Enhancing Weather and Climate Learning with Fluid Earth Viewer (FEVer)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AISL

1. Aaron B Wilson($349,881), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Informal Environments, Web Application, Existing, Fever, STEM, Sets.

Collaborative Research: Understanding GrIS moulin hydrology and links to ice motion
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Adam Barnes($262,037), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2. Jason D Gulley($429,113), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Govern Glacier Sliding, Greenland Ice Sheet, Subglacial Water Pressure, Ice Flow, Ice Velocity, Moulin Water, Field, Flows, Gris, Local, Model, Moulins, Ocean, Pis, Sensors, Simple.

Collaborative Research: Arctic Land Fast Sea Ice Formation in the Presence of Fresh Water Input
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Rachel W Obbard($455,141), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Ignatius G Rigor($177,489), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Formation And Structure, Nearshore Sea Ice, Sea Ice Formation, Coastal Ocean, Freshwater Influence, Heat Transfer, Ice Cores, Brine, Differences, Field, Freezing, Growth, Input, Microstructural, Microstructure, Optical, Porosity, Rate, Runoff, Salinity, Situ, Stratigraphy, Temperature, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Demographic structure and recruitment patterns of the scyphozoan, Chrysaora melanaster, in the Bering Sea: the influence of climate on ecosystem function
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Hongsheng Bi($535,527), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
2. Mary Beth Decker($61,569), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Age Structure, Age-specific Abundances, Bering Sea, Adult, Age-specific, Climate, Cohorts, Environmental, Estimate, Facilitate, Fish, Fisheries, Food, Increased, Increases, Jellyfish, Melanaster, Population, Populations, Recruitment, Relation, Sampling, Stages, Students, Success, Training.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: What Controls the Transfer of Diatom Organic Matter to age-0 Pollock Prey in the Bering Sea Ecosystem?
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jeffrey W Krause($91,357), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
2. Michael W Lomas($108,953), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Bering Sea Ecosystem, Diatom Organic Matter, Carbon Demand, Cell Carbon, Commercial Fishery, Crustacean Zooplankton, Expected Magnitude, Growth Rate, Individual Terms, Juvenile Pollock, Primary Producers, Walleye Pollock, Abundance, Approach, Based, Bigelow, Constrain, Consumed, Diatoms, Effort, Estimate, Field, Fisheries, LCZ, Mechanistic, Model, Prey, Program, Trophic, Uncertainty.

CAREER: Chasing icebergs: quantifying iceberg motion and melt in Greenland's glacial fjords
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. David Sutherland($799,723), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Melt And Movement, Iceberg Melt, Process Studies, Solid Ice, Allow, Circulation, Climate, Content, Enhance, Fjord, Fjords, Glacier, Greenlands, Icebergs, Modeling, Models, Motion, Numerical, Observations, Ocean, Potential, Processes, Public, STEM, Temporal, Water.

Collaborative Research: Snow, Wind, and Time: Understanding Snow Redistribution and Its Effects on Sea Ice Mass Balance
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Christopher Polashenski($592,146), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Glen E Liston($212,551), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Ice Mass Balance, Melt Pond Formation, Snow And Sea, Multi-year Ice, Sea Ice, Snow Conditions, Snow Distributions, Snow Properties, Snow Redistribution, Snow Surface, Surface Position, Three-dimensional Snow, Track Snow, Aggregate, Arctic, Climate, Development, Drifts, Field, Integrated, Interactions, Model, Modeling, Models, Multi-year, Observations, Observed, Principal, Processes, Quantify, Representations, Schools, Sites, Thermal, Three-dimensional.

Neglected fluxes: Understanding the evolution of weathering as continental ice sheets retreat
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jonathan B Martin($820,295), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Deglacial And Proglacial, Greenland Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet Collapse, Ice Sheet Retreat, Deglacial Watersheds, Proglacial Watersheds, Weathering Reactions, Balance, Based, Climate, Context, Distinct, Elemental, Extents, Fluxes, Future, Global, Has, Isotope, Isotopic, Melt, Meltwater, Near, Nutrient, Ocean, Past, Predictions.

Collaborative Research: Refreezing in the firn of the Greenland ice sheet: Spatiotemporal variability and implications for ice sheet mass balance
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Asa K Rennermalm($391,939), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Marco Tedesco($318,650), Columbia University, New York
3. Regine Hock($473,622), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Rutgers Film Bureau, Meltwater Generated, Sea Level, Surface Meltwater, Director, Field, Infiltration, Melting, Modeling, Ocean, Pis, Quickly, Refreezes, Relatively, Rise, Satellites, Shallow, Stored, Student, Times, Warming, Water.

Collaborative Research: Determining the Vulnerability and Resilience of Boreal Forests and Shrubs across Northwestern North America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Scott J Goetz($228,000), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
2. Scott J Goetz($228,000), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Alaska And Adjacent, Boreal And Arctic, Forests And Shrublands, Remote Sensing Proxies, Adjacent Canada, Arctic Forests, Current Controls, Detailed Network, Overarching Theory, Shrublands Sites, Vegetation Growth, Vegetation Productivity, Collected, Compared, Comparison, Field, Ground, Hand, Northern, Observations, Operating, Past, Range, Regions, Satellite, Temperature, Tested, Tree, Tree-ring.

Collaborative Research: Speleothem records of permafrost thaw and paleoclimate in the North American Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Jeremy Shakun($117,761), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. William D McGee($108,531), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Arctic Caves, Continuous Permafrost, Permafrost Thaw, Thawing Permafrost, Audiences, Climate, Conditions, Dating, Grew, Grow, Ice, Interglacial, Past, Periods, Range, Reconstruct, Speleothem, Speleothems, Thawed, Warmer.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Quantifying the Sources of Arctic Tundra-Respired CO2 Year-Round via Continuous in Situ Sampling of 14CO2
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Claudia I Czimczik($114,794), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Jeffrey M Welker($155,000), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
3. Susanne E Euskirchen($30,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Tundra Soils, Continuously Trap Co2, Measuring Soil Respired, Soil Respired Co2, Trap Co2 Emitted, Co2 Emissions, Continuous Collection, Line Power, Activities, Alaska, Analysis, Carbon, Climate, Decomposition, Deploy, Devices, Diffusive, Expected, Focus, Harsh, Has, Increase, Lightweight, Organic, Permafrost, Potential, Radiocarbon, Relatively, Require, Seasons, Transform, Warming, Weeks, Winter, Yround.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Residual Circulation of the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. John C Marshall($411,042), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Mary-Louise E Timmermans($184,034), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Sea Ice Cover, Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Gyre, Eddy Transport, Residual-mean Circulation, Salinity Stratification, Transport Heat, Atmosphere, BG, Components, Contributes, Contribution, Development, Dynamics, Eddies, Essential, Eulerian-mean, Has, Implications, Laboratory, Mass, Models, Module, Observations, Processes, Residual-mean, Rotating, Salt, Transports.

Collaborative Research: The Ecological Impact of Mixotrophic Algae in a Changing Arctic Marine Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Rebecca J Gast($300,572), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Robert W Sanders($403,770), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Pico And Nano-phytoplankton, Arctic Marine, Environmental Conditions, Food Web, Food Webs, Laboratory Experiments, Mixotrophic Activity, Species Specific, Heterotrophy, Highlow, Levels, Mixotrophs, Phototrophy, Pico-, Predict, Solely, Surface, Trigger, Warming, Water, Waters.

Dynamic Observations of the Evolution of Firn
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Ian Baker($410,902), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Densification And Microstructure, Continuous Ìct, Ice Sheet, Microstructure Evolution, Monitor Densification, Situ Temperature, Spectroscopy Techniques, Temperature Gradients, Core, Crystal, Dartmouth, Deep, Does, Experiments, Firn, Greenland, Greenlandic, Impose, Melt, Summit.

Collaborative Proposal: Determining the Vulnerability and Resilience of Boreal Forests and Shrubs across Northwestern North America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Rosanne D D'Arrigo($372,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Alaska And Adjacent, Boreal And Arctic, Forests And Shrublands, Remote Sensing Proxies, Adjacent Canada, Arctic Forests, Current Controls, Detailed Network, Overarching Theory, Shrublands Sites, Vegetation Growth, Vegetation Productivity, Collected, Compared, Comparison, Field, Ground, Hand, Northern, Observations, Operating, Past, Range, Regions, Satellite, Temperature, Tested, Tree, Tree-ring.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Drivers and Scale-dependency of Plant-fungal Bacterial Community Co-assembly Across the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Donald A Walker($199,010), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Cristina D Takacs-Vesbach($228,150), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Taylor And Takacs-vesbach, Five Arctic, Assembly, Biology, Collected, Ecological, Environmental, Future, Hispanic, MARC, Plant, Program, Sites, Soil, Students, Training, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: Glacier-Ocean Interactions at a Greenland Ice Shelf at Tidal to Interannual Time Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Andreas Muenchow($360,488), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Global Sea Level, Time And Space, Basal Melt, Ice Shelf, Mass Loss, Nares Strait, Petermann Fjord, Petermann Gletscher, Space Scales, Analyses, Central, Contribute, Deep, Direct, Freshwater, GIS, Glacier, Greenland, Heat, Ice-shelf, Importance, Line, Melting, Ocean, PG, Phase, Processes, Rate, Retreat, Reveal, STEM, Sub-glacial, Surface, Tides, Water, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Responses of atmospheric oxidants and CO2 to dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Francisco Chavez($75,000), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Christopher D Holmes($315,664), Florida State University, Tallahassee
3. William R Simpson($233,030), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
4. Patricia A Matrai($112,399), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
5. Donald K Perovich($99,962), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Reactive Halogen Oxidizers, Sea Ice Cover, Arctic Atmosphere, Arctic Ocean, Ground-level Ozone, Modeling Approaches, Affect, Alaska, Chemistry, Conditions, Depletion, Deposition, Engineering, Fluxes, Ground-level, Has, Leveraging, Mercury, Network, O-buoy, Processes, Program, Region, STEM, Specific, Students, Summer.

Collaborative Research: Model Process Studies of Freshwater Accumulation and Release in the Beaufort Gyre of the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Sylvia T Cole($208,674), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Changsheng Chen($381,366), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Beaufort Gyre Region, Arctic Ocean, Freshwater Accumulation, Freshwater Release, North Atlantic, Sub-arctic Seas, Circulation, Collaboration, Consequences, Has, Investigate, Processes, SHOU, Shanghai.

Collaborative Research: Natural and Anthropogenic Controls on the Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in the Chukchi Sea
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Scott C Doney($364,486), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Claudine Hauri($455,831), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Dynamics And Ocean, Organic And Inorganic, Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Calcifying Organisms, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dynamics, Chukchi Sea, Inorganic Carbon, Numerical Model, Ocean Acidification, Annual, Biogeochemistry, Carbonate, Circulation, Ecosystem, Ice, Marine, Peripheral, Transport, Utilize, Waters.

Proteomic evidence of microbial weathering processes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Karen Junge($150,755), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Direct Molecular Evidence, Weathering And Nutrient, Conceptual Models, Greenland Ice, Gris Subglacial, Ice Sheet, Subglacial Environments, Subglacial Meltwaters, Activity, Carbon, Critical, Efforts, Environmental, Enzymes, Future, Increasing, Iron, Melting, Microbes, Microbial, Obtained, Oceans, Potential, Principal, Processes, Proteomics, Public, Quantify, Release, Students, Sulfate.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Arctic System Change Through Synthesis of Hydrographic and Sea Ice Observations from the early 21st Century
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. An T Nguyen($512,630), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Richard A Krishfield($364,831), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Air-sea Fluxes, Arctic Ocean, Evolving Arctic, Multimedia Projects, Sea Ice, Seasonal Cycle, Sub-polar Gyre, Air-sea, Available, Century, Circulation, Climate, Driving, Dynamical, FW, Future, Heat, Hydrographic, Interannual, Mechanisms, Observations, Products, Quantify, Sub-polar, Synthesis, Time-mean.

Collaborative Research: An Exploration of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Climatic Warming on Arctic Lake Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Anne E Giblin($187,346), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
2. Sarah Null($833,832), Utah State University, Logan
3. Byron C Crump($283,502), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Extended Growing Season, Fish And Wildlife, Growing Season Alter, Warmer Lake Temperatures, Arctic Lakes, Lake Thermal, Students Via, Wildlife Service, Alaska, Biological, Camp, Climate, Contribute, Coupled, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Iñupiat, Model, Modeling, Quantify, Rates, Regime, Regional, Scenarios, Warming.

Multi-scale models of thermo-mechanical feedbacks on a soft, wet bed
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Alan Rempel($426,663), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Glacier Sliding, Landscape Development, Aimed, Bed, Conditions, Constraints, Contribute, Effects, Glaciers, Heterogeneities, Ice, Model, Models, Observed, Principal, Range, Rigorously, Supported, Thermo-mechanical, Topographic.

Nitrous oxide cycling in the Western Arctic Ocean from stable isotopic and concentration data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Annie Bourbonnais($290,608), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Key terms: Nitrous Oxide Cycling, Western Arctic Ocean, Atmosphere, Baseline, Chukchi, Contribute, Educational, Offshore, Processes, Produced, Productive, School, Seas, Shelf, Transport, Waters.

Estimating fluxes of CO2 and CH4 along the Siberian Yensei River
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Shari Yvon-Lewis($49,457), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Co2 And Ch4, Arctic Ocean, Greenhouse Gases, Organic Carbon, Undergraduate Students, Amon, Atmosphere, Believe, Colleagues, Cruise, DOC, Graduate, Has, International, Measure, Outreach, Participation, Pis, Processing, Rivers, Russian, Soils, Summer, Transport.

Reconstruction of climate at the Norse Settlements of Greenland over the last two millennia using organic biomarkers in lake sediments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Raymond S Bradley($378,524), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Organic Geochemical Techniques, Climatic Conditions, Graduate Student, North Atlantic, Activities, Climate, Continue, Contribute, Development, Glycerol, Greenland, Has, Honors, Norse, Past, Pis, Productive, Region, Resolution, STEM, Settlement, Southern, Temperature, Time, Training.

Collaborative Research: Arctic Oases - How does the delayed release of winter discharge from aufeis affect the ecosystem structure and function of rivers
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Alexander D Huryn($232,213), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Michael N Gooseff($74,511), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Vertical Hydraulic Gradient, Aufeis Field, Electrical Conductivity, River Discharge, Alaska, Arctic, Assess, Below, Collect, Depths, Digital, Downstream, Flow, Freeze-up, Freezing, Function, Habitat, Habitats, Heat, Ice, Loggers, Nutrient, Oases, Potential, Preliminary, Rivers, Sediments, Siberia, Summer, Supply, Surface, Temperature, Thaw, Transects, Underlying, Unfrozen, Upstream, Water, Winter.

Scientific Studies from a Network of Sustainable, Robotic Observatories Across the Antarctic Ice-shelf: A New Approach to Polar Research
Award Effective Date: 03/04/2016; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Allan T Weatherwax($269,675), Merrimack College, North Andover
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.

Alien Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Michael W Carroll($1), Carroll Michael W, Littleton
Key terms: Draw, Features, Moon.

Antarctic Graphic Novel: A Look at the Science in Antarctica through the Eyes of an Artist
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Maris Wicks($1), Wicks Maris, Somerville
Key terms: Antarctica, Artist, Book, Disciplines, Engage, Readers.

Musical Interpretation of and Instructional Module on Ross Ice Shelf Wave-Induced Vibrations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Glenn L McClure($1), SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo
Key terms: Ross Ice Shelf, Instructional Module, Live Performances, Composition, Create, Educational, Experience, Music, Musical, Online, Resources, Videos.

Artistic and Scientific Fieldwork at the South Pole: Inquiry at the Edge of Possibility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

1. Donald Fortescue($1), Fortescue Donald, Oakland
Key terms: Art.

Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Glacial Landscape Evolution (EAGLE): A Study using Combined Thermochronology, Geochronology and Provenance Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Stuart N Thomson($562,462), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Kathy J Licht($33,732), Indiana University, Bloomington
3. David L Shuster($35,315), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
4. Sidney Hemming($293,511), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Polar Rock Repository, Dating Techniques, East Antarctic, Ice Sheet, Mineral Grains, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, Apatite, Bedrock, Collaboration, Contained, Continent, Cooling, Core, Deposited, Dynamics, Geo-, Glaciers, Has, History, Ice-free, Landscape, Methods, Offshore, Onshore, Outreach, Past, Reconstruct, Sand, Sediment, Students, Subglacial, Tectonic, Training, Was, Workshop.

Activity, Preservation and Fossilization of Cryptoendolithic Microorganisms in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Philip C Bennett($154,814), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Cold And Dry, Biological Activity, Dry Valleys, Fossilized Cryptoendoliths, Microbial Activity, Microbial Fossils, Allow, Antarctica, Arid, Biosignatures, Characterize, Chemical, Climatic, Conditions, Cryptoendolithic, Dead, Environmental, Environments, Evidence, Experiments, Features, Fossilization, Gradient, Habitats, Harsh, Increasingly, Laboratory, Life, Limits, Living, Microorganisms, Microscopic, Organisms, Past, Viability.

Collaborative Research: Permian and Triassic Icehouse to Greenhouse Paleoenvironments and Paleobotany in the Shackleton Glacier Area, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Erik L Gulbranson($380,445), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. Patricia E Ryberg($398,700), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Plant Life, Analyses, Antarctica, Climate, Environments, Extent, Extinction, Field, Following, Fossil, Geochemistry, Glaciation, Global, History, Information, Late, PTB, Permian, Plants, Recovery, Rock, SHK, Sedimentary, Stratigraphy, Time, Triassic, Wood.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Evolution of High-latitude Permo-Triassic Paleoenvironments and their Vertebrate Communities.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Peter J Makovicky($130,151), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
2. Neil M Tabor($214,892), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
3. Nathan D Smith($195,348), Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, Los Angeles
4. Christian A Sidor($320,365), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Shackleton Glacier Region, Organic Matter, Ago, Antarctic, Antarctica, Boundary, Climate, Compared, Evolution, Extinction, Fossil, Fremouw, Has, Latitudes, Life, Lower, Million, Paleosol, Permo-triassic, Plant, Polar, Stable, Strata, Triassic, Vertebrates.

Middle-Late Devonian Vertebrates of Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Edward B Daeschler($373,962), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Abundantly Exposed, Aztec Siltstone, Devonian Fish, Late Devonian, Middle-late Devonian, Non-marine Ecosystems, Analysis, Antarctica, Assembly, Backbone, Broader, Communication, Context, Description, Discoveries, Discovery, Diversity, Elaboration, Evidence, Evolution, Exceptional, Expansion, Exposure, Fossil, Fossiliferous, Fossils, Freshwater, Habitats, History, Investigation, Knowledge, Local, Middle-late, Non-marine, Phylogenetic, Public, Reconnaissance, Relatives, Rock, Sharks, Stratigraphic, Taxa, Tetrapods, Training, Vertebrates.

Friis Hills Drilling Project: An International Collaboration to Examine the Miocene Transition in Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Douglas E Kowalewski($17,109), Worcester State University, Worcester
Key terms: Friis Hills Core, Lake Sediment Cores, Ash Layers, Dry Valleys, Surface Deposits, Surface Sediments, Ago, Antarctic, Antarctica, Climate, Collect, Conditions, Continent, Drilling, Evolution, Marine, Million, Neogene, Past, Previous, Supported, Terrestrial, Transition, Tundra.

EAGER: Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing of Antarctic Paleolakes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Sarah S Johnson($261,663), Georgetown University, Washington
Key terms: Dry Valleys, Antarctic, Biotechnology, Cells, DNA, Investigate, Life, Microbial, Million, Multiple, Strategies, Techniques.

Quantifying Surface Area in Muds from the Antarctic Dry Valleys: Implications for Weathering in Glacial Systems
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Megan E Elwood Madden($383,709), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Ssa And Rsa, Carbon Dioxide, Chemical Weathering, Dry Valleys, Earth's Carbon, Previously Collected, Temperate Glacial, Andor, Antarctic, Atmosphere, Dissolution, Dust, Fluvial, Geochemically, Investigate, Landscape, Levels, MDV, Muds, Potential, Primary, Processes, Remarkably, Removal, Rock, SA, Sediment, Sediments, Surface, Taylor, Textural, Values, Variable, Various, Wright.

Collaborative Research: Triggering of Antarctic Icequakes, Slip Events, and other Tectonic Phenomena by Distant Earthquakes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Jacob I Walter($189,702), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Zhigang Peng($136,368), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Ice Stream Slip, Distant Earthquakes, Exhaustive Search, Tectonic Earthquakes, Activity, Additional, Analysis, Antarctic, Antarctica, Calving, Catalog, Classes, Continent, Deployed, Dynamic, External, Has, Infrastructure, Investments, Less, Movement, Past, Phenomena, Plan, Seismic, Seismicity, Seismometers, Stations, Surface, Triggered.

Antarctic Peninsula Exhumation and Landscape Development Investigated by Low-Temperature Detrital Thermochronometry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Gregory A Balco($366,898), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Alpine Landscapes, Antarctic Peninsula, Glacial Erosion, Glacial Valley, Landscapes Formed, Mid Latitudes, Temperate Alpine, Alaska, Alps, Apatite, Collected, Covered, Developed, Development, Glaciers, Has, History, Ice, Million, Patagonia, Pleistocene, Relief, Sites, Timing, Topographies, Topography, U-thhe, Was.

Finding the Missing Geomagnetic Dipole Signal in Global Pleointensity Data: Revisiting the High Southerly Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Hubertus Staudigel($416,287), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ancient Field Strength, Five Million, Geomagnetic Field, Lava Flow, Magnetic Field, Selection Criteria, Ability, Accurate, Allow, Apparent, Approach, Average, Axial, Collapse, Difficulty, Dipole, Estimates, Estimation, Experimental, Latitude, Leading, Poor, Rapidly, Robust.

Water Mass Structure and Bottom Water Formation in the Ice-age Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Robert F Anderson($278,469), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Coastal Polynyas, Deep Ocean, Deep Water, Deep Waters, Ice Age, Ice Ages, Ocean Stratification, Radiocarbon Ages, Southern Ocean, Surface Ocean, Absorbed, Amount, Antarctica, Application, Biological, Climate, Collect, Conditions, Constrain, Contemporary, Cores, Deep-water, Deposited, Dwellers, Expects, Foraminifera, Formation, Fossil, Future, Grew, Ice-age, Isotopes, Leading, Models, Near, Nutrient, Organic, Organisms, Primary, Produced, Projections, Ratios, Reconstruct, Region, Regions, Replacement, Sea, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: Testing the Hypothesis that Bigger Magma Chambers Crystallize Faster
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Blair Schoene($32,167), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Jill A VanTongeren($76,264), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Bigger Magma Chambers, Chambers Crystallize Faster, Magma Chambers Crystallize, Dufek Intrusion, Layered Intrusions, Layered Mafic, Magma Bodies, Ore Deposits, Previously Collected, =, Analyses, Antarctica, Chemical, Coffee, Compare, Continent, Cool, Counter-intuitive, Crust, Crystallization, Cup, Differentiation, Evolution, Exposed, Greenland, Held, Models, Observations, Petrologic, Rock, Solidification, Thermos, Time, Timescales, Typically, USA, Vantongeren, Volcanic, Worlds, Zircon.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Resolving Ambiguous Exposure-Age Chronologies of Antarctic Deglaciation with Measurements of In-Situ-Produced Cosmogenic Carbon-14
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Brent M Goehring($305,823), Tulane University, New Orleans
2. Gregory A Balco($50,620), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Global Sea Level, Ice Sheet Advance, Rock Surfaces, Sediment Deposits, Surface Exposure, Age, Aim, Ambiguous, Antarctica, Carbon-, Collected, Contributed, Cosmic-ray, Covered, Date, Dating, Determining, Existing, Expansion, Exposed, Geological, Glacial-interglacial, Ii, In-situ-produced, Involves, Outcomes, Overall, Past, Produced, Reconstructions, Retreat, Rise, Sites, Size, Strategy, Trace, Was.

Relative Paleointensity (RPI) and Age Control in Antarctic Marine Drift Sediments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. James E Channell($131,287), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Antarctic Marine Sediments, West Antarctic Ice, Age Models, Antarctic Peninsula, Correlation Tool, Geomagnetic Field, Oxygen Isotope, Sea Level, Sediment Drifts, Sedimentation History, Sedimentation Rates, APIS, Account, Antarctica, Biogenic, Bulk, Content, Contribute, Elevated, Estimated, Global, Has, High-resolution, Instability, Interglacial, Involving, Means, Melting, Paleointensity, Past, Proxies, Quaternary, RPI, Region, Relative, Relatively, Resolution, Stratigraphic, WAIS, Was.

Community Workshop: Scientific Drivers and Future of Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory (MEVO)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Peter LaFemina($30,000), UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder
Key terms: Mcmurdo Station, Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Active, Developed, Geophysical, Infrastructure, Mt, Observations, Priorities, Review, Summit, Volcanic, Volcano, Workshop.

Understanding the Integrity of Deep Ice in East Antarctica from Geophysical Data Sets and Physical Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Timothy T Creyts($519,902), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Deep Ice, East Antarctica, Ice Sheet, Characteristics, Contribute, Datasets, Developing, Existing, Found, Geophysical, Information, Models, Processes, Stratigraphy.

NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Two-Phase Dynamics of Temperate Ice
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Lucas K Zoet($112,948), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Neal R Iverson($478,348), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice Stream Margins, Speed And Geometry, Flow Resistance, Ice Streams, Temperate Ice, Application, Deformation, Effect, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Ice-stream, Iowa, Model, Modeling, Models, Oxford, Rapid, Rise, Softens, Temperature, Theory, Two-phase, Water.

Collaborative Research: Synchronizing the WAIS Divide and Greenland Ice Cores from 30-65 ka BP Using High-resolution 10Be Measurements
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Marc W Caffee($433,281), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Kees Welten($338,752), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Divide Ice Core, Greenland And Antarctica, Greenland Ice Cores, Wais Divide Core, Abrupt Climate, Broader Impacts, Geomagnetic Field, Relative Timing, Undergraduate Students, Ago, Berkeley, Common, Depth, Existing, Future, Has, Obtain, Outreach, Purdue, Signals, Timescale.

Collaborative Research: The Timing and Spatial Expression of the Bipolar Seesaw in Antarctica from Synchronized Ice Cores
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Justin J Wettstein($229,850), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Tyler J Fudge($98,983), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Cores, Global Sea Level, Hemisphere Westerly Winds, Sea Level Rise, Southern Hemisphere Westerly, Antarctic Climate, Atmospheric Circulation, Carbon Dioxide, Climatic Teleconnections, Global Warming, Snow Fall, Antarctica, Chronologies, Deglaciation, Expected, Future, Increase, Influence, Ocean, Past, Planet, Public, Spatial, Temperature, Timing, Via.

A High Resolution Atmospheric Methane Record from the South Pole Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edward J Brook($184,956), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Local Middle Schools, Pole Ice Core, South Pole Ice, Gas Chronology, Laboratory Tours, Local Civic, Outreach Activities, Age, Air, Assistants, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Carbon, Dating, Depth, Function, Gases, Matching, Methane, Methyl, Organizations, Penn, Perturbations, Students, Talks, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Long Term Sublimation/Preservation of Two Separate, Buried Glacier Ice Masses, Ong Valley, Southern Transantarctic Mountains
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Daniel J Morgan($100,227), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2. Gregory A Balco($59,723), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
3. Jaakko K Putkonen($271,173), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Cosmogenic Nuclide Concentrations, Buried Ice, Ong Valley, Overlying Debris, Age, Antarctic, Antarctica, Atmospheric, Collected, Contained, Field, Found, Geology, Involved, Measured, Mineral, Processes, Rate, Time, Uniquely.

Holocene Deglaciation of the Western Ross Embayment: Constraints from East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Michelle R Koutnik($335,196), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Ice, Ice Sheet, Outlet Glaciers, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Available, Conditions, Constrain, East, Flow, Glacial, Holocene, Modeling, Models, Observed, Past, Reach, Retreat, Sea-level, Sector, Transantarctic, West.

Collaborative Research: High-resolution Reconstruction of Holocene Deglaciation in the Southern Ross Embayment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. John O Stone($254,977), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Brenda L Hall($165,146), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Ross Sea Grounding, Sea Grounding Line, Antarctic Ice, Ice Sheet, Ice Volume, Sea Level, Thinning History, Beardmore, Beryllium-, Climate, Date, Dating, Deglaciation, Examine, Future, Glacial, Glacier, Glaciers, Holocene, Migration, Past, Recession, Scott, Sea-level.

Collaborative Research: Stability and Dynamics of Antarctic Marine Outlet Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Cornelis J van der Veen($440,000), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Glaciers And Ice, Grounding Line, Ice Sheet, Ice Stream, Ice Streams, Outlet Glaciers, West Antarctic, Bed, Flow, Grid, Grounded, Has, Investigate, Modeling, Perturbations, Regional, Retreat, Stability.

Collaborative Research: A High-sensitivity Beryllium-10 Record from an Ice Core at South Pole
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Eric J Steig($209,720), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Gisela Winckler($799,244), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Pole Ice Core, South Pole Ice, Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Model, Cosmic Rays, Earth's Atmosphere, Maunder Minimum, Solar Activity, Annual, Antarctica, CE, Concentration, Deposition, Glacial, Past, Period, Rate, Resolution, Snow, Surface, Time, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Kr-86 as a Proxy for Barometric Pressure Variability and Movement of the SH Westerlies during the last Deglaciation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Edward J Brook($159,999), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($115,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Current Warm Period, Divide Ice Core, Hemisphere Westerly Winds, Southern Hemisphere Westerlies, Southern Hemisphere Westerly, Air Movement, Antarctic Ice, Deep Ocean, Firn Air, Ice Age, Past Movement, Sh Westerlies, Absorbed, Antarctica, Caused, Circulation, Climate, Deviation, Emissions, Future, Global, Gravitational, Investigate, Krypton-, Linked, Models, Pressure, Rise, Southward, Transition, Uptake, WAIS, Water.

Laser Dust Logging of a South Pole Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Ryan Bay($171,072), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Laser Dust Logger, Crystal Fabric, Ice Core, Ice Sheet, Insoluble Particulates, South Pole, Antarctica, Borehole, Climate, Features, Flow, Impurities, Oriented, Program.

Mapping, Measuring and Modeling Geomorphology and Ice Change in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Jonathan M Harbor($659,874), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Dronning Maud Land, Ice Sheet Models, Past Ice, Challenge, Climate, Critical, Elevations, Geologic, Nunataks, Students, Surface, Timing.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Brittle Failure and Fracture Propagation in Fast Ice Sliding with Dynamic Rupture Models based on Whillans Ice Stream Seismic/Geodetic Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Slawek M Tulaczyk($39,886), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Eric M Dunham($210,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Whillans Ice Stream, Ice Sheets, Stick-slip Cycles, Antarctic, Base, Crevassing, Earthquakes, Experiments, Faulting, Fracture, Friction, Frictional, Modeling, Models, Periods, Pis, Processes, Rupture, School, Seismic, Sliding, Source, Stick-slip.

Collaborative Research: Present and Projected Future Forcings on Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers and Ice Shelves using the Weather Forecasting and Research (WRF) Model
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Mark Fahnestock($380,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Jing Zhang($396,414), North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro
Key terms: Antarctic Peninsula, Future Climate, Glacier Mass, Surface Mass, Available, Combination, Conditions, Driven, Framework, Has, Ice, Increased, Melt, Model, Models, Observational, Observations, Observed, Past, Region, Regions, Resulting, Simulate, Students, WRF.

Collaborative Research: Tephrochronology of a South Pole Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Nelia W Dunbar($176,798), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Andrei V Kurbatov($242,023), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: South Pole Ice, Antarctic Ice, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Volcanic Ash, Volcanic Eruptions, West Antarctica, Allowing, Climate, Dated, Direct, Established, Fingerprint, Identifying, Layers, Origin, Particles, Robust, Sulfate, Tephra.

Measuring an Ice-core Proxy for Relative Oxidant Abundances over Glacial-interglacial and Rapid Climate changes in a West Antarctic Ice Core
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Becky Alexander($399,870), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Core, Greenland Ice Core, West Antarctic Ice, Abrupt Climate, Climate Transitions, Oxidant Concentrations, Atmosphere, Composition, Feedbacks, Future, Implications, Information, Isotopes, Mechanisms, Nitrate, Observed, Oxidants, Past, Period, Proxy, Rapid.

Revealing Late Holocence Climate Variability in Antarctica from Borehole Paleothermometry
Award Effective Date: 10/20/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

1. Atsuhiro Muto($53,186), Temple University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Thermal Profiling Units, Dome Fuji, Firn Temperature, Firn Thermal, Shallow Borehole, Thermal Properties, Antarctic, Automated, Constrain, Surface, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Logistically Light Instrument Deployment for Estimation of Antarctic Basal Temperatures and Geothermal Heat Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. John S Selker($9,999), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Scott W Tyler($24,979), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
3. Dale P Winebrenner($215,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Geothermal Heat Flux, Ice Melt Probe, Laboratory Experiments, Melt Hole, Melt Probes, Numerical Modeling, Temperature Profiles, Undertake Laboratory, Antarctic, Approach, Basal, Costs, Current, DTS, Description, Designs, Development, Drilling, Equipment, Field, Following, Long-term, Means, Methods, Raman, Recoverable, Technical, Testing.

Development of an Air-droppable Goedetic-seismic Ice Penetrator for Response Studies of Antarctic Ice Shelves and Icebergs to Ocean Forcings
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

1. Michael Hecht($269,995), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Antarctic Ice Shelves, Geodetic-seismic Ice Penetrator, Antarctic Ice-shelf, Geodetic-seismic Ice, Ice Shelf, Abstract, Antarctica, Capabilities, Critically, Decay, Forcings, GSIP, Gap, Ice-shelf, Icebergs, Instrument, Observations, Ocean, Oceanic, Stability.

Group Travel Award: XIIth SCAR International Biology Symposium
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Deneb Karentz($50,000), University of San Francisco, San Francisco
Key terms: International Biology Symposium, Scar International Biology, Antarctic, Meeting, Participation.

Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) Science Workshop
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Jeffrey P Severinghaus($42,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Access Ice Drill, Rapid Access Ice, Ice Sheets, Travel Costs, Antarctic, Bed, Create, Early-career, Periodicity, Plan, RAID, Synergies, Two-day, Underrepresented, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Brad E Rosenheim($382,940), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Brent C Christner($391,882), University of Florida, Gainesville
3. Kathryn Kasic($1,706,535), Montana State University, Bozeman
4. Helen A Fricker($302,803), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
5. W. Berry Lyons($102,449), Ohio State University, Columbus
6. Amy Leventer($37,506), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Subglacial Lake Mercer, Whillans Ice Plain, Basal Ice, Geophysical Surveys, Grounding Line, Ice Sheet, Ice Streams, West Antarctica, Biological, Cycling, Direct, Hydrological, Hydrology, Information, Lakes, Lies, Marine, Sampling, Sediments, Site, Upstream, Water.

Workshop Proposal: 23rd West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop and Science Plan Development
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Ted A Scambos($22,855), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Climate, Discuss, Discussion, NAS, Planning, Potential, Region, Report, WAIS, Workshop.

East Antarctic Grounding Line Experiment (EAGLE)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Patrick Heimbach($839,487), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Control Cavity Circulation, Cook Ice Shelf, Denman Glacier, East Antarctic, Grounding Line, Ice Sheet, Potential Sea-level, Totten Glacier, Advanced, Freshwater, Future, Heat, Ice-ocean, Ice-shelf, Ocean, Processes, Region, Rise, Sea-level.

NSFGEO-NERC: Paleoclimate Signatures of the Climate Response to West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Eric J Steig($371,821), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Antarctic Ice Sheet, Atmospheric Circulation, Model Version, Climate, Collapse, Comparison, Evidence, Examine, Influence, Models, Paleoclimate, Past, Simulations, WAIS.

Group Travel to the XXXIV SCAR Open Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Terry J Wilson($84,987), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Students And Early-career, 34th Scar, Graduate Students, Southern Ocean, Activities, Antarctic, Antarctica, Available, Climate, Collaborations, Conference, Development, Evolution, Future, Global, Interdisciplinary, International, Observations, SCAR-OSC, Symposia.

Support for the International Glaciological Society 2016 Symposium on Ice-ocean Interaction
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

1. Helen A Fricker($20,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Ice Sheets, Ice Shelves, Circulation, Evolution, Glaciers, Ice-ocean, Mass, Ocean, Processes, Symposium.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Atmospheric Gravity Waves and their Effects on the Antarctic Ozone Layer
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Xian Lu($33,224), Clemson University, Clemson
2. Chihoko Cullens($180,323), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Xian Lu($55,083), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic Ozone Layer, Atmospheric Gravity Waves, Atmospheric Gravity, Lower Atmosphere, Ozone Hole, Affect, Circulation, Effects, Enhanced, Ground-based, Halogens, Models, Parameterization, Reactions, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Temperatures, WRF.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Biogeochemical Fluxes and Linkages To Climate Change With Multi-Scale Observations In The Drake Passage
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. David R Munro($407,061), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Britton Stephens($99,764), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Drake Passage, Southern Ocean, CC, Global, Pco, Surface, TCO.

Collaborative Research: Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Program 2016-2019
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Mark Kulie($1,139,916), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Melissa A Nigro($99,793), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Snowfall And Blowing, Aaws Network, Aws Network, Blowing Snow, Large-scale Modes, Surface Observations, Antarctic, Climate, Large-scale, Layer, Measure, Meteorological, Near, Processes, Station, Weather.

High Resolution Underway Observations in Drake Passage: Ocean Physics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Teresa K Chereskin($530,448), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Describe And Relate, Seasonal And Long-term, Drake Passage, Southern Ocean, Time Scales, ACC, Forcing, Fronts, Properties, Salinity, Water.

Collaborative Research: Implementing Low-power, Autonomous Observing Systems to Improve the Measurement and Understanding of Antarctic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Mark W Seefeldt($305,391), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic Precipitation, Snow Accumulation, Antarctica, Apss, Autonomous, Blowing, Designed, Gauge, Height, Instruments, Laser, Sensor, Sites, Time.

Eddy/tidal Water Mass Transformation and Transport in the Weddell Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Andrew L Stewart($428,209), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Shelf Water Produced, Warm Deep Water, Water Mass Transformation, Ice Shelf, Ocean Circulation, AABW, Antarctic, Carbon, Concentration, Continent, Critical, Eddies, Export, Features, Heat, Implications, Mesoscale, Onto, Sea, Shelves, WDW, Weddell.

Resolving CO2 System Seasonality in the West Antarctic Peninsula with Autonomous Observations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Elizabeth Shadwick($451,235), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: West Antarctic Peninsula, Palmer Lter, Coastal, Frequency, Observations, Region, Waters.

RAPID: Improving Model Parameterization of Energetic Fluxes in the Boundary Layer over Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Dana E Veron($12,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Ice Mass, West Antarctic, AWARE, Allow, Antarctica, CALVA, Cloud, Collaboration, De, Dome, Efforts, Field, French, Geophysique, Joint, RAPID, Radiation.

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Oceanic Forcing on the Melting of West Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Carlos F Moffat($211,861), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Carlos F Moffat($211,861), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Michael Dinniman($143,521), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
4. Eugene W Domack($51,518), University of South Florida, Tampa
5. Mark P Carey($299,302), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: West Antarctic Peninsula, Sea Level, Circulation, Differences, Driven, Dynamics, Exchange, Forcing, Glacier, Glaciers, Global, Ice, Importance, Melting, Ocean, Processes, Projections, Region, Shelf, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Optimized Deployment of Antarctic Surface Weather Observations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Matthew A Lazzara($38,234), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Gregory Hakim($386,165), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Jordan G Powers($95,258), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Aws Network, AMPS, Antarctic, Archived, Experiments, Networks, Objectively, Observations, Optimal, Placement, Predictions.

Dynamics of the Antarctic Seasonal Ice Zone
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. John C Marshall($826,678), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Sea Ice, Seasonal Cycle, Abyssal, Antarctic, Antarctica, Circulation, Climate, Continent, Dynamics, Importance, Model, Ocean, Region, SIZ, Sea-ice, Waters.

The Infrared Radiative Impact of Antarctic Clouds
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Penny M Rowe($185,899), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Cloud Properties, Supercooled Liquid, Antarctic, Budget, Climate, Clouds, Dependence, Interactions, Phase, Polar, Radiation, Radiative, Station, Surface, Water.

Production and Fate of Oxylipins in Waters of the Western Antarctic Penninsula: Linkages Between UV Radiation, Lipid Peroxidation, and Carbon Cycling
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Benjamin Van Mooy($582,484), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon Cycling, Food Chain, Antarctic, Antarctica, Artificial, Bacteria, Cultures, Diatoms, Experiments, Field, Has, Lipids, Marine, Molecular, Molecules, Near, Ocean, Oxylipins, Pathways, Phenomenon, Phytoplankton, Planktonic, ROS, State-of-the-art, Surface, Techniques, UVR, Via, WAP, Waters, Zooplankton.

RUI: Growing Up on Ice: Physiological Adaptations and Developmental Plasticity in Weddell Seal Pups Across Two Extreme Physical Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Shawn Johnson($1,183,160), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Weddell Seal Pups, Critical Life, Diving Capability, Marine Mammal, Physiological Strategies, Weddell Seals, Abundance, Affect, Air, Animals, Antarctic, Assess, Body, Capacity, Development, Dive, Energy, Extreme, Facilitate, Factors, Independence, Mechanisms, Metabolic, Muscle, Polar, Proteins, Public, Quantify, Stage, Survival, Transition, Warm, Water, Weeks.

Antarctic Fish and MicroRNA Control of Development and Physiology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Thomas Desvignes($870,151), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Antarctic Fish Evolved, Compare Mirna Regulation, Red Blood Cells, Bone Mineral, Constant Cold, Enlarged Hearts, Gene Expression, Icefish Specializations, Lipid Deposition, Mirnas Regulate, Reduced Bone, Rna Copy, Southern Ocean, Aim, Ancestral, Andor, Animals, Binding, Bottom-dwelling, Buoyancy, Density, Development, Evolution, Genes, Genome, Increased, Intermediate, Involved, Laboratory, Live, Loss, Micrornas, Mrnas, Notothenioid, Organs, Origin, Protein, Proteins, Red-blooded, Respond, School, Seas, Sequence, Species, Strongly, Temperate, Temperature, Traits, Warming, Waters, Zebrafish.

Collaborative Research: Stochasticity and Cryoconite Community Assembly and Function
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Steven K Schmidt($682,569), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Andrew G Fountain($282,431), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Cryoconite Holes, Environmental Factors, Affect, Antarctic, Assembly, Biodiversity, Composition, Degree, Dust, Ecological, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Essential, Field, Function, Functioning, Ice, Isolated, Larger, Life, Manipulative, Microbial, Microorganisms, Organisms, Pockets, Processes, Regional, Stochastic, Unique.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Glacial History on the Structure and Functioning of Ecological Communities in the Shackleton Glacier Region of the Transantarctic Mountains
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Byron J Adams($360,781), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. W. Berry Lyons($114,413), Ohio State University, Columbus
3. Noah Fierer($275,757), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Diana H Wall($114,864), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Antarctic, Contribute, Diversity, Drivers, Ecosystems, Environmental, Functional, Genomes, LGM, Microbial, Public, RNA, Soil, Taxonomic.

A Preliminary Assessment of the Influence of Ice Cover on Microbial Carbon and Energy Acquisition during the Antarctic Winter-spring Seasonal Transition
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Jeff Bowman($143,242), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Jeff Bowman($143,242), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sea Ice Cover, West Antarctic Peninsula, Eager Effort, Gene Expression, Ice Conditions, Available, Coastal, Critical, Dataset, Embayments, Enable, Energy, Phytoplankton, Transition.

EAGER: Elucidating the Antarctic Methane Cycle at the Cinder Cones Reducing Habitat.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Andrew R Thurber($123,271), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Bacteria And Archaea, Bacterial Mat, Degrees South, Graduate Student, K-12 Classrooms, Methane Cycling, Antarctic, Antarctica, Blogs, Discovered, Facilitate, International, Levels, Mcmurdo, Microbial, Respond, Seep, Seeps, Site, Sites, Succession, Was.

NSFGEO-NERC: Evolutionary Response of Southern Ocean Diatoms to Environmental Change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Tatiana Rynearson($790,442), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Evolutionary Potential, Field Populations, Genetic Diversity, Southern Ocean, Adaptability, Assess, Changing, Climate, Combination, Conditions, Diatoms, Environment, Environmental, Experiments, Future, Influence, Information, Lab, Marine, Past, Physiological, Predict, Range, Regions, Respond, Shifts.

A Full Lifecycle Approach to Understanding Adelie Penguin Response to Changing Pack Ice Conditions in the Ross Sea.
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. David G Ainley($467,425), H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos
2. Katie Dugger($321,240), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Grant Ballard($1,085,890), Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Petaluma
Key terms: Ross Sea Region, Ice Conditions, Marine Ecosystem, Outreach Activities, Sea Ice, Additional, Adélie, Affect, Annual, Antarctic, Arrival, Availability, Based, Behavior, Birds, Breeding, Changing, Coes, Collect, Colonies, Colony, Cycle, Effects, Effort, Efforts, Environmental, Explore, Foraging, Habitat, Individual, Individuals, Information, Known-history, Level, Local, Marked, Nesting, Penguin, Penguins, Presentations, Public, Students, Subsequent, Winter.

Microbial Community Structure and Expression of Functional Genes Involved in the Seasonal Cycling of DMSP in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Peter Countway($1,093,785), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Composition And Diversity, Southern Ocean Waters, Dmsp Cycling, Ocean Waters, Antarctic, Assemblages, Bacterial, Examine, Field, Influence, Involved, Magnitude, Marine, Microbial, Protistan, Seawater, Structuring, Students, Writer.

Collaborative Research: Determining Factors Affecting Distribution and Population Variability of the Ice-obligate Weddell Seal
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. David G Ainley($92,281), H.T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos
2. Michelle A LaRue($233,548), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Leonardo A Salas($69,611), Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Petaluma
4. Sharon E Stammerjohn($106,521), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fast Ice Extent, Environmental Variables, Satellite Images, Weddell Seal, Weddell Seals, Abundance, Antarctic, Antarctica, Climate, Commercial, Continent, Distribution, Effects, Estimates, Fare, Fishery, Habitat, Mammal, Population, Populations, Public, Regions, Species.

Collaborative Research: Synergistic effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Temperature on the Metabolism, Growth, and Reproduction of Antarctic Krill (Euphausia Superba)
Award Effective Date: 12/22/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Brad A Seibel($51,231), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Co2 And Temperature, Antarctic Krill, Elevated Co2, Euphausia Superba, Ocean Acidification, Southern Ocean, Acid-base, Conditions, Effort, Engage, Food, Growth, Marine, Metabolism, Region, Reproduction, Students, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Microbial Community Assembly in Coastal Waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Jeremy J Rich($32,969), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Structure And Function, Sea Ice, Affect, Antarctic, Carbon, International, Microbial, Organic, Shifts, Station, WAP.

Collaborative Research: AON: The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Robert M Holmes($855,735), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
2. Alexander Shiklomanov($54,061), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Robert G Spencer($168,954), Florida State University, Tallahassee
4. James W McClelland($171,037), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Rivers Observatory, Arctic-gro, Chemistry, Concentrations, Council, Dissolved, Land, Nutrients, Organic, Properties, Runoff, Six, Watershed, Yukon.

DDRIG: Soil-Stratigraphy and Landscape Evolution in Subarctic Lowlands: A Paleoenvironmental Framework for Human Colonization and Occupation of Eastern Beringia
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Jennifer Kielhofer($29,693), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Influenced Soil Formation, Local Disturbance Cycles, Past Soil Formation, Buried Soils, Central Alaska, Eastern Beringia, Landscape Evolution, Ago, Archaeological, Climatic, Environmental, Human, Lowland, North, Occurred, Paleoenvironmental, Settings, Subarctic, Terrestrial, Time, Was.

RCN: EyesNorth - A Research Coordination Network of Community-Based Observing Initiatives in the Arctic and Beyond
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. David L Griffith($499,090), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Cbo Continuum, Community-based Observing, Eyesnorth Rcn, Actions, Activities, Adaptation, Applied, Approaches, Arctic, Broad, Citizen, Co-developed, Community-based, Diverse, Education, Enhance, Ensure, Environmental, Information, Knowledge, Management, Monitoring, Network, Objective, Partners, Partnerships, Practices, Practitioners, Programs, Range, Resilience, Sharing, Theories, Training, Transfer, Transferability, Western.

Arctic Floats: A Pilot Effort for Arctic Argo
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. An T Nguyen($71,018), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice, Silent Times, ASTE, Autonomous, Design, Estimate, Float, Floats, Function, Future, Has, Hydrographic, Information, Initial, Likelihood, Monitoring, Observations, Position, Properties, Simulations, Surface, Uncertainties, Uncertainty, Water, World.

Collection and Analysis of GEOSummit Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Nicholas J Spada($176,383), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Greenland Summit Site, Fine Particles, Global Climate, Light Source, Size Modes, Aerosol, Aerosols, Allow, Arctic, Atmosphere, Collected, Composition, Dust, Elevation, Has, Ice, Imbedded, Mass, Models, Program, Sources, Species, Total, Transport, Μm.

Collaborative Research: ELOKA Phase IV: Optimizing Data Management Support for Community-Based Research and Observations Contributing to Arctic Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Ruth E Duerr($1,802,999), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Mark P John($66,432), Calista Education and Culture, Inc., Anchorage
Key terms: Local And Traditional, Observations And Knowledge, Arctic Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Local Observations, Traditional Knowledge, Activities, Available, Capacity, Community-based, Critical, Cultural, Discoverable, Documenting, ELOKA, Education, Environmental, Exchange, Focus, Has, Information, Management, Network, Observing, Policy, Preservation, Preserving, Public, STEM, Services, Social, Supporting, Training.

Collaborative research: The WArming and irRadiance Measurement (WARM) buoy: Assessing the role of solar energy in heating, photosynthesis, and photo-oxidation in the upper Arctic
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Bonnie Light($293,324), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Victoria J Hill($788,926), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Anticipated Drift West, Arctic Ice Pack, Thinning And Reduction, Western Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Shelf, Continued Thinning, Hourly Observations, Ice Melt, Light Available, Northward Advancement, Phytoplankton Blooms, Public Parties, Solar Radiation, Sub-arctic Species, Thinner Ice, Warm Buoy, Warmer Water, Water Column, Absorption, Abundance, Acts, Affecting, Affects, Autonomous, Beneath, Buoys, Carbon, Consequences, Cycle, Deployed, Ecosystem, Effects, Enable, Entire, Environment, Has, Increases, Limitations, Magnitude, Marine, Ocean, Organic, Organisms, Penetrating, Photosynthesis, Primary, Promoting, Proven, Resulting, Robust, Salinity, Seasonal, Spring, Sub-arctic, Sunlight, Survive, Temperature, Time, Timing, UV, Vertical, Warming, Zooplankton.

EAGER: Reducing Scientific Uncertainty of Storm Trends in Savoonga and Shaktoolik, Alaska with Traditional Knowledge
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Jessica L Chapman($90,366), Saint Lawrence University, Canton
Key terms: Savoonga And Gambell, Siberian Yupik Names, Date Driftwood, Driftwood Deposits, Scientists Expect, Storm Intensity, Storm Strength, Aims, Arctic, Babies, Climate, Continue, Dates, Direction, Generate, Indigenous, Knowledge, Land, Left, Map, Measure, Named, Storms, Stronger, Time, Villages, Waves.

Autonomous Ice Mass Balance Buoys for an Arctic Observing Network: A Continuation Proposal
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Amanda H Lynch($800,409), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Sea Ice Cover, Arctic Ocean, Mass Balance, Amount, Atmospheric, Buoy, Buoys, Continue, Cooling, Costs, Deploy, Deployment, Enable, Extent, Global, IMB, Net, Network, Objective, Observations, Seasonal, Thickness, Time, Warming.

Arctic Observing Networks: Collaborative Research:ITEX AON - understanding the relationships between vegetation change, plant phenology, and ecosystem function in a warming Arctic
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Craig E Tweedie($281,350), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Robert D Hollister($304,439), Grand Valley State University, Allendale
3. A Joshua Leffler($375,396), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
4. William A Gould($371,493), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Medium-scale Aerial Imagery, Arctic Ecosystems, Ecosystem Function, Experimental Warming, Growing Season, Medium-scale Aerial, Vegetation Structure, AON, Automated, Center, Climate, Datasets, Frequency, Grand, Greenland, ITEX, ITEX-AON, Long-term, Manual, Miami, Platforms, Plots, Properties, Scaling, Sites, Strong, Tundra, Was.

AON: Monitoring the Western Arctic Boundary Current in a Warming Climate
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Robert S Pickart($970,023), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Bering Strait, Pacific Water, Pack Ice, Base, Beaufort, Climate, Current, Deployed, Fall, Fate, Freshwater, Has, Measured, Mooring, Near, Nutrients, Sampling, Sea, Shelf, Shipboard, Situated, Time, Waters.

An Arctic Ocean sea surface pCO2 and pH observing network
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Michael DeGrandpre($159,262), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Central Arctic Ocean, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide, Ice Cover, Acidity, Air-sea, Beaufort, Changing, Cruise, Deployed, Depth, Dissolved, Less, Moorings, Museum, Pco, Processes, Sea, Sensors, Shipboard, Subsurface, Summer, Surface, Warming, Water.

Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Ignatius G Rigor($445,786), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Arctic Buoy Program, Arctic Ocean Buoy, Ocean Buoy Program, Sea Ice Conditions, Weather And Sea, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure, Global Weather, Ice Motion, Buoys, Climate, Collect, Decades, Has, IABP, Models, National, Observations, Observed, Public, Surface, Thickness, Validation, World.

Collaborative Research: Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories in Alaska and Siberia
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Svetlana Stuefer($230,181), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Edward B Rastetter($59,400), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
3. George W Kling($79,497), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Energy Balance, Imnavait Creek, Stream Chemistry, Alaska, Alaskan, Arctic, Available, Carbon, Depth, Ecosystems, LTER, Long-term, Program, Sites, Terrestrial, Via, Water, Winter.

Taimyr Reindeer Migration Reanalysis (TAMARA)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. John DeGroote($155,995), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Key terms: Reindeer Herd, Taimyr Reindeer, Wild Reindeer, Arctic, Available, Climate, Comprehensive, Cyberinfrastructure, Digitize, Dissemination, Distribution, Environment, Eurasia, Has, Herds, Historical, Information, International, Local, Monitored, Network, North, Observation, Observed, Polar, Populations, Spatial, TAMARA, TRH.

Collaborative Research: A Bering Strait Ocean Observing System for the Pacific Inflow to the Arctic - a fundamental part of the Arctic Observing Network
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Patrick Heimbach($253,958), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Bering Strait Region, Traditional Knowledge, AON, Combine, Native, Observations, Products.

Collaborative Research: Science coordination office for Summit Station/ISI Observatory and the Greenland Traverse
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. John F Burkhart($41,100), University of California - Merced, Merced
2. Jack E Dibb($115,171), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Zoe Courville($147,909), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Environmental Observatory, Summit Station, Activities, Arctic, Comprehensive, Contractor, Costs, Discussions, Emissions, Features, Long-term, Maintenance, NSF, Nsfs, Past, Primary, Reducing, SCO, Scos, Site, Stakeholders.

Toolik Field Station Base Funding
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. Brett A Biebuyck($17,944,590), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Observatory Network Program, Field Stations, Arctic, Climate, Ecological, Feedbacks, Has, Site, TFS.

Collaborative Research: Nutritional Landscapes of Arctic Caribou: Observations, Experiments, and Models Provide Process-Level Understanding of Forage Traits and Trajectories
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Donald E Spalinger($1,103,608), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
2. Gary P Kofinas($368,822), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Glen E Liston($251,924), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
4. A Joshua Leffler($373,176), South Dakota State University, Brookings
Key terms: Cap And Cae, Future Nutritional Landscapes, Spatial And Temporal, Alaska Native, Caribou Available, Caribou Foraging, Migratory Caribou, Secondary Compounds, Amounts, Analysis, Arctic, Biomass, Climate, Consumers, Depend, Digestibility, Examines, Experimental, Food, Function, Herbivore, Herbivores, Humans, Hunter, Integrative, Interactions, Long-term, M-, Modeling, Multiple, Plant, Scenarios, Species, Students, Vegetation.

Collaborative Research: The Importance of Shelf Break Upwelling to Upper Trophic Level Ecology in the Western Beaufort Sea
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Robert G Campbell($565,065), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Stephen Okkonen($298,186), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Carin Ashjian($1,049,523), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Jinlun Zhang($458,624), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Beaufort Sea Shelf, Sea Shelf Break, Trophic Level Animals, Upper Trophic Level, Model Output, North Slope, Trophic Levels, Atmospheric, Availability, Belugaandwhales, Biological, Climate, Condition, Cruises, Disseminated, Ecosystem, Elevated, Enhanced, Environment, Future, Importance, Increasing, Local, Mechanistic, Ocean, Opportunities, Organizations, Planned, Predict, Prey, Program, Range, Retrospective, Seabirds, Seals, Shelf-break, Upwelling, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Adding animals to the equation: linking observational, experimental and modeling approaches to assess herbivore impacts on carbon cycling in northern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Rebecca Rowe($597,270), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Laura Gough($340,935), Towson University, Towson
3. Edward B Rastetter($163,381), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
4. Jennie R McLaren($621,488), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Voles And Lemmings, Arctic Tundra, Tundra Ecosystems, Abundance, Carbon, Climate, Current, Cycling, Experimental, Feedbacks, Future, Grazing, Importance, Influence, Mammals, Model, Observations, Plots, Predictions, Rodent, Sites.

Collaborative Research: Adding animals to the equation: assessing herbivore impacts on carbon cycling in northern Alaska
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Natalie T Boelman($1,070,591), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Voles And Lemmings, Arctic Tundra, Tundra Ecosystems, Abundance, Carbon, Climate, Current, Cycling, Experimental, Feedbacks, Future, Grazing, Importance, Influence, Mammals, Model, Observations, Plots, Predictions, Rodent, Sites.

Collaborative Research: Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS) phase 2: focus on high and very high resolution modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Michael Steele($326,352), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Development And Analysis, Modeling And Observing, Models And Observations, Uncertainties And Errors, Arctic Models, Arctic Ocean, Broader Impacts, Existing Models, Sea Ice, Collaboration, Conducting, Coordinated, Developing, Focused, Forum, Future, Generation, Identification, Improvements, International, Meetings, Modelers, Observationalists, Oceanic, Processes, Recommendations, Regional, Resolution, Resolving, Schools, Sea-ice, Synthesis, Teleconferences, Theoreticians, Virtual.

Collaborative Research: Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS)--Phase 2: Focus on High and Very High Resolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Andrey Proshutinsky($712,962), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Development And Analysis, Modeling And Observing, Models And Observations, Uncertainties And Errors, Arctic Models, Arctic Ocean, Broader Impacts, Existing Models, Sea Ice, Collaboration, Conducting, Coordinated, Developing, Focused, Forum, Future, Generation, Identification, Improvements, International, Meetings, Modelers, Observationalists, Oceanic, Processes, Recommendations, Regional, Resolution, Resolving, Schools, Sea-ice, Synthesis, Teleconferences, Theoreticians, Virtual.

REU Site: Understanding Arctic as a System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Vladimir A Alexeev($620,511), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Actively Involved, Arctic Climate, Future Arctic, Summer Experience, Broad, Collaboration, Current, Educational, Fairbanks, Knowledge, Mentors, Program, Students, Teaching, Undergraduates, Workforce.

Collaborative Research: Formation and Persistence of Benthic Biological Hotspots in the Pacific Arctic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Jinlun Zhang($106,362), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Jacqueline M Grebmeier($107,340), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
3. Robert G Campbell($84,712), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
4. Zhixuan Feng($554,731), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Benthic Hotspot Formation, Bering And Chukchi, Formation And Persistence, Atmospheric Forcing, Benthic Hotspots, Benthic-pelagic Coupling, Chukchi Seas, Field Efforts, Northern Bering, Ongoing Climate, Sea Ice, Arctic, Benthic-pelagic, Biological, Carbon, Components, Contribute, Currents, Ecosystem, Entire, Existing, Export, Future, Guiding, Importance, Inter-annual, Mechanisms, Model, Modeling, Ocean, Particle, Predict, Processes.

Predictability of Open Water in the Chukchi/Beaufort Seas and Other Regions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Julienne C Stroeve($713,339), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Chukchi And Beaufort, Feedback And Ocean, Ocean Heat Transport, Ocean Heat Uptake, Surface Melt Onset, Albedo Feedback, Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Seas, Ice Conditions, Ice Retreat, Ice Thickness, Resource Exploration, Sea Ice, Seasonal Predictions, Subsistence Hunting, Water Period, Addressing, Atmospheric, Autumn, Changing, Climate, Date, Earlier, Examined, Freeze-up, Observations, Predictability, Processes, Regional, Return, Skillful, Springsummer, Stakeholder, Variables.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the role of Arctic Cyclones - A system approach
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Larry DiGirolamo($149,992), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Elizabeth N Cassano($666,625), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. John E Walsh($186,911), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
4. Wieslaw Maslowski($509,454), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Arctic Ice Cover, Deformation And Oceanic, Global Climate Models, Sea Ice Deformation, Arctic Cyclone, Arctic Cyclones, Arctic Ocean, Cyclone Activity, Ice Concentration, Oceanic Mixing, Regional Arctic, Spatial Scales, Alaska, Allow, Analysis, Assessment, Atmosphere-ocean-ice, Atmospheric, Center, Coupled, Coupling, Graduate, Has, Increased, Intensities, Inventory, NSF, National, Observational, Ocean-atmosphere, Output, Potential, Processes, RASM, Respond, Seasonal, Simulations, Storms, Tracks.

Riparian shrub expansion: Linkages to permafrost, hydrology and soil microbes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Anna K Liljedahl($61,913), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Recruitment And Growth, Arctic Shrub, Discharge Downstream, Losing Stream, Shrub Expansion, Shrub Recruitment, Stream Sections, Tall Shrub, Tall Shrubs, Biogeochemical, Cover, Increasing, Permafrost, Processes, Streams, Subsurface.

Towards a Unifying Pan-Arctic Perspective: Concepts and Theories
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Jacqueline M Grebmeier($30,816), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Arctic Marine, Arctic Ocean, Conceptual Model, Industry Operations, Pan Arctic, Addressing, Developed, Economic, Effort, Efforts, Focus, Governing, International, Level, Models, Pressures, Processes, Programs, Shared, Time, Unified, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Arctic Sea Ice Variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass and Energy Balance
Award Effective Date: 02/23/2016; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Marco Tedesco($142,619), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet Surface, Melt And Accumulation, Sea Ice Cover, Sea Ice Loss, Sheet Surface Melt, Influence Greenland, Regional Climate, Analysis, Arctic, Atmospheric, Combination, Hand, Increased, Influences, Losing, Mass, Modeling, Ocean, Overlying, Satellite, Temperatures, Warming.

RUI: Collaborative Research: Fire regime influences on carbon dynamics of Siberian boreal forests
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Heather Alexander($189,211), Colgate University, Hamilton
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.

Collaborative research: Developing a System Model of Arctic Glacial Lake Sedimentation for Investigating Past and Future Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Jason E Geck($159,808), Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage
Key terms: Arctic Lakes, Eklutna Lake, Glaciated Catchments, Glaciated Watersheds, Past Climate, Process Studies, Statistical Correlations, Accumulate, Anchorage, Annual, Approach, Based, Bottom, Capture, Components, Control, Dynamic, Environmental, Future, Glacier, Glacier-hydrology-lake-sedimentation, Input, Interactions, Managers, Model, Natural, Near, Output, Previous, Process-based, Processes, Rate, Reconstructions, Refuge, Seasonal, Sediment, Sedimentation, Time, Weather, Wildlife.

Collaborative Research:The Climatic Role of Permafrost- As permafrost thaws, could a weakening terrestrial freezer and an increasingly leaky bathplug amplify Arctic climate change?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2013; Program: ARCSS-Arctic System Science

1. Mark C Serreze($410,878), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Active Layer, Arctic Climate, Aid, Base, Bathplug, Broader, CLM, Capabilities, Coupled, Experiments, Feedbacks, Freezer, Freezing, Future, Ground, Ice, Ice-rich, Intellectual, Loss, Model, Onto, Permafrost, Seasonal, Seasonality, Soils, Student, Terrestrial, Water.

Support to convene the 2016 Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) and Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: ARCTIC RES & POLICY SUPPORT PR

1. T. Scott Rupp($65,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Observations, Arctic Observing, AOS, ASSW, Accomplish, Action, Activities, Alaska, Collaboration, Coordinate, Fairbanks, Forum, Government, Has, Input, International, Meet, Meeting, Meetings, Organizations, Organizers, Plan, SAO, Specific, Stakeholder, Summit.

Collaborative Research: The Polaris Project II: Amplifying the Impact
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Steven Freedberg($232,887), Saint Olaf College, Northfield
Key terms: Ii Seeks, Outreach Activities, Polaris Ii, Undergraduate Students, Arctic, Faculty, Field, K-, Public.

DDRIG: Illiamna Yup'ik Geographic Knowledge and Sense of Place in Southwest Alaska
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Gary Holton($33,612), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Names And Oral, Geographic Knowledge, Iliamna Lake, Iliamna Region, Iliamna Yup'ik, Oral Narratives, Traditional Knowledge, Yup'ik Speaking, Alaska, Athabaskan, Documentation, Environment, Future, Has, Land, Landscape, Local, Peoples, Perspective, Resources, Scholars, Serve, Speakers, Useful, Yupik.

Distance Learning through Self-Induced Learning Infrastructure (SELIN) Implemented by Arctic Anthropologists
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Robin A Shoaps($299,566), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: E-learning Platform, Alaska, Animal, Arctic, Based, Communication, Course, Distance, Dog, E-learning, Education, Findings, Human-animal, Investigating, Involved, Rural, SELIN, Social, Students, Training.

Hybrid Governance in the Arctic: Carving out a Political Space for Coastal Indigenous Communities in Arctic Emergency Preparedness and Response
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. James T Gamble($11,780), Aleut International Association, Anchorage
Key terms: Arctic Emergency Preparedness, Ice Law, Talking Circles, ASSP, Coastal, Governance, Indigenous, Knowledge, Landscape, Larger, Levels, Planned, Play, Policy, Regional, Workshop.

DDRIG: High Latitude Adaptations and Geoarchaeology at the Little John site, Yukon Territory, Canada
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. E. James Dixon($21,969), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Assemblages, Complexes, Distinct, Excavation, Microblades, Paleoenvironmental, Presumably, Relating, Site.

Resilient Alaska Native Communities: Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Risk Assessment Through Local Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Robin Bronen($347,753), Alaska Institute for Justice, Anchorage
Key terms: Health And Well-being, Adaptive Capacity, Alaska Native, Natural Hazards, Adaptation, Assess, Challenges, Critical, Design, Environmental, Erosion, Extreme, Facing, Framework, Governmental, Infrastructure, Organizations, Protect, Protection, Relocation, Residents, Water.

Collaborative Research: Using field experiments to understand household barriers to energy efficiency in Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Marco E Castillo($377,798), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Antony G Scott($561,254), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Hot Water Heat, Space And Hot, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Energy Savings, Engineering Models, Heating Costs, Heating Oil, Hidden Costs, Home Energy, Seemingly Adaptive, Actual, Adopt, Alaska, Analysis, Assessment, Available, Behavior, Behavioral, Building, Cash, Causal, Consumption, Dataset, Demand, Effectiveness, Experiments, Field, Generate, HERP, Household, Imply, Importance, Incentives, Individuals, Information, Investments, Limited, Local, Measures, Opportunities, Participant, Participation, Payoffs, Policy, Produce, Program, Reasons, Rural, Substantial, Technologies, Technology.

Paleoenvironmental perspectives on prehistoric human settlement of Arctic Norway: Implications for climate, sea-level, and land-use changes during the Iron Age
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Nicholas L Balascio($331,349), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Key terms: Power And Trade, Arctic Norway, Human Settlement, Iron Age, North Atlantic, Agricultural, Archaeological, Climate, Comprehensive, Cultural, Development, Environmental, History, Interdisciplinary, Landscape, Maritime, Natural, Norwegian, Promote, Public, Region, Settlements, Students.

Investigating the Health and Wellbeing of Alaska Native Elderly in Northwest Alaska through Community Participatory Based Research Methods
Award Effective Date: 08/29/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Jordan P Lewis($490,739), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
2. Jordan P Lewis($490,739), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Alaska Native Elderly, Alaska Native People, Successful Aging Means, Aging Process, Alaska Natives, Bristol Bay, Community-based Participatory, Healthy Aging, Northwest Alaska, Rural Alaska, Subjectively Define, Age, Alaskan, CBPR, Economic, Elders, Entire, Environmental, Equal, Establish, Explore, Findings, Future, Has, Homes, Indigenous, Inform, Interviews, Knowledge, Local, Own, Participants, Participating, Perspectives, Policy, Potential, Previous, Promotes, Region, Required, Residents, Sense, Social, Spirit, Themselves, Wellbeing.

Arctic Library Portal Planning Workshop
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Aaron Presnall($59,730), Thomas Jefferson Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington
Key terms: Arctic Library Portal, Public Library, Academic, Access, Available, Boston, Circumpolar, Collections, Content, Creation, DPLA, Digital, Effort, Etc, Extensive, Has, Integrate, Potential, Sources, Workshop, Workshops.

RAPID: Walakpa Archaeology Rapid Response Project
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Shelby Anderson($13,884), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Alaska, Archaeological, Arctic, Astt, Erosion, Increased, North, Northern, Occupation, Rapid, Rapidly, Site, Walakpa.

Human and Animal Relations in Southwest Alaska: Continuity and Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Mark P John($632,855), Calista Education and Culture, Inc., Anchorage
Key terms: Elder Experts, Future Generations, Southwest Alaska, Addressing, CEC, Co-production, Documenting, Elders, Gatherings, Has, Issues, Knowledge, Region, Regional, Successful, Yupik.

Yukon River Chinook Salmon Declines: Learning From Tradition
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Catherine Moncrieff($49,955), Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, Palmer
Key terms: Chinook Salmon Declines, Fish And Game, Fish And Wildlife, Alaska Department, Alaska Native, Elder Experts, Natural History, Resource Managers, Social Scientists, Wildlife Service, Yukon River, ADFG, Analyzed, Animal, CEC, Conditions, Elders, English, Environment, Fishing, Following, Harvest, Health, Information, Knowledge, Practices, Recordings, Shared, Topics, Traditional, Weather, Workshop, YRDFA, Yupik.

Completion of Eyak (ISO 693-3 eya) Grammar, Dictionary, Texts
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Gary Holton($290,410), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Michael Krauss, Existing, Eyak, Language.

Syrian Refugee Families in Iceland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Nicole Dubus($38,852), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Refugees And Forced, Syrian Refugee Families, Forced Migration, Service Providers, Syrian Families, Administrators, Arrival, Country, Crises, Culturally, Development, Discussions, Displaced, Education, Effective, Estimated, Examine, Global, Has, Health, Iceland, Icelands, Language, Million, Months, Nations, Potential, Resettlement, Services, Social, Winter, World.

Collaborative Research: The Ends of Oil: Changing Life in Earth Science, Extractive Industry, and Indigenous Communities in Alaska
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. David Bond($8,631), Bennington College, Bennington
2. Lucas Bessire($10,234), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Alaska, EAGER, Exploratory, Northern, Oil, Stakeholders.

RAPID: Assessment of a Frozen Archaeology Site
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Susan A Kaplan($12,822), Bowdoin College, Brunswick
Key terms: Artifacts And Faunal, Faunal Remains, Middle Dorset, Organic Artifacts, Ago, Archaeological, Arctic, Assess, Avayalik-, CE, Canada, Culture, Endangered, Environmental, Heritage, Labrador, Managers, People, Permafrost, Potential, Site, Sites, Techniques, Threat, Was.

Collaborative Research: An examination of human social and cultural adaptation through archaeological and paleoclimate data from the Aleutian Islands.
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Michael A Etnier($160,701), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Catherine F West($442,338), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Michael A Etnier($30,313), Portland State University, Portland
4. C. Frederick T Andrus($132,780), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Late Holocene Climate, Marine Mammal Hunting, Aleutian Islands, Detailed Analysis, Human Foraging, Past Climate, Resource Managers, Sea Ice, Unalaska Island, Ago, Alaska, Animal, Archaeological, Artifacts, Behavior, Coastal, Conditions, Eastern, Environmental, Growth, Indication, Interdisciplinary, Local, Periods, Region, Sites, Species, Stable, Subsistence, Toolkit, Was.

EAGER: Understanding Change Across Generations in Rural Alaska Native Communities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Linda B Green($16,168), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Indigenous And Non-indigenous, Lives And Livelihoods, Rural Indigenous Peoples, Alaska Native, Arctic Social, Based Participatory, Cbpr Model, Circumpolar North, Indigenous Scholars, Innovative Methodologically, Native Peoples, School Students, Administrators, Adults, Build, Challenges, Collaborative, Collection, Comparative, Coping, Corporations, Cultural, Decade, Design, Development, EAGER, Edgecumbe, Educational, Elders, Engage, Entire, Experienced, Gain, Generations, Has, History, Inclusion, Integral, Intergenerational, Involved, Issues, Kin, Larger, Leaders, Local, Methods, Mt, Organizations, Participation, Past, Political, Potential, Practices, Processes, Range, Responding, Shifts, Statewide, Subsistence, Trained, Transformations, Travel, Utilized.

Collaborative Research: The Initial Peopling and Settlement of Eastern Newfoundland
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Christopher B Wolff($243,539), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Donald H Holly($65,198), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
3. Christopher B Wolff($243,539), SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Albany
Key terms: Coastal And Island, Coasts And Islands, Maritime Archaic Peoples, Newfoundland And Labrador, Archaic Deposits, Eastern Subarctic, Ecological Factors, Initial Settlement, Northeastern North, Northern Coasts, Social Organization, Stock Cove, Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Archaeological, Arctic, Assess, Broader, Collections, Colonization, Concerning, Cultural, Development, Earliest, Economic, Educational, Environmental, Examine, Excavations, Heritage, Historical, Holocene, Human, Inform, Interaction, International, Landscapes, Larger, Local, Onto, Opportunities, Peopling, Process, Processes, Public, Region, Remains, Resources, Sea, Sites, Training.

Collaborative Research: Fishing through antiquity in central Alaska: exploring the abundance and use of salmon through stable isotope, zooarchaeological, and ancient DNA analyses
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Joshua D Reuther($285,433), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Bruce P Finney($120,058), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Stable Isotope Analysis, Central Alaska, Prehistoric Salmon, Salmon Abundance, Salmon Availability, Critical, Explore, Faunal, Fish, Fluctuations, Foragers, Has, Human, Interior, Multiple, Natural, Northern, Past, Peoples, Period, Reconstruct, Remains, Resource, Responded, Rural, Strategies, Subsistence, Time.

Conference: Partial Support for Model Arctic Council (MAC)
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Brandon M Boylan($35,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Senior Arctic Officials, Arctic Council, Arctic Social, Student Participation, Activity, Assume, Chairmanship, Circumpolar, Enhance, Faculty, Increase, International, Issues, Knowledge, MAC, Objectives, Participants, Partner, Plan, Potential, Prepare, Processes, Program, Simulated, Simulation, Students, UAF, Uarctic, Workshop.

Workshop: Connecting Alaska Native Communities and U.S. Northwest Coastal Tribes to the Yakut and Evenk Peoples of the Sakha Republic through WIN.
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Jonathan Waterhouse($48,729), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: Yakut And Evenk, Arctic Ocean, Evenk Peoples, Lena River, Local People, Center, Coastal, Documentation, Indigenous, Knowledge, Largest, Monitoring, Th, WIN, Water, Watersheds, Workshops, Worlds.

Assessing the Distribution and Variability of Marine Mammals through Archaeology, Ancient DNA, and History in the North Atlantic.
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Brenna A Frasier($557,970), Western Carolina University, Cullowhee
Key terms: Arctic And North, Historic Marine Mammal, Iceland And Greenland, Little Ice Age, Marine Mammal Exploitation, Marine Mammal Populations, Sea Mammal Bones, Seals And Walruses, Digital Humanities, Direct Application, Eastern Arctic, Future Sustainability, Industrial-scale Hunting, Middle Ages, Museum Collections, North Atlantic, Sixteenth Century, Species-level Identification, Viking Age, Academic, Adna, Analysis, Ancient, Animal, Approach, Approaches, Archaeological, Biology, Broad, Build, Capabilities, Circumpolar, Collaboration, Collaborations, Colleagues, Complete, Cultural, Current, Disciplines, Dissemination, Economic, Ecosystems, Environmental, Europe, Evidence, Expanded, Faroes, Genetic, Genetics, Global, Historical, Histories, History, Industrial-scale, Innovative, Issues, Knowledge, Mammals, Management, Medieval, Modern, NABO, Natural, Norse, Northern, Periods, Perspective, Prehistoric, Prior, Produce, Public, Range, Reconstruction, Regions, Resulting, Reveals, Scholarly, Sealing, Seas, Seeks, Sets, Settlements, Sites, Social, Sources, Species-level, Students, Technologies, Transdisciplinary, Visualization, Whale, Whales, Whaling, Wide, Zooarchaeological.

Arctic Survey on Adaptation to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2015; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Tim G Frazier($1,704), SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton
Key terms: Web-based Survey, Anticipated, Interviews, Web-based.

Collaborative Research: The Hot Springs Village Site: a Window to Southern Bering Sea Paleo-Ecosystems and Human - Landscape Interactions.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2013; Program: ASSP-Arctic Social Science

1. Leif M Tapanila($340,646), Idaho State University, Pocatello
Key terms: Bering Sea Ecosystem, Bering Sea Region, Southern Bering Sea, Hot Springs, Modern Fisheries, Village Site, Aleut, Baseline, Climate, Deposits, Excavations, Has, History, Human, Ice, Largest, Peninsula, Pis, Potential, Regimes, Shellfish.

Collaborative Research: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability (HIACMS)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: ArcSEES

1. Paul Arthur Berkman($1,028,736), Tufts University, Somerville
Key terms: Arctic Coastal-marine, Arctic Ocean, ACCESS, Canadian, Coastal-marine, Demonstrate, Enhance, Environment, Governance, Interdisciplinary, Natural, Process, Russian, Sustainability.

Collaborative Research: Linking Maps, Manuscripts, and Place Names Data to Improve Environmental Knowledge in Alaska
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: ArcSEES

1. Gary Holton($509,001), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Alaska Native Languages, Ecosystem Services, Approach, Cultural, Current, Diversity, Environmental, Foundation, Geographic, Manuscripts, Maps, Name, Names, Platform, Time, Traditional, Web-based.

The Impact of the Stratosphere on Arctic Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Karen Smith($600,795), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arctic Surface Climate, Circulation And Chemistry, Ice And Weather, Arctic Region, Climate Model, Sea Ice, Stratospheric Chemistry, Stratospheric Circulation, Stratospheric Ozone, Tropospheric Ozone, Contribute, Downward, Future, Has, Local, Past, Potential, Principal, Stratosphere, WACCM.

Polar (NSF 15-114): Using Polar Science Data in the Undergraduate Classroom
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew Oliver($340,779), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Traditional Lecture Course, Active-learning Pedagogy, Polar Scientists, Active-learning, Center, Development, Network, Non-major, Offering, PBL, Spring, Student, Students, UD.

Collaborative Research: MIDGE: Minimally Invasive Direct Glacial Exploration of Biogeochemistry, Hydrology and Glaciology of Blood Falls, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jill A Mikucki($263,349), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Antarctic Subglacial Environments, Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Blood Falls, Brine Release, Clean Access, Geochemical Analyses, Minimally Invasive, Subglacial Brine, Subglacial Hydrology, Taylor Glacier, Below, Collected, Crevasse, Drilling, Ecosystem, Episodic, Geophysical, Habitats, Icy, Life, MIDGE, Marine, Mechanism, Microbial, Molecular, Retrieval, Source, Surface, Technologies, Time, Water, Waters.

Lower Thermospheric Science using New Meteor Radars at McMurdo and WAIS Divide
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Jeffrey M Forbes($1,012,212), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lower Atmosphere, Planetary Atmospheric, Upper Atmosphere, Antarctic, Caused, Earth, Heated, Radar, Students, Tides, Waves.

Polar (NSF 15-114): Research Opportunities in the Arctic for Minorities (ROAM2): Elucidating drivers of Arctic ecosystem responses to global change.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: IUSE

1. Jeffrey T Olimpo($298,981), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
Key terms: Ecosystem Ecology, Skills Development, Activities, Archived, Arctic, Barrow, Challenges, Cures, Curriculum, Designed, Especially, Experiences, Funding, Implemented, Integrated, Pis, Program, Programs, Published, Resources, Students, Training, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the controls on spatial and temporal variability in ice discharge using a Greenland-wide ice sheet model
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Andy Aschwanden($596,077), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Patrick Heimbach($249,340), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet Model, Outlet Glacier Flow, Parallel Ice Sheet, Sea Level Rise, 21st Century, Ice Discharge, Sea Ice, Subglacial Topography, Terminus Advance, Andor, Available, Bed, Capture, Contribute, Contribution, Contributions, Controls, Future, High-resolution, Icebergs, Increase, Limited, Models, Observations, Observed, Ocean, PISM, Relative, Retreat, Runoff, Simulations, Surface.

Seasonality, Summer Cooling, and Calibrating the Approach of the Icehouse in Late Eocene Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Christopher K Junium($353,719), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Age Control, Coastal Settings, Allow, Climate, Combination, Conditions, Critical, Earth, Eocene, Future, Global, High-latitude, Marine, Model, Models, Numerical, Past, Planet, Precipitation, Proxies, Proxy, Regions, Seasonality, Section, Temperature, Time, Warm, Warming, Warmth, Was.

Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigatins -- PENGUIn: Interhemispheric Investigations along the 40-degree Magnetic Meridian
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael Hartinger($998,363), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Earth's Magnetosphere, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Antarctic, Autonomous, Chain, Deployed, Geomagnetic, Geospace, Global, Interaction, Interhemispheric, Investigate, Ionosphere, Models, Near, Operation, Polar, Processes, Southern, Stations, Technologies, Validate, Various.

Collaborative Research: Analysis and Modeling of Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions from the Siple Transmitter Experiment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Philip H Scherrer($203,920), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Mark Golkowski($242,882), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
Key terms: Siple Transmitter Experiment, Energetic Electrons, Energetic Particles, Naturally Occurring, Numerical Simulations, Radiation Belts, Space Weather, Wave-particle Interactions, Whistler Waves, Analysis, Chorus, Earth, Electromagnetic, Fluxes, Frequency, Generation, Low, Magnetosphere, Modified, Nonlinear, Observed, Processes, Significantly, Triggered, Wave-particle.

MRI: Development of a Modern Polar Climate and Weather Automated Observing System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Mark Kulie($603,427), Madison Area Technical College, Madison
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Automatic Weather, Observing Stations, AWS, Antarctic, Calibration, Capability, Core, Deployment, Development, Division, Enable, Engineering, Generation, Instrumentation, Knowledge, MRI, Meteorological, Network, Onboard, Students, Temperature, Testing.

Management and Operations of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2016-2021
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: PHYSICS-BROADEN PARTICIPATION

1. Francis L Halzen($35,359,711), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Current Icnomando Effort, Icecube Collaboration, South Pole, Activities, Angular, Construction, Core, Cosmic, Detector, Discovery, Efforts, Energy, Extraordinary, Has, High-energy, Infrastructure, Level, Management, Mando, Neutrino, Neutrinos, Operations, Produced, Supported, Was.

Collaborative Research: Imaging the Beginning of Time from the South Pole: The next Stage of the BICEP Program
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. John M Kovac($4,879,657), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. James J Bock($1,984,775), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
3. Chao-Lin Kuo($1,602,589), Stanford University, Stanford
4. Clement L Pryke($3,516,052), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Cosmic Microwave Background, Gravitational Waves, Initial Conditions, Slow-roll Models, South Pole, Task Force, Amplitude, Antarctica, BICEP, Bang, CGB, CMB, Definitive, Degree, Density, Detecting, Established, Expansion, Fluctuations, Foregrounds, Galactic, Gravitational-wave, Inflation, Inflationary, Observations, Polarization, Radiation, Region, Sensitivity, Signature, Sky, Slow-roll, Theory, Trillionth, Universe.

RCN: Learning from Indigenous community-based researchers engaged in science around the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Henry P Huntington($548,352), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Arctic Indigenous People, Rcn Steering Committee, Skolt Sámi Village, Sámi Village Committee, Indigenous Knowledge, Visiting Scientists, Activities, Alaska, Approach, Approaches, Collaboration, Community-based, Cultural, Discussions, Elders, Exchange, Experiences, Expertise, Feodoroff, Finland, Greenland, Homelands, Hosts, In-person, Kangiqtugaapik, Lapland, Leadership, Local, Locally, Means, Meetings, Network, Nunavut, Organizations, Own, Participation, Practices, Russia, Scholars, Share, Shared, Univ, Workshops, Youth.

The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA): A High Resolution, Time-Stamped Digital Elevation Model for the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Myoung-Jong Noh($374,312), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Polar Geospatial Center, Elevation Model, Accuracy, Antarctica, Available, Control, DEM, Dems, Ground, Ice, Imagery, REMA, Resolution, Satellite, Spatial, Surface, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Visualization, analysis, and HPC modeling of subglacial hydrology from high-resolution 3D conduit scans acquired with a novel sensor
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Polar Cyberinfrastructure

1. Jason D Gulley($23,673), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Subglacial Conduit, Contribute, Flow, Geometry, Glacier, Glaciers, LES, Processes, Realistic, Resolution, Simulations.

Exploring the Universe from Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Kevin B Ponto($359,799), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Icecube Neutrino, Informal Environments, Informal Stem, AISL, Antarctic, Approaches, Center, Design, Developed, Development, Display, Interactive, Polar, Public, Seeks, Submitted, Technology, Users, Was, Wisconsin.

Alaska Science Communication Workshop
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Lisa J Busch($49,199), SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC, Sitka
Key terms: Alaska Native, Alaskan, Approaches, Arctic, Communicating, Communication, Convey, Funding, Integrated, Nsf-funded, Participants, Residents, Sitka, Skills, Students, Training, Western, Workshop.

Arctic Plant Phenology - Learning through Engaged Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Polar Special Initiatives

1. Kathleen Hill($566,316), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Local Environment, Online Resources, Plant Phenology, Activities, Arctic, Educational, Educators, Greenland, Long-term, Ongoing, Polar, School, Students, Undergraduate.

Workshop: Research Processes in Western Alaska Indigenous Communities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Brenden Raymond-Yakoubian($29,999), Kawerak, Inc., Nome
Key terms: Alaska Native, Kawerak Region, Western Alaska, Engage, Indigenous, People, Topics, Workshop.

The Polar Geospatial Center: Community and Facility Support
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: nan

1. Jonathan W Pundsack($18,914,586), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Polar Geospatial Center, Digital Elevation, Ground Control, National Geospatial-intelligence, Product Delivery, Satellite Imagery, Access, Accuracy, Arctic, Available, Commercial, DEM, Development, Expertise, GIS, Geospatial-intelligence, High-resolution, Knowledge, Logistics, Management, Mapping, Mission, NGA, Online, PGC, Pgcs, Processing, Products, Solve, Sub-meter, Task, User.

NSF-GEO-OPP Awards for 2016

Enhancing Weather and Climate Learning with Fluid Earth Viewer (FEVer) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AISL

Collaborative Research: Understanding GrIS moulin hydrology and links to ice motion Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Arctic Land Fast Sea Ice Formation in the Presence of Fresh Water Input Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Demographic structure and recruitment patterns of the scyphozoan, Chrysaora melanaster, in the Bering Sea: the influence of climate on ecosystem function Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: What Controls the Transfer of Diatom Organic Matter to age-0 Pollock Prey in the Bering Sea Ecosystem? Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

CAREER: Chasing icebergs: quantifying iceberg motion and melt in Greenland's glacial fjords Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Snow, Wind, and Time: Understanding Snow Redistribution and Its Effects on Sea Ice Mass Balance Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Neglected fluxes: Understanding the evolution of weathering as continental ice sheets retreat Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Refreezing in the firn of the Greenland ice sheet: Spatiotemporal variability and implications for ice sheet mass balance Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Determining the Vulnerability and Resilience of Boreal Forests and Shrubs across Northwestern North America Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Speleothem records of permafrost thaw and paleoclimate in the North American Arctic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Quantifying the Sources of Arctic Tundra-Respired CO2 Year-Round via Continuous in Situ Sampling of 14CO2 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Residual Circulation of the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: The Ecological Impact of Mixotrophic Algae in a Changing Arctic Marine Climate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Dynamic Observations of the Evolution of Firn Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Proposal: Determining the Vulnerability and Resilience of Boreal Forests and Shrubs across Northwestern North America Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Testing the Drivers and Scale-dependency of Plant-fungal Bacterial Community Co-assembly Across the Arctic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Glacier-Ocean Interactions at a Greenland Ice Shelf at Tidal to Interannual Time Scales Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Responses of atmospheric oxidants and CO2 to dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Model Process Studies of Freshwater Accumulation and Release in the Beaufort Gyre of the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Natural and Anthropogenic Controls on the Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in the Chukchi Sea Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Proteomic evidence of microbial weathering processes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Understanding Arctic System Change Through Synthesis of Hydrographic and Sea Ice Observations from the early 21st Century Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: An Exploration of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Climatic Warming on Arctic Lake Ecosystems Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Multi-scale models of thermo-mechanical feedbacks on a soft, wet bed Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Nitrous oxide cycling in the Western Arctic Ocean from stable isotopic and concentration data Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Estimating fluxes of CO2 and CH4 along the Siberian Yensei River Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Reconstruction of climate at the Norse Settlements of Greenland over the last two millennia using organic biomarkers in lake sediments Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Arctic Oases - How does the delayed release of winter discharge from aufeis affect the ecosystem structure and function of rivers Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; 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: 03/04/2016; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

Alien Landscapes Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Antarctic Graphic Novel: A Look at the Science in Antarctica through the Eyes of an Artist Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Musical Interpretation of and Instructional Module on Ross Ice Shelf Wave-Induced Vibrations Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Artistic and Scientific Fieldwork at the South Pole: Inquiry at the Edge of Possibility Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: ANT Coordination & Information

Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Glacial Landscape Evolution (EAGLE): A Study using Combined Thermochronology, Geochronology and Provenance Analysis Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Activity, Preservation and Fossilization of Cryptoendolithic Microorganisms in Antarctica Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Permian and Triassic Icehouse to Greenhouse Paleoenvironments and Paleobotany in the Shackleton Glacier Area, Antarctica Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Evolution of High-latitude Permo-Triassic Paleoenvironments and their Vertebrate Communities. Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Middle-Late Devonian Vertebrates of Antarctica Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Friis Hills Drilling Project: An International Collaboration to Examine the Miocene Transition in Antarctica Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

EAGER: Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing of Antarctic Paleolakes Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Quantifying Surface Area in Muds from the Antarctic Dry Valleys: Implications for Weathering in Glacial Systems Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Triggering of Antarctic Icequakes, Slip Events, and other Tectonic Phenomena by Distant Earthquakes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Antarctic Peninsula Exhumation and Landscape Development Investigated by Low-Temperature Detrital Thermochronometry Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Finding the Missing Geomagnetic Dipole Signal in Global Pleointensity Data: Revisiting the High Southerly Latitudes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Water Mass Structure and Bottom Water Formation in the Ice-age Southern Ocean Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Collaborative Research: Testing the Hypothesis that Bigger Magma Chambers Crystallize Faster Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Resolving Ambiguous Exposure-Age Chronologies of Antarctic Deglaciation with Measurements of In-Situ-Produced Cosmogenic Carbon-14 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Relative Paleointensity (RPI) and Age Control in Antarctic Marine Drift Sediments Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Community Workshop: Scientific Drivers and Future of Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory (MEVO) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

Understanding the Integrity of Deep Ice in East Antarctica from Geophysical Data Sets and Physical Models Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Two-Phase Dynamics of Temperate Ice Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Synchronizing the WAIS Divide and Greenland Ice Cores from 30-65 ka BP Using High-resolution 10Be Measurements Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: The Timing and Spatial Expression of the Bipolar Seesaw in Antarctica from Synchronized Ice Cores Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

A High Resolution Atmospheric Methane Record from the South Pole Ice Core Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Long Term Sublimation/Preservation of Two Separate, Buried Glacier Ice Masses, Ong Valley, Southern Transantarctic Mountains Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Holocene Deglaciation of the Western Ross Embayment: Constraints from East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: High-resolution Reconstruction of Holocene Deglaciation in the Southern Ross Embayment Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Stability and Dynamics of Antarctic Marine Outlet Glaciers Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: A High-sensitivity Beryllium-10 Record from an Ice Core at South Pole Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Kr-86 as a Proxy for Barometric Pressure Variability and Movement of the SH Westerlies during the last Deglaciation Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Laser Dust Logging of a South Pole Ice Core Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Mapping, Measuring and Modeling Geomorphology and Ice Change in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Brittle Failure and Fracture Propagation in Fast Ice Sliding with Dynamic Rupture Models based on Whillans Ice Stream Seismic/Geodetic Data Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Present and Projected Future Forcings on Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers and Ice Shelves using the Weather Forecasting and Research (WRF) Model Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Tephrochronology of a South Pole Ice Core Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Measuring an Ice-core Proxy for Relative Oxidant Abundances over Glacial-interglacial and Rapid Climate changes in a West Antarctic Ice Core Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ANT Glaciology

Revealing Late Holocence Climate Variability in Antarctica from Borehole Paleothermometry Award Effective Date: 10/20/2015; Program: ANT Glaciology

Collaborative Research: Logistically Light Instrument Deployment for Estimation of Antarctic Basal Temperatures and Geothermal Heat Fluxes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

Development of an Air-droppable Goedetic-seismic Ice Penetrator for Response Studies of Antarctic Ice Shelves and Icebergs to Ocean Forcings Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: ANT Instrum & Facilities

Group Travel Award: XIIth SCAR International Biology Symposium Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) Science Workshop Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Workshop Proposal: 23rd West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop and Science Plan Development Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

East Antarctic Grounding Line Experiment (EAGLE) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

NSFGEO-NERC: Paleoclimate Signatures of the Climate Response to West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Group Travel to the XXXIV SCAR Open Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Support for the International Glaciological Society 2016 Symposium on Ice-ocean Interaction Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: ANT Integrated System Science

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Atmospheric Gravity Waves and their Effects on the Antarctic Ozone Layer Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences