NSF-GEO-OPP Awards for 2008

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Atmospheric Response to Daily Sea Ice Variations
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Uma S Bhatt($63,428), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Sea Ice, Atmospheric, Daily, Forcing, Monthly.

Is There Cosmogenic Radiomethane in Polar Firn?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($35,887), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cosmic Rays, CH, Firn, Ice, Methane, Oceanography, Produce, Scripps, Sources.

Collaborative Research: Controls on the motion of soft-bedded glaciers from hourly to seasonal observations of force budget and basal conditions at Breidamerkurjokull, Iceland.
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Ian M Howat($221,993), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
2. Kenichi Matsuoka($124,774), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Basal Conditions, Soft-bedded Glacier, Stress Regime, Ice, Motion, Observations, Soft-bedded.

Collaborative Research: Chemical Weathering and Organic Carbon Export From Arctic Watersheds, North Slope, AK
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Andrew D Jacobson($258,707), Northwestern University, Evanston
2. None($134,514), Department of Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Lab, Vicksburg
3. James W McClelland($264,624), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Active Layer Depth, Organic Carbon Export, Arctic Environmental, Chemical Weathering, Flow Conditions, Isotope Composition, Mineral Weathering, Organic Matter, Ratios Observed, Silicate Weathering, Carbonate, DIC, Effects, Establish, Feedback, Geochemistry, Has, Linkages, Permafrost, Processes, Rivers, Soils, Streams, Warming, Water.

Collaborative Research: TransArctic Paleoclimate of the Eocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jaelyn J Eberle($313,907), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Hope Jahren($291,454), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Roger Summons($368,250), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
4. Leonel Sternberg($260,729), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Axel Heiberg, Environmental Water, Soil Temperature, Techniques Pioneered, Analyses, Apply, Arctic, Cellulose, Eocene, Fossil, Fossils, Global, Glycerol, Island, Isotope, Organic, Principal, Quantification, Sediments, Sites, Terrestrial, Äo.

US Liaison Activity for the international ESSAS Program
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. George L Hunt($119,172), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sub-arctic Seas, Climate, Comparative, ESSAS, Ecosystem, Facilitate, Norway, Programs, Sub-arctic, Sustainability.

Observations and Modeling of Ocean - Ice Sheet Interaction in Jakobshavn and Helheim Ice Fjords, Greenland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. David M Holland($389,044), New York University, New York
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Oceanographic And Meteorological, Graduate Students, Meteorological Observations, Sea Level, Coast, Computer, Fjords, Jakobshavn, Margin.

Collaborative Research: the NEEM Deep Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. James W White($776,627), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Mary R Albert($254,987), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Edward J Brook($515,392), Oregon State University, Corvallis
4. Todd A Sowers($437,690), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
5. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($316,442), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ice Core, Analyses, Carbon, Climate, Context, Focus, Gas, Gases, NEEM, Particular.

Collaborative Research: A New Method of Observing Variability in Freshwater Discharge from Arctic and Antarctic Marine-Terminating Glaciers using Passive Acoustic Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jeffrey A Nystuen($51,223), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Shad R ONeel($28,955), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Erin C C Pettit($141,099), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Fairbanks, Boulder, Colorado, Discharges, Magnitude, Measuring, Method, Washington.

The Influence of Basal Hydrology on Glacier Sliding and Erosion
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Alan Rempel($195,799), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Glacier Sliding, Incorporation, Laboratory, Model.

Magnetic properties of Arctic sediments: implications for magnetic stratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. James E Channell($103,887), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Age, Arctic, Carriers, Control, Core, Establish, Magnetic, Magnetization, NRM, Sediments, Temperature.

Dynamics of Lake-Calving Glaciers: Yakutat Glacier, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Christopher F Larsen($570,344), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Calving, Dynamical, Glacier, Lake.

Manifestations and Consequences of a Changing Climate in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Richard A Krishfield($549,934), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Heat And Fresh-water, Beaufort Gyre, Ice Cover, Ocean Heat, Surface-layer Heat, Analysis, Climate, Dynamical, Investigate, Sea-ice, Surface-layer, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Paleoceanographic constraints on the warming Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Joseph D Ortiz($134,181), Kent State University, Kent
2. Jens F Bischof($226,606), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Climate, Conditions, Cores, Ice, Isotopes, Multi-investigator, Quaternary, Students, Warm.

Reduction of iron and humic substances as a dominant respiratory process in arctic peat soils
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Largus T Angenent($590,498), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Drained Thaw Lake, Exocellular Electron Transfer, Iron And Humic, Thaw Lake Basins, Arctic Soils, Humic Substances, Peat Soils, San Diego, Age, Carbon, Respiration, Stanford, Washington.

RUI: Controls on methanogenesis, methane oxidation, and consumer utilization of methane-derived carbon in arctic lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Stephen C Whalen($561,941), University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro
Key terms: North Carolina Greensboro, Arctic Lakes, Carbon, Methane, Oxidation.

SGER: Distribution of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean: The importance of surface water circulation patterns and retention times
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Dennis A Hansell($47,984), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Russian Arctic Shelf, Shelf And Slope, Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Gyre, Carbon Dynamics, Organic Carbon, Slope Waters, Concentrations, Cruise, DOC, PSL, Polarstern, Residence, Soils, Time.

After the Melt: an international conference on the ecology of arctic climate change
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Eric S Post($10,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Arctic, Climate, Conference, Ecological, Effects, Polar, Students.

Collaborative Reasearch: BEST - A service proposal to examine impacts of sea-ice on the distribution of chlorophyll-a over the eastern Bering Sea shelf
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Rolf E Sonnerup($128,789), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Terry E Whitledge($117,689), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Cruise, Service, Shelf, Spring, Summer.

Bering Ecosystem Study Data Management Support
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Gregory Stossmeister($608,758), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Bering Sea, Field Catalog, Access, Accessibility, Archive, BSIERP, Collection, Cruise, Datasets, Ecosystem, Integrated, Long-term, Management, Managers, Pis, Services.

BEST: Benthic Ecosystem Response to Changing Ice Cover in the Bering Sea
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Lee W Cooper($628,214), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Bering Sea Ecosystem, Northern Bering Sea, Organic Carbon, Benthic, Climate, Food, Indicators, Inventories, Radionuclides, Region, Sediment.

Is Glacier Wastage Accelerating in Northwestern North America?
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Christopher F Larsen($1,083,118), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Mean Sea Level, Rising Mean Sea, Rising Sea Level, Glacier Profiling, Glacier Wastage, Northwestern North, Accurate, Analysis, Climate, Coastal, Consequence, Continue, Continuing, Contribution, Coverage, Elevation, Estimates, Glaciers, Has, Program, Public, Rate, Regional, Updated.

Collaborative Research: Aboveground and Belowground Community Responses to Climate Change in Arctic Tundra
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2004; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. James P Grover($152,149), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Arctic Tundra, Increased Soil, Trophic Levels, Biomass, Carbon, Current, Cycling, Dramatic, Ecosystem, Existing, Increases, Models, NPP, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Plant, Respond.

Science Coordination Office for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica - Phase 2
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Albrecht Karle($1,379,031), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: South Pole, SCOARA, Shared.

Collaborative Research: BICEP2 and SPUD - A Search for Inflation with Degree-Scale Polarimetry from the South Pole
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Clement L Pryke($874,342), University of Chicago, Chicago
2. John M Kovac($1,259,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: California Institute, Gravitational Waves, Mapping Speed, Task Force, B-mode, BICEP, Background, CGB, CMB, Cosmic, Cosmology, DASI, Designed, Detection, Galactic, Ghz, Inflation, Polarimeter, Public, Radiation, Reach, SPUD, Search, Sensitivity, South, Space, Telescope.

Collaborative Research: Analysis of Data from the QUaD Experiment
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Sarah E Church($70,000), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Clement L Pryke($69,998), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Analysis, Angular, CMB, Complete, Effects, Experiments, Fluctuations, Observational, Polarization, Quad, Season.

An Antarctic-Specific, New Generation Precipitation Model
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Patrick T Newell($273,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Northern And Southern, Southern Polar Cap, Auroral Images, Auroral Power, Global Auroral, Precipitation Model, Binning, Decades, Developing, Has, Ionospheric, Models, Operational, Precipitating, Satellite, Solar, Space, UV, Was.

Antarctica in Black and White
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Scott Sternbach($1), CUNY Laguardia Community College, Long Island City
Key terms: Antarctic, Antarctica, Artist, Audience, Black, Public, Reached, Scott, Students, Underrepresented, Urban, White, York.

"Seeing" Dark Energy from the South Pole
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Richard Panek($1), Panek Richard, New York
Key terms: South Pole Telescope, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Antarctica, Author, Book, Component, Nature, Readers, Richard, SPT, Success, View.

The Art of Recycling in Antarctica : The Long View
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Michael Bartalos($1), Bartalos Michael, San Francisco
Key terms: Mcmurdo And South, South Pole Stations, Recycling Program, Sculptural Book, Antarctic, Antarctica, Art, Artist, Environmental, Inspire, Michael, Worldwide.

Shifting Baselines: Antarctica - Embodying the Antarctic Experience and Envisioning Climate change through Multi-media Installations, Artist's Books, Web Projects and Education
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Judit Hersko($1), California State University San Marcos Corporation, San Marcos
Key terms: Shifting Baselines Antarctica, Biological Oceanographer, Art, Artist, Artistic, Classroom, Experiences, Human, Initiative, Installation, Installations, Judit, Landscape, Larger, Ms, Viewers.

ANTARCTICA: White Lantern
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Anne Noble($1), Massey University, Palmerston North
Key terms: Atmospheric Phenomena, White Lantern, Adopting, Anne, Antarctic, Antarctica, Artist, Book, Comprised, Has, Knowledge, Venues, Visual.

Ice Fractures; A Study of Ice Shelves and Ice Sheets
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Oona Stern($1), Stern, Oona, Ny
Key terms: Shelves And Ice, Ice Shelves, Antarctic, Artists, Characteristics, Climate, Communicate, Conditions, Environmental, Fractures, Installations, Involves, Oona, Public, Structure.

Collaborative Research: High Precision U-Pb Geochronology of the Jurassic Ferrar Large Igneous Province, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Thomas H Fleming($60,392), Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven
2. Samuel A Bowring($199,872), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. David H Elliot($68,999), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Caused, Extinction, Ferrar, Intrusions, Undergraduate.

SGER:Exploratory Research on the Timing of Early Paleozoic Orogenesis along Gonwana's Paleo-Pacific Margin, Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Timothy Paulsen($18,024), University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh
Key terms: Rock Units, Analyses, Caused, Deformation, Geodynamic, Insight, Processes, Sedimentary, Time.

Collaborative Research: Thermochronologic and modelling test for a Mesozoic West Antarctic Plateau
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Audrey D Huerta($114,616), Occidental College, Los Angeles
2. Audrey D Huerta($176,588), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Byrd Glacier, Ice Sheet, Numerical Modeling, Models, Plateau, TAM, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Linking Modern Benthic Communities and Taphonomic Processes to the Stratigraphic Record of Antarctic Cores
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Samuel S Bowser($160,268), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
2. David J Furbish($115,529), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
3. Sally E Walker($120,213), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Global Climate, Antarcticas, Organisms, Outreach, Preservation, Trail, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Microbially Mediated Alteration of Volcanic Glass using McMurdo Extreme Environments as Natural Laboratories
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Bradley M Tebo($166,998), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
2. Laurie B Connell($250,317), University of Maine, Orono
3. Hubertus Staudigel($202,418), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Volcanic Glass, Microbial, Processes.

Submarine and On-Land Volcanism in the West Antarctic Rift System: A Petrologic and Geochemical Study to Assess Melting Processes and Eruption History
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Samuel B Mukasa($221,796), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Mantle, Processes.

Collaborative Research: The Sedimentary Record of Tidewater Glacier Response to Holocene Climate Variability in the Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. John B Anderson($245,980), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Julia S Wellner($242,278), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Sediment Cores, Climate, Collaboration, Global, Ice, Ice-shelf, Undergraduate.

New Paleomagnetic and Environmental Magnetic Studies of Old Cores from the Ross Sea Sector, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Kenneth L Verosub($160,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Global Climate, Ice Sheets, Antarcticas, Behavior, Cores.

Landform Evolution in the Dry Valleys and its implications for Miocene-Pliocene Climate Change in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($207,720), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Features.

The United States Polar Rock Repository: A Geological Resource for Earth Science Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Anne M Grunow($574,841), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Facility, Geologic, Polar, USPRR, Via.

Seismic Stratigraphic Correlations Across Ross Sea for ROSSMAP: Paleoclimate and Tectonics
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Christopher C Sorlien($62,050), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: West Antarctic, Largest, Participation, Region, Ross, WAIS.

Collaborative Research: SGER: Triple-dating (Pb-FT-He) of Antarctic Detritus and the Origin of the Gamburtsev Mountains
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Peter W Reiners($20,050), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Stuart N Thomson($21,443), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Formation, Ice, Mountain.

Collaborative Research: Calculation of Antarctic Gravity Field from GRACE Satellite Data and Comparison with Independent Measurements
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Isabella Velicogna($57,135), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Continent-wide Subglacial Topography, Geoid And Derived, Antarctic Continent, Continent-wide Subglacial, Free-air Gravity, Geological Features, Grace-derived Gravity, Gravity Field, Spatial Resolution, Airborne, Approach, Arctic, Available, Curve, Entire, Estimate, Estimates, Free-air, Grace-derived, Map, Marine, Modeling, Plate, Process, Range, Range-rate, Region, Require, Satellite, Surveys, Tectonic, Volume, World.

Collaborative: IPY:GAMBIT: Gamburtserv Aerogeophysical Mapping of Bedrock and Ice Targets
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Malcolm LeCompte($142,417), Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City
Key terms: East Antarctica, Ice Sheets, Crust, Focus, GSM, International, Range.

Collaborative Study: Re-evaluation of the Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) and Tasmania (Australia)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2007; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Margaret L Fraiser($17,980), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Climate, Deposits, Greenhouse, Icehouse.

Subglacial Lakes and the Onset of Ice Streaming: Recovery Lakes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Michael Studinger($326,280), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Accelerated Ice Flow, Basal Thermal Gradient, Produce Accelerated Ice, Recovery Ice Stream, Recovery Lakes Region, Subglacial Lakes Trigger, Basal Melting, East Antarctica, Ice Sheet, Ice Streams, Lake Water, Satellite Imagery, Surface Slope, Abrupt, Advance, Analysis, Coincident, Downslope, Drainage, Enable, Evidence, Largest, Onset, Programs, Stability, Streaming, Time.

Collaborative Research: Molecular Level Characterization of Organic Matter in Ice Cores using high-resolution FTICR mass spectrometry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Amanda M Grannas($178,971), Villanova University, Villanova
2. Patrick G Hatcher($266,120), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Ice Core, Ice Cores, Organic Matter, Analysis, Analytical, Atmospheric, Collaborative, Developing, Expertise, Level, Mass, Method, Molecular, Nature, Relatively, Resolution, Students, Technique.

Advanced Microstructural Characterization of Polar Ice Cores
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Ian Baker($403,252), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Polar Ice Cores, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Broader Impacts, Confocal Scanning, Raman Spectroscopy, Characterize, Concentrations, Coupled, Depthage, Gases, Grain, Impurities, Information, Ion, Knowledge, Microstructural, Optical, Performed, Soluble, Student.

IPY: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Konrad Steffen($356,408), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic Peninsula, Ice Shelf, Activities, Analysis, Antarctica, Break, Climate, Collection, Firn, Glaciological, Larsen, Live, Remote, Taking, Water, Weather.

MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled-sector Field Mass Spectrometer to Extract Atmospheric Trace Element Histories from Ice Cores and Assess Contemporary Water Quality
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Paolo Gabrielli($337,250), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Ice Cores, Activities, Anthropogenic, Atmospheric, Circulation, Contemporary, ICP-SFMS, Mass, Past, Trace, Training, Water.

Climatology, Meteorology, and Microbial Metabolism in Ice with Dust Loggers and Fluorimetry
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. P. Buford Price($448,036), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Wais Divide Borehole, Abrupt Climate, Ash Layers, Dust Concentration, Dust Logger, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Scanning Fluorimeters, Chemical, Depth, Discovery, Exploit, Flux, Intervals, Meteorology, Microbes, Microbial, Portions, Ranging, Rare, Volcanic.

Dust Logging at Dome C for Abrupt Climate Changes, Large Volcanic Eruptions and Bolide Impacts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Ryan Bay($248,600), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Explosive Fallout, Antarctica, Ash, Borehole, Core, Cycles, Dust, Layers, Logger, Logging, Resolution, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Methane Isotopes, Hydrocarbons, and other Trace Gases in South Pole Firn Air
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Todd A Sowers($134,167), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Eric S Saltzman($226,220), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Light Non-methane Hydrocarbons, Atmospheric Histories, Firn Air, Light Non-methane, Non-methane Hydrocarbons, South Pole, Trace Gases, Activity, Antarctica, Assessment, Climate, Contribute.

ITASE Synthesis Workshop
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Paul A Mayewski($35,000), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Ice Core, Past 200-1000, Antarctic, Antarctica, Basis, Climate, Efforts, ITASE, International, SCAR, Workshop.

An Investigation into the Seismic Signatures Generated by Iceberg Calving and Rifting
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Helen A Fricker($348,381), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Ice Sheet, Iceberg Calving, Analyses, Collaborations, Global, Increased, Presentations, Previously, Process, Processes, Seismic, Seismology, Waveform.

Transient and Rapid Glacial Motions, including Glacial Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. James R Rice($203,793), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Force Balance, Ice Sheets, Ice Stream, Outlet Glaciers, Antarctica, Discovered, Dynamics, Earthquakes, Flow, Glacial, Has, Mode, Paradigm, Physics, Shorter, Timescale.

Collaborative Research: Ice-flow history of the Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Donald D Blankenship($364,058), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Howard B Conway($225,087), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Amundsen Sea Drainage, Grounding Line Retreat, Flow History, Ice Flow, Thwaites Glacier, Aid, Antarctica, Bed, Catania, Existing, Focus, Future, Glaciological, Has, Internal, Plans, Radar, Region, Regions, Subglacial.

SGER:An Iceberg-Relative Navigation System: Feasibility Demonstration
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. David W Caress($139,367), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Ice Surface, Submerged Ice, AUV, Auvs, Capability, Icebergs, Maps, Navigation, Position, Sites, Surfaces, Under-ice, With-respect-to.

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change: The WAIS Divide Ice Core Record
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edward J Brook($708,341), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Cycle, Greenhouse Gas, Ice Core, Time Scales, Abrupt, Climate, Courses, Directly, Future, Has, Humans, Models, Training, Undergraduate.

Modeling the Dynamics of Surface-slope Reversals and their Role in the Formation and Stability of Subglacial Lakes
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2007; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Todd K Dupont($149,748), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Ice-air Surface Slope, Ice Streams, Ice-air Surface, Outburst Floods, Slope Reversals, Subglacial Lakes, Subglacial Water, Activity, Dynamics, Ice-streamice-shelf, Parameters, Stability.

Collaborative Project: Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Charles R Bentley($357,503), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Mary R Albert($1,555,628), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Mark S Twickler($902,142), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Drilling Technology, Ice Core, Ice Coring, Ice Drilling, Information Exchange, Climate, Closely, Development, Discoveries, Dissemination, Efforts, Generation, IDDOG, International, Knowledge, Led, Nurture, Planning, SDSO, Students.

Bio-Physical Variability in Regions of the Southern Ocean with Contrasting Climatic Response - The Eastern Amundsen & Ross Seas
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Xiaojun Yuan($300,699), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Amundsen And Ross, Circumpolar Deep Water, Antarctic Dipole, Hydrographic Lines, Hydrographic Surveys, Nutrient Cycling, Ross Seas, Southern Ocean, Anomalies, Biogeochemical, Climate, Connections, Cross-shelf, Cruise, Global, Has, Ice, Influence, Low, Marine, Observations, Oden, Phosphorus, Program, Ratios, Shelves, Unusual, Waters.

IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Donald D Blankenship($799,904), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, East Antarctica, Ice Sheet, Subglacial Lakes, Basins, Climate, Extensive, Geologic, Largest, Unknown.

Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach -- Cryosphere and Oceans
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Erin C C Pettit($268,566), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Antarctic Peninsula, Ice Shelf, Climate, Educating, Engaging, Glacial, High-resolution, IPY, Integrated, Interactions, Interdisciplinary, International, Larsen, Marine, Monitoring, Outflow, Polar, Program, Public, Rapid, Sites, Water.

Ocean Surfaces on Snowball Earth
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Stephen G Warren($956,261), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Climate Models, Ice Surfaces, Salt Encrusted, Sea Ice, Time Period, Albedos, Conditions, Evolution, Extreme, Field, Laboratory, Light, Million, Modelers, Observations, Ocean, Polar, Program, Refugia, Scenario, Sea-ice, Snowball.

Deciphering the Antarctic MSA-sea Ice Link with a Combined Regional Forecast and Atmospheric Chemistry Model
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Becky Alexander($375,422), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Sea Ice, Marine Phytoplankton Ecology, Msa And Nss, Nss Sulfate Levels, Phytoplankton And Sea, Sea Ice Algae, Sea Ice Conditions, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry Model, Dms Emissions, Global Climate, Ice Cores, Sulfur Dioxide, Acid, Available, Center, Chemical, Collaboration, Compared, Deposited, Experts, Factors, Input, Interdisciplinary, International, Modeling, Ocean, Pacific, Polar, Regional, Student, Transport, Uncertainties.

SGER:Humidity and Ice Supersaturation Observations at South Pole Station
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. R. Paul Lawson($55,667), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Nucleation And Ice, Cirrus Clouds, Field Campaign, Ice Cloud, Ice Nucleation, Radiative Forcing, Accessible, Additional, Altitude, Atmosphere, Climate, Humidity, Meets, Microphysics, Opportunity, Properties, SGER, Set, Unique.

SGER: Collaborative Research - Mechanisms behind non-Redfieldian P Cycling in Water Masses of the Southern Ocean, New Insights from X-ray Spectromicroscopy and Electrodialysis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Ellery D Ingall($96,699), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Jay Brandes($47,549), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah
Key terms: Amundsen And Ross, Ib Oden, Punta Arenas, Southern Ocean, Aspects, Bellingshausen, Ice, Latitude, Mcmurdo, Redfield, Water.

Collaborative Research: Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polynya
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Richard I Cullather($474,500), Columbia University, New York
2. John J Cassano($1,092,677), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sea Ice, Antarctic, Continent, Date, Ocean, Platforms, Polynya, Polynyas, Strong, UAS, Waters, Wind.

Continued Development of the AMBS as an Integrated Online Resource for Marine and Geophysical Data from the Antarctic Region
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Suzanne Carbotte($1,148,263), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Multibeam Bathymetry, AMBS, Antarctic, Dissemination, Geophysical, USAP.

The Weddell Upper Ocean: Analysis, Synthesis, and Modeling of ISPOL and MaudNESS Results
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Miles G McPhee($133,271), McPhee Research Company, Naches
Key terms: Heat And Salt, Maud Rise, Sea Ice, Upper Ocean, Weddell Sea, Balance, Mixing, Sought.

Collaborative Research: Sampling the Ocean - Sea Ice Interaction in the Pacific Center of the Antarctic Dipole
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Xiaojun Yuan($899,997), Columbia University, New York
2. Janet Sprintall($373,247), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Eastern Ross Sea, Ross Sea Gyre, Sea Ice, Upper Ocean, ADP, Anomalies, Climate, Deployment, Interannual, Moorings, Pacific, Southern, Weddell.

SGER: Direct Cross-Slope Ventilation of the ACC at the Western Scotia Ridge
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Alejandro Orsi($199,996), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Robin D Muench($49,806), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Bottom Water, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Rv Puerto Deseado, Shelf Slope Interactions, Diapycnal Mixing, Direct Ventilation, Global Climate, Ocean Circulation, Scotia Ridge, Weddell Sea, AABW, ACC, Acoustic, Argentine, Broader, Committee, Contribution, Cruise, Deep, Dense, Efforts, Formation, Hydrographic, IPY, Indirect, Information, International, Mechanism, Pertain, Program, Rates, Region, Regional, SASSI, SGER, Spanish, Topography, UK.

Data & Information Management Services for the U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean Program
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Robert C Groman($232,304), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Ocean Ecosystem, Southern Ocean Globec, Globec Program, Globec Synthesis, Management Office, Synthesis Phase, Access, Antarctic, Available, Continue, Core, Developed, Directory, Distributed, Efforts, Ensure, Has, Marine, Metadata, Observations, Pan-regional, Programs, Quality, Service, Web.

Quasi-Lagrangian Measurements of Polar Stratospheric Cloud Particle Development from Long-duration Balloon Platforms
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Jennifer L Mercer($381,557), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Super Pressure Balloon, Balloon Platforms, Cloud Particle, Particle Sensors, Polar Stratospheric, Psc Particles, Aerosols, Antarctic, Atmospheric, Based, CONCORDIASI, Conditions, Formation, French, Has, IPY, Insight, Liquid, NAT, Ozone, Program, Satellite, Supported, Various.

SGER: Assessing Genetic Mechanisms of DNA Repair in Ancient Ice Microbes through Analytical Flow Cytometry, High-Speed Cell Sorting, and Single Cell Genomics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Kay D Bidle($194,608), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Analytical Flow Cytometry, Ancient Ice Microbes, Dna Repair Mechanisms, Cell Sorting, Analyses, Bacteria, Cosmic, Effective, Function, Genes, Genetic, High-speed, Myr, Obtain, Possess, Students, Subpopulations, Techniques, Time, Viable.

Group Travel Award: Xth SCAR International Biology Symposium
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Deneb Karentz($15,000), University of San Francisco, San Francisco
Key terms: International Biology Symposium, Scar International Biology, Antarctic, Development, Establish, Experience, Opportunity, Polar, Students, Travel.

The Third GLOBEC Open Science Meeting: Support and Facilitation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Eileen E Hofmann($20,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Activities, Climate, GLOBEC, Integration, International, Marine, OSM, Synthesis, Workshops.

SGER: Foraging Patterns of Elephant Seals in the Vicinity of the WIlkins Ice Shelf
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Michael E Goebel($61,856), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Behavior And Habitat, Ctd Profiles, Elephant Seals, Foraging Behavior, Habitat Utilization, Ice Shelf, Marine Mammals, Collected, Extend, Oceanographic, WIS.

Collaborative Research: The Ecological Role of a Poorly Studied Antarctic Krill Predator: The Humpback Whale, Megaptera Novaeangliae
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Douglas P Nowacek($548,521), Duke University, Durham
2. Peter L Tyack($194,006), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Meng Zhou($331,498), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Baleen Whales, Krill Predators, Affect, Antarctic, Availability, Behavior, Ecology, Humpback, Integral, Integrate, Knowledge, Models, Prey, Technology.

SGER: Environmental Genomics of Salpa Thompsoni in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Ann C Bucklin($53,933), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Bloom-forming Antarctic Salp, Gelatinous Bloom-forming Antarctic, Ocean Pelagic Ecosystem, Southern Ocean Pelagic, Bloom-forming Antarctic, Environmental Conditions, Gelatinous Bloom-forming, Life History, Molecular Genetic, Salpa Thompsoni, Applied, Approaches, Genomic, Increasingly, Population, Salps, Species.

Collaborative Research: Controls on climate-active gases by Amundsen Sea ice biota
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Patricia L Yager($191,543), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Walker O Smith($125,733), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Mark R Dennett($142,704), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Sea Ice Biota, Climate-active Gases, Activities, Atmosphere, Carbon, Climate-active, Extent, Fluxes, Organohalogens, Productivity, Sea-ice, Source, Structure, Swedish.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of Cyanobacterial Mats and Hyporheic Zone Microbes in McMurdo Dry Valley glacial meltwater streams
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Douglas G Capone($374,926), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Edward J Carpenter($399,998), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
3. Stephen C Cary($335,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Glacial Streams, Organic Carbon, Dry, Ecology, Educational, Experimental, Fixed, Hyporheic, Mat, Mats, Microbial, Microbiota, Miers, Molecular, Nitrogen, Phylogenetic, Programs, Soil, Soils, Students, Underlying, Valley, Valleys, Zone.

Collaborative research: Possible climate-induced change in the distribution of Pleuragramma antarcticum on the Western Antarctic Peninsula shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Joseph J Torres($412,023), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Julian Ashford($203,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. William R Fraser($284,095), Polar Oceans Research Group, Sheridan
Key terms: Adélie Penguins, Local Schools, Sea Ice, Antarctic, Coastal, Diet, Diets, Food, Larvae, Molecular, Otolith, Pleuragramma, Predators, Shelf, Silverfish, Spring, WAP.

Collaborative Research: Microbially Mediated Anaerobic Carbon Cycling in Limnologically Contrasting Perennially Ice-Covered Antarctic Lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Michael T Madigan($255,522), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
2. Samantha B Joye($564,628), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Waters And Sediments, Bottom Waters, Sulfate Reduction, Web Site, AOM, Anaerobic, Anoxic, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Cycling, Dry, FRX, LTER, Lakes, MCM, Mechanism, Metabolism, Methanogenesis, Microbial, Microbiology, Perennially, Pis, Polar, Processes, Students, VAN, Vanda.

Collaborative Research: Hunting in Darkness: Behavioral and Energetic Strategies of Weddell Seals in Winter
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Randall W Davis($451,338), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Terrie M Williams($315,044), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Lee A Fuiman($353,311), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Ambient Light, Energetic Costs, Swimming Performance, Weddell Seals, Capture, Coverage, Dives, Energetics, Foraging, Ice, Prey, Public, School, Sensory, Strategies, Students, Video, Winter.

Stable Isotope Analyses of Pygoscelid Penguin remains from Active and Abandoned Colonies in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Steven D Emslie($520,323), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Stable Isotope, Undergraduate Students, Abandoned, Analyses, Antarctica, Climate, Colonies, Diet, Examine, Field, Movement, Penguin, Penguins, Population, Remains.

Biogeography and Evolution of Chemosynthetic Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Chris German($395,195), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemosynthetic Ecosystems, Southern Ocean, Colonization, Contribute, Driven, Evolution, Fauna, Hydrothermal, Indian, Locate, Pis, Program, Ridge, UK.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Multispecies, Multiscale Investigations of Longterm Changes in Penguin and Seabird Populations on the Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Ron Naveen($300,091), Oceanites, Inc., Washington
2. Heather Lynch($374,018), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Penguin And Seabird, Antarctic Peninsula, Seabird Populations, Activities, Analyses, Characterize, Database, Datasets, Factors, Human, Intensity, Long-term, Monitoring, Parties, Polar, Regions, Sites, Spatial, Species, Tourism, Treaty.

Metabolic Activities and Gene Expression of Marine Psychrophiles in Cold Ice
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Karen Junge($525,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Gene Expression, Low Temperatures, Metabolic Activities, Activity, Bacteria, Cells, Conditions, Ecology, Eutectic, Ice, Mechanisms, Polar, Processes, Psychrophilic, Survival.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Effects of Iron and Light on the Growth of Diatoms from the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Giacomo R DiTullio($288,247), College of Charleston, Charleston
2. Peter N Sedwick($280,429), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Iron And Irradiance, Southern Ross Sea, Growth Rates, Iron Requirement, Laboratory Experiments, Phaeocystis Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Uv-b Exposure, Algal, Bermuda, Colonial, Composition, Diatoms, Function, K-, Models, Numerical, Phytoplankton, Relative, Species, Students, UV-B.

The Role of Resource Legacy on Contemporary Linkages Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Andrew G Fountain($2,030,854), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Aquatic And Terrestrial, Dry Valleys Ecosystems, Ice-covered Lakes, Activities, Antarctica, Biodiversity, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Climate, Components, Conditions, Environmental, Ice-covered, Influence, LTER, Landscape, Legacy, MCM, Mcmurdo, Processes, Respond, Site, Stage, Streams, Transport.

SGER: Recent Changes of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Germar H Bernhard($64,111), Biospherical Instruments Inc, San Diego
Key terms: Uv And Visible, Visible Solar Irradiance, Acquisition, Arctic, Barrow, Calibrated, Continued, Network, Observations, Summit, Ultraviolet.

Science Plan and Workshop Support for Bering Strait Environmental Observations
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Lee W Cooper($48,827), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Bering Strait Environmental, Strait Environmental Observing, Arctic Ocean, Pacific Water.

Collaborative Research. IPY: Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. James W McClelland($190,690), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Bruce J Peterson($653,314), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
3. Robert M Holmes($369,223), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
4. Peter Raymond($331,366), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Sites Established, Arctic-gro, Assess, Coastal, Component, Constituents, Continent, Environmental, Fluxes, IPY, Link, Observatory, River, Rivers, Sampling, Students.

IPY, Collaborative Research: Dynamic controls on tide-water glacier retreat
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Howard B Conway($117,217), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bering Strait Throughflow, Oceanic Fluxes, Climate, Mooring, Processes, Properties.

Collaborative Research: IPY: Dynamic Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Ian M Howat($615,449), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Global Sea Level, Sea Level Rise, Search Implementation Plan, Climate Forcing, Columbia Glacier, Forward Modeling, Outlet Glaciers, Rapidly Retreating, Affect, Collaboration, Contribution, Dynamic, Dynamics, GLACIODYN, Has, Ice, Largest, Local, Merit, NSIDC, Observations, Ocean, Outreach, Photogrammetry, Poorly, Principal, Strongly, TWG, Terrestrial, Twgs, Volume, Washington.

SGER: Surface and Boundary-Layer Profiling during OASIS using the CU Tethered Balloon Platform
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Detlev Helmig($98,554), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Vertical Profile, Atmospheric, Balloon, Barrow, Chemical, Experiment, Field, Inlets, Meteorological, NMHC, Nox, OASIS, Ozone, PAN, Polar, Profiles, Site, Surface, Tethered.

Provision of Ice Drilling Design and Operation Group (IDDOG)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Charles R Bentley($14,800,927), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Coring And Drilling, Glaciological And Climatic, Broader Impacts, Drilling Activities, Drilling Technology, Ice Core, Ice Coring, Ice Drilling, Ice Sheets, Iddog Activities, Wais Divide, Activity, Climate, Continue, Drillers, Drills, Equipment, Exchange, Extensive, Future, ICDS, Information, International, NSF, Office, Oversight, Paleoclimatological, Polar, Resides, SDSO, Website.

Establish NSF number for Support Argreement for FB2507-04183-0105
Award Effective Date: 08/20/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Dennis O'Connell($1,207,222), 821 AIR BASE GROUP, Apo
Key terms: Air, Arctic, Greenland.

Senior Scientist Support in Barrow Region
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Steven J Hastings($187,576), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Arctic, BASC, Barrow, Has, Logistics, NSF, Position, Resource, Senior, Staff.

Geoelectric Array Measurements of Sea Ice Porosity for Scientific and Operational In-situ Ice Property Assessments
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Hajo Eicken($31,627), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Drifting Sensor Networks, Ice Profile Properties, Brine Volume, Geoelectric Array, Ice Cover, Ice Strength, Sea Ice, Alaska, Assess, Benefits, Collaboration, Connectivity, Derived, Evolution, Field, Gap, Logistics, Methods, Monitoring, Percolation, Resistivity, Site, Situ, Solid-earth, Substantial, Transport.

The Antarctic Geospatial Information Center: Collecting, Creating, Delivering and Archiving for the Community
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2007; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Thomas M Mcculloch($1,613,813), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Geospatial Information, AGIC, Antarctica, Archive, Center, Images.

Modeling patch-scale expansion of arctic shrubs
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. David M Cairns($337,268), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Shrub Cover, Approach, Arctic, Colville, Controls, Establishment, Expansion, Explicitly, Future, Growth, Level, Model, Modeling, Patch, Plot, Processes, Repeat, Shrubs, Simple, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Spatial and Temporal Influences of Thermokarst Features on Surface Processes in Arctic Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Michael N Gooseff($415,605), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. William B Bowden($1,073,210), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
3. Joshua P Schimel($254,239), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
4. Elena B Sparrow($1,444,296), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
5. Edward B Rastetter($116,158), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
6. Benjamin T Crosby($251,570), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Structure And Function, Increased Precipitation, Thermokarst Failures, Trace Gas, Arctic, Climate, Distribution, Dynamics, Ecology, Future, Hillslope, Landscape, Nutrients, Quantify, Soil, Summaries, Vegetation, Warming.

Collaborative Research: AOMIP: Synthesis and integration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Christopher Hill($88,356), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Mark A Johnson($89,985), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Jinlun Zhang($150,000), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Wieslaw Maslowski($90,000), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
5. Changsheng Chen($90,000), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
6. Eric P Chassignet($90,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
7. David M Holland($95,660), New York University, New York
8. Andrey Proshutinsky($579,394), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Ocean Models, Sea Ice, AOMIP, Climate, Collaboration, Coordinated, Coupled, Focus, Improvements, Investigate, Mechanisms, Sea-ice, Synthesis.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Spatial and Temporal Influences of Thermokarst Features
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. George W Kling($335,981), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Structure And Function, Increased Precipitation, Thermokarst Failures, Trace Gas, Arctic, Climate, Distribution, Dynamics, Ecology, Future, Hillslope, Landscape, Nutrients, Quantify, Soil, Summaries, Vegetation, Warming.

Hydrologic Responses to a Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Cover
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Elizabeth N Cassano($594,932), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Autumn And Winter, Extent And Concentration, Greenland Ice Sheet, Observed Sea Ice, Sea Ice Conditions, Terrestrial Snow Cover, Annual Cycle, Arctic Ocean, Ice Extent, Net Precipitation, Water Vapor, Altered, Circulation, Convergence, Fluxes, Heat, Invoke, Loss, Prescribed, Simulations, Surface, Temperature, Vertical.

Canopy Structure and CO2 Exchange of Arctic Vegetation: Key Constraints on Change and Predictability of the Arctic System
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Gaius R Shaver($997,872), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arctic Region, Co2 Fluxes, Ecosystem Respiration, Entire Arctic, Unit Leaf, Vegetation Function, Air, Allocation, Canopy, Components, Content, GPP, Modeling, NEE, Properties, RA, RH, Site, Soil, Temperature, Variables.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Microbial Food Webs in Carbon Fluxes and Shelf-Basin Exchange in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Matthew T Cottrell($266,139), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Microbial Activity, Microbial Loop, Organic Carbon, Western Arctic, Analyzed, Decoupling, Degradation, Ecosystem, Examine, Export, Fluxes, Food, Has, Indicate, Issues, Marine, Microbes, Oceans, Primary, Program, Programs, Rates, Regions, SBI, Spatial, Synthesis, Temporal, Transport.

International Collaboration to Achieve Circumpolar Synthesis and Integration
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Larry D Hinzman($7,309,483), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic, Broader, IARC, International, Knowledge.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Charles J Vorosmarty($211,628), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Arctic Hydrologic Cycle, Arctic Climate, Arctic Freshwater, Arctic Land, Fwi Projects, Global Climate, Global Ocean, Medium Complexity, Terrestrial Hydrologic, ARCSS, Activity, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Broader, Contributed, Coupled, Extent, Feedbacks, Has, Implications, Issues, Land-atmosphere, Limited, Model, Observed, Processes, Region, Synthesis, Via.

Arctic-CHAMP Project Office: The Arctic Community-Wide Hydrological Analysis and Monitoring Program
Award Effective Date: 06/30/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Charles J Vorosmarty($460,043), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Arctic Freshwater, Fwi Synthesis, Management Office, ARCSS, Activities, Arctic-champ, Coordination, Cycle, Dynamics, Function, Global, II, IPY, Integration, Maximum, Ongoing, Participants, Recently, SEARCH, SMO.

Collaborative Research. IPY: Observation and Modeling of Tundra Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Robert M Holmes($796,041), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
2. Richard G Pearson($145,320), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Natural History, Climate, Future, Investigate, Museum, Productivity, Tundra.

Activities of the Polar Research Board
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Chris Elfring($685,801), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Activities, Antarctic, Arctic, Committee, Discussion, Independent, International, Objective, PRB, Polar.

United States Representation in the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Jacqueline M Grebmeier($89,874), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: National Academies, Arctic, Delegate, IASC, International, Organization, Representation.

Polar Sea-Ice Information Needs: Interdisciplinary Training, Outreach and IPY Legacy Products Through a Sea-Ice System Services Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Hajo Eicken($49,946), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Sea Ice, Coastal, Concept, Course, Field, Indigenous, Legacy, Marine, Methods, Multimedia, Oil, Outreach, Product, Range, Reference, Sea-ice, Serve, Services, State-of-the-art, Unifying, Users.

Zero Emissions Snowmobile Competition Support
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Jay S Meldrum($32,640), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Competition, Michigan, Students, Vehicles.

Collaborative Research: NYC International Polar Weekend 2008-2009
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Stephanie L Pfirman($40,218), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Visitors And Presenters, Polar Regions, Diverse, Families, Global, Main, People, Presentations, Program, Public, School, Schools, Symposia, York.

Collaborative Research:Workshop NYC International Polar Weekend 2008-2009
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Roberto Borrero($34,410), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Visitors And Presenters, Polar Regions, Diverse, Families, Global, Main, People, Presentations, Program, Public, Schools, Symposia, York.

Stable and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of the Nuvuk Mortuary Assemblage, Point Barrow, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Joan B Coltrain($134,246), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Eastern Arctic, Isotope Analysis, Nuvuk Cemetery, AMS, Alaska, Barrow, Control, Dating, Establish, Genetic, Prehistoric, Stable, Temporal.

SGER: Human Responses to Changing Climate in Alaska and Nepal: Comparisons between High Latitudes and High Altitudes
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Henry P Huntington($39,929), Huntington Consulting, Eagle River
Key terms: Alaska, Climate, Comparative, Environmental, Exploratory, Glaciers, Global, Nepal.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Successful Aging through the eyes of Alaska Natives
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Gerald V Mohatt($19,989), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Native, Alaska Natives, Aging, Copi, Elderly, Has, Lewis, Means, Potential, Public, Residents.

SGER: Understanding Social Impacts of High-Stakes Litigation Resolution in a Renewable Resource Community
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Duane A Gill($50,039), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
Key terms: Exxon Valdez, Punitive Damages, Semi-structured Interviews, Social Impacts, Telephone Survey, Alaska, Collect, Cordova, Court, Litigation, Million, Panel, Plaintiffs, Resolution, Semi-structured.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: DEW Line Passage Project
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. David C Koester($9,600), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Dew Line, Fritz.

Workshop: Comparing Human Dimensions in Nepal and Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Henry P Huntington($2,979), Huntington Consulting, Eagle River
Key terms: Arctic, Chamling, Climate, Nepal, Social, Travel.

Dynamics of Circumpolar Land Use and Ethnicity (CLUE): social impacts of policy and climate change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas F Thornton($835,419), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Fennoscandia And Alaska, Indigenous Peoples, Access, According, CLUE, Concept, Discourse, Ethnic, Explore, Global, Has, Hopes, Investigate, Land, Local, North, Pressure, RCC, Resource, Resources, Russia, Russian.

Ice Patch Archeology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. E. James Dixon($292,907), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Latitude Human Adaptations, Ancient Ice, Ice Patches, Climate, Cultural, Features, Focus, Interprets, Melting, Opportunities, Organic, Program.

SGER: Coming Home: Exploratory Research on the Reintegration of National Guard Troops to Rural Native Alaskan Communities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Linda B Green($21,260), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: National Guard Troops, Social And Cultural, Alaska Native, Returning Veterans, Active, Affect, Affected, Experiences, Exploratory, Issues, Region, Reintegration, Rural, Serving, Villages.

Dissertation Improvement Grant Gasir Hinterlands Project
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas H McGovern($29,990), CUNY Hunter College, New York
Key terms: Environmental Archaeology, Gain, Gasir, Iceland, Larger, Local, Medieval, Ramona, Social.

SGER: Social Perspectives on the Industrial Archaeology of the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Patrick E Martin($21,999), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: ACC, Arctic, Efforts, Insights, International, Organizational, Polar, Svalbard.

AMNH Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Spring 2008 Symposium: Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2008; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Eleanor J Sterling($14,924), American Museum Natural History, New York
Key terms: Arctic Residents, Arctic Social, Conference, Dialog, Ngos, Participation, Policy, Program, Public, Symposium, Topics, World.

Native Video Game: The Warriors' Coup Stick of the Future
Award Effective Date: 12/06/2007; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Aron L Crowell($12,594), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Alaska Native, Traditional Knowledge, Video Game, Alutiiq, Based, Content, Language.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human Dietary Response to Climate Change and Resource Availability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Donald K Grayson($19,850), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Foraging Strategies, Marine Environment, Salmon Abundance, Archaeological, Assess, Availability, Climate, Effects, Finney, Fish, Fisheries, Paleoenvironmental, Resource.

Icebreaker Charter - ODEN
Award Effective Date: 10/31/2008; Program: Antarctic Operations Support

1. Anders Karlqvist($8,133,549), SWEDISH POLAR RESEARCH SECRETARIAT, Sweden
Key terms: Swedish Polar, ODEN, Secretariat.

MOA between NSA and NPOESS IPO regarding the use of McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Antarctic Operations Support

1. James Valenti($4,750,000), NOAA, Silver Spring
Key terms: Mcmurdo Station, Npoess Ipo, Agreed, Agreement, Annual, Antarctica, Bi-directional, Cost, Funding, Implementation, Interagency, MOA, Mbs, NSF, National, Phase, Program, Recommended, Satellite, Service, Services, Transmission.

USAP Operations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Antarctic Operations Support

1. Kevin McCarthy($265,502), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island
Key terms: Local Mcmurdo Logisticssupplies, Operations And Maintenance, Airline Tickets, Budget Totaling, Chargeable Oandm, Direct Funding, Interagency Agreement, Nsf Logistics, Original Agreement, Acquisition, Amount, Annual, Continued, Etc, Exceed, FY, Has, Implemented, MGS, MOA, Mission, NASA, NASAWFF, NSFOPP, Office, RADARSAT-, Recommended, Space, Tracking.

Partial Support of the Sixth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VI)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Peter P Schweitzer($120,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Social, Indigenous Scholars, Greenland, ICASS, Students.

The OASIS-2009 Field Mission: Studies of Photochemistry and Trace Gas Exchange in the Arctic in the Context of a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Roy Mauldin($649,725), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Sea Ice, Alaska, Arctic, Barrow, Changing, Chemical, Climate, Comprehensive, Date, Exchange, Halogen, Importance, OASIS, Processes, Program.

Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project (VZAP)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew W Betts($310,605), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Arctic, Educators, VZAP.

SGER - µ-Raman Analysis of Ice-Core Samples
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Robert E Barletta($79,687), University of South Alabama, Mobile
Key terms: Ice Core Analysis, Ice Cores, Non-destructive Technique, Raman Spectroscopy, Analytical, Application, Available, Bring, Chemical, Critical, Effort, Excitation, Field, Found, Has, Information, Limited, Non-destructive, Polar, Potential, Resolution, Tool.

Collaborative Research: Cold-season gas exchange of arctic plants - resolving winter carbon and water balances of Alaskan arctic tundra
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Behzad Mortazavi($714,419), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Steven F Oberbauer($255,538), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Arctic Tundra Vegetation, Cold Season, Florida International, Plant Physiology, Carbon, Increase, Investigate, Physiological, Plants, Processes, Snow, Water, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Linkages among Mitochondrial Form, Function and Thermal Tolerance of Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kristin M O'Brien($556,600), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Unusual Mitochondrial Architecture, Organismal Thermal, Southern Ocean, Ability, Affect, Antarctic, Characteristics, Family, Fishes, Function, Has, Hb, Icefishes, Increases, Mb, Notothenioids, Oxygen-binding, Protein, Temperature, Withstand.

MRI: Acquisition of a Cold-Room Equipped Micro CT
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Ian Baker($175,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Climate, Effects, Expected, Ice, Insights, Instrument, Students, Unit.

Collaborative Research: A Proteomic approach to understanding cytoprotective biogenic sulfur production in sea-ice diatoms.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael G Janech($283,301), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
2. Giacomo R DiTullio($272,971), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Dmsp And Dms, Directly Involved, Level Student, Outreach Program, Sea Ice, Acclimation, Approach, Cold, Component, Compounds, Diatoms, Environmental, Experiments, Global, Information, Physiology, Proteomics, School, Sea-ice, Stress, Students, Sulfur.

Neutrino Array Radio Calibration
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Dave Z Besson($159,954), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Air Showers, Icetop Detectors, In-ice Radio, Particle Flux, Below, Cherenkov, Detection, EAS, Former, Future, Icecube, In-air, In-ice, Mission, Neutrino, Produced, RICE, Signal, Signals, Surface, Transmitters.

Cosmic Ray Observations in McMurdo
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. John W Bieber($114,663), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Solar Activity Maximum, Cosmic Rays, Neutron Monitor, Neutron Monitors, Relativistic Solar, Array, Direct, Distribution, Mcmurdo, Observations, Spaceship.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Geomorphological and Paleoecological Studies to Reconstruct Neogene Environments of the Transantarctic Mountains
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Allan C Ashworth($442,620), North Dakota State University Fargo, Fargo
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Antarctica, Climate, Direct, Information, Similar, Time.

Support for the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP), Fairbanks, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Geomorphology & Land-use Dynam

1. Larry D Hinzman($25,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: International Conference, Alaska, Arctic, Bring, Climate, Engineering, Fairbanks, NICOP, Northern, Permafrost, Program, Report, Sessions, Students, Wide.

Collaborative Research IPY: Negotiating Pathways to Adulthood: Social Change and Indigenous Culture in Four Circumopolar Communities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

1. Michael J Kral($290,645), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Lisa Wexler($500,139), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Adaptation And Resilience, Circumpolar Indigenous, Circumpolar Youth, Healthy Adaptation, International Circumpolar, Rapid Social, Youth Development, Youth Resilience, Additional, Adulthood, Aims, Alaska, Arctic, Collaboration, Cultural, Developing, Economic, Examine, Experiences, Has, History, Increase, Infrastructure, Insights, LSC, Life, Local, Narratives, Participatory, People, Political, Prevention, Procedures, Resources, Shared, Steering, Strategies, Transition, Wellbeing.

IPY: Women Candidates in Regional Russia: Religion and Culture as Barriers to Women's Participation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

1. Olga A Avdeyeva($374,986), Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Cultural Attitudes, Female Candidates, Office Holders, Decision, Evaluation, Evaluations, Local, Mayor, Political, Regions, Voters, Women.

IPY: Municipal Water Systems and the Resilience of Arctic Communities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

1. Andrew D Kliskey($865,815), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: Regions Share Similar, Mws Affect, Water Resources, Western Alaska, AWRVI, Arctic, Assess, Cultural, Exist, Knowledge, Perceptions, Provided, Resilience, Social, Tool, Values.

IPY: Metabolic adaptation among indigenous Siberians: Causes and consequences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

1. James J Snodgrass($166,860), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Metabolic Elevation, Arctic.

Collaborative Research: Inglefield Land Archaeology Project IPY initiative: Dynamic social systems at the entrance to Greenland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

1. Genevieve M LeMoine($210,276), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Cape Grinnell, Culture Contact, Prehistoric-historic Transition, Animals, Archaeological, Century, Euro-americans, Inughuit, Occupied, Prehistoric-historic, Recently, Sites, Society, Winter.

Workshop:Group Travel Award: SCAR/IASC 2008 IPY Open Science Conference
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Informat&Advis Svc-ArcticRsch

1. Mahlon C Kennicutt($85,137), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Antarctic, Conference, Current, International, Meeting, SCAR.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Spatial and Temporal Influences of Thermokarst Failures on Arctic Surface Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Michelle C Mack($671,616), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Structure And Function, Increased Precipitation, Thermokarst Failures, Trace Gas, Arctic, Climate, Distribution, Dynamics, Ecology, Future, Hillslope, Landscape, Nutrients, Quantify, Soil, Summaries, Vegetation, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Upper Cretaceous-lower Paleocene Strata from the Antarctic Peninsula: Chemo-, Magneto-, and Biomarker Tests of Correlation and Extinction Hypotheses
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Eric J Steig($418,708), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Joseph L Kirschvink($340,196), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Evidence, Extinction, Global, KT.

IPY: Understanding the Impacts of Icy Permafrost Degradation and Thermokarst-Lake Dynamics in the Arctic on Carbon Cycling, CO2 and CH4 emissions, and Feedbacks to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: International Research Collab

1. Lawrence J Plug($646,940), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Permafrost Degradation, Alaska, Arctic, Atmospheric, CH, Carbon, Climate, Dynamics, Emissions, GHG, Gas, Geomorphology, Institute, Met, Potential, Process, Siberia, Thermokarst.

Collaborative Research: Continued study of ULF waves at cusp latitudes on Svalbard to probe Earth's space environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark J Engebretson($190,456), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
2. Marc R Lessard($315,986), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Induction Coil Magnetometers, Array, Earth, Instruments, Plasma, Space, Svalbard.

Control of Seasonal Breeding in Diverse Habitats
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Modulation

1. John C Wingfield($778,186), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Perceived And Transduced, Undergraduate And Graduate, Environmental Cues, Environmental Signals, Graduate Students, Cope, Focus, Global, Mechanisms, Neuroendocrine, Secretions, Stresses, Unpredictable.

Automated Animal Telemetry for Quail Ridge Reserve
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: NEON-Concept & Development

1. John C Wingfield($195,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Automated Animal Telemetry, Animal Movement, Automated Telemetry, Quail Ridge, Real-time Animal, Wireless Communications, Compatible, Davis, Establish, Network, Physiological, Real-time, Receiver, Reserve, Towers, Transmitters.

PostDoctoral Research Fellowship
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: POST DOC/TRAVEL

1. Alexander I Culley($0), Culley Alexander I, Honolulu
2. Nicole Misarti($139,200), Misarti Nicole, Fairbanks
3. Noah T Ashley($140,000), Ashley Noah T, Barrow
Key terms: Post Doctoral Fellow, Marine Ecosystem, Abundance, Antarctic, Diversity, Ecology, Interactions, LTER, Microbial, Mortality, Palmer, Plankton, Program, Region, Temporal, Viral, Virus, WAP.

MRI: Acquisition of an Electron Probe Microanalyzer for Innovative Geological, Biogeochemical, and Material Science Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: POST DOC/TRAVEL

1. Cynthia M Jones($500,000), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Graduate And Undergraduate, Iron Grain, Requested Epma, Undergraduate Students, Beyond, Chemistry, Experienced, Fish, HU, Hands-on, Has, Infrastructure, Instrumentation, Maintenance, Management, Microanalyses, NSU, ODU, Operation, Operator, Plan, Programs, Requiring, Space, Usage, Wandm.

No Man's Island: An Historical Inquiry into the Nature of Property Rights at Sites of Industrial Extraction in the Svalbard Archipelago
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: POST DOC/TRAVEL

1. Jennifer L Smith($825), Smith, Jennifer L, Woodside
Key terms: Application, Polar.

Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Hugh W Ducklow($6,293,323), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Climate Migration, Ecosystem Dynamics, Elemental Cycling, Process Studies, Sea Ice, Antarctic, Biogeochemical, Coupled, Del, Deployed, Ecologist, Food, Gliders, Has, LTER, Moored, Northern, Numerical, Ocean, Oceanographic, PAL, Polar, Program, Public, Region, Sediment, Time, Trophic.

International Polar Year Symposia and Web Seminars at NSTA Conferences on Science Education: Collaboration between NSF, NOAA, and NASA
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: nan

1. Flavio Mendez($39,616), National Science Teaching Association, Arlington
Key terms: Nasa And Noaa, Ipy Content, National Meeting, Nsf's Contribution, Regional Meeting, Current, Delivery, Discoveries, Education, Effort, Evaluation, Focus, Following, Ideal, Information, International, K-, Louis, March, Meetings, NSTA, Nsfs, Polar, St, Standards, Symposia, Teach, Teachers, Teaching.