-RIG: Refining a Diatom-Based Sea Ice Proxy for the Bering Sea Using Water, Ice and Sediment Samples to Improve the Robustness of Sea Ice Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Beth E Caissie($99,776), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Sea Ice Proxy, Bering Sea, Diatoms Living, Sea Shelf, Sediment Trap, Sediments Below, Arctic, Assemblages, Chukchi, Collecting, Iowa, Past, Spring, Students, Summer, Thousands, Water.

RUI: Beyond cleaning symbiosis: Ecology of
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Paul C Sikkel($1,141,983), Arkansas State University Main Campus, Jonesboro
Key terms: Coral Reef Fishes, Conspecific Attraction, Coral Reefs, Gnathiid Abundance, Gnathiid Isopods, Host Species, Local Gnathiid, Accomplish, Benthic, Blood, Compared, Density, Divers, Effects, Experiments, Gnathiids, Interactions, Item, Kill, Laboratory, Life, Objective, Organisms, Parasites, Potential, Programs, Students, Ticks.

Unraveling the controls of inorganic carbon dynamics in the Gulf of Alaska with a regional three-dimensional biogeochemical model
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Claudine Hauri($533,077), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aragonite Undersaturation, Carbon Dioxide, Ocean Acidification, Alaska, Consequences, Controls, Ecosystem, Gulf, Habitat, Limited, Mechanisms, Model, Physical-biogeochemical, Region, Resolution, Seasonal, Socio-economic, Species.

Two Phase Flow Modeling of Wind Influences on Wave Breaking
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Qingping Zou($213,940), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Air And Water, Eddy Simulation Model, Oblique And Opposing, Three-dimensional Two-phase Flow, Air-sea Interaction, Breaking Waves, Energy Dissipation, Opposing Wind, Three-dimensional Two-phase, Two-phase Flow, Wave Breaking, Air-sea, Dynamics, Effect, Interface, Investigate, Maine, Modeling, Ocean, Outreach, Poorly, Surf, Zone.

REU SITE: Undergraduate research experiences in coastal and nearshore marine systems of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ruth H Carmichael($223,881), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
Key terms: Graduate Students, Reu Students, Attend, DISL, Design, Faculty, Independent, Mentors, Nearshore, Summer.

Collaborative Research: The impacts of mating system variation on ecological performance and evolutionary diversification in a clade of marine snails
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

1. Richard K Grosberg($703,262), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Stephanie Kamel($368,247), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Ecological And Evolutionary, Marine Organisms, Population Dynamics, Connectivity, Critical, Ecology, Ecosystem, Effects, Environmental, Genetic, Has, Individuals, Influence, Influences, Insights, Life-history, Mating, Nucella, Play, Populations, Processes, Programs, Rapidly, Reproductive, Size, Speciation, Species.

Collaborative Research: Magnetotelluric and Seismic Investigations of Arc Melt Generation, Deliver and Storage Beneath Okmok Volcano
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Kerry W Key($529,976), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Courses And Presentations, Aleutian Arc, Explosive Cfe, Mantle Wedge, Melt Migration, Okmok Volcano, Undergraduate Students, Active, Beneath, Caldera, Collected, Constraints, Crust, Display, Eruption, Female, Fluids, Graduate, Incorporated, MT, Magma, Magmatic, Offshore, Onshore, Schools, Scripps, Seismic, Storage, Supported, Upper, Uw-madison, Via, Volcanic.

Interseismic Slip Deficit at the Edge of a Locked Patch: Shumagin Islands, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Jeffrey T Freymueller($353,902), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Peninsula, Creeping Section, Locked Region, Plate Interface, Seismogenic Zone, Shumagin Segment, Distribution, Downgoing, Fault, Local, Plates, Seismic, Seismicity, Sites, Slip, Spatial, Subduction, Transition, Tsunamis, Wide.

Investigation of the hydrogeologic role of faults in the downgoing plate through comparison of Central America, Cascadia, Nankai, and Alaska subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Nathan L Bangs($256,975), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Alaska Subduction Zones, Curriculum Development Program, Pacific Northwest Region, School Curriculum Development, Workshops And Conferences, Cascadia Megathrust, Early-career Female, Geohazard Potential, Incoming Plate, Magnitude Earthquakes, Multichannel Seismic, Postdoctoral Fellow, Water Content, Waveform Modeling, Allow, Assessment, Contribute, Early-career, Fault, Faults, Fluid, Geoprisms, History, Nankai, Occurred, Quantitatively, Subducting, Training, Trench, UTIG, Upper.

Increasing Accessibility of Scientific Ocean Drilling Data in the NOAA NCEI Deep Archive
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROG

1. Barry W Eakins($85,470), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: International Ocean Discovery, Iodp Deep Archive, Ocean Discovery Program, Ocean Drilling Program, Joides Resolution, Available, DSDP, Discoverable, Machine, NCEI, NOAA, National, ODP, Requirement, Sets, Staff, Storage, Tape, Web.

Support for International Ocean Science Activities Through the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

1. Edward R Urban($1,751,808), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark
Key terms: Activities, Coordination, International, Issues, National, Ocean, SCOR.

Collaborative Research: Climate Change, Mesoscale Oceanography, and the Dynamics of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Richard B Aronson($575,695), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2. James J Leichter($352,467), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Currents And Thermocline, Spatial And Temporal, Coral Growth, Coral Populations, Coral Reefs, Global Climate, Late-holocene Hiatus, Local Conditions, Mesoscale Oceanography, Pacific Panama, Physiographic Protection, Positive Effects, Reef Accretion, Reef Development, Reef Ecosystems, Reef Frameworks, Thermocline Shoaling, Upwelling Currents, Century, Collecting, Contemporary, ETP, Geochemical, Gradients, Late-holocene, Living, Oceanographic, Past, Predict, Primary, Regimes, Shut, Standards, Time, Training, Was.

Exploration of the Earliest Crust Forming Events on Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Richard W Carlson($331,899), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Continental Crust, Northern Canada, Billion-yold, Deposits, Formation, Rock.

RAPID - Abnormal bleaching in Cliona varians in the Florida Keys: Consequences for coral reef health.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Malcolm S Hill($69,753), University of Richmond, Richmond
Key terms: Dissolved And Particulate, Shed Sponge Cells, Algal Symbionts, Coral Reef, Ecological Performance, Florida Keys, Food Webs, Host Sponge, Particulate Organic, Sponge Loop, Behavior, Bio-filtration, Bleaching, Contribute, Feeding, Function, Has, Health, Opportunity, Sponges, Symbiotic, Water.

Cellular physiological mechanisms for coral calcification and photosynthesis: extending lab-based models to the field
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. David I Kline($491,257), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Vha And Nka, Coral Cellular, Coral Reefs, Environmental Conditions, Generate Biomarkers, Immunological Techniques, Laboratory Experiments, Nutrient Uptake, Ocean Acidification, Reciprocal Transplantations, Acclimatization, Activities, Acute, Atpase, Birch, Calcification, Cells, Chronic, Complex, Corals, Differences, Ecological, Enzyme, Eutrophication, Evolutionary, Examine, Field, Found, Future, Graduate, Levels, Light, Mechanistic, Millions, Perform, Ph, Photosynthesis, Physiological, Physiology, Potential, Predict, Processes, Recently, Robust, Scripps, Specific, Suggesting, Undergraduate, Was.

Seismicity and Fault Structure of Oceanic Detachment Faults
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Robert A Sohn($482,465), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Detachment Faults Behave, Oceanic Core Complexes, Activity, Aims, Earthquakes, Faulting, Seafloor, Stress, Tectonic, °N.

Spatial patterns of coral-vermetid interactions: short-term effects and long-term consequences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Craig W Osenberg($800,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Fishes And Invertebrates, Coral Reef, Deleterious Effects, Vermetid Gastropods, Assess, Atitia, Benefit, Countries, Factors, Inhabit, Knowledge, Local, Moorea, Mucus, Network, Program, Species, Students, Vermetids.

RAPID: Responses of the California Current Ecosystem to El Nino 2015-16
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

1. Ralf Goericke($199,998), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Coastal Upwelling Region, Living Marine Resources, California Current, Discrete Water, El Niño, El Niños, Food Web, Forecast Models, Situ Incubations, Upwelling Domain, West Coast, Aid, Carbon, Climate, Control, Cruise, Directly, Dissolved, Ecosystems, Effects, Elemental, Future, Influences, Numerous, Ocean, Offshore, Organisms, Pelagic, Populations, Primary, Process, Processes, Program, Public, Quantify, Quantitative, Stratified, Warming.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Plasma Source Mass Spectrometer and Sample Introduction System for Multidisciplinary Geosciences Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Matthew W Schmidt($644,466), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Analyses, Dedicated, Education, Elemental, Equipment, Essential, Future, Graduate, HR-ICP-MS, Introduction, Mass, Natural, OEAS, Plasma, Training.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of High Performance Computing to Model Coastal Responses to a Changing Environment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Qingping Zou($266,309), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Resources And Infrastructure, Coastal Zone, Modeling Tools, Multiple Scenarios, Performance Computing, Significantly Increase, Spatial Resolution, Ability, Allow, Aquaculture, Capacity, Climate, Cluster, Decision, Decisions, Development, Economy, Environmental, Fisheries, Future, Graduate, Gulf, Has, Industry, Inform, Maine, Maines, Marine, Models, Natural, Potential, Predict, Requires, Storms, Students, Undergraduate, Warming.

A high-resolution controlled-source seismic experiment to elucidate geologic controls on megathrust slip: the 2014 Pisagua, Chile earthquake sequence as a natural laboratory
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anne M Tréhu($512,886), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Crustal Structure, Ocean Bottom, Plate Boundary, Seismic Reflection, Slip History, Velocity Model, Acquire, Chile, Compared, Density, Distinct, Distribution, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Foreshock, GEOMAR, Gap, Geodetic, Geologic, High-resolution, Imaging, Increase, Largest, Main, Marine, OBS, Occurred, Onshore, Patches, Phase, Pisagua, Prior, Program, Quake, Region, Shock, Tectonic, Was.

A mini-workshop to define scientific strategies and next steps for optimizing the OOI-node on Hydrate Ridge
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marta E Torres($20,957), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Hydrate Ridge Node, Marine Gas Hydrates, Gordon Conference, Natural Gas, Additional, Cabled, Days, Discussed, Documents, Energy, Engineering, Generating, Infrastructure, OOI, Participation, Potential, Slope, Th, Was, Workshop.

Evaluating the Complex 40Ar/39Ar Age Progressions Along the Cook-Austral Ocean Islands Representing Archetype Secondary Hotspot Volcanism
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anthony Koppers($199,733), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: 40ar39ar Age Dating, Seamounts And Ocean, Secondary And Tertiary, 40ar39ar Age, Age Progressions, Cook-austral Region, Hotspot Trails, Mantle Plume, Ocean Islands, Tertiary Hotspots, Ages, Allow, Arar, Common, Cook-austral, Current, Exhibit, Kar, Knowledge, Methods, Million, Nature, Pacific, Plate, Primary, Volcanic.

RAPID - High precision radiometric dating of Axial Seamount 2015 eruption products with 210Po-210Pb
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kenna H Rubin($49,841), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Magma Ascent Rates, Analyses, Axial, Collected, Eruption, Isotope, Lavas, Leading, Public, Undersea, Volcanic, Volcanoes.

Support for the 5th International Clumped Isotope Workshop; Saint Petersburg, Florida; January, 2016
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brad E Rosenheim($10,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Clumped Isotope, Clumped Isotopes, Applications, Carbonate, Combination, Formation, Has, Held, International, Past, Progress, Techniques.

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: 10/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jessica M Warren($165,527), University of Delaware, Newark
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.

Collaborative Research: The North Anatolian Fault system in the Marmara Sea, Turkey - Insights from the Plio-Quaternary evolution of a multi-stranded transform
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Leonardo Seeber($226,223), Columbia University, New York
2. Christopher C Sorlien($87,059), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Age Model Covering, Branches And Forms, Cement International Collaboration, Central And Southern, Continuous And Single, Demonstrate Continued Activity, Depth And Age, Discontinuous And Multi-stranded, Faults And Strain, North Anatolian Fault, Pre-existing Structures Affect, Seismogenic Activity Beneath, Slip And Pre-existing, Stratigraphic Age Model, Stratigraphy And Faulting, Turkey Via Shared, Turkish Graduate Students, Undergraduate Summer Interns, Accumulated Slip, Available Previous, Central Branch, Continental Transform, Cumulative Slip, Deep Basins, Fault Properties, Highly Societally, Marmara Sea, Northern Branch, Permanently Influenced, Pre-existing Structure, Pre-existing Structures, Relatively Continuous, Seismic Gap, Single Stranded, Slip History, Southern Branch, Southern Branches, Strain Partitioning, Transform Fault, Transtensional Basin, Turkey's Population, Abandoned, Account, Collected, Combination, Considering, Contrasting, Evolution, Evolves, Exchanges, Extend, Female, Focusing, Has, Home, Industry, Information, Interplay, Investigate, Map, NAF, Past, Pis, Postdoc, Resolve, Splits, Strands, Turkeys.

Collaborative Research: An Ocean Tale of Two Climates: Modern and Last Glacial Maximum
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Malte F Jansen($281,601), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Geoffrey Gebbie($99,698), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Raffaele Ferrari($423,953), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Deep Ocean Circulation, Sea Ice Extent, Carbon Storage, Emerging Picture, Glacial Climates, Glacial Maximum, Available, Consistency, Forward, Inverse, Mechanistic, Models, Observations, Periods, Permanent, Quantitative.

Collaborative Proposal: Exploring hypotheses of Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes on Southern Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Katsumi Matsumoto($62,837), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. John Chiang($33,038), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Southern Hemisphere Westerlies, Southern Ocean Circulation, Carbon Cycle, Deep Ocean, Ocean Climate, South Pacific, Split Jet, Annular-mode, Available, Biogeochemistry, Compared, Comparison, Contrasted, Deglaciation, Dominates, Earth, Feature, Heinrich, Paleoproxy, Particular, Simulations, Surface, Upwelling, Westerly.

Collaborative Research: Completing North Pond Borehole Experiments to Elucidate the Hydrology of Young, Slow-Spread Crust
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Charles G Wheat($410,471), University of Mississippi, University
2. Keir Becker($254,416), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. Beth N Orcutt($56,325), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Geochemical And Biological, Ocean Drilling Program, Crustal Fluid, Fluid Flow, North Pond, Ocean Crust, Spreading Ridges, Atlantic, Biogeochemical, Boreholes, Circulation, Deployed, Drilled, Expedition, Fast, Flank, Hydrologic, Hydrothermal, Long-term, Monitoring, Pressure, Processes, Recover, Samplers, Sampling, Seafloor, Seawater, Significantly, Site.

D/H isotope exchange between electrolyte-bearing C-O-H magmatic fluids: In-situ experiments involving vapors and brines
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Dionysios I Foustoukos($159,786), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Temperatures And Pressures, Chemical Engineering, Geothermal Fluids, Hydrogen-isotope Composition, Brines, Cells, Cl-rich, Context, DH, Degassing, Dissolved, Earth, Exchange, Experimental, Experiments, Gases, Geochemistry, H-D, HO, Hydrogen-isotope, Hydrothermal, Ions, Isotopes, Light, Magmatic, Methane, Nuclear, Processes, Properties, Seawater, Solvation, Source, Spectroscopy, Supercritical, Techniques, Volatiles, Volcanic, Waste.

Collaborative Research: Distinguishing the drivers of benthic foraminiferal faunal change to improve mechanistic interpretations of abrupt hypoxic events in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alan C Mix($299,952), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Christina L Belanger($179,386), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Benthic Foraminiferal, Ecological Consequences, Geochemical Proxies, North Pacific, Organic Carbon, Abruptness, Activities, Climate, Conditions, Determining, Drivers, Dynamics, Education, Environmental, Faunal, Hypoxia, Hypoxic, Information, Low-oxygen, Methods, Multivariate, Oxygenation, Past, Public, Quantify, Range, Rates, Rely, Sediment, Severity, Sites, Students.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Earthquakes at Axial Seamount Late in an Eruptive Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maya Tolstoy($345,458), Columbia University, New York
2. William S Wilcock($306,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Axial Seamount, Earthquake Activity, Oceanic Spreading, Ooi Cabled, Seafloor Sensors, Volcanic Cycle, Volcano Erupted, April, Late, Was.

Quantifying Partitioning of Trace Elements into Seafloor Hydrothermal Deposits Using Paired Vent Fluids and Solids
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Margaret K Tivey($189,006), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Natural Hydrothermal Vent, Environmental Conditions, Fluid-chimney Pairs, Hydrothermal Vents, Vent Fluids, Chimneys, Concentrations, Corresponding, Deposits, Fluid-chimney, Hot, Linings, Metal, Mineral, Ocean, Partitioning, Ph, Redox, Sulfide, Temperature, Time, Trace.

Stable Isotopic Constraints on Nitrogen Transformations in Low and High Temperature Hydrothermal Fluids
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Scott D Wankel($379,746), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Abiotic And Microbially, Active Submarine Hydrothermal, Broader Impacts Consist, Dependent Reactions Involving, Experimental And Observational, Hydrothermal Reaction Zones, Hydrothermal Vent Fluids, Low Temperature Hydrothermal, Low-temperature Vent Fluids, Modern Subsurface Biosphere, Nh4 And No3, Nitrogen Isotopic Composition, Operative Reaction Pathways, Plan Combined Experimental, Reactions Involving Dissolved, Redox Dependent Reactions, Submarine Hot Springs, Temperature Hydrothermal Vent, Well-constrained Laboratory Experiments, Bioavailable Nitrogen, Constrain Abiotic, Educational Opportunities, Hydrothermal Conditions, Hydrothermal Environments, Isotopic Fraction, Low-temperature Vent, Microbially Mediated, Nitrogen Transformations, Observational Approaches, Reaction Temperature, Reduced Nitrogen, Various Levels, Well-constrained Laboratory, Abundance, Advance, Aqueous, Deficiencies, Existing, Fate, Implications, Influence, NO-, Pis, Pre-biotic, Processes, Range, Spanning, Species, Stable, Students, Utility.

A Synoptic View of the Formation, Evolution, and Shallow Subduction of the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Plates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael H Ritzwoller($274,530), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fuca And Gorda, Juan De Fuca, Receiver Functions, Array, Beneath, Cascadia, Dispersion, Earthquakes, Encompass, Evolution, Inversion, Model, Models, Oceanic, Plate, Plates, Ratios, Rayleigh, Spreading, Subduction, Wave.

Intermediate Water Records of Radiocarbon and Temperature from Deep-sea Corals since the LGM
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jess F Adkins($250,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Intermediate Waters, Radiocarbon Content, Climate, Constrain, Deglaciation, Glacial, Heat, LGM, Past, Sinking, Temperature.

Seafloor Geodesy Using Sidescan Sonar: Analysis of the NGDC Archive
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. C. David Chadwell($200,215), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Earthquakes And Landslides, Existing Multibeam Sonars, Slow Ship Speed, Closely Follow, Displacement Accuracy, Magnitude Improvement, Published Accuracy, Reference Track, Repeat Track, Seafloor Displacements, Seafloor Surveyed, Severely Limits, Sometimes-destructive Seafloor, Times Spanning, Approach, Assessing, Available, Collecting, Measure, Measured, Method, Monitor, Nsf-sponsored, Patch, Rapid, Sometimes-destructive, Tool, Utility, Vessels.

A global survey of marine magnetic anomalies to constrain the Late Cretaceous-Eocene time scale
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Alberto Malinverno($246,280), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: C-sequence Magnetic Anomalies, Cretaceous-cenozoic Geomagnetic Polarity, Detailed Finite Plate, Finite Plate Rotations, Geomagnetic Polarity Time, Guide Magnetic Polarity, Late Cretaceous-cenozoic Geomagnetic, Magnetic Anomalies Created, Magnetic Polarity Time, Marine Magnetic Anomalies, Analysis Originally, C-sequence Magnetic, Cretaceous-cenozoic Geomagnetic, Earth2class Program, Grown Considerably, Independent Measure, Information Provided, Late Cretaceous-cenozoic, Seafloor Spreading, Spreading Centers, Substantially Update, Ago, Atlantic, Based, Central, Determined, Disciplines, Earthclass, Extending, Geochronology, Global, Has, House, Importance, K-, Lamont, Outreach, Ridge, Sediments, Student, Teachers, Training, Undergraduate, Was, Workshop.

Deep North Atlantic Salinity, Density and Pre-formed Nitrate during the Last Glacial Maximum
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Arthur J Spivack($319,978), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Circulation And Climate, Anthropogenic Co2, Atmospheric Co2, Deep Water, Glacial Maximum, North Atlantic, Ocean Circulation, Water Originating, Aimed, Analysis, Analytical, Density, Determination, Development, Dominated, Infer, LGM, Low, NO-, Nitrate, Was.

Collaborative Research: Modeling hydrothermal recharge and outflow in oceanic crust analogs with sharp permeability gradients
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jean-Arthur L Olive($68,110), Columbia University, New York
2. Eric L Mittelstaedt($68,238), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
3. Robert A Sohn($73,211), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: 3-d Printer, Analog Experiments, Fluid Circulation, Hydrothermal Sites, Mid-ocean Ridges, Oceanic Crust, Porous Convection, Act, Breaks, Conditions, Containing, Fault, Fluids, Focus, Geometry, Geothermal, Heat, Heated, Heterogeneous, Highly, Life, Mid-ocean, Near, Numerical, Permeability, Permeable, Seafloor, Slot, Tubes, Typically, Venting, Volume, Zones.

Love-wave propagation in oceanic upper mantle: constraints on radial anisotropy and implications for dynamics of the asthenosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. James B Gaherty($228,554), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Azimuthal Anisotropy, Radial Anisotropy, Strong Azimuthal, Underlying Mantle, Alignment, Analysis, Array, Asthenosphere, Base, Consistent, Depth, Lithosphere, Love, OBS, Observations, Ocean, Olivine, Pacific, Plate, Seismic, Tectonic, Velocities, Waves.

Collaborative Research: The effect of sand fraction and event evolution on fine-sediment transport and the depositional record in wave-supported mud flows
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu($259,648), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Alexander Horner-Devine($509,562), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Active Continental Margins, Clay Sized Particles, Continental Shelf Via, Mechanics And Water, Papers And Conference, Shelf Via Wave, Silt And Clay, Supported Gravity Currents, Surface Dynamics Modeling, Suspension And Transport, Turbulence-resolving Numerical Simulations, Undergraduate And Graduate, Via Wave Supported, Water Resource Engineering, Wave Supported Gravity, 3d Turbulence-resolving, Biogeochemical Cycles, Broad Range, Conference Presentations, Current Models, Depositional Signatures, Dominant Control, Downslope Transport, Existing Field, Fine Sediment, Fluid Mechanics, Graduate Students, Hand-on Experiments, Invited Presentations, Journal Papers, K-12 Students, Laboratory Experiments, Local Schools, Open-source Codes, Process Focus, Remains Poorly, Sand Fraction, Sediment Layer, Sediment Transport, Transport Layer, Transport Modes, Turbulence-resolving Numerical, Amount, CSDMS, Component, Comprehensive, Delivery, Disseminated, Effect, Effort, Exert, Fields, Flow, Hand-on, Introduction, Involved, Labs, Objectives, Offshore, Open-source, Outreach, Processes, Re-analysis, Relevance, Sedimentary, Sink, Transition, WSGC.

Collaborative Research: Developing a New Model to Investigate the Dynamics of Melt Generation beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Mark D Behn($208,995), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Timothy L Grove($129,762), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Beneath Mid-ocean Ridges, Melting Beneath Mid-ocean, Beneath Mid-ocean, Geodynamic Models, Mantle Composition, Melt Migration, Melt Productivity, Melting Model, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Relative Roles, Chemical, Crust, Develops, Global, Investigate, MORB, Oceans, Software, Student, Temperature, Trace, Volatiles, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Unlocking the secrets of slow slip by drilling at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: CORK observatory development and installation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Patrick Fulton($79,959), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Demian M Saffer($72,168), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Evan A Solomon($249,109), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Laura Wallace($287,743), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Shallow Slow Slip, Fault Slip, Beneath, Borehole, Crust, Deformation, Depth, Discovery, Episodic, Fluid, Focused, Geochemical, Gisborne, Hikurangi, Hydrological, Lt-, Margin, Measure, Megathrust, Nsource, Offshore, Plate, Sensors, Source, Subduction, Target, Thermal, Well-documented, Zealand.

Assessing the Extent and Causes of Fluctuations in the Seawater Sr/Ca Ratio to Improve Coral Paleothermometry Calibrations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kelly H Kilbourne($569,935), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: British Virgin Islands, Coral Srca-based, Florida Keys, Seawater Srca, Srca Ratio, Srca Ratios, Visitor Center, Accuracy, Analysis, Aragonite, CBL, Carbonate, Climate, Coastal, Collected, Corals, Educational, Enable, Method, Ocean, Paleoclimate, Physiographic, Reef, Sampling, Settings, Space, Srca-based, Temperature, Time, Water.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing sources of infragravity waves and the earth's hum using data from the Cascadia Amphibious Array
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Thomas Herbers($99,420), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Barbara A Romanowicz($227,583), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Seismic And Pressure, Source Region, Array, Continent, Deep, Documented, Earth, Earthquakes, Energy, Forcing, Generated, Has, Hum, IG, Infragravity, Instruments, Levels, Noise, Ocean, Period, Seafloor, Storms, Wave, Waves.

Serpentinization processes in the subsurface of a seafloor ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal system
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey C Alt($259,929), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Fluid Flow Pathways, Hot Hydrothermal Fluids, Microbial Sulfate Reduction, Cold Seawater, Fluid Penetration, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Subsurface Biosphere, Analyses, Basement, Controls, Deposits, Depth, Effects, Exposed, Extent, Industry, Involves, Life, Peridotite, Processes, Rock, Serpentinite, Serpentinization, Sulfide, Sulfur, Trace, Ultramafic-hosted, Vents.

Temporal/spatial scales of mantle wedge composition and processes investigated with young boninites and basalts from the unusually active NE Lau Basin
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jasper Konter($275,379), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Overlying Mantle, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Rocks, Activity, Arc, Boninite, Compositions, Conditions, Earth, Erupted, Fluids, Geochemistry, Hawaii, Hazards, Magma, Magmas, Melt, Melting, Outreach, Processes, Set, Slab, Society, Spatial, Subducting, Surface, Timescales, Unique, Volcanism.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EVALUATING DEEP-SEA VENTILATION AND THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE DURING EARLY PALEOGENE HYPERTHERMALS
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Cornelia Winguth($403,114), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
2. Ellen Thomas($105,044), Wesleyan University, Middletown
3. Pincelli M Hull($110,974), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Matter, Isotopic And Trace, Carbon Cycle, Dom Pool, Greenhouse Gas, Paleogene Hyperthermals, Vertical Carbon, Accumulation, Ago, Amount, Climate, Ecosystem, Educational, Effects, Evolution, Existing, Export, Extreme, Extremes, Future, Global, Implications, Insight, Integrated, Life, Marine, Massive, Mechanism, Million, Model, Ocean, Oceanic, Oxidation, Oxygenation, Productivity, Release, Remineralization, Reservoir, Ventilation, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Common Era Climate Variability from Marine Proxy Surrogate Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Casey Saenger($145,776), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Michael N Evans($60,014), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Model Intercomparison, AMOC, Additional, Circulation, Climate, Consistent, Forecasts, Future, Network, Observational, Past, Proxy, Psrs, Reconstructions, Trends, Uncertainty, Variables.

Thermal and melt structure of the Juan de Fuca plate from ridge to trench to arc, inferred from seismic attenuation across the Amphibious Array
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Geoffrey A Abers($80,480), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Amphibious Array, Spreading Center, Aging, Analysis, Asthenosphere, Attenuation, Beneath, Carried, Cascadia, Complete, Distribution, Exist, Has, Mantle, Margin, Melt, Oceanic, Plate, Plates, Seismic, Structure, Subduct, Subduction, Temperature, Trench, Water, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Geochemistry of IODP Site 1438 and West Philippine Basin Volcanic Rocks: Constraints on Subduction Initiation and the Early Development of the Izu-Bonin-Mar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Rosemary L Hickey-Vargas($159,014), Florida International University, Miami
2. Gene M Yogodzinski($157,355), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Basement Basalts, Forearc Basalts, Magma Generation, Odp Site, Preliminary Findings, Subduction Initiation, Volcanic Arc, Chemical, Compositional, Core, Eruption, Evolution, Expedition, Extent, Formation, Geochemical, IBM, IODP, Initial, Lead, Ocean, Overlying, Plate, Plates, Processes, Public, Recovered, Rock, Sedimentary, Subducting, Time, Volcaniclastic.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of South Atlantic Oceanic Crust: A Seismic Transect
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard L Carlson($273,843), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Gail L Christeson($389,405), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Crust Formed, Oceanic Crust, Oceanic Crustal, Spreading Center, Continue, Does, Drilling, Evolution, Future, Ma, Magmatic, Remain, Seafloor, Segment, Seismic, Tectonic, Time.

The Importance of Diagenesis upon the C, S, and B Isotopic Composition of Carbonates: Implication for Reading the Rock Record
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter K Swart($496,869), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Additional Geochemical Proxies, Carbon Isotopic Signals, Diagenesis Involving Freshwater, Engagement Opportunities Program, Freshwater And Marine, Graduate And Undergraduate, Isotopes And Trace, Organic And Inorganic, Paleoclimatic And Paleoceanographic, Proxies And Methods, Students And Collaboration, Sulfur And Boron, Water And Land, Broader Impacts, Carbon Isotopes, Classic Tools, Diagenetic Process, Established Criteria, Factors Controlling, Inorganic Carbonates, Isotopic Systematics, Land Drilling, Marine Fluids, Miami-based Creative, Original Geochemistry, Paleoceanographic Studies, School Students, Shallow Water, Undergraduate Training, Affected, Available, Carried, Collected, Correlation, Determining, Examine, Has, Implications, Influence, Influenced, Look, Mainly, Miami-based, Modern, Neoproterozoic, ODP, Outreach, Plio-pleistocene, Presence, Questioned, Recently, Retained, Sections, Sediments, Unaltered.

Structure of the Lithosphere - Asthenosphere Boundary Across the Northeastern US Margin from Seafloor MT Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert L Evans($174,040), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Thermal Perturbation, Asthenosphere, Base, Boundary, Constraints, Continent, LAB, Lithosphere, Lithospheric, Mantle, Margin, Melt, Model, Plate, Properties, Region, Tectonic, Topography.

Central Atlantic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Study
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kerry W Key($627,646), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Aquarium And Student, Lithosphere And Shed, Birch Aquarium, Collect Geophysical, Lithosphere-asthenosphere Boundary, Multi-disciplinary European, Oceanic Mantle, Secured Funding, Seismic Reflection, Shed Light, Thermal Structure, Allow, Controversy, Deep, Deploy, Deployments, Function, Instruments, Join, LAB, Lithosphere-asthenosphere, MT, Mid-atlantic, Multi-disciplinary, Multi-institution, OBS, Outreach, Pis, Planned, Resolving, Schlumberger, Scripps, Southampton.

Origin and Deformation of the Ontong Java Plateau
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Yang Shen($322,415), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Ontong Java, Analysis, Beneath, Deep, Has, Mantle, Million, OJP, Oceanic, Resolution, Root, Seismic, °.

Collaborative Research: An Experimental Investigation of Reactive Melt Channelization in Partially Molten Rocks
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Benjamin K Holtzman($97,162), Columbia University, New York
2. David L Kohlstedt($329,467), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Chemical Exchange, Melt Extraction, Melt Migration, Allow, Channels, Composition, Crust, Developed, Disequilibrium, Experimental, Experiments, Laboratory, Mantle, Natural, Olivine, Permeability, Pressure, Processes, Produce, Reaction, Rock, Set, Surface, Techniques, Time.

Collaborative Research: Melting in the Off-Axis Environment - Interdisciplinary Field and Modeling Studies of the 8 20'N Seamount Chain, EPR
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael R Perfit($164,696), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Patricia M Gregg($222,027), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Daniel J Fornari($147,755), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Geophysical And Geochemical, Melt Distribution, Middle School, Upper Mantle, Analyzed, Closely, Curricular, Investigate, Map, Melting, Models, Pacific, Program, Targeted, Teachers, Unit.

Collaborative Research: Partitioning early Holocene Laurentide v. Antarctic ice melt from high-resolution reconstruction of sea-level rise and glacial isostatic adjustment modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Brad E Rosenheim($144,449), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Torbjorn E Tornqvist($390,211), Tulane University, New Orleans
Key terms: Global Sea-level Rise, Holocene Sea-level Rise, 14c Dating, Antarctic Ice, Global Sea-level, Holocene Sea-level, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Mississippi Delta, Relative Contribution, Sea-level Rise, Time Interval, Time Window, AIS, Ago, Future, Globe, History, Ka, LIS, Larger, Meltwater, North, Numerous, Period, Poorly, Possibly, Present-day, Primary, RSL, Rate, Resolution, Retreat, Total, Was.

Ensemble Estimation of Central Tropical Pacific Climate over the last 6,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kim M Cobb($550,063), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: El Nino-southern Oscillation, Tropical Pacific Climate, Climate Cycle, Climate Forcing, El Nino-southern, Mean Climate, Natural Climate, Natural Enso, Nino-southern Oscillation, Past Enso, Tropical Rainfall, Anthropogenic, Baseline, Coral, Extremes, Future, Heart, Instrumental, Isolate, Larger, Paleoclimate, Probing, Range, Region, Short, Trends, Tropics, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Tracking the thermal and petrologic evolution of magmatically robust fast spread lower ocean crust
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey S Gee($315,394), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Michael Cheadle($394,238), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Axial Magma Chamber, Gabbroic Lower Crust, Transport And Crystallization, Width And Temporal, Accretion Models, Fast Spread, Gabbroic Layer, Lower Crustal, Melt Transport, Mid-ocean Ridges, Ocean Crust, Pito Deep, Temporal Evolution, Accreted, Depth, Expedition, Exposures, Features, Has, Heat, Hydrothermal, K-, Lavas, Mantle, Mid-ocean, Predictions, Processes, Resolve, Seafloor, Surface, Thermal, Unique.

SCOR Workshop: The Biology and Biogeochemistry of Planktonic Foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Howard J Spero($29,880), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Planktonic Foraminifera, Ability, Available, Biology, Ecology, Experiments, Fields, Future, Geochemical, Grow, Information, Laboratory, Paleoceanographic, Past, Publications, Symposium, Symposiumworkshop, Techniques, Tools, Workshop.

Assessing the Viability of Pristine Fossil Corals from the Dominican Republic as Indicators of ENSO at the Miocene/Pliocene Boundary
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Rhawn F Denniston($21,531), Cornell College, Mount Vernon
Key terms: CAS, Central, Closure, Conditions, ENSO, El, Entrenched, Flow, Miocene, Modeling, Nature, Ocean, Pacific, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Insights into North African climate variability over the last 1.1 million years from dust fluxes and leaf wax isotopes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William D McGee($161,221), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Gisela Winckler($358,679), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ice Age Cycles, North African Climate, Climate Models, Dust Fluxes, High-latitude Temperatures, Isotopic Composition, Leaf Molecules, Windblown Dust, Carbon, Century, Conditions, Dataset, Enable, Evolution, Future, High-latitude, Hydrogen, Hydrological, Insights, Mean, Million, Monsoon, Multiple, Opportunities, Past, Periods, Precipitation, Proxies, Range, Reconstruct, Region, Relating, Sahel, Testing, Tracer, Vegetation, Wetter.

Exploring the absolute pressure gauge data from the Cascadia Initiative OBS deployment for transient changes in seafloor elevation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Spahr C Webb($96,649), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Overlying Accretionary Prism, Removing Oceanographic Noise, Types And Time, Absolute Pressure, Cascadia Initiative, Displacement Behavior, Geodetic Observations, Offshore Regions, Pressure Gauges, Slow Slip, Time Scales, Vertical Deformation, APG, Acquired, Applicable, CI, Deployment, Detected, Enhance, Faults, Future, Methods, Monitor, Occurred, Potential, Search, Seismic, Set.

Collaborative Research: Sea-Level Variability During the Common Era
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew Kemp($100,815), Tufts University, Somerville
2. Simon Engelhart($44,980), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Benjamin P Horton($285,376), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
4. Jerry Mitrovica($48,613), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Common Era Relative, Era Relative Sea, Florida Gulf Coast, Global Mean Sea-level, Mean Sea-level Rise, Newfoundland And Florida, Regional And Global, Sea Level Reconstructions, Atlantic Coasts, Eastern North, Impacts Assessment, Mean Sea-level, Sea-level Rise, Climate, Contribute, Field, Has, Projections, Resolution, Rutgers, Spatio-temporal, Statistical, Students, Tufts.

Early Career Scientist Participation Grant for the 2016 Gordon Conference Workshop on Natural Gas Hydrates Entitled: From the Interface to Observatories
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Marta E Torres($15,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Gas Hydrate, Private Sector, Issues, Meeting, Mentoring, Students.

Collaborative Proposal: How Did the "World's Largest Single Volcano" Form at a Triple Junction? A Magnetic and Bathymetry Survey of Tamu Massif, Shatsky Rise
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Masako Tominaga($52,919), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. William W Sager($71,006), University of Houston, Houston
3. Masako Tominaga($52,919), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Geology And Geophysics, Volcanoes And Marine, Create Exhibits, Marine Geology, Outreach Component, Shatsky Rise, Submarine Volcanoes, Tamu Massif, Video Feeds, Formation, Magnetic, Mantle, Modules, Museums, Ocean, Partnering, Plate, Plateau, Plume, Revision, Students.

Scales of pH variability on Pacific coral reefs reconstructed from skeletal boron and boron isotopes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher D Charles($325,058), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Carbon Chemistry, Actually, Assessment, Coral, Direct, Historical, Installations, Manifested, Monitoring, Oceanographic, Pacific, Ph, Prominent, Reef, Regional, Sensitive, Site, Situ, Skeletal.

Installation of a Seafloor Geodesy Observatory in the Northern Chille Subduction Zone
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($640,768), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Seismic And Geodetic, Iquique Segment, Plate Boundary, Acoustic, Deformation, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Forearc, Has, Instrumentation, Instruments, Locked, Models, Nazca-south, Near, Offshore, Rupture, Seafloor, Slip, Stage, Subduction, Transect, Trench, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Experimental Determination of the Damp Peridolite Solidus
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Erik H Hauri($83,150), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
2. Glenn A Gaetani($423,478), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Development And Application, Peridotite Solidus, Developed, Earth, Exact, Experimental, Experiments, HO, Ho-undersaturated, Hygrometers, Mantle, Mass, Melting, Method, Olivine, Olivines, Pressure, Rock, Spheres, Surface.

Collaborative Research: A Pilot Study for Electromagnetic Surveying of Freshwater Resources Beneath the US Atlantic Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert L Evans($176,751), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Kerry W Key($240,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Continental Shelf, Fresh Water, Beneath, Current, Detect, Drilling, Electromagnetic, Found, Freshwater, Jersey, Mapping, Offshore, Presence, Resources, Sensitive, Subsurface, Tools.

Collaborative research: Crustal magma plumbing of the Santorini volcanic system
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Emilie E Hooft Toomey($513,400), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Arc Volcanoes, Current Distribution, Crust, Does, Imaging, International, Magma, Properties, Question-, Representative, Resolution, Santorini, Seismic, Seismometers, Site, Tomography, Waveform.

Collaborative Research: Post-eruption reinflation at Axial Seamount
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Scott L Nooner($135,860), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. William W Chadwick($127,617), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Axial Seamount, Magma Injection, Activity, Complete, Cycle, Deformation, Documented, Eruption, Magmatic, OOI, Seafloor.

A New View of Pliocene Glaciations
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Timothy D Herbert($409,242), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Marine Sediment Cores, Northern Hemisphere, Amount, Climate, Constrain, Ice, International, Mid-pliocene, Ocean, Period, Pliocene, Resolution, Temperature, Time, Was.

In situ monitoring of reaction progress during serpentinization of oceanic lithosphere using synthetic fluid inclusions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert J Bodnar($316,200), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Fluid Inclusions, Host Mineral, Mineral Reactions, Ocean Crust, Raman Spectroscopy, Composition, Developing, Experimental, Fluids, Hydrous, Identification, Inside, Minerals, Organic, Phases, Real-time, Secondary, Serpentinization, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: An ultra-high-resolution record of drought, flood, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate oscillations in Holocene and late Quaternary Californian sediments
Award Effective Date: 02/11/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Linda A Hinnov($48,246), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Climate Intervals, Climate Modes, California, Rainfall, River.

RAPID: Disentangling the sedimentary storm signal in coastal submarine caves and ponds in Bermuda with implications for the entire North Atlantic Basin
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Peter Van Hengstum($24,993), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: East Coast, Hurricane Gonzalo, Organic Matter, Allow, Bermuda, Chemical, Coastal, Collected, Cores, Damage, Deposits, Documented, Fresh, Indicators, Infrastructure, Island, Local, Mississippi, Ocean, Prehistoric, Sediment, Sedimentary, Sediments, Storm, Students, Timing, Various.

A Combined Paleo-Proxy and Modeling Study of Abrupt Climate Change in the Tropical Atlantic and Its Relation to Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew W Schmidt($251,403), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Temperature And Salinity, Tropical Atlantic Climate, Tropical North Atlantic, Western Tropical North, Ocean Circulation, Subsurface Temperature, AMOC, Atmospheric, Coupled, Proxy, Sensitive, Surface, Warming.

MRI: Acquisition of an XRF Core Scanner for the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Maureen E Raymo($419,300), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Lamont-doherty Core Repository, Xrf Core Scanner, Geochemical Analysis, High-resolution Geochemical, Lamont-doherty Core, Rock Cores, Acquisition, Analytical, Benefit, Climate, Educational, Environment, Especially, Facility, Has, High-resolution, History, Issues, Land, Local, Numerous, Programs, Resource, Sea, Sediment, Students, Visitors.

MRI: Acquisition of instrumentation to advance our understanding of environmental processes through characterization of the organic compounds in different environmental reservoirs
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Lihini I Aluwihare($333,108), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Complex Matrices, Comprehensive Gas, Organic Molecules, Access, Accumulating, Advanced, Compounds, Contaminants, Environment, Environmental, Information, Instrument, Mass, Processes, Regulate, Timescales, Transformed, Unprecedented, Various.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Arctic section; Nd and REE cycling in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Howard Scher($170,571), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Isotopes And Rees, Western Arctic Ocean, Arctic Expedition, Changing Environmental, Nd Isotopes, Ree Concentrations, Water Mass, Biological, Collected, Distributions, Exchanges, Future, GEOTRACES, Mixing, Neodymium, Oceanographic, Processes, Quantify, Rare, Seawater, Sediment, Sources, Teis, Trace, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: Establishing Community Standards for Underwater Video Acquisition, Tagging, Archiving and Access.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Dwight F Coleman($4,725), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Samuel A Soule($7,216), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Vicki Ferrini($38,005), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Video Archives, Access, Allow, Broad, Content, Metadata, Operations, Potential, Public, Workshop.

A Proposal to Manage the U.S. Science Support Program Office associated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. David S Goldberg($54,121,211), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Joides Resolution, Ocean Drilling, Activities, Development, Earth, Establishing, Experience, Family, IODP, Increasing, Initiatives, Iodp-related, LDEO, Media, Outreach, Program, Promote, STEM, Social, USAC, USSSP-IODP.

Expediting the Identification, Analysis, and Interpretation of Paleogene Volcaniclastic Facies at IODP Site U1438, Expedition 351
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kathleen M Marsaglia($25,810), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Arc Development, Magmatic Arc, Analyses, Analysis, Core, Detailed, Evolution, Facies, Geochemistry, IODP, Initiation, Plan, Processes, Section, Sedimentary, Stratigraphic, Subduction, Was.

Renewal of Curation of ODP Legs 150X and 174AX cores: The Rutgers Core Repository
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM

1. Kenneth G Miller($245,777), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: 150x And 174ax, Ocean Drilling Program, Odp And Iodp, Rutgers Core Repository, Legs 150x, Climate, Cores, Developed, Has, Provided.

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

1. Jason B Sylvan($184,735), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Deep Biosphere, North Pond, Basement, Crust, Expedition, IODP, Investigate, Life, Metabolic, Microbes, Ocean, Population, Program.

Measuring Sea Floor Motion: New Technology for Continental Margin Geodesy
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Chad E Lembke($822,108), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Continental Shelf Environment, Shallow Continental Shelf, Sea Floor, Strain Accumulation, Challenging, Continuous, Deformation, Earthquake, Future, GPS, Has, Offshore, Precise, Subduction, Successful, Technology, Tsunami, Water.

Carbon Sedimentation In the Ocean Watercolumn (C-SNOW): Calibration
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. James K Bishop($778,687), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Berkeley National Laboratory, Biological Carbon Pump, Carbon Flux Explorers, Lawrence Berkeley National, Ocean Biological Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Sedimentation, Ocean Carbon, Optical Metrics, Uc Berkeley, California, Cfes, Cross-polarized, Depth, Illumination, Load, Measure, Modes, OSR, Particulate, Poorly, Strength, Time, Transmitted.

Integrating and ground truthing the profiling float microrosette
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Todd Martz($504,387), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Autonomous Profiling, Chemical Analyses, Park Cycle, Profiling Float, Profiling Floats, Taking Advantage, Acidification, Approach, Micro-rosette, Ocean, Processes, Seawater, Sensors.

Laboratory Measurements of Drift Rates in Pressure Gauges Proposed for Seafloor Geodesy
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Glenn S Sasagawa($237,001), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Sensors And Methods, Pressure Gauges, Pressure Observations, Seafloor Pressure, Costly, Deformation, Drift, Instruments, Months, Offshore, Periodically, Primary, Signals, Standard, Tectonic, Time, Volcanism.

An Optical Interferometer for the Measurement of Absolute Salinity
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jason A Kapit($950,898), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Absolute Salinity, Refractive Index, Water Cycle, Accuracy, Achieve, Approach, Density, Especially, Has, Interferometer, Levels, Measure, Ocean, Seawater, Sensitivity, Temperature.

ALOHA Cabled Observatory Continuing Operations and Maintenance
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Bruce M Howe($986,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Station Aloha, Water Column, ACO, Basic, Biological, Bottom, Cabled, Deepest, Deployed, HOT, Has, Hawaii, Infrastructure, Innovative, Long-term, Observations, Observatory, Ocean, Pressure, Site, Technology, Time, Was.

Program Support Office for the Interagency Ocean Observation Committee
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kristen Yarincik($449,056), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Inc, Washington
Key terms: Ocean Observation, IOOC, Interagency, Natural, Office, Planning.

Marine energy harvesting for remote sensor systems
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Daniel P Costa($633,703), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Animal Mounted, Energy Harvesting, Marine Sensor, Potential Energy, Biologists, Capabilities, Collection, Deployment, Development, Device, Effort, Efforts, Electrical, Engineers, Experimental, Focus, Has, Mechanical, Objective, Ocean, Outreach, Panel, Performed, Program, Ranging, Remote, Technology, Testing, Wildlife.

PipeCyte: An instrument to continuously and autonomously measure algal cells
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Virginia Armbrust($922,824), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Flow Cytometer, Flow Cytometers, Phytoplankton Cells, Primary Optic, Real Time, Abundance, CTD, Characteristics, Clogging, Current, Design, Essential, Features, Immersed, Instrument, Instruments, Maintenance, Measure, Ocean, Oceanographic, Operation, Operators, Optical, Peaks, Pipecyte, Power, Size, Standard, Underwater, View, Water.

A Low-Power Global Positioning System-Acoustic Payload to study the subduction zones offshore the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. C. David Chadwell($176,240), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Earthquake And Tsunami, Wave And Solar-powered, Elastic Strain, Global Positioning, Onboard Batteries, Seafloor Sites, Wave Glider, Acoustic, Approach, Buildup, CSZ, Collected, Collection, Days, Extensive, GPS-A, GPS-INS, Has, Hours, Measured, Offshore, Replace, Ships, Suspended, Wave-, Weather.

Development and deployment of distributed mini-observatory nodes to couple STEM training with coastal biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Brian T Glazer($296,983), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Quality And Biogeochemistry, Environmental Sensor, Water Column, Water Quality, Assembled, Build, Citizen, Coastal, Cost, Deployed, Environments, Fluxes, Hardware, Increased, Low-cost, Nreal-time, Open-source, Porewater, STEM, Sediment, Students, Temperature.

MRI: Offshore Earthquake Monitoring at Subduction Zones Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and High-Speed Optical Telemetry For Data Retrieval
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jeffrey J McGuire($923,217), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Multi-year Deployments, Planet's Largest, Subduction Zones, AUV, Access, Allow, Arrays, Capability, Capable, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Fault, Foreshock, Ground, Hours, Magnitude, Minutes, Monitor, Motion, Multi-year, OBS, Offshore, Optical, Planets, Potential, Rates, Recovery, Risk, Seismic, Seismographs, Seismological, Sequences, Telemetry, Time, Timing, Tohoku, Weeks.

MRI: Development of an Amphibious Remotely Operated Vehicle for Coastal Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. William R Dally($515,195), University of North Florida, Jacksonville
Key terms: Breaking Waves, Surf Zone, Accurate, Affordable, Allowing, Amphibious, Beach, Coastal, Critical, Development, Engineering, Equipment, Equipped, Knowledge, Nearshore, Platform, ROV, Suitable, Vehicle, Wide.

Development of an interim passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing system for instantaneous continental-shelf scale marine mammal monitoring, localization and species classi
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Gunar Schirner($300,000), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Acoustic Waveguide Remote, Near Real Time, Ocean Acoustic Waveguide, Passive Ocean Acoustic, Waveguide Remote Sensing, Species Classification, Localization, MM, Monitoring, POAWRS.

EAGER: Langmuir Turbulence Measurements at 35-40m Depth off Cape Hatteras in Fall 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Dana K Savidge($200,001), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Wind And Wave, Coastal Ocean, Langmuir Cells, Water Column, Wave Forcing, Wider Range, Air-sea, Aircraft, Buoys, Circulation, Current, Deeper, Deployment, Depth, Doppler, Existing, Experiment, Fields, Fluxes, Gliders, Microstructure, NRL, Naval, October, Probes, Rows, Shelf, Significantly, Spatial, Stratification, Supercells, Surface, Tends, Turbulence, VADCP, Vertical, Visible.

Funding to support Operations and Maintenance of the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Steve Etchemendy($2,144,419), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Accelerated, Cabled, Has, MARS, MBARI, Operations.

Partial support for the Fourth International Conference on Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Arthur N Popper($28,071), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Aquatic Life, Underwater Noise, Conference, Effects, Has, Industry, Meeting, Meetings, Petroleum, Regulators, Waters.

Collaborative Research: The Next Generation RAFOS Float: A More Capable, Cost-Effective Subsurface Drifter for Observing Deep Ocean Currents
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Godi Fischer($160,646), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Amy S Bower($164,414), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Acoustically Tracked Floats, Moored Sound Beacons, Bottom-following Capability, Fc Rafos, Rafos Float, Ballasting, Bottom-following, Chip, Completed, Currents, Fish, Measure, Micro-chip, Observe, Ocean, Principal, Provided, Receiver, Sensors, Subsurface, Tested, Tracking, Vertical, Water.

LDEO/Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Bruce A Huber($112,767), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Refurbish Whm300 Sn, Shared-use Instrumentation, ADCP, Acquisition, Equipment, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use.

Oceanus Oceanographic Instrumentation 2015
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David P O Gorman($115,505), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rv Oceanus, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, CTD, Days, NSF, Nsf-funded, OSU, Oceanographic, Operated, Oregon, Retired, Shared-use, Ship, Spare, Vessel, Was, Wecoma.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2015
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David C Fisichella($23,508), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Total Sailing Schedule, Global Vessel, Projects Accounted, Rv Atlantis, Rv Knorr, Shared-use Instrumentation, Completed, Days, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Sea, Shared-use.

R/V Marcus G. Langseth - Oceanographic Instrumentation 2015
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David S Goldberg($19,361), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Capabilities, Days, Langseth, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, RV, Seismic, Shared-use, Surveys, Unique, Vessel.

University of Georgia/R/V Savannah Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James G Sanders($66,781), University of Georgia, Athens
Key terms: Estuarine Environments, Oceanographic Instrumentation, Rv Savannah, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, Coastal, Cruises, Days, Has, NSF, Nsf-funded, School, Shared-use, Skidaway, Upgrade, Vessel.

Oceanographic Instrumentation CY2015
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy W Deering($26,517), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Total Sailing Schedule, Rv Hugh, Shared-use Instrumentation, Coastal, Days, Delaware, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Operated, Shared-use, Sharp, Vessel.

University of Hawaii R/V Kilo Moana Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2015
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James S Ferguson($68,163), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Hawaii, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Vessel.

Collaborative Research: Global Ocean Repeat Hydrography, Carbon, and Tracer Measurements, 2015-2020
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. James H Swift($5,956,945), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Mark J Warner($3,001,393), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Heat And Freshwater, Anthropogenic Carbon, Carbon Content, Atmosphere, Calibration, Circulation, Climate, Components, Continue, Critical, Dissolved, Full-depth, Global, Hydrographic, International, Model, Nutrients, Ocean, Oceans, Oxygen, Pco, Salinity, Sections, Studies, Temperature, Transport, Uptake.

Oceanographic Instrumentation R.V. Oceanus 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Daryl L Swensen($49,800), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Rv Oceanus, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, Days, NSF, Nsf-funded, OSU, Oceanographic, Operated, Oregon, Replacement, Retired, Shared-use, Ship, Upgrade, Vessel, Was, Wecoma.

Supporting the Multibeam Sonar Systems of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet: Coordinating Operations to Optimize Data Quality
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Vicki Ferrini($775,192), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Multibeam Sonars, Shared-use Instrumentation, Academic, Acquisition, Activities, Consistent, Continue, Fleet, Installing, MAC, Maintain, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Operation, Operators, Performance, Review, Shared-use, Ships, Technical, Tools, Vessel.

Providing Real-Time Camera Observational Capability to Multicore Sampling for Four UNOLS Operators
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daniel J Fornari($443,205), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Access, Deep-sea, Digital, High-resolution, Imaging, NSF, Nsf-funded, Operating, Shared-use, UNOLS, WHOI.

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

1. Daryl L Swensen($3,690,726), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Basic Services, Rv Oceanus, Shared-use Instrumentation, Specialized Services, Continue, Facility, Maintain, Nsf-funded, Program, Shared-use, Vessel.

Surface Mixed Layer Salinity Budget in the Tropical Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ren-Chieh Lien($185,222), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Barrier Layer Properties, Central And Eastern, Eastern Tropical Indian, Layer Salinity Budget, Mixed Layer Salinity, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Mixed Layer, Tropical Indian Ocean, Turbulent Entrainment Fluxes, Turbulent Heat Flux, Dynamo Experiment, Salinity Flux, Salinity Stratification, Aquarius, Atmospheric, Computed, Days, Direct, Effects, Evolution, Initiation, Intra-seasonal, MJO, Madden-julian, Meteorological, Microstructure, Mooring, Moorings, Observations, Period, Phases, Spatial, Temporal, Was, Wind.

Kelvin-Helmholtz turbulence: how much mixing does it generate in the Equatorial Oceans?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James N Moum($534,003), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Stratified Shear Flows, Ocean Mixing, Analysis, Constraints, DNS, Dissipation, Existing, Increased, Instability, KH, Kelvin-helmholtz, Numerical, Observational, Ongoing, Opportunity, Parameterizations, Reynolds, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Small-scale instabilities in the upper equatorial oceans
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William D Smyth($190,035), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Episodic Shear Instabilities, Linear Stability Analysis, Niña And Enso-neutral, El Nino, El Niño, Equatorial Pacific, Flow Conditions, Shear Instability, Time Scales, Atmosphere, Boreal, Common, Exists, Growth, Knowledge, LSA, Less, Mixing, Mooring, Ocean, Oceans, Oscillation, Richardson, Summer, Surface, Turbulence, Value, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Numerical Modeling of the Internal-Wave Cascade and Submesoscale Lateral Dispersion in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Kunze($658,990), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Miles A Sundermeyer($283,425), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Dispersion And Stirring, Internal-wave Shear Dispersion, Waves And Vortical, Wavewave And Wavevortex, Finescale Roll-off, Internal Waves, Internal-wave Cascade, Internal-wave Shear, Isopycnal Diffusivities, Lateral Dispersion, Lateral Stirring, Regional Models, Vertical Scales, Vortical Mode, Approach, Conditions, Diapycnal, Diffusion, Distinguish, Energy, Explore, Field, Frequency, Larger, Mechanisms, Mixing, Numerical, Ocean, Ogcms, Parameter, Physics, Processes, Resolve, Richardson, Roll-off, Simulations, Spectral, Statistics, Submesoscale, Vortical-mode.

RAPID - Plume Dynamics under Increased Sediment Discharge following Floods
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George Voulgaris($70,129), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Dispersal And Mixing, Coastal Ocean, Plume Dynamics, Sediment Discharge, Buoyancy, Buoyant, Concentration, Conditions, Density, Flashy, Freshwater, Increased, October, Offshore, Rainfalls, Resulting, River, SC, Shelf, Surveys.

Collaborative Research: Energetically consistent, resolution aware, parameterization of meso-scale eddies in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Malte F Jansen($329,821), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. Alistair Adcroft($364,137), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Eke-budget-based Eddy Parameterization, Energy And Enstrophy, Ocean Climate Models, Sub-grid Eddy Effects, Baroclinic Instability, Climate Simulations, Eke-budget-based Eddy, Energy Cycle, Global Ocean, Kinetic Energy, Mesoscale Eddies, Numerical Model, Resolved Flow, Sub-grid Eddy, Turbulent Energy, Ability, Adequate, Applicable, Cascade, Eddy-permitting, Framework, Held, Hierarchy, Idealized, Modeling, Non-eddying, Parameterizations, Range, Realistic, Remains, Resolution, Resolutions.

Collaborative Research: A Study of Submesoscale Mixed-Layer Dynamics at a Mid-Latitude Oceanic Front: Isolating the Sub- and Super-Inertial Response to Atmospheric Forcing
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Kunze($333,862), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. John T Farrar($354,660), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. John Mickett($2,161,815), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Array Deployments, Atmospheric Forcing, Sufficient Duration, Air-sea, Dynamics, Exchange, Experiment, Horizontal, Lateral, Layer, Mixed-layer, Observational, Ocean, Presence, Processes, Region, Salinity, Submesoscale, Surface, Temperature, Typical.

Collaborative Research: Wave driven flow through a shallow, fringing reef
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Clifton B Woodson($302,588), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Stephen G Monismith($787,404), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Circulation Model, Ofu Reef, Bathymetry, Bleaching, Challenges, Corals, Drag, Dynamics, Flow, Flows, Friction, Loggers, Mapping, Modeling, Ocean, Overall, Quantitative, Reefs, Spatially, Structure, Temperature.

Water Mass Transformation and Downwelling around Islands
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael A Spall($542,970), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Diapycnal Mass Flux, Water Mass Transformation, Analytic Models, Numerical Models, Surrounding Ocean, Downwelling, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eddy, Export, Fluxes, Framework, Island, Islands, Net, Processes, Product, Resolving, Shelf, Theory.

Decadal changes in ventilation of the abyssal Southwest Pacific ocean from repeated CFC and new SF6 measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Rolf E Sonnerup($506,878), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Oceanic And Atmospheric, Atmospheric Administration, Meridional Sections, National Oceanic, Antarctic, Anthropogenic, Australians, Chlorofluorocarbon, Critical, Distributions, Gap, Hexafluoride, Level, PS, SR, Tracer, Ventilation, Waters, °E, °W.

Collaborative Research: The Oleander Project: High-resolution observations of the dynamic ocean between New Jersey and Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles N Flagg($939,322), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Ruth G Curry($496,068), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
3. H. Thomas Rossby($391,520), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Continental Shelf, Gulf Stream, North Atlantic, Sargasso Sea, Subpolar Gyre, Upper Ocean, ADCP, Circulation, Continued, Decadal, Enable, Interannual, MOC, Oleander, Operation, Resolution, Seasonal, Structure, Thermocline.

Wave Breaking in High Winds and its Effects on the Air-Sea Exchange of Gases of Varying Solubility
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher J Zappa($264,458), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Flux, Gas Transfer Velocities, Methanol And Acetone, Suggesting Wind Speed, Air-sea Fluxes, Air-sea Gas, Breaking Waves, Carbon Dioxide, Dimethyl Sulfide, Gas Exchange, Wave Breaking, Account, Atmosphere, Bubble, Capture, Climate, Collected, Conditions, Control, Dataset, Dictated, Environmental, Especially, Estimates, Factors, Gases, Influence, Interface, Mechanisms, Models, Ocean, Parameterizations, Parameterized, Processes, Sensitive, Soluble.

Subpolar-Subtropical Connectivity of the North Atlantic Circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric P Chassignet($451,170), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: North Atlantic Ocean, Sub-polar And Sub-tropical, Sub-tropical North Atlantic, Atlantic Circulation, Atlantic Meridional, Global Climate, Model-data Synthesis, Sub-tropical North, Time Mean, Time Scales, Transition Region, AMOC, Analysis, Boundary, Cold, Connectivity, Controls, Decadal, Dynamics, Eddies, Especially, Gyres, HYCOM, Has, Heat, Inter-annual, Larger, Laterally, Long-term, Model-data, Observations, Performing, Plays, Program, Programs, Structure, Tracers, Vertically, Warm, Warming, Water.

The Interannual Variability of the Brazil Current
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Shenfu Dong($488,321), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Brazil Current, South Atlantic, Wind Forcing, Analysis, Eddy, Eddy-resolving, Experiments, Flow, Gyre, Has, Hydrographic, Interannual, Large-scale, Latitudes, Mechanisms, Model, Ocean, Reanalysis, Regional, Satellite, Strong, Structure, Timescales, Western.

Collaborative research: Deep eastern ocean boundary currents from local submesoscale potential vorticity dynamics to global climate implications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kevin Speer($334,826), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Eli Tziperman($317,045), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Deep Eastern Boundary, Eastern Boundary Currents, Regional Ocean Model, Resolution Regional Ocean, Climate Models, Inverse Model, Poleward Flows, Potential Vorticity, Submesoscale Eddies, Circulation, Consequences, Dynamics, Eddy, Mesoscale, Mixing, Processes, Projections, Represented, Simulation, Undercurrents, Upwelling.

Sea-surface dynamics diagnosed from satellite data and coupled models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anand Gnanadesikan($434,412), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Sea Surface Salinity, Surface Salinity Anomalies, Surface Temperature Anomalies, Coupled Climate, Mechanisms Controlling, Surface Anomalies, Anomaly, Applies, Dynamics, Evolution, Fields, Framework, Method, Models, Observations, Ocean, Propagate, Propagation, Quantify, Underlying.

Analysis and interpretation of Tritium and Helium tracer data collected in the North Pacific in 2015.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Scott C Doney($421,840), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Circulation Cells, Density Horizons, North Pacific, Ocean Circulation, Thermocline Ventilation, Transient Tracers, Additional, Boundary, CLIVAR, Climate, Climatic, Constraints, Diagnose, Distributions, Document, Evolution, Has, Helium-, Hydrographic, Information, Northern, Occupation, Particular, Pathways, Processes, Program, Rates, Sections, Time, Time-scale, Tritium, Tritiumhelium-, WOCE, Water.

Low Frequency Intrinsic Variability in the Eddying Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Bruno Deremble($504,094), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, North Atlantic, Climate, Dynamics, Florida, Intrinsic, Models, Ocean, Remote, Various.

Workshop On Ocean Mixing: Recent results and future prospects from combining process studies, theory and numerical modeling approaches; Scripps Inst.; Oct.27-29, 2015
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jennifer A MacKinnon($64,335), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Breaking Internal, Climate Models, Climate Process, Internal Waves, Ocean Mixing, Turbulent Mixing, Ability, Active, CPT, Collective, Concentrated, Diapycnal, Field, Geography, Global, Has, Issues, Knowledge, Multiple, Participants, Techniques, Workshop.

Rip Currents: Coupling and Feedback between Waves, Flows, and Morphology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Melissa Moulton($542,392), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Currents Flowing, Field Observations, Numerical Model, Rip Channels, Rip Currents, Shore-perpendicular Channels, Surf Zone, Wave Breaking, Wave Conditions, Alongshore, Bathymetric, Beach, Circulation, Colleagues, Dredged, Evolution, Evolving, Federal, Feedback, Flows, Focus, Investigate, Morphology, National, Near, Nearshore, Offshore-directed, Perturbations, Range, Seafloor, Sediment, Service, Shore-perpendicular, Three-dimensional, Transitions, Transport, Waves.

A new mechanism for Mode water formation at a thermohaline ocean front
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Leif N Thomas($390,494), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Mode Water Formation, Temperature And Salinity, Climate Models, Lateral Mixing, Mode Waters, Ocean Fronts, Thermohaline Front, Water Mass, Basin, Cabbeling, Circulation, Density, Dynamics, Equation, Explored, Frontogenesis, Has, Instabilities, Interannual, Involves, Isopycnal, Layers, Mark, Mechanism, Observed, Physics, Potential, Process, Properties, Simple, Simulations, Submesoscale, Theory, Vorticity, Width.

Near-Surface Conversions of Semi-Diurnal Internal Tide Beam Energy
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian S Powell($379,921), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Internal Tide Energy, Deep Ocean, Internal Tides, Internal Wave, Numerical Investigations, Numerical Modeling, Oceanographic Instrumentation, Upper Ocean, Distributions, Has, Interacts, Mixing, Models, Near, Phenomena, Processes, Quantify, Spatial, Stratification, Subject, Surface, Waves.

Basin scale forcing of flows on western-boundary shelves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James M Pringle($369,663), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Alongshore Flow, Continental Shelves, Graduate Student, Shelf Flows, Transport Pathway, Western Boundary, Basin, Circulation, Deep, Drive, Dynamics, Exchange, Forcing, Gradients, Has, Inter-annual, Interannual, Links, Magnitude, Main, Mean, Model, Modeling, North, Observed, Ocean, Origin, Pressure, Quantitative, Regional, Sea, Source, Species, Strategies, Timescale, Undergraduates, Western-boundary, Winds.

Runups of Unusual Size: Predicting Unexpectedly Large Swash Events
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller($799,712), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Extreme Runup, Generation Mechanisms, Numerical Model, Unusual Runup, Attention, Beaches, Coastal, Efforts, Management, Models, Public, Seen, Storms, Unexpected, Wave, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Submarine Melting of Greenland's Glaciers: What are the relevant ocean dynamics?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick Heimbach($27,450), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Ice Sheetocean Interactions, Ship-based And Moored, Submarine Melt Rate, Submarine Melt Rates, Fjord Circulations, Fjordshelf Exchange, Glaciers Termini, Mass Balance, Presently Absent, Sea-level Rise, Submarine Melting, Acceleration, Climate, Complementary, Contribute, Disciplines, Dynamics, Experts, Exposed, Future, Greenland, Greenlands, Has, Involves, Mechanisms, Models, Multidisciplinary, Ocean, Oceanic, Origin, Parameterized, Predictions, Processes, Properties, Sea-level, Shelf, Waters.

Interactions of Estuarine Physics, Sediment, and Organic Matter in Determining Suspended Particle Properties, Their Spatial and Temporal Distribution, and Resulting Water Clarity
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Courtney K Harris($691,150), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Chesapeake Bay, Density Flocs, Estuarine Physics, Field Observations, Inorganic Sediment, Low Concentrations, Numerical Models, Organic Content, Organic Matter, Settling Velocity, Water Clarity, Circulation, Coastal, Dynamics, Estuaries, Estuary, Formulations, Has, Increased, Interaction, Interactions, Partially-mixed, Particle, Relatively, Size, Suspended, Turbulence.

Storm-Driven Near-Inertial Waves and Mixing in the Western North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ren-Chieh Lien($2,446,349), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fall And Winter, Inertial Wind Power, Near-inertial Waves, Turbulent Mixing, Wind-forced Near-inertial, Winter Storms, Depth, Distribution, Energy, Fate, Five, Following, Nfield, Ninertial, Numerical, Observational, Ocean, Pacific, Pycnocline, Quantify, Shear, Surface, Temperature, Vertical, Western, Wind-forced.

Collaborative Research: Global Observational Constraints on Oceanic Response to Wind Forcing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Shane Elipot($275,880), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Jonathan M Lilly($262,412), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
3. Ramsey R Harcourt($80,645), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ocean Surface Boundary, Surface Boundary Layer, Climate Models, Surface Currents, Transfer Function, Wind Forcing, Analysis, Estimate, Examining, Expected, Global, Langmuir, Mixing, Processes, Tested, Turbulence.

Impact of Nonlinear Barotropic Tides in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Douglas S Luther($389,881), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Diurnal And Semi-diurnal, Gravity Wave, Nonlinear Tides, Pelagic Ocean, Semi-diurnal Tides, Bands, Barotropic, Coastal, Energy, Flow, Flux, Forced, Has, Linear, Minutes, Motions, Nature, Non-linear, Objectives, Periods, Phenomena, Shelves, Surface, Waves.

Diagnosing Overturning and Water Mass Transformation in the Labrador Sea From Argo Floats
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. James Holte($161,230), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Labrador Sea Overturning, Overturning Circulation, Palace Floats, AMOC, Argo, Atlantic, Contribution, Convection, Has, Potential, Quantify, Seas, Spatial, Water.

Collaborative Research: A model-based synthesis of Mid Atlantic Bight Pioneer Array data to infer across-shelf fluxes, frontal variability, and characteristics of the array
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Hernan G Arango($386,691), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Andrew M Moore($307,062), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Observation Sensitivity Calculations, Circulation Analyses, Circulation Estimates, Eddy Fluxes, Mid-atlantic Bight, Ocean Modeling, Pioneer Array, Assimilation, Cross-shelf, Domain, Dynamics, Exchange, Explore, Graduate, Metrics, Mid-atlantic, Multi-scale, Observations, Observing, Processes, Region, Resulting, Shelf, Shelf-break, Specific, Tools.

Gordon Research Conference Coastal Ocean Modeling: Coastal Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jacqueline McSweeney($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Modeling, Modeling And Simulation, Ocean Modeling Gordon, Numerical Modeling, Application, Based, Capabilities, Conference, Developments, Estuarine, Exchange, Geographic, Held, Interactions, June, Marine, Opportunities, Participants, Prediction, Processes, Regions, Seminar, Students, Time, Water, Zone.

Comparison of Deepglider and RAPID-MOCHA Moored Array Observations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles C Eriksen($1,253,055), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Degrees North Latitude, Heat Flux Carried, Boundary Current, Current Fluctuations, Dissolved Oxygen, Dynamic Height, Moored Array, Sea Surface, Time Scales, AMOC, Assess, Atlantic, Autonomous, Climate, Decades, Deepglider, Deepgliders, Gyre, Interannual, Missions, Multi-decadal, Ocean, Overall, Percent, Pilot, Principal, Repeat, Resolve, Salinity, Signals, Temperature, Transatlantic.

Rain-formed Fresh Lenses in SPURS-2
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Luc Rainville($822,486), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Kinetic Energy Dissipation, Surface And Near-surface, Turbulent Kinetic Energy, Air-sea Interface, Coupled Air-sea, Field Experiments, Fresh Lenses, Rain Rate, Sea Surface, Surface Thermal, Turbulence Model, Turbulent Dissipation, Upper Ocean, Air-sea, Assess, Atmosphere, Camera, Decay, Evolution, Fluxes, Freshwater, Heat, IR, Models, Momentum, Nsurface, Patch, Potential, Processes, Public, Quantify, Rain-formed, Rainfall, Rainy, Regions, Representation, SPURS-, Salinity, Structure, Temperature, Tropical, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Airflow separations over wind waves and their impact on air-sea momentum flux
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Tetsu Hara($355,198), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Fabrice Veron($369,623), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Air-sea Momentum Flux, Observations And Les, Air-sea Momentum, Airflow Separation, Airflow Separationquasi-separation, Breaking Waves, Laboratory Observations, Ocean Conditions, Accurate, Based, Combined, Coupling, Dependent, Drag, Field, Modeling, Models, Occurrence, Outreach, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Public, Sea-state, Separationquasi-separation, Significantly, Surface, Turbulence, Undergraduate, Wind.

Intensification and impact of wave-breaking in river plumes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alexander Horner-Devine($592,657), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fraser River Plume, Near-surface Turbulence, River Plumes, Wave Breaking, Wave Energy, Columbia, Dynamics, Existing, Fronts, Intensify, Mixing, Nsurface, Ocean, Quantify, Salt, Vertical, Washington, Water, Wave-breaking, Wave-turbulence.

Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Shane Elipot($2,556,548), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Indian Ocean Basin, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Sea Surface Temperature, Agulhas Current, Heat Transport, South African, Wind Forcing, ASCA, Annual, Argo, Array, Atlantic, Climate, Coastal, Collected, Influence, Lead, Less, Linked, Moorings, Observations, Salinity, Satellite, Velocity, Western.

Quantifying exchange between the surfzone and a stratified inner-shelf with dye tracer experiments
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Falk Feddersen($996,802), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Observations And Model, Surfzone And Inner-shelf, San Diego, Stratified Inner-shelf, Tracer Exchange, Water Quality, Allowing, Coastal, Diffusivities, Dye, Economically, Ecosystem, Eddy, Extent, Length-scales, Local, Ocean, Region, Rip, Stratification, Students.

Theoretical studies of eddy mixing
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Glenn R Flierl($351,401), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Diffusion, Eddy, Fluxes, Models, Non-local, Processes, Stirring.

Collaborative Research: Multiscale modeling of internal tides at topographic generation sites: turbulence and wave energetics:
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sutanu Sarkar($334,861), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Alberto D Scotti($318,228), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Dissipation Rates, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Non-dimensional Parameters, Applying, Approach, Barotropic, Description, Excursion, Forcing, Generation, LES, Magnitude, Model, Nfield, Non-dimensional, Numerical, Ocean, Parameterizations, Processes, Realistic, SOMAR, Sites, Span, Spatial, Time, Turbulence, Turbulent.

A Global Geography of Internal-Wave Strain and Mixing from WOCE CTD Hydrography
Award Effective Date: 11/16/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric Kunze($638,417), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Internal-wave-driven Turbulent Mixing, Density-overturn Analysis, Fine-scale Parameterization, Global Ocean, Internal-wave-driven Turbulent, Ocean Mixing, Available, CTD, Circulation, Density-overturn, Diffusivities, Fine-scale, Found, Gcms, Hotspots, Oceanography, Overturning, Profiles, Remains, Set, Strain, Version, Vertical, Was.

Pathways to the Denmark Strait Overflow: A Lagrangian Study in the Iceland Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/24/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Marieke Femke de Jong($438,187), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Denmark Strait Overflow, Dense Water Pathways, East Greenland Current, Meridional Overturning Circulation, North Icelandic Jet, Wind Stress Curl, Float Trajectories, Iceland Sea, Sea Via, Sound Source, Array, Bergen, Conditions, Depth, Directly, Experiment, Field, Floats, Global, Institute, Limb, Marine, Norway, Observed, Sources, Tracked.

Modeling Bubbly Flows and Bubble-Mediated Gas Transfer in High Wind Conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Junhong Liang($295,974), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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.

Collaborative Research: A Lagrangian Description of Breaking Ocean Surface Waves from Laboratory Measurements and Stochastic Parameterizations.
Award Effective Date: 08/18/2014; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Juan M Restrepo($312,471), Oregon State University, Corvallis
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.

Design and Construction of Three Regional Class Research Vessels (RCRVs) --Enabling Effective and Efficient Coastal Ocean Science
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: REGIONAL RESEARCH VESSELS

1. Demian A Bailey($10,466,943), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Regional Class, Regional Vessels, Nsfs, Oregon, RCRV.

Coastal SEES Workshop
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Robert R Twilley($13,610), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Coastal Sustainability, Exchange, Meeting, Principal, Workshop.

Coastal SEES (Track 2), Collaborative: Toward Sustainable Urban Estuaries in the Anthropocene
Award Effective Date: 09/28/2014; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Tracy Quirk($324,342), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Coupled Human-natural, Ecosystem Services, Estuarine Sustainability, Sediment Transport, Socio-economic Analyses, Sustainable Management, Affect, Analysis, Decision-making, Delaware, Development, Environmental, Estuaries, Estuary, Framework, Future, Hudson-raritan, Human-natural, Hydrodynamics, Model, Modeling, Models, Morphodynamics, Natural-human, Policy, Processes, Program, Regime, Socio-economic, Students, System-scale, Trajectory, Undergraduates, Urban, Values.

Collaborative Research: Coastal SEES (Track 1): Chesapeake Bay Sustainability: Implications of changing climate and shifting management objectives
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Roy Hoagland($15,000), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Coastal Resources Management, Management And Policy, Potential Flooding Risks, Chesapeake Bay, Graduate Students, Outreach Education, Alterations, Center, Designed, Efforts, Estuarine, Feedbacks, Fisheries, Framework, Guidance, Human, Model, Modeling, Private, Products, Sustainability, Translation, VIMS, Wide.

Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance: Continued Support for a Data Center that Allows Public Access and Discoverability of Solid Earth Geoscience Data from NSF-Funded Research
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: SEES Ship Operations

1. Suzanne Carbotte($2,313,202), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Accessible And Discoverable, Geoscience Disciplines, Wide Variety, Applications, Center, Centers, Continued, Create, Cyberinfrastructure, Datasets, Essential, Federal, Free, Has, Holdings, Innovative, Integrated, Interfaces, Leader, Management, Operation, Public, Range, School, Services, Solid, Tools, Utilities.

DESCEND2: A workshop to address the future of deep sea research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: SHIP ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE

1. Peter R Girguis($99,817), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Critical, Define, Enable, Industry, Technological, Workshop.

EAGER: Advancing the future of U.S. seagoing oceanographic research through a Chief Scientist training cruise
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Evelyn J Lessard($106,005), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Global Class, Training Cruise, Training Cruises, Chief, Education, Effectively, Involves, Planning, Program, Proven, RV, Sea, Ship, Sixth, Successful, Thompson, Time, UNOLS, Utilize, Vessels.

R/V Langseth - Oceanographic Instrumentation 2015 II (Streamer)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. David S Goldberg($1,796,805), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seismic Imaging, Sercel Seal, Shared-use Instrumentation, Future, Langseth, MCS, NSF, Nsf-funded, Report, Shared-use.

2015 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. David S Goldberg($82,738), Columbia University, New York
2. Albert F Suchy($91,605), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Capabilities, Days, Langseth, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, RV, Seismic, Shared-use, Surveys, Unique, Vessel.

University of Minnesota Duluth R/V Blue Heron SSSE 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard D Ricketts($63,419), 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.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment CY15
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Jon Swallow($34,552), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Total Sailing Schedule, Rv Hugh, Shared-use Instrumentation, Coastal, Days, Delaware, NSF, Nsf-funded, Operated, Shared-use, Sharp, Vessel.

2015 SSSE for F.G. Walton Smith
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard Behn($247,200), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Rv Walton Smith, Total Sailing Schedule, Shared-use Instrumentation, South Florida, Days, Gulf, NSF, Nsf-funded, Operations, Shared-use, Upgrade, Vessel, Water, Winch.

University of Georgia Research Foundation/R/V Savannah/SSSE
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. James G Sanders($421,236), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Estuarine Environments, Rv Savannah, Shared-use Instrumentation, Coastal, Cost, Cruises, Days, Has, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Request, School, Shared-use, Vessel.

Alvins New Users Workshop
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT

1. Samuel A Soule($52,953), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Alvin Dive, Allow, Benefit, Dessc, Experience, Gain, Half-day, Mini-courses, NDSF, Objectives, Opportunity, Participants, Simulated, Training.

Phylogenetically informed curation of eukaryotic 18S rDNA
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Systematics & Biodiversity Sci

1. Matthew W Brown($16,652), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
Key terms: Curated Reference, Environmental Sequencing, Eukaryotic Tree, Existing Databases, Microbial Ecologists, Microbial Ecology, Reference Database, Reference Databases, Alignments, Animals, Challenges, Contextual, Distribution, Diverse, Diversity, Eukaryotes, Eukref, Extent, Individual, Initiative, Knowledge, Life, Lineages, Phylogenetic, Plants, Quality, Sequences, Shared, Taxonomists, Taxonomy, Trees, Workshop.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2015

Toxin expression and function by an estuarine model species in a dynamic seasonal community Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: AISL

Tracking Greenland Melt in the Ocean Using Noble Gas Fingerprints Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Support for the U. S. GEOTRACES Project Office Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Investing in the future of paleoclimate research: U.S. graduate student fellowships for the 2015-2017 Urbino Summer Schools in Paleoclimatology Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Nd isotopes and REEs in the Arctic Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Arctic GEOTRACES - Nd isotopes and REEs in the Arctic Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic section: Spatial variability of lead concentrations and isotopic compositions in the western Arctic basins Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Radium and Thorium Isotopes as Natural Geochemical Tracers in the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Calibration of a Novel Nutrient Paleoproxy in the Southern Ocean Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

OCE-RIG: Identifying the role of ocean circulation in polar climate change Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

The International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

2016 Ocean Global Change Biology Gordon Research Conference Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Can Coral Reefs in the Central Pacific Survive Ocean Warming? A 2015 El Nino Test Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Ecosystem dynamics of Western Pacific hydrothermal vent communities associated with polymetallic sulfide deposits Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Understanding the effects of acidification and hypoxia within and across generations in a coastal marine fish Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

How does intensity and frequency of environmental variability affect phytoplankton growth? Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Coral Chorus: The Role of Soundscapes in Coral Reef Larval Recruitment and Biodiversity Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Is hybridization among threatened Caribbean coral species the key to their survival or the harbinger of their extinction? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Effects of multiple stressors on Marine Phytoplankton Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Population genomics and ecotypic divergence in the most dominant lineage of marine bacteria Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Variations in symbiont diversity in octocoral across seasons and a predicted bleaching event Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A metabolic index to predict the consequences of climate change for midwater ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A metabolic index to predict the consequences of expanding oxygen minimum zones for midwater ecosystems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Lost City as an ultramafic urban center of the subseafloor, fueled by energy and carbon from the mantle Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Biogeography of a marine defensive microbial symbiont: relative importance of host defense vs. abiotic factors Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Elucidating algal host-virus dynamics in different nutrient regimes - mechanistic interactions and biogeochemical impact Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

OCE-PRF Track 1: Resolving the Advantages of Motility and Chemotaxis in Oceanic Crust Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Identifying the Role of Basin-scale Climate Variability in the Decline of Atlantic Corals Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Ecological impacts and drivers of double-stranded DNA viral communities in the global oceans Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Will climate change cause 'lazy larvae'? Effects of climate stressors on larval behavior and dispersal Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Patterns of Microbial Community Structure Within and Between Hadal Environments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Dynamic sinking behavior in diatoms: New insights from individual-based high resolution video observations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Kelp forest community resilience in action: adaptive responses of predators to a disease-driven food web perturbation Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Navigating through space in turbulence tubes: Copepod responses to Burgers' vortex Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI: Collaborative Research: What's their impact?: Quantification of medusan feeding mechanics as a tool for predicting medusan predation Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Selective feeding by mucous-net filter feeders on the ocean's smallest organisms Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantifying bivalve calcification dynamics through early life ontogeny Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Event response to an eruption at Axial Seamount Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Ecological, evolutionary and physiological responses of corals to a mass bleaching event in American Samoa Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantifying plankton dynamics in the internal tide using swarms of buoyancy-controlled robots Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Role of small-sized protists in the microbial loop with emphasis on interactions between mixotrophic protists and picocyanobacteria Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

An interdisciplinary approach to elucidating the causes of widespread mangrove die-off Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The Role of Larval Orientation Behavior in Determining Population Connectivity Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Quantifying competing loss rates of viral lysis and microzooplankton grazing on Emiliania huxleyi mortality Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms supporting persistence of a key plankton species during climate change on the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Coral-microbial interactions as determinants of disease dynamics Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Linking nearshore kelp forest dynamics to sandy beach ecosystems Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: RUI: Development and application of a method using coralline algae to reconstruct past changes in pH and impacts on calcification Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Phenotype and genotype of coral adaptation and acclimatization to global change Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The cryptic diet of the globally significant pelagic tunicate Dolioletta gegenbauri (Uljanin, 1884.) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The role of iron-oxidizing bacteria in the sedimentary iron cycle: ecological, physiological and biogeochemical implications. Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: Optimizing Recruitment of Neocalanus copepods through Strategic Timing of Reproduction and Growth in the Gulf of Alaska Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Intertidal community assembly and dynamics: Integrating broad-scale regional variation in environmental forcing and benthic-pelagic coupling Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID collaborative proposal: Will corals recover from bleaching under ocean acidification conditions? Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: Collaborative Research: surviving climate change - the role of acclimatization in reef-building corals Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RUI Collaborative Research: Spatial Realism in the Mussel Bed Disturbance Paradigm Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

RAPID: A rare opportunity to examine overcompensation resulting from intensive harvest of an introduced predator Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The role of calcifying algae as a determinant of rocky intertidal macrophyte community structure at a meta-ecosystem scale Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

A new approach to equatorial inertial instability Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Parametrizing ocean eddy transfer over continental slopes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: Impacts of evolution on the response of phytoplankton populations to rising CO2 Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: CRI-Ocean Acidification

Development and application of a high sensitivity, ultra low volume method to measure biomarkers of terrigenous organic matter in the open ocean Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Direct Oxidation of Organic Nitrogen by Marine Ammonia Oxidizing Organisms Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Supply and removal of trace elements in the subtropical South Pacific Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Proposal: Phlorotannins - An Important Source of Marine Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Time Series Particle Flux Measurements in the Sargasso Sea Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Multiple Stressors in the Estuarine Environment: What drives changes in the Carbon Dioxide system? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Redox Cycling of Phosphorus in the Western North Atlantic Ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Multi-Decadal Global Surveys of Benthic Nepheloid Layers Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Phlorotannins - An Important Source of Marine Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Measuring Ocean Productivity from the Diurnal Change in Oxygen and Carbon Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Tracking the temporal and spatial variability of dissolved organic matter, its diagenetic state and bioavailability during various bloom states in the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Preparation and Distribution of Dissolved Organic Carbon Consensus Reference Materials Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Recycling of Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon in Seawater Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Experimental Calibration of the Isotopic Content of Marine Sulfate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Inferring Marine Particle Properties from Polarized Volume Scattering Functions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Quantifying nitrogen fixation along unique geochemical gradients in the southwest Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Planktonic Sources of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Chemical Oceanography