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Weathering of western Greenland: Influences on oceanic fluxes of radiogenic isotopes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jonathan B Martin($484,439), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Deglaciated Watersheds, Ice Sheet, Isotope Ratios, Pb Isotope, Radiogenic Isotopes, Age, Bedrock, Continent, Exposure, Fluxes, Greenland, Gris, Increased, Intensity, Nd, Near, Proglacial, Sr, Subglacial, Tested, Undergraduate, Values, Weathering.

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Atmospheric Inputs and the Photochemical Transformation of Brominated Flame Retardants in Arctic Surface Waters
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Yu-Ping Chin($109,841), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Air And Water, Measure Bfr, Toolik Lake, Water Bodies, Arctic, Control, DOM, Elucidate, LTER, Phototransformation, Presence, Processes, Program, Student.

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Collaborative Research: In Situ Borehole Measurements To Partition The Velocity Of The Greenland Ice Sheet Into Ice Deformation And Basal Sliding Components
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Joel T Harper($643,140), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Neil F Humphrey($527,546), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Basal Sliding, Constitutive Law, Glacier Dynamics, Ice Deformation, Ice Sheets, Bed, Coastal, Greenland, Model, Motion, Ocean, Set.

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Collaborative Research: Impact of sea-ice on bottom-up and top-down controls of crustacean zooplankton and the mediation of carbon and energy flow in the eastern Bering Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Michael W Lomas($96,969), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Edward G Durbin($114,460), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Carbon And Energy, Bering Sea, Conceptual Models, Crustacean Zooplankton, Sea Ice, Climate, Derived, Ecosystem, Existing, Extent, Flow, Mechanisms, Timing.

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Collaborative Research: Continuous Records of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosol Deposition During the Holocene: Testing the Fidelity of New Methods for Reconstructing Atmospheric Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Joseph McConnell($606,848), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Edward J Brook($266,627), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbon Monoxide, Continuous Gas, Ice Core, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Concentrations, Firn, International, Methane, Methods, Modeling, NGRIP, Outreach, Past, Rate, Sites, Techniques, Tunu.

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Collaborative Research: Exploring the Dynamics of the Active Layer and Near-Surface Permafrost across the North Slope of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Howard A Zebker($309,603), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Kevin M Schaefer($410,883), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Active Layer, Frozen Ground, Ice-rich Permafrost, Insar Fga, Investigate Spatial, Near-surface Permafrost, North Slope, Top Layers, ALT, Alaska, Climate, Ice-rich, Ii, Iii, Nsurface, Validation.

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Assessment of the natural perchlorate source using perchlorate history from Greenland ice cores.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jihong Cole-Dai($267,459), South Dakota State University, Brookings
Key terms: Human Activities, South Dakota, Environment, Environmental, Greenland, Ice, Involve, Measure, Natural, Perchlorate, Pre-, Source, Specific.

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RAPID: Impact of Large Scale Greenland Ice Sheet Melting on Glacier Hydrology and Meltwater Geochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Matthew A Charette($199,221), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Glacial Ice, Ice Sheet, Large-scale Melting, Leverett Glacier, Meltwater Biogeochemistry, Collected, Dynamics, Fluxes, Freshwater, Greenland, Gris, July, Large-scale, Phd, Public, RAPID, Rates, Student, Surface, Unique.

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Searching for Abrupt Climate Change Precursors Using Ultra High Resolution Ice Core Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Paul A Mayewski($797,560), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Ice Core, Available, Developed, Resolution.

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Collaborative Research: Sample Analysis to Test a Novel Method of Determining Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Elements to the Ocean/Ice System of the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. David C Kadko($112,531), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. William M Landing($30,234), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Arctic, Atmospheric, Has, International, Sources, Surface, Trace.

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CAREER: Bound to Improve - Improved Estimates of the Glaciological Contribution to Sea Level Rise
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jeremy N Bassis($572,085), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ypsilanti School District, Coming Centuries, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Lesson Plans, Scenario Corresponds, Activities, Activity, Based, Bonds, Completely, Designed, Discrete, Dynamics, Experimental, Flow, Glacier, Michigan, Model, Models, Partnership, Plastic, Program, Regions, Simulate, Students, Teachers, Th, Worst.

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Collaborative Research: Upper ocean heat flux in the Eurasian Basin: Oceanic thermodynamic forcing contributing to Arctic ice loss
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Scott R Springer($544,222), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
2. Robert D Rember($425,796), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Heat Fluxes, Mean Flow, Spatial Distribution, Velocity Shear, AW, CTD, DDC, EB, Eastern, Estimate, Hydrographic, ITP, Lateral, Microstructure, Model, Ocean, Parameterizations, Sensitivity, Tides, Upward.

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Quantifying nitrite and peroxynitrite formation from the photolysis of nitrate in/on ice
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Cort Anastasio($349,683), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Nitrite And Peroxynitrite, Arctic Snowpack, Hydroxyl Radical, Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, Peroxynitrite Formation, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Ice, Illumination, Inon, Nitrate, Ozone, Polar, Products, Significantly, Students, Ubiquitous, Was.

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Interpretation of Arctic North Slope Permafrost Borehole Thermal Evolution in Light of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Surface Temperature Fields
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Robert S Anderson($91,444), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Active Layer, Climate Signal, Deep Boreholes, Heat Flow, Near Surface, Surface Meteorology, Surface Stations, Temperature Profiles, Arctic, Array, Atmosphere, Available, Based, Cleanest, Documented, Has, Models, Network, Observations, Permafrost, Processes, Thermal, USGS, Warming.

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Ethane measurements in Greenland ice cores: Developing a preindustrial record
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Eric S Saltzman($297,917), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Cores, Biomass Burning, Preindustrial Atmosphere, Activities, Climate, Contribute, Emissions, Ethane, Methane, Phd, Senior, Sources, Undergraduate.

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Collaborative Research: Investigating the potential of carbon-14 in polar firn and ice as a tracer of past cosmic ray flux and an absolute dating tool
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Edward J Brook($160,913), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Vasilii V Petrenko($541,174), University of Rochester, Rochester
3. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($95,876), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cosmic Ray Flux, Firn And Shallow, Past Cosmic Ray, 14c-carbon Dioxide, Absolute Dating, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Cosmogenic 14c, Fossil Fraction, Glacial Ice, Graduate Student, Ice Below, Ice Cores, Methane Budget, Retained In-situ-produced, Shallow Ice, Trapped Air, Amount, C-carbon, C-methane, Carbon-, Compared, Demonstrate, Depth, In-situ, In-situ-produced, Public, Relatively, Thorough, Tracer, UR, Validity.

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Collaborative Research: Developing a high-resolution late Holocene sediment record of rapid Arctic climate change from the Beaufort Sea coastal zone
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Franco Marcantonio($176,421), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Mead A Allison($239,374), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Beaufort Sea, Brooks Range, Lagoonal Settings, Sediment Cores, ACP, Adjacent, Annual, Arctic, Climate, Composition, Deposits, Distinct, Drain, Extent, Granulometry, Ice, Initial, Mineral, Organic, Paleoclimate, Pis, Primary, River, Rivers, Sources, Stratigraphy, Temporal.

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InMotion: Influx of Momentum into the Arctic Ocean - Changes Associated with Sea Ice Reduction
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Michael Steele($255,483), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean, Ice Concentration, Momentum Flux, Surface Wind, Acceleration, Aim, Atmospheric, Circulation, Dynamic, Evolution, Future, Model, Models, Predict, Stresses.

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Collaborative Research: Testing the Northern Route for Younger Dryas Meltwater
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Lloyd D Keigwin($778,099), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Neal W Driscoll($401,457), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Alan Condron($229,743), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Dryas Cooling, Arctic, Climate, Climatic, Isotope, Margin, Period, Salinity, Sea, Sediment, Water.

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NEEM basal ice, assessing the attributes of a cold, deep, dark ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Eric S Boyd($339,790), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Basal Ice, Crow Reservation, Ice Core, Beneath, Biogeochemical, Debris-rich, Diversity, Greenland, Has, Interaction, International, Layers, MSU, Microbial, Montana, NEEM, NSF, Partnership, Reflect, Students, Teachers, Tribal.

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Marine Test of the Sensitivity of Ice Streams Entering Baffin Bay to Ocean Warming from LGM through Deglaciation, with an Emphasis on Central West Greenland Ice Streams
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. John T Andrews($372,724), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Northern Baffin Bay, Greenland Margin, Ice Streams, Ocean Warming, Sea Level, West Greenland, Dynamics, GIS, IRD, LGM, Past, Rafted, Rise, Sediment, Sensitivity, Via, Water.

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Early-concept grant for exploratory research (EAGER) proposal: Accessing the potential of clumped isotope thermometry to constrain temperatures in the Arctic during the Pliocene
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Aradhna Tripati($235,903), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Clumped Isotope, Polar Regions, Applied, Arctic, Carbonate, Proxy, Technique, Temperature, Temperatures.

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Collaborative Research: Sonic Logging the NEEM Corehole, Greenland
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Edwin D Waddington($32,580), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Erin C C Pettit($58,414), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Ice Cores, Analyses, International, NEEM, Recovered, Required, Sonic, Summer, Winch.

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Collaborative Research: Observation and Prediction of Ocean Acidification in the Western Arctic Ocean - Impacts of Physical and Biogeochemical Processes on Carbonate Mineral States
Award Effective Date: 02/02/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Laurie W Juranek($250,651), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Western Arctic Ocean, Dissolved Oxygen, Ocean Acidification, Oxygenargon Ratios, Potential Impacts, Carbon, Cruises, Level, Mooring, Pco.

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Collaborative Research: A New Radiostratigraphic Database for the Greenland Ice Sheet and Critical Boundary Conditions for the Next Generation of Ice-Sheet Models
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Mark Fahnestock($112,926), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Sea Level Rise, Ice Sheets, Ice-sheet Models, Radiostratigraphic Database, Application, Automated, Basal, Boundary, Conditions, Contribution, Future, GIS, Holocene, Ice-flow, Ice-sheet, LAYERMAP, Past, Projections, Radiostratigraphy, Tools, Validate, Validation.

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Collaborative Research: Quantifying Glacier-Fjord-Ocean Interactions and their Impact on Changing Ice Discharge: Kangia Nunata Sermia and Other Outlets, West Greenland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Stephen E Frolking($206,457), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Glacier Flow, Outlet Glacier, Allow, Assess, Discharge, Fjord, Freshwater, Greenland, Ice, Integrated, Melting, Multidisciplinary, Oceanographic, Processes, Quantify, Time.

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Community workshop: Atmospheric and Space Science Research in Polar Regions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Marc R Lessard($49,500), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Northern Hemisphere, Polar Regions, Space Weather, Aeronomy, Antarctic, Arctic, Auroral, Climate, Critical, Field, Future, Geospace, Observing, Progress, Workshop.

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Collaborative Research: Imaging the Beginning of Time from the South Pole: Observations with the Full SPUD Array
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Chao-Lin Kuo($804,263), Stanford University, Stanford
2. John M Kovac($3,644,169), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. Clement L Pryke($1,512,856), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Cmb B-mode Polarization, B-mode Polarization, Cmb B-mode, Cmb Polarization, Task Force, Amplitude, Background, Bang, CGB, Cosmic, Cosmology, Current, Detect, Energy, Gravitational, Inflation, Inflationary, Lensing, Model, Physics, Ratio, Sensitivity, Signature, Theory, Was, Waves.

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Test of Lorentz Invariance at the South Pole
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Michael Romalis($559,974), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Lorentz Invariance, Lorentz Symmetry, Magnetic Fields, Quantum Field, Quantum Gravity, Spatial Anisotropy, Attract, Effects, Energy, Experimental, Laboratory, Physics, Relativity, Rotation, Rotations, Sensitive, Spin, Theory, Vector, Velocity.

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Investigation of the Relationship between Storm Enhanced Density and Scintillation in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Larisa P Goncharenko($220,362), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Polar Cap Patches, Density, Experiences, Formation, Formed, GPS, Gradients, Ionization, Irregularities, Observations, Plasma, Propagate, Radio, SED, Scintillation, TOI.

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Collaborative Research: Applying the AGO Network to Energy Transfer in the Radiation Belts and Remote Sensing of Auroral Plasma Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. James W LaBelle($200,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. John T Gill($333,112), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: AKR, Acceleration, Auroral, Earth, Electromagnetic, Frequency, Geomagnetic, Geospace, Nearth, Plasma, Radiation, Radio, Region, Wave, Waves.

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Investigating Wave-Driven Mesospheric Dynamics Over South Pole Using an Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Michael J Taylor($239,557), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Antarctic Continent, Antarctic Mesosphere, Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Lower Thermosphere, South Pole, Wave-driven Dynamics, AMTM, Arctic, Has, MLT, Program, Recently, Region, Wave-driven.

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Large- and Small-scale Dynamics and Meteor Studies in the MLT with a New-generation Meteor Radar on King George Island
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. David A Ortland($750,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Nacional De, Antarctic, Arctic, Brazilian, Circulation, Degrees, Dynamics, Echoes, Ferraz, Gravity, International, Mesosphere, Meteor, Models, Radar, South, Structure, Tidal, Unique, Waves.

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Return to Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Morton P Beebe($1), Beebe Morton, San Francisco
Key terms: Operation Deep Freeze, Antarctic Exploration, Brbrthe Film, IGY, Information, International, Produce, Zealand.

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The Stratigraphic Expression of the Onset of Glaciation in Eocene-Oligocene Successions on the Antarctic Continental Margin
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2013; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Sandra Passchier($118,937), Montclair State University, Montclair
Key terms: Advance And Retreat, Antarctic Ice, East Antarctica, Eocene-oligocene Transition, Five Drillholes, Glacial Advance, Ice Growth, Prydz Bay, Availability, Detailed, Eocene-oligocene, Margin, Ocean, Sediment, Sediments, Student, Weathering.

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Collaborative Research: Continued Research on the Jurassic Vertebrate Fauna from the Beardmore Glacier Region of Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Peter J Makovicky($302,961), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
2. William R Hammer($190,374), Augustana College, Rock Island
Key terms: Field Museum, Antarctic, Antarctica, Articulated, Complete, Cryolophosaurus, Datasets, Dinosaurs, Jurassic, Phylogenetic, Pis, Preparation, Region, Sauropodomorph, Species, Taxa, Undergraduate.

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Integrated Evaluation of Mantle Xenoliths from the Fosdick Mountains, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Seth C Kruckenberg($219,645), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Beneath West Antarctica, Mantle Xenoliths, Seismic Anisotropy, Volcanic Centers, Active, Boston, Characterization, Compositional, Entrained, Has, Heterogeneous, Lithospheric, Sources, Textural, Volcanism.

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Geodynamics and Thermal Regime across the Central Transantarctic Mountains from Analysis of Magnetotelluric Measurements
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Philip E Wannamaker($173,266), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Electrical Resistivity, Ice Sheet, Transantarctic Mountains, West Antarctica, Distinct, Earth, East, Field, Information, MT, Mechanism, Soundings, Thermal.

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Antarctic Peninsula Exhumation and Landscape Development Investigated by Low-temperature Detrital Thermochronometry
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. David L Shuster($101,315), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Antarctic Peninsula, Glacial Erosion, Glacial Valley, Apatite, Climate, Collaboration, Formed, Glaciers, Ice-covered, Landscape, Pis, Pleistocene, U-thhe.

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Developing a New Paleoclimate Proxy for Polar and Alpine Glacial Regions Based on Noble Gases
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. M. Clara Castro($271,167), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Noble Gas Temperatures, Glacial, Ice, Interface, Lakes, Proxy, Regions, Water.

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Reconstruction of Deep-Water Temperatures in the Drake Passage Over the Last Glacial Cycle: Application of Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer to Absolutely-Dated Deep-Sea Corals
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Weifu Guo($301,759), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbonate Clumped Isotope, Clumped Isotope Thermometer, Deep Water Temperatures, Fossil Deep-sea Corals, Modern And Fossil, Modulating Global Climate, Deep-sea Corals, Drake Passage, Fossil Deep-sea, Southern Ocean, Temperature Estimates, Unique Collection, Accurate, Calibration, Effects, Methods, Past, Proxies, Radiocarbon, Vital.

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Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory: Operations, Science and Outreach (MEVO-OSO)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Philip R Kyle($679,312), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Conduit, Continue, Convecting, Degassing, Erebus, Examine, Field, Gas, Lava, MEVO, Magma, Mt, Processes, Students, Volcanic.

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Geophysical Investigations of Marie Byrd Land Lithospheric Evolution (GIMBLE)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Donald D Blankenship($1,004,386), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Marie Byrd Land, Ice Sheet, Sea Level, West Antarctica, Airborne, Bedrock, Constrain, Evolution, Geophysical, Has, Implications, Map, Pis, Subglacial, Topography.

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: Evaluating the Larsen basin's suitability for testing the Cretaceous Glaciation Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Sidney Hemming($110,652), Columbia University, New York
2. David L Barbeau($189,184), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Antarctic Glaciation, Detrital Sediment, Ice Sheets, Larsen Basin, Age, Cretaceous, Integrated, Stratigraphic.

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Cryptic Hydrology of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Water Track Contributions to Water and Geochemical Budgets in Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Joseph S Levy($374,269), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Shallow Groundwater, Soil Moisture, Taylor Valley, Water Track, Water Tracks, Age, Carbon, Dominated, Drain, Field, Geological, Permafrost, Pis, Soils, Solute, Terrains, Transport.

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CAREER: Deciphering the Tectonic History of the Transantarctic Mountains and the Wilkes Subglacial Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Samantha E Hansen($714,584), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Structure Beneath, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctic, Critical, Crust, Fieldwork, Formation, Generate, Information, Models, Origin, Program, Seismic, Students, Summer, TAMNNET, Tams, Techniques, WSB.

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Collaborative Research: A Geochemical Study of the Nature and Evolution of Mantle Upwelling Beneath Ross Island and its Relationship to Tectonics in the West Antarctica Rift System
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Kenneth W Sims($321,511), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Philip R Kyle($276,068), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Ross Island, Alkaline, Concentrations, Erebus, Genesis, Geochemical, Information, Isotopic, Mt, Petrologic, Published.

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Collaborative Research: Late Cretaceous-Paleogene Vertebrates from Antarctica: Implications for Paleobiogeography, Paleoenvironment, and Extinction in Polar Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Ross D MacPhee($50,902), American Museum Natural History, New York
2. Julia Clarke($70,872), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Kerin M Claeson($98,324), Ohio University, Athens
4. Matthew C Lamanna($96,431), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Carnegie Museum, Late Cretaceous, AVPI, Antarctic, Antarctica, Continent, Dinosaurs, Discoveries, Extinction, Field, K-pg, Marine, Non-avian, Paleogene, Pis, Texas, Therian, Unknown, Vertebrate, Vertebrates, Virtually, Was.

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Collaborative Research: Life in a Volcanic Landscape: Early Jurassic Paleoenvironments and Paleobotany
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Thomas N Taylor($475,073), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Erik L Gulbranson($299,859), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Plant Life, Antarctica, Environment, Ferrar, Floras, Gondwana, Jurassic, KU, Mentoring, Paleoenvironments, Pis, Program, Students, Time.

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Zircon Hf Isotopes and the Continental Evolution of Dronning Maud Land, East Antacrtica
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Horst Marschall($303,699), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Dronning Maud Land, Continental Crust, East Antarctica, Isotope Analyses, Isotopic Composition, Zircon Grains, Boundaries, Collected, DML, Dating, Deep, Earth, Employed, Evolution, Formation, Formed, Geologic, Has, Hf, History, Isotopes, Magma, Mantle, Mineral, Processes, Rock, Supercontinents, Time, U-pb.

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Continuing Operations Proposal: The United States Polar Rock Repository as a Research Tool for Understanding Antarctica's Geological Evolution
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Anne M Grunow($1,238,078), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Polar Regions, Antarctic, Antarctica, Available, Database, Environmental, Established, Information, Management, Metadata, Redundant, Repository, Request, Rock, USPRR.

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Collaborative Research: IPY: GAMBIT: Gamburtsev Aerogeophysical Mapping of Bedrock and Ice Targets
Award Effective Date: 11/30/2011; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Mark Fahnestock($57,528), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: East Antarctica, Ice Sheets, Crust, Focus, GSM, International, Range.

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Rapid Landscape Change in Garwood Valley: Monitoring Buried Glacier Melt and Exploring Pewe's Lost Lake
Award Effective Date: 11/04/2011; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Joseph S Levy($338,444), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Buried Ice Mass, Climate-driven Landscape, Garwood Valley, Ice Removal, Ice Sheet, Climate-driven, Current, Deposits, Expert, Field, Generate, Has, MDV, Paleo-lake, Pis, Public, Quantify, Rates, Recently, Students.

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Completing the WAIS Divide Ice Core CO2 record
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edward J Brook($479,982), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbon Cycle-climate Feedbacks, Abrupt Climate, Atmospheric Co2, Carbon Cycle-climate, Cycle-climate Feedbacks, Global Climate, Ice Age, Time Period, Analytical, Concentration, Future, History, Information, Intervals, Methods, School, Selected.

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Laboratory Study of Ice Deformation under Tidal Loading Conditions with Application to Antarctic Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Christine McCarthy($296,664), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Frictional Properties, Glacier Flow, Sea Level, Antarctic, Constraints, Deformation, Dynamic, Experience, Experienced, Experiments, Explore, Forcing, Glaciers, Ice, Knowledge, Laboratory, Loading, Pis, Predictive, Rock, Sliding, Tidal.

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Investigating Source, Chemistry and Climate changes using the Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in Antarctic Snow and Ice
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Meredith Hastings($343,982), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Snow And Ice, Accumulation Rate, Graduate Student, Isotopic Composition, =, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Context, Deposition, Nitrate, Nox, Polar, Processes, Source, Sources, WAIS.

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Collaborative Research: A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Joseph Souney($413,957), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Eric S Saltzman($436,358), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Eric J Steig($445,555), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pole Ice Core, South Pole Ice, Core Processing, Intermediate Drill, Outreach Activities, Wide Range, Antarctica, Climate, Development, Enable, Has, Management, Postdoctoral, Time, Workshops.

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The Effects of Soluble Impurities on the Flow and Fabric of Polycrystalline Ice
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Ian Baker($336,456), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Grain Boundary, Polycrystalline Ice, Refereed Journals, School Students, Soluble Impurities, Acid, Allow, Creep, Dislocation, Effects, Electron, Energy, Fabric, Flow, High-purity, Hso-doped, Imaging, Impurity, Lead, Microscopy, Minority, Phd, Published, Rate, Re-crystallization, Sheets, Temperature, Undergraduates, X-ray.

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Collaborative Research: Investigating Upper Pleistocene Rapid Climate Change using Continuous, Ultra-High-Resolution Aerosol and Gas Measurements in the WAIS Divide Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edward J Brook($82,027), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Joseph McConnell($425,000), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Divide Ice Core, Mid And Low-latitude, Wais Divide Ice, West Antarctic Ice, Atmospheric Circulation, Carbon Monoxide, Aerosol, Climate, Combined, Continuous, Cores, Gas, Global, Hemisphere, Isotope, Marine, Mid-, Ocean, Outreach, Period, Productivity, Public, Rapid, Reflect, Resolution, Sea, Time, Tracers, Yield.

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Revealing Late Holocence Climate Variability in Antarctica from Borehole Paleothermometry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Richard B Alley($185,149), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Thermal Profiling Units, Dome Fuji, Firn Temperature, Firn Thermal, Shallow Borehole, Thermal Properties, Antarctic, Automated, Constrain, Surface, Temperatures.

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Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Outlet Glacier Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Paul Winberry($203,692), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Antarctic Outlet, Basal Conditions, Beardmore Glacier, Ice Sheets, Outlet Glacier, Outlet Glaciers, Affect, Antarctica, Discharge, Dynamics, East, Experiments, Flow, Graduate, Map, Models, Radar, Warming.

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Terrestrial Geological Context for Glacier Change in the Northeast Antarctica Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Gisela Winckler($424,700), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ice Shelf, Long-term Context, Climate, Extent, Former, Glacial, Glacier, Glaciers, Holocene, Korea, Long-term, Pis, Retreat.

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Glacial-interglacial History of West Antarctic Nunataks and Site Reconnaissance for Subglacial Bedrock Sampling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Dale P Winebrenner($349,699), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide, Ice Sheet, Subglacial Erosion, West Antarctica, Bedrock, Deglaciation, Divide, Evidence, Future, Geological, Models, Obtained, Past, Site, Sites, Students, Transects, WAIS.

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Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Outlet Glacier Dynamics: Investigations of Beardmore Glacier
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Howard B Conway($479,853), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Antarctic Outlet, Basal Conditions, Beardmore Glacier, Ice Sheets, Outlet Glacier, Outlet Glaciers, Affect, Antarctica, Discharge, Dynamics, East, Experiments, Flow, Graduate, Map, Models, Radar, Warming.

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Tephrochronology of the WAIS Divide Ice Core: Linking Ice Cores through Volcanic Records
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Nelia W Dunbar($167,539), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Antarctic Tephrochronology, Ice Core, Ice Cores, International Cooperation, Wais Divide, Broader, Climate, Contribute, Correlations, Eruption, Field, Has, Hispanic, Mexico, NMT, Outreach, Student, Tephra, Volcanic.

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Fugitive Gases (Helium, Neon, and Oxygen) in the WAIS Divide Ice Core as Tracers of Basal Processes and Past Biospheric Carbon Storage
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($349,317), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Oxygen, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Postdoctoral Scholar, Space Weather, Activity, Atmosphere, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Efforts, Feedback, Field, Fractionation, Gas, Gases, Helium, Neon, Solar, Solid, Terrestrial, Value, Warming.

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Collaborative Research: VeLveT Ice - eVoLution of Fabric and Texture in Ice at WAIS Divide, West Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Rachel W Obbard($265,354), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Erin C C Pettit($571,559), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Ice Flow Field, Climate History, Flow History, Ice Core, Ice Microstructure, Ice Sheet, Impurity Content, Wais Divide, Antarctica, Borehole, Broader, Connection, Deformation, Depends, Dome, Evolves, Logging, Relates, Relation, Techniques, Temperature, Time, West.

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Optical Fabric and Fiber Logging of Glacial Ice
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Joseph J Talghader($398,785), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Ryan Bay($348,384), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Borehole Tools, Dust Content, Ice Core, Logging Tools, Advanced, Boreholes, Climate, Concept, Current, Detectors, Development, Enable, Fabric, Fiber, Flow, Light, Optical, Polarization, Power, Signal, Sources, Techniques.

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TAM Camp Workshop
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Kathy J Licht($68,084), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Transantarctic Mountains, Advance, Antarctic, Available, Field, Information, Logistics, Objective, Opportunities, Pis, Planning, Post, Promote, Site, Training, Website, Workshop.

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WAIS Divide: Fluorimetry, Dust Logs, Climatology, Glaciology, Volcanology
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. P. Buford Price($420,966), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Volcanic Ash Layers, Wais Divide Ice, Gisp2 Ice, Ice Core, Chl, Climate, Concentration, Contribute, Decrease, Deeper, Depths, Dust, Found, Frozen, Gas, Logging, Look, Methane, Methanogens, Microbes, NICL, Nm, Optical, Previous, Rate, Spikes, Trp.

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Multi-parameter Selection Curves for Machine-assisted Annual Layer Interpretations of the WAIS-Divide Core
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Kenneth McGwire($50,392), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Divide Ice Core, Selection Curve Method, Multi-parameter Counting, Timescale Development, Wais Divide, Analysis, Annual, Antarctic, Chemical, Climate, Final, Multi-parameter, Objective, Potential, Repeatable.

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MRI: Instrument Development of the South Pole, Antarctica, Solar Radio Telescope (SPASRT): Advancing Our Understanding of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Andrew J Gerrard($788,118), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Solar Radio Bursts, Solar Atmosphere, South Pole, Space Weather, Construction, Continuous, Coverage, Development, Installation, Knowledge, Korea, Regions, SPASRT, Source, Sun, Telescope.

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Collaborative Research: Development of a rapid access ice drilling (RAID) platform for research in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($23,795), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. John W Goodge($1,301,630), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheets, Deep Ice, Rapid Access, Substrate Below, Bed, Climate, Composition, Drilling, Enable, Ice-sheet, Interdisciplinary, Interface, Mobile, RAID, Rock.

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RESISTIVITY MAPPING OF SUBSURFACE MICROBIAL HABITATS IN THE MCMURDO REGION
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Jill A Mikucki($61,297), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Subglacial And Sub-permafrost, Blood Falls, Formal Outreach, Outreach Coordinator, Sub-permafrost Environments, Subglacial Brine, Antarctic, Depth, Extent, Map, Microbial, Pis, Resistivity, Subsurface, TEM, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Totten Glacier System and the Marine Record of Cryosphere - Ocean Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 11/20/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Alejandro Orsi($411,611), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Alejandro Orsi($181,510), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
3. Bruce A Huber($210,859), Columbia University, New York
4. Eugene W Domack($166,285), Hamilton College, Clinton
5. Amy Leventer($181,212), Colgate University, Hamilton
6. Donald D Blankenship($678,260), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, West Antarctic Ice, Totten Glacier, Antarctica, Bottom, Context, Drains, East, Glacial, Indicate, Marine, Nearly, Oceanographic, Region.

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Micro-Submersible Lake Exploration Device (MSLED) - Development of first generation propelled slim-hole device for subglacial lake (& aquatic enviornments ) exploration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Alberto Behar($352,684), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Antarctic Ice, Borehole Probe, Ice Sheet, Subglacial Lakes, Subglacial Water, AIBP, Chemical, Deployment, Environments, Field, Host, Hydrological, Images, In-situ, MSLED, Platform, Previous, Range, Sensors, Vehicle.

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Ocean Surfaces on Snowball Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Stephen G Warren($500,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dust And Volcanic, Snow And Ice, Ice Types, Life Forms, Photosynthetic Life, Sea Ice, Volcanic Ash, Caused, Climate, Climatic, Cold, Desert, Earth, Episodes, Flow, Included, Laboratory, Maintain, Melting, Million, Modern, Nearly, Ocean, Snowball, Sunlight, Surface, Surfaces, Tropical, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Developing an Antarctic Tephra Database for Interdisciplinary Paleoclimate Research (AntT)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. William C McIntosh($163,260), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Christopher C Gerbi($365,095), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Cores, Paleoclimate Archives, Volcanic Products, Antt, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Climate, Collection, Cryptotephra, Database, Distribution, Framework, Information, Layers, Modern, Sources, Tephra, Time.

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Collaborative Research: MIDGE: Minimally Invasive Direct Glacial Exploration of Biogeochemistry, Hydrology and Glaciology of Blood Falls, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Slawek M Tulaczyk($370,752), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Jill A Mikucki($373,277), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
3. W. Berry Lyons($239,617), Ohio State University, Columbus
4. Erin C C Pettit($346,679), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Antarctic Subglacial Environments, Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Blood Falls, Brine Release, Clean Access, Geochemical Analyses, Minimally Invasive, Subglacial Brine, Subglacial Hydrology, Taylor Glacier, Below, Collected, Crevasse, Drilling, Ecosystem, Episodic, Geophysical, Habitats, Icy, Life, MIDGE, Marine, Mechanism, Microbial, Molecular, Retrieval, Source, Surface, Technologies, Time, Water, Waters.

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Continuation of the LARISSA Continuous GPS Network in View of Observed Dynamic Response to Antarctic Peninsula Ice Mass Balance and Required Geologic Constraints
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Eugene W Domack($182,453), Hamilton College, Clinton
Key terms: Larsen Ice Shelf, Accurate Estimates, Antarctic Peninsula, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Allowing, Bedrock, Covered, Critical, Earth, Flow, GPS, Geophysical, Glacial, Glaciers, Immediate, Instruments, Isostatic, Losing, Margin, Ocean, Past, Rapidly, Rate, Rebound, Set, Stations, Techniques, Time.

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A Planning Workshop for a McMurdo Dry Valleys Terrestrial Observation Network
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. John E Barrett($38,217), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Assess, Biotic, Coordinated, Efforts, Environmental, International, Management, Processes, Programs, Workshop.

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Collaborative Research: The Land Unknown: Assessing Data Requirements for Modeling Change in the Antarctic Ice Sheet with an Emphasis on the Subglacial Bed
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Christina Hulbe($289,181), Portland State University, Portland
2. Charles S Jackson($276,289), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, East Antarctica, Ice Flow, Ice Sheet, Model Projections, Future, Information, Models, Regions, Various.

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Natural Fe Fertilization and Bioactive Metal Dynamics on the Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Robert M Sherrell($504,117), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Western Antarctic Peninsula, Palmer Lter, Circumpolar, Fe, Ocean, Shelf, Site.

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Improved Characterization and Prediction of Antarctic Weather and Climate Though Utilization of CONCORDIASI Data Set
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Steven M Cavallo($273,473), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: AMPS, Antarctic, CONCORDIASI, Dropsondes, Model, Performance.

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Collaborative Research: Dynamics and Transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage (cDrake) Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Teresa K Chereskin($350,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Kathleen A Donohue($549,996), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Drake Passage, Southern Ocean, ACC, Array, Current, Past, Resolve, Structure, Time, Transport.

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Collaborative Research: Submarine Groundwater and Freshwater Inputs Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. David R Corbett($344,037), East Carolina University, Greenville
2. W. Berry Lyons($186,869), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Geochemical Budgets, Antarctic, Coastal, Component, Contribution, Discharge, Fe, Freshwater, Glacial, Groundwater, Iron, Micronutrient, Nutrients, SGD, Sources, Waters.

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Reactive Gas Chemistry in the Dome C Snowpack and its Influence on Surface Layer Chemistry and Ice Core Records
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Detlev Helmig($409,366), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmosphere, Chemical, Photochemical, Polar, Processes, Snowpack.

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Antarctic Cloud Physics: Fundamental Observations from Ross Island
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Dan Lubin($511,563), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Liquid Water, Ross Island, Antarctic, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Effective, Optical, Phase, Properties, Range, Stratiform, Surface.

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Climate Feedbacks in the Antarctic from Stratospheric Balloon GPS Radio Occultation Soundings
Award Effective Date: 08/09/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Jennifer S Haase($150,382), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Gps Radio Occultation, Radio Occultation Profiling, Southern Hemisphere, Balloon, Borne, Climate, Efforts, Global, IR, NWP, Polar, Profiles, Satellite, Sounding, Temperature.

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Spectral and Broadband Albedo of Antarctic Sea-ice Types
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Stephen G Warren($132,494), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Reflecting Surface, Absorbing, Albedo, Atmosphere, Black, Budgets, Campaign, Carbon, Diffuse, Energy, Ice, Light, Nm, Perfect, Remote, Sea-ice, Snow, Solar.

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Role of Snow Distribution Processes in Antarctic Sea Ice Mass Balance
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Katherine C Leonard($653,457), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic Sea Ice, Ice Mass Balance, Sea Ice Mass, Snow Depth Distribution, Antarctic Sea-ice, Blowing Snow, Ice Surface, Arctic, Control, Function, Has, Increase, Leads, Morphology, Precipitation, Properties, Sea-ice, Transport, Wind.

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Collaborative Research: TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea (TRACERS)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Robert B Dunbar($415,885), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Alexander B Bochdansky($299,367), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Giacomo R DiTullio($313,461), College of Charleston, Charleston
4. Monica V Orellana($182,731), Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
5. Dennis A Hansell($416,772), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Organic Matter, Ross Sea, Water Column, Accumulation, Export, Fate, Has, K-, Particles, Pis, Sinking, Solubilized, Students, Transformation.

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What Controls the Variability of the Southern Ocean Productivity and Carbon Uptake?
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Takamitsu Ito($358,196), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Iron Budgets, Iron Sources, Southern Ocean, Biological, Carbon, Circulation, Climate, Modeling, Student.

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Cape Adare Long Term Moorings (CALM): Analysis Phase
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Arnold L Gordon($241,178), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ross Sea Aabw, Sea Aabw Export, Bottom Water, Cape Adare, Antarctica, CALM, Moorings, Ocean.

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Collaborative Research: Augmenting the Ross Island-area automatic weather station network to develop a tropospheric ozone climatology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Lars E Kalnajs($525,203), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ross Sea Region, Tropospheric Ozone, Mcmurdo, Seasonal, Strong, Surface.

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Collaborative Research: Decoding & Predicting Antarctic Surface Melt Dynamics with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs
Award Effective Date: 06/18/2011; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. David Schneider($46,081), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Glacial Ice, Ice Sheets, AR, Efforts, Has, Mass, Melt, Melting, Meltwater, Occurrence, Regional, Suggested, Surface, Warming.

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In Situ Measurements of Stratospheric Ozone from Long Duration Balloons during Concordiasi
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Lars E Kalnajs($533,416), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ozone Depletion, Balloons, Photometers, Progress.

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Collaborative Research: Climate Change and Predatory Invasion of the Antarctic Benthos
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. James B McClintock($199,201), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
2. Richard B Aronson($836,104), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Biological Invasion, Antarctic, Benthic, Birsteini, Crabs, Document, Effects, International, Region.

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RAPID: Assessing Winter Bacterioplankton Distributions and Carbon Cycling as part of AMLR Field Program, August 2012
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Alison Murray($191,960), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Sea Ice, AMLR, Bacterioplankton, Cruise, Region, Shifts, Winter.

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RAPID: Linking the Movement Patterns and Foraging Behavior of Humpback Whales to their Prey across Multiple Spatial Scales within the LTER Study Region
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. David Johnston($76,833), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Central, Distribution, Ecology, Foraging, Investigate, LTER, Palmer, Sur, Tags, WAP, Whales.

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Collaborative Symposium: Physiological Flexibility among Protists: Insights from studies of genes to ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Rebecca J Gast($23,179), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Nutrient Cycling, Nutritional Modes, Carbon, Ecology, Genetics, Mixotrophs, Multiple, Particular, Physiology.

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Collaborative Research: Microbial Community Assembly in Coastal Waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Jeremy J Rich($304,459), Brown University, Providence
2. Linda A Amaral Zettler($200,083), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Structure And Function, Sea Ice, Affect, Antarctic, Carbon, International, Microbial, Organic, Shifts, Station, WAP.

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Multidimensional "omics" characterization of microbial metabolism and dissolved organic matter in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Christine M Foreman($270,040), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Dom Cycling, Affect, CG, Microbes, Microbial, Oceans, Organic.

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Collaborative Research: Exploring the Vulnerability of Southern Ocean Pinnipeds to Climate Change - An Integrated Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Rus Hoelzel($394,266), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Brenda L Hall($293,860), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Analysis, Climate, Colonies, Elephant, Region, SES, Seal, Seals, Sensitivity.

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Collaborative Research: Adaptive Responses of Phaeocystis Populations in Antarctic Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Kevin R Arrigo($963,166), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Antarctica, Distribution, International, Students.

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Antarctic Notothenioid Fish Freeze Avoidance and Genome-wide Evolution for Life in the Cold
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Chi-Hing C Cheng($646,240), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cold Temperatures, Mcmurdo Sound, Adaptive, Antarctic, Austral, Evolutionary, Expressed, Expression, Extent, Extreme, Fish, Fishes, Freezing, Genome, Ice, Notothenioid, Physiological, Proteins, Sequencing, Set, Species, WAP.

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Penguin Foraging Reveals Phytoplankton Spatial Structure in the Ross Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Walker O Smith($260,367), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
2. David G Ainley($79,286), H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos
3. Grant Ballard($109,733), Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Petaluma
4. Vernon L Asper($84,643), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Grazing Pressure, Ross Sea, Top Predators, Algal, Chlorophyll, Ecosystem, Food, Foraging, Glider, Krill, Penguin, Penguins, Portion, Preferred.

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Applying High-resolution GPS Tracking to Characterize Sensory Foraging Strategies of the Black-browed Albatross, a Top Predator of the Southern Ocean Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Gabrielle A Nevitt($395,537), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Birds, Conservation, Fisheries, Foraging, Information, Insight, Locate, Marine, Predators, Prey, Resolution, Seabirds, Sensory, Species, Specific, Strategies, Tracking.

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Collaborative Research: Seasonal Trophic Roles of Euphausia Superba (STRES)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Meng Zhou($349,169), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
2. Susanne Menden-Deuer($1,162,151), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Euphausia Superba, Antarctic, Behavior, Climate, Feeding, Krill, Link, Prey, Region, Seasonal, Species.

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The Demographic Consequences of Environmental Variability and Individual Heterogeneity in Life-history Tactics of a Long-lived Antarctic Marine Predator
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Robert A Garrott($867,272), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Ross Sea, Antarctic, Detailed, Individual, Individuals, Long-term, Population, Seals.

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Collaborative Research: An Integrated Ecological Investigation of McMurdo Dry Valley's Active Soil Microbial Communities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Egbert Schwartz($291,438), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2. David Van Horn($435,197), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Dry Valleys, Extreme Conditions, Active, Available, Environment, Life, Microbial, Organisms.

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UpTempO: Measuring the Upper Layer Temperature of the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Ignatius G Rigor($1,058,414), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice, Uptempo Buoys, Chukchi, Deployment, Exhibit, Ii, Near, Pressure, Surface.

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Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO)-A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Jacqueline M Grebmeier($1,970,710), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Karen E Frey($201,018), Clark University, Worcester
3. Robert S Pickart($401,495), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Latitudinal Gradient, Pacific Arctic, Trophic Levels, Biological, Biomass, Contribution, DBO, Ecosystem, Effort, Efforts, Ice, International, Marine, Multiple.

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Collaborative Research: Multi-Regional Scale Aircraft Observations of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Isotopic Fluxes in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. John Langford($600,050), Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Manassas
2. Tilden P Meyers($769,702), OFFICE OF OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, Silver Spring
3. David Sayres($1,448,249), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Arctic, Division, Field, Methane, Monitoring, Turbulence.

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Collaborative Research: Eurasian and Makarov basins observational network targets changes in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Vladimir Ivanov($13,330,270), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Matthew B Alkire($884,342), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Upper Ocean, AON, AW, Boundary, Cruises, EMB, High-latitude, Long-term, Observational, Oceanographic, Students, Targets.

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Collaborative Research: ELOKA Phase III: Toward Sustainable Data Management Support for Community-Based Observations Contributing to the Arctic Observing Network
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Mark A Parsons($2,531,668), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Henry P Huntington($82,721), Huntington Consulting, Eagle River
Key terms: Access, Arctic, Community-based, ELOKA, Enhance, Existing, Infrastructure, Interoperable, Long-term, Management, Services, Sustained, Sustaining, Technology.

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Collaborative Research: Development of an Ice-Tethered Winch for the Seasonal Ice Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Richard A Krishfield($436,115), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Emily L Shroyer($122,708), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Itw Website, Arctic, Cofe, Ice, Oceanography, Provided, Public, Resolution, Technologies, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Toward optimization of observational arrays in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Gleb Panteleev($117,489), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Dmitri A Nechaev($239,290), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Web Site, AO, AON, Approach, Arctic, Available, Based, Information, Observational, Optimization, Programs, Recommendations.

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Ultraviolet Radiation in the Arctic: 2012-2015
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Germar H Bernhard($653,125), Biospherical Instruments Inc, San Diego
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Uv Radiation, Arctic, Barrow, Changing, Climate, Courses, Future, Photolysis, Solar, Summit.

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International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA) - Knowledge to Action Planning Proposal (KAPP)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Sandra M Starkweather($145,597), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Iasoa Web, Atmospheric, Data-at-a-glance, Metadata, Portal, Shared, Value.

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Arctic Observing Network Design and Implementation (ADI) Task Force Writing Workshop
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Karyn Sawyer($25,273), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Arctic Observing Network, Network Design, ADI, Document.

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Collaborative Research: Quantifying changes in the Arctic hydrological cycle at the landscape scale using advances in water vapor isotope (18O & D) techniques and aircraft
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Jeffrey M Welker($0), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
2. Jessica M Young-Robertson($0), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aircraft And Satellites, Aon And Neon, Arctic Observing Network, Based Water Isotope, Combining Isotope Geochemistry, Developing Parallel Capabilities, Ecological Observatory Network, Ecosystems And Landscapes, Hydrological Cycle Beyond, Landscape And Region, Landscape And Regional, Laser Spectroscopy Based, Measuring And Monitoring, Monitor And Measure, National Ecological Observatory, Nsf Arctic Observing, Quantify And Integrate, Spectroscopy Based Water, Terrestrial Hydrological Cycle, Water Isotope Analyzers, Alaska Network, Analytical Technologies, Aon Eager, Arctic Climate, Arctic Ecohydrology, Arctic Tundra, Boundary Layer, Changing Ecohydrolgy, Critical Linkage, Fieldaircraft Campaigns, Heterogeneous Landscapes, High-risk Approach, Imnaviat Creek, Initiate Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Landscape-scale Monitoring, North Slope, Particular Instrument, Picarro Inc, Primary Aim, Quantify Hydrological, Quantify Landscape, Site-specific Responsibilities, Transformation Step, Tundra Ecosystems, Accomplished, Alterations, Andor, Applies, Approaches, Capacity, Central, Collaborating, Conducting, Consortium, Continental-scale, Coupled, Cycles, Employing, Extending, Facilitation, Flight, Frontier, Has, High-risk, Httpwwwpicarrocom, Integration, Intricacies, L-i, Landscape-scale, Modifying, Monitored, On-line, Packages, Past, Planned, Platforms, Point-based, Process, Processes, Program, Purposes, Relevance, Sharing, Shifts, Site-specific, Sites, Stitching.

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Collaborative Research: Paleoclimate, Paleoenvironment and Other Potential Drivers of Extinction of Mammuthus primigenius, St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska.
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. John W Williams($155,521), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Matthew J Wooller($343,044), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Russell W Graham($487,728), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
4. Beth Shapiro($287,846), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Alaska Quaternary, Ancient Dna, Interactive Exhibit, Mammoth Extinction, Mammoth Population, Plant Macrofossils, Sea Level, Animal, Cagaloq, Charcoal, Chironomid, Chironomids, Climate, Document, Independent, Island, Paul, Pollen, Reconstruct, Size, Species, Spores, St, Student, Time, Various.

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Deciphering the ecology of key diatom taxa to understand climate-induced changes in West Greenland lakes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Jasmine Saros($353,980), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Arctic Lakes, Diatom Species, Diatom Taxa, Existing Diatom, Lake Ecosystems, Lake Sediments, Large-scale Experiment, Abundances, Alpine, Assess, Associate, Climate, Climate-induced, Diatoms, Ecological, Energy, Focused, Greenland, Holocene, Importance, Information, Large-scale, Nutrients, Postdoctoral, Rates, Structure, Warmer, Water, Website.

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Collaborative Research: Using opportunistic radon measurements to estimate the gas transfer velocity in partial sea ice cover
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. William M Smethie($39,204), Columbia University, New York
2. Edward G Durbin($388,269), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Gas Transfer Velocity, Sea Ice Zone, Biogenic Gases, Forcing Conditions, Gas Exchange, Ice Cover, Upper Ocean, Air-sea, Arctic, Carbon, Flux, Map, Maximum, Minimum, Oscillation, Presence, Radon, Surface, Well-constrained.

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Collaborative Research: Seasonal Synergy between Bacterial Osmoprotection and Algal Production in Sea Ice
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Roy E Collins($230,503), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Jody W Deming($427,991), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bacteria And Algae, Fall Freeze-up, Ice Algae, Sea Ice, Sea-ice Bacteria, Seasonal Synergy, Availability, Bacterial, Brines, CS, Choline, Compounds, Conversion, Examined, Field, Foster, Freeze-up, Greenland, High-salinity, Laboratory, Nitrogen, Primary, Salinity, Sea-ice, Temperature.

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Detecting the Signature of Permafrost Thaw in Arctic Rivers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Timothy I Eglinton($798,422), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
Key terms: Organic Matter, Arctic, Carbon, Lack, Permafrost, Reduced, Warming.

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Collaborative Research: Arctic Sensitivity to Climate Perturbations and a Millenial Perspective on Current Warming Derived from Shrinking Ice Caps
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Nathaniel A Lifton($759,235), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Jason P Briner($249,461), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Current Warming, Millennial Context, Datasets, Dating, Exposed, Past, Summer, Vegetation.

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Supporting Community Use of the Community Earth System Model for Polar Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Marika Holland($100,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Polar Climate, Polar Regions, Sea Ice, Based, Broad, CESM, Development, Has, Interactions, Model, Models, Processes.

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Collaborative Research: Direction and Mechanisms of Seasonal Change in Arctic Microbial Communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Slava S Epstein($659,976), Northeastern University, Boston
2. Karen E Nelson($626,054), J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., La Jolla
Key terms: Microbial Seasonal Succession, Bioactive Compounds, Individual Species, Microbial Species, Previously Uncultivated, Pure Culture, Ability, Activities, Approach, Approaches, Arctic, Aspects, Complex, Cultivate, Cultivation, Culture-independent, Ecology, Efforts, Enable, Enabling, Function, Functions, Hypothesize, Interactions, Microorganisms, Range, Setting, Signaling, Specific, Stages, Trajectory.

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Collaborative Research: Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Michael Steele($71,709), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Andrey Proshutinsky($169,493), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arctic Ocean Model, Regional Arctic Models, Intercomparison Projects, Pilot Effort, Sea Ice, Activities, Analysis, Assessment, Continue, Coordinated, Errors, Existing, FAMOS, Focus, Improvements, Investigation, Modelers, Modeling, Processes, Publication.

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Longitudinal variation in the physiology, growth and reproduction of white spruce at the Arctic treeline in Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson($680,900), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: Central And Eastern, Eastern Brooks Range, Health And Spatial, Arctic Treeline, Reproductive Success, Spatial Extent, White Spruce, Activities, Alaska, Climate, Compare, Current, Detailed, Establishment, Growth, Importance, Inform, Kotzebue, Longitudinal, Performance, Physiology, Processes, School, Seed, Seedling, Students, Trees, Western.

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Collaborative Research: Investigating the Influence of Sea-surface Variability on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Outlet Glacier Behavior using Records from Disko Bugt, West Greenland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Benjamin E Smith($90,853), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Matthew J Evans($139,104), Wheaton College, Norton
3. Sarah B Das($528,495), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Karen E Frey($184,873), Clark University, Worcester
Key terms: Bay Region, Disko Bay, Behavior, Conditions, Cores, Field, Ice, Past, Reconstructions, School, Sea, Supervise.

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Arctic Sea Ice Variability in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries: Synthesis of Observations and Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Axel Schweiger($694,893), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Sea Ice Variables, 20th Century, Atmospheric Reanalysis, Ice Extent, Ship Logs, Assimilation, CASIR, Concentration, Ensemble, Historical, Model, Observations, PIOMAS, Pis, Space, Spatial, Thickness, Time, Validation, Volume.

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Collaborative research: Warming and irradiance measurements in the Arctic: Determining the link between solar energy absorption and surface warming through long term observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Victoria J Hill($998,150), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Bonnie Light($176,416), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sea Ice, Seasonal Cycling, Surface Waters, Water Column, Absorption, Arctic, Attenuation, CDOM, Concept, Geomission, Optical, Quantify, Radiation, Sensors, Solar.

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Methane loss from Arctic: towards an annual budget of CH4 emissions from tundra ecosystems across a latitudinal gradient
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Donatella Zona($1,106,499), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Alaska, Analyzer, Annual, Arctic, Barrow, CH, Climate, Closed-path, Emissions, Fluxes, GHG, Heated, Ivotuk, LI-, Potential, Remote, Sites, Water, Weather.

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A multi-faceted evaluation of aerosol impacts on Arctic clouds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Matthew D Shupe($289,454), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Aerosol-cloud Interactions, Water Path, Aerosol-cloud, Aim, Alaska, Arctic, Conditions, Evaluation, Focus, Greenland, Local, Observations, People, Primary, Radiative, Statistical, Surface, Visits.

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Collaborative Research: Interactions Between Air Temperature, Permafrost and Hydrology in the High Latitudes of Eurasia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Alexander Shiklomanov($539,896), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Nikolay I Shiklomanov($168,138), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Arctic, Collected, Fieldwork, Permafrost, River, Time.

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Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Competing Impacts of Global Emissions Reductions and Climate Change on the Distribution and Retention of selected POPs in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Rainer Lohmann($313,083), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Noelle E Selin($299,871), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Elsie M Sunderland($224,547), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Pcbs And Pfcs, Arctic Ocean, Relative Importance, Affecting, Atmospheric, Budget, Climate, Compounds, Emissions, Environmental, Global, Inputs, Lifetime, Main, Oceanic, PFOA, PFOS, Pops, Quantify, Riverine, Sustainability.

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Understanding the modes of the sea-ice thickness distribution: Processes and variability
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Richard E Moritz($244,178), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Space And Time, Arctic Ocean, Ice Thickness, Annual, Climate, Errors, Forcing, Has, Hm, ITD, Inter-annual, Mode, Observations, PIZ, Parameters, Robust.

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Collaborative Research: Continuation of Development and Application of AO-FVCOM to Improve Understanding of Arctic Changes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Changsheng Chen($357,698), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Robert C Beardsley($289,318), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, AO-FVCOM, Atlantic, Beaufort, Circulation, Following, Has, Ice, Investigate, Loss, Modeling, Processes, Region, Validated, Via.

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Circulation and Respiration in Ice-covered Arctic Lakes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Sally MacIntyre($943,094), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Arctic Lakes, Cover, Ice, Mixing, Quantify, Respiration, Snow, Waters.

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Warming and drying effects on tundra carbon balance
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Susan M Natali($597,680), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Warming And Drying, Global Climate, Balance, Carbon, Critical, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Expected, Feedback, Information, Occurring, Permafrost, Plant, Productivity, Region, Respiration, Source, Thaw, Tundra.

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The Seasonal Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss: Mechanisms and Robustness across Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Clara Deser($690,424), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Sea Ice Loss, Seasonal Atmospheric, Assess, Climate, Model, Models, Robustness, Th.

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Collaborative Research: Climate-mediated coupling of hydrology and biogeochemistry in arctic hillslopes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Sarah E Godsey($229,096), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Connecting Terrestrial Ecosystems, Water And Nutrient, Water And Solutes, Arctic Tundra, Nutrient Cycles, Stream Networks, Water Tracks, Climate, Climate-induced, Effects, Hillslopes, Hydrology, Land, Methods, Nutrients, Rates, Shifts, Storage, Students, Transport, Undergraduate.

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Collaborative Research: Pacific-Arctic Carbon Synthesis - Transformations, Fluxes, and Budgets.
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Laurie W Juranek($39,757), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Carbon Budgets, Carbon Cycle, Central Arctic, Regional Carbon, Air-sea, Effort, Exchange, Fluxes, North, Pacific, Rates, Sea, Shelf, Transformations, Waters.

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Emerging Research Questions in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Chris Elfring($250,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Arctic, Assessment, Committee, Emerging, Infrastructure, Planning, Realms, Workshop.

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Coordination and Participation: US-UK Joint Workshop on Arctic Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Larry D Hinzman($109,436), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Consequences, Developing, Loss, NERC, Participants, Predictions, Rapid, SEARCH, Sea, UK, Workshop.

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Assessing the Vitality of Arctic Indigenous Languages - Research Development Workshops
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Duane Smith($174,990), Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Anchorage
Key terms: Arctic Indigenous Languages, Indigenous Language Vitality, Brbrthe Workshops, Circumpolar Collaboration, Indigenous Peoples, Academic, Academically, Assessment, Comparable, Council, Dissemination, International, Methodologies, Shared.

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Adventure Learning @ Greenland
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Robert J Hougham($58,392), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Activity, Distance-learning, Education, Greenland, Has, ICECAPS, Students.

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Strengthening our Audience Connection with Icelights: Questions of the Moment (Phase II)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Stephanie Renfrow($102,806), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: On-line Publication, Arctic, Continue, Directly, Ice, Icelights, Increase, Launch, Month, NSIDC, On-line, Posts, Sea-ice, Site, Topics.

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TICOP: Tenth International Conference on Permafrost (June 2012 / Russia)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Larry D Hinzman($73,068), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Generation, Permafrost, Personal, Russia, TICOP.

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Participant Support for the Zero Emissions Category of the Clean Snowmobile Challenge
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Jay S Meldrum($45,900), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Clean Snowmobile Challenge, Education Program, Polar Program, Zero Emissions, Arctic, CSC, Michigan, SAE, Search, Solutions, Students, Transportation, Vehicles.

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IPY Montreal 2012 ~ (April 22-27, 2012, Montreal, Canada)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Larry D Hinzman($80,667), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Actively, Activities, Antarctic, Arctic, Balance, Conference, IPY, Travel.

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Exploring intrasite variability at Upward Sun River (Xaasaa Na'), a terminal Pleistocene site in central Alaska: foraging behaviors and paleoenvironmental contexts.
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Ben A Potter($780,094), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Technology And Subsistence, Adaptive Strategies, Alaska Native, Ice Age, Exploration, Has, Organization, Site, Structure, USR.

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Collaborative Research: Using Visual Methods to Engage Indigenous Youth and Community Members in Cross-Site, International Analysis: A Methodological Study
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Stacy M Rasmus($52,316), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Michael J Kral($23,710), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Lisa Wexler($74,175), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Cross-site Analysis, Actively, Adults, Cross-site, Diverse, Elders, Engage, Eveny, Experiences, Indigenous, Interdisciplinary, International, Inuit, Inupiaq, Knowledge, Life, Meeting, Montages, Opportunity, Participating, People, Perspectives, Relation, Sami, Social, Specifically, Youth, Yupik.

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The Archaeology of Herring: Reconstructing the Past to Redeem the Future
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Madonna L Moss($166,161), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Local And Traditional, Traditional Knowledge Bearers, Alaska Native, Alaska Natives, Ancient Dna, British Columbia, Coastal Alaska, Herring Bones, Herring Populations, North Pacific, Pacific Herring, Aims, Biologists, Commercial, Dates, Debate, Depend, Entire, Environmental, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Genetic, Gulf, Has, Management, Marine, Past, Range, Resource, Species, Time.

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Workshop on Improving Local Involvement in Research in Northwest Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas R Okleasik($85,418), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Borough, Alaska, Findings, Future, Involve, Involvement, Local, Northwest, Organizations, Recommendations, Region, Residents, Workshop.

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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Paleoindian Technology in Beringia--A Technological and Morphological Analysis of the Northern Fluted-Point Complex
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Heather L Smith($19,644), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Serpentine Hot Springs, Technology And Morphology, Alaskan Fluted, Alaskan Fluted-point, Fluted Projectile, Fluted-point Complex, Fluted-point Technology, Statistical Expression, Technological Organization, Adaptive, Americas, Analyses, Analysis, Analyzed, Arctic, Assemblage, Assemblages, Based, Beringian, Characterize, Collections, Context, Contexts, Continent, Especially, Features, Fluted-point, Found, Geometric, Has, Human, Investigate, Lithic, Localities, Mobility, Northern, Origins, Paleoindian, Recovered, Regards, Sites.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth: REVEALing a Subterranean Landscape of Fear in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Kevin P Smith($19,696), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Inside Surtshellir, Viking Age, Acts, Archaeological, Cave, Challenging, Chieftains, Describe, Documentation, Fire-giant, Iceland, Icelands, Medieval, REVEAL, Site, Social, Subterranean, Unique, World.

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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Prehistoric Upland Use in the Central Alaska Range
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. John C Blong($29,255), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Central Alaska Range, Susitna River Basin, Upper Susitna River, Archaeological Sites, Upland Landscapes, Ago, Analysis, Carried, Colonization, Context, Human, Less, Lithic, Objectives, Paleoenvironmental, Strategies, Uplands.

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WIS2DOM, Weaving Indigenous and Sustainbility Sciences: Diversifying our Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Andrew D Kliskey($5,040), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
2. Renee P Louis($85,456), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Indigenous And Sustainability, Resilient Landscapes, Common, Dialogue, Knowledge, Learned, Maintain, Ontological, Pis, Practices, Principles, Protocols, Recognize, SDI, Scholars, Spatial, Sustainable, Was, Workshop.

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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Microblades, Bifaces, and the Chindadn Complex: Reinvestigating the Healy Lake Archaeological Record, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Angela M Younie($32,016), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Geological And Cultural, Healy Lake, Lithic Assemblages, Site Organization, Stratigraphic Context, Village Site, Activities, Alaska, Analyses, Archaeological, Beringia, Cooks, Define, Excavations, Involvement, Lindas, Original, Phd, Prehistoric, Prehistory, Significance, TAMU, TCC, Technological.

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Dating an umiak frame from the Birnirk collection, Museum of the North, University of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Evguenia V Anichtchenko($6,106), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Boat Frame, Alaska, Arctic, Assemblage, Birnirk, Fragments, Umiak.

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Secondary education and public archeology as a tool for teaching science, literacy and interpersonal relations across demograhic boundaries
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas E Gillispie($238,628), Tanana Chiefs Conference, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska, Approach, Archaeological, Design, Educational, Field, Management, Student, Students, TCC.

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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Centennial Scale Human Ecodynamics at Skutustadir Iceland
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Megan T Hicks($39,990), CUNY Graduate School University Center, New York
Key terms: Subsistence Practices, Animal, Archaeological, Context, Ecological, Economic, Evidence, History, Iceland, Land, Mcgovern, Settlement, Skútustaðir, Social, Time, Tradition.

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Collaborative Research: Glacial Retreat and the Cultural Landscape of Ice Floe Sealing at Yakutat Bay, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Daniel H Mann($255,424), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Aron L Crowell($316,902), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Harbor Seals, Oral Heritage, Yakutat Bay, Alaska, Camps, Cultural, Glacial, History, Human, Hunting, Indigenous, Knowledge, Landscape, Local, Sealing.

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Comparative Ecodynamics in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands: A GHEA synthesis workshop
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Ben Fitzhugh($49,942), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: North Pacific, Bring, Diverse, Dynamics, Human-environmental, Island, Methods, Preparation, Regions, Scholars, Students, Synthesis, Washington, Workshop.

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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Reconstructing Social Networks in Uncertain Enviornments using Archaeological Ceramics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Ben Fitzhugh($29,088), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Social Organization, Ceramic, Ceramics, Copi, Has, Models, Sourcing, Specifically.

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Resiliance and Recovery from Environmental Disaster in Remote Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Donna Holland($21,845), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Social Factors, Affected, Alaska, Class, Disaster, Eagle, Environmental, Flood, Gender, RAPID, Race, Resilience, Time.

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Ahtna Language Infrastructure and Training (A-LIT)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Liana Charley-John($99,067), Ahtna Heritage Foundation, Glennallen
Key terms: Linguistic Analysis, Access, Ahtna, Available, Documentation, Exist, Has, Language, Pis, Program, Quality, Speakers, Training, Wider.

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Collaborative Research: Impacts of Abrupt Environmental Change on North Pacific Human Ecosystem Dynamics using High Resolution Zooarchaeological Records from Coastal Washington
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Sarah K Campbell($226,862), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Kristine Bovy($74,678), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Virginia L Butler($367,663), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Lower Elwha Klallam, Animal Resources, North Pacific, Northwest Coast, Affected, Ago, Arctic, Deposits, Direct, Earthquakes, Ecodynamics, Environmental, Faunal, Fish, Future, Global, Human, Involved, Link, Local, Mammals, Shellfish, Site, Species, Subsistence, Time, Tse-whit-zen, Wildlife.

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EAGER: Exploratory Research into Nationalism and Nation-Branding in Greenland
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas M Wilson($3,868), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Culture And Identity, Branding Greenland, Exploratory Eager, Approval, Copi, Design, Economic, Efforts, Foundation, Governmental, Greenlands, Independence, Indigenous, Initiated, Kulusuk, Local, Long-term, Nation-branding, Nuuk, Officials, Political, Preliminary, Visit.

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Digital Arctic Community Heritage: For Preservation and Access
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Aaron Presnall($49,990), Thomas Jefferson Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington
Key terms: Archive Digitization, Source Tools, Archival, Arctic, Digital.

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RAPID: Salvage and Processing of Samples from Utqiagvik, Barrow, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Anne M Jensen($19,086), Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), Barrow
Key terms: Archaeological, Artifacts, Barrow, Binghamton, Bulk, Collection, Hall, Items, Organic, Retained, Site, Storage.

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RAPID: Cataloging and Returning to Alaska the NSF funded Tebenkof Bay Project.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Herbert Maschner($23,803), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Alaska, Collection, Dissertation, Was.

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The Potential Contribution of Indigenous Knowledge to Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Jerry Lipka($776,474), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Indigenous Knowledge, Activities, Cultural, Embedded, Endangered, Everyday, Has, IKS, Language, Mathematics, Potential.

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Athabaskan Conference 2012
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Edward J Vajda($21,481), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Athabaskan Languages, ALC, Fostering, Linguists, Washington.

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RAPID: Testing Geophysical Prospection and Mapping Methods for Early Christian Cemeteries in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. John M Steinberg($28,680), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Key terms: Viking Age Christian, Application, Applied, Buried, Cemeteries, EM, Excavation, GPR, Geophysical, Heritage, Iceland, Methodology, Prior, RAPID, Regional, Survey, Turf.

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Inuit Studies Conference October 2012: Learning From the Top of the World
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. William W Fitzhugh($205,147), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Key terms: Wider World, Arctic, Communication, Conference, Digital, Environment, Frozen, ISC, Media, Northern, Participation, Scholars, Sessions, Th, Time.

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Comparative Island Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas H McGovern($746,393), CUNY Graduate School University Center, New York
Key terms: Adaptation, Centuries, Climate, Economic, Education, Environmental, Extinction, Genuinely, Greenland, Human, Lessons, Local, Modern, Norse, Northern, Survival, Sustainability, Sustainable.

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EAGER: James Bay Cree Visual Ethnographic Resource: Digitization of a Collection of a Photographic Archive from 1973
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. George Legrady($211,121), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: James Bay Cree, Field Trip, Online Database, Digitization, EAGER, Ethnographic, Historical, Images, Indigenous, Metadata, Opportunities, Photographs, Range, Repatriation, Selection, Social, Visual, Wemindji.

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Final Reporting for the Wales, Alaska, Archaeology Project
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Roger K Harritt($66,610), RK Harritt and Associates, Anchorage
Key terms: Archaeological, Collection, Completion, Curation, Monograph, Publication, Region, Return, Strait, Wales.

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Pilot Project: A Multidisciplinary Exploratory Study of Alpine Cairns, Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Ralph J Hartley($290,992), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Cairn Sites, Southeast Alaska, Alpine, Archaeology, Cairns, Cultural, Functions, Has, Hunting, Innovative, Insights, Investigation, Native, Oral, Region, Rock, Social, Tlingit, Tribal, USFS, Upland.

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Workshop Travel Support: Pribilof School District's
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Michael A Etnier($2,000), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Bering Sea Days, Introducing Students, Species, Zooarchaeology.

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Climate Change and Community-Based Relocation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Robin Bronen($35,635), Center for International Environmental Law U.S., Washington
Key terms: Health And Well-being, Social And Cultural, Carteret Islands, Participatory Process, Affected, Alaska, Arctic, Assessment, Challenges, Climate, Creating, Critical, Decision, Environmental, Forced, Guinea, Has, Human, Implementing, Indigenous, Knowledge, Local, Newtok, Papua, People, Potential, Processes, Regions, Relocate, Resilience, SIDS, Sea, Start, Step, Sustainability, Underlies, Workshop, Yupik.

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RAPID: Scanning an Orca Skeleton at the Sitka Sound Science Center
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Herbert Maschner($13,682), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Orca Skeleton, Arctic, Center, Collection, Juvenile, March, Opportunity, RAPID, Scan, VZAP.

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RAPID Gardar Collaborative Rescue Project
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Thomas H McGovern($199,017), CUNY Graduate School University Center, New York
Key terms: World Heritage Site, Arctic, Changing, Climate, Conditions, Cultural, Deposits, Ditches, Endangered, Gardar, Greenland, Has, Insights, Intensive, Modern, Nominated, Norse, Organic, Previously, RAPID, Rapidly, Season, Unique, Was.

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Sharing Our Knowledge: A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Steve E Henrikson($50,000), Tlingit Readers, Inc., Juneau
Key terms: Knowledge Conference, Traditional Knowledge, Alaska, Cultural, Education, Experts, Native, Presenters, Scholars, Sharing, Students.

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Travel Support for the 3rd International Conference on Language Education and Diversity (LED 2011)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Sabine Siekmann($20,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Language Education, Language Scholars, Alaska, Conference, John, Ms, Sikorski, Yupik.

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Developing Indigenous Research Methodologies in the Arctic (IRM-A): Examining the Impacts of Settlement on Socialization and Youth Experience in Siberia and Alaska
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Stacy M Rasmus($391,847), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Indigenous, Indigenous Youth, Peer Observation, Aims, Contemporary, Contexts, Cultural, Following, Innovative, Local, Methodologies, Methods, Native, Process, Social.

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Himalayan-Arctic Exchange Phase II: A Workshop to Transfer Methods of Community-Based Monitoring from Nunavut to Nepal
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Henry P Huntington($30,000), Huntington Consulting, Eagle River
Key terms: Arctic Indigenous, Local Residents, Tsum Valley, Approaches, Aspects, Climate, Community-based, Compare, Discuss, Effects, Kathmandu, Methods, Monitoring, Nepal, Peoples, Potential, Regions, Rinjan, Rural, Workshop.

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RAPID - Definitive Dictionary for All Itelmen: Urgent managing of the lexical data archives of Aleksandr Pavlovich Volodin
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. David C Koester($139,585), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Endangered Language, Itelmen Language, Access, Age, Allow, Dictionary, Notes, Russian, Volodin.

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Koniag Alutiiq (EMS) Orthography Project
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. April Counceller($40,572), Alutiiq Heritage Foundation, Kodiak
Key terms: Alaska Native, Heritage Speakers, Alutiiq, Availability, Compile, Create, Fluent, Kodiak, Language, Leer, Orthography, Willingness, Writing.

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EAGER: Assessing Comparative Research of Social Coordination on Russian Arctic Gas Development
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Arthur L Mason($43,940), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Government And Industry, Natural Gas Development, Russian Arctic Natural, Energy Companies, Identifying Access, Industry Leaders, Arthur, EAGER, Expertise, North, Reliance, Uncertainty.

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Antarctica: Micro, Macro and In-between
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Allyson Comstock($1), Comstock Allyson, Opelika
Key terms: Natural World, Antarctica, Create, Feet, Landscape, Macro, Micro, Microscopic, Panel, View.

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An Ark of Questions Sent Sailing South: Poetry from Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Jennifer Martin($1), Martin Jennifer, Brooklyn
Key terms: Antarctic.

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21st Century Antarctica - The Science and Landscape of Palmer Station
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Antarctic Education

1. April Surgent($1), Surgent April, Seattle
Key terms: Field Studies, Antarctic, Artist, Carried, Climate, Engravings, Glass, Importance, Information, Program, Region, Youth.

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Wondering Gondwana
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Larissa Min($1), Min Larissa, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic, Fictional.

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The Hidden Light of Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Diane H Tuft($1), Tuft Diane H, New York
Key terms: Infrared Light Waves, Ultraviolet And Infrared, Antarctica, Daily, Ozone, Photographs.

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Photographs of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Stanley Greenberg($1), Greenberg Stanley, Brooklyn
Key terms: Earlier Projects, Has, Observatory, Universe.

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Natural Curiosities: Poems of Exploration, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Katharine Coles($1), Coles Katharine, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Palmer Station, Antarctica, Nature, Public, Sense.

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Clues to the Cryosphere: Symposium for the National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Christine M Foreman($76,667), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Conference, Exhibit, NSTA, OPP, Symposium.

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Studies of the Impact of Organic Nitrates on Nitrogen Cycling and Aerosol Production
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul B Shepson($565,740), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Alpha And Beta-pinene, Alpha-pinene And Beta-pinene, Oh And Ozone, Aerosol Phase, Air Quality, Atmospheric Nitrogen, Organic Nitrate, Organic Nitrates, Partnering Universities, School Students, Aims, Bvocs, Chemistry, Connect, Gas, Isoprene, Network, Oxidation, Participation, Reaction, SOA, Weather, Yields.

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Collaborative Research: Halogen Activation and Multiphase Chemical Processing in the Continental Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Carolyn Jordan($254,235), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Active Halogen, Continental Air, Halogen Reactivity, Chemical, Chemistry, Chloride, Chlorine, Clno, Cycle, Halogens, Has, Implications, Investigated, Nocturnal, Pathways, Sources.

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Linguistic Ethnography: Gwich'in Caribou Anatomy and Cultural Ecology [ISO 639 gwi]
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: DEL

1. Craig Mishler($259,924), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Caribou, Dialects, Elders, Family, Fort, Gwichin, Knowledge, Language, Living, Names, Plan, Speakers, Subsistence, Traditional.

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Workshop to Identify Significant Uncertainties Concerning the Effects of Climate Change and the Antarctic Toothfish Fishery on the Ross Sea Marine Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: ENVIRONMENT

1. David G Ainley($36,791), H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos
Key terms: Ross Sea, Ecology, Factors, Marine.

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Factors Related to Teacher Retention in Arctic Alaska, an Integral Part of the Circumpolar North
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Barbara L Adams($499,848), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Influence Teacher Retention, Alaskan Native, Arctic Alaska, Findings, Has, Interviews, Practices, Qualitative, Quantitative, Rural, School, Schools, Student, Teachers.

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HF Backscatter from the Polar and Auroral E-Region Ionosphere: Origin, Conjugacy, and Electric Field Control
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Roman Makarevich($323,278), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: E-region Radar Aurora, Auroral E-region, E-region Echoes, E-region Irregularities, E-region Radar, Mcmurdo Radar, Angle, Antarctic, Aspect, Investigations, Magnetic, Observed, Plasma, Polar, Properties, Superdarn, Velocities.

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Collaborative Research: Quantification of Dominant Heat Fluxes in Streams and Rivers in Arctic Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Bethany T Neilson($469,410), Utah State University, Logan
2. Douglas L Kane($303,426), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Instream Temperature Regimes, Quantify Heat Fluxes, Arctic Streams, Instream Temperatures, Lateral Inflows, Alaska, Changing, Climate, Drivers, Hydrologic, Importance, Predict, Sensitivity, Temperate.

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Molecular Level Characterization of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Microbial Diversity in the WAIS Divide Replicate Core
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christine M Foreman($162,266), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Ice Cores, Amount, Carbon, Characterizations, Detailed, Indian, Mentor, Microbial, Molecular, Montana, Protocols, Required.

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Collaborative Research: Studies of Solar Wind - Magnetosphere Interactions using Observations of ULF Waves at an Extensive Ground Array at High Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Viacheslav A Pilipenko($259,345), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
2. Marc R Lessard($197,267), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Harald Frey($33,560), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Antarctic, Arrays, Geospace, Ground, Instruments, Magnetic, Pc, Pulsations, Stations.

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Physiological mechanisms of migratory traits
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Marilyn Ramenofsky($572,001), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Spring And Fall, Fall Migrations, Mechanisms Regulating, Alaska, Bases, Birds, Differences, Migrates, Migratory, Physiological, Preparation, Student, White-crowned.

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Auroral Signatures of Solar wind Magnetospheric Coupling.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Stephen B Mende($338,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Field Lines, Geomagnetic Field, Optical Observations, Solar Wind, Antarctic, Aurora, Auroral, Dayside, Dynamic, Earth, Footprints, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Plasma, Processes, Regions, Satellite, Spacecraft, THEMIS, View, Winter.

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MRI: Development of a High-power, Large Antenna Array and Ultrawideband Radar for a Basler for Sounding and Imaging of Fast-flowing Glaciers and Mapping Internal Layers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Carlton J Leuschen($1,782,320), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Polar Ice Sheets, Cross-track Array, Ice Bed, Ice Thickness, Measure Ice, Surface Clutter, Ultra-wideband Radar, Warming Climate, ATMR, Camera, Characterize, Conditions, Contribute, Core, Cross-track, Developed, Development, Enable, Fine-resolution, Fluctuations, Glaciers, Google, Graduate, Ice-bed, Ice-sheet, Industry, Instrumentation, International, MRI, Mapping, Margins, Models, Observed, Optimum, Partnerships, Predicting, Processes, Range, Required, Resolution, Rough, Short-term, Simulating, Site, Students, Successful, Technology, Topography, Training, Ultra-wideband, Undergraduate, Water.

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MRI: Development of a Thermal Melt Probe System for Extensive, Low-Cost Instrument Deployment at the Bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Dale P Winebrenner($659,301), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Basal Water Pressure, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Melt Probes, Wide Range, Beneath, Dynamic, Greenland, Instrumentation, Networks, Sea, Subglacial, Variable.

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Collaborative Research: P2C2 -- Statistical estimation of past ice sheet volumes from paleo-sea level records
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH CMG

1. Robert E Kopp($466,079), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Jerry Mitrovica($95,519), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Sea Level, Ago, Assessing, Climate, Employ, GSL, Geological, Meltwater, Model, Past, Statistical, Thousand, Uncertainties, Volumes.

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Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Matthew A Lazzara($238,537), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: AWS, Activities, Antarctic, Collection, Continued, Efforts, Wisconsin.

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Collaborative Research - Development and innovation of the Barrow Area Information Database (BAID): A cyberinfrastructure that supports arctic science, outreach and education
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Craig E Tweedie($924,074), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Mark A Parsons($132,199), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Geospatial Information, Land Managers, BAID, Barrow, Cyberinfrastructure, Infrastructure, Online, Region, Services, Students, Users.

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Phase One data rescue of the Austin Post air photo collection and new repeat aerial photography of Alaskan valley glaciers
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Matt Nolan($316,754), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aerial Photo Collection, Austin Post Aerial, Post Aerial Photo, Archival, Archive, Digital, Glaciers, Has, North, Photos, Roll-film, Scanning, Sites.

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RCN-SEES: Building a Research Network for Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability in Russia
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Special Projects - CCF

1. Marlene Laruelle($561,377), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Energy Resource Development, Arctic Urban, Energy Resources, Advice, Cities, Climate, Effort, Examining, Infrastructure, Natural, Policy-makers, Russia, Sustainability, Washington.