Collaborative Research: Influence of natural ice microstructure on rheology in general shear: in-situ studies in the Alaska Range
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Christopher C Gerbi($420,937), University of Maine, Orono
2. Robert L Hawley($218,881), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Crystallographic Fabric, Grain Size, Ice Sheets, Numerical Models, Sea-level Rise, Streaming Ice, Viscous Strength, Cores, Correlation, Derived, Factors, Flow, Glacier, Glaciers, In-situ, Intensity, Microstructure, Orientation, Radar, Rheological, Rivers, Sea-level, Structure, Suggest, Surface, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Is nitrogen fixation widespread in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas?
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jonathan P Zehr($241,549), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Rachel E Sipler($477,988), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Chukchi And Beaufort, Arctic Marine, Beaufort Seas, N2 Fixation, Composition, Conditions, Cruise, Diazotroph, Extent, Favor, Fishing, Growth, Hydrographic, Microbial, Nutrient, Phytoplankton, Populations, Principal, Process, Rate, Rates, Sites, Subsistence, Summer.

Unraveling the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet from its internal radiostratigraphy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Michelle R Koutnik($307,324), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Available, Climate, Evolution, Future, History, Ice-flow, Internal, Radiostratigraphy, Recently, Time.

Collaborative Research: Detecting Glacier Calving Events from Ocean Waves and Underwater Acoustics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Clark Richards($238,995), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Peter Dahl($43,408), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Glacier Calving, Iceberg Calving, Acoustic, Characterizing, Collected, Depend, Detecting, Estimates, Generated, Method, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Winter snow depth as a driver of microbial activity, nutrient cycling, tree growth and treeline advance in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Michael N Weintraub($580,850), University of Toledo, Toledo
2. Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson($1,013,753), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: Soil Nutrient Availability, Winter Snow Depth, Arctic Treeline, Direct Control, Microbial Activity, Shoot Warming, Tree Growth, White Spruce, Activities, Climate, Cold, Correlation, Deeper, Experimental, Importance, Isolate, Lead, Local, Pis, Position, Positive, Predict, School, Seed, Soils, Students, Temperature, Trees.

Collaborative research: Does dissolved organic matter influence the concentrations and distributions of trace elements in the Arctic Ocean?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Karl Kaiser($399,878), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Ronald Benner($180,943), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Continental Runoff, Dissolved Organic, Sea Ice, Trace Metals, Blog, Carbon, Cycling, DOM, Distribution, Distributions, Efforts, Established, Expedition, Expeditions, GEOTRACES, German, Has, Local, Optical, Outreach, Program, Quantify, Students.

Collaborative Research: The combined influence of sea ice and snow cover on Northern Hemisphere atmospheric climate variability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Dara Entekhabi($284,248), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ice And Snow, Initiation And Maintenance, Annular Mode, Atmospheric Climate, Dominant Mode, Model Output, Quantitative Assessment, Sea Ice, Snow Cover, Time Scales, Combined, Development, Experiments, Focuses, High-latitude, Hypothesized, Influence, Lead, Pathways, Pis, Prediction, Reanalysis, Seasonal, Similar, Weather, Winter.

The Combined Influence of sea ice and snow cover on Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Judah Cohen($299,938), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Ice And Snow, Initiation And Maintenance, Annular Mode, Atmospheric Climate, Dominant Mode, Model Output, Quantitative Assessment, Sea Ice, Snow Cover, Time Scales, Combined, Development, Experiments, Focuses, High-latitude, Hypothesized, Influence, Lead, Pathways, Pis, Prediction, Reanalysis, Seasonal, Similar, Weather, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Simulated Arctic Freshwater System in CMIP5 Models, the CESM Large Ensemble, and Forced Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Bruno Tremblay($60,247), Columbia University, New York
2. Marika Holland($351,004), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Arctic Fw Budget, Arctic Ocean Fw, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, 21st Century, Climate Models, Fram Strait, Future Projections, Fw Tracers, Sea Ice, Simulated Fw, Switchyard Region, Allow, Analysis, CESM, CMIP, Compared, Comparison, Does, Dynamics, Ensemble, Freshwater, Internal, Lead, Observations, Public, Simulations, Sources, Uncertainty.

Late Season Productivity, Carbon, and Nutrient Dynamics in a Changing Arctic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Burke Hales($1,159,146), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Particulate And Dissolved, Arctic Ocean, Biological Pump, Dissolved Organic, Inorganic Carbon, Late Summer, Sea Ice, Approach, Bottom, Capture, Collect, Cruises, DIC, DOC, Dedicated, Distributions, Ecosystem, Episodic, Fall, Field, Increased, NCP, Net, Nutrient, Nutrients, Observations, Oxygen, POC, PP, Primary, Processes, Productivity, Program, Rates, Regional, Season, Sled, Stocks, Surface, Teachers, Towed, Vertical, Water, Waters.

CAREER: South Greenland's Holocene Climate History Reconstructed Using Three Paleolimnological Approaches
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Yarrow Axford($598,048), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Climate, Ice Sheet, Mass Balance, Past Climate, Precipitation Isotopes, Sustained Climate, Temperature Reconstructions, Advance, Arctic, Assess, Based, Beyond, Chironomid, Contributing, Development, Effort, Efforts, Emerging, Especially, Five, Future, Glacial, Glacier, Greenland, Holocene, International, K-, Lakes, Local, Potential, Quantitative, Responds, STEM, Students, Trends.

Collaborative research: Spatial and temporal variability of surface albedo and light absorbing chemical species in Greenland.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Michael H Bergin($45,835), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Elemental Carbon, Snow Zone, Spectral Albedo, Absorption, Chemical, Compounds, Concentrations, Greenland, Grit, Light, Properties, Range, Route, Surface, Temporal, Traverse, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Evolution of Arctic Water Column Hydrography during the Holocene Based on a Novel Instrumentation Combination
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Reinhard Kozdon($267,094), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Howard J Spero($298,332), University of California-Davis, Davis
3. Reinhard Kozdon($267,094), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arctic Water Column, Sea Ice Minimum, Water Column Hydrography, Water Column Stratification, Water Mass Stratification, Analytical Approach, Arctic Ocean, Laser-ablation Icp-ms, Mass Spectrometry, Multi-instrument Approach, Nps Shells, Ontogenetic Development, Sea-ice Cover, Applied, Approaches, Calcite, Chambers, Cores, Decades, Depth, Developed, Domains, Halocline, Has, Holocene, ICP-MS, Individual, Information, Innovative, Intrashell, Laser-ablation, Layer, Mid-holocene, Multi-instrument, Past, Proxy, Reconstruct, SIMS, Salinity, Sea-ice, Surface.

Response of high-latitude forests to a warmer and CO2-enriched atmosphere: tree rings in a process-based model
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Robert D Field($579,971), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atmospheric, Carbon, Delc, Delo, Environmental, Forest, Growth, Information, Long-term, Maideniso, Model, Natural, Principal, Relative, School, Students, Temperature, Traditional, Tree-ring.

Quantifying Rates of Biological Production to Better Understand the Carbon Cycle in the Canada Basin
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Rachel Stanley($119,409), Wellesley College, Wellesley Hills
Key terms: Ice Edge Blooms, Triple Oxygen Isotopes, Arctic Ocean, Canada Basin, Carbon Cycle, Gross Primary, Quantify Rates, Sea Ice, Biological, Changing, Defined, Net, Photosynthesis, Ratio, Recycling, Respiration.

Scientific Studies from a Network of Sustainable, Robotic Observatories Across the Antarctic Ice-shelf: A New Approach to Polar Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Allan T Weatherwax($105,484), Siena College, Loudonville
2. Andrew J Gerrard($1,948,388), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic, Fluxgate Magnetometer, Geomagnetic Disturbances, Polar Cap, Polar Caps, Boundary, Dynamics, Environment, Etc, Geospace, Has, Hemisphere, Instrumentation, Magnetometers, OCB, Regions, Satellites, Solar, Space, Specific, Structures, Synoptic, Vital.

Continental-Scale Studies of Mesospheric Dynamics using the Antarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network (ANGWIN)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Michael J Taylor($750,000), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Middle And Upper, Antarctic Continent, Gravity Waves, Upper Atmosphere, Air, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Circulation, Drivers, Dynamics, Effects, Field, Generation, Importance, Instrumentation, Knowledge, Mcmurdo, Propagation, Sources, Stations, Weather.

Earth's Electromagnetic Environment: Advancing Recent Discoveries in Auroral Plasma Radio Emission Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. James W LaBelle($175,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Charged Particles, Electromagnetic Phenomena, Magnetic Field, Natural Electromagnetic, Solar Wind, Advance, Antarctica, Auroral, Discoveries, Discovery, Earth, Environment, Frequency, Geospace, Knowledge, Observed, Plasma, Polar, Radiation.

Antarctic and Conjugate Research using SuperDARN
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. William A Bristow($1,914,635), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Ionospheric Convection, Magnetic Field, Polar Caps, Polar Regions, Solar Wind, Superdarn Radars, Coupling, Currents, Dayside, Earth, Flow, Geospace, Ionosphere, Nsf-funded, Observe, Plasma, Respective, Strong, Structures, Via.

Troposphere-Ionosphere Coupling via Atmospheric Gravity Waves
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Dima Paznukhov($864,803), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Atmospheric Gravity Waves, Density Irregularities, Hf Signal, Numerical Model, Antarctica, Information, Ionospheric, Observed, Plasma, Troposphere.

Collaborative Research: Synoptic Geospace Systems Analysis Utilizing Instrumentation from South Pole and McMurdo Stations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Michele W McColgan($185,362), Siena College, Loudonville
Key terms: Entire Geospace, Solar Wind, Antarctica, Deployed, ELF, Fluxgate, GPS, Has, ITM, Imager, Instrumentation, Instruments, MCM, Operation, Phenomena, Physics, Receivers, Region, SPA, Scintillation, Simultaneous, Spacecraft, Utilizing.

Above, Below and Within the Ice
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Helen Glazer($1), Glazer Helen, Owings Mills
Key terms: Antarctic Program, Unique Features, Antarctica, Appreciation, Audiences, Continent, Global, Interactions, Landscape, Media, Processes, Technologies, Wide.

Portraits of Place in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Shaun O'Boyle($1), O'Boyle Shaun, Dalton
Key terms: Antarctic Program, Extreme Weather, Antarctica, Buildings, Field, Look, Nations, Stations, Structures, Time, Various.

Persistence of Vision: Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Patricia Suchy($1), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Antarctic Program, Century Ago, Allow, Appreciation, Create, Experience, Exploration, Has, Heroic, NSF, Participants.

Support to Transition the Cold Regions Bibliography and the Antarctic Bibliography to mainstream bibliographic search systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Sharon N Tahirkheli($107,704), American Geological Institute, Alexandria
Key terms: Cold Regions Bibliography, Internet Search Engines, Antarctic Bibliography, Search Software, Searchable Bibliographic, Web Site, Access, Advances, Current, Database, Databases, Formats, Has, Maintain, Peer-reviewed, Plan, Polar, Publication.

EAGER: Surface Variability and Spectral Analyses of the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Mark R Salvatore($87,607), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Antarctic And Planetary, Geologic Mapping Efforts, Polar Geospatial Center, Polar Rock Repository, Shackleton Glacier Camp, Atmospheric Correction, Field Camp, Orbital Dataset, Previous Geologic, Spectral Mapping, Transantarctic Mountains, Ability, Biologic, Continent, Detailed, Existing, Factor, Has, Imagery, Investigations, Lead, Maps, Multispectral, Near, Refinements, Region, Remote, Resolution, Resolutions, Satellite, Validation, Worldview-.

Investigating Early Miocene Sub-ice Volcanoes in Antarctica for Improved Modeling and understanding of a Large Magmatic Province
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Kurt S Panter($190,185), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green
Key terms: East Antarctic Ice, Gorce Mountains, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Sea Level, Antarctica, Beneath, Continent, Disseminated, Dynamics, Erupted, Establishing, Future, Geochemical, Has, Information, Investigate, Past, Precise, Processes, Ridge, Similar, Stability, Student, Students, Surface, Thermal, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volcanoes, WARS, Was.

Organic Carbon Oxidation and Iron Remobilization by West Antarctic Shelf Sediments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. David J Burdige($780,391), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Antarctic Shelf Ecosystem, Iron And Manganese, Organic Carbon Oxidation, Organic Matter Oxidation, West Antarctic Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, Iron Release, Shelf Region, Vertical Distributions, Water Column, Allow, Content, Diagenetic, Dissolved, Dramatic, Estimate, LTER, Mobilization, Overall, Oxygen, Processes, Productivity, Rates, Regional, Rich, Sediment, Sediments, Set, Site, Sites, Species, Total, Variety, Waters.

Magma Sources, Residence and Pathways of Mount Erebus Phonolitic Volcano, Antarctica, from Magnetotelluric Resistivity Structure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Philip E Wannamaker($468,657), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Commercial Platforms, Leverages Imaging, Methods Developed, Mount Erebus, Resistivity Structure, Snow-covered Terrains, Allows, Based, Boundary, Co-i, Compositions, Deposits, Description, EM, Earth, Effort, Electrical, Electromagnetic, Eruption, Field, Geophysical, Implements, Interfaced, Interior, Japan, Lava, MT, Magma, Magmatic, Magnetotelluric, Mantle, Phonolite, Post-doctoral, Range, Rare, Settings, Snow-covered, Source, Staging, Steep, Technology, Utah, Vesuvius, Volcanic, Volcano, Zealand.

Petrologic Constraints on Subduction Termination From Lamprophyres, Ross Orogen, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. John M Cottle($257,128), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Deep Crustal, Igneous Rocks, School Students, Subduction Zone, Transantarctic Mountains, Upper Mantle, Age, Antarctica, Cease, Composition, Emplaced, Focus, Foundering, Geologic, Graduate, Highly, Information, Lamprophyres, Mechanisms, Melting, Plate, Process, Remains, Reveal, Tectonic, Termination, Time, Timing.

Curation Of National Antarctic Sediment Collections
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Sherwood W Wise($598,004), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Antarctic Marine Geology, Archives And Curates, Antarctic Program, Nsf Repository, Piston Cores, Sediment Cores, AMGRF, Collection, Continue, Curator, Database, Equipment, Facility, Florida, Funding, Has, Information, Ocean, Past, Programs, Public, Publications, Sampling, Services, Southern, Students, USAP, Users, Vessels.

Diatom and Oxygen Isotope Evidence of Pliocene Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics and Ross Sea Paleoceanography
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Justin P Dodd($211,337), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Diatom Oxygen Isotope, And-1b Core, Benthic Foraminifera, Diatom Silica, Isotope Values, Ocean Dynamics, Ross Sea, AND-B, Conditions, Constrain, Continent, Global, Pliocene, Sediment, Students, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Suite of Proxies to Detect Past Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Anders E Carlson($417,112), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Brian L Beard($50,002), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Tectonic And Metamorphic, West Antarctic Ice, Antarctic Peninsula, Detrital Sediments, Magnetic Properties, Provenance Proxies, Provenance Signatures, Wais Collapse, Continent, Core, Detect, Discharged, Drift, Geochemical, Geologic, Past, Ross, Sea, Sources, Terrane, Terranes, Tools, Unstable.

Erebus Volcano: Ccharacterizing a Subglacial Hydrothermal System and Potential effects on Carbon Dioxide Degassing
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Tobias P Fischer($280,423), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Colder Periods, Glaciated Volcanoes, Ice Caves, Magmatic Gases, Volcano's Flanks, Active, Amount, Atmosphere, Below, Classes, Degassing, Earth, Emissions, Erebus, Hydrothermal, Investigate, Liquid, Processes, Teaching, Temperature, Volcanic, Volcanos.

Collaborative Research: Multidisciplinary Analysis of Antarctic Blue Ice Moraine Formation and their Potential as Climate Archives over Multiple Glacial Cycles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Kathy J Licht($301,647), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Gisela Winckler($259,958), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Blue Ice Moraine, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Graduate And Undergraduate, Ice Moraine Formation, Ice Flow, Ice Sheet, Moraine Debris, Undergraduate Students, Achernar, Analyses, Analysis, Antarctic, Antarctica, Antarcticas, Focus, Glacier, Global, History, Imaging, Internal, Modeling, Models, Moraines, Mt, Numerical, Processes, Rock, Structure, Time, Training.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Upstream Ice and Firn Dynamics affecting the South Pole Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Erich Osterberg($619,086), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Michelle R Koutnik($783,353), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ice And Gas, South Pole Ice-core, Water Stable Isotopes, Accumulation Rate, Atmospheric Gases, Drill Site, Gas Chronologies, Ice Core, Ice Sheet, Infer Histories, Internal Layers, Past Climate, Pole Ice-core, Spatial Gradients, Surface Temperature, Upstream Catchment, Assess, Compaction, Constrain, Critical, Define, Drive, Firn, Ice-flow, Measure, Models, Modern, Set, Snowfall.

Impact of Supraglacial Lakes on Ice-Shelf Stability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Douglas R MacAyeal($295,399), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Shelves, Energy And Water-balance, Filling And Draining, Floating Ice Shelves, Ice Shelf Surface, Mcmurdo Ice Shelf, Provisional Field Season, Shelf Surface Lake, Field Season, Global Positioning, Ice-shelf Breakup, Meltwater Lakes, Supraglacial Lake, Surface Lakes, Allow, Antarctica, Antarcticas, Behavior, Bending, Break-up, Capsize, Changing, Climate, Computer, Conditions, Continued, Contribute, Decade, Encouraged, Energy-, Experimentally, Flexure, Fracture, Fragments, GPS, Glaciological, Ice-shelf, Larsen, Load, Melting, Models, Observational, Observed, Outreach, Prior, Processes, Promote, Stress, Subsequently, Surrounding, Theory, Thousands, Vertical, Viscoelastic, Widths.

Collaborative Research: Potential Direct Geologic Constraint of Ice Sheet Thickness in the Central Transantarctic Mountains during the Pliocene Warm Period
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Gordon Bromley($297,352), University of Maine, Orono
2. Gregory A Balco($98,140), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, East Antarctic Ice, Pliocene Warm Period, Sites Immediately Adjacent, Glacial Deposits, Ice-sheet Behavior, Long-term Ice-sheet, Transantarctic Mountains, Warmer-than-present Climate, Cosmogenic, Geologic, Ice-sheet, Investigation, Long-term, Past, Periods, Rise, Warmer-than-present, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Window into the World with 40,000-year Glacial Cycles from Climate Records in Million Year-old Ice from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Paul A Mayewski($151,529), University of Maine, Orono
2. John A Higgins($576,235), Princeton University, Princeton
3. Edward J Brook($98,851), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Allan Hills Blue, Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, Hills Blue Ice, Main Ice Field, Million Year-old Ice, 000-year World, Antarctic Climate, Ice Cores, Million Year-old, Previous Field, Recovered Ice, Year-old Ice, Ages, Ago, Ancient, Antarctica, Arar, Argon, Aridity, Atmospheric, Bedrock, Composition, Continuity, Date, Direct, Earth, Gases, Global, Isotope, Issues, Measuring, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Plan, Properties, Ratios, Sites, Sources, Temperature, Trapped, Was, Yold.

Collaborative Research: Allan HILLs Englacial Site (AHILLES) Selection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Nicole Spaulding($35,594), University of Maine, Orono
2. Howard B Conway($124,396), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Allan Hills Blue, Ground Penetrating Radar, Hills Blue Ice, Million-plus Year-old Continuous, Allen Hills, Continuous Climate, Flow Line, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Million-plus Year-old, Year-old Continuous, Allow, Antarctica, Beyond, Collected, Collection, Cycles, Drill, Drilling, Map, Past, Recovered, Resulting, Select, Site, Yold.

Collaborative Research: Inert Gas and Methane Based Climate Records throughout the South Pole Deep Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Todd A Sowers($412,158), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($411,517), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Edward J Brook($150,118), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Age-ice Age Difference, Gas Age-ice Age, Pole Ice Core, South Pole Ice, Age-ice Age, Deep Core, Firn Air, Firn Densification, Gas Age-ice, Gas Chronology, Glacial Period, Greenhouse Gas, Ice Cores, Inert Gases, Trace Gases, Accuracy, Add, Amplification, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Dn, Enhanced, Feedbacks, Future, Gaps, Ice-core, Impurities, Independent, Layering, Lead, Low, Measured, Methane, Million, Past, Temperature, Timing, Trapped.

Collaborative Research: Grounding Line Dynamics: Crary Ice Rise Revisited
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Paul Winberry($134,962), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
2. Michelle R Koutnik($430,019), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Crary Ice Rise, Field Observations, Grounding Line, Ice Sheet, Ice Streams, Ross Sea, Sea Sector, West Antarctica, Collapse, Discharge, Dynamical, Dynamics, Ice-sheet, Model, Models, Numerical, Past, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Retreat in the Amundsen Sea Embayment: Assessing Controlling Processes, Uncertainties, and Projections
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. David Pollard($460,057), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Ryan T Walker($148,022), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
3. Mathieu Morlighem($116,921), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Amundsen Sea Embayment, Sea Embayment Sector, Ice Sheet, Ice-sheet Model, Long-term Stability, Sea Level, West Antarctic, Ability, Available, Basal, Centuries, Collapse, Controlling, Decades, Errors, Flow, Forcings, Future, Global, Hindcast, Ice-sheet, Long-term, Modeling, Models, Observations, Ocean, Parameterizations, Predictions, Processes, Produce, Projections, Range, Region, Sea-level, Sensitivity, Suggesting, Theory, Uncertainties, Uncertainty, Unknown.

EXPROBE-WAIS: Exposed Rock Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, A Test for Interglacial Ice Sheet Collapse
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. John O Stone($376,812), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bedrock Surfaces, Climate Conditions, Climatic Conditions, Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Ice-sheet Thinning, West Antarctica, Age, Allow, Analysis, Beneath, Capable, Collected, Cores, Cosmic, Definitive, Depths, Drilling, Evidence, Half-lives, Has, Ice-free, Ice-sheet, Isotopes, Past, Periods, Sea-level, Thinned, WAIS, Warmer.

Using Electrical Conductance Measurements to Develop the South Pole Ice Core Chronology
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edwin D Waddington($200,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Pole Ice Core, South Pole Ice, Electrical Conductance, Ice Cores, Antarctica, Atmospheric, Climate, Continuous, Eruption, Essential, Gases, Layering, Layers, National, Past, Timescale, Volcanic.

Collaborative Research: Record of the Triple-oxygen Isotope and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Ice from an Ice Core at South Pole
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Eric J Steig($524,918), University of Washington, Seattle
2. James W White($260,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic Climate, Ice Core, South Pole, Stable-isotope Ratios, Antarctica, Distinct, Fractionation, Obtain, Oxygen, Public, Stable-isotope, Temperature, Water.

Carbonyl Sulfide, Methyl Chloride, and Methyl Bromide Measurements in the New Intermediate-depth South Pole Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Murat Aydin($596,900), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Chloride And Methane, Chloride And Methyl, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Atmospheric Levels, Atmospheric Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Carbonyl Sulfide, Earth's Climate, Glacial Period, Holocene Period, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Methyl Bromide, Methyl Chloride, Past Atmospheric, South Pole, Taylor Dome, Trace Gas, Trace Gases, Atmosphere, Composition, Corrections, Existing, Expected, History, Hydrolysis, Natural, Primary, Processes, Respect, Stratospheric.

Collaborative Research: South Pole Ice Core Chronology and Climate Records using Chemical and Microparticle Measurements
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Karl J Kreutz($424,398), University of Maine, Orono
2. Erich Osterberg($440,584), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Jihong Cole-Dai($435,545), South Dakota State University, Brookings
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, Strength And Position, South Pole, Southern Ocean, Antarctica, Climate, Concentrations, Critical, Dust, Flux, Investigate, Modern, Size, Students, Time, Trace, Wind.

Controls on Variations in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide During the Last 10,000 years
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edward J Brook($432,410), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Nitrous Oxide, Atmosphere, Climate, Efforts, Existing, Gases, Holocene, Isotopic, Processes, Stable, Student, Utility.

A Study of the Tidal Modulation of Ice-shelf Flow using a Viscoelastic Model of the Ross Ice Shelf
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Kelly M Brunt($80,931), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ross Ice Shelf, Viscous And Elastic, West Antarctic Ice, Tidal Modulation, Flow, Ice-sheet, Ice-shelf, Model, Ocean, Portion, Seaward.

Collaborative Research: Using Stable Isotopes to Constrain the Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Budget over the Last 20,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. John E Mak($249,797), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Vasilii V Petrenko($120,000), University of Rochester, Rochester
Key terms: Atmospheric Conditions, Carbon Monoxide, Atmosphere, Budget, Composition, Earth, Human, Past, Program, Reconstruct, Sources.

RAPID: Observing the Disintegration of the Scar Inlet Ice Shelf
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Erin C C Pettit($229,344), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Inlet Ice Shelf, Scar Inlet Ice, Antarctic, Antarctica, Anticipated, Break-up, Capture, Collect, Conditions, Current, Disintegration, Effects, Field, Future, Has, Instruments, Larsen, Mechanisms, Observations, Observing, Processes, Remnant, SIIS, Weakened, Weather.

Collaborative Research: THE MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS: A landscape on the Threshold of Change
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Michael N Gooseff($59,081), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Geosciences Directorate, Antarctic, Baseline, Buried, Collected, Collection, Compared, DEM, Dramatic, Elevation, Energy, Facility, Field, High-resolution, Ice, Imagery, Images, LIDAR, Map, Models, NCALM, National, Program, Provided, Public, Resolution, Sediment-covered, Tool, Via.

Environmental Assessment of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future; Colorado State University, May 2016
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. John C Priscu($92,935), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Environmental Stewardship, Activities, Antarctica, Assess, Balance, Carefully, Continent, Contractors, Decade, Discuss, Formally, Global, Has, Human, Ice, Increased, Integrity, Levels, MDV, Region, Specially, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Ross Ocean and Ice Shelf Environment and Tectonic setting Through Aerogeophysical Surveys and Modeling (ROSETTA-ICE)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Christine S Siddoway($164,441), Colorado College, Colorado Springs
2. Kirsteen J Tinto($2,414,599), Columbia University, New York
3. Scott R Springer($661,053), Earth and Space Research, Seattle
4. Helen A Fricker($567,819), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice Shelf Region, Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctic Ice, Land Ice, Lc-130 Aircraft, Acquired, Antarctica, Beneath, Climate, Critical, Dynamics, Future, Global, Icepod, Interdisciplinary, Ocean, Operating, ROSETTA-ICE, Stability, Students, Thickness, WAIS, Water.

Extending the Capabilities for Fully Coupled Land-Ice Simulations within the Community Earth System Model
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Mariana Vertenstein($116,288), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Ice Sheets, Land Ice, Accurate, Allow, Assess, CESM, Coastal, Component, Development, Future, Long-term, Model, Models, Projections.

Collaborative Research: Assessing Changing Patterns of Human Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys using Digital Photo Archives
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Andrew G Fountain($186,968), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Environmental Management, Historical Photographs, Human Activities, Human Activity, Photo Archive, Private Collections, Analysis, Archives, Changing, Database, Field, Future, Has, Information, MDV, Polar, Region, Sampling, Sites, Spatial, Time, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Global Climate Response to Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Robert M DeConto($692,694), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. David Pollard($71,417), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Discharge And Iceberg, Fresh Water Discharge, Global Ocean Circulation, Ice And Fresh, Water And Ice, Climate Model, Enormous Volumes, Global Climate, Iceberg Calving, Mesoscale Eddies, Model Simulations, Southern Ocean, Thick Ice, Abrupt, Accurately, Assess, Atlantic, Attention, Below, CCSM, Capable, Collapse, Coupled, Establish, Formation, Freshwater, Future, Greenland, Has, Increased, Land, Melting, Models, Nfuture, Numerical, Observations, Rapid, Resolution, Retreat, Temperatures, Transport, Triggered, Vulnerable, WAIS.

High Resolution Heterogeneity at the Base of Whillans Ice Stream and its Control on Ice Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Slawek M Tulaczyk($219,289), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Basal Shear Stress, Fast Ice, Ice Flow, Ice Sheet, Ice Stream, Sticky Spots, Bed, Controls, Cruz, Dynamics, Extended, Length, Level, Local, Middle, Monitoring, Motion, Observations, Period, Polar, Processes, Properties, Resistance, Rise, School, Seismic, Students, Surface, Velocity, WIS, Water.

EAGER: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Habitability of Antarctic Lakes and Detectability of Microbial Life in Icy Environments by Aautonomous Year-round Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Peter T Doran($45,600), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Permanent Ice Cover, Dry Valleys, Lake Bonney, Liquid Water, Antarctic, Antarctica, Autonomous, Deployment, Dissolved, EAGER, Equipment, Instruments, LTER, Measure, Microbial, NASA, NSF, National, Polar, Properties, Yround.

Impact of Convective Processes and Sea Ice Formation on the Distribution of Iron in the Ross Sea: Closing the Seasonal Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Peter N Sedwick($394,174), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Ross Sea, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Fe, K-, Outreach, Teachers, Time, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Role of Mesoscale Processes and Ice Dynamics in Carbon and Iron Fluxes in a Changing Amundsen Sea (INSPIRE)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Sharon E Stammerjohn($50,005), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Pierre St-Laurent($154,951), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Robert M Sherrell($49,996), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
4. Patricia L Yager($49,974), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Amundsen Sea Polynya, Antarctic Ice Shelf, Continental Shelf, Shelf Regions, Circumpolar, Exhibits, Model, Teacher, Teachers.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Iron-inding Ligands in Southern Ocean Diatom Communities: The Role of Diatom-Bacteria Associations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Kristen N Buck($276,593), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Phoebe D Chappell($370,537), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
3. Bethany D Jenkins($400,430), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Carbon Cycling, Diatom Growth, Food Web, Iron-binding Compounds, Middle School, Strong Iron-binding, Available, Bacteria, Biogeochemistry, Biological, Climate, Critical, Diatoms, Girls, Iron-binding, Limited, Natural, Nutrient, Ocean, Photosynthetic, Phytoplankton, Productivity, Ratios, Region, Sources, Surface, Training, Waters.

Antarctic Sea Ice Variability in the Southern Ocean-Climate System: A Workshop
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Amanda Staudt($50,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Antarctic Sea Ice, Climate, Current, Extent, Increase, Observations, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: First Scientific Priorities from the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Johannes Verlinde($241,985), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. David H Bromwich($300,000), Ohio State University, Columbus
3. Lynn M Russell($603,807), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cloud Cover, Energy Balance, Lower Latitudes, Wais Divide, West Antarctica, ARM, AWARE, Advanced, Air, Annual, Climatological, Meteorological, Observing, Organized, Rise, Ross, Teachers, Teleconnections, Warming.

Collaborative Research: The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Colm Sweeney($119,477), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Britton Stephens($555,236), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Eric Kort($320,001), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
4. Ralph F Keeling($399,961), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Air-sea Exchange, Southern Ocean, Air-sea, Models, ORCAS, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Contribution of Prydz Bay Shelf Water to Antarctic Bottom Water Formation
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Xiaojun Yuan($359,059), Columbia University, New York
2. Ruoying He($301,880), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Dense Shelf Water, Antarctic Continent, Prydz Bay, AABW, Chinese, Circulation, Component, Export, Fieldwork, Global, Ice, Investigate, Ocean, Overturning, Processes, Region, Remote.

Rebreather Testing for the United States Antarctic Scientific Diving Program
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. John Heine($57,952), Jacksonville University, Jacksonville
Key terms: Highly Stratified, Rebreather Technology, Sea Ice, Advantage, Antarctic, Bubbles, Diving, Lakes, Less, Limited, Mcmurdo, Mixing, Models, Non-polar, Rebreathers, SCUBA, USAP.

Collaborative Research: Biological Adaptations to Environmental Change in Antarctica - An Advanced Training Program for Early Career Scientists
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Deneb Karentz($238,171), University of San Francisco, San Francisco
2. Donal T Manahan($340,706), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Early-career Scientists, Mcmurdo Station, Training Courses, Antarctic, Antarctica, Early-career, Experiments, Field, Hands-on, Opportunity, Organisms, Participants, Polar, Students, Wide.

EAGER: RUI: Functional Characterization of Micro RNAs and their Role in the Cellular Stress Response of Polar Fish
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Sean P Place($99,972), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
Key terms: Cellular Stress, Non-coding Rnas, Regulatory Control, Southern Ocean, Abundance, Acid, Biology, Capacity, Changing, Expanded, Expression, Fish, Fishes, Functional, Has, Insight, Light, Mirna, Mirnas, Molecular, Non-coding, Non-model, Organism, Play, Students, Temperatures, Transcripts.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Holocene Shifts in the Diets and Paleohistory of Antarctic Krill Predators
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Steven D Emslie($424,576), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
2. Michael J Polito($452,468), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
3. Kelton McMahon($399,273), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Antarctic Marine Ecosystem, Diets And Population, Seals And Whales, Antarctic Krill, Antarctic Predator, Food Web, Global Climate, Historic Harvesting, Krill Predators, Population Movements, Predator Tissues, Stable Isotope, Advanced, Allow, Antarctica, Availability, Biogeochemistry, Commercial, Commercially, Ecology, Historical, Millennia, Modern, Past, Penguin, Penguins, Range, Shifts, Species, Students, Techniques, Track, Training.

Effects of Temperature on Phytoplankton Growth Rates
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Walker O Smith($277,202), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Global Models, Maximum Growth, Temperatures Encountered, Activities, Antarctic, Assess, Derived, Effects, Experiments, Future, Involve, Oceanic, Phytoplankton, Polar, Profound, Public, Rate, Rates, Variable, Warmer, Waters.

Unraveling the Genomic and Molecular Basis of the Dive Response: Nitric Oxide Signaling and Vasoregulation in the Weddell Seal
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Allyson Hindle($840,180), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Key terms: Low Oxygen Conditions, Blood Vessel, Local Blood, Weddell Seal, Weddell Seals, Ability, Allow, Antarctic, Based, Biologists, Breath-hold, Cardiovascular, Cell, Cells, Control, Dive, Diving, Flow, Generate, Genes, Genomic, Heart, Information, Molecular, Periods, Physiological, Pressure, Public, Resulting, Signaling, Specific, Sustain, Thrive, Tissues, Underlying, Unravel.

Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes: Sentinel Taxa for Southern Ocean Warming
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Harry W Detrich($1,254,470), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Red Blood Cells, Temporal And Spatial, Antarctic Fish, Antarctic Fishes, Elevated Temperatures, Embryonic Morphology, Gene Expression, White-blooded Fishes, Aim, Aims, Analysis, Antarctica, Assessing, Cold, Cooling, Determined, Development, Developmental, Educational, Effects, Embryos, Examined, Genes, Genetic, Life, Loss, Objective, Organisms, Public, Toolkits, Training, White-blooded.

Collaborative Research: Fjord Ecosystem Structure and Function on the West Antarctic Peninsula - Hotspots of Productivity and Biodiversity? (FjordEco)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Brian S Powell($796,774), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Peter Winsor($962,297), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Maria Vernet($673,636), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Field And Modeling, Structure And Function, Antarctic Fjords, Ecosystem Structure, Fjord Ecosystem, Fjord Ecosystems, Integrated Field, Rapidly Warming, Water Column, Arctic, Biological, Bottom, Charismatic, Climate, Cruises, Dynamics, Enhanced, Forcing, Glacial, Graduate, Inputs, Intense, Oceanographic, Outreach, Peninsula, Processes, Program, Sea, Seafloor, Sensitivity, Training.

Collaborative Research: Adaptive Responses of Phaeocystis populations in Antarctic Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Anton F Post($191,039), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Antarctica, Distribution, International, Students.

Analysis of Voltage-gated Ion Channels in Antarctic Fish
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Harold H Zakon($544,756), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Amino Acid Substitutions, Human Ion Channels, Nerves And Muscles, Gene Discovery, Notothen Vgics, Temperate Zone, Activity, Allow, Animals, Antarctica, Biophysical, Close, Cold, Electrical, Fish, Freezing, Function, Humans, Icefish, Information, Molecular, Proteins, Public, Sites, Specific, Students, Temperatures, Transitions.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Ship-based Technical Support in the Arctic (CY2014-2018): Science Services for Research onboard USCGC Healy
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Daryl L Swensen($1,125,830), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Arctic, Bathymetric, Complete, Coordinate, Cruises, Efficient, Ensure, Equipment, Healy, Mapping, Multi-beam, OSU, SIO, Services, USCG, Upgrades.

Collaborative Research: Ship-based Science Technical Support in the Arctic 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Daryl L Swensen($601,034), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Sio And Osu, Arctic Cruise, Shipboard Technical, Available, Coordinator, Equipment, Marine, NSF, STS, UNOLS, USCG.

The Carbon Balance of Arctic River Deltas: Tundra Fire as an Agent of System Change
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. John D Schade($198,500), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
Key terms: Aquatic And Marine, Arctic River Deltas, Terrestrial And Aquatic, Carbon Storage, Carbon Stored, Delta Carbon, Fire Frequency, Yk Delta, Yukon-kuskokwim Delta, Atmosphere, Burned, Climate, Critical, Ecosystems, Gt, Immediate, Long-term, Permafrost, Transport, Tundra, Vulnerability, Warming, Yukon-kuskokwim.

Collaborative Research: A Field Campaign to Promote integration Between the Sea Ice Observational and Modeling Communities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Donald K Perovich($75,608), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Marika Holland($3,528), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Observational And Modeling, Sea Ice Cover, Sea Ice Observations, Large-scale Models, Ability, Activities, Alaska, Barrow, Conditions, Course, Discussions, Excellent, Field, Future, Gain, Hold, Importance, Interdisciplinary, Large-scale, Local, Observing, Ongoing, Opportunity, Presentations, Residents, Stages, Strong, Treatment, Tremendous.

Collaborative Research: Ice sheet sensitivity in a changing Arctic system - using data and modeling to test the stable Greenland Ice Sheet hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Mathieu Morlighem($692,285), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Jesse V Johnson($259,030), University of Montana, Missoula
3. Elizabeth K Thomas($778,963), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
4. Joerg M Schaefer($751,359), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Global Sea Level, Greenland Ice Sheet, Gris And Global, Gris Mass Loss, Ice Sheet Modeling, Increased Arctic Precipitation, Numerical Ice Sheet, Sea Level Rise, Climate Reconstructions, Public Outreach, Relatively Stable, Sea Ice, Sub-ice Topography, Warm Periods, Warming Arctic, Components, Contribution, Cryosphere, Dynamic, Effort, Elevated, Fates, Future, Has, Lake, Margin, Mid-holocene, Ongoing, Past, Relevance, Sub-ice, Temperature, Times.

Collaborative Research: Ice sheet sensitivity in a changing Arctic system - using ice sheet observations and modeling to test the stable Greenland Ice Sheet hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Gregory Hakim($458,061), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Global Sea Level, Greenland Ice Sheet, Gris And Global, Gris Mass Loss, Ice Sheet Modeling, Increased Arctic Precipitation, Numerical Ice Sheet, Sea Level Rise, Climate Reconstructions, Public Outreach, Relatively Stable, Sea Ice, Sub-ice Topography, Warm Periods, Warming Arctic, Components, Contribution, Cryosphere, Dynamic, Effort, Elevated, Fates, Future, Has, Lake, Margin, Mid-holocene, Ongoing, Past, Relevance, Sub-ice, Temperature, Times.

Methane release from thermokarst lakes: Thresholds and feedbacks in the lake to watershed hydrology-permafrost system
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Katey M Walter Anthony($2,086,836), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Geological, Discontinuous Permafrost, Greenhouse Gas, Laboratory Analyses, Lake Sediments, Methane Release, National Geographic, Radiative Forcing, Sub-permafrost Ch4, Thermokarst Lakes, Arctic, Beneath, Climate, Derived, Domain, Environment, Feedback, Field, Frozen, Hydrology-permafrost-methane, Informed, Processes, Program, Released, Storage, Students, Sub-permafrost, Survey, Talik, Thaw, Via, Warming.

Community Workshops for Synthesis Studies of the Pan-Arctic/Earth System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Robert Q Thomas($169,492), Research Foundation CUNY - Advanced Science Research Center, New York
Key terms: Activities, Arctic, Challenge, Collaboratory, Highly, Interdisciplinary, Policy, Synthesis, Systems-level, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics and Variability of Freshwater Components in the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Michael Steele($162,579), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Robert Newton($437,500), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arctic Observing Network, Distinct Freshwater Components, Freshwater Components Play, Individual Freshwater Components, Overall Freshwater Inventories, Arctic Ocean, Deep Water, Freshwater Accumulates, Model Simulations, Observed Freshwater, Sea Ice, Source Regions, Total Freshwater, Basic, Buildup, Buoyancy, Circulation, Climate, Contributions, Distributions, Dynamics, Educators, Especially, Formation, Future, Importance, Information, Lower, Main, North, Observations, Pathways, Process, Processes, Rapid, Redistributed, Release, Released, SY, Salinity, Surface, Switchyard, Time, Transport.

UAF participation in: C budget of ecosystems and cities and villages on permafrost in eastern Russian Arctic (COPERA)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Kenji Yoshikawa($337,473), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Belmont Forum, Carbon Budget, Co2 Emission, Co2 Sequestration, Vulnerable Region, Approach, Arctic, Cities, Climate, Cost, Ecosystem, Effects, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Fuel, Global, International, Local, Measure, Observing, Participating, Partner, Permafrost, Republic, Residents, Resources, Sakha, Solutions, Sustainability, Warming.

Collaborative Research: The roles of plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and uptake of deep nitrogen in the permafrost carbon feedback to warming climate
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. A. David McGuire($344,428), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Michelle C Mack($754,433), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Terrestrial Biosphere Model, Climate Warming, Organic Matter, Permafrost Ecosystems, Permafrost Soils, Permafrost Thaw, Acquisition, Arctic, Balance, Carbon, Contribute, Control, Ecological, Environmental, Factors, Fate, Feedback, Focus, Frozen, Fungal, Fungi, Has, Loss, Microbial, Molecular, Mycorrhizal, Net, Nitrogen, Plant, Plants, Play, Potential, Regional, Release, Released, Students, Tundra, Uptake.

Collaborative Research-HIARC: Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic. Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems and Societies
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Martin W Miles($188,705), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Marlene Laruelle($166,379), George Washington University, Washington
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Urban Heat Islands, Belmont Forum, Approach, Arctic, Climate, Environmental, Global, HIARC, International, Participating, Partner, Resources, Sustainability.

Collaborative Research: The roles of deep nitrogen, plant roots, and mycorrhizal fungi in the permafrost carbon feedback to warming climate
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Donald L Taylor($510,838), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Terrestrial Biosphere Model, Climate Warming, Organic Matter, Permafrost Ecosystems, Permafrost Soils, Permafrost Thaw, Acquisition, Arctic, Balance, Carbon, Contribute, Control, Ecological, Environmental, Factors, Fate, Feedback, Focus, Frozen, Fungal, Fungi, Has, Loss, Microbial, Molecular, Mycorrhizal, Net, Nitrogen, Plant, Plants, Play, Potential, Regional, Release, Released, Students, Tundra, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Resilience and adaptive capacity of arctic marine systems under a changing climate (RACArctic)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Franz J Mueter($95,655), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Henry P Huntington($50,746), Huntington Consulting, Eagle River
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Adaptive Capacity, Belmont Forum, Fisheries Management, Marine Ecosystems, Social Scientists, Approach, Arctic, Available, Bring, Councils, Environmental, Global, International, Natural, North, Participating, Partner, Resources, Sustainability.

Global Connections and Changing Resource Use System in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Christopher Monz($194,718), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Belmont Forum, Global Connections, Approach, Arctic, Ecological, Ecosystem, Effects, Environmental, International, Land, Local, Participating, Partner, Policy, Resource, Resources, Socioeconomic, Sustainability, Utilize.

Collaborative Research: Resilience and adaptive capacity of arctic marine systems under a changing climate
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. George L Hunt($49,555), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Adaptive Capacity, Belmont Forum, Fisheries Management, Marine Ecosystems, Social Scientists, Approach, Arctic, Available, Bring, Councils, Environmental, Global, International, Natural, North, Participating, Partner, Resources, Sustainability.

Belmont Forum Bioeconomic Analysis for Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Policy
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Linda M Fernandez($402,256), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Arctic Marine, Belmont Forum, Approach, Consider, Environmental, Existing, Fisheries, Game, Global, International, Management, Models, Participating, Partner, Resources, Species, Sustainability, Theory, Valuation.

ASUS: Arctic SUStainability: A Synthesis of Knowledge
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Jessica K Graybill($209,367), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Challenges And Opportunities, Arctic Sustainability, Belmont Forum, Sustainable Arctic, ASUS, Approach, Consortium, Effort, Environmental, Existing, Framework, Global, International, Observing, Participating, Partner, Products, Resources, Social, Synthesis.

Collaborative Research: Fire regime influences on carbon dynamics of Siberian boreal forests
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Michelle C Mack($81,774), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Altered Fire Regime, Regrowth And Permafrost, Arctic Ecosystems, Boreal Forests, Climate Warming, Ecological Mechanisms, Fire Activity, Fire Effects, Forest Regrowth, Increased Fire, Siberian Arctic, Atmosphere, Carbon, Cycling, Depth, Emissions, Experimental, Feedback, Fires, Future, Global, Growth, K-, Local, Models, Net, Pools, Post-fire, Predict, Remain, SOL, Soil, Stand, Students, Undergraduate.

Detecting the Signature of Permafrost Thaw in Arctic Rivers
Award Effective Date: 09/04/2014; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Robert G Spencer($435,075), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Organic Matter, Arctic, Carbon, Lack, Permafrost, Reduced, Warming.

United States Representation in the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC): 2015-2018
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Larry D Hinzman($417,789), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Executive Committee, International Arctic, International Planning, Planning Meetings, Activities, Decision-making, Efforts, Funding, IASC, Issues, National, Participation, Programmatic.

Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 Travel Support
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Larry D Hinzman($65,386), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Summit Week, Activities, Arctic, Committee, Cross, Delegate, Essential, IASC, International, Meetings, National, Planning, Representatives, Travel.

Activities of the Polar Research Board
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. Laurie Geller($600,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Decision Makers, Polar Regions, Activities, Antarctic, Arctic, Assistance, Board, Boards, Bring, Broader, Committee, Discussion, Does, IASC, Independent, Information, International, Issues, Mission, National, Operations, Organizations, PRB, Perspectives, Policy, Prbs, SCAR, Serves, Society.

A Dartmouth-JSEP Partnership for International Science Education in Greenland
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Lauren E Culler($673,137), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Dartmouth Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, Arctic, Communicating, Communication, Education, Efforts, Experience, Field, Future, Greenland, Increase, International, JSEP, Meetings, Outreach, Participation, Polar, Program, Programs, Scholarship, Sharing, Skills, Teachers, Training.

Sweden-US Workshop to Discuss Potential Joint-Arctic Research using the I/B Oden
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Patricia A Matrai($82,159), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Eastern Arctic, Oden Available, Collaboration, Consider, Discuss, NSF, Platform, Supporting, Sweden, Travel, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Arctic Horizons: Social Science and the High North
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Aaron Presnall($179,958), Thomas Jefferson Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington
2. Andrey Petrov($60,781), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
3. Kevin P Smith($54,439), Brown University, Providence
4. William E Schnabel($170,378), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
5. Michael A Etnier($61,487), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Broader Arctic Social, Experienced Substantial Growth, Growth And Development, Interactive Web Platform, Western And Indigenous, Additional Participation, Arctic Horizons, Circumpolar North, Emerging Field, Indigenous Scholars, On-line Input, Policy Development, Regional Conferences, Regional Workshops, Share Workshop, Social Scientists, Special Sessions, Synthesis Workshop, Well-established Multidisciplinary, ASSP, Analysis, Association, Bring, Changing, Disciplinary, Diverse, Economic, Environmental, Five, Future, Global, Has, Held, Increased, Increasingly, Inform, Information, Leading, Media, National, Oil, On-line, Outcomes, Participant, Past, Potential, Potentials, Priorities, Process, Rapidly, Reassess, Report, Security, Senior, Shipping, Solicited, Stakeholder, Transformations, Transitioning, Vision, Well-established.

Rockwell Kent and Early 1930's Greenland: A Comparative View of Environmental, Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Greenland
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Susan B Vanek($645,155), Rochester Institute of Tech, Rochester
Key terms: Cultural And Environmental, Displayed And Discussed, Contemporary Greenland, Historical Photographs, Rockwell Kent, Allow, Americans, Arctic, Art, Artists, Broader, Collaboration, Collaborations, Constructions, Continuities, Contributing, Country, Exhibitions, Experienced, Greenlanders, Greenlandic, Held, History, Identities, Images, Individual, Interactive, Kents, Lasting, Methodologies, North, Nuuk, Own, Past, Peoples, Photographic, Photos, Process, Produce, Produced, Public, Region, Representations, Social, Students, Time, Utilized, Visual.

Collaborative Research: Birnirk prehistory and the emergence of Inupiaq Culture in Northwestern Alaska, archaeological and anthropological perspectives.
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Dennis H O'Rourke($58,781), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Claire Alix($653,854), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Owen K Mason($126,694), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Shelby Anderson($136,064), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Ancient Dna, Cape Espenberg, Inupiaq Culture, Site Ktz-304, AD, Alaska, Ancestral, Archaeological, Archaeology, Artifacts, Bering, Birnirk, Climate, Cultural, Education, Environmental, Excavation, Explore, Foster, History, Kigiqtaamiut, Landscape, Origin, Paleoecology, Past, Promote, Region, Relation, Settlement, Shishmaref, Social.

RAPID: Ethnobotany of Northwest Alaska: Preserving Traditional Knowledge and Engaging Alaska Native Students in STEM
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Sarah R Betcher($24,013), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Native Peoples, Ethnobotanical Knowledge, Universities Program, Cultures, Engage, Extensive, Films, Food, Interdisciplinary, Interviews, Methods, Programs, Public, STEM, Students, TCUPS, Tribal, Video, Videos.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mapping Community Exposure to Coastal Climate Hazards in the Arctic: A Case Study in Alaska's North Slope
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Michael B Brady($13,590), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Coastal Climate Hazards, Exposure Maps, North Slope, Analysis, Assessment, Asset, Assets, CVI, Diverse, Factors, Importance, Land, Methods, Model, Planning, Social, Spatial, Strategies, Traditional, Values, Wind.

Inuit Collaborative Workshop in Preparation for the Smithsonian Exhibit, Narwhal, Inuit and Ice in a Changing Artic, 2017
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Martin Nweeia($10,584), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hunters And Trappers, Pond Inlet, Traditional Knowledge, Trappers Organization, Arctic, Behavior, Cultures, Ensure, Exhibit, Fall, Final, Folklore, Indigenous, Inuit, Local, Meetings, Narwhal, Narwhals, People, Planned, Representatives, Smithsonian, Workshop.

Ethnographic Research on Social Change and Native Alaskan Spirituality in the Upper Kuskokwim Region of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Shiaki Kondo($11,528), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Spirituality And Religion, Russian Orthodoxy, Activities, Athabascan, Comparative, Contemporary, East, Focus, Historical, History, Indigenous, Local, Nikolai, Practices, Region, Relations, Religious, Siberia, Upper, Villagers.

Collaborative Research: Community based permafrost and climate monitoring in rural Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Alexander Kholodov($460,778), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Climate And Permafrost, Knowledge And Skills, Upper Kuskokwim Region, Geo-hazard Map, Land Cover, Local Climate, Traditionally-underserved Tribal, Alaska, Benefit, Build, Capacity, Engage, Future, Geo-hazard, Maps, Monitor, Practices, Remote, Resources, Safe, Serve, Sites, Subsistence, Traditionally-underserved.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Archaeological Investigation of Erosion and its Effect on Social Processes in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Matthew H Johnson($28,273), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Social Inequality, Soil Erosion, Abandonment, Degradation, Environmental, Farms, Hegranes, Households, Iceland, Investigate, Landscape, Processes, Settlement.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Ethnographic Research on the Question of Diaspora Among Ukraine's Displaced Crimean Populations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Alexander C Diener($31,494), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Common Ethnic Identity, Displaced Crimeans, Mainland Ukraine, Annexation, Borders, Critical, Diaspora, Diasporas, Frame, Identities, Implications, Nation-state, Populations, Social.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Food Security in the Alaskan Arctic, an Ethnographic Investigation of Yup'ik Food Storage and Processing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Celeste Giordano($25,156), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Alaska Native Peoples, Fish And Sea, Nutritional And Toxicological, Processing And Storing, Yup'ik Food Preparation, Food Chain, Food Processing, Persistent Organic, Sea Mammals, Southwestern Alaska, Subsistence Foods, Yup'ik Food, Yup'ik People, Absolutely, Accounts, Accumulate, Add, Animals, Arctic, Assumption, Attention, Blubber, Chefornak, Concentrations, Concern, Consume, Consumed, Consumption, Contribute, Diet, Effects, Exists, Gathering, Harvested, Health, Herring, Human, Hunter-gatherer, Hunting, Investigate, Knowledge, Local, Marine, Marine-based, Muscle, Nevertheless, Ocean, Pops, Potential, Prepared, Primary, Processes, Profiles, Recently, Region, Risk, Safety, Seal, Species, Storage, Techniques, Travel, Tununak, Village, Villages, Yupik.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bridging Knowledge Systems to Improve Ecosystem Management Along the Yukon River, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Victoria A Walsey($36,507), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Knowledge Held, Yukon River, Alaska, Application, Environmental, Fisheries, Has, Indigenous, Live, Local, Management, Managers, People, Potential, Student, TEK.

Partial Support for the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Andrey Petrov($49,955), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Hunting And Gathering, National And International, Chags Xi, Eleventh Conference, Encourage Discussions, Gathering Societies, Hunter-gatherer Societies, Hunter-gatherer Studies, Keynote Addresses, Unified Field, Widely Disseminated, Arctic, Concerned, Continue, Development, Future, Human, Hunter-gatherer, In-depth, Indigenous, Life, Local, Particular, Perspectives, Publication, Representatives, Scholars, Social, Theme, World.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining Changes in Ecology and Bifacial Flake Reduction Patterns during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Philip Fisher($23,394), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Northern Paleoindian Artifact, Paleoindian Artifact Complexes, Ecological Fluctuations, Pleistocene-holocene Transition, Three-dimensional Imagery, Alaska, Analyses, Analysis, Bifacial, Boundaries, Culture, Denali, Dryas, Environmental, Examine, Examining, Flake, Focuses, Human, Humans, Lithic, Nenana, Onset, Pleistocene-holocene, Potential, Seen, Shifts, Technological, Technology, Three-dimensional, Time, Tools, World.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A research study of local economies and decision making in Kamchatka, Russia.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Lisa V Strecker($29,994), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Subsistence And Travel, 'dogs Vs, Environmental Implications, Local Decision-making, Snow Machine, Travel Strategies, Century, Choice, Cultural, Decision-making, Economic, Economy, Fuel, Has, Increase, Indigenous, Kamchatka, Mode, Policies, Rise, Salmon, Sled, Snow-machines, Social, Soviet, Transportation.

Doctoral Dissertation: Ethnographic Research Among the Sakha of Russia: An investigation of social cultural change in a globalized world.
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Vera Solovyeva($14,036), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Arctic Indigenous, Contribute, Environmental, Peoples, Phd, Social.

A Workshop to Explore the Genetics, Paleoecology, Archaeology and Anthropology of Human Migrations across the Arctic, Fall 2015; Boulder, CO
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. John F Hoffecker($34,278), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Americans, Beringia, Beringian, Bring, Has, INSTAAR, Information, Native, North, Origins, Students, Thesis, Topic, Workshop.

RCN Arctic-COAST: Arctic COASTal Community and Environmental Resilience International Interdisciplinary Research Coordination Network
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Lev Neretin($499,996), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Knowledge And Policy, Policy And Decision, Adaptive Governance, Arctic Coastal, Circumpolar Arctic, Coastal Sess, Coastal Socio-ecological, Decision Makers, Policy Gaps, Ses Resilience, Sustainable Development, Arctic-coast, Biophysical, Focusing, Foster, Framework, Future, Indicators, Information, Integrated, Interface, Leaders, Local, Management, Monitoring, RCN, Regional, Socio-ecological, Socio-economic, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary.

The Dukha Ethnoarchaeological Project: An Archaeological Investigation of Seasonal Changes in Spatial Behavior among Nomadic Herders in Mongolia.
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Dashtseveg Tumen($393,521), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Dukha Reindeer Herders, Interior And Exterior, Activity Performance, Archaeological Sites, Dukha Ethnoarchaeological, Exterior Spaces, Factor Affecting, Human Behavior, Northern Mongolia, Spatial Distribution, Anthropologist, Campsites, Determining, Direct, Has, Mapping, Methods, Occupation, People, Potential, Season, Seasonality, Summer, Time, Winter.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Alaska Native Leaders Knowledge: Impact on Policy Implementation and Resource Management
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Raymond J Barnhardt($29,505), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Alaska Native, Knowledge.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Economic and Socialcultural Effects of Developing Cyber-Infrastructure for Global information Storage in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Alix Johnson($30,240), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Private And Public, Information Technology, National Identity, Arctic, Economic, Global, Iceland, Icelandic, Infrastructure, Processes.

Colonization and Christianity: the development of Viking Age and medieval hierarchies in Skagafjordur, North Iceland
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Gudny Zoega($683,881), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Geophysical Survey Protocols, Christian Cemeteries, Christian Conversion, Christian Practices, European History, Household Churches, Parish Churches, AD, Adoption, Archaeological, Burials, Central, Christianity, Christianization, Colonization, Developed, Established, Establishment, Evidence, Farms, Farmstead, Farmsteads, Has, Hierarchies, Iceland, Institutionalization, Investigate, Pagan, Political, Preservation, Religious, Size, Systematically.

The Place Names of Franz Josef Land: A workshop on the historical geography of an archipelago of polar explorers
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Peter J Capelotti($48,737), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Franz Josef Land, Names And Historical, Historical Gazetteer, Historical Geographic, Contribute, Development, International, Region, Workshop.

Arctic Survey on Adaptation to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Tim G Frazier($76,338), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms:

Observing the Snowy Sheathbill and Its Behavior
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Antarctic Education

1. Susan J McCarthy($1), McCarthy Susan J, San Francisco
Key terms: Antarctic.

Food Security and Lactic Bacteria Use in Alaska and the Bering Strait Region
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ArcSEES

1. Gay G Sheffield($1,452,326), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Societies, Factors, Fermentation, Food, Health, Methods, Public.

RCN: Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) in Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Continental U.S.
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ArcSEES

1. Mark H Palmer($557,304), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Knowledge And Scholarship, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Scholars, Indigenous Students, Engagement, Inclusion, Network, RCN.

Collaborative Research: Understanding mechanisms of projected 21st century ocean warming around Greenland
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Jianjun Yin($145,535), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Christopher Little($450,674), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Near-greenland Ocean Warming, Sea Level Rise, Cmip5 Projections, Near-greenland Ocean, Ocean Temperatures, Sea Ice, Surface Fluxes, Arctic, Climate, Detailed, Linkages, Models, Ngreenland, Processes, Projected, Provided, Spread, Storm, Underlying.

Sensitivity of the midlatitude waveguide to the dynamics and observations of Arctic tropopause-based vortices
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven M Cavallo($298,112), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Tropopause Polar Vortices, Weather And Climate, Climate Prediction, Jet Stream, Numerical Models, Encounter, Heating, Processes, Radiation, Representation, Specific, TPV, Tpvs, Waveguide.

Collaborative Research: Reconciling conflicting Arctic temperature and fire reconstructions using multi-proxy records from lake sediments north of the Brooks Range, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James M Russell($556,190), Brown University, Providence
2. Carrie Morrill($49,428), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mean Summer Temperatures, Regional Fire History, Temperature And Fire, Alaskan Tundra, Climate Models, Lake Sediments, Temperature Reconstructions, Arctic, Cores, Feedbacks, Fires, Forcing, K-, Kaktovik, LGM, Lakes, Monitoring, Multiproxy, Outputs, PAH, Past, Public, STEM, Students.

Collaborative Research: Impact of subglacial discharge on turbulent plume dynamics and ocean-glacier heat and mass transfer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Eric D Skyllingstad($768,204), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. David Sutherland($210,923), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
3. Roman J Motyka($181,273), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
4. Jason M Amundson($501,803), University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus, Juneau
Key terms: Glaciology And Oceanography, Intensive Field Campaigns, Sea Level Rise, Turbulent Plume Dynamics, Near-terminus Fjord, Parameter Space, Plume Model, Subglacial Discharge, Submarine Melting, Workforce Development, Alaska, Driven, Glacier, Ii, Interdisciplinary, Interface, Marine-terminating, Nterminus, Oregon, Pis, Processes, Public, Range, Requiring, School, Seasonal, Service, Site, Students, Training.

Assimilative Mapping of Interhemispheric Polar Ionospheric Electrodynamics
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Tomoko Matsuo($396,547), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Energy And Momentum, Southern Polar Region, Earth's Magnetosphere, Electrodynamic Variables, Electromagnetic Energy, Field-aligned Currents, Geographic Pole, Ionospheric Convection, Ionospheric Electrodynamics, Magnetic Field, Polar Regions, Solar Wind, Space Weather, AMIE, Analyzed, Assimilation, Development, Field-aligned, Geomagnetic, Global, Ground-based, High-latitude, Interhemispheric, Ionosphere, North, Northern, Observations, Past, SWPC, Space-based, Thermosphere, Towards, Via.

Collaborative Proposal: A Field and Laboratory Examination of the Diatom N and Si Isotope Proxies: Implications for Assessing the Southern Ocean Biological Pump
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Rebecca S Robinson($413,639), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Diatom Nutrient Isotope, Field And Laboratory, Nitrogen And Silicon, Nutrient Isotope Proxies, Ocean Biological Pump, Silicon Isotope Proxies, Southern Ocean Biological, Allow Exploration, Diatom Nitrogen, Field Sampling, Fossil Diatoms, Silicon Isotopes, Water Column, Concentrations, Culture, Experiments, Ice, Interspecific, Investigate, Paleoceanographic, Primary, Reconstructions, Regulating, Sediment, Signatures, Surface.

The role of uncertainty in waveguide perturbations on midlatitude predictability with DOWNSTREAM
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ryan D Torn($318,277), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Downstream Predictability, Extreme Weather, Forecast Errors, Forecast Metrics, Midlatitude Cyclones, Waveguide Perturbations, Aspects, Comparing, Development, Evaluating, Forecasts, Lead, Outflow, Sensitivity.

Towards a Tiered Permafrost Modeling Cyberinfrastructure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Mark D Piper($950,241), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Model Outputs, Permafrost Models, IMT, Online, Representing, Stakeholders, Students.

Antarctic Meteorological Cyberinfrastructure Sustainability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Matthew A Lazzara($97,460), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Antarctic Meteorological, Outreach Efforts, AMRC, Broader, Users.

Three Dimensional Computer Simulations of Maxwell Equations and Snow Microstructures for Active and Passive Microwave Observations of Snow on Sea Ice in a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Leung Tsang($283,627), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Remote Sensing, Sea Ice, Arctic, Computer, Electromagnetic, Microwave, Models, Parameters, Processes, Simulations, Snow.

Automated, High Resolution Terrain Generation for XSEDE
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Myoung-Jong Noh($400,000), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Performance Computing, Satellite Imagery, Available, Cost, Dems, Has, On-demand, PGC, Polar, Resolution, Sub-meter.

Interdisciplinary Antarctic Science Meeting; Loveland, CO; September 2015
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Kathy J Licht($51,279), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Antarctic Ice, Dedicated, Effective, Global, Held, Interdisciplinary, Logistics, Meeting, NSF, Presentations, Regular, Session, Timing, Workshop.

PolarGlobe: Powering up Polar Cyberinfrastructure Using M-Cube Visualization for Polar Climate Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Wenwen Li($449,974), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Climate Studies, Polar Climate, Visualization Module, Visualization Technique, Interactive, Intuitive, Multi-faceted, Multivariate, Objective, Platform, Rendering, Scene, Serve, Techniques, Terrain, Virtual.

Group Travel to the 12th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES), Goa, India
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Cristina Millan($36,993), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Travel Costs, Antarctic, Antarctica, Climate, Cryosphere, Evolution, Held, ISAES, Meeting, Students, Symposium.

Collaborative Research: Visualization, analysis, and HPC modeling of subglacial hydrology from high-resolution 3D conduit scans acquired with a novel sensor
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Jason D Gulley($23,673), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
2. Kenneth D Mankoff($272,356), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Subglacial Conduit, Contribute, Flow, Geometry, Glacier, Glaciers, LES, Processes, Realistic, Resolution, Simulations.

Community Adaptations and Knowledge Sharing in Alaska and Siberia: Utilizing Indigenous Research Methods
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Stacy M Rasmus($1,075,045), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Aims, Alaska, Arctic, Collaborative, Critical, Engaging, Environmental, Exchange, Fieldwork, Indigenous, Innovative, Knowledge, Peoples, Resilience, Siberia, Social.

The Second Polar Data Forum: Understanding the Polar Regions through Globally Collaborative Data Management
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Paul Arthur Berkman($49,024), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Pdf Ii, Developing, Forum, Global, Indigenous, Management, October, Polar, Workshop.

MRI: Acquisition of a hyperspectral imaging system to support scientific research, applied studies, and education in the state of Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2013; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Jordi Cristobal($427,770), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Activities, Alaskan, HS, Imaging.

PolarTREC - Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Janet Warburton($449,677), Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S., Fairbanks
Key terms: ARCUS, Antarctica, Arctic, Deployments, Dissemination, Education, Expeditions, Field, Information, Polar, Polartrec, Program, Teachers, Training.

An Adelie Penguin Documentary Film
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Joseph J Wilson($1), Penguin Films Ltd, Bristol
Key terms: Adelie, Antarctic, Documentary, Film, Penguin.

Improving Polar Data Access and Communication
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Oscar Schofield($929,919), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Corey Garza($83,801), University Corporation at Monterey Bay, Seaside
Key terms: Educator Workshops, Polar Scientists, Real Polar, Access, Activities, Audiences, Capacity, Communication, Development, Educators, Effort, Engage, In-person, Information, Opportunities, Pis, Set, Students, Symposia, Teaching, Tools, Webinars.

Simultaneous Na Doppler and Fe Boltzmann Lidar Observations and Modeling of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere at McMurdo, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Chester S Gardner($1,344,027), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Polar Atmosphere, Previously Installed, Atmospheric, Devices, Dynamics, Features, Lidar, Monitor, Parameters, Region, Transport, Various, Vertical, Winds.

NSF-GEO-OPP Awards for 2015

Collaborative Research: Influence of natural ice microstructure on rheology in general shear: in-situ studies in the Alaska Range Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Is nitrogen fixation widespread in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas? Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Unraveling the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet from its internal radiostratigraphy Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Detecting Glacier Calving Events from Ocean Waves and Underwater Acoustics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Winter snow depth as a driver of microbial activity, nutrient cycling, tree growth and treeline advance in the Arctic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative research: Does dissolved organic matter influence the concentrations and distributions of trace elements in the Arctic Ocean? Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: The combined influence of sea ice and snow cover on Northern Hemisphere atmospheric climate variability Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

The Combined Influence of sea ice and snow cover on Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Climate Variability Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Simulated Arctic Freshwater System in CMIP5 Models, the CESM Large Ensemble, and Forced Simulations Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Late Season Productivity, Carbon, and Nutrient Dynamics in a Changing Arctic Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

CAREER: South Greenland's Holocene Climate History Reconstructed Using Three Paleolimnological Approaches Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative research: Spatial and temporal variability of surface albedo and light absorbing chemical species in Greenland. Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Evolution of Arctic Water Column Hydrography during the Holocene Based on a Novel Instrumentation Combination Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Response of high-latitude forests to a warmer and CO2-enriched atmosphere: tree rings in a process-based model Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Quantifying Rates of Biological Production to Better Understand the Carbon Cycle in the Canada Basin Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Scientific Studies from a Network of Sustainable, Robotic Observatories Across the Antarctic Ice-shelf: A New Approach to Polar Research Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Continental-Scale Studies of Mesospheric Dynamics using the Antarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network (ANGWIN) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Earth's Electromagnetic Environment: Advancing Recent Discoveries in Auroral Plasma Radio Emission Research Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Antarctic and Conjugate Research using SuperDARN Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Troposphere-Ionosphere Coupling via Atmospheric Gravity Waves Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Collaborative Research: Synoptic Geospace Systems Analysis Utilizing Instrumentation from South Pole and McMurdo Stations Award Effective Date: 10/01/2013; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Above, Below and Within the Ice Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Portraits of Place in Antarctica Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Persistence of Vision: Antarctica Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Support to Transition the Cold Regions Bibliography and the Antarctic Bibliography to mainstream bibliographic search systems Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

EAGER: Surface Variability and Spectral Analyses of the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Investigating Early Miocene Sub-ice Volcanoes in Antarctica for Improved Modeling and understanding of a Large Magmatic Province Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Organic Carbon Oxidation and Iron Remobilization by West Antarctic Shelf Sediments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Magma Sources, Residence and Pathways of Mount Erebus Phonolitic Volcano, Antarctica, from Magnetotelluric Resistivity Structure Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Petrologic Constraints on Subduction Termination From Lamprophyres, Ross Orogen, Antarctica Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Curation Of National Antarctic Sediment Collections Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Diatom and Oxygen Isotope Evidence of Pliocene Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics and Ross Sea Paleoceanography Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Development of a Suite of Proxies to Detect Past Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Erebus Volcano: Ccharacterizing a Subglacial Hydrothermal System and Potential effects on Carbon Dioxide Degassing Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Multidisciplinary Analysis of Antarctic Blue Ice Moraine Formation and their Potential as Climate Archives over Multiple Glacial Cycles Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Upstream Ice and Firn Dynamics affecting the South Pole Ice Core Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Impact of Supraglacial Lakes on Ice-Shelf Stability Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Potential Direct Geologic Constraint of Ice Sheet Thickness in the Central Transantarctic Mountains during the Pliocene Warm Period Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Window into the World with 40,000-year Glacial Cycles from Climate Records in Million Year-old Ice from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Allan HILLs Englacial Site (AHILLES) Selection Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Inert Gas and Methane Based Climate Records throughout the South Pole Deep Ice Core Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Grounding Line Dynamics: Crary Ice Rise Revisited Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Retreat in the Amundsen Sea Embayment: Assessing Controlling Processes, Uncertainties, and Projections Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

EXPROBE-WAIS: Exposed Rock Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, A Test for Interglacial Ice Sheet Collapse Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Using Electrical Conductance Measurements to Develop the South Pole Ice Core Chronology Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Record of the Triple-oxygen Isotope and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Ice from an Ice Core at South Pole Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Carbonyl Sulfide, Methyl Chloride, and Methyl Bromide Measurements in the New Intermediate-depth South Pole Ice Core Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: South Pole Ice Core Chronology and Climate Records using Chemical and Microparticle Measurements Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Controls on Variations in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide During the Last 10,000 years Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

A Study of the Tidal Modulation of Ice-shelf Flow using a Viscoelastic Model of the Ross Ice Shelf Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Using Stable Isotopes to Constrain the Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Budget over the Last 20,000 Years Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

RAPID: Observing the Disintegration of the Scar Inlet Ice Shelf Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Collaborative Research: THE MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS: A landscape on the Threshold of Change Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Environmental Assessment of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future; Colorado State University, May 2016 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Ross Ocean and Ice Shelf Environment and Tectonic setting Through Aerogeophysical Surveys and Modeling (ROSETTA-ICE) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Extending the Capabilities for Fully Coupled Land-Ice Simulations within the Community Earth System Model Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Collaborative Research: Assessing Changing Patterns of Human Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys using Digital Photo Archives Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Global Climate Response to Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

High Resolution Heterogeneity at the Base of Whillans Ice Stream and its Control on Ice Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

EAGER: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Habitability of Antarctic Lakes and Detectability of Microbial Life in Icy Environments by Aautonomous Year-round Instrumentation Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Impact of Convective Processes and Sea Ice Formation on the Distribution of Iron in the Ross Sea: Closing the Seasonal Cycle Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Role of Mesoscale Processes and Ice Dynamics in Carbon and Iron Fluxes in a Changing Amundsen Sea (INSPIRE) Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: Investigating Iron-inding Ligands in Southern Ocean Diatom Communities: The Role of Diatom-Bacteria Associations Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Antarctic Sea Ice Variability in the Southern Ocean-Climate System: A Workshop Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: First Scientific Priorities from the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Collaborative Research: Contribution of Prydz Bay Shelf Water to Antarctic Bottom Water Formation Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Rebreather Testing for the United States Antarctic Scientific Diving Program Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Collaborative Research: Biological Adaptations to Environmental Change in Antarctica - An Advanced Training Program for Early Career Scientists Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

EAGER: RUI: Functional Characterization of Micro RNAs and their Role in the Cellular Stress Response of Polar Fish Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Collaborative Research: Investigating Holocene Shifts in the Diets and Paleohistory of Antarctic Krill Predators Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Effects of Temperature on Phytoplankton Growth Rates Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Unraveling the Genomic and Molecular Basis of the Dive Response: Nitric Oxide Signaling and Vasoregulation in the Weddell Seal Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes: Sentinel Taxa for Southern Ocean Warming Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Collaborative Research: Fjord Ecosystem Structure and Function on the West Antarctic Peninsula - Hotspots of Productivity and Biodiversity? (FjordEco) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Collaborative Research: Adaptive Responses of Phaeocystis populations in Antarctic Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Analysis of Voltage-gated Ion Channels in Antarctic Fish Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Ship-based Technical Support in the Arctic (CY2014-2018): Science Services for Research onboard USCGC Healy Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Collaborative Research: Ship-based Science Technical Support in the Arctic 2011 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics